Is it practical to use an OV Scanner to find Iridium

[EZ2Remember]

Has anyone used this tool to assist in their search for Iridium? It seems like it may be helpful.

(from GregTech Wiki)
OV Scanner ore values
Iridium = 10
Gems = 5
Silver = 4
Pyrite = 2
Sphalerite = 2
Cinnabar = 4

 

[Antice]

Has anyone used this tool to assist in their search for Iridium? It seems like it may be helpful.

(from GregTech Wiki)
OV Scanner ore values
Iridium = 10
Gems = 5
Silver = 4
Pyrite = 2
Sphalerite = 2
Cinnabar = 4

It could. if Irridium was a really noticeable value in relation to it's rarity, but it isn't. average ore values are in the 30 and up range unless there is a big hole underneath the ground you stand on anyway. Now if it was changed, so that the scanner showed you the best/worst value number (like the dowsing wand from EE2 did), then it would indeed be a useful tool.
Generally speaking. using IC2 miners is a pretty efficient way to grind ore. at least in the mindcrack pack.

 

[Guswut]

The best usage of the OV scanner, in finding iridium, appears to be when using the Miner, sadly as the dowsing rod was a great early-game way to find diamonds/etc.

 

[Guswut]

True, but you need iridium ore block, not ore, for the grinder.

One thing GT does is punish you for automatic mining.

And in response, I put up four times the quarries. GregTech, you don't have a paddle big enough to deal with me!

 

[Antice]

And in response, I put up four times the quarries. GregTech, you don't have a paddle big enough to deal with me!

There is always the end and it's special ores as well.

 

[Guswut]

There is always the end and it's special ores as well.

Except that someone on my server killed the ender dragon, mined all of the ore he could find within a reasonable area (around a square kilometer), took all of the ender bee hives he could find, stored it ALL in ONE diamond chest (you can see where this is going)... And then got that chest blown up. Thankfully, he gave us a few ender bee princesses before that happened, but suffice to say my endship production was moved up to the top of my list, and he was locked inside a small warded glass room (not really, he felt horrible about it, and he dies so often that I should have known better than to let him hold onto the stuff in a non-ender chest).

 

[Antice]

Except that someone on my server killed the ender dragon, mined all of the ore he could find within a reasonable area (around a square kilometer), took all of the ender bee hives he could find, stored it ALL in ONE diamond chest (you can see where this is going)... And then got that chest blown up. Thankfully, he gave us a few ender bee princesses before that happened, but suffice to say my endship production was moved up to the top of my list, and he was locked inside a small warded glass room (not really, he felt horrible about it, and he dies so often that I should have known better than to let him hold onto the stuff in a non-ender chest).

that kind of stuff happens. a good thing that there is always more end to be had by going further and further afield. do you have mystcraft installed?

 

[Guswut]

that kind of stuff happens. a good thing that there is always more end to be had by going further and further afield. do you have mystcraft installed?

Yup, I do. The "end" symbol is creative-only, I believe. And yeah, I'm going to use my endship to, hopefully, find some more ender bees. Good times, and it is fun to build a frame-based ship.

 

[Antice]

Yup, I do. The "end" symbol is creative-only, I believe. And yeah, I'm going to use my endship to, hopefully, find some more ender bees. Good times, and it is fun to build a frame-based ship.

yeah. frameships are fun to build. too bad they are so jerky when moving. I have a partial fix for that by moving them by extending a boom instead of a standard inchworm drive. has to use some deployers and a retractor system to get the "engine" back when it's done driving you for while, but hey, it does work. altho it feels like you are being pushed by a broomstick rather than actually driving anywhere.

 

[Guswut]

yeah. frameships are fun to build. too bad they are so jerky when moving. I have a partial fix for that by moving them by extending a boom instead of a standard inchworm drive. has to use some deployers and a retractor system to get the "engine" back when it's done driving you for while, but hey, it does work. altho it feels like you are being pushed by a broomstick rather than actually driving anywhere.

Yeah, it isn't too bad, especially if you've got a ComputerCraft computer set up to deal with the moving aspect as you can get the timing down to chain moves together to make them fairly fluid.