2) What is best source of Tutamen in the pack? Except for leather. :>
The best would likely be max aqua tendency tutamen crops, that's a huge undertaking to attempt though. That said, some alternative sources you may not have been aware of (I wasn't aware of most, I'm just looking at the GT5u git), all resource that it is possible to produce infinitely.
- A bottle of Cider has 1. So 3 glass bottles, some water, and two apple for 3 tutamen.
- Scotch also has 1 tutamen, it's made from wheaty juice just like cider is made from apple juice by the way. Just in case you find wheat easier to harvest than apples, plus with the sag mill you get more than one flour per wheat increasing efficiency there.
- Granite has 1 tutamen, the highest output source at the cost of being the most complex.
And that's it really for GT items, tutamen just really isn't all that common. Now, instructions for granite as that is somewhat unobvious.
- Requirements to create:
- Cobble gen
- Macerator/Sag Mill
- An auto-smelter
- Charcoal farm
- Infinite water source
- Auto-crafting in some form
- A piece of nether quartz
- At least thaumcraft through to automated alchemy and alchemical duplication
- What you do:
- First you need to create an infinite nether quartz generator. You can do that as follows, although note this is not the only way, simply the one I would use.
- Create an alchemical boiler and get it boiling water to create aqua
- Macerate/Sag Mill cobble into sand, and then smelt it into glass before getting vitreus essentia. Suggest investigating thickened glass, twice as much vitreus with less smelts per vitreus at the cost of complexity.
- Use charcoal to get potentia, charcoal should also be used as fuel as an aside. Ignis excess from furnaces can go to infernal furnaces for smelting and perditio excess of the whole process should be able to fuel an alumentum producer if wanted.
- Use the aqua, vitreus, and potentia to create nether quartz using alchemical duplication.
- Create Chisel Granite
- Craft 2 cobble with 2 nether quartz to create 2 diorite
- Craft 1 diorite with 1 nether quartz to create 1 granite
- Get black granite plates/dust
- Either use the cutting saw to get black granite plates or the macerator to get black granite dust from your chisel granite to preference.
- Dust has an extra 1 perditio whereas plates have 1 fabrico, plates are slower and require either water or lubricant to run the machine however.
- Chisel granite counts as proper blocks of granite so it's worth 9 dust/plates unlike GT granite blocks
- Overall the process costs 3 cobble, 500mB of water, and 2 charcoal and some fuel/EU to get 9 tutamen if you wire it up right.
So yeah, as mentioned chisel granite is almost certainly the highest yield renewable way of getting tutamen, but it's definitely not simple. As a minor bonus you now have black granite production, which you can extract silicon, aluminium, potassium, magnesium, and flourine from, nothing particularly useful and all available in other ways pretty much but it might help out at some point, maybe if you hit fusion you could use the potassium and flourine to run nickel plasma?
Also the differences wont be dramaticaly enough that you wouldnt be able to use most setups from before. Obviously it will be a bigger change, so early game will feel different and you will have a couple of new things but as far as I know they will be pretty cool and worth the waiting. Im a little confused about the versions though, Infitech 2 v3 is already out. And I dont think he will call it Infitech 3 next update but I realy dont know lol.