Trying to make it so that when the pool is full, the system shuts down and when it's empty, it starts up again.
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I didn't know that wood / stone sword cannot be crafted in expert mode. This would be easier with them.
I have some ideas however, you might want to wait a little before you use it.
Breakable swords
Idea #1 - Nether Quartz Swords (AE2)
- alternatively, if you find Bloodwood tree in Nether, you can create Bloodwood sword which has better durability (350) and attack damage (+7)
- you'll have to get obsidian, either mine in somewhere underground (or if you find pool of lava on the ground and have water bucket, use use it to create it) or create Igneous Extruder, select obsidian and fill it with lava and water
- create nether portal and go to nether
- mine some Nether Quartz
- craft some Nether Quartz swords from AE2 (+6 attack damage, 250 durability created by 2 pieces of Nether Quartz and stick)
- create this:
( you will need: 3 chests, 2 transfer nodes (items), filter, Rationing or Hyper Rationing Pipe
for filter: look up how to make it inverted and fuzzy for medatada and nbt and place Nether Quartz sword into it (this way any Nether Quartz Sword will be blacklisted and transfer node will not move it)
chests:
1. leave it empty
2. place all Nether Quartz Swords in it
3. mob loot will be transfered here so that
transfer nodes:
1. put Rationing or Hyper Rationing Pipe into one of the 6 upgrade slots
2. place the filter here - does have to be inverted and fuzzy (for metadata and nbt) and contain Nether Quartz sword)
Swords from chest n.2 will go to chest n.1. Hyper / Rationing pipe in transfer node n.1 does allow only 1 stack to be transfered so if there is exactly same sword, it wont transfer any more of them (this way it won't fill chest n.1 with swords). As soon as mob is killed there won't be exactly same sword as in transfer node so it'll put a new sword into chest n.1. Now you'll have 2 swords in it. One is being used while second one is waiting to its turn. As soon as the first one break, the second one will be used. As soon as the second one get used, transfer node n.1 will place another sword into it. This will work until there is no swords in chest n.2. Transfer node n.2 will be moving everything that isn't Nether Quartz sword into chest n.3 so that it can work without getting cluttered with mob drops.
Later when you'll get better sword you can get rid of the chest n.2 and transfer node n.1. Also don't forget do add it into filter in transfer node n.2.
Idea #2 - The Ender (Ender IO)
The Ender
- +6 attack damage, 1561 durability, can be repaired / enchanted / upgraded
- can be crafted with Dark Steel Iron
- can be found in Dungeon, Mineshaft, Blacksmith, Desert Temple
- or you can find Dark Steel in Dungeon, Blacksmith
Unbreakable swords
Idea #3 - Flux-Infused Sword (Redstone Arsenal)
- its durability is replaced with energy charge
- 16000 RF (16kRF) charge
- Normal mode: +8 attack damage +1 Flux damage, 200 RF per use
- Empovered mode: +8 attack damage +4 Flux damage, 800 RF per use
- I don't know whether this is feature, oversight or exploit but it seem to be working even if it's discharged
Idea #4 - Etheric Sword (Extra Utilities)
There are 3 other swords that I know are unbreakable (Kikoku, Awakened / Ichorium Sword) but the are more like end game stuff.- +6 attack damage, infinite durability (shows 1561 thought), can be enchanted
I you get lucky during your exploration, you can find Division sigil (or get it after defeating Wither) . Activate it through ritual. Now it can create "Unstable Ingots" (that will blow up after 10 seconds or after closing crafting GUI, also you need vanilla crafting bench) and with these, you can create Etheric Sword.
If you go with idea #1 / #2 (crafting it) / #3 route, you might need some resources for preparation while ideas #2 (during exploring) and #4 (Division Sigil) are pure luck.
So, great suggestions... I hard built a nether portal (placing lava source blocks and turning them into obsidian) then went "Great! Now to light this puppy!"
Flint and Steel....... Steel... The reason why I need a blast furnace, the reason why I need a sword to use with a peaceful table to get gunpowder.... To make a blast furnace to make steel.....
The other two options, are NOT beginning options. To get that deep into Redstone Arsenal = tech well after steel. Etheric Swords.. How does the Division Sigil even work on peaceful?
