I think a possible flaw? Don't know why I saw no mention of it, but to make a Steel Casing, you need diamond dust or enriched diamond, which require either an enrichment chamber or a crusher - both of which require steel casing. There is a quest where you can get a steel casing, but that requires crafting 16 advanced PCB's (which is stupid, pain stupid). So if this is intended, plz let me know and I will simply add Diamond to the AE2 grindstone and crush diamonds that way while completely disagreeing with the fact that crafting 16 Advanced PCB's to get the casing as a quest reward is sane. If it is an oversight however, I am willing to wait for the fix. Thanks in advance.
Also, I am wondering if anyone is getting to this point legit, why is there not a single Youtuber or Twitcher that has done this on video and didn't quit after 10 episodes like everyone else. I think the answer is because they get to the point like I just got to and realize that spending a whole day until I got enough pearls, slaughtered enough spiders to get the needed spider eyes, mined all the pillars and meteors to get the emeralds, then sent hours on pneumatic craft to make 25 printed PCB's just to make 1 Advanced PCB and then realize you need 16 of them to get the casing as a reward. Anyone get to this realization - probably say screw that, GG.
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I just got to that point at around episode 11 on my channel. I was going to continue on but do a ton of work off camera, and just do the more interesting stuff as episodes. It looks like 1.1.5 will definitely help in that area! You are spot on though, in my latest few episodes I looked at the recipes like "holy crap this is going to take the rest of my life to make one machine." I figured there would be some balancing eventually, as the recipes are quite astronomical for no real reason, I can see, other than being "grindy."