[1.7.10][LISTED] InfiTech 2 Modpack v3.2.21 [HQM][GregTech balanced hard-mode modpack]

[DoomSquirter]

so has anyone done the rediculous infusion for the universal native clusters? lol I don't think I've ever done anything like this except maybe avaritia. and the ichor requires a soul fragment each time? I mean c'mon... That's seriously harsh.

I can't even tell how many/what type are all the clusters. nei's having a seizure contemplating all the items there.

As far as the soul fragments, if I do the siege in the end, get mobius ingots, make the kikoku, there's a REALLY small chance to get soul fragments from that method. are those acceptable for the ichor infusions?

 

[Xavion]

so has anyone done the rediculous infusion for the universal native clusters? lol I don't think I've ever done anything like this except maybe avaritia. and the ichor requires a soul fragment each time? I mean c'mon... That's seriously harsh.

I can't even tell how many/what type are all the clusters. nei's having a seizure contemplating all the items there.

As far as the soul fragments, if I do the siege in the end, get mobius ingots, make the kikoku, there's a REALLY small chance to get soul fragments from that method. are those acceptable for the ichor infusions?

The clusters are all the available types, look in the alchemy section, or NEI I suppose. Only U235 isn't obtainable or used iirc. It's definitely one of the more hefty bits. Blame standard TT for inspiring me, they required all three pure thaumcraft clusters in the recipes, it's just extended here to work with the extended cluster support.

On the topic of soul fragments, they have three recipes in the thaumonomicon for a reason. There are actually three types of them, the first and most potent are deity fragments, those produce 127 ichor for a fraction of the cost of the other two, however those are the ones that are a really rare mob drop. 1 in 43 million chance normally, but it drops to 1 in 4.3 million if a player kills the mob with a kikoku. If you can get one, you only need one to craft one of everything in kami and still have something like 20 ichor left over. In standard XU the only point is that it works for any player to regain the lost HP due to soul fragments, nothing else special about it.

The second type I'll call standard soul fragment, it is what you get when you use the etheric sword to lost 10% max HP and get a soul fragment, this is what the reinforced watering can is looking for. Those produce 8 ichor, so even if you used the max possible you wouldn't have enough for one of everything in kami. These can be consumed at any time by the player who created them to regain a missing 10% HP.

The third and most notable type are weak fragments, once you're down to 3 hearts of HP left (30% technically if you've somehow got boosted max HP), you stop producing standard soul fragments using etheric swords on yourself and start producing weak fragments. Those are unusable in recipes normally but unlike standard you don't lose any HP on creating them, and can create as much as you want without any long term penalty.

This leaves two primary strategies to getting the fragments without losing max HP, get a deity fragment, or alternatively make seven standard to get down to 30%, make as many weak fragments as you want, and then consume the seven standard to get back up to 100% max HP while still having a pile of weak soul fragments.

It's definitely grindy yeah, but it doesn't require crippling yourself forever or killing literally millions of mobs for a single drop in order to do it.

 

[DoomSquirter]

The clusters are all the available types, look in the alchemy section, or NEI I suppose. Only U235 isn't obtainable or used iirc. It's definitely one of the more hefty bits. Blame standard TT for inspiring me, they required all three pure thaumcraft clusters in the recipes, it's just extended here to work with the extended cluster support.

On the topic of soul fragments, they have three recipes in the thaumonomicon for a reason. There are actually three types of them, the first and most potent are deity fragments, those produce 127 ichor for a fraction of the cost of the other two, however those are the ones that are a really rare mob drop. 1 in 43 million chance normally, but it drops to 1 in 4.3 million if a player kills the mob with a kikoku. If you can get one, you only need one to craft one of everything in kami and still have something like 20 ichor left over. In standard XU the only point is that it works for any player to regain the lost HP due to soul fragments, nothing else special about it.

The second type I'll call standard soul fragment, it is what you get when you use the etheric sword to lost 10% max HP and get a soul fragment, this is what the reinforced watering can is looking for. Those produce 8 ichor, so even if you used the max possible you wouldn't have enough for one of everything in kami. These can be consumed at any time by the player who created them to regain a missing 10% HP.

