Need advice with rotarycraft and reactor craft.

[MajPayne21]

Sugarcane is way easier for ethanol. I use IC2 crop sticks for the canes, harvest them from MFR, and then pulverize them into sugar and use them as the plant material to make sludge.

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[malicious_bloke]

Sugarcane is way easier for ethanol. I use IC2 crop sticks for the canes, harvest them from MFR, and then pulverize them into sugar and use them as the plant material to make sludge.

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I found my brute force way of doing things was annoying when trying to split sugar two ways for the two halves of the ethanol fermenting process.

MFR tree farm, saplings out the arsehole was simpler and quicker on throughput.

 

[madnewmy]

dc engine on fermenter for ethanol
steam engine on pump for water
4x steam engine or gasoline engine on grinder for 3x ore processing and lub
steam engine on friction heater on furnace for free smelting
performance engine with 8:1 gearbox on an fractionation unit for jet fuel
then you get bored around till you get redstone through the extractor with a performance engine to get tungsten
then gasoline engine on extractor or go for reactorcraft

and read this for reactorcraft starting reactor: http://lisimba.org/minecraft/howto_beginner_reactor/howto.html

oh and read the book(s)

 

[Xheotris]

Sugarcane is way easier for ethanol. I use IC2 crop sticks for the canes, harvest them from MFR, and then pulverize them into sugar and use them as the plant material to make sludge.

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Maybe, but I'm trying to bootstrap an RC only base, so, no non-vanilla sugarcane harvesting for me.

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[malicious_bloke]

Maybe, but I'm trying to bootstrap an RC only base, so, no non-vanilla sugarcane harvesting for me.

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Can you not do it with fans?

 

[idjmleader]

dc engine on fermenter for ethanol
steam engine on pump for water
4x steam engine or gasoline engine on grinder for 3x ore processing and lub
steam engine on friction heater on furnace for free smelting
performance engine with 8:1 gearbox on an fractionation unit for jet fuel
then you get bored around till you get redstone through the extractor with a performance engine to get tungsten
then gasoline engine on extractor or go for reactorcraft

and read this for reactorcraft starting reactor: http://lisimba.org/minecraft/howto_beginner_reactor/howto.html

oh and read the book(s)

hey how do I get the power from my steam engines? I mean how do I convert it do I hook the block up and where? Do I hook this block into a shaft or a dynamometer. I am a bit confused on this and what energy can I convert to? Can I run my ic2 stuff on this cause that would be amazing.

 

[Padfoote]

hey how do I get the power from my steam engines? I mean how do I convert it do I hook the block up and where? Do I hook this block into a shaft or a dynamometer. I am a bit confused on this and what energy can I convert to? Can I run my ic2 stuff on this cause that would be amazing.

RotaryCraft (AFAIK) cannot have its power converted to EU. The steam engine will output on one face only (the obvious one) and hooking it to a shaft, dynamometer (bit pointless), power input of a machine, shaft junction, and a few others I'm forgetting will transfer that power.

 

[Xheotris]

Can you not do it with fans?

I'm testing that with a gas engine in a creative world, and it doesn't look like sugarcane breaks. Also, even if they did, I'd have to set up another row of minimum power fans for drop collection.

hey how do I get the power from my steam engines? I mean how do I convert it do I hook the block up and where? Do I hook this block into a shaft or a dynamometer. I am a bit confused on this and what energy can I convert to? Can I run my ic2 stuff on this cause that would be amazing.

Yes. Shafts are just fine, but I usually just set the engine up right next to the machine. Dynamometers work as well, and they come with a nifty display in exchange for a slightly higher price. Keep in mind that different shafts can take different loads before breaking.

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[psp]

I power most of my things now in a cheatsiey sort of way
by doing this

Then using the fuel to power everything like this (those are full of bc fuel and have fuel powered engines down there)

pls no nerf reika

 

[idjmleader]

I'm testing that with a gas engine in a creative world, and it doesn't look like sugarcane breaks. Also, even if they did, I'd have to set up another row of minimum power fans for drop collection.

Yes. Shafts are just fine, but I usually just set the engine up right next to the machine. Dynamometers work as well, and they come with a nifty display in exchange for a slightly higher price. Keep in mind that different shafts can take different loads before breaking.

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RotaryCraft (AFAIK) cannot have its power converted to EU. The steam engine will output on one face only (the obvious one) and hooking it to a shaft, dynamometer (bit pointless), power input of a machine, shaft junction, and a few others I'm forgetting will transfer that power.

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I power most of my things now in a cheatsiey sort of way
by doing thisView attachment 11780
Then using the fuel to power everything like this (those are full of bc fuel and have fuel powered engines down there)

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pls no nerf reika

WTF! lol so insane
I am sorry guys I am such a noob but what would I do here to make this work together so it out puts x3 power instead of x1? I have tried everything I can think of so far. Could someone make it real quick in there creative world and link the pic and tell me the name of the parts please

 

[trajing]

Your shaft junctions output the wrong way. Use the screwdriver to switch them.

 

[idjmleader]

Your shaft junctions output the wrong way. Use the screwdriver to switch them.

it worked!!! I figured out there is shift click lol

I'm testing that with a gas engine in a creative world, and it doesn't look like sugarcane breaks. Also, even if they did, I'd have to set up another row of minimum power fans for drop collection.

Yes. Shafts are just fine, but I usually just set the engine up right next to the machine. Dynamometers work as well, and they come with a nifty display in exchange for a slightly higher price. Keep in mind that different shafts can take different loads before breaking.

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So your saying I could run this little setup I have right there on the left I can hook that up to a machine and it will run it correct? and if I wanna make the power run for longer distances do I just make normal shafts to run the power farther or does the power deplete over distance?

 

[psp]

The power doesn't deplete just watch out for the torque and speed limits from shafts
as xheotris said

 

[Padfoote]

Once you figure out RotaryCraft, you'll want to take a look at ElectriCraft. It makes long distance power transfer and power storage much easier.

 

[Xheotris]

Once you figure out RotaryCraft, you'll want to take a look at ElectriCraft. It makes long distance power transfer and power storage much easier.

Yeah, but I'm a fan of the one-engine, one-application philosophy. Rotarycraft makes it feel much more natural than Buildcraft ever did.

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[Padfoote]

Yeah, but I'm a fan of the one-engine, one-application philosophy. Rotarycraft makes it feel much more natural than Buildcraft ever did.

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ElectriCraft and ReactorCraft are great together.

 

[trajing]

Yeah, but I'm a fan of the one-engine, one-application philosophy. Rotarycraft makes it feel much more natural than Buildcraft ever did.

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You clearly haven't built a fusion reactor. That's so much power, you'll never want to lay down all the shafts for it.
(An extension of above)

 

[Xheotris]

ElectriCraft and ReactorCraft are great together.

That's the truth. I have no idea what I'm supposed to do with all the power from my HTGR in one place.

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[Xheotris]

You clearly haven't built a fusion reactor. That's so much power, you'll never want to lay down all the shafts for it.
(An extension of above)

I should attach a boring machine directly to an hp turbine shaft and watch my computer melt in a shower of cobble.

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[trajing]

I should attach a boring machine directly to an hp turbine shaft and watch my computer melt in a shower of cobble.

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In other words, pull a Reika.