Expert mode doesn't seem to want to play nice with peaceful mode does it?
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well theres a magical sword that for lack of a better term is unbreakable though u need a sword of the zephyr to create it (remember u need an infusion altar to make a sword of the zephyr)
All of these great suggestions, that need mob drops to get to the tech level they require 
I wandered around and finally found a village that had a blacksmith with some Dark Iron and made a sword out of that..... So, for anyone wanting to play Expert on peaceful, get lucky or cheat in some mob drops.
I wandered around and finally found a village that had a blacksmith with some Dark Iron and made a sword out of that..... So, for anyone wanting to play Expert on peaceful, get lucky or cheat in some mob drops.
let me guess the matrix still needs an ender pearl doesn't it ?(wait a sec what is you stopping from making a thaumium sword ?)All of these great suggestions, that need mob drops to get to the tech level they require
I wandered around and finally found a village that had a blacksmith with some Dark Iron and made a sword out of that..... So, for anyone wanting to play Expert on peaceful, get lucky or cheat in some mob drops.
yay for random chest loot ,glad to hear it all turned out well for you
Is Bibliocraft in Infinity? If so, try putting a "Redstone: Volume 1" book in a Bibliocraft bookshelf. It'll emit a redstone signal of a strength that depends on the slot you put the book in.
For that, you'll need an RSNOR latch. You can make them with vanilla redstone in a 2x2x3 space, or with ProjectRed/BluePower/etc. circuits, considerably less. With two comparators and some trickery, you should be able to make it so that one signal comes on when the pool is (almost) empty, and another comes on when it's (almost) full without using more than a dozen or so blocks.
The only single block I know of that can do the sort of thing you're trying to do is EnderIO's power monitor. It's kind of a complex functionality; there's really no trivial way to do it.
Found something better...good old fashioned Buildcraft fluid pipes and basic gates. The gates have a function to emit a redstone signal when a mana tank is either empty, full or contains mana. Works perfectly now.
Design is completed, just have to run more tests. But it works. Thanks guys for your suggestions and help.
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For a little one-block IC2 Nuclear Reactor, there's an "i" button (information?) that says "Nuclear Reactor in EU mode. throttled output by 50%" - what does that mean? Am I doing something wrong? I seem to be getting the full power (120 EU/t) out of it, so why this message?
Infinity Evolved Expert mode, the reactor is this design as found in this IC2 forum thread (a nice little 120 EU/t powerhouse, the second reactor listed in the second post).
Infinity Evolved Expert mode, the reactor is this design as found in this IC2 forum thread (a nice little 120 EU/t powerhouse, the second reactor listed in the second post).
That's a plausible explanation, thanks. Not really worried about it but since Infinity is making us go thru the nuclear reactor progression I figure I might as well as my questions and figure it all out as best we can. I'm happy Expert mode forces us to use the reactors to make plutonium before we can move on to "easy mode" Big Reactors. Finally, I AM learning the IC2 nukes. Yay! Thanks for reply.
You don't need flint and steel to light nether portal. You can use lava to light it:
I wrote that badly. Sorry. Yes, Redstone Arsenal Flux-Infused Sword is nowhere near start beginning options and so is The Ender (if you want to craft it) from EnderIO.
What I wanted to say is:
- later in game, the next sword you can use Flux-Infused Sword since it's unbreakable
- or Etheric Sword from Extra Utilities (if you find Division Sigil), it's unbreakable too
- you might want to explore a little bit, in villages, look out for blacksmiths houses, the can have Dark Steel ingots which you can use to create The Ender which you can also find in dungeons
You can either find it in dungeons (also in these thaumcraft obsidian structures) or get it by killing Wither (its a rare? drop from him). Hover over it and press R. It will tell you pretty much everything you need. You have to activate it via ritual. The ritual is:
- enchanting table (its the altar)
- 8 pieces of redstone around enchanting table (create "circle" around it)
- it has to be on grass / dirt (5x5 should be enough)
- has to have clear sight of sky (it needs to see the moon)
- must be midnight (sigil must be glowing)
- it has to be in darkness (you cant have light near it)
- you must do sacrifice to activate it (kill a mob near the enchanting table)
You can shift right click with sigil on enchanting table, it will tell you what is done ( - ) and what missing ( ! ). During midnight lure mob near the enchanting table and kill it. Enchanting table will be hit with lightning and any grass around it will be turned into Cursed Earth. Since you're playing in peaceful, you don't need to worry about mobs (normally it would start to spawning hostile mobs around you). Your sigil should look like this:
Division Sigil (Activated)
Active: Number of uses remaining: 256
Now you can make unstable ingots. However, they can be only made in vanilla crafting table. After crafting one you have to hurry because they will blow up in 10 seconds, or if you close the GUI. To craft one, you will need iron ingot on top, activated sigil in middle and diamond at the bottom. There is also "stable" Unstable ingot, which can be crafted with unstable nuggets (golden nugget at top instead of iron ingot, it's also waste of diamonds). Now you can craft Etheric Sword.
