Rotarycraft - the mindblower and builds

[zemerick]

Hey guys,

Just wanted to say thanks for all the help! So for those reading this thread in the future, here is my setup:

1. I have 2 sugar cane farms being run by the MineFactoryReloaded mod. Per farm I have 2 harvesters, running off RJ power (this was initially done with magmatic dynamos and lava from the nether) using tin upgrades.
2. I use bonemeal through the RotaryCraft fertilizer and the RoC sprinklers to increase rate of farming
3. I setup a sakura tree farm above my sugarcane farm with the MFR system, the only difference is 1 of the harvesters doesn't have an upgrade and is set to sheer leaves. The bone meal fertilizer while below the tree farm still fertilizers the saplings.
4. This might not be the most efficient way to make yeast and sludge but I always like the "go big or go home" principle. So I have 15 performance engines running 10 sugar->yeast and 5 yeast->sludge manufacturing.
5. This in turn is run through a electric furnace (5 furnaces with 1 transformer upgrade and 7 overclockers). This setup produces more ethanol than I know what to do with.

Jet fuel

1. I have 16 performance engines running 5 grinders, 1 grinder for canola->lube and 2x netherrack->dust and 2x SoulSand->tar and 1 fractional unit
2. I have a monster spawner and grinder that helps generate blaze (use a cyclic assembler to convert blaze->blaze powder and blaze powder+slime->magma cream). Only crap thing about this is u need to next to it for the mobs to spawn. I am in the process of setting up magic crops and bees.
3. I used this method to stock pile jet fuel. After about a day of stock piling jet fuel I installed 1 gas turbine and now I run 3 extractors and 2 frac units off it.

Use things like QuarryPlus to get enough soul sand, netherrack and dirt.

Maybe not the best way to go about it but currently I have a surplus of jet fuel and ethanol and im goin to test adding more extractors to my gas turbine and potentially add more gas turbines to the mix the moment I have a steady supply from my magical crops.

Hope this helps someone!

If you use the Grinder for the Blaze rods you will get 6 powder instead of 2. ( Macerator will get you 5, pulverizer 4 btw. )

 

[LothyZA]

If you use the Grinder for the Blaze rods you will get 6 powder instead of 2. ( Macerator will get you 5, pulverizer 4 btw. )

Really? when I checked the NEI it showed the grinder only making 1...

Sorry was I should have said im using the macerator for the blaze, the cyclic was to make soul sand from tainted soil and heat sand.

 

[zemerick]

Really? when I checked the NEI it showed the grinder only making 1...

Sorry was I should have said im using the macerator for the blaze, the cyclic was to make soul sand from tainted soil and heat sand.

Could be configured differently in your modpack. I'm on Monster 1.1.2. It also might have changed when I updated Reikas mods.

 

[LothyZA]

ye possible, not a huge deal really at this point. When my bee and magic crops are sorted I need to start working on another RoC goal.

 

[zemerick]

ye possible, not a huge deal really at this point. When my bee and magic crops are sorted I need to start working on another RoC goal.

Indeed, 5 from the macerator is what I did while I used jet fuel. ( grinder was busy with other stuff, and didn't feel like powering another one just for the 1 extra. )

Sounds like it's Fusion Reactor time then

 

[LothyZA]

I can feel my butt puckering at just the thought of it lol!

 

[zemerick]

I can feel my butt puckering at just the thought of it lol!

It's surprisingly easy.

Set up your farm of choice for wool.
Set up about 5 automated Blast Furnaces making HSLA steel.
Start a QuarryPlus quarry with silk touch in an Extreme Hills ( or other really high biome ) and quarry down to level 55.
Run the Magnetite through the Extractor to get tons of Lodestone which you run in the Compressor to get the Magnets.
Go to an ocean biome, get down decently deep and place a Heavy Water Extractor.
Pump the Heavy Water into an Electrolyzer to get Deuterium ( void the Oxygen ).
Half of the Deuterium goes into a Neutron Irradiation Chamber in a basic Fission reactor. ( Mine was air cooled and didn't even have any boilers. No power generation stuff. I can also tell you that 16 cores is massively excessive. )

Load your Creative test world, and experiment with building the Fusion Reactor. Getting enough water into the boilers is the main tricky part, but some creativity will work wonders here.

Come back to your main world, and if it was still running ( such as a server ), you are probably good on materials. Build away

If you have any questions, you can feel free to ask me.

 

[DriftinFool]

So last night I setup a nice little farm of rubber saplings. With this I also setup a sprinkler and 2x fertilizer (mfr and RC), one using bonemeal (rc) and the other std fertilizer (2x sand, 1 apatite). I also used a cyclic assembler to constantly make fertilizer and set the pulveriser to make bone meal. Even with this setup I was unable to keep up with a single gasoline engine powering 1 fermenter making sludge...

what im gonna try next is fertilized dirt and if that doesn't work I was actually considering a line of sawmills, with a blower/hopper to pick up the leaves. What im not sure about is how to enchant the sawmill to always plant a sapling every time it cuts a tree down.

Fermenters run just fine off of DC engines which are basically free power, since they only require redstone. 1 for sludge and 1 for ethanol with a single DC engine on each makes ethanol faster than I can use it.

