Copper and Tin

[ThyMrMan]

While working I have noticed that I am running very low on Tin and Copper, yet have acquired a very large amount of lapis, redstone, silver and diamond. So is there a way using some mod to convert these materials to copper and tin?

 

[Omicron]

Depending on what mod spawns copper and tin, you might simply not find any because you're mining in the wrong places.

"lapis, redstone, silver and diamond" sounds exactly like a branch mine at y=12. However, IC2 or Thermal Expansion will not spawn copper or tin in those depths at all. You could branch mine forever and not get a single piece of ore.

Try a bit further up.

 

[RibShark]

The problem lies in the ore gen. It uses the forestry tin/copper gen rather than the IC2 tin/copper gen (the IC2 tin/copper gen provides more tin/copper).

What I did to fix this is go into my FTBBETAA\minecraft\config directory, then edit IC2.cfg, changing

enableWorldGenOreCopper

and

enableWorldGenOreTin

to true. Then I went into the FTBBETAA\minecraft\config\forestry directory, opened base.conf, and changed

world.generate.copper {
  general=true
}

to false and

world.generate.tin {
  general=true
}

to false.

This fixed it for me. (You will have to mine in a chunk you haven't visited yet in order to see this change.)

 

[ThyMrMan]

What levels do they spawn at, guess I will have to reset my turtles.

 

[Zjarek_S]

I don't know exact values, but IC2 copper tend to spawn quite high (I'd say 30 and up), and tin is found on lower layers (similar to gold, but more common).

 

[ThyMrMan]

Oh I've had plenty of quarry's, they just take so long to get to the right layers and I need to keep an eye on them so that I can refill the fuel.

 

[Vovk]

if you don't care about coal so much (running magic world for instance) you could pipe any coal the quarry finds into a 12L solid boiler to power the thing off 2 commercial engines. a 64x64 quarry usually finds enough coal to sustain itself Works like a charm

alternately hook it up to a peat bog.