There is a trick how to quickly craft things with Unstable ingots:
- fill your inventory (all 27 slots) with something, leave your hotbar empty
- numbers above letters on your keyboard corresponds with slot on your hotbar
- this way you swap between slot in crafting table and slot on your hotbar
i.e. if you have wood log in your 1st slot on hotbar, hover over one of the 9 positions in crafting table and press 1. You'll see that wood log is now there. Now, hover over the wood log and press 2. It will transfer the wood log from crafting table into 2nd slot in your hotbar.
- place obsidian in one 9 slots in your hotbar
- place 2 iron ingots, activated sigil, 2 diamonds in crafting table
- Shift click the Unstable ingots
- use the number keys to quickly place everything into (and out of) crafting grid
- quickly take the sword out
Cursed Earth can be mined with silk touch but is kinda useless in peaceful mode. Cursed Earth can (slowly) spread to blocks next to it and can be used later for thaumcraft since it does have some aspects. Also, keep it in darkness because it will burn on light.
- enchanting table (its the altar)
- 8 pieces of redstone around enchanting table (create "circle" around it)
- it has to be on grass / dirt (5x5 should be enough)
- has to have clear sight of sky (it needs to see the moon)
- must be midnight (sigil must be glowing)
- it has to be in darkness (you cant have light near it)
- you must do sacrifice to activate it (kill a mob near the enchanting table)
You can shift right click with sigil on enchanting table, it will tell you what is done ( - ) and what missing ( ! ). During midnight lure mob near the enchanting table and kill it. Enchanting table will be hit with lightning and any grass around it will be turned into Cursed Earth. Since you're playing in peaceful, you don't need to worry about mobs (normally it would start to spawning hostile mobs around you). Your sigil should look like this:
Division Sigil (Activated)
Active: Number of uses remaining: 256
Now you can make unstable ingots. However, they can be only made in vanilla crafting table. After crafting one you have to hurry because they will blow up in 10 seconds, or if you close the GUI. To craft one, you will need iron ingot on top, activated sigil in middle and diamond at the bottom. There is also "stable" Unstable ingot, which can be crafted with unstable nuggets (golden nugget at top instead of iron ingot, it's also waste of diamonds). Now you can craft Etheric Sword.
There is a trick how to quickly craft things with Unstable ingots:
- fill your inventory (all 27 slots) with something, leave your hotbar empty
- numbers above letters on your keyboard corresponds with slot on your hotbar
- this way you swap between slot in crafting table and slot on your hotbar
i.e. if you have wood log in your 1st slot on hotbar, hover over one of the 9 positions in crafting table and press 1. You'll see that wood log is now there. Now, hover over the wood log and press 2. It will transfer the wood log from crafting table into 2nd slot in your hotbar.
- place obsidian in one 9 slots in your hotbar
- place 2 iron ingots, activated sigil, 2 diamonds in crafting table
- Shift click the Unstable ingots
- use the number keys to quickly place everything into (and out of) crafting grid
- quickly take the sword out
Cursed Earth can be mined with silk touch but is kinda useless in peaceful mode. Cursed Earth can (slowly) spread to blocks next to it and can be used later for thaumcraft since it does have some aspects. Also, keep it in darkness because it will burn on light.
I originally wanted to include in my post but since its gated behind thaumcraft research, I decided to not to. Yes, it can be used to create Bound Blade from Blood Magic which is unbreakable.
