Rotarycraft midgame and jet power.

[Xheotris]

So, there are lots of tutorials out there for starting out with Rotarycraft, and plenty of help with endgame Reactorcraft, but not so much for the midgame. What I'd like have is a little advice getting *sustainable* jet power under my belt so that I'm not trying to jump straight from steam/gas engines to nukes. The less AE used, the better, and I don't want to use bees, MFR lasers, or magical crops at all.

By sustainable, I generally mean that I can mine, grow, and process the materials for power with the power produced, and it can be run more or less continually without a lot of babysitting.

 

[madnewmy]

a boring machine in the nether will get you the netherack and maybe the soul sand if you place it well
a blaze spawner will get you blaze powder
a slime spawner will get you slime balls so magma cream
a boring machine in the overworld or a wither skelly farm will get you coal
two fermenter, one for yeast, one for sludge, dirt well either you get it from mining/boring machine or you can automate it with IC2. Sugar from a sugar cane farm (MFR) and leaves can be done with MFR again.

For spawers, either RoC or MFR will work

IMHO, you should get into a small reactor. It can be self sustainable

 

[Not_Steve]

*draws pentagram*
*throws in rocket, bucket of blood, and a pbr*
*says demonic phrases*
*throws in 3 steaks*

 

[Padfoote]

*draws pentagram*
*throws in rocket, bucket of blood, and a pbr*
*says demonic phrases*
*throws in 3 steaks*

Erm, did you edit out my name?

But @madnewmy covered everything rather well. For the spawners, I would use the RotaryCraft ones when you can, just be sure you have a method to quickly kill the spawns.

 

[Ieldra]

So, there are lots of tutorials out there for starting out with Rotarycraft, and plenty of help with endgame Reactorcraft, but not so much for the midgame. What I'd like have is a little advice getting *sustainable* jet power under my belt so that I'm not trying to jump straight from steam/gas engines to nukes. The less AE used, the better, and I don't want to use bees, MFR lasers, or magical crops at all.

By sustainable, I generally mean that I can mine, grow, and process the materials for power with the power produced, and it can be run more or less continually without a lot of babysitting.

By excluding bees and magical crops, you've already denied yourself 100% renewability.

Anyway, I've found that the only problem is the soul sand, since you may not get enough of that with regular mining. This may make regular mining trips into the nether necessary. However, I should mention that jet fuel is a very efficient fuel, and its production is efficient as well. You will get abour 350 buckets from a stack of each ingredient. That will let you run a gas turbine at full power for about 35 minutes, which is enough to run several thousand blocks of ore through an extractor. Also, once you have a little jet fuel, you can use it to power your fractionizer with a microturbine. That will make more jet fuel ultra-fast. With a sufficient stock of ingredients, it takes about a minute to make a kilobucket.

Having said that, an automated supply sufficient to keep a gas turbine running continuously may be hard to come by, but I haven't found a reason to keep one running, given how fast it does things, so that doesn't really matter.

 

[Kirameki]

Since you specifically only excluded MFR lasers, use an MFR planter+harvester+sludge boiler. You don't even need to actually use whatever it harvests, you just want to generate large quantities of sludge since the sludge boiler will create a set of random items from it - one of those being soul sand. Then all you'll need from the Nether is netherrack, which is easy to come by.

 

[Xheotris]

Since you specifically only excluded MFR lasers, use an MFR planter+harvester+sludge boiler. You don't even need to actually use whatever it harvests, you just want to generate large quantities of sludge since the sludge boiler will create a set of random items from it - one of those being soul sand. Then all you'll need from the Nether is netherrack, which is easy to come by.

Nice. I tend to forget about the sludge boiler when not playing skyblocks.

 

[buggirlexpres]

*draws pentagram*
*throws in rocket, bucket of blood, and a pbr*
*says demonic phrases*
*throws in 3 steaks*

/me appears

 

[Not_Steve]

/me appears

Rocket is Reika
Bucket of blood is paddy
Pbr is pyure
You don't have a symbol...

 

[pc_assassin]

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Slowpoke.

Why did you throw in the blood!!!!!!

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[pc_assassin]

Ok disregard that I have no idea where it came from cause I multi qouted not Steve and Gid

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[Not_Steve]

Why did you throw in the blood!!!!!!

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Paddy. Padfoote. The maintainer of blood magic on the wiki.

 

[buggirlexpres]

Ok disregard that I have no idea where it came from cause I multi qouted not Steve and Gid

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I guess Slow just wanted you to feel very welcome [DOUBLEPOST=1405972533][/DOUBLEPOST]

Rocket is Reika
Bucket of blood is paddy
Pbr is pyure
You don't have a symbol...

Symbol... Hm... Symbol.... How 'bout a Blood Orb? Or... a sacrificial knife. That sounds fun.

 

[Padfoote]

Paddy. Padfoote. The maintainer of blood magic on the wiki.

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