 

[LothyZA]

1. DC engines are stupidly loud and annoying
2. Nothing looks cooler then the pistons on the performance engines, also I did state performance engines were overkill

@zemerick

You make it sound so easy ;-) but challenge accepted! I did have some issues this weekend with my MC crashing like crazy (turns out it was optifine) and my server having a bad chunk and we had to roll back a backup basically me loosing tons of work done. So im gonna stabilize my blaze rod and magma cream production and start working on this.

 

[LothyZA]

Got another question.

How are u getting a steady supply of soul sand without having to mine the hell out of the nether? Iv tried finding nether essence, but for the life of me I cant... and I am busy looking into bees, but to get to the bee that I need is gonna take some time to breed.

any suggestions?

Thanks again for all the help

 

[dothrom]

Magical Crops, if you have it. Nether seeds will get you the essence to make both soul sand and netherrack.

 

[zemerick]

1. DC engines are stupidly loud and annoying
2. Nothing looks cooler then the pistons on the performance engines, also I did state performance engines were overkill

@zemerick

You make it sound so easy ;-) but challenge accepted! I did have some issues this weekend with my MC crashing like crazy (turns out it was optifine) and my server having a bad chunk and we had to roll back a backup basically me loosing tons of work done. So im gonna stabilize my blaze rod and magma cream production and start working on this.

You can turn down the engine volume in the config, or for updated versions place wool around it, and finally a sound muffler will quiet things down.

Good luck on the reactor though!

 

[LothyZA]

Magical Crops, if you have it. Nether seeds will get you the essence to make both soul sand and netherrack.

Sorry dothrom could u elaborate further?

Only thing I can seem to get is nether wart. Where exactly can I get the nether seeds (ie from certain nether plants or in a vague ore block)?

what I have done in the mean time is setup a boring machine which is working well (cant believe I never tried this machine before!), but I would still like to get the seeds if possible.

 

[malicious_bloke]

Sorry dothrom could u elaborate further?

Only thing I can seem to get is nether wart. Where exactly can I get the nether seeds (ie from certain nether plants or in a vague ore block)?

what I have done in the mean time is setup a boring machine which is working well (cant believe I never tried this machine before!), but I would still like to get the seeds if possible.

Nether seeds from magical crops. They grow into nether crops, which drop nether essence when harvested. Nether essence has a few shaped crafting recipes, you can use it to make nether quartz, netherrack or soul sand. The recipes are all in NEI

 

[dothrom]

^that

 

[zemerick]

Sorry dothrom could u elaborate further?

Only thing I can seem to get is nether wart. Where exactly can I get the nether seeds (ie from certain nether plants or in a vague ore block)?

what I have done in the mean time is setup a boring machine which is working well (cant believe I never tried this machine before!), but I would still like to get the seeds if possible.

You craft the seeds. Check nei for the recipes.

 

[LothyZA]

Thanks for the replies!

Ill check when this work day is finally done! Have a rocking weekend all!

 

[Ieldra]

It's surprisingly easy.

Set up your farm of choice for wool.
Set up about 5 automated Blast Furnaces making HSLA steel.
Start a QuarryPlus quarry with silk touch in an Extreme Hills ( or other really high biome ) and quarry down to level 55.
Run the Magnetite through the Extractor to get tons of Lodestone which you run in the Compressor to get the Magnets.
Go to an ocean biome, get down decently deep and place a Heavy Water Extractor.
Pump the Heavy Water into an Electrolyzer to get Deuterium ( void the Oxygen ).
Half of the Deuterium goes into a Neutron Irradiation Chamber in a basic Fission reactor. ( Mine was air cooled and didn't even have any boilers. No power generation stuff. I can also tell you that 16 cores is massively excessive. )

Load your Creative test world, and experiment with building the Fusion Reactor. Getting enough water into the boilers is the main tricky part, but some creativity will work wonders here.

Come back to your main world, and if it was still running ( such as a server ), you are probably good on materials. Build away

If you have any questions, you can feel free to ask me.

LOL. This does describe things correctly, yet it's so misleading.

Also, you forgot the turbines, which need more HSLA steel than the reactor proper and which consume lubricant at a few buckets per second. Building the reactor is one task, running it quite another.

 

[zemerick]

LOL. This does describe things correctly, yet it's so misleading.

Also, you forgot the turbines, which need more HSLA steel than the reactor proper and which consume lubricant at a few buckets per second. Building the reactor is one task, running it quite another.

"Set up about 5 automated Blast Furnaces making HSLA steel."

Nope, I covered the steel for the turbines.

The lubricant for them is only required if you manually updated the mods. The version in Monster does not require the truckloads of lube.

 

[Ieldra]

My point; you made no argument against it.

I never said it was difficult. I said it was the most difficult thing to automate in Rotary.

Automate jet fuel production before you make a statement like that.[DOUBLEPOST=1409937051][/DOUBLEPOST]

"Set up about 5 automated Blast Furnaces making HSLA steel."

Nope, I covered the steel for the turbines.

The lubricant for them is only required if you manually updated the mods. The version in Monster does not require the truckloads of lube.

I see. Well, the number of bugs that has been fixed since v19 is significant. Hope you won't run into any of them. Some are rather annoying.