oh allright, I didn't think of this from this point.
)they do. They hav ehigher chance to destroy iron instead, however, based on my experience (2 stacks of iron -> 2/3 stack of compressed iron)
Yeah, we should really tweak that or at least add info. But you'll need to research steel transmutation or fabrication or whatever it's called, to do that you'll first need to scan iron for thaumium, then get gold transmutation and I think that'll unlock wrought iron creation which needs to be researched for steel, just poke around in those researches in alchemy till it unlocks if that doesn't work, it's in there somewhere.
In addition to Xavion's advice which probably has you covered, also just make sure your crucible is boiling before you toss anything in.
Really? That's odd. According to what NEI says for me however you can't really, however the process and requirements for you as you basically can.
The warm-up period is approx 32, 63, 97, 125 seconds for the Large Gregtech boilers by tier, and thus uses that much charcoal(any fuel value 1600 equivalent) for warm-up, if you use that timing as a starting point to measure liquid fuel efficiency you'll be pretty close without looking into the code to get equations and such
Rarer stuff come up later but they're more expensive too, ignoring coin bags every coin from all the bronze age quests combined wasn't even half the cost of a single purchase of iridium last I checked.
Personally I saved most my early coins for buying steel, saves more time than buying other metals imo... buying early lithium is nice for early high tier batteries, unless you have access to a good salt mine
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The warm-up period is approx 32, 63, 97, 125 seconds for the Large Gregtech boilers by tier, and thus uses that much charcoal(any fuel value 1600 equivalent) for warm-up, if you use that timing as a starting point to measure liquid fuel efficiency you'll be pretty close without looking into the code to get equations and such
My understanding is that you can so long as it was assembled "manually" in the first place.
If the consumtion is constant and only the steam production is affected during startup it should actually be rather simple. Just see how long it runs on X buckets of nitro diesel and multiply by the amount of burn value it goes through each second (this should be 40000/48000*1600= 1333 1/3 ticks of fuel per second. I will be back later once ive tested it
Edit:
10 buckets of nitro diesel lasts just about 2½ minute in the boiler or 150/10= 15 s per bucket. This means each bucket should produce 15*40000=600k steam while at full efficiency. Since the energy value is 512k EU in 1 bucket of nitro diesel we could translate this to 1.17 times the eu value in steam for other fuels.
Using a large steam turbine with 140% rotor this would give a net output of 420k eu per bucket of nitro diesel or an efficiency of 82%. Just 3 % below the turbo diesel generators.
Not as bad as i thought but still not very good. You should be able to run a tungstensteel boiler constantly with a distillery setup run with oil (not heavy or light) with some excess as long as you run the process mostly on the byproducts (sulfuric acid, naptha, methane, LPG) and produce 1400 eu/t in your voltage tier of choice with a large tungstensteel boiler and 1-2 large low pressure steam turbine using 140% turbine blades
