Posts by MauveCloud

Quote from 123nick

hey would it be possible for a addon to gregtech or anything too make gregtech more like a addon: something that adds in the new machines n stuff, but not the completely changed oregen, and maybe without the tools thing? i dont want too have 2 modular tool mods, tinkers construct AND gregtech. i just like ALL of what gregtech has too add, but not much of all of what it has to change

Modularize GregTech? I doubt that would work, since it has a lot of interdependencies between the oregen, tools, and machines - technically, it's already possible to deactivate the oregen in GT's WorldGeneration.cfg, but some of the machines require materials that very few (if any) other mods provide oregen for, and some machine parts require GregTech tools to craft.

Quote from redmage17

Low end cables cost wool which is semi difficult to automate.

Technically, they require black carpet, which can be made from string and squid ink in an assembler, both of which can be obtained from IC2/GT crops (flax and blackthorn, respectively). Alternatively, if you shear the wool from sheep, it can be crafted into carpet entirely by hand (whereas in GT 5.08, even the lowest-tier insulated cables required rubber sheets, which had to be extracted and then shaped in machines)

Quote from dohvakin96

Just use the pyrolyse oven for charcoal, it just as good as RC coke ovens and produces enough to power a big steel boiler.

Pardon me if I disagree. The pyrolyse oven isn't just "as good" as an RC coke oven - at MV, it can produce charcoal up to 112.5 times as fast as an RC coke oven, making it quite a bit better (even before counting the other products available from the pyrolyse oven).

Quote from willis936

Would there be any adverse effects from adding MT shapeless crafts to go between the different types of coal?

Adverse effects being you wanting to have multiple types of coal due to balancing and you don't want both to be able to be used in all cases.

I can't think of adverse effects, but I'd at least like the conversions to maintain the same furnace burn time - PFAA already allows (one-way) shapeless conversion of bituminous coal to plain coal, I've added one for converting blocks of PFAA peat to Forestry peat, and I was considering adding one for converting PFAA coal coke to Railcraft coal coke. However, anthracite coal has a furnace burn time of 2400 ticks, and the only other fuel with a matching furnace burn time is a blaze rod, which has other uses that would severely unbalance the conversion. I suppose I could add a recipe for converting 2 anthracite coal to 3 plain coal, but I'm hesitant to do that.

Is it possible to add more types of coal to the list of fuels usable in coal boilers? I'd like to have the option to use PFAA anthracite coal in them.

Quote from redmage17

Are we still unable to break cables without destroying them?

Use wire cutters for that.

Quote from Ajes

this is from KR http://prntscr.com/947dkt - you see ?

Your previous image didn't make it clear, but that's a bug in GT5e (my single-player game with GT 5.09.12 showed the same issue), which I have filed here: https://github.com/Blood-Asp/GT5-Unofficial/issues/327

Quote from Ajes

When you macerate battery hull you only get ½ battery alloy, compared to vanilla recipe, where you get full return of used metals.. isnt this a core-feature in GT, and should not have been changed?

http://prntscr.com/94550k <- from vanilla gt

edit: my mistake.. the newest vanilla gt apparently do only return ½ of before

I think your math is a bit off there. 2 battery alloy dust seems like full return of that material to me. With a furnace and a Basic Bending Machine, one could make enough battery alloy plates from that to make a new small battery hull (at least using vanilla GT recipes; I haven't looked at the KR recipe changes). How do you figure that as being half return?

I'm not so sure HSS was available in 5.08. Osmiridium existed, but iirc it wasn't producible.

However, I'm getting ready to make a new crop farm using 5.09, so it would be nice if someone could summarize the new crops and which existing crops require blocks under them as of 5.09.

A few extra things I'd like to point out:
1. It's possible to make steel from regular iron (without making wrought iron as an intermediate step), it's just slower (25 seconds in an electric blast furnace at MV, 64 seconds with a Railcraft blast furnace, or 360 seconds with a bronze plated blast furnace, plus if you have Thaumcraft I think GregTech 5 adds a crucible recipe for steel nuggets that can be researched)
2. The GregTech processing recipes for wrought iron and steel via arc furnace and electric blast furnace have been there since before Blood Asp started the unofficial port (so it doesn't make sense to blame Blood Asp).

I know that GT5u has added multiblock generators for steam, methane/biogas, and plasma, but unless I'm mistaken, there is no similar multiblock generator for liquid fuels, such as ethanol, diesel, and nitro-diesel. Was that deliberately skipped? If so, why?

Quote from Ajes

would any changes to the server, make you join?

No. I have no interest in multiplayer online video games anymore (last one I played was the Wyvern rpg), though there's a tiny chance I'd make an exception for playing with people I know in real life. Also, I'm planning to try to take a long break from Minecraft soon (like maybe after I've made some helium plasma in the GT5u fusion reactor).