The third and most notable type are weak fragments, once you're down to 3 hearts of HP left (30% technically if you've somehow got boosted max HP), you stop producing standard soul fragments using etheric swords on yourself and start producing weak fragments. Those are unusable in recipes normally but unlike standard you don't lose any HP on creating them, and can create as much as you want without any long term penalty.

This leaves two primary strategies to getting the fragments without losing max HP, get a deity fragment, or alternatively make seven standard to get down to 30%, make as many weak fragments as you want, and then consume the seven standard to get back up to 100% max HP while still having a pile of weak soul fragments.

It's definitely grindy yeah, but it doesn't require crippling yourself forever or killing literally millions of mobs for a single drop in order to do it.

oh I knew about the first 2 shards but not the weak ones. oh that's not too bad Like you said, you can uncripple yourself and it just takes more infusions. not bad. choices are good.

Getting the kikoku isn't hard at all. I'll probably go do the siege now and get that bit over with. I know the odds are highly unlikely but you never know.

FYI, regarding the three recipes. So I had to look up recipe for uses for nether star to see those other soul recipes. that's a bit tricky there since it's sorta hidden that there are more than one recipe. showing the recipe for the ichor only shows the one recipe for the weak shard.

Still, the clusters. omg I can't even count how many there are except by going into nei and seeing there are 22 plus the other ones. I've never put that many pedestals down ever. do you have some sort of list of which clusters and what order other than trying to discern it from NEI or the book? It's seriously hard to read, especially plan out all of the pedestals. I guess I can look at the .zs script, think I'll probably do that.

You did an amazing job of adhering to the infitech way into thaumcraft. It was exceptionally painful for me. Most problematic was the tiers to get certain things and not rush them through thaum but have to keep an even pace on the tech side. But, that inevitably made the trip a bit more grindy than is my normal cup of tea so I changed to easy research to avoid the research game entirely. I've done kami about 10+ times in other packs, and tbh, really sick of the research part actually. just traded with pechs for knowledge fragments and did a ton of raiding villages.

so I'm only going to kami for one thing, for awakened pick so I can do something I could do 6 months ago in this pack way before doing kami which is 5x5 mining. Having no terra shatterer really sucks. Sad thing is once I get the awakened, I'll just goto the bedrock dimension and get all the ores I'll ever need. well, gt ores didn't spawn there before but previous run through I had more aluminum/diamonds than I knew what to do with.

Also, I could not get that wisp research no matter what. I think it's bugged somehow. had to do a /tc cmd to add it manually. it was the only one I couldn't get legit. I forgot how to do a few and had to google them, but yeah, cracking the kami barrier was great till I saw those recipes lmao and ofc that's happened already too many times to count in this pack lmao.

 

[Xavion]

Getting the kikoku isn't hard at all. I'll probably go do the siege now and get that bit over with. I know the odds are highly unlikely but you never know.

You'll need to do it anyway too, you need mobius ingots to create ichorium ingots. The enhanced galgador is the priciest part for the ichorium however.

Still, the clusters. omg I can't even count how many there are except by going into nei and seeing there are 22 plus the other ones. I've never put that many pedestals down ever. do you have some sort of list of which clusters and what order other than trying to discern it from NEI or the book? It's seriously hard to read, especially plan out all of the pedestals. I guess I can look at the .zs script, think I'll probably do that.

As said, just open the thaumonomicon and look under alchemy, you should need every single cluster that there's a research for. That said, it's 26 clusters, plus iron in the middle. One per research with the exception of tin, which unlocks both tin and cassiterite purification.

FYI, regarding the three recipes. So I had to look up recipe for uses for nether star to see those other soul recipes. that's a bit tricky there since it's sorta hidden that there are more than one recipe. showing the recipe for the ichor only shows the one recipe for the weak shard.

Yeah, this is why using the thaumonomicon has advantages, it not only shows all three recipes, the text includes a description on how to get Notches Brew which is a hidden recipe.

