Posts by MauveCloud

Quote from axlegear

How many LV centrifuges, assuming constant full-inventory loads of rotten flesh that never run out, would need to be running simultaneously in order to make enough methane to run a 512v gas turbine constantly?

Assuming default efficiency (70% for an HV gas turbine), 1 cell worth of methane will give 31,500 EU (not sure where the different value listed in the wiki comes from), and thus run the gas turbine for about 61.5 ticks. That means it needs about 16.2 mB/t of methane to run constantly. A single LV centrifuge produces methane at an average of 1 mB every 4 ticks for most foods (the main difference is in how many food items are required, and foods that have byproducts take longer), so you'd need about 64.8 LV centrifuges.

Quote from unknown zombie

Could we get a config option to turn off damage from having Lava Buckets in the inventory?

I think there already is a config for that, just buried in MaterialProperties.cfg. I'm guessing that changing "D:lava_3.0=3.0" to "D:lava_3.0=0.0" might do what you want.

Quote from tutkis

Hey
I'm trying to change Extra Trees fence recipes. When I write a simple
recipes.remove(<ExtraTrees:fence:32>); for some reason it removes all fence recipes. What's up with it ? When I write /mt hand in game it shows <ExtraTrees:fence:32>.withTag({meta:32}) but even when I tried that it still didn't work.

Have you tried specifying the inputs of the recipe that you want to remove, instead of just the output?

That somewhat explains the slow chunk generation, though it doesn't entirely explain it completely stalling out, or stalling on save and quit. I was hoping my i7-4770k and giving Java a max memory allocation of 8 GB out of my 16 GB total would have been enough.

Edit: I got back to the base I'd started, and it doesn't seem to be lagging there, so now I'm clearing some paths (and might later add cobblestone slabs and stairs to make them roads)

Since I hadn't gotten any further responses either here or in the similar thread I started over at Minecraft Forum, I went ahead and installed the mods yesterday (including the "uncertain" ones), though I ended up removing the localized weather one. I've got 93 downloaded mods, and the main menu screen says I have 150 Forge mods (I also have two LiteLoader mods, though one of them also counts as a Forge mod). I timed the game's launch earlier, and it takes 6 minutes 26 seconds to get to said main menu screen.

However, I started exploring, and got to a point where it looked like it had stalled out on generating new chunks, so I went to some nearby land and did a "save and quit", but then it got stuck on "shutting down internal server". I gave it about an hour before forcing it closed. I looked at several logs, and didn't find a clue as to what might be causing that. Can anybody help me track it down?

Nice, but that doesn't really prove that Moor is as good as swampland, because those are low-tier crops (pumpkin is tier 1, and reed is tier 2), so having a good biome is less critical for them (especially if you have a crop-matron going as you mentioned before).

Quote from SpwnX

IC2 crop biome environment bonus is not based on temperature and humidity forestry-like, but on biome types.

Quote from Nexey_

Seems like Moor is a swamp like biome, so that's a gg for me

Any tips on determining ahead of time which BoP biomes count as swampland for the purposes of IC2 crops? I would guess that lush swamp, bayou, and wetland count. I don't know if Nexey_'s results really prove that Moor counts, and I don't know whether quagmire or sludgepit would count.

Edit: I figured this out from decompiling sources, but since I'm not giving exact values, I hope this is okay: for the purposes of IC2 crops, lush swamp and bayou are about the same as vanilla swampland, wetland and bamboo forest are better, but fungi forest is the best. Moor isn't quite as good as vanilla swampland, quagmire and sludgepit are bad, and the worst is crag (even worse than the nether biomes, which are technically farmable iirc by using the BoP blood fluid in place of water)

Quote from GregoriusT

Are you then sure it is 100% transparent? Otherwise it will take the 1% visibility and make it a 100% visiblity.

I checked that just now. I'll admit I didn't sample every transparent pixel, but the ones I did had an alpha value of 0 (completely transparent) according to GIMP's Color Picker Tool.

I noticed the corium earlier, but my post about it got buried. I extracted the corium texture files from the jar and opened them with GIMP, and according to that they have transparency, so I don't think this can be blamed on MS Paint.

Quote from dohvakin96

I just produced my first oil berry plant and I was wondering how many of those plants would be required to supply a distillation tower with oil. What stats would you recommend for those oil berry plants?
The distillation tower needs 4 L/t of oil, that is 1 oil berry per 25 ticks.

