After many modpacks andany worlds where I intended to use oil, and never did, I now start with smeltery to make sag mill and alloy smelter, loot a hobbyists steam engine from village, then make oil refinery to use oil in thermal expansion dynamos. I'll eventually make a big reactor.
How do YOU generate power?
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To explain how I did it:Yes, Direwolf20 did that in his Let's Play
You can spawn the Wither with e.g. formation planes and let him drop down into a protected room where he gets killed by some remote method.
Farm wither skulls with a draconic evolution stabilized spawner and upgraded to tier 3.
Have a turtle deploy soul sand and wither skulls in a 5x5x6 blocks big room of warded blocks from thaumcraft. There's one block missing in one corner, so the turtle can safely leave the room.
(Note: For the room obsidian also works, since the blast when the wither is created does not destroy obsidian.)
Insta-kill the wither with a draconic evolution grinder. Loot inside the room is collected via a hopperhoc (or whatever it's called) from botania.
1) How are you generating that much coal? I could understand charcoal since tree farms are really useful, but coal?!
2) How are you automating yellorium production?
That's what ender tanks are for.
As for the automated yellorium/coal, he probably means just a quarry/mining laser.
A friend on our server didn't believe you could create substantial power from a mob farm. I set out to prove him wrong. Once cursed earth was obtained, we have never wanted for power. Since then, I have separated the mobs into individual spawning rooms with spawners on drawbridge deployed cursed earth.
The problem isn't how to create massive amounts of RF. The problem is finding creative things (read: not laser drills) to spend that power on.
1. Mob Essence and gunpowder are pumped into TE Reactant Dynamos.
2. Redstone is Magma Crucibled and run to XU Heated Redstone Generators.
3. Potions are placed in a XU Potion Generator.
4. Blaze rods are sent to Railcraft Boilers (which feed steam into a BR Turbine)
5. Enchanted gear is sent to TE Enervation Dynamos.
6. Sticks are sent to low drain remote systems to be burned in XU Survivalist Generators.
7. Ender pearls go into XU Ender Generators.
8. Working on an EIO Zombie Generator setup soon.
9. Bones, sulfer, and sticks get sent to a friend who farms to be made into Industrial Fertilizer for his MFR Fertilizers. He uses those crops for a BioFuel->Liquid Firebox Boiler->Turbine setup.
2. Redstone is Magma Crucibled and run to XU Heated Redstone Generators.
3. Potions are placed in a XU Potion Generator.
4. Blaze rods are sent to Railcraft Boilers (which feed steam into a BR Turbine)
5. Enchanted gear is sent to TE Enervation Dynamos.
6. Sticks are sent to low drain remote systems to be burned in XU Survivalist Generators.
7. Ender pearls go into XU Ender Generators.
8. Working on an EIO Zombie Generator setup soon.
9. Bones, sulfer, and sticks get sent to a friend who farms to be made into Industrial Fertilizer for his MFR Fertilizers. He uses those crops for a BioFuel->Liquid Firebox Boiler->Turbine setup.
The problem isn't how to create massive amounts of RF. The problem is finding creative things (read: not laser drills) to spend that power on.
Its a fun early game solution. 1 good geyser lasts a long time. I pipe if its close enough, otherwise, I use a pair of ender tanks.
Fun Challenge: Do all of that, but don't use any XU generators.
About the things to use them on... Uh... Moar lazor drilz? Or at least, more laser drills and then automate sorting, processing, and storage of the stuff. Upgrade whatever processing machines you use to full. You could also get Enhanced Portals and then just make a giant portal network and leave it on all the time.
Plus, with ender tanks, you can move it more easily.
My method:
Furnace generator (XU)=> Lava (XU)=> BR (BR)=> Fission reactor (ReC)
And if I feel like it, fusion reactor
Furnace generator (XU)=> Lava (XU)=> BR (BR)=> Fission reactor (ReC)
And if I feel like it, fusion reactor
I'm currently powering my entire base in Pathfinder off a single XU Survivalist Generator, using manually-mined coal. I tried the Stirling Generator from EnderIO, but it's terribly inefficient. I recently got a QED and will soon upgrade to an 8x Survivalist Generator.
If I ever need more than 40 RF/t, I'll probably make an RFTools dimension with oceans of EnderIO rocket fuel and burn that. I'll probably use an XU Ender-Thermic Pump powered by a Tesseract to pump it and get it to my base.
If I ever need more than 40 RF/t, I'll probably make an RFTools dimension with oceans of EnderIO rocket fuel and burn that. I'll probably use an XU Ender-Thermic Pump powered by a Tesseract to pump it and get it to my base.
Quick question, if I break a yellorium fuel rod in reactor that still has some fuel in it, will the fuel be retained or lost?
I think the fuel stays there until the last block of the reactor is mined, or at least until the last fuel rod is mined, provided you retrieved all the ingots first.
Most of my builds run on what I dub "Genocide Engines". I set up some method of spawning wither skeletons and then use the coal to fuel things.
My latest playthrough is the first time I've tried out Big Reactors, so my whole base is running off of a big reactor instead. I use so little power that it only needs to run 1% of the time on half control rods. I'm a little confused as to what everyone's burning their RF on to need anything more powerful than that.
My latest playthrough is the first time I've tried out Big Reactors, so my whole base is running off of a big reactor instead. I use so little power that it only needs to run 1% of the time on half control rods. I'm a little confused as to what everyone's burning their RF on to need anything more powerful than that.
