Posts by Serpent60

What says Industry better than Steel Mills? In Minecraft and also IC2 the process of smelting is wanting something. Simply heating up the ore in a furnace will have no effect, since it is not simply specs of pure metal in rock, waiting to be melted out. IRL, an ore is usually an oxide: Iron Oxide, Copper Oxide, Aluminium Oxide etc. To obtain pure metals the oxygen must be removed, and this is done by displacing it with Carbon, which comes in the form of Coke (Obtained by baking Coal without oxygen present, can be done in the furnace) or Charcoal. The remove impurities, Limestone (Gravel would be a good thing to use for this) is added to drive them out in the form of slag (which can be conveniently be represented by Scrap)
So:
[Any Ore] + Gravel + [Coke or Charcoal] -> Scrap + [Metal Ingot]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9l7JqonyoKA

This should all be done in a new machine, a Blast Furnace, which has a slot for everything mentioned above. Because the Coke burns away in the process and keeps the furnace hot, no EU/t is required.
The process for refining the Iron into Ref. Iron is close enough.
Bam, only one new machine, one new item.

I am set up with an MFE powering my workshop through a LV tranformer, and a small electric engine is hooked in. At first, the engine will not charge nor run, then when I break and place the engine again it freezes the power stored in the MFE at whatever it was, and it will not change. Suddenly there is an infinite amount of power, presumably up to 128 EU/t, regardless of whether the MFE is being charged (I disconnected the MFE from the charging, same result). The only way to get the MFE to charge/decharge is to break the transformer and place it again.

It would be nice if the painters were able to paint generators and machines as they can cables, so that two power lines can be kept completely separate. It could show up in the corners of the machine.

You may hate me for this, but what would be more realistic AND easier would be to replace Tin with Aluminium. If you Wikipedia Tin you will see that it has very few modern uses, and the Aluminium basically does what Tin does in IC. Yes, the cable would need to be changed around, since aluminium is more conductive and tin cable can be made so cheaply. What could be done to balance out have Aluminium cable would be that you have to mine Bauxite Ore instead of Aluminium (which is how it is done) and then macerate it to get Aluminium dust, so that you can't just make High-Voltage-Low-Loss cables right off the bat.

A high-end machine that you could build would be the processor. It would be made by combining a chest, a MFSU, a compressor, a macerator, an induction furnace, an extractor and a canning machine (possibly an advanced machine, advanced circuit etc). I don't know how easy this would be, but ideally it would be 3x3x3 blocks. The GUI would look like two chests sandwiching a furnace interface. The processor would take resources from the left/top checst and turn them into useful thing, for example ores into ingots, iron ingots in refined iron, coal into carbon plates or if there is flint into coal balls. It may be very hard to program, and may need some balancing, but I think it would be cool to come home from mining and basically dump my whole inventory into one chest and let it do all the work (as is sort of possible on a huge scale with BuildCraft).