It's been modified to be used in crafting only. Like most of the tools it has this in tooltip:
Used for Crafting Only!
Durability 1/1
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The steam mechanic has been replaced with a 5x5x5 reactor structure using the pressure vessel blocks to make a reactor that's cooled directly using liquid coolant. The i was there just to tell you that you'd built the structure right but the GUI changes to add tanks at the side anyway.
Yes, why wouldn't it work? I just activated one in testmap (creative, flat desert, 5x5 dirt, enchanting table in middle with redstone dust around, midnight, no lights around it, spawned chicken right next to "altar", killed it, lighting, dirt became cursed earth, my sigil is activated).
The second ritual won't work in peaceful. Because after sacrifice, siege will start an you have to kill 100 hostile mobs (bow kill doesn't count and neither do neutral mobs).
Second ritual stabilize Division sigil and upgrades it into Pseudo-Inversion Sigil. With it, you can craft Mobius "Stable/Unstable" Ingots. They won't blow up, can be used in TiCo to create unbreakable tools *1 and lastly, they create "OP" version of tools *2.
TL;DR: You can activate Division Sigil in peaceful but you can't stabilize it
Unless there is some glitch or exploit that would allow you to get the Pseudo-Inversion Sigil or Mobius ingots without doing the ritual, you have to cheat them.
*1 Unstable Induced parts / tools. After pouring molten Mobius "Stable/Unstable" Ingot into part cast, you have 10 seconds to create the tool otherwise it will denature and you will have to put it into smeltery to melt it down again. Beware that denatured parts will give only half what the cost. i.e. Pickaxe head cost 144mb (1 ingot) of molten Unstable ingot, denatured part will give you only 72mb back.
*2 Pickaxe, Shovel, Axe will have Efficiency X, Precision Shears will get Unbreaking X, instead of Builder wand you'll get Super Builder's wand and instead of Etheric Sword you'll get Kikoku.
However, you still need Etheric Sword to get Soul Fragment if you want to create Reinforced Watering Can to use it in Autonomous Activator.
There is Soul Fragment which tooltip says "Soul of forgotten deity". It's used to get your hearth back. Its a mob drop (not sure if any or hostile only) and it's drop rate is about 1 in 43 million. Using Kikoku increases your chance to 1 in 4.3 million. Unless you change it in config, this is the only way to get your hearts back.
*2 Pickaxe, Shovel, Axe will have Efficiency X, Precision Shears will get Unbreaking X, instead of Builder wand you'll get Super Builder's wand and instead of Etheric Sword you'll get Kikoku.
However, you still need Etheric Sword to get Soul Fragment if you want to create Reinforced Watering Can to use it in Autonomous Activator.
There is Soul Fragment which tooltip says "Soul of forgotten deity". It's used to get your hearth back. Its a mob drop (not sure if any or hostile only) and it's drop rate is about 1 in 43 million. Using Kikoku increases your chance to 1 in 4.3 million. Unless you change it in config, this is the only way to get your hearts back.
Botania just updated with the following phrase: "And what do we say to the new Botania update?".
My answer: "Not today".
I think the author didn't know about THAT Game of Thrones reference.
My answer: "Not today".
I think the author didn't know about THAT Game of Thrones reference.
This game can be such a mess sometimes. For instance, my processing setup in Infinity Evolved uses the Thermal Expansion machines... so I prefer all materials to be Thermal Expansion varieties which helps make my Item Filters easier.
But no. I finally discovered that somewhere along the way, Thermal Expansion achieved the capability of pulverizing/smelting the Aluminum Ore from Tinker's Construct (you know, that ore you end up with a million blocks of, and no use for?)... Aluminum used to be the only ore I wouldn't process since you had to use a Tinker's Smeltery to do so... anyhow, I put the Aluminum Ore in the Thermal Expansion Pulverizer, and I discover that it has a secondary by-product of Tin Dust... except the Tin Dust that comes out of the Thermal Expansion Pulverizer is the IC2 version and NOT the Thermal Expansion version.
That's why I say this game is a total mess. Now I have to filter for both Thermal Expansion's "Pulverized Tin" and IC2's "Tin Dust". Why in the &^#$ does a Thermal Machine emit an IC2 raw material. WHY???