Edit: In spite of my lack of interest in playing on a Minecraft server, I'd still like to point out an ambiguity in the rules:

Quote from Lardyking

Only mine with autominers in mining world

That could mean that autominers are forbidden in the overworld, or that manual mining is forbidden in the mining world. The former seems more likely, but it would be a good idea to make that more explicit.

Quote from Moon Moon

Not sure what the mod is called but how do you feel about extended bees options and extended tree species? Would it break the balance of the server?

I'm not planning to join the server, but I think you mean Binnie's Mods. As far as I can tell, it hasn't been updated to be compatible with Forestry 4 yet.

Quote from Blood Asp

The AE2 Matter Condenser can accept fluids.

So it can. I either hadn't noticed that in the documentation for it or had forgotten.

However, I ran into a weird issue, and wanted to check if it qualified as a bug: with 1000 L water in the input tank, my electrolyzer wouldn't process silicon dioxide.

Quote from willis936

If you don't have BC I think there's an extra cells block called a fluid void that may do what you're looking for. I think there used to be a TE block called a nullifier too.

I'm already using ExtraCells-1.7.10-2.2.73b129.jar, and I don't find any such block in NEI. As far as TE, that also adds a bunch more than just the nullifier. I'll wait a bit in case somebody else knows of other alternatives, and if nobody does, I'll re-install BuildCraft (I had it temporarily installed for the filler, so I could set up a big platform for a Nether portal network, but then I recycled the items from it and removed the mod).

Quote from Blood Asp

Once you have enough oxygen for the EBF and the few chemreactor recipes, i usually start voiding the rest.

What are some good ways to void excess oxygen? Sending it through wooden pipes is rather slow, and I'm hesitant to add Buildcraft just for the void fluid pipe.

Quote from Elthy

Naquadah generates in Infitech, which is what im playing...

Without naquadah i wold recommend to build a small LuV plasma generator and directly hook it up. The internal storage of the reactor should be enough to keep the reactor running until your plasma generator kicks in, this first buffer filling could be dont with anything, even good old steam when you wait long enough...

I had enabled Naquadah mix veins in WorldGeneration.cfg before my first visit to the End, but I dug 13 mineshafts in the End (at x/z = +/- 24 or 72, except where there that would immediately drop me into the void; iirc, none of the +/- 120 or beyond locations were viable) and didn't find any Naquadah veins. I had slightly better luck raiding jungle temples, though only the first of the eight I visited had a zero point module, and I'm using that now.

Quote from axlegear

You can also make it via fusion, and then once you have a block, you can cross-breed a stargatium plant to produce it more efficiently.

Two problems with that: 1. I'm looking for a way to initially power the fusion reactor, so making materials via fusion isn't really an option yet. 2. I think stargatium is only in GT 5.09, while I'm still on 5.08 (I actually started the world back in February using GT 5.07, though I interspersed playing other mod lists for several weeks at a time)

Quote from Elthy

I used a Naquadah reactor MK3 to produce my first plasma, after that a small plasma generator MK3.

Thanks for the suggestion, but how did you get your naquadah for that? Re-enabled ore mix in the End or something else?

Quote from willis936

Also on fusion overclocking does it follow the same EU overclocking rules where it consumes 4x EU for half the duration?

I'm curious about the fusion overclocking as well. I hope it isn't based on the energy hatches the way other multiblocks are, because according to the Wiki, the Mark I requires LuV hatches at least, and 16 of them would push it up to UV processing, and 4 of the fusion recipes are listed as IV (8192 EU/t) or less. I'm not sure basing the overclocking on the reactor tier would work well either, since iron plasma requires a Mark 3 fusion reactor to store enough to start the reaction, but only 8192 EU/t (Insane Voltage) to sustain it, and none of the recipes even list full ZPM voltage. Maybe the fusion reactor doesn't overclock, but I haven't found a clear indication of that on the Wiki page.

Also, could I get some suggestions for simple ways to initially power my fusion reactor? I've got the structure built, and 64 lapotronic orbs in some 4-slot insane voltage battery buffers pointing into LuV energy hatches, but I haven't charged the batteries yet. I was planning to make some IV-tier solar panels, and I got as far as writing an AE2 crafting pattern for an EV-tier solar panel, but actually making it would require something like 360 kilobytes of crafting storage (as well as way more iron, redstone, carbon, and a few other materials than I had in stock).

Okay, BoggyDG's issue seems to be related to the use of the Java Preferences class and the "userRoot" (which in Windows means the values are stored in a registry key under "HKEY_CURRENT_USER"), which allows the planner to remember a selected resource pack (for alternate reactor component textures). Does anybody else actually use that feature, and if so, would it upset you if that feature was removed?

Edit: since nobody responded in several days, I went ahead and removed the resource pack support as of v2.1.3.