I was playing a bit, set up 4 steam turbines, Industrial Grinder + powered furnace processing line (with AE) And now I think... Do I need to make massfab to get Iridium? I want GraviSuit eventually, but there is an issue: I had one turbine in my DW20 world, and it took a lot of time to make Q-armour (not GraviPlate!). And there was no GregTech. Now, I need 100 turbines to have the same production speed, and it's really impossible, because massfab accepts only 8192 Eu/t. So, maybe it is better to just get Iridium from iridium ore and ferrous ore? And there also was something in the End that gives Iridium and platinum...
Ultimate. Iridium Source?
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It doesn't accept only 8192 EU/t. It accepts up to 8192 EU/t. It is true that most GregTech machines require their stated energy draw to keep running, but the matter fab is one of a few exceptions.
For other iridium sources, check NEI. There are centrifuge recipes for platinum dust. There's an ore that spawns in The End that yields iridium and platinum in the industrial grinder. There's also iridium ore spawns in the overworld (but they are very rare and very hard to find).
EDIT: Also, I generally nerf the energy need of the matter fab in my singleplayer worlds. The 16.6 million per UU-matter is balanced for 24/7 servers where people spam HV solars. As a result, it's just unusable for singleplayer, where the thing is only running when you are actively logged into the world. I use around 2-3 million per UU-matter.
For other iridium sources, check NEI. There are centrifuge recipes for platinum dust. There's an ore that spawns in The End that yields iridium and platinum in the industrial grinder. There's also iridium ore spawns in the overworld (but they are very rare and very hard to find).
EDIT: Also, I generally nerf the energy need of the matter fab in my singleplayer worlds. The 16.6 million per UU-matter is balanced for 24/7 servers where people spam HV solars. As a result, it's just unusable for singleplayer, where the thing is only running when you are actively logged into the world. I use around 2-3 million per UU-matter.
Go to the End.
Collect Sheldonite ore from asteroids. You'll find 1-2 veins of it per asteroid. (Usually one. The veins aren't very large, either. I changed the texture of sheldonite ore to help with the search. It tends to blend in with end stone.)
Put the sheldonite ore into an industrial grinder. You will be rewarded with Iridium nuggets and platinum dust.
Centrifuge the platinum for additional iridium.
And yeah, the matter fabricator will take any amount of energy you put into it, so long as it doesn't exceed 8192 eu/t. Obviously, the speed of UU matter production depends on how much energy you stuff into it.
Collect Sheldonite ore from asteroids. You'll find 1-2 veins of it per asteroid. (Usually one. The veins aren't very large, either. I changed the texture of sheldonite ore to help with the search. It tends to blend in with end stone.)
Put the sheldonite ore into an industrial grinder. You will be rewarded with Iridium nuggets and platinum dust.
Centrifuge the platinum for additional iridium.
And yeah, the matter fabricator will take any amount of energy you put into it, so long as it doesn't exceed 8192 eu/t. Obviously, the speed of UU matter production depends on how much energy you stuff into it.
Yeah, I know. I just pointed out that it's impossible to reach even that very slow rate I had earlier with DW20's pack with one massfab.
Thank you, I've already discovered the Platinum way. It is still pretty slow, though. And I'll go for sheldonite when I reach the End.
And how do you get Irudium? Only sheldonite/ferrous ore? Or massfab?
Iridium ore in the overworld? You get it the same way you get any other ore. You mine it.
Now, Iridium ore has a 20% chance to spawn a single block per chunk. That means that on average, one of 5 chunks will have a single block of iridium. Or it would have, but the real rate is even less, because iridium ore has no real height limit... it can spawn all the way from bedrock up to y=90 at minimum, maybe higher, I don't know. As a result, the world generator will often attempt to place iridium ore in thin air, where it obviously fails.
As a word of advice: don't bother manually searching for it, you'll grow old and senile before you find anything. You best bet is quarrying mountain ranges en masse and hope for the best.
You may get lucky though. If you ever come across a single ore block that looks like iron ore except pure white, and that cannot be mined by anything except a diamond pick, set yourself a world map marker and come back later with a rock cutter. Silk touch it, throw it in the grinder.
Now, Iridium ore has a 20% chance to spawn a single block per chunk. That means that on average, one of 5 chunks will have a single block of iridium. Or it would have, but the real rate is even less, because iridium ore has no real height limit... it can spawn all the way from bedrock up to y=90 at minimum, maybe higher, I don't know. As a result, the world generator will often attempt to place iridium ore in thin air, where it obviously fails.
As a word of advice: don't bother manually searching for it, you'll grow old and senile before you find anything. You best bet is quarrying mountain ranges en masse and hope for the best.
You may get lucky though. If you ever come across a single ore block that looks like iron ore except pure white, and that cannot be mined by anything except a diamond pick, set yourself a world map marker and come back later with a rock cutter. Silk touch it, throw it in the grinder.
As far as I'm aware, the best way to get iridium ingots is through sheldonite.
Unless there's a better way to collect massive amounts of platinum that doesn't involve going to the end.
Iridium is a very troublesome thing to get a hold of, and as far as I'm aware is one of the few things that you can't really mass-automate. Well, aside from the matter fabricator, I suppose. If you have massive energy production, the matter fabricator becomes your best bet.
Unless there's a better way to collect massive amounts of platinum that doesn't involve going to the end.
Iridium is a very troublesome thing to get a hold of, and as far as I'm aware is one of the few things that you can't really mass-automate. Well, aside from the matter fabricator, I suppose. If you have massive energy production, the matter fabricator becomes your best bet.
In fact, I don't mine at all since I set up a max-size full-speed quarry - I have so much Iron/Copper/Tin... I made two Iridium plates out of Iridium ore and Platinum two quarries dug out. The only thing I think about is whether I should make a fabricator and build more and more Eu generators to get it.
Well, scrap and tungsten dust don't actually reduce the amount of energy required in the matter fabricator. Which means that they don't really... accelerate it.
An 'amplifier' like scrap or tungsten dust is required as a catalyst for the UU matter. The quantity of the catalyst is decided based on what you use. Since scrap is infinite, and easy to make, there's no real reason not to use it.
main difference between ic2 mass fab and gt matter fab is energy use per uu-matter, 167k uu versus 16.6m eu.
The amplifier type doesn't make a difference to the energy use, so any amplifier is fine as long as you can keep your matter fab stocked with it (I use 7 igneous extruders and 1 recyclcer to keep my matter fab full).
To the actual topic: Best (pre fusion reactor) source of iridium, imo is bees.
The amplifier type doesn't make a difference to the energy use, so any amplifier is fine as long as you can keep your matter fab stocked with it (I use 7 igneous extruders and 1 recyclcer to keep my matter fab full).
To the actual topic: Best (pre fusion reactor) source of iridium, imo is bees.
There is, actually!
I'd absolutely forgotten about bees. That's another method, if you're willing to put in the time.
Not really.
Adv pack is far more agile
- Jump->Go
- Land->No energy use
- forget to press pointless ignition button->Press button->Jump->Go
- Land->Forget to turn off gravi->Power drains to nothing (thanks for the 'warning' at 0% asshole machine!)->Turn off->Curse to self->Wait for UltiSolarHelm to recharge->Crap its nighttime->More expletives->Invent ingenious system with enderchests and enderpouch, gates and MFSU to recharge it anywhere. (more proud of that than making the gravishite)
Yeah valuable bees, they produce platinum combs.
I have 3 platinum bees, 2 are in alvearies with frame housings, 1 is in a standard alveary, they produce enough platinum dust to keep 3 industrial centrifuges working 24/7 making iridium nuggets.