I can back this up. There appears to be no reasonable method to complete this task at this point.Some feedbacks on the early quests:
I am currently at Basic Steam Machines. I can't do the charcoal, because I can't craft the charcoal pile igniter (no wrought iron). I have done the water collection one for the netgain of 8 credits, but the water tank itself feels pretty underwhelming. I don't see my self ever being able to fuel a steam engine with that. I have started more steam machine for the bronze plated bricks towards the bronze blast furnace, but so far I only have the steam forge hammer. I found that I am unable to power a single steam forge hammer with my small coal boiler from the basic steam machines quest. Currently I am just hoping to mostly skip the steam machines. The Steam Macerator requires 2 diamonds, which means I need 256 credits and an integrated circuit - I am pretty sure for the later I need to be in the electric age.
So I am not exactly sure in which direction to progress, I could go for the forestry multifarm quest, but that would mean starting with rf when I am actually trying to do gregtech.
Tricky. I agree you shouldn't be able to "lose" the game by losing your licenses, but at the same time the # of licenses you can control at once is also a bit of a balancing factor.I'm going to have to put in a vote for having a way to regain licences. I had two machines blow up in short succession. I though I'd just have to rebuild the lost machines, and be fine. But then I discovered that the first one had destroyed my traders, and that the second destroyed the dropped licences and battery before I could recover them. At that point I had to restore from back-up, because I'd lost too many things to keep track of for me to cheat back in.
I'm not sure how to complete "Material Saving" without leaving it alone for a while. It requires some Tier 3 Materials (Aluminum). Can anyone shed light on this?
Also not sure how to complete "Different Battery Types" since I need to acquire Cadmium (I'm guessing I can just submit my starter Lithium battery for that part at least, otherwise I need to find Lithium too)
Agreed on all points.Lithium is available via GregTech lithium dust, which is Material Trade Licence Tier 2 trade for 2 silver, using a circuit configured to 4. But cadmium still eludes me. It's a level of silly when I can make the best small battery as or more easily than any other small battery.
There's 64 raw aluminum available in Town B, the catch being that you need to make a full electric blast furnace and several machines from "More Electric Machines" to actually make the items that you hand in to get the raw aluminum. I've been doing it as a challenge to see if I could do it. Signs at the moment point to "yes". This is the first quest where I've had to go outside the questline to complete. If you do complete the quest this way, be sure to hang onto 32 Aluminum ingots, because you'll need those to unlock the T3 Material Trade Licence (I checked by cheating in quest needs in my failed save).
Honestly, I'm not sure where @Blood Asp is thinking we're obtaining all this aluminum from, because I'm having a right hard time deciphering any means to obtain it in meaningful quantities without the T3 licence. And for that matter, why are so many quests asking for stacks upon stacks of gravel? There's at least 2 requiring 700 blocks, and that means at 20 minutes sitting in front of a Basic Forge Hammer, or two stacks of iron in iron Hammers.