Self sufficient base.

[Frontrider]

I'm planning to build a base, where i don't need to go out for any material (i don't want to run a quarry, i want to try something different)

I will have all metals (expect cobalt, ardite, and aluminium) as soon as i get a reliable iron farm (i have a botania emerald farm, i get some ordo from sandstone, than i can transmutate iron to anything). Possibly snag a few carmanite golem spawners, if i can't make something along this line myself.

I don't have a reliable way to get diamonds and booth types of quartz (nether and certus ).

I can have redstone and glowstone duplication/transmutation from botania.

Power will come from charcoal, and possibly nether stars. My treefarm is completly power free, i use unbreakable tinkers tools (thanks to xisumavoid for the idea, i hope i spelled his name right), and golems.

I have infinite essense from all aspects (powered wisp spawner. Totally op. I had auram problems caused by the need for the next resource , now i feel like voiding it ).

I have infinite amounts from purifying fluid (enough to fill a World. Seriously, its world with an ocean. I feel like i broke Thaumcraft). I have gone really deep. Its a resource for me now.

I will set up the ore generating botania flower.

I probably have enough cinnabar ore stocked up, and i can ore double it, thanks to flaxbeard's steampower mod.

I have access to nether lava, probably change it to magma crucibles and cobble.

If theres any relatively easy way to automatically combine broken armor and tools unti they repaired, than i want to know that. Mob farms are easy, but crafty metal sources.

I do not want to use custom ages, and the mining laser is the last thing to try (i will probably use it to get certus, since i can not think about an another reliable way to get that )

No ic2 in the pack, so no uu.

I want to see some interesting ways to generate materials. Tell me if i missed some probably important resource, what i might need in my journey.

 

[Lohengrin]

Can use Botania to double up quartz (nether quartz anyway) and things like glowstone. Alchemy block you place under mana pool. Can't recall the name...No, no, not that one. The other one.
Honestly sounds like you are done there. Past tense and present tense collide... You plan to do these things or have done them, or you have done some and plan to do the rest? You closing the door on Vault 13 or something?

 

[Frontrider]

I know that botania block, i have one, thats what i use to get glowstone and redstone.
I just lifted my entire base (i live in laputa), And, left some walls warded, i should also note, that you should never ever do this to Energized aura nodes.
The server has a big reactor, thats where i steal power for now, until the infrastructure is rebuilt.

The metal means to reinstall a few old constructs, what i used for other purposes.

Any idea on how to auto repair massive amounts of broken armor, so i can smelt it? I don't want to void this resource.(thats what i do now, but i do smelted it once, and got a lot of metal)

 

[Xavion]

Thaumic Energistics adds the ability to duplicate nether and certus quartz in the newest versions, offshoot of alchemical duplication so you can get it that way. Mariculture has a way of automating the blacksmith's anvil as well I'm pretty sure which can repair all vanilla armours at least. Cinnabar is basically useless and unnecessary, it's only for TE 3x ore iirc and a bunch of other mods include that such as Factorization, TT for vanilla ores and a couple of mod ores as well. Quicksilver can be generated from silverwoods, although I don't think they're sustainable without dartcraft.

I think that should be basically everything though, soul sand and netherrack can be be gained through TT if nothing else and I think you can generate everything else. If you've got Thaumic Exploration or whatever for the replicator it makes those basic resources much easier to always generate.

Are you using a particular mod pack though? or even a modlist could help us figure out if there is anything else you might need, I think you've covered everything, unless you need infused shards anyway but I think the orechid should make those for you.

 

[Frontrider]

We have no addons for Thaumcraft, i don't have the list on me, but its mostly rf mods (te, xu, ender io, simply jetpacks etc.), with botania, pneumaticraft, twighlight forest, mystcraft.

I know i can get soul sand, dirt, and maybe gravel from sludge boilers. I try to avoid mfr because its way too simple and straightforward for me.

We have ae2 rv2 alpha build on, since we had a lot of issues with rv 1 (for eg, disks getting filled above the limit), so no thaumic energistics.

We played ftb unleashed before it, i think that had thaumic tinkerer in it,so it might be a bit familiar to them. 2 of us reached the eldritch knowledge, and some more things might be good there,since there is not too mutch.
So TT, might be an option, i will consult with the others, since it does not seems to be stable enough. Thats why we don't have mariculture, because i crashed from placing down turbine blades, reported it, and got no response.
I'm thinking about the steam hammer, not tried if i can access the inventory and, i have no idea how i'm gonna regulate it. There is any way to get redstone out from it, or its useless for automation?

Edit to avoid double post.

I think i can do a steady diamond production. I found a little miner guy in the twighlight, who drops coal, then i realised, that i can get it from a wither farm too. I sangged 2 spawners anyway, i will set it up to put coal blocks into the pressure chamber.

I might have figured out how i could regulate the steam power, but I'm not sure.

Right now, i'm rebuilding infrastructure, I will show a few pictures once i'm done.

 

[Zandorum]

Laser Miner from MFR?

 

[Frontrider]

I try to avoid mfr because its way too simple and straightforward for me.

Laser Miner from MFR?

 

[nixhlestakov]

If you have RailCraft, you can try this:
Cobblestone + Some Macerating Machine = Sand and Gravel
Then
Gravel + RC Rock Crusher = Diamonds and Gold Nuggets (with small chanse, but...)

 

[Frontrider]

If you have RailCraft, you can try this:
Cobblestone + Some Macerating Machine = Sand and Gravel
Then
Gravel + RC Rock Crusher = Diamonds and Gold Nuggets (with small chanse, but...)

I have gold and diamond from mobs .

 

[nixhlestakov]

I have gold and diamond from mobs .

Interesting, from what mobs they coming
I guess, gold from pigmen, but diamonds...

 

[Frontrider]

Diamonds: coal from wither skeletons-> coal blocks into the pressure chamber.
voila, free diamonds, with a loads of wither skeletons. I would also note that there is a miner guy from twighlight forest who also drops coal for sure with fortune.

right now i have the metal setup, i'm moving up on the twighlight forest ladder to get some carmanite golem spawners, they should be a sufficient metallum source.

Theres one guy on the server who runs a quarry, and always giving me the shards what he mines, since he don't need them, and if he will need them he can get enough in the future.