Just a bit of helpful advice you may not yet know, left clicking with the Wand of Equal Trade appears to exchange just one block, so you can frame the sections you want to trade that way and keep from making a mess.
Lets See Some Bases! Give Us a Tour!
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And a shot from the "back". Will do interior shots of some of the buildings afterwork.
it was saltpeter. But we have two turtles strip mining at level 10 in a mooshroom cow mistworld, and a pair of quarries mining in a desert, we do have another couple quarrys build just not placed just yet and another dozen or so turtles that were not using yet. Still having issues getting ender pearls for world anchors, weve only got 6 so far and a pair of ender chests, weve done some upgrades this week, ill update this tomarrow whenever paypal will take my money and i can buy fraps.
i would really like to build like you 
i'll show off some off my work
PS: i'm not really efficient so i spent a lot of time doing nothing
Here you can see the surroundings : I dug down into the volcano for my base, in the distance , you can see my little and ugly bee breeding hut
This is my little entrance from the top of the volcano , there will be a frame elevator to get down
My little base with my sorting system and my small setup to the back , not really andvanced but i progress
The machine room from below so you can ( a little ) better figure out the sorting system ; to the left , you can see the array to transform XyCraft and RedPower ores to blocks
And finally my thaumcraft room
i'll show off some off my work
PS: i'm not really efficient so i spent a lot of time doing nothing
Here you can see the surroundings : I dug down into the volcano for my base, in the distance , you can see my little and ugly bee breeding hut
This is my little entrance from the top of the volcano , there will be a frame elevator to get down
My little base with my sorting system and my small setup to the back , not really andvanced but i progress
The machine room from below so you can ( a little ) better figure out the sorting system ; to the left , you can see the array to transform XyCraft and RedPower ores to blocks
And finally my thaumcraft room
Sadly im not in a position to access my screenshots, but i'll run-down the list of my nicest bases:
A sprawling mountaintop castle made of marble and basalt, each room open to the sky, in order to allow easy access through EE's flying ring. I quarried out a quarter of the mountain to make it so that the only access route was via flight, or a ridiculously hazardous footpath.
A Versailles inspired flying castle, built on a handmade island that sat above an ocean. Using RP microblocks, i decorated it with banners and floating shards of rock (as though it had been removed from the ground,) though i never got to the technological portions inside.
A sprawling mountaintop castle made of marble and basalt, each room open to the sky, in order to allow easy access through EE's flying ring. I quarried out a quarter of the mountain to make it so that the only access route was via flight, or a ridiculously hazardous footpath.
A Versailles inspired flying castle, built on a handmade island that sat above an ocean. Using RP microblocks, i decorated it with banners and floating shards of rock (as though it had been removed from the ground,) though i never got to the technological portions inside.
I spawned next to a TC3 dungeon, so decided to call it home, and have since built floors on top of it.
Got a cactus farm, along with a patch of carrots and potatoes. And a long-forgotten coke-oven.
And a self-sustaining SC2 tree farm (when saplings and charcoal don't get into the wrong places!).
Then needed flax (for bags, and other things), and netherwart (for TC3 research):
My meagre processing area (just a pulveriser and furnace going into a buffer for sorting):
I tried to refine some oil, but only got about 130 buckets before it got clogged with water. I'll get around to sorting that at some point.
The lower floor of my storgage area (non-organics, mainly):
And the 1st floor:
My workroom (TC3 is currently what I'm doing):
Also, I finally got to the stage of TC3 where I get my Goggles of Revealing. And, yeah, now I remember why you shouldn't build in dungeons:
While your base looks nice, I strongly suggest you not build near TC3 dungeons (or "barrows", as the mod calls them). They always contain dark nodes that constantly pump out flux, which can be a real bother when you start to get into TC3.
Hehe, yeah that scared the crap out of me, the first time I could actually see one of those in a Barrow. I was looking for the nearest node, walked up to a slight bump in the terrain (barrow was in a ditch so it hardly stuck out). I dug down two blocks and stared into a massive black hole.