Recommended stats for pretty much any IC2 or GT crop (except possibly Venomilia) are 21/31/any. Once you have about 9 or so Oilberries crops with stats around that amount, I suggest you run an IC2 crop harvester on them for about half an hour, and see how many oilberries you get. From there it should be possible to extrapolate an estimate of how many Oilberries crops you'll need.

I think the OP might have been confused by the thread title of [MC 1.8.1] IC² v1.337 SSP/SMP
IC2 1.337b was released December 4, 2011, and it's for Minecraft Beta 1.8.1 that released September 19, 2011 (also it's not IC2 "experimental"). If you're trying to install it for the full Minecraft 1.8 that released September 2, 2014, then I'm not surprised that it won't work.

You should be looking at this thread instead: [LATEST RELEASE] [MC 1.6][MC 1.7] IC2 Experimental

Quote from Pyure

When we "upgrade" our machinery in GT with better materials, all we're really doing is overclocking them. With the exception of the macerator, which has a legitimate upgrade scheme.

Technically, there is another exception: recipes that require a specific voltage. I think this mainly applies to the forming press, laser engraver, assembling machine, electrolyzer, extruder, and fluid extractor, though. Oh, and there's the higher chance of returning materials for the disassembler. However, I'll agree that other machines currently offer no incentive to build the higher tiers beyond the faster processing (and possibly less pollution once that gets implemented). Also, the macerator upgrade scheme is a bit limited, since there isn't much incentive to building at tiers other than LV and HV. (MV has no additional outputs; when recovering raw materials from machines, the arc furnace tends to be more attractive; and the stone/netherrack/etc. dust that ore blocks can give as the third macerator output can easily be obtained as primary outputs when macerating stone-type materials directly)

I have some thoughts about pollution:
1. I agree that higher-tier machines should produce less pollution, but it might make sense for them to be more susceptible to it, since they operate faster and presumably have more intricate moving parts.
2. Would confinement of the machines affect the pollution, encouraging base designs that are more open to allow the pollution to dissipate?
3. I'm concerned that instead of encouraging people to progress toward fission/fusion, the pollution mechanic might encourage using power generation from other mods instead (e.g. IC2 semifluid generators, Railcraft steam turbines), since as you mentioned it might not be possible to make non-GT generators cause pollution.
4. I presume the pollution caused by multiblocks would be controlled by the tier of the muffler hatch.

Quote from SpwnX

You should play without PFAA (also COG) and UB (those have no benefit to the gameplay, actually they are a bit problematic nowadays), aswell edit the configs to ease the gameplay to your liking.

I've grown to like PFAA, though I can see how UBC might conflict with it. Are you willing to clarify what you meant about them being problematic?

Also, in case anyone else is still following this thread, I've got a new list of mods I'm considering in another thread in the off-topic section and more feedback on it would be nice.

Quote from Drawfox

Is that so?
I was looking into, seems I would to need another tech tree, and I would need to search chunk generated meteorites. As I already explored A LOT, would be a pain to add it now.
Maybe I do this weekend, seems fun though.

Technically, when both AE2 and GT are installed, there are processing recipes for the inscriber presses without having to generate meteorites. They each take 1920 EU/t for 100 seconds, though.

Quote from willis936

Idk why that link died. Fucking google.

The link in your earlier post still works, just not the quoted link in my post, so I think the forum is to blame there, not Google.

I was kinda hoping for a few others to respond with advice on my latest mod list. I don't know whether it's ignorance, antipathy, or apathy discouraging further responses.

Quote from willis936

Also in case anyone is interested in D+T numbers:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1…dit?usp=sharing

Uh, what's the point of the distillation tower numbers? Electrolyzing regular water gives the same outputs (and takes the same amount of time and EU) as electrolyzing distilled water, so it isn't really necessary to distill it first.

Quote from willis936

When making a water to centrifuge array I found something interesting: the rated temperature of wooden fluid pipes is higher than the temperature of hydrogen gas but they would still make a steam sound when passing it through. It also had a cool visual affect but I replaced them with copper pipes anyway since I wasn't sure if there was loss with it.

GT5u wiki (reference) mentions that wooden pipes can't transport gases. Technically they can, but some of it vents out.

I investigated a little further and found something else: the distiller/distillation tower recipes I found for bio-ethanol require the fluid registered as just "biomass", which probably mainly comes from Forestry machines (my current instance doesn't have Forestry installed). The IC2 canning machine recipe with water and bio chaff would produce the fluid registered as "ic2biomass" (which outputs biogas and a couple other things when put into a distillation tower, rather than bio-ethanol).