Top End/Advanced Power Setups?

[Brian Cherrick]

Got more than enough lava power going, but am wanting to get something a bit more advanced going. What options are there? Boilers/Nuclear? Something else ? Am looking for opinions here on what to get setup.

Bedazzle me with your creations my mighty minions

 

[Algester]

atomic science Fusion Reactors...

 

[rhn]

Got more than enough lava power going, but am wanting to get something a bit more advanced going. What options are there? Boilers/Nuclear? Something else ? Am looking for opinions here on what to get setup.

Bedazzle me with your creations my mighty minions

Which modpack are we talking?

 

[Brian Cherrick]

I got Direwolf 20's pack with a few extra mods (advanced solars, gascraft). But have been thinking about getting Atomic Science ... Basically trying to have multiple energy setups, and not relying strictly on steam/lava as I am now. Basically looking for a top end build that puts out high eu/tick, and rf/tick.

 

[PierceSG]

Hard to recommend when we do not know what mods are or will be involved. Algester reads my mind on that though as well as maybe giving Big Reactors a try? RotaryCraft is pretty complicated as well, getting an automated setup for making jet fuel and running the jet engine. I'm pretty sure having buildcraft gives you access to the air compressor that converts RotaryCraft's power to MJ.

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[Brian Cherrick]

Hard to recommend when we do not know what mods are or will be involved. Algester reads my mind on that though as well as maybe giving Big Reactors a try? RotaryCraft is pretty complicated as well, getting an automated setup for making jet fuel and running the jet engine. I'm pretty sure having buildcraft gives you access to the air compressor that converts RotaryCraft's power to MJ.

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Did mention above the mod pack/mods that I currently have. But I am willing to download and tryout other mods. Am actually working on getting Rotary, and Atomic science up and running. Consider no mod off limited when suggesting a setup to use. Even if it's a mod I don't have, I am more than willing to download it.

 

[Algester]

if your using DW20 pack I would expect you have IC2... well it all ends with nukes

 

[PierceSG]

Mekanism's Electrolytic Separator and Hydrogen Generator banks works for normal daily stuffs.
Atomic Science's Fusion Reactor, Steam Funnels and Reactor Turbines is a great combination for bulk energy generation.
Big Reactors is another great source of uranium -> RF.
MFR tree farm, running the wood through furnaces (I recommend Mekanism's Factories) to get charcoal and feeding them into RailCraft's Steam Boilers. Extracting the steam and feeding them to either RailCraft's own Industrial Steam Engines or Thermal Expansion's Steam Dynamos.
I do not use IC2 nor GT so I would leave it to others to advise you on other alternatives.

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[Brian Cherrick]

I got big reactors up, getting rotary, and atomic sci up soon (got to resolve some conflicts first)

I've always used IC2, & HV solar arrays for my power needs. Was trying to going for multiple unique power systems this go around. [DOUBLEPOST=1387444974][/DOUBLEPOST]I got Mek up as well, but as I said, I'm looking at everything. Don't want to just be handcuffed on one thing, ya know.

The one thing I am not liking so far (and not sure if it's a 1.6.4 thing, or a dw20 thing) is that certains ores seem to be far more scarce then they were in 1.5.2. I was sitting out thousands of each ore when I was towards the end, now I barely got 100 of each and I been on 1.6.4 for close to a week. Any ideas ?

 

[Algester]

Ores huh Ores... RNG eeither laughs at you or RNG really just mocks at you if all else fails COFH world gen bump those values up FOR EXTREME LULZ

 

[Brian Cherrick]

Like for example, I left a quarry running overnight in my digger age. After about 5 hours, I got a diamond chest and a half filled up. I am voiding gravel, sand, cobble, and dirt. I had 2-1/2 stacks of certus quartz, 1-1/2 stacks of certus quartz dust, about 20 stacks of copper, multiple stacks of various other ores, and no iron. I repeat NO IRON. I guess it could just be bad RNG, but with so much requiring iron, it makes it hard to do anything.

I'm gonna saying it's laughing and mocking me. As of right now the quarry is down to around Y level 40. So I suppose it can still find some lower yet. Just really frustrating cause until I get a mass fab running I don't really have a reliable source of iron, and without iron I can't get anywhere close to it lol

 

[UrNotFunny]

Like for example, I left a quarry running overnight in my digger age. After about 5 hours, I got a diamond chest and a half filled up. I am voiding gravel, sand, cobble, and dirt. I had 2-1/2 stacks of certus quartz, 1-1/2 stacks of certus quartz dust, about 20 stacks of copper, multiple stacks of various other ores, and no iron. I repeat NO IRON. I guess it could just be bad RNG, but with so much requiring iron, it makes it hard to do anything.

I'm gonna saying it's laughing and mocking me. As of right now the quarry is down to around Y level 40. So I suppose it can still find some lower yet. Just really frustrating cause until I get a mass fab running I don't really have a reliable source of iron, and without iron I can't get anywhere close to it lol

That sounds too low for iron. I'd check your CofH config options for ore gen. CofHWorld-Generation.cfg has all the settings for different ores. You can set retrogen to true in there if you want to repopulate them. CofhWorld.cfg has an option that needs to be enabled to do retrogen.

edit: Actually, I'm not sure if your digger age is affected by this, maybe your digger age has no iron?