 

[DoomSquirter]

You'll need to do it anyway too, you need mobius ingots to create ichorium ingots. The enhanced galgador is the priciest part for the ichorium however.


As said, just open the thaumonomicon and look under alchemy, you should need every single cluster that there's a research for. That said, it's 26 clusters, plus iron in the middle. One per research with the exception of tin, which unlocks both tin and cassiterite purification.


Yeah, this is why using the thaumonomicon has advantages, it not only shows all three recipes, the text includes a description on how to get Notches Brew which is a hidden recipe.

oh ok, didn't notice the difference in the thaumonomnomnom. jeeeeez I glanced right past the galgadorian. sighhhhhh lmao

yeah I'm a bit away from getting all the ores anyways so I have to go back and advance my tech tiers again. it's okay tho. I've probably run out of space on the todolist of things I gotta do so I've got that going for me.

I have a pig zombie eio spawner with diamond looting spikes and corporeal attractors going since yesterday so I've got a couple thousand or so nebrisum going for me. all the alchemical transformations are pretty awesome. lots of avenues to persue, definately a great job on all of that.

 

[Loreili]

Is there any way to create pumps without using the screwdriver/wrench combo that I've missed? My AE system seems to be slowly filling up with meta tools despite using their undamaged form in the recipes (it'll craft a new tool rather than use an existing damaged tool). I haven't tried playing with the fuzzy settings on the crafting pattern, would this make a difference?

As it stands, I've tended towards using assembler recipes for anything that needs a meta tool (frame box, machine hull etc) to avoid the problem where possible but that does seem to lead to some slight machine sprawl, even if it is making me learn a lot about subnetting

 

[Tyriael_Soban]

I just loaded my world up first time since christmas ...

Done F*cked up when i updated from 3.1.5 to 3.2 >.>

Edit; didnt save the configs in their entirety ... so i guess im stuck like that, haha.

 

[Herrminator1994]

Did you make four Large Diesel Engines or something? That's my plan, altho I've only made one so far and not sure I have enough titanium for 3 more. But the good thing is, I think I have enough Nitro Diesel, especially if I bump up my Distillation production line from HV to EV which I can probably afford to do, likewise on the Oil Drilling Rig itself. Today, I removed my biogas and my steam production, along with my tree farm and Pyrolyse Oven. Gonna re-purpose the 20 Distilleries from making biogas to processing the Toluene into Light Fuel instead. Full speed ahead, damn the torpedoes!! Why mess around with LV steam and MV biogas when we're flyin' high with 3 amps of IV off the Nitro, right?

I even found a Platinum vein, got a whole bunch of Iridium dusts and even processed a stack of Osmium dusts... almost ready for fusion, the biggest problem I have is the Nether Stars and still not sure how to obtain those just yet.

Actually, I decided to switch my main power gen to nuclear. I've got four IC2 fluid reactors, two fueled thus far, feeding a large heat exchanger. The LHE produces enough superheated steam for four large HP steam turbines and 4 large steam turbines with large fluxed electrum turbine rotors, producing a steady two amps of IV power. Diesel engine and a couple gas turbines provide backup, with another amp of IV capability. I need plutonium to make radon for the IV mass fabricator, and Lutetium to eventually feed into the fusion reactor, so nuclear seems like a good fit.

 

[sprAngles]

Is there any way to create pumps without using the screwdriver/wrench combo that I've missed? My AE system seems to be slowly filling up with meta tools despite using their undamaged form in the recipes (it'll craft a new tool rather than use an existing damaged tool). I haven't tried playing with the fuzzy settings on the crafting pattern, would this make a difference?

As it stands, I've tended towards using assembler recipes for anything that needs a meta tool (frame box, machine hull etc) to avoid the problem where possible but that does seem to lead to some slight machine sprawl, even if it is making me learn a lot about subnetting

As far as my own experience goes I haven't seen this issue yet. Usually the reason why I have multiple meta tools in the system is because I've autocrafted multiple recipes requiring the same time of tool simultaneously; it will then craft one for each recipe. I'm not sure if this is your issue as well.

