Resource use

[namiasdf]

I have been accumulating a lot of stuff that I don't use and is wondering what you guys use this stuff for.

Silver, lead, zinc and nickle. Aside from advanced alloy substitutes (the latter two) what do you guys use these resources for en masse? Lead for the reinforced glass, but you don't need THAT much of it. There are empty energy cells for those whom would like to store lots of MJs, but is that all lead is limited to?

I really don't know what silver is for. I have so much of it...

 

[Azzanine]

Silver alloys with gold to make electrum, It has a good few uses. The cheaper circuits use them (although now you have to use that tedious assembler).

 

[CapturetheBomb]

Silver you can use for Mirrors around a factorization steam turbine thing to produce steam. It is a "cheap" alternative to a boiler if you lack the infrastructure. Bonus: it is free power.

 

[Harvest88]

Just spin those up for whatever you need in Ind. Centrifuges. The sliver>lead and lead>sliver thing is annoying though but anything else you can get good outputs.

 

[Runo]

I use all of them as building materials. They look nice, and all but silver blocks prevent mob spawns.

 

[namiasdf]

Yeah.. Kinda looks like I am heading in that direction lol.....

 

[Omicron]

I'm chronically short on silver (and gold!) in 1.5.x ever since I started manufacturing all my circuits using electrum. You save so many other resources on that that it's worth it though, especially with a wiremill - only 1 copper per circuit instead of 3. And I'm building 5 full-size nuclear reactors, so copper is in high demand

Lead - well, I already said I am building five nukes, and lead can replace copper in multicells. Also, hardened glass! Conduits, liquiducts, tesseracts, redstone cells.

Nickel - advanced alloy, all the different heating coil types for industrial blast furnaces, and invar (nickle-iron-alloy) has plenty of uses in both GregTech and Thermal Expansion.

Zinc - ...yeah, that's pretty much only for advanced alloy. You could technically build some low-end machines with brass machine hulls instead of machine blocks if you're short on iron, but the number of recipes where this works is small and you're paying with copper, which is generally scarcer than iron. I don't even mine sphalerite in the nether, I get more than enough zinc for my limited usage just from industrial grinding other common ores.

 

[natnif36]

Regarding zinc, it is a rather beautiful building material to get a stark white, but also slighty more... Different, and is PERFECT as a material for a "laboratory" or for trying to recreate something from Portal.
I used Zinc blocks as the primary internal building material for my underground bunker laboratory thing in 1.4.7, and ended up spending a lot of time digging sphalerite for this.
The bonus was I got a significant amount of (chrome I think?) from processing the yellow garnet.
I had SHITTONS of Sulfer though.

Nickel is = ferrous.
And therefore is used, not all that much, but it is at times, such as magmatic engines, or Thermal generators.

Lead I have Ungodly amounts in 1.5. Due to a wither skeleton spawner.
Like insane amounts.
More lead than coal.

Silver I sometimes use for the MPS Te wire recipe, but mostly for electrum for the various reasons above.
Perhaps, considering my insane amounts if lead and the silver ~= lead centrifuge recipe in GT, I will spam factorisation solar boiler...