 

[MigukNamja]

I like long-tail power projects. Current one is Ethanol from fully-bred trees with max. sappiness, saplings, number of leaves, and fastest maturity [done] and fruit juice from better-bred papayas [in progress]

Maximum flowering bees has helped a lot.

Update : Forgot to mention that all the tree farm manual labor is done by the masters of manual labor : TC4 golems. An Advanced Thaumium Golem with all upgrades is a sight to behold.

I'm going for a "natural / magic" power setup this time around. Blood Magic looks very tempting in that regard.

 

[MigukNamja]

RotaryCraft is pretty complicated as well, getting an automated setup for making jet fuel and running the jet engine.

I, too, like that setup. It's a step beyond Ethanol. Getting all of the Jet Fuel ingredients like magma creme in renewable quantities is not trivial.

 

[PsionicArchon]

At the moment I'm working on a multifaceted system that appears to be similar to what you are looking for. It's powered by a series of nuclear reactors and boilers that all feed energy into a series of energy cubes with Universal Cables wiring everything together. Out of everything I've tested, the energy cubes seem to have the highest power output of any storage device so I like to keep them at the front of my power grid. With Universal Cables you don't have to wire each nuclear reactor to its own set of non-touching wires, the Universal Cables don't appear to have a maximum transfer rate so you can work with values higher then eight thousand eu/t. Energy Cubes wont explode either, so head over to the ic2 forums and, grab yourself some reactor designs.

Also, if you're running short on Iron try quarrying the deep dark. Vanilla ore gen is doubled there without the instability of a Mystcraft ores age.

 

[Brian Cherrick]

That sounds too low for iron. I'd check your CofH config options for ore gen. CofHWorld-Generation.cfg has all the settings for different ores. You can set retrogen to true in there if you want to repopulate them. CofhWorld.cfg has an option that needs to be enabled to do retrogen.

edit: Actually, I'm not sure if your digger age is affected by this, maybe your digger age has no iron?

I just finished out the quarry. No vanilla ores whatsoever. No Iron, Gold, Diamond, or Redstone. Only modded ores are in the Mystcraft ages ....

Not sure what options I need to change, but the retrogen for all the vanilla ores in the COFHWorld-Gen cfg file is "false". Does putting them on true, simply enable the ores to spawn in Mystcraft ages ? If I am understanding that right?

At the moment I'm working on a multifaceted system that appears to be similar to what you are looking for. It's powered by a series of nuclear reactors and boilers that all feed energy into a series of energy cubes with Universal Cables wiring everything together. Out of everything I've tested, the energy cubes seem to have the highest power output of any storage device so I like to keep them at the front of my power grid. With Universal Cables you don't have to wire each nuclear reactor to its own set of non-touching wires, the Universal Cables don't appear to have a maximum transfer rate so you can work with values higher then eight thousand eu/t. Energy Cubes wont explode either, so head over to the ic2 forums and, grab yourself some reactor designs.

Also, if you're running short on Iron try quarrying the deep dark. Vanilla ore gen is doubled there without the instability of a Mystcraft ores age.

Might have to check if I got the ores for a DD portal yet. But quarrying that is a possibility.

 

[Democretes]

I've always like setting up a Darcraft Force Tree farm then squeezing the logs into liquid force for engines. If you have bees you can get quite a bit of power out of the engines, else use milk and still get a good amount.

 

[Brian Cherrick]

Just checked, and I don't have the sigils for the ingots yet. Not sure where I can really look for those. Dungeon chests I know, but dungeons can be hard to find at times.

 

[casilleroatr]

If you have the mod witchery (it is on horizons) there is some world gen. Further information in spoiler (I don't want to ruin it for people who like exploring and finding stuff out for themselves).

Spoiler

One of them is a stone circle with a pool in the centre. At the bottom of the pool is a dispenser which contains dungeon loot. They are easier to find than dungeons and have plenty of good stuff in them. I even found iridium once).

 

[Algester]

Like for example, I left a quarry running overnight in my digger age. After about 5 hours, I got a diamond chest and a half filled up. I am voiding gravel, sand, cobble, and dirt. I had 2-1/2 stacks of certus quartz, 1-1/2 stacks of certus quartz dust, about 20 stacks of copper, multiple stacks of various other ores, and no iron. I repeat NO IRON. I guess it could just be bad RNG, but with so much requiring iron, it makes it hard to do anything.

I'm gonna saying it's laughing and mocking me. As of right now the quarry is down to around Y level 40. So I suppose it can still find some lower yet. Just really frustrating cause until I get a mass fab running I don't really have a reliable source of iron, and without iron I can't get anywhere close to it lol

low Iron needs huh... well Iron is rewable in a way anyway... sadistic as it maybe aim for a village farm for iron golems... if RNG doesnt mock you and gives you a village