hello, i'm kindo a noob to GT and was wondering what the "easiest" way to get all the Chrome and Titanium need for the fusion coils? Bees, mining, UUM, Etc....
How do you get resources for the GT Reactor
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You can centrifuge red stone for ruby dust and bauxite for titanium. Bauxite is found in plain and I believe forest biomes. Although if your a decent apiarist you could go the bee route and get fast, long living, uber ruby bees and then just manually go out and find bauxite.
Yeah, Harros' is probably the best route. Just go mine, then mine, and mine, and mine and mine and mine and then mine some more.
Also, it helps to make a matter fabricator running on some kind of energy source while waiting for the automated miners.
Also, it helps to make a matter fabricator running on some kind of energy source while waiting for the automated miners.
thank you, when i first got in to GT and i saw the Fusion Reactor, i was like *falls over dead of a heart attak*, then i saw the recipie and i almost really did have a heart attack. hahaha the irony.
as for the bees i'm a pretty good Apiarist. do you know if bauxite spawn in redwoods/ fir biomes?
I would skip the Bauxite and get impregnable bees. It's much faster then using bauxite if you have an alveary and frames.
The new reactor needs a bit less than 2x more chrome, a bit more iridium, but to compensate for that you need roughly more than 3x less titanium.
I can do the math for you (these are the resources to make the most basic FR possible, aka 1 side):
Most of these numbers are rounded up unless specified. so might have some spare.
You need about: 750 chrome, 180 titanium (exact amount afaik), 40 Iridium plates, 200 platinum, 4 stacks of nickel (very easy to get), 264 stacks of ender pearls, 132 stacks of copper, 66 stacks of tin, 66 stacks of coal (easy), 16.5 stacks of lapis (can intermix with lazurite dust), 176 sapphire (blue), 352 normal electronic circuits, a stack of tungsten, 3 stacks of sodalite dust.
Iridium & platinum from sheldonite
Titanium from quarrying TForest
Chrome from: 1) Netherack -> dust -> redstone -> chrome 2) witch farm -> redstone -> chrome 3) sphalerite -> yellow garnet -> uravorite -> chrome (horribly inefficient) 4) Regular mining
copper & tin lava centrif
To accomplish this goal:
- Enderman farm
- Flying / maneuvering gear
- Access to the end
- decent amount of power (360 is a good start), prolly a nuclear reactor on uranium.
- lava centrifuge with 8 or more centrifs
- assembly machine, personally I only use one, overclocked with 4 OVs
I can do the math for you (these are the resources to make the most basic FR possible, aka 1 side):
Most of these numbers are rounded up unless specified. so might have some spare.
You need about: 750 chrome, 180 titanium (exact amount afaik), 40 Iridium plates, 200 platinum, 4 stacks of nickel (very easy to get), 264 stacks of ender pearls, 132 stacks of copper, 66 stacks of tin, 66 stacks of coal (easy), 16.5 stacks of lapis (can intermix with lazurite dust), 176 sapphire (blue), 352 normal electronic circuits, a stack of tungsten, 3 stacks of sodalite dust.
Iridium & platinum from sheldonite
Titanium from quarrying TForest
Chrome from: 1) Netherack -> dust -> redstone -> chrome 2) witch farm -> redstone -> chrome 3) sphalerite -> yellow garnet -> uravorite -> chrome (horribly inefficient) 4) Regular mining
copper & tin lava centrif
To accomplish this goal:
- Enderman farm
- Flying / maneuvering gear
- Access to the end
- decent amount of power (360 is a good start), prolly a nuclear reactor on uranium.
- lava centrifuge with 8 or more centrifs
- assembly machine, personally I only use one, overclocked with 4 OVs
But keep in mind that even though this reactor is expensive as hell, you only get around 56k eu/t for all that labor so I prefers USP factory for endgame power and they actually more compact than those reactors (USPs gives off 1eu/t per cubic meter). It's because the reactor is soo big and all those machines you need in order to avoid the high costs of overclocking power.
Jesus - 132 stacks of copper...
[minor rant about copper and nuclear power]
That seems rather high considering that's twice as much as tin.
Why does IC2 use so much copper for power?
Reactors use so much in comparison to the other mats used that they are an invalid choice compared to everything else, at least when using default FTB, ie configured TE settings.
Perhaps if copper were more common, then people might actually use then, rather A. Solars or B. Lava or C. Treefarm, because currently they are the best sources of power available, whereas nuclear produces less and costs more and has an upkeep cost.
