Pulverizer gives no extra dusts?

[MeLikesRabbits]

I'm testing the mods in the ftb pack and don't understand the pulverizer. I read it doubles your metals production, but also that it can give bonus metals. I just threw in 2 stacks of iron ore and I got 256 iron dusts, perfectly doubled, no bonus. Did I read it wrong? I know it gives extra lead when pulverizing silver and vice versa, but I thought it gave extra's on other metals too.

If it doesn't, is there any reason to use it except for lead/silver? Since the induction smelter does the trick faster and I get slag as a byproduct.

 

[SilvasRuin]

Iron doesn't get any extra dust. Neither does Gold. Tin and Copper do though.

 

[Peppe]

2.1.5 Iron does not have bonus dust associated with it. Might be true for the FTB one as well.

I prefer running all the ore through the induction smelter. In 2.1.5 the smelter has a 20% chance to produce rich slag and then you can pulverize ingots and smelt any dust with the rich slag to get an extra ingot of the metal you want.

 

[MeLikesRabbits]

Ah, thank you for the quick reply.

Does the smelter only has that chance when smelting ores? Or could you go for the pulverizer -> smelter route for maximum gain?

 

[SilvasRuin]

The Smelter (Minecraft 1.4.5 and onwards) has a 20% chance for Rich Slag when processing Ore. Pulverized dust won't produce Rich Slag. It will have a chance to produce the generic Slag though, for Rockwool.

 

[Remaker]

There is no need for that. The Induction Smelter takes Sand + Raw Ore and creates two ready made ingots. It already has the ore doubling functionality built-in (sort of, it costs you sand, but sand is cheap and easily made by macerating/pulverizing cobblestone, which is even cheaper). You will still want a Pulverizer/Macerator because the Rich Slag you get from the Induction Smelter has to be mixed with two portions of metal dust to work. When you're ready to use your Rich Slag, pull some ingots out of storage and grind them up in your dust-maker of choice, then put the metal dusts and the Rich Slag in the Inductor Smelter and grin as three ingots in total pop out.

A Pulverizer/Induction Smelter combo results in a +120% yield on ores. Moreover, 20% of that is flexible. You can use Rich Slag gained from smelting a less desirable metal and use it to create a more needed one.

 

[MeLikesRabbits]

Cool, I get it, thanks a lot.

One last thing, maybe I'm confused by seeing all those video's from Direwolf, but there was something special about silver and lead... You need to process these in the pulverizer? Or was there some other machine, some other mod?

I used only a couple of mods before, the whole pack is daunting for people like me

 

[Omicron]

That was another mod, yes - Factorization does some freaky things with silver and lead.

 

[Remaker]

Cool, I get it, thanks a lot.

One last thing, maybe I'm confused by seeing all those video's from Direwolf, but there was something special about silver and lead... You need to process these in the pulverizer? Or was there some other machine, some other mod?

I used only a couple of mods before, the whole pack is daunting for people like me

You can process silver and lead just fine with an Induction Smelter. In fact, for most of the game, this is what you should do. Factorization introduces a time and energy intensive way to get +200% from your raw ores of copper, tin, iron, silver, gold and lead. The line of machines required to do this require HUGE amounts of lead and silver to build. Personally, I wouldn't even touch Factorization until you have a Quarry or maybe a Miner set up.

 

[MeLikesRabbits]

Had a nice sleep since previous post... Thanks again for all the replies. I feel a bit more sure about what and when to build when I start my new world when the next iteration of the ftb-pack comes out. It should be any moment now, I hope...