Keeping up with lava demand?

[ShneekeyTheLost]

Yea, if you find your output is throttled with endertanks, build more output endertanks, since each one will draw independently. Gets a bit pricey, but if you've already got an EnderFarm or EE for the pearls and a blaze farm for the rods, you should be good to go.

 

[John Freeman]

Yea, if you find your output is throttled with endertanks, build more output endertanks, since each one will draw independently. Gets a bit pricey, but if you've already got an EnderFarm or EE for the pearls and a blaze farm for the rods, you should be good to go.

I just use an iron farm to craft pearls, and have a stockpile of blaze rods from my friend's blaze farm

One thing I am trying to figure out is this infinite lava generation from nether rack

4 Magmatic engines don't seem to keep up with the MJ demand that it takes, and even at that, 1 crucible in this setup creates a sliver of lava every 30 seconds. I'd hardly call this a viable solution for lava, unless you want to waste a ton of resources and take up a 100 block radius to replace what nether pumps do. I'd hardly call 400 engines plus 40 buildcraft machines running less of a strain on a server than one advanced pump in the nether.

 

[Daemonblue]

One thing you're gonna love about 1.5 with that setup John is you can use a single vanilla buffer to replace everything you have between that magma crucible and barrel.

 

[John Freeman]

One thing you're gonna love about 1.5 with that setup John is you can use a single vanilla buffer to replace everything you have between that magma crucible and barrel.

Not really what's the problem here. Just something quick I hooked up to give it items when it needed it. Not even sure if barrels can interact with vanilla hoppers.

 

[Daemonblue]

The whole netherrack -> lava thing came about before gregtech advanced pumps and has been nerfed quite a bit since it originally came out. While it is still technically energy positive it isn't as effective for power generation as it was before. As it is now it's more so you can burn netherrack into lava for centrifuging when you have an energy surplus, or for keeping a magmatic engine busy.

I just tested the vanilla hoppers with barrels and it does work and they are more than enough to keep up with a single magma crucible, you just have to be careful not to have redstone signals around them or they shut off.

Edit: For perspective, the crucible used to turn netherrack into a bucket of lava for only 4000 MJ, while in the 1.5.2 beta (and probably the 1.4.7 packs) they take 12,000 MJ per bucket, while a magmatic engine produces 18,000 MJ per bucket. So it went from a net gain of 14,000 MJ to 6,000 MJ over the course of its implementation.

 

[John Freeman]

The whole netherrack -> lava thing came about before gregtech advanced pumps and has been nerfed quite a bit since it originally came out. While it is still technically energy positive it isn't as effective for power generation as it was before. As it is now it's more so you can burn netherrack into lava for centrifuging when you have an energy surplus, or for keeping a magmatic engine busy.

I just tested the vanilla hoppers with barrels and it does work and they are more than enough to keep up with a single magma crucible, you just have to be careful not to have redstone signals around them or they shut off.

With the amount of energy you waste in this process, it just seems like a better idea to turn rack into scrap.

 

[Daemonblue]

It would really depend on what your end goal was, but yea scrap would probably be a better idea at this point in time, unless you needed any of the mats lava centrifuges into.