The problem is the naming. Instead of "Pulverizers" I think we have a Universal Pulverizer and a Blendomatic or some such silliness. Or maybe one's a "Universal Macerator", I forget.
The scary thing was this was his preferred route. There's actually a thread inviting people to rename everything, so that instead of an "advanced centrifuge 3" you'd have to take a wild stab at what a "SpinOtron 4000" does. (example invented for the purpose of this post, and, uh, patent pending.)Aha! Yes, I also have a "GT Blend-O-Matic" which is a Pulverizer but it is Insane Voltage (8192 EU/t). Thanks for mentioning it, or else I never would have known.
Greg, of all people, really should understand the importance of consistency in naming items. The man never ceases to surprise me, not always in good ways.
Yeah this is a good example of where GT completely diverges from other mods, not just in design but approach. The "error" you made, if you want to call it that, was to wait until you had a need for tungstensteel before you started consuming it. I don't have a particular need for it right now, but I suspect I might want to upgrade my titanium boiler at some point, so my EBFs are always cooking stuff which includes tungstensteel. If not tungsten/tungsteensteel, they're cooking aluminium, or silicon, or fluxed electrum, or something else I might find useful one day.
Up until two days ago, I didn't even know where I could find any of it. I've mentioned it in other threads, but I finally figured it out. Despite checking NEI many times over and over again, I somehow completely missed the recipes for turning Tungstate Ore and Scheelite Ore into Tungsten Dusts using an MV Electrolyzer. I spent all day yesterday turning all 1000 ore blocks into Tungsten dust (which gave me a ton of Oxygen gas as well as Manganese Dusts). I don't cheat at everything, but I simply have to cheat with the EBF and Tungstensteel because there is no way I'm gonna put my game "on hold" for the next 40 hours. I can't even go AFK because I have to constantly watch my steam levels (I'm still using a single GT Steel Steam Boiler until I get the Tungstensteel version built).
I'm satisfied that "next time" you won't need to cheat them in because you'll have your strategy in advance!Well you know my Tungsten story, Pyure.
I certainly understand your point, and agree with it completely. I've actually been following your strategy of "EBF Never Sleeps", but it's been making steel ingots, aluminum ingots and stainless steel ingots the entire time. Like I say, I think the "correct" way to do it is to make many multiple EBF's and have them all working in unison.
GregTech is insane. LOL But since we all seem to love it, I dunno what that says about us.
Try setting up 3 boilers, each with its own RC tank, give each of them a stack of charcoal, and see what happens! (I'm really curious actually)
I *think* the output hatch tier only determines the size of the buffer, not its output capability. So, as long as you're able to remove the liquid fast enough, it shouldn't be an issue.
Then again, its possible the tsteel boiler outputs more per tick than the low-tier hatches can even hold, so maybe your testing is a good idea
Nice job sir, great test.
Nice job sir, great test.
Regarding the water: I still haven't gotten around to redstone controlling my boiler directly, so I do it with the charcoal feed. One condition I use to determine if I should feed charcoal is: only if the internal boiler water hatch is 100% full of water. Why do I point this out? Because my (ULV) input bus may still be holding a full stack of charcoal if I'm at, say, 95% water and dropping. I need that charcoal to finish processing (64 seconds) before I run out of water to prevent explosions. So to be safe, as a result, I prefer to have a larger hatch which presumably (hopefully?) has that larger buffer.
Or I could, you know, redstone control the boiler itself one day.
Some machines are definitely critical to progress, but I don't think the arc furnace or thermal centrifuge fall into that category.
