have you tried using the curse launcher? im not sure but seems to be an issue with either the launcher or the mods in the one your downloading... try selecting a lower version of the pack and going to the next one. instead of using recommended. thats fixed random launcher crashes for me. hope someone else could be of more help.
[1.7.10][LISTED] InfiTech 2 Modpack v3.2.21 [HQM][GregTech balanced hard-mode modpack]
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have you tried using the curse launcher? im not sure but seems to be an issue with either the launcher or the mods in the one your downloading... try selecting a lower version of the pack and going to the next one. instead of using recommended. thats fixed random launcher crashes for me. hope someone else could be of more help.
@BrickVoid
If you are feeling that you dont have time to deal with the mining side of things just cheat in a really good pickaxe and an industrialcraft scanner (OC scanner i think). Mining is really just a timesink in this modpack so if you feel that you are restricted in time just go around it. Branch mining with a disintegrate enchanted pickaxe (osmium enchanter) and checking with OC scanner every chunk is an extremly fast way of finding new veins. I would actually say these things are much less of a problem in singleplayer than on a server as you can just cheat away the worst timesinks if you feel the need to progress within a limited timeframe.
For instance for this SP world i cheated in a decent thaumcraft pickaxe with repair, boots of the traveler and a gold wand to decrease the time it would take to get started. I have since long removed those items with better stuff but it got me through the bronze age in an okay amount of time to the more interesting tech progression.
If you are feeling that you dont have time to deal with the mining side of things just cheat in a really good pickaxe and an industrialcraft scanner (OC scanner i think). Mining is really just a timesink in this modpack so if you feel that you are restricted in time just go around it. Branch mining with a disintegrate enchanted pickaxe (osmium enchanter) and checking with OC scanner every chunk is an extremly fast way of finding new veins. I would actually say these things are much less of a problem in singleplayer than on a server as you can just cheat away the worst timesinks if you feel the need to progress within a limited timeframe.
For instance for this SP world i cheated in a decent thaumcraft pickaxe with repair, boots of the traveler and a gold wand to decrease the time it would take to get started. I have since long removed those items with better stuff but it got me through the bronze age in an okay amount of time to the more interesting tech progression.
Building an oil setup using LP is very interesting, although it costs quite a bit of diamonds, however that is fixed by the oil cracking process. All that's left is TNT, finishing Pneumaticcraft and setting up some TNT production as well as effectivizing the entire process, running almost entirely on nitro-diesel now. Now it's time to move on to an awesome ore processing setup heh.
http://imgur.com/a/06D6w
http://imgur.com/a/06D6w
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Sven "flamestrider"
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Yeah, I sometimes use tetra for copper, for me it's a question of how much I have found versus how much I want to progress "right now".Okay, I might not need to try it, I went on an exploratory trip to find some caves or more tin, and found a nice Tin vein in one of them. Hopefully it'll be enough to get past the Steam Era and into using an Ender Quarry to mine some more tin up from veins or wherever it's hiding. I have got to say, though, it is a hard resource to locate.
In any case, I now have some tin should I need to try locating it.
Quick question, Tetrahedrite is easy enough to find does anyone smelt it directly to copper if they need it? I've got plenty of copper locations I can get the raw ore from so hopefully won't need to.
Cheers ...
BrickVoid
What @FutureCode said, IC2 crops have dyes... then of course you can use bee-breading to passively generate more flowers for you.
2: just bind your left-mouse button to the keyboard then. Don't focus on the problem, look for the solutions to the challenges you think you have
Yeah, I sometimes use tetra for copper, for me it's a question of how much I have found versus how much I want to progress "right now".
What @FutureCode said, IC2 crops have dyes... then of course you can use bee-breading to passively generate more flowers for you.
2: just bind your left-mouse button to the keyboard then. Don't focus on the problem, look for the solutions to the challenges you think you have
or have a mouse with multiple keys on them i have 3 keys near my main left mouse button that can easily be used instead. just gota be creative XD
@Joel Falk just found this on the large boiler tooltip: "Refined liquid fuels have 1/4 efficiency", while the wiki says the boiler is 20% less fuel efficient when burning refined fuels. Not sure if this is correct, so I finally got around to do some testing. From what it appears, the large bronze boiler produces 16,000L/s steam (as it will with any fuel) which equates to 400EU/t energy output. I used creosote oil for this experiment, which is worth 8EU per L, but I perhaps didn't know how to measure the flow rate exactly, so by using a fluid regulator I was able to determine it as either 125L/t or 128L/t. This gives a 40% or 39.0625% efficiency respectively, which is inaccurate with both previous hypotheses.
What makes matters more confusing is that I tried it another time with nitro diesel. A bucket's worth of nitro diesel lasts about 25s, which would give me a 39.0625% efficiency, or maybe my manual timing was slightly off and 25.6s will give 40%,which leads me to believe that 40%, somehow, is approximately experimentally correct efficiency. Is something wrong here?
