Am I the only one who cringes......
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I did in FTB Beta, or early Mindcrack.
In ultimate? No. There are plenty of ways to make diamonds. At the same time, there are plenty of ways to make coal.
Awesome, I can build a bounce house full of ender dragon eggs. Tell new players that one of them has 100 diamonds inside it, they just have to catch the right one.
I call pretty much anything mined from the earth infinite. Because the world, for all intents and purposes, is infinite. And if you somehow managed to mine 4096000000000000 (maths are not precise, but the number is friggin huge, I assumed 32m x 32m blocks) blocks all the way down to bedrock, just make an age, and do it again. Or preferably, make an age first and chew that up, instead of your overworld.
I try and do what you do early in game. I try and use charcoal for everything and save my coal. Later on, I use coal for when it is preferred. I got a silk-touch, repair II, pickaxe as well as now a fortune III, repair I pickaxe, and now have essentially unlimited coal. I have over 1k coal ore blocks to be turned into thorium or fortune III'd for moar coal. I don't really use coal coke all that much, as charcoal can be used in place of it, and coal is much more valuable for use as coal dust with various parts of GT.
I cringe myself when I resort to using it, but for all practical purposes though, it doesn't really matter. I do bring a stack of wood, and make more torches with it as necessary while mining. I've gotten so much wood from my small SC tree farm, that I've had my farm turned off for a RL week, and still haven't gone through all the wood and charcoal I have, although I am starting to run a little low on saplings.
I cringe myself when I resort to using it, but for all practical purposes though, it doesn't really matter. I do bring a stack of wood, and make more torches with it as necessary while mining. I've gotten so much wood from my small SC tree farm, that I've had my farm turned off for a RL week, and still haven't gone through all the wood and charcoal I have, although I am starting to run a little low on saplings.
I use coal because I usually either live in a Meadow (barely any trees), or don't want to clear cut a nice looking biome near me. Also, coal is very easy to find. And with a Fortune 3 pick, running out is not an easy task.
renewable is stuff that you can get in a closed area, for example, cobwebs are not, meanwhile the dragon egg is, since you can craft the tome of alkahest and use 72 diamonds (from renewable UU matter) to craft it.
I used to make coke ovens, but...the time it takes to process a stack of coal is just a little crazy, and I mostly only use it for early-game fuel and/or my first few bits of steel from a RC blast furnace. Hell, once I get the data values into the config, I plan on making a PowerCraft redwood tree farm. After that...I'll never want for wood or fuel ever again. Hell, I already have, like, 25 stacks of redwood saplings waiting for me at home. If I just wanted to, I could feed all that into a vanilly IC2 generator bank and have ludicrous amounts of early power. In modded Minecraft (and -especially- with redwoods and Treecapitator) fuel is a true non-issue.
It is crazy. But if I feel Im going to need a lot of coke I just build a few of them. Set up a liquid void pipe system to them to keep them from stopping and just run them while I do other stuff.
I should take a stab at automating them at somet point. But I currently dont have a huge need for coke.
Too many mods make the game way too easy to even care about wasting coal. Lots of mods need major nerfs.
I tend to not care what other people are doing with their game. If they're having fun then its cooler than cool.
Coal has become less important over time. back when playing whatever version Tekkit ended on, diamonds were critical, so coal got used for it.
Now it's renewable, exp for fortune is easyer to get, quarrys run faster, and diamonds as a whole are less limiting what you can do. Early diamonds can be skipped entirely between block breakers, cells, Pick of the Core, e.t.c.
Now it's renewable, exp for fortune is easyer to get, quarrys run faster, and diamonds as a whole are less limiting what you can do. Early diamonds can be skipped entirely between block breakers, cells, Pick of the Core, e.t.c.
I don't bother making diamonds with coal. And solar panels. But I don't burn it for two reasons
1) My only power source is boilers. I don't wanna burn in a boiler something that is not renewable (without mining more and more stuff).
2) I need steel. Lots of steel. I'm lazy to search the Nether for Stronghold. I use Industrial Blast Furnace for making steel. 2 coal = 1 steel.
1) My only power source is boilers. I don't wanna burn in a boiler something that is not renewable (without mining more and more stuff).
2) I need steel. Lots of steel. I'm lazy to search the Nether for Stronghold. I use Industrial Blast Furnace for making steel. 2 coal = 1 steel.
I use coal as fuel as early as possible.
Why? Because it gives more heat than charcoal. And unless I set up a tree farm, I have to interrupt my mining to get charcoal, while coal comes while I mine.
I've only made industrial diamonds once, and regretted it. By the time you have enough coal for it to be worth the effort, you should have other, better sources of diamond generation.
Why? Because it gives more heat than charcoal. And unless I set up a tree farm, I have to interrupt my mining to get charcoal, while coal comes while I mine.
I've only made industrial diamonds once, and regretted it. By the time you have enough coal for it to be worth the effort, you should have other, better sources of diamond generation.
My OCD prevents me from burning coal as long as I have charcoal to burn. Somehow feels 'wrong' to burn something that I only need 64 of to turn into a precious diamond!
That I have over 32 stacks of diamonds and wel over 30k of coal doesn't matter.
Are diamonds precious in nodded minecraft? I'm usually sitting on more than I need even without automatic mining. Doubly so if Gregtech is installed. And with Tinker's Construct, you don't even really need it for tools.
You probably know that, but I'll write it anyway, just in case - theres a way to a blast furnace that does not need a nether stronghold for it, using a TE induction furnace to create the needed bricks.