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The only thought I have to add regarding the obsidian problem would be to try and find a way to automate vanilla's redstone-to-obsidian conversion mechanic. I'm personally out of the loop on what is and isn't available in 1.6, but turtles would definitely make it fairly easy. Otherwise you need...

Not sure if this impacts anyone, but I DON'T believe the trees pictured in thaile4ever's post are from BOP. I have run across one in a world that did not have BOP enabled. I am fairly confident that they are from Natura. Anyway, carry on...

Well... RP2. But I'm guessing you aren't/don't want to be playing 1.4 anymore. :P

It's been a few versions since I've used magmatic engines for that purpose, but as of last time I tried it the engines will eventually "jam" if there is nowhere to send power. You then have to hit them with a crescent hammer or wrench to unfreeze them. I usually remedied this with BC gates...

I thought as much - thanks for confirming. I don't know if that will be enough to get Mit the results he is looking for or not. Like I said, I may have to play around specifically with the hammer a little more.

Yeah, perhaps the stacking effect of stonebound is making a more dramatic difference than I give it credit for. Also, I haven't messed with hammers as much as I have with pickaxes and weapons (attempting to use jagged in the latter case). Your test results and Hoff's response have me second...

Well, to be fair, your original request - "the fastest possible hammer" - genuinely is that simple. ;) If you want to add other abilities then you're right, it isn't so straightforward. But only you can be the judge of how much you care about speed versus the other modifier options. If, for...

Well, if you are literally looking for the fastest possible hammer, then you should be skipping all of those other modifiers and just using redstone redstone redstone. And redstone. Furthermore, in my experience (which is based on pickaxes, not hammers, so it may be different) one full set of...

Mine did! :cool:

Worked like a charm! Thanks so much for posting this! I was feeling doubtful that this was even possible, but decided to search on it anyway. I'm glad I did! :D Just a heads up for anyone else trying this: If you have any form of ender storage in use within the first overworld (the one that...

I can't say off the top of my head if it's the BEST return for an automated method, but it should be right up there. I basically just cycled through uses for each ore in NEI and decided that pulverizers would be fine for me. You could do the same, and may find that a macerator is better in one...

What pack/version are you playing? If you have TE, I personally find the pulverizer the simplest to implement while still giving a good return.

1) Temporal distortion field generator. This would be much like nearly unlimited super speed, but with the added benefits of (a) being able to speed time up as well as slowing it down relative to myself, and (b) having the ability to extend the field around other people or objects as the...

The ghast idea is good. Also, when you say you tried lighting it with lava do you mean JUST lava? Because a better method would be to use lava to light some wood on fire adjacent to the portal (assuming you have some wood or other flammable block). You want the wood to be immediately adjacent to...

What does your power connectivity look like? Chiefly - are your energy conduits (or conductive pipes) forming a loop anywhere at all? Or perhaps even touching the energy cell on more than one face?

There are too many variables involved for there to be a simple answer to that question. The main problem is that the vanilla efficiency enchant works on a percentage-increase basis, whereas the TiC redstone modifiers give a fixed (or linear) increase in mining speed AFAIK. So on a slow tool...

This may seem silly, but in addition to the above suggestions - I assume you're actually using a rancher and didn't build a slaughterhouse by mistake? :P Regardless, it is definitely supposed to work. I run one of my bases on squid power (in Unleashed BTW).

Well for starters tesseracts are from Thermal Expansion. ;) But to the question - ender chests may be your best bet. The only other option that I'm personally aware of are teleport pipes, but I'm not sure if there's a version for 1.6 that you could add in or not...

OK, but what about when you're NOT nearby? It is possible that the mobs are spawning, but not being killed because the grinder is getting no power. Make sure that the power source (and everything needed to keep it running) is inside the chunk loader boundaries too.

Ah. You didn't mention it so I assumed you didn't have it. Try making it longer?