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    Overclock Upgrade EU Math?

    The overclocker makes the machines take 1.6 times as much power per tick, not per item. Since the items finish in fewer ticks (.7 times as long per operation) with the overclocker, the total power usage is (1.6*.7)^n times the base power usage (n being the number of overclockers), or 1.12^n...
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    Is there a way to prevent EU loss through wires?

    The macerator used to be able to make obsidian dust by running obsidian through it twice (first time to get crushed obsidian), but that was removed between v6 and v7 of mindcrack (don't know what individual mod version changed it). You can make obsidian dust with a pulverizer, though...
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    Detailed information of Changes in v5 of Direwolf20, v8 of MindCrack & v7 of Magic World

    Yeah, it seems to me that he preemptively pulled the teeth from this change by giving his machines no internal storage or ability to accept transformer upgrades. Without those available, your GT machines will already always be isolated from the main power grid just so they work properly...
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    Tropical Queen Help?

    Yeah, one of the hints on the hint tab for the apiary is "what's a jungle flower?", and it will tell you that vines and ferns are.
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    Beekeeping Guide. Yay or nay?

    Might want to be careful doing this; I was recently messing around with a mining laser, and found a princess in the area I was hollowing out. Not a "rocky princess", just a "princess". So, apparently the mining laser can erase the bee's type? Might be just on explosive mode, I haven't had a...
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    Uses for massive amounts of cobblestone

    Also, you can use a peat bog (forestry) to convert sand to dirt (simplest way is 4 dirt + 4 sand + water -> 6 bog earth -> 6 peat + 6 dirt, but if you're willing to put extra resources into it you can get 8 peat + 8 dirt instead; either way you wind up with more dirt and less sand than you...
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    Is energy from lava appropriate?

    I don't see where you're getting a loss-less conversion from the cobble cycle. Looking at fuel values, most basic fuels that can be burned for either MJ or EU give 2.5 times as many EU as MJ. Coal/charcoal: 4k EU/1.6k MJ = 2.5 EU/MJ Wood/planks: 750 EU/300 MJ = 2.5 EU/MJ Sticks/saplings: 250...
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    Railcraft/TE/IC2 Infinite Lava Centrifuge (aka free gold, iron and tin)

    If you still want iron from your lava in the new version you can do something like this (using whatever sorting system you prefer): Lava from the magma crucibles gets sent to igneous extruders set to create obsidian (I have four extruders feeding into a hopper that feeds the first macerator in...