Posts by Elthy

I have an Issue with the LHE/large steam turbine:
https://i.imgur.com/H6rls4b.jpg

Im cooling down lava in the LHE, its working at its maximum output, so with 2000mb/s lava it should produce 80000mb/s of super heated steam. Those are outputed to 2 EV output hatches (40000mb capacity each).
Next to those output hatches are the input hatches of high pressure steam turbines, also EV. I use huge tungstensteel turbines in those, they are specified for 40000mb/s optimal flow and 120% efficency, which should result in 2400eu/t.
Attached to those turbines are normal turbines, also with EV hatches and tungstensteel turbines, they should produce 1200 eu/t and as much distilled water as is needed in the LHE.

I have IV output hatches on all turbines. As you can barely see there are 3 processing arrays behind one turbine pair, those host 14 MV centrifuges each to centrifuge all the lava, each one should consume 1120eu/t, so 2 are connected to the pressurised turbine, 1 to the normal turbine.

Now to the issues (those still happen when the setup ran for a few minutes):
1. The turbines are not producing enough power. The pressurised should supply 2 processing arrays, but its only enough for one, the other one shuts down after a few seconds. The third processsing array also only runs for a few seconds...
2. Im loosing distilled water. Not only once at startup, but for ever.

At first i had pipes between the LHE and the turbines, but that was a bottleneck, so i attached them directly to each other. Sadly the output hatches of the LHE still fill up to their maximum, so there is steam wasted. Since i cant look into the input hatch of the first turbine i dont know if it doesnt get transfered fast enough, or if the turbine is to slow processing it...

The large plasma generator is able to produce more than LuV, so superconductors are usefull...

Wait, an EBF gets faster with better hatches? Cool, i started planning a room with 16 EBFs, i can cut that down quite a bit...

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it wont afftect lava, because ghost dusts take slots and when you have result with same dusts, you will get them at those places. Problem is for using many recipes with variety of outputs in array. so when you take all the ghosts slots, new wont appear.
(Sorry if my eng isnt that good, im rus and only learned it from online games and serials)

Great news!
So a workaround for macerators would be getting a realy large output bus?

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The turbine is rounding up to the next integer anyways. So 2mb/t is what it needs. Such low flow rates are really bad anyways because of stuff like this.

Im not sure how to understand this. Will the outputed energy also increase by about 30%? Turbines are allready extremly complicated (e.g. with a nuclear reactor and its fluctuating power output), that makes it even worse. It seems that im forced to use the single block plasma generators, since its impossible to calculate with those large ones...

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i think, its the problem for all recipes with some chance of output. So, ive got some ore melted, and i have ghost results in my output bus. i think, this problem appears because some of macerators got succeed on some extra dust chance and some macerators are not.
Problem is critical, because slots are taken and nothing in them really. so when, say, 15\16 slots are busy with ghost dusts, we have wasted byproducts, only regular "crushed ore" would appear.
Players can manually drop out ghost dusts, but it works for some really little time, as for my processing, this slot appears busy with ghost dusts within a 5 minutes.
Could you check out output of processing arrays please?

upd. Checked array with just one macerator - same problem... so its not bcuz of some macerators have %result and some are not. Wondering, whats the real reason...

So this would also affect the centrifuging of lava? Im currently building a large selfpowered lava centrifgure array (LHE+Steamturbines+40 MV centrifuges) and that would make it impossible to use...

If i remember that right the plasma generator consumes every tick, but i can try it. Maybe i could also feed 3mb/t to a buffer and split it there so only half of that would reach the turbine...

Could you add a better version of the fluid regulator? For optimal flow in my plasma generator i would have to input 1,47mb/t, but thats impossible with the IC2 one...

Good to know. Will that be an update for 5.08 or will you make it part of 5.09?

Is it intended that the fusion reactor needs a manual restart with a soft hammer after every server restart? Nothing from blood asp on that topic, so i ask again...

How about a lategame (fusion age) machine to clean additional pollution from the air? In fusion age it wouldnt change the balance...

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The short term solution is to not restart the server. I keep mine up for weeks at a time without issue and when it goes down it's because I'm making changes/fixes to the pack. Forgeessentials backup plugin has been working flawlessly the whole time.

Also in case anyone is interested in D+T numbers:
https://docs.google.com/spread…NdF3xhWk/edit?usp=sharing

Sadly that is not an option, we have some bugs on our server that make regular restarts mandatory. I had to restart the reactor 5 times for 500 buckets of oxygen plasma...
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Is there a reason the fusion reactor needs a manual restart everytime our server restarts? That makes is impossible to use it as a constant power source...

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Just a quick notice: I will be away from tomorrow until next monday. At best a quick visit with my mobile, so certainly no update or bugfix until then.

Also, on the weekend i will be at the Connichi anime convention in Kassel. Should anyone here also be there, feel free to contact me.

Cool, i live in Kassel and plan to visit the Connichi at some point. What are you doing there exactly?

Is there a way to use the "needs maintainance cover" with machines that have their controller in the middle layer, e.g. turbines? It would be even better if i could attach 2 covers with different settings per turbine, one for me to notice if there is a problem, another one to activate a bypass to lower efficency single block turbines when severasl things broke...

The IC2 Painter can color GT single block machines, but nothing related to multiblock machines. Bug or intended?

I dont have mutliple output hatches on one height. I have one on every height, but i changed their position on this height and that changed the output of every height.

Here: https://imgur.com/dpv4oOe

I replaced some of the outputs when i reatached the tubes, they were kept on the same level but on other spots.

Edit: After futher testing i can say that the output stays the same after a restart, they are changing if you place the output hatches on other spots on the same level. Shouldnt the output be determined only by the level of the hatch?

The Distillation Tower is unuasble because whenever it restarts the outputs are scrambled, making it impossible to automate. I reattached every pipe after noticing it outputted different than in singleplayer test, but after i started it again i again had fluids where they didnt belong...

Im not sure how i should plan a turbine for plasma. The wiki states:
"So a 10,000L/sec Turbine can produce 20,000EU/t."
Since the Mk1 produces 32000eu/t worth of plasma i should build a turbine with 16,000l/t? How does the efficency of the turbine count it to this? Do i need less fuel or do i produce more energy?

Edit: Lets say i upgrade to a MK2, so i build another identical turbine since im producing plasma twice as fast. How do i make sure both turbines get the same amount of plasma so i wont waste anything?

How is the state of the processing array? I remember it only processed deuterium/tritium, but that tooltip is gone. Does it now work like intended?