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I'll just assume this is a serious question. If you've played vanilla MC before, you already know the basics: gather supplies and build a shelter so you're safe at night. I'd recommend, once you get enough food, seal yourself off in a cave and start mining. Unlike vanilla MC, you don't just dig...

It's now been running for a week. My iron tank got up to around 2800 tanks of biofuel, before I lent some to another guy on the server to setup his own boiler (he just needed to get to 1000 degrees and is now running on his own). But now my iron tank is officially full at 3200 buckets...

Awesome. I'll try to get that working. I ended up moving my apples to the void because I couldn't figure it out.

OMG, I can finally use Xycraft blocks! Perfect solution. Thanks.

Does FTB add anything to prevent pigmen from spawning in a tunnel? If not, does the half slab trick from vanilla MC still work? How about for high speed rails?

I used to go to another guy's base to get sticky resin. He has resin growing out of basically every block of several rubber trees. I finally found rubber trees in the wild, took some saplings, and planted them by my base. However, I hardly get any sticky resin from those trees. I planted 7 of...

If I make a wither at y level 12, can he come up to the surface? I was being a bit stupid. I've beaten the wither in vanilla, even without potions. So I thought he'd be easy to beat as long as you make him in an enclosed area. Where is an enclosed area, I thought? My strip mine! At level 11...

Re 2, if what you mean is that the fermenter is not working all the time, than I agree, it's not. It's more than enough to produce biofuel, though. Re 1, the problem with apple juice is that the squeezer is just to slow to keep up with the fermenter. It's fine if I plop a few stacks in the...

Thanks for the tips on how to feed the farm dirt. I didn't realize how much dirt it really needed. I was just out for two hours and came back and there was no more dirt. 6 stacks, gone in 2 hours. The good news is that I made 116 buckets of biofuel in that time (after the boiler took it's...

It's now been two hours. Even with 36 buckets per hour going to the boiler, I have enough to feed another boiler. After 1 hour, it made 26 buckets. The second hour, it made 47 buckets. I guess it just took a while to get started again. Amazing that I can probably feed 4 full-sized HP boilers...

I did a power test and I was really surprised. I disconnected the multifarm from all power except a single Redstone Energy Cell and I calculated how much power it used in 10 minutes. It only used 65,674 MJ. Which works out to 109 MJ per second or 5.47 per tick. This makes no sense because 12...

Woke up 8 hours later, 573 buckets in the tank. No more dirt in the multifarm. And the fermenter had run out of fertilizer. I have to figure out a way to use relays or something to get dirt in the multifarm. It will accept dirt as an input, but it's not a smart input, so if you just hook up a...

Fertilzer is so common that there's no real point in substituting it. I have 45 stacks of apatite just from finding two veins. And I get sand from the multifarm. So I'm not going to run out of fertilizer any time soon. I also don't have wheat, so I can't make compost. BTW, I'm turning in for...

I can't find figures on power consumption. It's pretty high, though. 4 magmatic engines + 12 electric engines could not keep up with it. But power consumption is a non-issue now that my steam boiler is running. I have 8 buffer redstone cells that are completely full. The issues to 24/7...

That's what I'm trying to do here (document the output). I'm getting 100 buckets an hour of biomass from the multifarm, populated almost exclusively by spruce trees. I think I may be able to get more from oak trees because I can turn the apples into apple juice, increasing the yield on biomass...

Actually, I think this is wrong. My multifarm has been running nearly 4 hours. I had a hopper on top of the fermenter and it was fine at first. But I just checked the hopper and it is completely full now (4 stacks of saplings in the hopper plus a stack in the fermenter). So I think I could...

I have done some experimentation. It looks like the ultimate answer is that I can use both. I turned on my multifarm for half an hour. In that time, it made 47,590 mB of biofuel. Since I only need 36,000 mB an hour to power a 36HP boiler, this works. The solid fuel option also works, but not...

What is a "steam consumer"? I don't see it in the wiki.

Thanks. I hadn't thought about that. I seem to get more saplings from oak than birch. But I had switched my farm to birch because I wanted some light wood. How did you get that graphic of how many saplings a tree makes?

I have 287 buckets saved now. But according to the calculator, even a full 720 bucket tank will barely fully heat up a 36 HP boiler (though it will heat up a 36 LP boiler). Just wanted to know from anyone who's running a very large multifarm if it's output is enough to power a full size boiler...