I need to challenge Saice. I think I can get the same total power efficiency with 1/10th the overall resource investment at the cost of max throughput.
What does YOUR Power Room look like?
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Man I'm ashamed. I've only ever used lava for power. I feel the need to branch out more, but am unsure where to start. Probably google 
Man I'm ashamed. I've only ever used lava for power. I feel the need to branch out more, but am unsure where to start. Probably google
Getting started with biomass/biofuel is incredibly easy to do. Not as simple as lava mind you, but still really easy.
Get a tree farm of your choice going, I prefer MFR but Steves carts still does the trick just fine as will forestry. Put the logs into the sawmills from TE to maximize the out put per log. Use excess saplings in fermenters/stills or bioreactors (More complicated, requires more setup.) to produce biofuel. Get a ton of steel ready to set up the boilers (I hop straight to 36hp boilers, expensive and resource hungry at start, but the power generation is nuts.) If you have Power converters, just make a steam consumer, energy bridge, and a producer of your choice (IC2, MJ, Etc) otherwise make a ton of Steam engines based on what type of boiler you made (36hp means you'll need industrials, I think 18 of them. It gets expensive quick.) I'm unsure how much a basic MFR tree farm will power but the carts could power a solid fueled (planks from the sawmills) and a biofuel one (fermenters and stills) and the MFR outputs more if you use fertilizer from cows. (Really easy, get a bunch of cows, replace ground with sewer grates, pump to the block that makes fertlizers, pull out the fertilizer send to tree farm, bam hella trees.) I'm sure 1 3x3 (default) mfr tree farm can probably power 3 or 4 boilers with fertilizer, Maybe more.
Sorry if it isn't clear. That said if you want unique, this isn't it
Everyone is doing it. Nearly as common as lava probably.Getting started with biomass/biofuel is incredibly easy to do. Not as simple as lava mind you, but still really easy.
Get a tree farm of your choice going, I prefer MFR but Steves carts still does the trick just fine as will forestry. Put the logs into the sawmills from TE to maximize the out put per log. Use excess saplings in fermenters/stills or bioreactors (More complicated, requires more setup.) to produce biofuel. Get a ton of steel ready to set up the boilers (I hop straight to 36hp boilers, expensive and resource hungry at start, but the power generation is nuts.) If you have Power converters, just make a steam consumer, energy bridge, and a producer of your choice (IC2, MJ, Etc) otherwise make a ton of Steam engines based on what type of boiler you made (36hp means you'll need industrials, I think 18 of them. It gets expensive quick.) I'm unsure how much a basic MFR tree farm will power but the carts could power a solid fueled (planks from the sawmills) and a biofuel one (fermenters and stills) and the MFR outputs more if you use fertilizer from cows. (Really easy, get a bunch of cows, replace ground with sewer grates, pump to the block that makes fertlizers, pull out the fertilizer send to tree farm, bam hella trees.) I'm sure 1 3x3 (default) mfr tree farm can probably power 3 or 4 boilers with fertilizer, Maybe more.
Sorry if it isn't clear. That said if you want unique, this isn't it
Awesome, thank you so much! I don't need unique, I just needed a gentle push in a different direction.
Awesome! I seriously need to update my fission reactor, as the old design doesn't work very well any more.
My fission slight updated is push 4K eu/t these days.
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I would like to see this.
Yeah I've not heard many good things about the Big reactor mod yet. But I look forward to your guys report.
Yeah lol cant post screenshot of my power room but let me just put it this way it makes about 2300 EU per tick with all the various machines most of it is completely automated only thing is i have to kickstart some of my machines if they glitch out and i have about 300-400 cableing and pipes transporting all the liquid and items placed to be turned into EU or MJ and i need to use enderchests or tesseracts soon instead of pipes and wires because my machines are makeing so much lag
I wanted to power my base with Biofuel and then i wanted to try and power it with the smallest farm possible. I tried trees at first but couldn't keep up with all my stuff.
I made this 5x5x4 forestry reed farm with xycraft soil and lilypads of fertility:
in order for it to keep up with all my machines + bee stuff i had to make it faster with more power:
It's supplying power to this room:
And my AE system:
Bee machines:
The reeds are turned into plant balls and then compressed plant balls to fill these two Biomass tanks:
Gets turned into Biofuel which powers two 36HP boilers, one on this floor and one below:
that power 36 steam engines:
I also use the Biofuel to power biogenerators for EU:
I made this 5x5x4 forestry reed farm with xycraft soil and lilypads of fertility:
in order for it to keep up with all my machines + bee stuff i had to make it faster with more power:
It's supplying power to this room:
And my AE system:
Bee machines:
The reeds are turned into plant balls and then compressed plant balls to fill these two Biomass tanks:
Gets turned into Biofuel which powers two 36HP boilers, one on this floor and one below:
that power 36 steam engines:
I also use the Biofuel to power biogenerators for EU:
I have one fir tree farm with a fertilizer.
It produces more saplings than my one bioreactor can process (with only one item type) and is currently feeding 5 bio generators.
It doesn't really matter much, if you have as much of it as I do.
I use biogenerators because they're cheaper.
It produces more saplings than my one bioreactor can process (with only one item type) and is currently feeding 5 bio generators.
It doesn't really matter much, if you have as much of it as I do.
I use biogenerators because they're cheaper.
Well I feel stupid. I didn't know you could produce fertilizer through any other means than the recipe, so my rarely-fertilized carrot farm was holding up my biomass production (I'm using the Plugins for Forestry mod to turn carrots into vegetable juice, which works like apple juice in the Fermenter, mostly due to a lack of actual apples from my treefarm).
I dont know if its changed but I believe it is more efficient just to ferment the sugar cane rather than turn it into plant balls
I'd always heard that the biogenerator is terrible for EU production. At least, the wiki says it is. Even the wiki says to use the magma crucible/thermal generator combination.
The Steam turbine isn't much better, only producing 225 EU/t. But costing over 700 ingots of steel to make, plus 297 ingots every 4-5 days.
If you have power converters, that is much better, giving you 350 EU/t, and is extremely cheap.
Isn't it 200? Have to admit I'm not the biggest fan of Power converters, it's just too cheap compared to the other alternatives and feels kinda ...cheaty, I guess, but that's just my opinion.
Oh, absolutely. I've never used the nether method either. I guess I'm just a sucker for having lots of moving parts in my setup, even if there are better and more efficient ways of doing things.