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    Is there a "give up on RP" ETA?

    it's currently not slotted to be released until after the 21st. Asking about it won't make it release faster. Have patience. It will be done when it's done.
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    Crates replacement?

    Because you'd need more than one and they're made from what you're trying to get. If you have the crushers set up in parallel (being fed from outside gravel, say from a pulverizer) Then they will all pay for themselves in the time it takes a crusher to create 12 diamonds. If you have a dedicated...
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    Crates replacement?

    stoppit both of you or else ye will draw the baleful eye of an actual mod to this godforsaken thread. err.. ahem. We should also not confuse renewable for "I have as much as I want". It costs resources to set up sources of renewable building material. 1 Infinite cobblegen is not enough to...
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    a way to stop mobs from spawning

    It used to be you could place slabs on top of light sources, and then due to the transparent nature of the slab block, it would allow all light through creating a hidden light source and a glowing floor without any visible torches or glowstone. The lighting code's been changed now so that...
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    Flux

    usually the flux gets rid of itself by putting bad things into the environment. Every time a wisp spawns, and every time a lightning bolt strikes- the flux is going down. Pure Nodes reduce flux - these are the ones that grow inside silverwoods. You can combine pure nodes by planting a...
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    Use for cobblestone and dirt?

    The rock crusher is a very very slow way to get gold and diamonds - but it does happen. Expect a free diamond once a week or so using it. Centrifuge dirt into plant balls. Turn plant balls into IC2 or Forestry Biofuel to run things. If you have enough simmering combs from forestry bees, you...
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    Railcraft/TE/IC2 Infinite Lava Centrifuge (aka free gold, iron and tin)

    most definitely backwards. hit it with a crowbar's right click EDIT: This system is only good for 1 direction. Don't assume you can just set it up and decide to switch clockwise and counterclockwise. The short elevator track only goes down. The long elevator track only goes up, and there's a...
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    Railcraft/TE/IC2 Infinite Lava Centrifuge (aka free gold, iron and tin)

    meh, until red power and logistics pipes get added to the game, rails are still the only way to reliably supply inventories with exact stocks of items. Stick your geothermals on the same rail track as the crucibles and instead of timers, pumps and dispensers just use loaders. To be honest, not...
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    Railcraft/TE/IC2 Infinite Lava Centrifuge (aka free gold, iron and tin)

    Another point about netherrack - I've timed it and the current system melts 64 lava worth of tin cells in 53 minutes. Using netherrack would remove this limitation, but then the centrifuge would be the bottleneck at 42 minutes. Netherrack would be a good option if you had at least 2 simultaneous...
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    Railcraft/TE/IC2 Infinite Lava Centrifuge (aka free gold, iron and tin)

    http://forum.feed-the-beast.com/threads/64x-soartex-fanver-smooth-and-clean-ftb.2087/
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    Confused/overwhelmed

    I find that until you can get a lot of solar/wind/water or nuclear that industrial craft is super fuel inefficient when compared to thermal expansion and railcraft steam. Using forestry's automatic peat bog will go a long way in saving precious coal. (Using coal as a fuel is almost always a...
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    Railcraft/TE/IC2 Infinite Lava Centrifuge (aka free gold, iron and tin)

    42 minutes in 1.4.2 - with the crucible filling it around once every 50 minutes or so - this leads to around 28 operations a day, producing 8 tin, 4 gold, 10.6 iron, and 1 wolframium per operation. according to your new numbers, the new stats will be 8 tin, 1 tungsten, 16 copper, 6 electrum ->...
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    Railcraft/TE/IC2 Infinite Lava Centrifuge (aka free gold, iron and tin)

    Hmm... The copper output is nice, but this means that the only way to make iron and gold will be aurelia and ferru farms again. with a rock crusher providing a tiny bonus. now the only way to provide enough iron for steam turbines will be to automatically mine it (easy, especially with...
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    Tin gives me headaches

    :D that would be this one http://forum.feed-the-beast.com/threads/railcraft-te-ic2-infinite-lava-centrifuge-aka-free-gold-iron-and-tin.3652/
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    Railcraft/TE/IC2 Infinite Lava Centrifuge (aka free gold, iron and tin)

    This only works in 1.4.2 - future updates give different centrifuge products. Mostly to show my friends who play on my server so that I don't have to explain it 6 times, but also for anyone who's new to railcraft automation. I present you with a railcraft setup for the automatic generation of...
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    getting started with Thermal Expansion?

    meh. I plan on running universal pack :D If I decided to start a magic world game I would probably just add IC2, Factorization and Gregtech meself as well. Assuming they were 1.4.5 ready. Hmm... doing some more thinking, 20% of the iron, gold and tin from a quarry is still a sizeable chunk of...
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    getting started with Thermal Expansion?

    Yes, I agree with you. I would even go further to say you should induction smelt all your iron, tin and gold for slag to make copper, silver and lead. With enough MJ (steam can provide easily) you can set up an infinite lava generator and centrifuge combo that constantly outputs iron, tin and gold.
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    getting started with Thermal Expansion?

    That's the thing though - you WILL get the max bonus by just routing the smelter into itself (or even better, another smelter so your sand production can just constantly feed into the first) There doesn't seem to be a high tier bonus to be got by routing factorization output back through the...
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    getting started with Thermal Expansion?

    hmm... factorization can do Tin, Copper, Lead, Iron, Silver, Gold. Tin pulverizes into bonus iron Copper pulverizes into bonus gold gold into bonus copper (apparently, never noticed it meself) silver into bonus lead lead into bonus silver Rich slag mechanic - Assume for now, 100% of ore into...
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    IC2 or Thermal Expansion?

    Very true if you are doing everything by hand and not constantly running the factorization line. Every furnace heater needs 5 mirrors to run constantly though, similar numbers are needed for all powered machines. I currently have plans for (and will build in a test world and share) a railcraft...