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I've mentioned this in several other threads, but methane can also be used as fuel for a liquid boiler, and the plantballs can be macerated into dirt to be used for humus for the tree farm. To each their own, but how many farms do you need to run to keep a full powered fermenter fed? I've tried...

Iirc the turbine recipe actually produces 2 turbines, but let me run the numbers real quick: K, for the iron ore I'm going with the simple 16,666,666 EU for 2 ore > 4 ingots, due to rich slag not being guaranteed and you' have to reprocess it to get the extra ingot anyway. So for the recipe...

When in my first version of a world to see if it held the plant and animal life I would need it had 4 different cow spawns as well as some nearby rubber trees. When I added a bonus chest, none of those 4 spawns had cows - they were replaced by chickens, wolves, pigs, and sheep. Also, there was...

The methane production line I'm going for is a rubber tree farm, centrifuging the rubber wood and getting 4 methane cells per 250 seconds, dumping the methane in a transposer, and feeding it it in a boiler. I believe it isn't mycelium but the mushroom blocks you may be thinking of that produces...

As it is now you can smelt stuff in the induction smelter and then turn it into dust (not sure if Gregtech or not for that function). This means you can try for rich slag on all of your ore and then double whatever you want, like platinum. Personally though, if it's between the pulverizer and...

They last around 41 hours each at full output and since the consumption and output were doubled only 2 per 36HP boiler. Not sure on the other part as the turbine is fairly inefficient in the modpack I'm using so I don't use em.

Routers are one of those things that looks very complicated at first glance, but once you understand them they become incredibly easy. What makes them powerful is their upgrades, as the basic routers are effectively meh and can only really insert stuff slowly. One thing to note is that when you...

Go figure, in my new world the very first silverwood tree I found was covered in oil...and the very first tree I actually decided to chop down, the first leaves I broke with a sickle gave me a sapling. Another thing to note, turning on bonus chests seems to change passive animal spawns -_-

Because gates require that assembly table thing, filters and relays are fairly cheap, and RP tubes are a bit more intelligent when you set them up properly? Not to sound mean but, well, RP tubes just seem to be a whole lot better and, while the tubes can cost more, they seem to fair better and...

As I mentioned before, you can indeed get them with the sickle, as I got several from a single tree once. The method I tended to get saplings more often from was using the Wand of Excavation on the leaves that was mentioned earlier in the thread, but that could just be a massive coincidence...

*Wall of text is super effective* *Wall of text critically hits for 9999 damage* *Daemonblue faints* Anyway, yes, the sorting machines are indeed overkill for this setup. An inline filter will do just nicely with sorting out peat from other junk, and relays are indeed very useful with...

Regarding automating the moisteners, you can use 3 Routers from Factorization to automate any number of connected moisteners, so you could go from 1 to 100 moisteners and still only use 3 routers. What you do is pipe the items directly into the routers. For the wheat router have it insert wheat...

Rei's Minimap has the sun rising from the east, while the router's have the sun rising from the west. If you look at the side of the routers at the bottom there are colored lines. Those lines are color coded with the directions in the router. If you look at the cardinal directions in the router...

For the directions, are you using the color coding on the router itself or going by Rei's Minimap? The two have very different senses of direction so it can cause some problems.

Azanor has already stated that shearing or chainsawing a silverwood tree's leaves will not yield saplings ever. That's why there are some questions about sapling drops, especially regarding stuff like RP2's sickle (they seem to have a similar drop rate as being broken, but would need to try it...

The problem most people have with solars isn't so much the free energy as much as it is how much free energy you can get with a single block. As mentioned, this is more of a problem with advanced/compact solars than vanilla ic2. All forms of infinite renewable energy can be said to be trivial...

I'd have to disagree in terms of the current thermal generator + electric engine preventing any BC power generation. Even at the best conversion (5 eu for 2 mj) it's only 12,000 MJ compared to magmatic engines being 18,000 MJ currently. While it does throw the balance off some, I would hardly...

Well before I get too intricate on the design I still need to pump out a large area of water and then build a 7x7 chunk quarry under where I'll put my floating fortress. I plan on the area underneath it to have my farms and a village, and at its center I'll use arcane levitators to get to my...

Ok, redid my roof design so it should look at lot better: It won't be too hard to move this from the 8x8 it was built inside of to a 7x7 chunk grid, since all I'd have to do is change the positions of the points by half a chunk in either direction. The small yellow dots are where the lines...

To add onto that, lava is one of the easier common factors to obtain. With Gregtech several others are added, such as a diesel generator to turn fuel/bio-fuel ino EU, and methane which can be used in both boilers and a gas turbine. The only problem that I can see from these is that due to the...