FTB Unleashed = NO aluminium?

[Wirblewind]

I just recently started up on unleashed with a few friends and we have all noticed that there is almost no aluminum on the map.

Is this on purpose or is something overriding the ore generation?

 

[xXShadowOo]

Did you do download any extra mods ?

If not, then maybe you're just not lucky enough

 

[Predatorkillol]

Well if your comparing the old xycraft aluminum ore to the new TConstruct Aluminium ore then you are bound to see a major drop in ore rates. A good tip for you is just to rush through high level caves for the ore, you are bound to find plenty to get you the casts you will need plus a bunch of other good stuff. Time and Effort is all it takes to succeed in Feed the Beast.

 

[Omicron]

TConstruct aluminium is ridiculously rare by default in the latest versions, except for Extreme Hills biomes. Drop a quarry on one of those and you should get a few dozen.

 

[Hambeau]

I've got a cave set up where, with 9 aluminum ore-berry bushes I can grow an ingot a day. I have caves set up for all the ore-berries and collect the bushes as I find them.

I've found several bushes, most recently Iron, growing on the surface...

Of course, this doesn't keep me from hitting the mines for real ore.

 

[MrD3cisive]

I suggest getting a quarry setup, or looking for a cave world. Best way to get aluminum in my opinion.
Also, Tinkers construct

 

[Symmetryc]

You have to use aluminum oreberries, you can tons from them.

 

[Kitchen_Fire]

I also use the oreberry bushes to produce aluminum. I have made an automatic system that harvests and smelts the berries into nuggets. I have a ridiculous amount of aluminum now.

 

[Omicron]

Where do you guys find all these oreberry bushes? The largest amount of aluminium oreberry bushes I had in any world ever was... two. (And 7 iron, 3 copper, 0 tin)

 

[Kitchen_Fire]

I find tons of aluminium oreberry bushes every time I go caving. I seem to find more aluminium and tin bushes than any others. I have a hard time finding gold oreberry bushes.

 

[KingTriaxx]

Yeah, I've got them coming out my ears. Look around the surface for random piles of gravel. You can get aluminum ore from those as well.[DOUBLEPOST=1379788619][/DOUBLEPOST]Yeah, I've got them coming out my ears. Look around the surface for random piles of gravel. You can get aluminum ore from those as well.

 

[YX33A]

I love ore berries. They make my ore obtaining much easier. But they don't cover all of my ores I need/use, nor can I find a way to process them into those kinds without EE3 (and a EE3 addon I installed). On the plus side, "Tastes Like Creeper".

 

[Hambeau]

I find Gold ore-berries down close to bedrock. I don't know the specific range, but I also find essence-berries there as well.

BTW, I've grown ore-berries on the surface, but they do grow better in darker caves. I have mine illuminated to BL:9 in the darkest corners to curb mob-spawning.

I process all my berries (except essence) in a smelter. Smelter ingots seem universal, as long as the metal type is known by the target tech.

BTW, the only use I've seen for essence berries so far is from a video where the host used some king of "Queen Grub" to spawn glow-worms, Essence berries were the queen's food. Anyone have other uses?

 

[PeggleFrank]

BTW, the only use I've seen for essence berries so far is from a video where the host used some king of "Queen Grub" to spawn glow-worms, Essence berries were the queen's food. Anyone have other uses?

Erm... you eat them and gain XP? I thought that was the only point of them.

 

[Mero]

Where do you guys find all these oreberry bushes? The largest amount of aluminium oreberry bushes I had in any world ever was... two. (And 7 iron, 3 copper, 0 tin)

I find them all over. I have 11 now but only 1 iron. That's only after I figured out you can pick them up. I don't know how many I passed up before I figured out I could pick them up. I've even found a couple of aluminum on the surface. I still need a couple more copper for an ingot per harvest and I need to find the single gold bush I found.
There are quite a few ravines in the general area I'm at and many caves I know I passed a few in mineshafts also.

 

[PhilHibbs]

BTW, the only use I've seen for essence berries so far is from a video where the host used some king of "Queen Grub" to spawn glow-worms, Essence berries were the queen's food. Anyone have other uses?

Those are Torchberries which you use to regenerate a Moonworm Queen. Both from Twilight Forest. Torchberries hang from the roof in caves. There's a bug that makes them disappear when you look at them, but you can still break the block above them to make them drop.

 

[Hambeau]

Thanks for the additional info. I've only played modded Minecraft since July.

 

[Runo]

You don't really need aluminum, all its uses have substitutes making it entirely optional. Steel is a better and cheaper substitute for alumite and can be made with 1 iron and 4 coal, and gold can be used for your casts if you are short of alumite.