I've got like 50 stacks of both kinds! From what I can tell they're both completely useless. Sure you can use it for mixed metal, and as an iron substitute, but I honestly have like a few thousand of the things. I'm throwing about 400 into a recycler right now. Is there anything I'm missing? Is there some super special use for them that I'm going to regret recycling them all?
What do I do with all this aluminium?
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For Gregtech, Aluminum is a valid substitute for refined iron in a lot of recipes which can save you a lot of resources (since GT wants you to convert a lot of iron directly to refined iron then use it to produce steel).
For Xycraft, you can use them to do a few things:
- If you have sulfur on hand (I know you do), make aluminum torches. They're awesome looking.
- If you need more glass viewers you can use that with glass to make viewers.
- You can make some of those ugly higher-end blocks that are very explosion resistant.
Xycraft aluminum -> glass viewers in induction smelter
Greg's Aluminum -> in place of Refined Iron
Greg's Aluminum -> in place of Refined Iron
Best use depends on if you're centrifuging lava for tin. If not, probably the best use for xycraft aluminum (sic) is to make cans with it, then smelt those cans for two nuggets of tin each.
Second best use would be decorative blocks, I like them better than iron blocks.
Third is glass viewers.
Second best use would be decorative blocks, I like them better than iron blocks.
Third is glass viewers.
I build walls with it, good look for a factory. Hadn't noticed it was usable in glass viewer, will use it for that now too.
First, can we all please pay attention to spelling?
Aluminum - Xycraft-only item.
Aluminium - Gregtech-only item.
I was incredibly confused at first while reading this thread. Note the extra "i" is only in Gregtech's AluminIum. The Xycraft item is alumiNUM.
Anyway, back on point - in my current world, I use aluminIum in place of iron for some Gregtech recipes. For aluminum, I make torches out of it (yay no more dropping sulfur goo every two seconds!) and I make blocks out of it for storage or decoration. It actually looks pretty cool in block form, I think.
Aluminum - Xycraft-only item.
Aluminium - Gregtech-only item.
I was incredibly confused at first while reading this thread. Note the extra "i" is only in Gregtech's AluminIum. The Xycraft item is alumiNUM.
Anyway, back on point - in my current world, I use aluminIum in place of iron for some Gregtech recipes. For aluminum, I make torches out of it (yay no more dropping sulfur goo every two seconds!) and I make blocks out of it for storage or decoration. It actually looks pretty cool in block form, I think.
You mean "The lack of "i" is xycraft aluminum, The gregtech item is Aluminium"
C'mon people, we should all know the American spelling is the mistake
The silly sounding shorter one.I don't even know which one is American
I swear that if american english holds to that path it'll end up in grunts for language.
I would say both ways "lack of i/additional i" are accurate. It's all just a matter of perspective. Either way, the Xycraft version does not have the i at the end and the Gregtech version does. I just wanted to make the distinction.
If you want to get technical, the original and now obsolete spelling of the word was "alumium" and then later changed to aluminum. The ium variant was introduced in a review of Sir Humphry Davy's book, not by the scientist who discovered it himself.
Honestly, I think it was a bad idea naming two objects so closely to begin with, as far as FTB goes. I would have called it alum or something entirely different.
So no, Lambert, I am not wrong. The etymology of the word speaks for itself.
Honestly, I think it was a bad idea naming two objects so closely to begin with, as far as FTB goes. I would have called it alum or something entirely different.
So no, Lambert, I am not wrong. The etymology of the word speaks for itself.