I'm honestly just curious. I have two HV EBFs, aluminium isn't a big deal.
I'm in the same situation. I don't get any hidden research from knowledge fragments anymore, and I have researched everything I could find in regular TC and almost everything in the other tabs. I'm really curious about how to unlock this. It's probably something you'd never do in the course of playing, such as scanning an aluminium nugget (which just occurred to me - I'll try that when I get home).
Yes, and yes. Before I make a power generation system, I usually calculate how much fuel I'm going to need per time unit and how much net power I'll get out of it in that time unit. I don't always end up building the most efficient setup though, particularly later in the game - there is a point where the added expense or complexity isn't worth it. It's similar in ore processing. I often forego the second byproduct if it's reasonably common or I don't expect to need more of it (cobalt or nickel comes to mind), since centrifuges are both power-intensive and time-consuming. Also I don't centrifuge and electrolyze sulfide ores any more since I have more sulfur than I'll ever need, while I always do it with oxide ores since I need oxygen for steel and annealed copper.
Do you have Advanced Metallurgic Transmutation unlocked as well? That is needed for Aluminium research.
I guess the best bet would be letting @Blood Asp time to look at it. I understand that transmuting Aluminium should be hard to get, because it will "kind of let you to skip" to MV age without touching LV.Actually it wouldn't as far as I know, because the way transmutations work means you take some of the metal and duplicate it with metallum, primarily from other metals which is where the transmutation bit comes from. This means however you need access to an aluminium nugget before you can transmute more, that basically means you'll need an ingot and short of trading with someone on a server I'm not sure you can actually get those without building an EBF to get your first the GT way, at least I've never seen any spawn in dungeon chests, if they can that would be the alternative but it's far from reliable.
I don't think I've seen that research yet.
I did scan all the available transmutable ingots and their respective nuggets just to be safe. I'm wondering if maybe I have to actually do a transmutation on some or all of these in order to get the research. Is doing an action such as a transmutation ever a prerequisite?
You have steel transmutation and your picture included all other pre-req researches so that's not an issue, and no as far as I can tell the research is only used once in the file that adds the research so every requirement is in that line of code. The only notable thing on that line is the type of the research being set to hidden, everything else is standard stuff pretty much every research there follows.
Any chance that substituting in/out "flavours" of metals (say, GT's steel instead of RC's steel) could be an issue?
oredict has nothing to do with the researching though, it just specifies what aspects are required, what researches are required, complexity and type and that's all that matters to unlocking it. For all we know it may be a vanilla thaumcraft bug in how hidden researches are handled, I don't know what's causing it though.
You'll note I said "grasping", and yeah.
I'm happy to wait, I just wanted to put out more fishing lines in case I got more bites.Ask Greg or people on GT thread directly (they might be able to help), or just wait for Blood Asp, patience young padawan
