FTB Infinity & Shiny Metal/Plat
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You can smelt ferrous ore and cinnabar to get a shiny metal per ore. Cinnabar is got from pulverizing redstone ore or transposing thaumcraft cinnabar ore with water. Ferrous ore is rare though.
Pretty sure TE cinnabar is made by transposing cryotheum into cinnabar ore.
I made a TON of cryotheum, and I am still slowly using it to get the shiny ingots.
plus with the redstone ore option you can upgrade the pulverizer so there's a higher chance of getting cinnabar from pulverizing redstone ore.
Other option, though a bit time consuming to get there, is platinum bees. Get 6-8 genius try hives of those going and after a bit you'll be swimming in shiny
You can also pulverise Gold Ore for a chance at Cinnabar, but the odds are much smaller than Redstone.
i did this today.. and worked like a treat, I had my hammer, that mines 3x3.. I went to Y cords level 10.. besty for red stone, basically just went straight..... make sure your tool has silky touch on it, so you get just get the ore block.. by doing this, I found many things, tons of red stone, even some ferrous ore, and got over a stack of diamonds.
1. Change the configs of CofH core so it gens shiny ore.
2. Add electricraft, EC platinum oredicts with TE shiny ore
3. Nether Ores has platinum blocks too.
I'm not sure what the rationale behind shiny ore not being included in worldgen in infinity is, but there's definitely ways to sort it.
2. Add electricraft, EC platinum oredicts with TE shiny ore
3. Nether Ores has platinum blocks too.
I'm not sure what the rationale behind shiny ore not being included in worldgen in infinity is, but there's definitely ways to sort it.
You can get a ton of redstone ore and a decent amount of ferrous in the nether, make sure you bring a jet pack. Then get some rich slag. Sand + redstone in an induction smelter = 50% rich slag, cinnabar + gold ore = 75%. Rich slag + nether ferrous ore = 3 ferrous ores.
if you mine by hand, yes, it can be pretty rare, but if you use a quarry it's not that bad
I have twice as many emeralds as I do ferrous ore. Using an ender quarry in an extreme hills. 6 stacks ferrous ore, 4 stacks draconium, 12 stacks emerald, 19 stacks diamond.
So farely bloody rare
you do know that extreme hills is a biome where you're meant to find emeralds right?
because extreme hills is a biome that spawns emeralds it's no surprise you're finding so many of them.
you overestimate how far 6 stacks of ferrous ore actually goes.
and how far platinum, in any quantity, goes.
you, like, only use ferrous for invar. unless you're building a house out of invar blocks, you have no reason to not be in posession of a backlog of ferrous.
also, using the above-mentioned cinnibar method, you get nearly 170 blocks of enderium. 170 BLOCKS. if you use that much enderium for anything other than a construction material (that includes turbines), then you are the champion of all spending ever.