 

[DoomSquirter]

Is there any way to create pumps without using the screwdriver/wrench combo that I've missed? My AE system seems to be slowly filling up with meta tools despite using their undamaged form in the recipes (it'll craft a new tool rather than use an existing damaged tool). I haven't tried playing with the fuzzy settings on the crafting pattern, would this make a difference?

As it stands, I've tended towards using assembler recipes for anything that needs a meta tool (frame box, machine hull etc) to avoid the problem where possible but that does seem to lead to some slight machine sprawl, even if it is making me learn a lot about subnetting

ae just doesn't seem to work well with the gt tools, probably because the tools don't store their durability via metadata. Same problem here. I tend to make the things manually in big batches. In previous world, we used logistic pipes to automate all the pieces and order up batches via a remote order into the ae system.

 

[Jason McRay]

Is there any way to create pumps without using the screwdriver/wrench combo that I've missed? My AE system seems to be slowly filling up with meta tools despite using their undamaged form in the recipes (it'll craft a new tool rather than use an existing damaged tool). I haven't tried playing with the fuzzy settings on the crafting pattern, would this make a difference?

As it stands, I've tended towards using assembler recipes for anything that needs a meta tool (frame box, machine hull etc) to avoid the problem where possible but that does seem to lead to some slight machine sprawl, even if it is making me learn a lot about subnetting

Oh time to have a self promotion there I say:

At around 14 minute mark I code a recipe for LV Pump.

Edit: there might be better way, but noone told me what the better way is

 

[EconBrony]

Planning on any new Infitech videos Jason?

 

[targetingyou78]

oh I knew about the first 2 shards but not the weak ones. oh that's not too bad Like you said, you can uncripple yourself and it just takes more infusions. not bad. choices are good.

Getting the kikoku isn't hard at all. I'll probably go do the siege now and get that bit over with. I know the odds are highly unlikely but you never know.

FYI, regarding the three recipes. So I had to look up recipe for uses for nether star to see those other soul recipes. that's a bit tricky there since it's sorta hidden that there are more than one recipe. showing the recipe for the ichor only shows the one recipe for the weak shard.

Still, the clusters. omg I can't even count how many there are except by going into nei and seeing there are 22 plus the other ones. I've never put that many pedestals down ever. do you have some sort of list of which clusters and what order other than trying to discern it from NEI or the book? It's seriously hard to read, especially plan out all of the pedestals. I guess I can look at the .zs script, think I'll probably do that.

You did an amazing job of adhering to the infitech way into thaumcraft. It was exceptionally painful for me. Most problematic was the tiers to get certain things and not rush them through thaum but have to keep an even pace on the tech side. But, that inevitably made the trip a bit more grindy than is my normal cup of tea so I changed to easy research to avoid the research game entirely. I've done kami about 10+ times in other packs, and tbh, really sick of the research part actually. just traded with pechs for knowledge fragments and did a ton of raiding villages.

so I'm only going to kami for one thing, for awakened pick so I can do something I could do 6 months ago in this pack way before doing kami which is 5x5 mining. Having no terra shatterer really sucks. Sad thing is once I get the awakened, I'll just goto the bedrock dimension and get all the ores I'll ever need. well, gt ores didn't spawn there before but previous run through I had more aluminum/diamonds than I knew what to do with.

Also, I could not get that wisp research no matter what. I think it's bugged somehow. had to do a /tc cmd to add it manually. it was the only one I couldn't get legit. I forgot how to do a few and had to google them, but yeah, cracking the kami barrier was great till I saw those recipes lmao and ofc that's happened already too many times to count in this pack lmao.

Just reading your journey through thaumcraft makes me want to shoot myself. I don't see what your goal is? By the time you can get even remotely close to getting that ichor stuff you'll have to be so advanced in technology what do you gain out of it? If the bedrock world spawned gregtech ore ... Maybe but you said it doesn't?

