An idiot on an adventure to build a quarry

[DEL 707]

I'm on a mission to build a quarry, but since I'm pretty new to minecraft, let alone mods, I've kinda jumped off into the deep end of things.
I've read the wiki and watched vids, but I'm progressing rather slowly, so I thought I'd cut to the chase and ask the experts.

This is the "workshop" I have in my mine.

Equipment wise I have -

• Generator
• Geothermal Generator
• Macerator
• Electric Furnace
• Furnace
• Plate Bending machine
• Industrial Electrolyzer

Outside I also have some coke furnaces and a blast furnace.

Now I believe I have everything necessary to build the quarry machine, no idea how to run it, but I'll cross that bridge when I get to it. But the 1 item I'm having trouble making is the titanium plating, I know you get it from bauxite dust in the electrolyzer, but I'm having trouble running it, which I believe is down to power problems.

I'm clueless when it comes to power, which I think is my major problem.
To use the bauxite dust in the electrolyzer, the recipe says I need 256,000 EU which I have no idea how to supply.
I've tried connecting up both my generators

But the unit still says there is insufficient power, I'm not even sure if you can connect up both generators together like that...

Talking about generators, I thought I'd ask about my geothermal.

The red meter on the right keep bouncing around and I have no idea what that means.

Here's the pump setup I have for the lava

4 red engines around the pump, is this strong enough for the job? It seems to be supplying it o.k, I can't see any gaps in the lava flowing through the pipes.

I appreciate any help/advice I can get.

 

[eric167]

I'm on a mission to build a quarry, but since I'm pretty new to minecraft, let alone mods, I've kinda jumped off into the deep end of things.
I've read the wiki and watched vids, but I'm progressing rather slowly, so I thought I'd cut to the chase and ask the experts.

This is the "workshop" I have in my mine.



Equipment wise I have -

• Generator
• Geothermal Generator
• Macerator
• Electric Furnace
• Furnace
• Plate Bending machine
• Industrial Electrolyzer

Outside I also have some coke furnaces and a blast furnace.

Now I believe I have everything necessary to build the quarry machine, no idea how to run it, but I'll cross that bridge when I get to it. But the 1 item I'm having trouble making is the titanium plating, I know you get it from bauxite dust in the electrolyzer, but I'm having trouble running it, which I believe is down to power problems.

I'm clueless when it comes to power, which I think is my major problem.
To use the bauxite dust in the electrolyzer, the recipe says I need 256,000 EU which I have no idea how to supply.
I've tried connecting up both my generators

But the unit still says there is insufficient power, I'm not even sure if you can connect up both generators together like that...

Talking about generators, I thought I'd ask about my geothermal.


The red meter on the right keep bouncing around and I have no idea what that means.

Here's the pump setup I have for the lava


4 red engines around the pump, is this strong enough for the job? It seems to be supplying it o.k, I can't see any gaps in the lava flowing through the pipes.

I appreciate any help/advice I can get.

1) electrolyzer needs 256000 total for the dust, but it needs it at constant 128 EU/t the ENTIRE time. get an MFE, put it between your generator and the electrolyzer, you will need at least a gold cable- leave a 1 block gap between the MFE and electrolyzer so you can break/place that cable as a switch when you want to run the machine. copper cable will simply poof.
2) red bar shows its internal buffer. full means you generate more than you use, empty means any power generated is going straight into your grid.
3)4 redstone engines is actually the usual setup for a BC pump.
a better way to check if its working is the geothermal generator's tank is full.

 

[DEL 707]

Thanks for the reply.
Got the electrolyzer working thanks to your help.
Working on a Industrial Blast Furnace at the moment, but I'm running low on tin supplies, looking at the wiki, it's meant to be between 0-40, but I'm having a bugger of a time finding any.

 

[JoeDolca]

For the quarry get coal and stirling engines and 3 to 4 of those should be enough. Also, I suggest making a battery (not an item, a building) for BC power, it gives you a lot of benefits.

 

[DEL 707]

Well I've hit another problem.

Finally built my Industrial Blast Furnace so that I can convert my titanium dust to ingots

Had to build another room to house the thing, but all looking good, green light lit up.
Used double insulted gold cable to link it to the MFE in the other room. MFE is at full capacity, 6000.
I put in the titanium dust, the progress bar fills up to about a quarter of the way, then it resets itself, I let it carry on until it completely drained my MFE, when I cut the cable, it actually destroyed the dust!

Any idea on what I'm doing wrong?

 

[Celestialphoenix]

It shouldn't destroy the dust, but if power dropped at any time then it'll reset the progress.

GT machines process the same as the TE ones- take the first item and process, then giving the second item. If theres no power then it just remains hidden in the machine- you'll get it back when you provide enough power to run a full cycle.​

Also I think gold cable loses quite a bit of Eu. Same way copper loses 1 Eu every 6 blocks, or glass fibre every 40.

