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you need to pulverize/grind the ores, not the ingots. pulverizing ores gives 2 dusts (and the pulverizer gives some secondary dusts sometimes) and then you can smelt the dusts to ingots. pulverizing ingots just gives 1 dust and no secondary dusts, else you have a never ending cycle of...

just a stupid question: a tunnelbore at a layer like 50-60, so it just digs through an ocean, removing waterblocks that are in it's way, sealing of the ocean, and on the bottom layer of that bore, there is a row of mining turtles deploying those miners. so this framedevice is both, a standard...

in SSP, I consider chunkloaders as necessary part in order to keep the game working as it should be. I don't see the point that my machines stop working just because I'm somewhere else. and spending extra ressources just to keep them working... I don't know. on servers, they should be free (or...

additionally, I see another situation one bucket of oil generates 60k MJ in a combustion engine. one bucket of fuel generates 600k MJ in a combustion engine. but one bucket of oil gereates 64k heat in a boiler. one bucke of fuel generates 96k heat in a boiler. and suddenly, the bucket...

yes, that's a pity. they really add a nice energy source (thorium cells are part of gregtech, not part of direwolf20) the nuclear reactor (plain IC2) has a hard time to compete with the boiler. but still, since you get uranium by mining (automated or manual), you also gain uranium. so why not...

I already got you. you want to turn the maximum out of a boiler. that's okay... ECrownofFire mentioned that burning biofuel inside a boiler is a bad idea in any way.... it is not. firstly, whoever uses biofuel also runs some kind of farm that generates tons of biofuel, maybe even more than he...

you did not mention which pack you are playing. this reactor setup is fairly cheap and delivers 420 EU/t: http://www.talonfiremage.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk/v3/reactorplanner.html?a8h89efdkdldsmeihrrt41z3cfg8onfyl9vtyat23qsucdxz1l07xnymxri6ukkymwz5of0pzzcyqrk thorium can be gathered by using the...

exactly, that's the point. once it reached max temperature. since I already discovered ~20-30k buckets oil (a lot of oil wells) and a 1000x1000 block large redstone biome (lithium + sodium for the semifluid generator), and I always have the possibilitly to either make turn uranium into oil...

hmmm, no a 36 hp boiler has a startup phase of 6 hours. means: I can do that during a nice afternoon. and then it just runs, whenever I am online and so on. since the boiler is offline (with everything else in the world during the offline-time), I don't have a problem at all...

or for SSP, because, if you log off, the boiler stops working. and it resumes right when you log on. which is nice. on a SMP-world however, you need to take care that it gets supply all the time AND consume the energy, else it's just waste.

I have currently a world in the early stages (first quarry completed, it just runs on charcoal :( ) I use standard combustion engines, which burn the fuel, they power a magma crucible, which runs on netherrack. and then, I send the lava into a GT-thermal generator. effectively I get 200k MJ...

@whovian: you are partially wrong. don't go there. send your enemy through a mystcraft portal over there. it's certainly an ugly area...

as far as I understand AE, the new cobblestone will prefer your preformatted disk, until it's full. then it will use other diskspace, until everthing is filled. I guess, if the network isn't capable of accepting anything, it will just leave the stuff in the chest (or is it possible to connect a...

yes, you are right, when it comes to getting oil as a renewable resource with bees. but if you just set up a 36 HP boiler, a destillery (to turn oil into fuel) and a oil fabricator (to make oil out of buildcraft energy) and a bunch of steam engines, you can just produce oil. one bucket of...

or the new xycraft tank, which is dirtcheap (literally) as it's just a rigid box-structure out of any rigid material... just the valves need a bit of blue xychorium and iron. and it can store up to 16000 buckets of one liquid... (12x12x12 box, with an inner free space of 10x10x10). as a nice...

on the other hand: honestly? if you play ftb (for example ultimate) and don't find a working fuel source, you're making something wrong. even dirt is a nice energy source (centrifuge dirt, use the 2 compressed plantballs in a fermenter + still, macerate the clay and electrolyze it. you get...

there is a "kill a player in full quantum suit" turtle script somewhere floating around... (there was a thread in the tekkit-board). basically, by having over 110 hv-transformers set to emit 2048EU-packages to a single macerator (with proper upgrades) this electrical shock kills the player...

okay, regarding exploits, I'd say, an exploit is a way to generate something out of itself. like a setup currently available in ultimate: set up a 36-boiler (LP or HP), a bunch of steam engines, a couple of oil fabricators and some refineries. and then watch the system generating steam...

I think, this step towards a mod on it's own is already done. greg added a system to turn IC2 machines into their automated versions. this way, he assimilates IC2. the interesting part in GT is, that demands rethinking about already established processes. when I played with tekkit, the...

that's clearly a problem. if an ore is connected to just one or a few biomes or to special situations (like a lava lake), that would break the system. so, in this case, the people have to live with this situation. on the other hand, since you mention saltpeter and sulfur, there are other ways...