Is there a way to passively get a lot of dirt, without digging for it?

[Brian Cherrick]

I'm talking only dirt. I am trying to avoid using a quarry, as I don't really need the ores and crap beneath it, and I also don't wanna tear up the landscape.

I got a sludge boiler going, but not sure I am going to get the amount I need.

Thoughts?

 

[Moasseman]

The alkahestry tome thingy.

 

[Yusunoha]

I'm talking only dirt. I am trying to avoid using a quarry, as I don't really need the ores and crap beneath it, and I also don't wanna tear up the landscape.

I got a sludge boiler going, but not sure I am going to get the amount I need.

Thoughts?

sludge boilers work great for dirt, just make sure you've a large treefarm with a couple of harvesters going
you'll probably want to setup several sludge boilers to be able to keep up with the sludge that'll be produced

 

[YX33A]

Want "X"? There's a bee for that, I'm sure.

 

[elenoire]

either earth essence from magical crops, macerating plantballs (ic2), or ex nihilo mods

 

[LoGaL]

ye, no dirt producing bees

 

[YX33A]

Hm.

Seems to me, then, the issue is a bee needs to be made for this.
Or, maybe I must remake my explaination; if you can't do it with bees, try fish!

 

[b0bst3r]

Ender quarry a large area then BC quarry it, you'll have all the dirt you could ever want and a very large hole.

 

[Vasa]

IC2 Plantballs.

 

[LoGaL]

ye plantballs or magic crops are they way to go

 

[eliandarkbrood]

If you have mfr and ic2, harvester trees and use sludge boiler and autocraft saplings into plantballs, then macerate plant balls. For power burn wood into charcoal.

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[Ieldra]

ye, no dirt producing bees

That's a shame. It's so hard getting enough dirt

 

[MigukNamja]

Not an efficient dirt producer, but hasn't been mentioned yet : peat farms. They will slowly convert sand to dirt, and produce peat to burn as a bonus.

 

[rhn]

IC2 UU-matter. Old IC2 had a recipe for it, IC2E you can scan the dirt and have the replicator spit it out. It is incredibly cheap in IC2E: 30 mB UU, 128 eu.

If you have the power/scrap for it, it will just spit out stack after stack of it at that price...

 

[epidemia78]

try a mystcraft world that replaces stone with dirt. I get those accidentally every time I try to make a random mining age, without fail.

 

[Strikingwolf]

sludge boilers work great for dirt, just make sure you've a large treefarm with a couple of harvesters going
you'll probably want to setup several sludge boilers to be able to keep up with the sludge that'll be produced

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