Recent content by CodaPDX

There's a couple ways to do it, but the easiest is probably to just use an auto compressor from Ex Compressium.

I was clearing out some space with a horn of the wild last night. Bwoooo... Breaking grass noises. Pop...pop pop pop. Pneumaticcraft plants everywhere. The whole "dropped seeds make new plants" idea is easily the worst idea in modding in the last year.

IGN: CodaPDX Age: 30 Experience with FTB: I know my way around most of the major mods pretty well, but I specialize in Thaumcraft and Blood Magic. I'm also a pretty decent aesthetic builder. Some shots of my base on the previous server I played on: http://imgur.com/t9kO6dC...

There are asteroids in the end with sheldonite in them. Toss that into an industrial grinder and you'll get platinum and iridium.

I believe the base rate for input and output from an altar is 20 mB/sec, and 1 mB = 1 LP. Each Rune of Dislocation adds another 20 mB/sec to the transfer rate. And yeah, making altar recipes into fluid transposer recipes kind of defeats the point of the mod. You're trying to enhance magic...

A well of suffering does the same thing with gain. But I guess if you come up with something that requires a supply of liquid blood and you want to install it a ways away from your altar, then a "blood condenser" or something like it would make sense.

If you're going to cross over with Blood Magic, how about powered blood extraction and injection for altars? That lets us get around that pesky input buffer, and then you can use the blood in the fluid transposer or have it interact with the other TE fluids (freezing on contact with cryotheum...

Neat mashup of the dynamo and blood altar there. You know you can put Lava Crystals into Steam Dynamos for LP - > RF, though, right? I guess you could make it more powerful, since it's running off the actual liquid (which is harder to manage), but that's kind of boring.

Pretty much what Dave said. That said, unless you’ve got a truly epic steam engine array or are dropping meteors every 15 minutes or so, two or three wells full of witches generates more than enough LP for even the most intense crafting. Well, I never said the wither was hard. :P

The dagger of sacrifice doesn't work with fake players. I've done the early game lava crystal smelting thing. One lava crystal in one steam dynamo, trickling power into a hardened energy cell. Every so often I'd grab my sacrificial knife and some potions and go fill up my LP network at my T2...

Serenade of the nether is easily one of the more balanced things in the mod. It costs 500 LP per bucket of lava, which isn't all that much, but if you're relying on it to power anything more than a couple dynamos it becomes very, very easy to run out of power if you don't have any passive LP...

I've gone fairly deep into blood magic, and it's quickly become one of my favorite mods. I do have some reservations, though. Zerging your way through the early game is an issue. I'd recommend having a penalty associated with death - maybe emptying any nearby altars, taking a hit to your LP...

So here's my setup. I'm trying to make runes of fire, but I can't get the altar to accept mana from the mana spreaders. I've placed the ingredients on the altar and right clicked with my wand, but nothing is happening. The spreaders are just staying full. Any idea what I might be doing...

It's also fairly trivial to set up a small mob spawner above your altar in a similar kind of setup (or set your altar up underneath one from a vanilla dungeon). Hostile mobs also give about 5 times more LP than an animal.

For those who are curious about why you might want to have rituals overlap, I present exhibit A, my Alchemical Array (half of it, at least). http://imgur.com/TFzI3t6