Getting the GraviChestPlate - The Road to Success

[Zerro]

Greetings,

So I think it's about time I upgraded from Lappack protection to the GraviSuite. From what I've read, it's a combination of the Quantum Suit Armor, Ultimate Lappack, & Jetpack if I understood correctly. Pretty much the endgame gear. Of course EndGame stuff is usually expensive.

Now I'm just wondering as to what preparations I will need to make in order to obtain this goal? I have alot of resources, though I am lacking on copper and those dense copper plates are expensive. Then there is the UU-Matter. I haven't calculated yet but I'm assuming I'm going to need a lot of UU-Matter. Right now I'm finishing up the Ultimate Lappack and I'm still waiting on UU-Matter to finish processing.

My setup:
15 Geothermal Generators
2 LV Solar Panels
1 Nuclear Reactor
2 MFSUs
1 Recycler
1 Mass Fabricator

I'm wondering if I need more generators because I know that Nuclear Reactor will run out eventually. I'm good on lava but I don't think 15 generators are enough to maintain the production of UU-Matter. I'm also wondering if I should get more Recyclers and Mass Fabs since I have SO MUCH OAK & RUBBERWOOD that I need to get rid of; Might as well Recycle it

So any tips on out to get this project completed more quickly and efficiently? Also I haven't made the Quantum Armor yet since normally I wear the Lappack or Jetpack so I will need more UU-Matter for that. Also I don't want to 'cheat' by using Dense Ore ages to farm my ores; I'd rather do this legit otherwise I might as well just pull the armor out of NEI.



Thanks

Zerro0713

 

[Zerro]

pack a, direpack or mindcrack?

Direwolf v4

 

[MavericK96]

Well, the Mass Fabricator basically just runs faster the more power you give it. You can run it just fine on 5 Geothermals, but it'll take longer to produce UU-Matter.

I got the GraviChestPlate without too much trouble, just requires a lot of copper and tin, as well as the Iridium stuff of course. I mainly ran a full-speed BC Quarry pumping all cobble/dirt/sand/gravel into a recycler with 5 OC upgrades, which then pumps directly into a Mass Fabricator. I have UU-Matter coming out the wing-wang...something like 2500 excess or something. I just automated everything and let it run overnight a few times.

Coupled with the Ultimate Solar Helmet (if you add in Advanced Solars) you basically have unlimited flight without ever really having to recharge it manually.

TBH, the most tedious part of making the GraviChestPlate was actually making all the nested crafting recipes, which takes forever even if you have all the resources.

 

[Zerro]

I noticed when I was running the Mass Fab and the Recycler (4 OCs) on just the 15 Geothermal Generators and 2 LV Solars, I was losing EU in the MFSU so if I were to leave both machines on, eventually my MFSU would run dry.

I finally found a use for all that excess would that I was producing from my 4 tree farms -> Recycler

I did some calculations on excel and my shopping list for this project is below (This includes making Nano Armor & Quantum Armor. I do not need the Ultimate Lappack since I already made it):

Now I knew I was going to need a lot of copper and UU-Matter but that tin is just INSANE! The majority of the tin is needed for the 60k Cells. So I think the only items that I still need for the project is all the tin, copper and UU-Matter

 

[tunnen]

I'm not sure which way you calculated the cooling cells, but the initial ones (10k?) can be made using glass bottles or other containers with water (At least in the Direwolf20 pack). Saves you a bit of tin rather then using tin cells to make the 10k cells.

 

[Zerro]

I'm not sure which way you calculated the cooling cells, but the initial ones (10k?) can be made using glass bottles or other containers with water (At least in the Direwolf20 pack). Saves you a bit of tin rather then using tin cells to make the 10k cells.

Oh that'll definately help out. I used tin just for the cans since they stack unlike buckets *grrr*

 

[Evil Hamster]

Building this drained my tin supply in no time, I had to set up a trio of industrial centrifuges spinning lava to make myself some tin and copper.

 

[MavericK96]

The biggest pain is that you need a bunch of those reactor parts that, for whatever obnoxious reason, don't stack.

 

[Evil Hamster]

A tip: there's a traincraft special crafting table that can turn 4 coal into 4 coal dust. You can save a LOT of time that way...

 

[Zerro]

I have more than enough coal thanks to Fortune 3. Changing tin cans to bottles only cut the amount of tin by 96. I think I might finally build a quarry and throw it into a MystCraft normal age and hopefully get lucky with ores

 

[Rakankrad]

A tip: there's a traincraft special crafting table that can turn 4 coal into 4 coal dust. You can save a LOT of time that way...

He mentioned he's on dw20 pack, no traincraft for him.

 

[Evil Hamster]

He mentioned he's on dw20 pack, no traincraft for him.

So easy to forget what mod in what pack!

Also, Zerro, it's not about saving coal, it saves time macerating/pulverizing..