Do you know Infinity Evolved has the following different Copper Ores? Foresty. Industrial Craft 2. Immersive Engineering. Project Red Expansion. Railcraft. Tinker's Construct. Thermal Foundation. WHY DO WE NEED SO MANY DIFFERENT VERSIONS OF THE SAME THING?
Someone really needs to fix this. The whole "Ore Dictionary" thing isn't working very well. It's a total mess. At least they didn't put all 7 different copper ores in the ground. Most of them are only shown in NEI. There should be some kind of "Master List" of ores that aren't in vanilla Minecraft (such as copper and tin) and all mods should use that version.
Oh, and while I'm on the subject... a huge thumbs-up to the Storage Drawers mod, which has a built-in "Unifier". BRILLIANT! I know I can make a Rube Goldberg-esque contraption using Storage Drawers to unify my Tin Dust problem... but come on mod designers. Can you PLEASE get together and resolve this madness once and for all? Why do we need 7 mods with 7 different ores that are actually all the same damn thing? And every mod with their own version of the pulverized ores... sigh
I'm sure this topic has been well-discussed by mod designers, but I just want to say it's still a total FAIL despite all of that discussion.
Edit: After much thought and deliberation (about 5 minutes worth lol), I've arrived at 2 solutions. One, don't process the Aluminum Ores. Even in Infinity Evolved Expert Mode, Aluminum isn't really not utilized outside of Tinker's and Immersive, and even in those 2 mods it's barely utilized. Two (and this is my preferred solution), break the chain between TE Pulverizer and TE Redstone Furnace, send all dusts back into my Storage Drawer wall (where they will be unified) and then pull all dusts out separately for processing in the Furnace.
But no. I finally discovered that somewhere along the way, Thermal Expansion achieved the capability of pulverizing/smelting the Aluminum Ore from Tinker's Construct (you know, that ore you end up with a million blocks of, and no use for?)... Aluminum used to be the only ore I wouldn't process since you had to use a Tinker's Smeltery to do so... anyhow, I put the Aluminum Ore in the Thermal Expansion Pulverizer, and I discover that it has a secondary by-product of Tin Dust... except the Tin Dust that comes out of the Thermal Expansion Pulverizer is the IC2 version and NOT the Thermal Expansion version.
That's why I say this game is a total mess. Now I have to filter for both Thermal Expansion's "Pulverized Tin" and IC2's "Tin Dust". Why in the &^#$ does a Thermal Machine emit an IC2 raw material. WHY???
Do you know Infinity Evolved has the following different Copper Ores? Foresty. Industrial Craft 2. Immersive Engineering. Project Red Expansion. Railcraft. Tinker's Construct. Thermal Foundation. WHY DO WE NEED SO MANY DIFFERENT VERSIONS OF THE SAME THING?
Someone really needs to fix this. The whole "Ore Dictionary" thing isn't working very well. It's a total mess. At least they didn't put all 7 different copper ores in the ground. Most of them are only shown in NEI. There should be some kind of "Master List" of ores that aren't in vanilla Minecraft (such as copper and tin) and all mods should use that version.
Oh, and while I'm on the subject... a huge thumbs-up to the Storage Drawers mod, which has a built-in "Unifier". BRILLIANT! I know I can make a Rube Goldberg-esque contraption using Storage Drawers to unify my Tin Dust problem... but come on mod designers. Can you PLEASE get together and resolve this madness once and for all? Why do we need 7 mods with 7 different ores that are actually all the same damn thing? And every mod with their own version of the pulverized ores... sigh
I'm sure this topic has been well-discussed by mod designers, but I just want to say it's still a total FAIL despite all of that discussion.
Edit: After much thought and deliberation (about 5 minutes worth lol), I've arrived at 2 solutions. One, don't process the Aluminum Ores. Even in Infinity Evolved Expert Mode, Aluminum isn't really not utilized outside of Tinker's and Immersive, and even in those 2 mods it's barely utilized. Two (and this is my preferred solution), break the chain between TE Pulverizer and TE Redstone Furnace, send all dusts back into my Storage Drawer wall (where they will be unified) and then pull all dusts out separately for processing in the Furnace.
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