Gregtech and Effectively Collecting Berylium. How Did You Do It?

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ff255away

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My co-minecraft and myself seem to have stumped ourselves. Berylium is only found as a product of ender pearls and emeralds- neither of which are easily farmable. This wouldn't be so inconvenient it weren't for the fact we need 192 of it, and you need 192x16 enderpearls or ~1920 emeralds.

So how are you gathering it? Are you processing enough redstone that the endereye dust collected is in sufficient quantities to meet the needs of building your fusion reactor? Are you patiently farming testificates for their emeralds? Is your energy output and scrap production already so ridiculous that you can just fabricate the necessary emeralds? Have you built an enderman farm? Do you have a device that automatically places quarries + the necessary power + enderchests for them to send resources to be processed through?

We are at a point that between our quarry and matterfab, we're able to build about two ultimate hybrid solar panels per day. Its a toss up between quarrying the End + hoarding helium 3 and clear out space for an enderman farm, or just continuing to ramp up uu production to fabricate emeralds which would then be processed for berylium.

tl;dr have you built a fusion reactor? If so, how did you get the necessary berylium?[DOUBLEPOST=1356840786][/DOUBLEPOST]We're also very, very slowly acquiring enough chrome for the necessary number of highly advanced machines. Is there a better way of going about this? There is no uu-recipe for it, otherwise we'd already have enough!


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For people looking for how to do this, we did the following things:
Chrome-
rubies can be made with uu-matter. Basically, we just dumped all of our uu-matter into ruby production, and converted ALL rubies into chrome. With a couple of quarries, you'll have diamonds coming out of your butt hole, and once you have sapphires it doesn't really matter that its costing your diamonds for redstone energy crystals.

Also, redstone dust is a crappy source of ruby dust, but does help out.

Beryllium-
we ended up making an enderman spawner with the soul crystals mod. It took several hours to kill 1024 enderman (which still didn't net enough ender pearls), but once you have an Eloraam style enderman farm, it takes all of 3 hours of letting it run to have enough beryllium... and then you have unlimited enderpearls to trade for supplies from other players, like chrome.
 

arkangyl

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You could look to Bees. I've never done this set up, but I noticed it the other day. Ender Bees can be harvested to make Mysterious Combs, which can be centrifuged to make Pulsing Propolis. 5 Propolis can be used to make a Pulsing Mesh, and 5 of those can be used to make an Ender Pearl. I don't know how easy that would be to accomplish, because I don't do much with Bees. Just throwing out an idea.
 

potter

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The easiest way i can think of now?
Soul Shard + a poor man's enderman farm.
Use that to get a Tier 4 or 5 Enderman Soul Shard, build a mobtrap for it in the overworld and put down the spawner.

I've made a regular enderman farm before. Experience and enderpearls were never an issue again.

Kinda want to try the bee setup though, to see how it compares.
 

potter

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Ah, didn't think of that. Though you won't get exp, it certainly is easy to setup.
 

Squigie

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We're also very, very slowly acquiring enough chrome for the necessary number of highly advanced machines. Is there a better way of going about this? There is no uu-recipe for it, otherwise we'd already have enough!

Don't rubies centrifuge into chrome? I think there is a UU recipe for them.
 

Daniel McClain

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Actually, making redstone from UU-matter and centrifuging that (gives 6 ruby dust) should take almost half as much as making rubies (UU wise, ~14 vs 28 per chrome), plus you get a ton of mercury, pyrite and silicon with it. I think it takes at least 8 chrome to get that up a running, but if your using your silk touching on all your redstone it shouldn't be that difficult.