Fastest Quarry?

[Dragonchampion]

So, with the recent changes to the quarry, I hear that it can take up to 100mj/t. The question is, if I was to place a redstone energy cell next to it, will it use up all of the energy? I am going to try to place a quarry over a max-size Hollow Hill in the Twilight Forest, you see, and was wondering if 60 million MJ was enough for it to mine everything at 100mj/t?

Essentially, what's the best and fastest method to run a quarry?

 

[Dragonchampion]

Really? Well damn... that sucks.

 

[Silent]

Run at 25MJ, the increases after that are negligible

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[Lambert2191]

max is 48mjt

 

[MilConDoin]

60 million MJ? Do you have 100 filled cells laying[sp?] around?

 

[Dragonchampion]

Aren't redstone cells 60 million? I only got a sideways glance at them, haha.

 

[eculc]

no, Redstone cells are only 600k MJ. 60 million would be 100 of those.

 

[Dragonchampion]

Still, how long do they last to power a quarry fully? Will one be enough for what I want?

 

[MilConDoin]

Back in FTB Beta (1.4.2), one cell set to 10 MJ/t powered a default quarry (9x9) started at sea level with a little bit to spare. I think the cells back then had only 500k, so one cell will now probably power a 10x10 quarry to the ground.
If you want to go faster than that: Someone else mentioned that they lose efficiency above 7 MJ/t, so at max speed of 50(?) it could be, that they won't reach bedrock.

Go creative and test it

 

[Dragonchampion]

what about a 64x64 sized quarry that only has to remove around 30-40 layers?

 

[Vtecem]

what about a 64x64 sized quarry that only has to remove around 30-40 layers?

You're going to need to recharge that cell several times. The quarry running at top speed (48mj) will run through that cell very quick. You'll probably get through 4 layers on a 64x64 give or take.

 

[Hitmaniac]

I actually have some experience with this. In my world I have a 64x64 Quarry and I switch between two redstone cells. While one is charging the quarry, the other one is being charged at my base. When the Cell is outputting 50 MJ/t, the Quarry will shave off maybe 2-3 layers. Expect a lot of trips unless you automate it somehow.

 

[Toraxa]

Tessaracts might be useful to you. They cost you 25% of the power they transfer, but it allows you to connect remote quarry systems to your power grid.

 

[Bickers]

Tessaracts might be useful to you. They cost you 25% of the power they transfer, but it allows you to connect remote quarry systems to your power grid.

with the 25% loss your better off sending the fuel/biomass over bit harder to set it up but 0 loss

 

[Dragonchampion]

yes, I know of the power tesseracts, but... what if I am going to set up things in the Twilight Forest? Isn't a Tesseract better because I can reduce the losses if the chunks DO disappear? Having a full Boiler Setup in the Twilight FOrest sounds like a rather bad idea...

 

[Bickers]

yes, I know of the power tesseracts, but... what if I am going to set up things in the Twilight Forest? Isn't a Tesseract better because I can reduce the losses if the chunks DO disappear? Having a full Boiler Setup in the Twilight FOrest sounds like a rather bad idea...

i wouldnt set a quarry up in twilight forest its known for causeing chunk resets

 

[abculatter_2]

with the 25% loss your better off sending the fuel/biomass over bit harder to set it up but 0 loss

Another option is to use a bunch of hobbyist's engines running off of charcoal. I personally just set up a quarry on a server I play on, placed 3 engines around 1 aqueous accumulator, with a hopper on top of each, then filled each of them with 5 stacks of charcoal. This has been running for over a day, and it still has over a stack of charcoal left to go.
I don't know what it's set to, nor how deep it is so far, but it should be around 48x48, and has so far net me more iron and copper and tin then I know what to do with.

 

[Chre903]

Last time i used my Quarry in the Twilight Forest, nothing Special happened (I Burnd half of the Biome down because i was bored, but this doesn't count). But i think i don't press my Luck again, when everyone i saying that :O

I had a Endless making Biomass Energy System and 6 free Redstone Cells and i set them all up at the same Time whit max Output. The Quarry was only around 20-30 Blocks but I only needed to recharge them one Time.
(I didn't done it for the Diamonds, believe me ore not, i needed Dirt!)

 

[WitherSauce]

Here is another idea. Get a fuel production setup that creates renewable mj fuel such as biofuel/ methane/ blaze rods/ lava. Dump these into solid/ liquid HP boiler. Run liquiduct pipes from the boiler to a liquid tesseract input. The liquid tesseract has no loss, unlike the energy tesseract. Connect the liquiduct pipes to as many sides of the tesseract to increase input. Make a second liquid tesseract for output. Place the output tesseract close to quarries. Run liquiduct pipes from output tesseract to 18 industrial steam engines. These industrial steam engines are connect to redstone energy conduit pipes, which connect to the quarries. Use redstone alloy wire system for switching engines on/ off.

1 HP boiler produces enough steam for 18 industrial steam engines. 18 industrial steam which each produce 8MJ apiece, is 144MJ. This will make one 64x64 quarry go really fast, even 4 64x64 quarries are fast with this, and its not so hard to set up another HP boiler power system if you want even more MJ.

Takes quite a bit of steel though.

However, if youve got the resources to spare, you can risk it in the twilight. This setup is also great for the standard world as well.

A bunch of advanced solar panels with electrical engines works well as well. 8x advanced and 1x hybrid is enough for a fast 64x64. Hook them up to an mfsu, and the quarry should last the night.

 

[Toraxa]

with the 25% loss your better off sending the fuel/biomass over bit harder to set it up but 0 loss

Well, the reason I use them is because I have a setup at home that produces enough power to make it irrelevant to me. It'd take more resources and burn more fuel to set up a whole remote power generation system next to the quarry than it would to just send power via tesseract from my much more efficient main power station.

You could always use wrench turtles to transport cells through ender chests. Direwolf did this in one of his let's play episodes, and you could find the LUA code for it there.