 

[NTaylor]

I have more than enough coal thanks to Fortune 3. Changing tin cans to bottles only cut the amount of tin by 96. I think I might finally build a quarry and throw it into a MystCraft normal age and hopefully get lucky with ores

Personally the last time I made a gravi suit I threw all my resources into EU generation literally running about 80 geothermals being given fuel from about 9 separate nether pumps that was getting stacks and stacks of UU matter and then you can pretty much convert UU matter into whatever you need for the rest of the build for instance you can convert 3 UU into 10 copper dust or 3 into 10 tin dust while it would bump your UU cost up a lot it is a lot easier to build a medium sized tunnel bore near bedrock and pump all the dirt, cobble and gravel into a recycler with 15 (I think that is what I had it up to before it could not get power fast enough from my MFSUs) overclockers to create scrap and only use UU for at the very least copper.

 

[tunnen]

A reduction of 96 tin from 969 is a 10% reduction... That's better than 0% =P

I had a tin issue, but after I started up some quarries in a Mystcraft Age, that problem started to disappear. Oddly enough, I'm having more of an iron shortage, though likely has to do with all the iron tanks and wrathlamps I've been making.

As far as the non stackable nuclear reactor components, I think that is due to them having a damage value component, though other mods seem to allow stacking of empty batteries and such, so not quite sure.

 

[Evil Hamster]

Oddly enough, I'm having more of an iron shortage, though likely has to do with all the iron tanks and wrathlamps I've been making.

You're sounding like a politician there.

There's no an iron shortage, it's that you're spending too much! (BTW, I'm in the same boat as you there lol)

 

[Zerro]

Personally the last time I made a gravi suit I threw all my resources into EU generation literally running about 80 geothermals being given fuel from about 9 separate nether pumps that was getting stacks and stacks of UU matter and then you can pretty much convert UU matter into whatever you need for the rest of the build for instance you can convert 3 UU into 10 copper dust or 3 into 10 tin dust while it would bump your UU cost up a lot it is a lot easier to build a medium sized tunnel bore near bedrock and pump all the dirt, cobble and gravel into a recycler with 15 (I think that is what I had it up to before it could not get power fast enough from my MFSUs) overclockers to create scrap and only use UU for at the very least copper.

That was another consideration. Before I found out about the Gravisuit, I was planning on running the nuclear reactor non-stop, creating UU-Matter, and converting the UU-Matter to copper to restock the quad-uranium cells and using any excess UU-Matter to craft other stuff.

A reduction of 96 tin from 969 is a 10% reduction... That's better than 0% =P

I had a tin issue, but after I started up some quarries in a Mystcraft Age, that problem started to disappear. Oddly enough, I'm having more of an iron shortage, though likely has to do with all the iron tanks and wrathlamps I've been making.

As far as the non stackable nuclear reactor components, I think that is due to them having a damage value component, though other mods seem to allow stacking of empty batteries and such, so not quite sure.

Usually I have a lot of iron but I was running low after creating my LP boiler, Commercial steam engines, 5x5x5 tanks and other miscellaneous stuff that requires iron.

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I wonder if building another Mass Fab and more recyclers would speed up the process. Then again it'll probably create more lag like this morning which dropped my frames down to 5fps and kept kicking me off

 

[tunnen]

I'm not spending too much! I'm just not receiving enough to fulfill my demand! We need more quarries!!! And screw the EPA, I'm going to start open pit mining the entire Mystcraft age down to bedrock! =P

 

[NTaylor]

I'm not spending too much! I'm just not receiving enough to fulfill my demand! We need more quarries!!! And screw the EPA, I'm going to start open pit mining the entire Mystcraft age down to bedrock! =P

Personally I am a fan of the 100x100 tunnel bore method for mining out an age also screw the environment and run 25 nuclear reactors non stop to run the processing plant.

 

[Sara Dr In te House]

Personally I am a fan of the 100x100 tunnel bore method for mining out an age also screw the environment and run 25 nuclear reactors non stop to run the processing plant.

I have a "tunnel bore" if you want to call it that. I have a 9x89 tbm on a mystcraft world. Nice thing is the age have a smooth bedrock bottom on lvl 1. It is a flat age that starts on 89. I call it the Earth Rapinator 6000XLT. I had to modify my server config file to allow machine to move as it is approx 1600 blocks for the mining head. The default config will only allow 1000 frames to be moved by a frame motor.

 

[NTaylor]

I have a "tunnel bore" if you want to call it that. I have a 9x89 tbm on a mystcraft world. Nice thing is the age have a smooth bedrock bottom on lvl 1. It is a flat age that starts on 89. I call it the Earth Rapinator 6000XLT. I had to modify my server config file to allow machine to move as it is approx 1600 blocks for the mining head. The default config will only allow 1000 frames to be moved by a frame motor.

Normally if I have to do that I simply build two one on top of the other and link em on the same wireless redstone frequency.