You can make it semi-automatic quite cheaply. Here is my trial netherwart farm in building (for GT methane): http://imgur.com/a/GgE0i (transposers below are collecting nether wart). Basically you are planting by using seed bags in deployer. You will need replenish seedbags eventually but one deployer full of full seedbags will be enough for 216 cycles. Just add a timer calibrated to flax growth rate and you are good to go. Of course you can always make small autofarm using bonemeal.
favorite buildcraft starting power source?
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You can make it semi-automatic quite cheaply. Here is my trial netherwart farm in building (for GT methane): http://imgur.com/a/GgE0i (transposers below are collecting nether wart). Basically you are planting by using seed bags in deployer. You will need replenish seedbags eventually but one deployer full of full seedbags will be enough for 216 cycles. Just add a timer calibrated to flax growth rate and you are good to go. Of course you can always make small autofarm using bonemeal.
You may well be correct as I didn't do extensive testing. But when I looked into it a month or 2 ago 4 combustion engines using x1 aqueous accumulator worked fine until said engines reached optimal output. At that point they evaporated more water than was being produced and eventually overheating occured leading to the inevetable bang.
As far as Steve's Very First Engine... it's probably either a Hobbyist or a TE Steam Engine. Two or three of them is enough to get your initial ore refinery going.
However, once you get a tree farm up and running, biogas engines are the next step, followed by biofuel-powered steam boilers for end-game BC power generation.
However, once you get a tree farm up and running, biogas engines are the next step, followed by biofuel-powered steam boilers for end-game BC power generation.
Are boilers actually still the way to go now? Especially with tesseracts entering the mix, it makes magmatics still pretty attractive as far as I can tell. Or is this more a game of "100% renewability with no dimensional folds?"
Dependson what you're looking for. I like boilers for the cool factor. I'm also envisioning a tesseract-fed biofuel tank at every outpost feeding a liquid-fueled boiler. Or at least some combustion engines.
One boiler can produce 144 MJ/t. I can use Tesseracts to pump steam all over the place for power on location. Industrial Steam Engines have twice the MJ output a Magmatic has.
There's something wrong about fourth-dimensional steam piping. Or right. I have family that used to work in my local college's steam heating plant, they would have loved another dimension to run pipes through.
Was that added in this update? I thought I tried them before and they didn't do flax.
Oh ok, cool. I like combustion engines, allthough now with all the alternatives they are no longer first choice.
I will give it another shot. Just one thing I should have said origionally, It took some time before the engines began to evaporate their water. Not sure how long you ran the test for but anyway, you've given me reason enough to go back and take a second alook.
Or at the very least not rule them out completely.
Thx for taking the trouble btw.
engines start evaporating water at green heat, I'm not sure when that threshold is, but the max temp is 4900.6C. They do not get hotter unless they backup because of too much energy in a directly connected machine. Then you're in trouble and you might run out of water.