Thermal Foundation - use of Tar?

[Anton_]

TF's Fractionating Still produces a large amount of Tar from Liquefacted Coal in the production of Naphtha. The three listed uses of Tar (Torch, Sticky Piston, Leash) are easily duplicated with vanilla resources.

Does Tar have any significant uses not otherwise shown? I'm currently burning Tar in a Steam Generator.

[I'm following DW20's LP season 9]

 

[Brian Cherrick]

TF's Fractionating Still produces a large amount of Tar from Liquefacted Coal in the production of Naphtha. The three listed uses of Tar (Torch, Sticky Piston, Leash) are easily duplicated with vanilla resources.

Does Tar have any significant uses not otherwise shown? I'm currently burning Tar in a Steam Generator.

[I'm following DW20's LP season 9]

For the time being, I'd save them for pistons since slimeballs (depending on your seed) aren't always common.

 

[Anton_]

Thanks for that tip. Fortunately, Rice Slimeballs are accepted as an alternative for making Sticky Pistons, and Rice is part of the DW20 modpack.

 

[Riddle78]

Tar can be used as a slime stand-in,as mentioned. It's also able to be melted down into creosote,if you ever need even MORE of that. No idea why,personally,but there it is.

 

[Cptqrk]

Tar can be used as a slime stand-in,as mentioned. It's also able to be melted down into creosote,if you ever need even MORE of that. No idea why,personally,but there it is.

Tar -> Magma Crucible -> Compression Dynamo for more power.

Waste not and all that

 

[KingTriaxx]

Creosote is a fuel, so you can melt it and produce some bonus power. (Hopefully more than it cost to be melted.)

 

[ShneekeyTheLost]

1) It takes four rice dough to make one sticky rice that doubles as a slimeball, that's four rice bread you could be eating. Or just use tar.

2) By using Tar for torches instead of coal, you're effectively getting it for free, since tar is a byproduct of turning coal into fuel.

3) Don't bother using Liquefacted Coal, it's actually one of the worse fuel options out there because of all the processing required. Instead, put four Aboreal Extractors around a Spruce Tree and pipe the resulting sap into a Fractionating Still. You net Tree Oil and Rosin. Tree Oil goes into Compression Dynamo, Rosin goes in a Steam Dynamo. You can run a half dozen or so compression dynamos off of this setup pretty easily. When you start running low on tree oil, plant another spruce tree and another four aboreal extractors. The only RF investment is the one run through the still, instead of two runs through a still and the magma crucible, so you end up far more energy positive than the liquefacted coal method, and it is entirely passive and never runs out of fuel.

 

[KingTriaxx]

Is that taking Ignition Plugs which require refined fuel into the calculations?

 

[Hambeau]

Having been a Unix admin in the past, every time I see this thread I'm reminded of Tape Backups (tar command)

 

[ShneekeyTheLost]

Having been a Unix admin in the past, every time I see this thread I'm reminded of Tape Backups (tar command)

Being a Linux user, I know those feels. The compression files are .tar.gz or, in common parlance, a 'tarball', which is almost certainly a reference to the old Unix commands

 

[Hambeau]

Being a Linux user, I know those feels. The compression files are .tar.gz or, in common parlance, a 'tarball', which is almost certainly a reference to the old Unix commands

Yeah... tar.gz is a default name for a "Gnu Zip" compressed file of a tar archive. When I was using the tar command I was actually writing uncompressed system backups onto real reel-to-reel tapes

 

[ShneekeyTheLost]

Yeah... tar.gz is a default name for a "Gnu Zip" compressed file of a tar archive. When I was using the tar command I was actually writing uncompressed system backups onto real reel-to-reel tapes

I remember those. While you were playing with reel-to-reel, I was playing with punch cards. And cursing 'that guy' for using a rubber band to keep his deck together which bent the edges of the cards and caused it to get stuck, freezing up the whole damn mainframe...