How to get a lot of Stone Bricks
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Power production, maybe? Ah well, I can't stand just cooking away my lava. It's a personal affliction. Heh.
It takes 2 units of lava to create one smooth stone block, or roughly 500 stone blocks for a full bucket. I don't think you can smelt 500 cobble into smooth stone for one bucket's worth of lava, or in the same amount of time.
I use an extruder feeding into a chest. Pipe the results into an autocrafting table or two and make whatever kind of stone you want.
I have a very similar setup making sandstone (cobble->sand->autocrafting table->gold chest)
It takes 2 units of lava to create one smooth stone block, or roughly 500 stone blocks for a full bucket. I don't think you can smelt 500 cobble into smooth stone for one bucket's worth of lava, or in the same amount of time.
I use an extruder feeding into a chest. Pipe the results into an autocrafting table or two and make whatever kind of stone you want.
I have a very similar setup making sandstone (cobble->sand->autocrafting table->gold chest)
I think you may be right, actually. It's around 400eu per operation in the electric furnace, and at best lava will give you 30,000eu per source block, so yes, it is cheaper to use lava if you have a source of lava constantly cycling more lava into the system for you.
If you have a bunch of free energy, though, and less on the lava end, it is cheaper to use lava.
If you have a bunch of free energy, though, you can probably use ANOTHER extruder to feed a magma crucible
After all, you only need another bucket every 33 and 1/3 minutes. If you can't come up with 20k MJ excess over a half-hour, well, it might be time to expand! One of the things to love about TE is that with a few simple tools, you can make some truly useful things
If you have a bunch of free energy, though, you can probably use ANOTHER extruder to feed a magma crucible
One of the things to love about TE is that with a few simple tools, you can make some truly useful things
It's time to expand to make another four 36HP boilers in either regard, as I want more UU matter. Heheh!
For the application, I'll just be nibbling some spare MJ (two steam turbines per 36HP boiler with 16MJ left over) from the setup. And I've already got a few dozen barrels worth of cobblestone, and smoothstone. And I don't really need bricks. So I'm not really the right person for this, if anything. But now I'm going to set one up to get at least one barrel of smoothstone bricks. And maybe I'll set up a cracked brick generator. Mm, loads to do.
If you're using an igneous extruder, just have an iron tank filled with lava and have ti pumping in from the nether and tah-dah infinite lava.
Though you're not gonna be able to do that with no resources like OP wants I suppose. So creative it is for him.
Though you're not gonna be able to do that with no resources like OP wants I suppose. So creative it is for him.
Arbitrarily large amount of lava. how's that?
And yeah, I think just extruding smoothstone and autocrafting it is a good idea. In DW's SMP series I think the system he had set up feeds the bricks into an item tesseract to be accessed from anywhere, which is a nice idea IMO.
Extruding smoothstone is better no matter which way you cut it- unless, for whatever reason, you don't have an MJ-producing infrastructure up (and why wouldn't you?).
Hell, even using EU -> Electric Engine to power a magma crucible is cheaper, it takes 80k MJs for 500 smelted stone but only 20k to do it using the magma crucible.
It takes 200000 EU to do the equivalent extrude cobble -> smelt, but a relatively meager 60000 to do it with the electric engine conversion.
Hell, even using EU -> Electric Engine to power a magma crucible is cheaper, it takes 80k MJs for 500 smelted stone but only 20k to do it using the magma crucible.
It takes 200000 EU to do the equivalent extrude cobble -> smelt, but a relatively meager 60000 to do it with the electric engine conversion.
Hehe. Well, I have 2 36 HP boilers running (one on biofuel, one on charcoal) so I really don't use my lava at all. I have 7x7x8 RC tanks full of fuel, biofuel, oil and biomass and I don't really know what to do with it. Too bad you can't make a swimmingpool out of fuel
Hehe. Well, I have 2 36 HP boilers running (one on biofuel, one on charcoal) so I really don't use my lava at all. I have 7x7x8 RC tanks full of fuel, biofuel, oil and biomass and I don't really know what to do with it. Too bad you can't make a swimmingpool out of fuel
Yeah, I've got almost six tanks full of hydrogen that I really wish I could pour into my quarry hole. That stuff would be the perfect swimming pool liquid! As a note, just in case it is not obvious, I mean in specific MineCraft's "hydrogen", not actual hydrogen. Swimming in actual hydrogen would be near-instant death by freezing. Whoo.
I'm curious as to how you'd be able to keep that much hydrogen at that temperature anyways, enough to swim in would be an extreme waste of energy.
Apparantly Minecraft's iron tanks (and Soaryn's tanks) are vacuum tanks though, so whatever.
And soaryn's tanks are going to be able to be completed from the inside now, so I guess you could technically swim in a pool of molten ender, hydrogen, or whatever your heart desires.
Aside from the fact that it would evaporate quite fast
Ah, right, it is called "Gaseous Hydrogen", but it looks like, acts like, and pretty much is a fluid. So, no smokers at the pool, and we're good to go.
The amusing thing is that I have tried to complete a tank with myself inside more than once, hoping irrationally that it'd work that time.
Yeah, I heard about that last night. I'll just have to portal gun a side, and my dreams have come true AND I will be able to get out, as well!