Forestry 2: a PSA on Milk Engines

[Icarus White]

Just a quick notice to those of you who might not read the wiki as often as I apparently do:

Biogas engines running on milk will now 'burn' lava constantly, much like a biogas engine running on water would. The milk will still last as long as before, though. See:

http://forestry.sengir.net/wiki.new/doku.php?id=energy:bronze

 

[MagusUnion]

About time he fixed that.. it really became a severe exploit after awhile, even with vanilla mechanics...

I think that's also part of the reason that BC:IC power conversion was shoved out of the meta-game (along with an obsolete standard).. Been working off the 4 EU : 3 MJ model for awhile now...

Wonder how many cow farms this kills, lol...

 

[RavynousHunter]

About time he fixed that.. it really became a severe exploit after awhile, even with vanilla mechanics...

I think that's also part of the reason that BC:IC power conversion was shoved out of the meta-game (along with an obsolete standard).. Been working off the 4 EU : 3 MJ model for awhile now...

Wonder how many cow farms this kills, lol...

Only the ones of those who do not possess an active lava solution.

 

[Abdiel]

Assuming milk is free, where does a bucket of lava get you more MJ? In a biogas or in a magmatic engine?

 

[RavynousHunter]

Milk in Biogas engine nets you 1 MJ/t for 40,000 ticks, or 40,000 MJ total, per milk bucket, with constant lava consumption. A magmatic engine nets you up to 4 MJ/t for 4,800 ticks, or 18,000 MJ per bucket of lava.

So, milk in a Biogas engine technically gives you more MJ in total, but it spreads it out over nearly 10x the time it takes a magmatic engine to run thru a bucket of lava. So, it really depends on what your energy needs are: do you need a slow-burning, but low-yield fuel source? Or, do you need a higher-yield fuel source that requires less maintenance, but burns thru fuel faster?

(All fuel values taken from the Forestry wiki and the Thermal Expansion wiki.)

 

[Hydra]

But how much lava does the milk engine consume? Since it's the lava that's less easy to renew.

 

[MagusUnion]

But how much lava does the milk engine consume? Since it's the lava that's less easy to renew.

Depends on how much UU-Matter you spend on Glowstone and how much SoulSand you consume on a frequent basis...

Speaking of which... "Suggestion: UU-Matter recipe for Soul Sand"

 

[Grydian2]

I am not sure how much but its a lot. The lava goes away a lot faster then the milk does.

 

[KaosK]

My Tests show that it takes around 3,380 mB Lava to burn through a bucket of milk (not including the lava to heat up the engine). So considering that milk is not hard to come by, then one bucket of lava produces ~11834 MJ over ~11834 Ticks.

 

[Hydra]

So there really is no point in 'burning' milk anymore other than the set the engine to 1MJ/t.

 

[Grydian2]

especially considering one bucket of lava = 18000 MJs in a magmatic engine from thermal expansion