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Then you also want to consider the by-product from ferrous ore (platinum-> iridium) vs. the amount of energy you need to get iridium from uum vs. the amount of energy you save from not using industrial grinder.
The TE one is for machine frame substitute for machine block in some of GT/IC2 recipes (also include generator at current version). Well I always use my gravitool.. no need to install another mod for that haha..
It's not basic operation, I just use it to the limit, if I want a pure breed, I first breed it with a pure bred drone with choco frames, and then inoculate the bee with the serum I want. Or I can automate it using 64 pure bred drones and cycle through it until the bee got the correct traits...
Lifespan doesn't matter, it's all depend on the chance of comb per bee tick (which is maximized with more frames you use in 1 alveary, but also limited to a number as said above), lifespan only give you more bee ticks before the bee is death. You still use swarmer? I don't quite understand why...
9 impregnated frames for maximum production of valuable bee (fast trait, haven't tried fastest, probably 8 for fastest), the rest is lower than that, and lifespan. doesn't really matter. and the maximum production is 27.5 sec/1 specialty and 27.5 sec/ 2 products.
Apart from diamond, emerald and GT related bees (valuable, impregnable, ruby, austere), I'd say, Demonic bee for lava and glowstone (can be further converted to gold and redstone).
Huh? I thought you get diamond dusts if you do that and 9 diamonds if you smelt it..
Well... at least you still use a machine and not using your hand to break the diamond block into 9 piece of diamonds.
The "tricoder", and the helium plasma.
He will probably buff the recipe of all dual and quad cells to require copper plate (1 copper ingot) instead of dense copper plate (8 copper ingots)..