Best material to make a singularity with ME condenser?

[McJty]

Hi all. I'm trying to make two singularities for linking two distant ME networks. I'm currently crafting (with AE autocrafting) lots of stone slabs because with 3 smoothstone I can get 6 stone slabs which means more items that I can feed into the condenser. But are there other easy to automate recepies that one can use to generate more items out of a single block. I know that with the microblocks saw one can create tons of microblocks out of a single block but that's time consuming to do for about half a million blocks (to make two singularities, about 256000 blocks per singularity). Any other ideas?

 

[netmc]

Anything you can produce a lot of. Many people just use a cobble gen to feed it. Some feed their farm output. You could always set up a mfr tree farm to shear leaves. That will produce loss of blocks in a short amount of time.

 

[McJty]

Anything you can produce a lot of. Many people just use a cobble gen to feed it. Some feed their farm output. You could always set up a mfr tree farm to shear leaves. That will produce loss of blocks in a short amount of time.

Yes, I have 350K of smoothstone (from a borer machine) but I'm talking mostly of trying to get more items out of a single item (like making the slabs that I'm doing now) or using microblocks to get more value for your buck as it were

 

[rhn]

Yeah leaf blocks from an MFR farm(coupled with MFR fertilizer or other "bonemealing" means) or perhaps a melon farm(each melon drops many slices).

 

[null123]

Most bang for your buck: (without microblocks, beyond slabs) An mfr treefarm set to shear leaves. You can toss in the leaves, turn the logs into planks (bonus points for using a saw mill), and then those into slabs. Then again, a cobble gen may produce stone faster than the treefarm...

 

[Ieldra]

Producing cobblestone with an Igneous Extruder costs no energy whatsoever. Just set up a dozen of them. I think this is the most resource-efficient way to get the required items for the singularities. I propose not to store that much cobblestone in your ME system. Either use it or compress it. If you're going to craft the cobble into more items, use non-AE mechanisms. AE autocrafting costs energy.

 

[malicious_bloke]

Igneous extruders, massively upgraded JABBA barrels, job done.

 

[Ieldra]

No barrels. If necessary, I'll be using a set of Factorization packagers to compress the cobble for easier storage. 300k cobble end up as....five blocks of "quintuple compressed cobblestone".

 

[Dezz]

How about sticks?

 

[Padfoote]

So from what I understand of the OP, you want to connect two networks with a quantum link. Which means you only need to get a single singularity, rather than two since you convert a singularity into two entangled singularities. So a quarter of a million items instead of half a million. Hopefully that helps.

 

[McJty]

So from what I understand of the OP, you want to connect two networks with a quantum link. Which means you only need to get a single singularity, rather than two since you convert a singularity into two entangled singularities. So a quarter of a million items instead of half a million. Hopefully that helps.

Oh, I didn't know that! That's good to know. In any case in the future I'm probably going to want to expand my network even further so a second singularity wouldn't hurt.

 

[Strikingwolf]

you could skip the singularity and use LP to connect your networks although you would not be able to access AE crafting

 

[Wekmor]

I'd go for the wood log to sticks if you want the most amout of items per item

 

[Omegatron]

Extra utilities transfer nodes make a really fast cobble generator if you upgrade them fully with mining upgrades, though that does make them quite expensive.

 

[No one]

I challenge anyone to make singularities out of quintuple compressed cobblestone.

 

[epidemia78]

Dont you get a lot of scaffolding for practically nothing? I havent made singularities yet but Id go to the twilight forest or jungle with a lumber axe, bring back tons of wood. Feed it to a sawmill and make lots of them.