What do I do with all this aluminium?

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Cosmology27

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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?
 
Cosmology27 said:
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?
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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:
  1. If you have sulfur on hand (I know you do), make aluminum torches. They're awesome looking.
  2. If you need more glass viewers you can use that with glass to make viewers.
  3. You can make some of those ugly higher-end blocks that are very explosion resistant.
 
Xycraft aluminum can also be used for cans. Although, once you start with bees, you could probably safely use if for scrap, lol
 
also, xycraft aluminium is very useful for thaumcraft research, since it has the iron essence.
 
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.
 
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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.
 
Lambert2191 said:
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
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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. ;)
 
Meh, since I'm not either American or British, I'll quit that... holywar that's coming. Especially because my English is bad ^_^'
 
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.
 
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