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Hmm, sounds the DartCraft force engines might be the best bet for a small early game power setup. How many force gems do you need to make them worthwhile (i.e. for a few days of minor use) I have about half a stack right now, is that enough?

It also depends on the aesthetic you want. Building around terrain makes for a very organic looking or "green" design. But it ruins any sort of "techy" or Art Deco style structure. Personally, I tend to build into the sides of mountains because I'm lazy, and hollowing out a mountain is easy to...

Actually I'm with Skyqula on this one. You just aren't thinking big enough. Imagine if you have a bank of 10 rolling machines. And AE system is set up with a crafting pattern to send iron to a central distribution platform that will then divy up any iron among the 10 rolling machines...

Actually, fuel is superior to biofuel. It lasts longer in engines and boilers. Which isn't a big deal for engines, but is MAJOR for boilers given startup costs. The trade-off between fuel and biofuel is supposed to be that fuel is better, but more difficult to get and automate. So it's not too...

The problem you are having, OP, is that when a bee mutates to a new species, it normally takes on the base traits of that species. Since common bees have fertilityx2 as a base trait, you will keep getting 2xfertility every time you get a brand new common bee. What you will need to do is one of...

Weird, I actually remember more problems with BC explosions than with IC2 explosions when I first started. You may be confusing the Gregtech explosions with IC2. From what I remember of just pure IC2 exploding from back in the days of Tekkit, machines that exploded didn't actually harm anything...

Taint only affected certain blocks, stone, dirt, sand, grass, logs, gravel e.t.c. Basically anything not crafted. So usually most of your house would be ok. Unfortunately, and this is the part that sucked, it also ate ores and plants. So you could have a perfectly ok house, but you couldn't mine...

Hmm, are all your apiarist pipes set up exactly the same? We'll need a couple more pics to help you out more. Personally, I like to put a line of iron pipes under my apiarist pipes. Shuffling stuff from apiarist pipe to apiarist pipe always seems fraught with peril.

Ah taint. Nothing is ever more fun than copying a world over, having the TC2 aura values reset and getting a giant taint bloom right in the center of your base. I just hope that whatever taint elimination scheme he puts out relies on renewable material like silverwood instead of having to strip...

That's not quite how liquiducts work. There is no limit on how much an unpowered liquiduct connection can input into the system. The 80 mb/t bottleneck in that system comes from the steam boiler itself. Each block face of a boiler actually pumps out 80mb/t. However, if you power the input...

Also, I believe that if you power the obsidian pipes (for example, with a redstone engine) it will suck up items from a larger range.

Even better, use alternating stone/cobblestone pipes. they won't connect to each other.

It depends on what you are trying to do. There are two different phenomena at work and each requires a different breeding strategy. The first phenomena is "Purification". This is when you have a hybrid that's only half the species you want and you are trying to get a bee that's fully the...

To breed bees, you need to understand how a "Punnet Square" works. Bees have two sides to every trait. Active and Inactive. Species is considered a trait. When you breed two bees together, the offspring will take one trait from one bee and the other trait from the other bee. So if you get a...

I can't speak to the condensors in Nuclear Reactors thing; cause I've never really gotten very far into em. But I'm one of those guys with massive power plants that I only use a small fraction of. And there's a reason for it, it's called future proofing. See, while I may not be using the power...

Just my own 2cents here. The problem I have, and probably Hydra as well, is with the second part of that sentence. You seem to be constructing a model that purposefully crafted to magnify the weaknesses of boilers which ignores the "bigger picture" and the actual ways in which most people...

Why bother? There's plenty of space available. The neat thing about AE is that stuff that doesn't "stack" in a normal inventory will still "stack" in AE as long as the type is the same. So for example, if you have 64 boats, it'll take up 64 different slots in a normal chest. But in AE, it still...

Simple, don't use impregnated frames. Unless Sengir has changed things recently (I'm still on 1.4.7) impregnated frames give you the same production benefit as the normal frames you get from sticks. They just last longer. If you want more seedoil, you might try going with a golem melon farm +...

When I first started with AE, i used to organize my storage cells. Then I realized it was a massive waste of time, and now I just dump everything everywhere. Anything that I might want to format a cell for (to get increased storage space) I'll just make a DSU and storage bus for.

Max throughput of conduit is unlimited. Well, BC pipes just got even more lame than they already were. Good to know that I can care even less about them than before.