-not sure what the value is for gold, but that probably why you cut out. Move your MFE closer or use glass fibre cable.​

 

[DEL 707]

Thanks! I'm moving along again.
Put the MFE in the other room and switched to glass fiber, which did the trick.

Currently waiting on my MFE to charge up so I can do the 2nd dust, so I thought I'd ask about linking generators

I've got 2 gens linked up to the MFE, 1 normal and the other a geothermal

But only 1 seems to be charging the MFE, the other is inactive.

 

[xjjon]

I assume the regular generator is the bottom right. Is there fuel (charcoal/coal) inside?

If you can afford it, I would suggest adding a couple more geothermal or regular generators to power up your machines.

 

[DEL 707]

Thanks for the help all, had a help from a few friends ingame and I've got my quarry up and running!

Powering it on 3 stirling engines using coke at the moment, but I'm wondering about other power setups for future setups.

 

[xjjon]

Don't forget to post pics!

 

[loboca]

I know this says 1.6.4, but if you have MFR in your pack, this setup, when you add a steam boiler (as I posted near the bottom), and some Commercial steam engines, and Thermal Expansion (TE) Power Tesseracts, can remotely power the quarry (Quarries use MJ energy, which is used by Buildcraft), and then get an ender chest (Not a vanilla ender chest, one that has 3 color codes on the top), or a TE Item tesseract to move the items back to your base. You can put an itemduct / buildcraft pipe on the quarry and it will output the quarried items to an inventory, like the ender chest or Item Tesseract.

 

[DEL 707]

Not done much minecraft lately, but the quarry's been chugging along, down to about level 35

Kept a few turrets around, just to stop all the annoying bats.

And the sorting room.
Chests are starting to fill up pretty nicely.

But now I need another project, I am looking at doing another quarry with a better setup, but I would like to try something different, so much stuff in this game, I don't even know what a 1/4 of the stuff does.

Quarry was great for building, required alot of materials and machines to build. So looking for a similar sort of experience. Something functional that will make my game life better.
I have no interest in building a castle with a swimming pool, if I'm gonna build something, it has to serve a purpose.

 

[Morberis]

Build a railway that delivers your oil, blocks, and you. Include proper routing. Automated ore processing from the railway etc

 

[Kyll.Ing.]

When I'm "out" of stuff to build, I usually turn to nuclear reactors. They require a lot of resources (at least in Tekkit Lite, a full setup required some eight hundred copper or so), make your life easier (if you've got a way to store all the EU), and are functional enough (I usually hook a Mass/Matter Fabricator up to mine).

Don't forget a control room with power switches, Industrial Information Panels (both for the reactor itself and the storage block(s) it feeds EU into), as well as an alarm trigged by a Thermal Sensor (so you can be warned of overheating well in advance). The control room should of course be able to withstand the event of the reactor exploding. Even better, encase the reactor itself in blast-proof casing.

Just a quick note, though: Don't put your Thermal Sensor directly on the reactor itself. If the reactor heats past the set treshold, it will emit a Redstone signal. If directly connected to the reactor, it makes the reactor impossible to turn off without removing the sensor. I found out this the wrong way today...

 

[DEL 707]

I talked to the server owner and expressed me interest in building a nuclear reactor and he expressed his interest in me not blowing a hole in the map.

Any1 have any good guides? Of course, safety 1st type of thing.

 

[Kyll.Ing.]

Blast casing first. Reinforced stone, reinforced glass, and obsidian galore. Make the reactor room so safe that in case of an explosion, nothing else will be destroyed.

Also, have a Thermal Sensor and an alarm. Unless you screw up royally, it will take quite some time for a reactor to heat up to the point of kaboom. Monitoring of temperature will give you plenty of time to see if anything has gone wrong, and turn off the reactor.

 

[DEL 707]

Unfortunately my nuclear reactor has had to be put on hold, server owner needed to restart the server.

So long story short, I have a new quarry, which has now fulfilled it's purpose, so I'm moving onto the next site. I was hoping to use solar power for the next 1, but not sure that's gonna happen at the moment, but as usual I have questions

I've made a new kind of quarry storage room in my base, the quarry pumps into a ender chest, which then pumps out into my new room back at home.

I've tried to make a macerator/furnace setup.

My problem is that once I put anything in the left chest, it basically shoots along to the right chest, it doesn't get processed at all.

 

[JoeDolca]

Buildcraft and Industrialcraft don't mix too well... the pipes might be piping the unprocessed stuff before it has a chance.

Also, does your server have BigREactors? It makes tons of RF which can easily turn into MJ for purposes.

 

[loboca]

Try inputting items into the top and pulling out from the bottom. Some IC2 machines care about sided-ness.

 

[DEL 707]

Thanks I'll give it a try.