The most underused starting strategies?

[Golrith]

Something not as "efficient"

Horizontal, Bog Earth, Water, Bog Earth repeated along. Deployer, piston and block breaker for each row for bog earth. Each row get's it's end broken, pushed forward and fresh bog earth deployed every 3 minutes. Peat to engines, dirt back to bog earth creation system, bog earth back to storage. Use a CC computer to act as a timer, allows easier fine tuning of each element of the contraption.

Got it all setup within a 11x11 "farm" which matches all the other farms in my base, which are all 11x11 with their own little dedicated golems running the show.


On average, this gives me a constant trickle of peat for my engines. Since most of my machines are idle 95% of the time, a REC slowly fills up- even at times I have to turn off the peat engines to save peat.

 

[Heliomance]

quartz grindstone+crescent hammer turtle=exploit, well in my opinion only, it's a vanilla item so I don't expect the developer has much opinion about mod behaviours (unlike, for example, the Clockwork Engine).

What? No vanilla items there. The turtle is ComputerCraft, and the quartz grindstone is Applied Energistics.

 

[PhilHibbs]

What? No vanilla items there. The turtle is ComputerCraft, and the quartz grindstone is Applied Energistics.

Yeah I wasn't really awake this morning when I posted that. I was thinking it was something to do with Nether Quartz.

 

[Bigglesworth]

I tried the jumping off cliff into lava method

still working out some bugs

 

[FtbBossWhoIsAw3s0m3]

I tried the jumping off cliff into lava method

still working out some bugs

for some reason, i find that is the best way to double diamonds! chuck a diamond in there, and there is a one in 99999999 chance that you will get 2 back!

 

[casilleroatr]

Yeah I wasn't really awake this morning when I posted that. I was thinking it was something to do with Nether Quartz.

You can make the grindstone with nether quartz. I wonder if algorithmx2 was laughing to himself as he coded that, the most primitive ore doubling machine being made of materials you need to go to the nether for. Well, at least you can still use the certus quartz dust.

 

[Hydra]

You can make the grindstone with nether quartz. I wonder if algorithmx2 was laughing to himself as he coded that, the most primitive ore doubling machine being made of materials you need to go to the nether for. Well, at least you can still use the certus quartz dust.

When he made that it wasn't something you needed to go to the nether for

But I made one and DAMN it's slow. It's a really cruel joke

 

[Mjw]

i start the first night by making a gregtech fusion reactor i don't use it i just have it so mobs can't spawn

 

[Darknesschaos]

i start the first night by making a gregtech fusion reactor i don't use it i just have it so mobs can't spawn

Yeah, fusion coil floors first night are OP, Greg needs to get on that.

 

[Ako_the_Builder]

i start the first night by making a gregtech fusion reactor i don't use it i just have it so mobs can't spawn

Hehe, complete with tree farm and ore processing facility:

 

[Hoff]

Something not as "efficient"

Horizontal, Bog Earth, Water, Bog Earth repeated along. Deployer, piston and block breaker for each row for bog earth. Each row get's it's end broken, pushed forward and fresh bog earth deployed every 3 minutes. Peat to engines, dirt back to bog earth creation system, bog earth back to storage. Use a CC computer to act as a timer, allows easier fine tuning of each element of the contraption.

Got it all setup within a 11x11 "farm" which matches all the other farms in my base, which are all 11x11 with their own little dedicated golems running the show.


On average, this gives me a constant trickle of peat for my engines. Since most of my machines are idle 95% of the time, a REC slowly fills up- even at times I have to turn off the peat engines to save peat.

Screen shots?

 

[Golrith]

Screen shots?

Ok. Not really that impressive, due to a small setup, and mostly all hidden underground. (Also, using a texture pack, which might confuse what you are looking at)

Above ground view, no sign of any automation:


View one underground. Dirt and Sand supplied manually, fabricator on a XYtank valve to create the Bog Earth. Filter pulls out 6 Bog Earth when pulsed.


View two underground. Computer controls everything. Pluses the Right side first to activate the block breakers, peat filtered to the chest, bog earth should end up in the fabricator. This pulse is done 2 times, to ensure that the blocks are broken (bit of server lag resulted in some blocks not being broken, pushing the peat blocks into my house...). Then it pulses the left side, which activates the pistons, then it pulses the top, which activates the deployers and the filter attached to the fabricator.



Gives me enough power to get started, have just now built my 3rd redstone energy cell and 3 bio-gas engines to up my power generation, as my next project is a BC assembly table and lasers, for gates. So I've gone now from max 4mj/t to 19mj/t.

 

[iconmaster]

I always start with turtles. Got a few diamonds, redstone, and iron? You have an instant quarry. All you need to worry about is fuel (Lava is great) and chunk loading (Immibis' is p. cheap, Additonal Pipes' is cheaper, AFKing is free).

 

[Oatmonster]

I like using traincraft steel to quickly launch myself into mid game. Most people ignore it because it isn't supported by NEI but you can get 8 steel from 3 iron and you can completely skip the blast furnace.

 

[Bellaabzug21]

I like using traincraft steel to quickly launch myself into mid game. Most people ignore it because it isn't supported by NEI but you can get 8 steel from 3 iron and you can completely skip the blast furnace.

To me that seems kind of cheety. I try to avoid such things.[DOUBLEPOST=1372387526][/DOUBLEPOST]

Ok. Not really that impressive, due to a small setup, and mostly all hidden underground. (Also, using a texture pack, which might confuse what you are looking at)

Above ground view, no sign of any automation:
View attachment 5620

View one underground. Dirt and Sand supplied manually, fabricator on a XYtank valve to create the Bog Earth. Filter pulls out 6 Bog Earth when pulsed.
View attachment 5621

View two underground. Computer controls everything. Pluses the Right side first to activate the block breakers, peat filtered to the chest, bog earth should end up in the fabricator. This pulse is done 2 times, to ensure that the blocks are broken (bit of server lag resulted in some blocks not being broken, pushing the peat blocks into my house...). Then it pulses the left side, which activates the pistons, then it pulses the top, which activates the deployers and the filter attached to the fabricator.
View attachment 5619


Gives me enough power to get started, have just now built my 3rd redstone energy cell and 3 bio-gas engines to up my power generation, as my next project is a BC assembly table and lasers, for gates. So I've gone now from max 4mj/t to 19mj/t.

Looks nice, what is that texture pack by the way?

 

[GPuzzle]

Well, that's the first sucessful necro I've seen.
Well done there.

 

[Bellaabzug21]

Well, that's the first sucessful necro I've seen.
Well done there.

Say what now?

 

[wow]

how i start

 

[GPuzzle]

Say what now?

Not to you, but rather to the guy that necro'ed some time ago.
He revived the thread that had been dead for 3 months and it got back, nonstop.
That's kind of cool, really.

 

[Bellaabzug21]

Not to you, but rather to the guy that necro'ed some time ago.
He revived the thread that had been dead for 3 months and it got back, nonstop.
That's kind of cool, really.

Meh, it's a nice thread. People care about starting strategies. If people care about the thread, it's good to necro.