 

[DoomSquirter]

Question about oil. So, I tried the oil drilling rig, 1.5 hrs to get < 4 buckets of GT oil. made the prospector, went through that whole process of making a book about 2-3 times when I realized I would go crazy continuing down that line. decided to see what the bc oil does, pumped some up and got 3 iron drums before I stopped and looked at processing it and it looks like the bc oil works just fine, yet is much easier to get out of the ground and in quantity. Does anyone actually use the oil drilling rig and do you just randomly place the thing or do the whole prospector bit?

Just reading your journey through thaumcraft makes me want to shoot myself. I don't see what your goal is? By the time you can get even remotely close to getting that ichor stuff you'll have to be so advanced in technology what do you gain out of it? If the bedrock world spawned gregtech ore ... Maybe but you said it doesn't?

As I said, my goal is the pick to do 5x5 mining. terrashatterer was my go-to the last time we played this pack but botania's out. the mining laser wasn't my cup of tea and you couldn't add any enchants. I am using excavation focus but it's awful slow (but it's what I'm using atm with looting from focii manipulator). arcane bores take too much time to setup/move each time (altho I guess there's some form of framez).

My point about the bedrock dimension was that to get the only 5x5 mining tool, you then have access to the bedrock dimension which has all the non gt ores in large abundance as a side effect of it, not as the goal. My problem was I didn't look at the scripts before I headed down this road to see what I had to look forward to lol but for me, once I head down a path, I'm usually too stubborn to make a course correction at that point lol

The bedrock dimension does spawn gt ore, but it's uninitialized iirc. at least it did that last playthrough, don't expect it to be that different now. essentially, you mine cobble when you try to pick it. But gc adds aluminum, and I saw some gc planets stf there before but it's mostly the basics, but in HUUGE amounts. it's a bonus really.

At this point, I've got almost all my equipment in HV which is about where we left off last time we played and tbh, I think EV is all I'll need to get most of the stf for the ichor unless I'm missing something (very likely). Even so, that's my only goal atm. Having the ichor robes isn't a concern for me. jetpack's just fine for me. I did about 8 hardcore withers with no problems since jason turned off the explosions, they aren't so bad, just sporting dark steel armor atm. so stars aren't an issue.

I did just spend some time looking through the required ingredients more closely and yeah, I'm pretty screwed lol. you need nitrogen plasma from fusion reactor which I've never done before. Galgadorian ingots don't look so bad and I need one native cluster, so it won't be easy, but hey, gotta have a goal I guess.

I am very tempted to add router reborn just to get the rr pick to use. tempted. especially at this point. really don't know at this time tho. ppl talk about the miner which I've never used so guess I'll possibly try that out, but I like to go through the ore deposits by hand and just mine them out with a 5x5. I find it somewhat cathartic Once I get the awakened pick, that's definately what I'll be doing.

 

[sprAngles]

Question about oil. So, I tried the oil drilling rig, 1.5 hrs to get < 4 buckets of GT oil. made the prospector, went through that whole process of making a book about 2-3 times when I realized I would go crazy continuing down that line. decided to see what the bc oil does, pumped some up and got 3 iron drums before I stopped and looked at processing it and it looks like the bc oil works just fine, yet is much easier to get out of the ground and in quantity. Does anyone actually use the oil drilling rig and do you just randomly place the thing or do the whole prospector bit?

Something sounds wrong with your oil drilling rig - how much oil did the seismic prospector say was in that chunk? Another possibility is that you didn't chunkload the rig, which it will then run only when you're in the vicinity.

BC oil is definitely easier to obtain, and is twice superior over raw oil. However, you can obtain the holy grail of oils - heavy oil - through a drilling rig. A decent source of heavy oil can sustain you for seemingly forever, not to mention that each chunk within the 6x6 chunk oil area is depleted independently. Also, if you're looking for more LPG/methane (or short on hydrogen) the rig can give you natural gas or light oil as well.

