You don't. It's nice to be able to mix in some reinforced casings from the start but not necessary at all. IMO, using one machine from RailCraft to make other mods easier, while intentionally avoiding the bulk of RailCraft doesn't count as "using RailCraft". Also, you can get some steel to kickstart your industrial blast furnace from abandoned mine chests, which is even less like using it.
1.5.1 Beta Pack: Are U Looking Forward To It?
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No one is asking you to, I love them, like lots and lots of squishy gooey love. Just repeating what I've seen, I don't share those views. Oh, and do you by any chance have a twitter account? If no, any plans on creating one?
Which is sad, because more and more, mid-tier energy production is being forced into lava. Biomass/Biofuel was, at least for a while, a good alternative. Not so much anymore.
I agree. I do not understand why everyone is doing this.
Dear King Lemming, please tell them the next time you see them their competition is Lava. :\
it may not be the most popular of mods but it's certainly used enough to class the phrase "barely anyone uses it" complete and utter bullshit.
And IF (major emphasis on if) it was declining in popularity, the likes of Etho are certainly helping it become much more popular.
I hate the word popular... but can't think of a replacement word :/
Flying minecarts for the WIN!
Yeah not too happy about the Steam Engine nerf. Oh I know, I'll just make more
There's still solars...
Yeah, why not, what's another tile entity, another animated particle spewing little monsters, what's another update in the MJ network.I'll just make more
Why do modders hate mid tier power generation with such a blazing fury is beyond my comprehension.
True, I wouldn't assume "barely anyone uses it", just because I never touch the "Rail" aspect of it. Especially when not everyone is using a modpack that replaces so many functions of minecarts with easier options.
Competition for most grindiest mod ever, or something. Still got a long way to go to beat Greg though.
DISCLAIMER: I play gregtech hardmode, but it is what it is.
I must be using it wrong then cause it is my only energy source in my current world. Right now it is connected to 40 combustion engines. Early game i started with 1 engine, then 6, and now 40 in prep to scale out for bulk processing. I found it to be the most powerful early game energy source i've ever had access to.
Are we using the same reactor? Purple looking thing added by MFR?
It is easy to keep it continuously stocked if you limit how much liquid storage it has access to. It auto shuts off when it's internal tank is full. Early game i manually shut it off with a lever.
Even with a single item it has higher output than stills on anything but saplings. Single item it makes twice the biofuel on mushrooms, cactus (need greens). Nothing else in common other than saplings. Saplings should be a very low priority item to use in a reactor.
I have a single 9x9 of each vanilla farmable made pretty early in the game and those farms were more than enough to give me as much biofuel as I wanted.
I have a little rough ranking going for my reactor farmables:
Farm size 9x9.
Tier 1:
Potato
Carrots
Cocoa Beans
NetherWart
The four above farm in great quantities and require no extra steps to process.
Tier 2:
Pumpkin Seeds (craft)
Melon Seeds (craft)
Cactus Greens (cook)
Quantity on these is great, but need to craft/cook to use.
Tier 3:
Wheat Seeds (need 3x)
Bone Meal
If you have a skelly spawner or farm bone meal can move up to tier 2. Easy to get in bulk.
Teir 4:
Brown Mushroom
Red Mushroom
Saplings
Basically don't use saplings. Mushrooms work well with fertilizer.
Mod farmables:
Flax (need 2x) -- Not harvesting 100% with MFR machine.
Corn - not working well/at all with harvester, lot of items left on ground. Probably need 2-3 9x9s of it and a different harvester.
Henequin - not auto harvesting with MFR machine, probably need 2-3x 9x9 to get seeds in bulk and a different harvester.
I might be a slow builder, but these 9x9s of most types have filled up several thousand worth of each item as I have built out parts of my base and mined over the past week.
Widely used?
For me Railcraft is that thing I used to make charcoal before I can just dump a bunch of wood into a Powered Furnace and be done with it. Sure the coke oven is technically free, until you have to store all the grease oil. Rails are basically a too much effort thing. You need grease oil, a rolling machine, then end up in a hotdog/rolls situation, and are about to thing 'eh, separate industries' until you realize that terrible ratios were from one guy. Multiples of six is all I ask for.
If I suddenly needed energy en mass, well the Nether is:
a) Filled with lava
and
b) Possible to make safe for pumping equipment
So yeah. Pump + Magmatic Engine + Tesseract = bio-what now?
Neah, who cares, one blaze shard, one router a few upgrades and a massive field of generators and a materfab, take a vacation for a week, start a little garden perhaps, come back build a few adv. solars and from there it's just about adding more / upgrading what you've got.
You can just... you know, wait it out. Do something else, let it chug along. Or add more! There's always that, feel free to kill the server with entities, tickupdates energy network updates... You'll get there.
One day people will invent better text communication. Before then, clarifications will happen.
Clarification: 'Widely used?' was offering an alternative to 'popular'. Should of added an anyhow to the start of the second paragraph.
Hush now, or they'll nerf generators, coal, and cobble pickaxes. Then the only early game option we'll have is EE3
People keep talking about this setup, but every time I build it it seems like total garbage that never self-powers when looped back on itself via MJ or EU. I've seen it work when also powered via AdvancedSolars.
It CAN produce energy. It's just not the perpetual system a boiler+SC2 farm is. Of course, that's gettng nerfed, so maybe it's time to re-examine.
Compared to how many people use Mystcraft link books? Basing it off lets plays online most people use mystcraft books. Sorry I misspelled his name.. Its an issue I have with spelling. Shit happens.
Everyone that uses GT usually doesn't have acess to Mystcraft. Well until Ultimate came out of course. And you don't have to be a butt head.. You could of just asked nicely where Ive seen this.
Since I can't tell what some single player person is using in his own private home... I based it off lets plays.. And since people like to copy lets plays... I figured it was the case.. Of course Im not saying nobody uses it.. Because I always have used railcraft... Just basing it off observations of the lets plays I watch.. Not including A few Mindcrack Guys that seem to love it.