Does anyone know the exact mechanics behind crystal clusters? I'd like to use a pair of infernal furnaces in my automated ore processing system, but my earlier experimentation along those lines ended up completely depleting the aura in just about every chunk within a kilometer of my base. If I can offset the aura drain of the furnaces with crystal clusters, then I just might try it again.
Question regarding crystal clusters
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Each one puts out out 1 Vis every five minutes or so. If you're draining that much aura with your ore processing you should be able to swing enough clusters keep your nodes going.
Does the 1 vis always go to the nearest node? I've had my node surrounded with crystals for a while now and not been able to observe it being charged by them at all, although I have seen another node a short distance away become overcharged by a bit. There's no special layout or mixture of the different type of crystals you have to use to get it to work, right?
It should charge the nearest node, I believe, but things can get wonky sometimes. I've never really went full-on Aura Depletion Mode for testing purposes, but I have wrecked the aura for shits and giggles before.
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The infernal furnace definitely doesn't use flux that fast. In my SMP world (which, admittedly, I don't play as much as SSP) there's an infernal furnace running constantly at our central hub with 3 bellows on it. We've never had problems supplying enough vis, though dealing with all that flux has been a problem from time to time.