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Where the hell are you getting your stuff for GT from?!
i cant find anything that isnt for v4.x.x and below, the community GT wiki is half completed at best and lacks crucial information...
I have been using the community wiki for the most part. The Bronze (steam) age stuff is pretty accurate, so that gets you a good start. There was a YouTube channel (Youtube user unggod, I believe) linked a few pages back in this thread that has lots of good information on the machines and the GregTech E-net. Unfortunately, the narrator kind of rambles and has only moderate English skills, but his information is good. I have used them by skipping around in the video until the exact item I need is discussed or displayed on screen.
I have been using NEI quite a bit, as well.
I progressed as follows:
4x Coke Ovens to make charcoal from wood.
Hammer, Mortar, Wrench, and File to get my first bronze by smelting and then grinding cassiterite/malachite in order to get pure copper and tin dust, then crafting the dusts into bronze dust and smelting for bronze. Pro-tip: For your first bits of iron, craft the ingots into nuggets and smelt all the nuggets into wrought iron, and then recombine them to ingots. The wrought iron tools last a good bit longer and cost you nothing but smelt time and fuel to smelt nuggets into wrought iron nuggets.
Build bronze age machines using information on community wiki. I used Railcraft water siding tanks to automatically collect water and feed my small coal boilers. I built 2 macerators, a forge hammer, an alloy smelter, and an extractor. Steam furnaces are useful (and more fuel efficient than vanilla furnaces), but they require a lot of steam, so I saved my bronze and built the bronze blast furnace. That takes a LOT of bronze. Keep the blast furnace fed with iron and coal coke constantly, as steel takes a long time to make and you will want to use some of it for your tools as well as save for the electric blast furnace. I built 2x HP coal boilers from GregTech in order to power all my machines, but I have to be careful not to use all of them at full load or I end up starving them.
I built an IC2 generator, an IC2 batbox, and a GregTech LV transformer. The generator feeds the BatBox, which feeds the transformer. The output sides on the transformer feed a basic plate bending machine (ABSOLUTELY should be your first electric machine as it gives you one plate per ingot instead of one plate per 2 ingots) and a basic wiremill.
I also built an assembly machine and a fluid extractor. The fluid extractor melts a bit of glass and the assembly machine builds Forestry tin electron tubes for a multifarm. I think the farm might be a bit premature, as I don't currently have a stable way to power it easily. Pipes for steam and/or fuels are a HUGE bitch at this point, as they suck up a lot of bronze. My intent was to build a self-sufficient liquid fueled boiler powered by biofuel from the farms, but I'm just not there yet.
I built an 8 LP liquid fueled boiler (the liquid fueled fireboxes are a PITA to make) and I am currently fueling it with creosote oil from the coke ovens. I recommend you build a small railcraft Iron tank to hold your creosote (pump it out with buildcraft fluid pipes and redstone engines).
I built the electric blast furnace and currently have it powered by 4 basic steam turbines. This sucks up a TON of steam. I was pushing the steam into a buffer tank, but I can't get enough throughput, so I am going to be forced to relocate the furnace right next the boiler and feed each steam turbine directly from the boiler. I am not sure if the 8LP boiler can keep up with the demand from the turbines. The multiblock for the blast furnace requires "maintenance" (clicking in the maintenance hatch with the right tool) to work, but you can't get rid of "Circuitry burned out" because the soldering iron isn't implemented yet. For now, just craft some of the duct tape (search "Tape" in NEI) and use it in the maintenance hatch. It will fix all problems at once.
It really, really feels like the basic steam turbine sucks up WAY too much steam for the amount of EU it is producing, but since I don't have the math, I can't know for sure. All I know is that one run of large bronze pipes is not enough to keep 4 steam turbines fed with steam. I am going to try parallel runs now.
That's pretty much where I am. If I can get the EBF running, I don't really know what I'm going to do next. I have a little Aluminum and enough dust to make some Stainless Steel, so I'll probably look into those.
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Pyure, what is the next higher durability (mining level 3 with more durability than steel) tool metal that I can craft with 128 EU/t in the EBF? I know you said you were powering the EBF with 4x basic steam turbines like I am, but how are you generating steam and feeding it to the turbines?
EDIT: This process has taken me almost 2 weeks. I got extremely stuck when I was unable to find a tin vein. Search height 80-120. It looks a lot like stone, so be on the lookout at mountain sides. I recommend generating your world with EBXL instead of BoP. EBXL crags and extreme jungles are very high biomes, and I found tin within a couple of hours. Magnetite can be laboriously macerated and smelted to get a few iron nuggets, so it is not as effective as regular iron ore (which can be found within magnetite veins and apparently underground as well, although I have not found an underground iron vein yet). Seriously, you may think I am giving away the whole progression, but this is a VERY labor-intensive process. Make yourself a safe room in which you can AFK, because the machines take a long time. Load stuff up and walk away. My only complaint about this pack so far is the total lack of an effective chunkloader. If ChickenChunks is released for 1.7.10 soon, I will be adding it manually.
