Good grief... block of iron = circular recipe hell?

[Someguy]

Ok so assuming I'm not missing something obvious...

the vanilla recipe for the "Block of Iron" is gone. I'm trying to make an anvil, and so I need 3 blocks of iron, and so I need... wtf... all these sub blocks from Redpower 2. Now, try following the trail to figure out where to start to get the bloody pieces that will add up to "Block of Iron".

I keep ending up at needing a block of iron! Halp! What am I missing?

 

[SilvasRuin]

Throw nine Iron Ingots into the IC2 Compressor.

 

[OmegaPython]

This is Gregtech messing with the game. If you don't like the new metal block recipes they can be disabled in the Gregtech config.

 

[Someguy]

@SilvasRuin: Yeah but I haven't started with any IC2 machinery. I know I could, but I was going a different route.

@OmegaPython: Thanks... I think I'm understanding why some people are annoyed by GregTech...

In any case, that still doesn't explain why the recipe hints are all circular. Try it for yourself... try figuring out from scratch what you need for a simple block of iron. Quite a headscratcher.

 

[danidas]

Gregtech disables all the default minecraft storage blocks and forces you to use the ic2 compressor to make them as well as using a macerator to uncompress them. Thankfully their is a setting in the gregtech configs to disable it like most of the other changes gregtech does.

As for the circle that is due to redpower and its micro block system, if you use the top arrows it should cycle to the ic2/gregtech recipes.

 

[SilvasRuin]

In any case, that still doesn't explain why the recipe hints are all circular. Try it for yourself... try figuring out from scratch what you need for a simple block of iron. Quite a headscratcher.

That would be because Redpower allows you to reverse the Microblock crafting recipes, so it results in the recipes going both ways as well as all the various sizes of microblocks in-between.

 

[Enigmius1]

@SilvasRuin: Yeah but I haven't started with any IC2 machinery. I know I could, but I was going a different route.

@OmegaPython: Thanks... I think I'm understanding why some people are annoyed by GregTech...

In any case, that still doesn't explain why the recipe hints are all circular. Try it for yourself... try figuring out from scratch what you need for a simple block of iron. Quite a headscratcher.

They're not circular. You're trying to make an iron block from iron ingots. There's one way to do that when you have Gregtech enabled and the vanilla way to do it when GregTech is not enabled. Once you have that iron block you can cut it into microblocks. You can always convert microblocks back to their full block by combining them in sufficient quantities in a crafting grid. NEI isn't telling you that if you want to make an iron block from scratch that you need to start with microblocks. It's telling you that if you have microblocks you can convert them back to blocks, and there's a difference in context between the two.

 

[OmegaPython]

Enigmius, I don't think that was the problem. I think he was simply pointing out what the circular recipe the OP was seeing is.

 

[Enigmius1]

Enigmius, I don't think that was the problem. I think he was simply pointing out what the circular recipe the OP was seeing is.

"In any case, that still doesn't explain why the recipe hints are all circular."

So I explained it.

 

[Someguy]

Yeah... so after another dance of "hmm... I need titanium dust to make titanium ingots... ok that makes sense, where do I get titanium dust? Why, from macerating titanium ingots of course...", I've gone and disabled everything I could in the Gregtech config. I'm officially anti-Gregtech now.

I was kind of looking forward to the extra challenge that I'd read about, but it's just plain annoying more than anything else, IMO.

 

[BanzaiBlitz]

Industrial Centrifuge and Industrial Electrolyzer will produce a lot of different things.

If you don't want any of the GT stuff though, just disable it entirely next time you launch the FTB launcher. You only have to do it once and it's settled for you. It isn't for everyone, so no worries.

 

[Zaik]

Maybe i'm looking at it wrong, but I just put "block of iron" in recipe mode NEI and the third tab to the right was 9 ingots in a compressor. No circular anything, it was right there.

 

[Rakankrad]

The problem I'm thinking you're having atm is that the Mindcrack pack doesn't have the NEI plugins that show you the Gregtech recipes (for the industrial centrifuge and industrial blast furnace).

 

[MilConDoin]

The plugin for the rolling machine (Railcraft) seems also to be missing. Mixed Metal Ingots don't have a recipe in NEI currently.

 

[heavy1metal]

Once you've clicked something to learn the recipe, you should be provided with arrows to scroll left and right. Both at the top and bottom of NEI. The top cycles through the a specific mod and the recipes it has. So page 1 could be redpower, page 2 IC2, page 3 BC3 etc...

The bottom scroll is to scroll through the various ways to make said item within that mod.

tl;dr - you only click an object once, and then scroll until you find the recipe you're looking for. Only click once.

Yeah... so after another dance of "hmm... I need titanium dust to make titanium ingots... ok that makes sense, where do I get titanium dust? Why, from macerating titanium ingots of course...", I've gone and disabled everything I could in the Gregtech config. I'm officially anti-Gregtech now.

I was kind of looking forward to the extra challenge that I'd read about, but it's just plain annoying more than anything else, IMO.

 

[The Wabbit]

Yeah... so after another dance of "hmm... I need titanium dust to make titanium ingots... ok that makes sense, where do I get titanium dust? Why, from macerating titanium ingots of course...", I've gone and disabled everything I could in the Gregtech config. I'm officially anti-Gregtech now.

I was kind of looking forward to the extra challenge that I'd read about, but it's just plain annoying more than anything else, IMO.

greg tech is not bad, it just takes learning the mod just like you had to when you first played ic2. sure its a little more work but would it be anyfun if it just handed everything to you? you might as well just play creative.

something i heard a lot when i first started on gregtech is that you need an industrial centrifuge for a lot of the higher recipes. i saw thet titanium thing too and thought "how do i get this C#$@"

 

[Korenn]

Yeah... so after another dance of "hmm... I need titanium dust to make titanium ingots... ok that makes sense, where do I get titanium dust? Why, from macerating titanium ingots of course...", I've gone and disabled everything I could in the Gregtech config. I'm officially anti-Gregtech now.

I was kind of looking forward to the extra challenge that I'd read about, but it's just plain annoying more than anything else, IMO.

I think the main problem is that he doesn't understand NEI, not gregtech