P.S. Apparently with nitro diesel the boiler seemingly uses an entire bucket of nitro diesel at once, and 25s later consumes the next bucket. The boiler doesn't even turn off when I disable it with the soft hammer; I really think something's bugged with it.
What makes matters more confusing is that I tried it another time with nitro diesel. A bucket's worth of nitro diesel lasts about 25s, which would give me a 39.0625% efficiency, or maybe my manual timing was slightly off and 25.6s will give 40%,which leads me to believe that 40%, somehow, is approximately experimentally correct efficiency. Is something wrong here?
P.S. Apparently with nitro diesel the boiler seemingly uses an entire bucket of nitro diesel at once, and 25s later consumes the next bucket. The boiler doesn't even turn off when I disable it with the soft hammer; I really think something's bugged with it.
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so i got a pyrolys oven multiblock... it needs mv basically to make wood into charcoal... could i use 3 lv steam turbines and 3 lv energy hatchs like with the EBF? or do i need mv minimum?
thank you so much for the quick response. i was thinking that but i cant find any real info on anything gregtech of this version. anyone got a good wikisite? also industrial biomass... is it useful or turn it into biogas and what does each of those run in im guessin diesel gen and gasturbines?
http://ftb.gamepedia.com/GregTech_5_Unofficial
Main GT5 wiki with links to other sources.
Biogas goes into the gasturbine. As the conversion ratio is 1:32 is it worth making it.
Not sure without looking ingame about biomass. Should be semifluid that can be burned in the large boiler.
Main GT5 wiki with links to other sources.
Biogas goes into the gasturbine. As the conversion ratio is 1:32 is it worth making it.
Not sure without looking ingame about biomass. Should be semifluid that can be burned in the large boiler.
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Sven "flamestrider"
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Look at the recipe... if it states a required Voltage/Amperage you need to supply that... otherwise if it's unspecified you can supply the Eu/t any way you like to.
to find out where to use fuels just check the filled filled tin can(for some) or filled universal fluid cell(for some) on those that work in GT power-production they all have a tab that shows energy content per 1000L(or bucket)
Some of the forestry fuel-types are somewhat hairy to path through NEI since interaction between the GT and forestry plugins aren't all too good.
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@Blood Asp We were talking automated mining options...does the advanced miner 2 mine the existing ores in the world or is it like the oil that the ores you find with a seismic prospector are just "data" that you extract from bedrock?
From what ive seen it consumes an entire bucket of fluid at a time which then lasts for X seconds. So potentially you could fairly well estimate how much steam it produces by giving it say 10 buckets of said fuel and see how long it lasts similarly to what you have done. The larger the amount the more accurate the measurement. Then to get the fuel value you multiply the duration times the production speed of said boiler and divite by number of buckets. I think doing it with a bronze boiler first and then doing the tungstensteel boiler would be interesting to see if they keep the same difference in efficiency. If your thesis of 40% that is not actually so bad as that would make it 60% in a tungstensteel boiler (if efficiency is the same as for solid fuelds). That together with a tier 4 turbine would give an end efficiency of 84% which is roughly the same as a turbo diesel generator.
I might test the tungstensteel boiler myself in game in a bit if i manage to get ahold of a decent amount of tungsten.
Ps: i tried nitro diesel some time ago in a tungstensteel boiler and if i remember correctly i got a bit more than 600k steam (~15s) from 1 bucket of nitro diesel which would be fairly close to 60% efficiency so i think it might be true (600k/2/512k=59%)
That would mean the actuall efficiency of liquid fuels in GT boilers are actually 40% times the boiler efficiency. So a bronze boiler produces 0.8 steam from 1 eu worth of fuel (1 eu*(2*40%)*100%) and a tungstensteel boiler produces 1.2 steam/eu worth of fuel (1 eu*(2*40%)*150%). Not as bad as i thought it would be especially if you consider large turbines that can boost the efficiency by another 30-40%.
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ok question can i use ulv hatchs and stuff for the pyrolys? i would like to use the lv ones for other multiblocks and im feeling lazy.
Also i had another question are people actually burning charcoal as fuel?
Also i had another question are people actually burning charcoal as fuel?
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I'm currently using only charcoal
15 Coke Ovens -> 1 Large Bronze Boiler -> Iron Tank (steam)
Its so far incredibly inefficient. I went through an incredible amount of charcoal smelting 2 stacks of aluminium.
I'm probably going to work on a Nitro Diesel setup. I just built the Oil Drilling Rig from Gregtech today so we'll see how that works out.
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Sven "flamestrider"
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I used charcoal together with a few solar boilers for my power setup before switching over to nitro diesel... I still use charcoal in the high pressure GT boilers(I have seven HP boilers pretty much running 24/7, in game time) to produce methane for some additional MV turbines but not as much as I used to... and I'll probably use less and less(charcoal) if I manage to find a good well for my oil drill.
After progressing further into HV I'll probably switch over to atomics for some parts of my base since I have a lot of veins of fissionable materials available.
Could turn chacoal into alumentum and it would help with thaumcraft and last longer in boilers.
since you cant use gregtech power in thaumcraft XD
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