 

[targetingyou78]

Question about oil. So, I tried the oil drilling rig, 1.5 hrs to get < 4 buckets of GT oil. made the prospector, went through that whole process of making a book about 2-3 times when I realized I would go crazy continuing down that line. decided to see what the bc oil does, pumped some up and got 3 iron drums before I stopped and looked at processing it and it looks like the bc oil works just fine, yet is much easier to get out of the ground and in quantity. Does anyone actually use the oil drilling rig and do you just randomly place the thing or do the whole prospector bit?


As I said, my goal is the pick to do 5x5 mining. terrashatterer was my go-to the last time we played this pack but botania's out. the mining laser wasn't my cup of tea and you couldn't add any enchants. I am using excavation focus but it's awful slow (but it's what I'm using atm with looting from focii manipulator). arcane bores take too much time to setup/move each time (altho I guess there's some form of framez).

My point about the bedrock dimension was that to get the only 5x5 mining tool, you then have access to the bedrock dimension which has all the non gt ores in large abundance as a side effect of it, not as the goal. My problem was I didn't look at the scripts before I headed down this road to see what I had to look forward to lol but for me, once I head down a path, I'm usually too stubborn to make a course correction at that point lol

The bedrock dimension does spawn gt ore, but it's uninitialized iirc. at least it did that last playthrough, don't expect it to be that different now. essentially, you mine cobble when you try to pick it. But gc adds aluminum, and I saw some gc planets stf there before but it's mostly the basics, but in HUUGE amounts. it's a bonus really.

At this point, I've got almost all my equipment in HV which is about where we left off last time we played and tbh, I think EV is all I'll need to get most of the stf for the ichor unless I'm missing something (very likely). Even so, that's my only goal atm. Having the ichor robes isn't a concern for me. jetpack's just fine for me. I did about 8 hardcore withers with no problems since jason turned off the explosions, they aren't so bad, just sporting dark steel armor atm. so stars aren't an issue.

I did just spend some time looking through the required ingredients more closely and yeah, I'm pretty screwed lol. you need nitrogen plasma from fusion reactor which I've never done before. Galgadorian ingots don't look so bad and I need one native cluster, so it won't be easy, but hey, gotta have a goal I guess.

I am very tempted to add router reborn just to get the rr pick to use. tempted. especially at this point. really don't know at this time tho. ppl talk about the miner which I've never used so guess I'll possibly try that out, but I like to go through the ore deposits by hand and just mine them out with a 5x5. I find it somewhat cathartic Once I get the awakened pick, that's definately what I'll be doing.

Yeah, to be honest you can get huge amounts of pretty much everything using the Advanced Miner II. It sounds like you don't like the other automated mining because you have to move it around a lot. The Advanced Miner II will mine multiple veins at once and outputs up to 5x the pulverized product (10x just smelting it). It's honestly the strongest miner I've ever used. For instance, mining a redstone vein gave me barrels and barrels full of redstone. I still haven't finished processing my first redstone vein I mined like 2 months ago xD I think I'm at like 400+ stacks.

 

[UNG_God]

Is there any way to create pumps without using the screwdriver/wrench combo that I've missed? My AE system seems to be slowly filling up with meta tools despite using their undamaged form in the recipes (it'll craft a new tool rather than use an existing damaged tool). I haven't tried playing with the fuzzy settings on the crafting pattern, would this make a difference?

yes it make all the difference, allowing the recipe to use substitutes will make it work with the durability/energy loss of crafting, but sometimes the system stops but just cancel the recipe and select again and it will be on the go again. I use that.

Planning on any new Infitech videos Jason?

afaik he quit the normal infitech2 after he got moon stranded and started a series with that "new pack" of being moon stranded.

However, you can obtain the holy grail of oils - heavy oil -

why is that? heavy oil is one of the easiest oil to make after you got high in tech with pyroluse oven.

i was going to ask for help i was having troubles with the assembly line, but them after reading my question i realized i was putting the wrong component, is very easy to mistaken wires and cables.

Also it is very evil to ask us to make all luv components for questing.