Yeah, I knew that when I settled, but I'll deal with it. The only minor issue is that it'll occasionally pump out witches or giants. The giants I leave to die in the sun, the witches I can take fairly easily. Unless I don't keep on top of it, and leave the world running for a while. 4 witches ganging up on you is not fun >.<
My friends and I have been playing a private Beta A server since the mod pack was released and this is what I have built so far...
The Cathedral (still a work in progress)
Cathedral and Utility buildings
The Mansion
Main IC2 power system
Buildcraft Power System
The Warehouse
Assembly Room
The Workshop (where I spend most of my time)
Ore processing
Food Production
And finally Liquid Storage Area 1
It is currently split between two sites (that are very close) but I'm working on merging them into one massive complex
The Cathedral (still a work in progress)
Cathedral and Utility buildings
The Mansion
Main IC2 power system
Buildcraft Power System
The Warehouse
Assembly Room
The Workshop (where I spend most of my time)
Ore processing
Food Production
And finally Liquid Storage Area 1
It is currently split between two sites (that are very close) but I'm working on merging them into one massive complex
It's taken quite a few weeks of casual playing to get it to the stage it's at now. The most time consuming part of it was waiting for the netherack to compress into nether brick.
Spend tons of time of the old server to build a pretty and awesome base.
Then reset, and now im like fuck no.
http://imgur.com/a/l5DFD
Then reset, and now im like fuck no.
http://imgur.com/a/l5DFD
Riley, that assembly room is obscene. How fast does it pump out chipsets? And have you thought about putting in more tables?
Connected to the MJ grid are 20 Magma Crucibles that burn cobblestone supplied by a single igneous extruder through a simple redpower machine and tubes.
The lava is stored inside a tank where it is then pumped to 20 Gregtech Thermal generators which provide a combined output of 480EU/t. Some excess lava is sent to a centrifuge to generate some small amounts of extra copper, tin, and electrum.
Would you mind explaining the redpower component and would the system work for Netherrack. Thanks
Its very simple, a igneous extruder is connected to a small chest that keeps it filled with cobblestone. A redpower transposer is connected to that chest as well, and a timer sends a "tick" to it every 2 seconds (the same rate the extruder generates cobblestone), so if it can, it pumps cobble to the crucibles which are just connected through redpower tubes. If it can't send any, it just doesn't, there is no overflow to worry about.
Yes, if you look in some of the other pictures, you will see 3x 36HP boilers with 18 industrial steam engines each that produce a combined 432MJ/t. Currently, the boiler fuel system uses around 60MJ/t, so if everything were to be loaded to the max constantly the system would eventually run out of lava and the IC2 power output would drop slightly.
In the future I will add either a 4th boiler and will switch from the cactus farm to a stevescarts tree farm that provides saplings for biofuel instead.
Use the logs from the tree farm to fuel one 36 HP solid boiler with wood to spare.
When fully heated: TE sawmill gets 4 logs every 22.7 seconds. Planks are sent into the boiler (will produce an ever so slightly overabundance of planks). Sawdust is compressed and then put into an TE furnace. RECell between sawmill and furnace (set to 1 MJ/t), filled by a TE steam engine, which is filled by the charcoal from the dust, with overflow going into storage.
The boiler has the full 144 MJ/t available for your power hungry needs.
Edit: After thinking again, 11 logs every 62.5 seconds should eliminate the plank overflow.
When fully heated: TE sawmill gets 4 logs every 22.7 seconds. Planks are sent into the boiler (will produce an ever so slightly overabundance of planks). Sawdust is compressed and then put into an TE furnace. RECell between sawmill and furnace (set to 1 MJ/t), filled by a TE steam engine, which is filled by the charcoal from the dust, with overflow going into storage.
The boiler has the full 144 MJ/t available for your power hungry needs.
Edit: After thinking again, 11 logs every 62.5 seconds should eliminate the plank overflow.