Posts by Xircom

psusi wrote:

No; I never played GT5, but that sounds just like retrievers from COFH. My understanding of conveyor belts is that you slap one on a pipe and it will suck items out of the thing the pipe is connected to ( just like the retrievers from COFH ). How is that different from this new thing, except for the filter aspect? Though actually iirc, the COFH retrievers could be filtered too.

If I understand it right, the retriever is like an "inverse" conveyor; instead of pushing items in the pipes it's connected to, it requests (pulls) them from the pipes it's connected to.

Greg, since the main way of making electricity in GT (and irl) is heat>steam>turbine>dynamo, are we ever going to play around with supercritical water boilers/turbines for extra power or efficiency?

I think you can use a crowbar to open them

You still have the blast furnace in your to-do list, yes? =P

I think the intended way to get oil near bedrock is with a drain cover, isn't it?

Finally some new toys to play around with =P Btw, are we ever gonna get that blast furnace you talked about years ago?

You say that you have to think for a punishment for using axles, but is it really necessary? I feel like being able to produce RU a few blocks away (in a straight line) isn't such a big advantage that needs balancing =/

At least with wires you can go in any direction and connect to multiple lines (and is realistic), and you already said that gearboxes will be lossy anyway. So yeah, why also nerf the axles themselves?

Are you serious? -.-" They are spelled backward to avoid spoilers, delete your post!

MrEyeballs29 wrote:

I think that causes the removal of the old veins.

Even if that were true, do you really think that Greg wouldn't know it?

Didn't Greg say that shift+left click doesn't do anything on purpose, and that shift+right click was the new way to do it?

GregoriusT wrote:

You cant get Tungsten from Lava anymore afaik.

Really? I didn't check. And I wasn't going to do it anyway.

For processing rutile, can you melt calcite in a crucible and transfer it in a burner mixer? Or do I need a smelter?

Yeah I just started making stainless steel to handle acids and make mixers and baths; I still have a few stacks of carbon from before the update, but I think I'll only use it to make iron. I'll go the acid route for the carborundum.

I'm still using a ceramic crucible xD I was thinking of doing a titanium-niobium alloy one and then immediately upgrade to pure niobium. But I still can't make titanium from rutile (I'm missing the chlorine).

psusi wrote:

Then I noticed carborundum

I'm at work so I can't check, but I was looking for a good upgrade to my blue steel tools and I never saw carborundum in NEI. Can you make it with only GT installed?

Shulker box style fluid transportation I was thinking about medium-distance fluid transport during mid game. Too far for pipes but too close for long distance pipes (and cheap-ish).

With a fluid-o-meter you could detecr when a barrel is full, break it automatically and load it in a minecart with a hopper. When the minecart is full you send it on its way.

There's no way to automatically place the barrels, so it wouldn't be fully automatic (thus not as op), but I don't know I thought it could be an interesting idea

Edit: maybe you could make it a special propriety of the plastic tanks (automatic placing and breaking shulker box style). They require a distillation tower and don't hold that much

Is there any way to automatically break the (fluid) barrels?

I found 2 graphite/diamonds vein in my world, but they seem to spawn WAY less diamonds than fhe old world gen. I found less than 10 diamond ores and at least 2 stacks of graphite ores. Did I just got unlucky or is it intended?

I really struggled to get any steel before I made my first centrifuge. And the problem wasn't the graphite, it was iron itself. It took so long to gather dark ashes for iron that I had time to build a semi-decent base, make a complete set of bronze tools and a few basic machines (and their b.boxes, boilers, pipes and turbines) before I was able to make 25 iron ingots for my first steel batch.

Fine =P but seriously, when you make "controversial" changes to the mod (especially early game stuff) you should remind people of your plans.

I personally was scared to update and centrifuged all my ashes, because I forgot you mentioned (many months ago) that you'd eventually add a blast furnace

Is there a list of things you plan to eventually add to GT? 'Cause I feel it would help avoid confusion and frustration over some of the changes you make

Greg, didn't you mention that you wanted to add a blast furnace for steel production?