 

[DoomSquirter]

Something sounds wrong with your oil drilling rig - how much oil did the seismic prospector say was in that chunk? Another possibility is that you didn't chunkload the rig, which it will then run only when you're in the vicinity.

BC oil is definitely easier to obtain, and is twice superior over raw oil. However, you can obtain the holy grail of oils - heavy oil - through a drilling rig. A decent source of heavy oil can sustain you for seemingly forever, not to mention that each chunk within the 6x6 chunk oil area is depleted independently. Also, if you're looking for more LPG/methane (or short on hydrogen) the rig can give you natural gas or light oil as well.

that 4 bucket oil was my first and only drilling rig placement. it was before I had access to the prospector. I should go back and prospect that chunk I put the rig in since the rig is still there. I ensured it was chunkloaded and it had plenty of power. I mallet'd the thing a few times, waiting a minute in between but it never went green again. assuming if it won't turn on again it has stopped for good? oh these things are supposed to be infinite aren't they? Hmm if that's the case then, something's definately not right. I'll have to go back and prospect it.

As for the prospector, the one major turn off is that process. It's so manual, especially with the data stick having to be in that one slot and then pulled out and reset each time. It puts the IE one to shame for sure. is there a better version which you just put the stick in to get results or something?

Yeah, to be honest you can get huge amounts of pretty much everything using the Advanced Miner II. It sounds like you don't like the other automated mining because you have to move it around a lot. The Advanced Miner II will mine multiple veins at once and outputs up to 5x the pulverized product (10x just smelting it). It's honestly the strongest miner I've ever used. For instance, mining a redstone vein gave me barrels and barrels full of redstone. I still haven't finished processing my first redstone vein I mined like 2 months ago xD I think I'm at like 400+ stacks.

I think it's the whole adage of if all you have is a screwdriver, everything looks like a screw. last time we played the pack, don't think we had those miners or we never got that far. thing sounds pretty neat tho, so definately will try it.

The way I play packs like this is: I work on something till I get bored/distracted, then switch gears and do something completely different. Marking ores as I go and then going back and spending an hour mining out an entire deposit is somewhat cathartic to me, as well as gives me time to attack mobs and keep me awake lol. SO MUCH of this pack is all about the waiting for something to finish, so yeah, lots of free time.

will the advanced miner act as a quarry and dig up an entire square marked area? rftools builder is my favorite in this regard. I like building underground so I tend to make a 5x5 chunk and mine out the entire 5x5 chunks from ground level to bedrock and expand from there. I like to spread out the machines to keep fps somewhat sane. So in that sense, getting a 5x5 pick is also for building/clearing out areas as well for me. Altho, last time we played infitech2 on server, my terrashatterer got me into trouble. was in HEE laboratory island and was mining out the smooth obsidian and didn't notice the energy cluster in the corner. boom. cause of the explosion, grave was obliterated. all that was left was what dropped after grave cleared. lost my golden bag of holding with all my tools/equipment in it. almost ragequit.

As far as the strongest miner goes, the aforementioned rftools builder is hands down best I've seen tho it will just do regular fortune or silk touch in normal packs. fully supplied with power via tesseracts or power plugs, it'll mine out a chunk from Y 60 down to bedrock completely in a minute, maybe a few seconds more. If you so desired, you could reverse that and it'll place back all those blocks in the same amount of time, completely randomized lol. Not that I've ever done that as a prank to a friend's base or anything before.

 

[sprAngles]

why is that? heavy oil is one of the easiest oil to make after you got high in tech with pyroluse oven.

Ok maybe I was rather liberal in my use of the phrase - meant to say heavy oil is the most valuable.

 

[Dentvar]

Finally got my EBF and my first aluminium crafted...
Now I need more power.
For what I can see my options are limited at the moment.
Fermenter into Biodisel seems nice since getting plantballs is easy but since I need solid fuel to heat it, I could use the solid fuel as well for a big bronze boiler....

What is the "go to" way here? At least to get started more or less into MV and start automizing my first wood farms.
I cant chop enough wood to manualy maintain the steam I would need for this....