[back on topic]
And 750 chrome...
9 rubies per chrome, that's roughly 100 stacks of rubies.
Especially since bauxite is a LOT more common than rubies.
It should use more titanium and less chrome, IMO. 40 iridium plates just means a lot of flying for sheldonite, which is time-consuming but not overtly difficult, except for one factor - the flight control on MPS is on the head - so no pumpkin.
And in the end up, regarding space consumed VS power produced, a fusion reactor produces something like 10eu/t.
Damn.
[minor rant about copper and nuclear power]
That seems rather high considering that's twice as much as tin.
Why does IC2 use so much copper for power?
Reactors use so much in comparison to the other mats used that they are an invalid choice compared to everything else, at least when using default FTB, ie configured TE settings.
Perhaps if copper were more common, then people might actually use then, rather A. Solars or B. Lava or C. Treefarm, because currently they are the best sources of power available, whereas nuclear produces less and costs more and has an upkeep cost.
[back on topic]
And 750 chrome...
9 rubies per chrome, that's roughly 100 stacks of rubies.
Especially since bauxite is a LOT more common than rubies.
It should use more titanium and less chrome, IMO. 40 iridium plates just means a lot of flying for sheldonite, which is time-consuming but not overtly difficult, except for one factor - the flight control on MPS is on the head - so no pumpkin.
And in the end up, regarding space consumed VS power produced, a fusion reactor produces something like 10eu/t.
Damn.
IIRC 64k eu/t if you do it correctly (dedicated liquiduct line for each pGen, pun not intended) its a nuisance, but works.
And, some of us feel more accomplished getting the FR made than a UHSP factory.
More than 112 UHSPs (112 is to compete with it during the day, if you factor in night, almost double that amount) are needed to compete with 56K amount you specified. With 64K you would need 128 to compete in the day, and 222.22222222- factoring in night. Each of those needs 16 Iridium plates, so 3552 plates for 222 UHSPs. which is (roughly) 80x more IridiumPlates than an FR needs. And if you consider each chrome / titanium / ect to be worth 1 Iridium plate, an FR would still be nearly 3x~2x cheaper.
As for space: 16 blocks (If i did counted correctly) x and 16 blocks z for the ring itself. now you can cram the centrifuges inside that radius vertically like I do and create my signature "Fusion Tower". That radius can hardly hold 222 UHSPs, considering they can't be stacked vertically.
TL;DR: FR is horizontally efficient, UHSPs are verically efficient.
and with a 56K eu reactor (and its actually 57K rounded down) even, you can power 7 matFabs at fullSpeed. it takes roughly 1 min 40 seconds per UU with 1 MF at fullSpeed. with 7 thats 1 UU / 14 secs. The fusion reactor can produce enough UU to produce another FR in an estimated 8.1 days. Less with 64K.
The main con to the FR is the different resources you need. mining different biomes. mob farms. yea.
explain please. I don't see how 3 stacks of sodalite dust is harder to get than 132 stacks of copper.
This, plus there is one extraordinary hidden cost in ultimate hybrids that people don't consider. uranium. It takes 64!! Uranium to make one ultimate hybrid solar. You usually get that amount from one full sized quarry. Its also the *only* non-renewable resource outside of bees since you can't UUM/EE3/Alkahest it, and the bees are a royal PITA at that. It requires 4 or 5 different lines including a nether alveary.
As for copper, copper is easy. I generate 2k copper a day in excess solely to get tin for reactor cells. 1xOC on a centrifuge will create enough copper in a couple days by itself.
Uhh I'm sure you don't need like 30 centifuges spinning. Setup just three of those to a lava fab and then let's them spin 24/7 while you get the other craps and before you know it I bet that'll generates enough. Let's do some math shall we? 3 centrifuges going will produces 12 copper every 500 seconds run so that's a copper ingot every 41.666.. seconds so keeping it at 41.666 seconds a copper in order to get 132x64 it's would take you.. just under a 100 hours.. I'm sure by then at the very least have just done getting everything else.
Sooo close, but it is the opposite.
Anyway, I love the FR, it just seethes awesome. To me, this is a badge of victory in MC much like killing the ender dragon. That is reason alone to create it.
it takes me 1 hour to get 3 stacks of sodalite. This argument is getting ridiculous. Like I said in my first post, 8 centrifs. which is enough to get all that copper in about 1 RL day. Let's leave it at that and carry on with the more important aspects of our lives shall we?