Posts by MagusUnion

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This is true. Being reliant on geothermal power is a lot like surfing; you have to go where the waves are...glowing orange waves, that is. IC 2 doesn't exactly lend itself to being nomadic, either. Generally once I put my machines down, I tend to want to settle in for a while, at a given site. It's just too much bother to have to pick up everything and move every five minutes, not to mention the energy cost with the lossless electric wrench.

This is where Hydro also comes in. Geothermal early-to-mid serves as a strong power source to enable alot of resource gathering, but toward late game you will begin to tap out on lava resources, even in the Nether. The best solution that I've found has been to invest in either Forestry or large scale Hydro. Doing so enables renewability in your lava investments long after the molten fluids have cooled...

version 3 of the Hydro dam should be in a future episode of my Let's Play, as well as some electric Forestry work...

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im waiting till i have 3 stack before using then on the Q-Table.

Case in point.. So how high are your wood reserves right now?

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What? Paper its the last thing i need, with cropstick i have like 27 patches of reed producing it Non Stop, i get like 128 reeds per trip to my farm (And this is with reeds planted with reeds (could not make some super reeds due to the cropanalizer being broken)

Also going to assume you aren't making books for arcane research... Because there is a good chance that you would need to rapidly consume all of those supplies for research...

There are... they are called add-on's, and if you take the time to learn Java, then you can create as many crazy machines that you want with the help of the IC2 API...

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agreed it should make 8, still unbalanced but more fair.

How?

if 1 Diamond = 9 UUM
and 1 Flint = (5/35) UUM or ~.15 UUM a piece..

then how does 2 Coal = 3 UUM if 64 Coal + 8 Flint = 1 Diamond now?

At least with 8 Coal, you suffer inefficiency with Diamond crafting via UUM... 12 is overkill as it would be worth more to make coal -> diamonds than diamonds directly... So really you're buying Carbon Plate materials more than anything else...

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Wooddust. A good thing, but i see these people coming with "which uses does it have?" and i would answer ENOUGH to implement it. I mean even Silver was smashed down by nearby everyone and i saw several Wooddustthreads, which got pwned too.

Some of the possible uses:

Paper
Planks
Fuel (10 Dusts are as much as Charcoal)
Macerting wooden Tools

I'd love to see this as well. So far, the only practical use for wood is tied up into fuel and building, and in many cases it's better to use Marble or Cobble instead just for the sake of looks or durability...

Paper products would also be helpful for Thaumcraft and Forestry players, as it solves two problems related with those mods in terms of an excess/needed resource with planks -> paper...

And as always... having a Wooden tool in your chest because you don't want to 'waste' it is always embarrassing, especially if you are doing YouTube videos, lol...

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I just see coal as a extra source of diamonds.

I see Coal as my ONLY source of Diamonds until I get to end game... and even then, the coal is still cheaper to farm...

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Ergo why its called WASTE, something useless and that nobody actually wants. You people get hung up on the weirdest things O.o

Probably because of the fact that people can see the resourcefulness of such things, and find uncommon applications for them...

See the slightly related topic of how waste can become fuel for power ...

But I doubt the devs will lean toward implementing a biome altering feature just yet. Would like to point out, though, that the new Thaumcraft 2 has a similar feature with "Taint " as a form of 'magical pollution', which proves that such features can be integrated into the mod if it were decided to do so...

I'm going to assume that when you place Water Mills on a wire, that you are leaving gaps between then in order to insure maximum saturation?

Like this?

If so, then wouldn't it be better to slice some of the arrays into layers in order to compartmentalize the amount of space that you are using? The reason I say this is due to the simple fact that there is not a penalty for watermills to share water blocks when producing EU. So thus you can fold parts of the array together into a lattic in order to save on horizontal space and simply contain the dam water in a more volume based structure...

But I doubt people will still bother with unmanned mode as even the IC2 team is slanting more toward manned water mill usage now...

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Along with the excitement of Super Structures with the new world height, we have tested the Windmill breakage at height 255.

10+ hours at 6-7eu/t and our test mill is going strong. Has Windmill break chance been disabled?

They probably traded break chance with cable tolerance... at 6-7 EU/t I'd imagine that your Tin wires start melting, and that you'd need either copper or higher to withhold that voltage...

http://www.talonfiremage.pwp.b…98os00zrcbx9f9d60tuuaaiww

Like this?

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seriously? wtf?

Yup..

Read: http://notch.tumblr.com/post/1121596044/how-piracy-works

(if you are able, ofc...)

I've found a couple of these as well on my worlds... I believe that, in the case of overlapping custom world gen., Minecraft gets lazy when creating chunks of space and merely plots things on top of one another... This has some interesting effects on vegetation and terrain if you allow the blocks to 'paint over' themselves like this...

So when will we see the hammer and the lock fly in here?

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Comapred to yours mine is way better than yours

Well, that may be true, it's still public indecency... and I highly suggest that you put your pants back on before you get in trouble...

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And how many on these forums even attempt a CASUC, let alone can build a stable one? Not many. It's an incredible resource hog, as well as quite a bit of mental power must be dumped into it.

It was a joke... unlike some assholes, you don't have to take me so seriously... Besides, unless you can dummy dump loads of Ice into a reactor and not have to think about it (*whistles*), even CASUC's can be a challenge...

The only time I fiddle with them is in test settings... don't really trust them on legit builds, and usually don't need that much power in my setups due to how resourceful I can be when it comes to managing every ounce of EU I have...

Shouting OP is basically the video game equivalent of shouting 'racist' or 'queer'... It's quite demoralizing to generalize a group that uses said options in a game as inherently lazy and skill-less as such (see the example flame-war over Solar Panels)...

Reactors are by no means cheap, and a mistake with one comes with a cost greater than the investment you initially used... I highly doubt there is anything OP about them (except for CASUC's, ofc, lol)

w00t! I hope soon! Can't wait to combine the power of both biomass energy from forestry and gasification from this add-on..

Renewable energy ftw!

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So this means that mods will be updated pretty easily then?

If they have to at all, then yes...

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However, the wiki says water towers don't work anymore and I'm not sure if that's true

It's not...

Your best bet is to surround all of the water wills with water, and then place a pump on top of the mills and allow the unmanned power to feed into the pump, and the manned power to output as 'free' energy..

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Although you may want to double check my math in order to insure the accuracy of this design. Also, this doesn't include the piping of the cells as well, but that may not be an issue if you continue to expand up vertically...