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I tested this a while back, and found that it's only true for extremely short cable runs (like, 2 blocks). You'll be hard pressed to get better efficiency out of a conductive pipe network than a redstone energy conduit network. At more than a couple of blocks, redstone energy conduits are...

Weird. Did you have enough Messis in a nearby crucible? I normally put a stack of apatite on my infusion altar, throw in 48 pumpkins at a time, then shift click and get a stack of concentrated compound. Using a wand of the adept, it goes down to 90 vis, so I have to wait for it to recharge...

Episode 79: Ways to dig a tunnel

Just tested right now in Ultimate 1.0.1. I put snow (which has extremely low blast resistance) all around a pipe, and when it exploded, all of the snow blocks were intact. Looks like it does some player damage, but definitely nothing to the surrounding environment.

Last I knew, conductive pipe explosions did no block damage, nor caused any fires. Don't they just take out the pipes themselves without touching anything else in the area? It sounds like a big explosion but is actually quite tame.

Are you using the concentrated compound + ash recipe? It gives you 24 fertilizer per apatite, which is the most efficient I could find. Ash can be a bit of a pain to get in mass quantities, though - main (only?) ways I know to get it are as a byproduct from certain GregTech things (implosion...

I think all of the maze mobs are light sensitive, so as long as you light it up adequately you shouldn't get any spawns.

Episode 78: Scrap machine

Any time I try a new reactor design, I make a habit of checking the reactor's temperature several times after starting it up (and making sure the durability of my heat vents isn't going down) to be sure it's stable, no matter what the reactor planner tells me. Could help alert you to impending...

Whoops, wording mistake. What I meant was that it's the only way to put thorium dust into cells.

Must depend on your GregTech version and/or configuration. In Ultimate 1.0.1 with default configs, the crafting recipe with refined uranium is disabled. Looks like the industrial centrifuge is the way to go, though - bonus plutonium, thorium, and tungsten, provided you have 16 uranium dust to...

The Automatic Canning Machine is a different thing than the Canning Machine. While food is one use for the Canning Machine, it's not the only one. The only way to get thorium cells is by putting an empty cell and thorium dust into an automatic canning machine. I presume it's the same for uranium...

Episode 77: Home ownership

I've found it far more convenient to stick all 18 engines directly on the boiler than to attempt to move the steam around with liquiducts. Unless you have an aesthetic reason to keep the boiler separate from the engines, it's likely to work better to just use a redstone energy conduit to move MJ...

Episode 76: I don't understand blutricity

Episode 75: Arithmetic and claustrophobia

I've also observed mutations occurring as though current trees are being crossed with ones that have already been chopped down. Do bees hold on to pollen from old trees for a while and sometimes spread it to new trees? Exact mechanics would be good to know, since I was assuming it was more of a...

Custom written. Apparently breaking a turtle in creative mode doesn't give it back to you properly even if it's labeled, so I lost the script, but it was something along these lines: selectedIndex = 1 left = false turtle.select(selectedIndex) turtle.placeDown() while true do while...

Hmm, this is trickier than I expected. I can put water blocks into a filler and get it to place one, but it doesn't know what to do with it after that. I think it's trying to replace the one water block it placed with another one (since solid blocks would normally take water's place), and can't...

Don't know the exact mechanics, but I seem to take damage every time I hit one. Might only happen if multiple ones are around. I managed to get "ThemsAllTook was slain by ThemsAllTook" one time when I was taking a sword of the zephyr into the nether to try to recover some of my gear.