Wood -> Cresote -> steam -> lava -> power

[jeremyb498]

Hi everyone first off sorry if I posted this wrong this is my first post.

Okay so I plan on making a system that starts with a tree farm that puts wood into coke ovens to make cresote oil that then gets burned in a steam boiler that goes into steam dynamos to make power that will power lava fabricator to make lava that will be moved around my base and turned into what ever kind of power I need.
Any help and suggestions would be appreciated.

 

[LuisAdeur]

or you can just pump the lava out of the nether for infinite lava , yes is infinite unless you have a 1gb HDD. i recommend extrautilities pump because it converts the lava that it pumps into stone.
but if you don't want to go straight to lava from the nether and use a lava fabricator is up to you.
lava fabricators use darf/t = 20rf which is around 2000 rf/t for just 10mb of lava , your steam dynamos will take a long time producing that much lava.
anyways.
use planter and harvester from MFR from tree farm. and any type of item transfer duct or pipes. make sure all the saplings go back priority back to the planter , you only need 2 slots of 64 inside the planter so cover the rest with dirt inside the planter. yes put dirt in the planter and slots of 64 saplings that will cover everything. then when the planter can't accept more saplings the overflow send it to a trashcan from extrautilities or a void barrel from jabba or even a void chest from railcraft. the logs send them to a sawmill from either TE or mekanism and make 6 wood planks out of 1 log , with byproducts. that will eventually go to a barrel or your preferred method of storage. i personally use deep storage units from MFR. after the logs processed on the sawmil and the planks went into the storage extract them and send them to the coke ovens for creosote oil , extract the oil with some ducts or your preferred method of liquid transferring to the steam boiler. then the steam send it to the dynamos make sure they have some sort of water supply going into them or you will have a bad day.
if you really wanted to make a lot of power make some augmentations from TE and put them into the dynamos. i have some dynamos producing 4k rf/t running on coal coke.

 

[jeremyb498]

Thanks for the reply. I have a thing against pumping from the nether so I don't want to do that. I already have a planter and harvester setup on my world already. I was planning on putting logs in the coke ovens so that i get charcoal to power another boiler or two. I thought TE steam dynamos didn't need water? Anyway thank you for the informative reply.

 

[LuisAdeur]

yes steam dynamos need a supply of water to work. , the logs to charcoal sounds like a great idea do half and half since you will have enough logs that you will void them out...

 

[jeremyb498]

Okay, and do you recomend any upgrades to the planter/harvestor combo.

 

[jeremyb498]

And is there something you can do with saplings to make them run another boiler.

 

[lenscas]

And is there something you can do with saplings to make them run another boiler.

You can turn them into biofuel or ethanol both can run a liquid boiler unless that got changed.

 

[jeremyb498]

biofuel or ethanol

Can you tell me how or show me a tutorial

 

[lenscas]

for bio-fuel you put the saplings in a bioreactor from mfr. This gets more efficient if you have more difrent kinds of saplings/other plant materials like seeds

for ethanol you put the saplings in a fermenter from forestry together with mulch or and water or fruit juice and give it power. (there are a few other items that can be used instead of mulch, nei is your friend. Fruit juice gives you more then water). This creates bio mass you will need to put this in a still to create ethanol.

You then make a liquid boiler and pump it inside it together with water like you would do normally .

 

[jeremyb498]

Thank you. And what would be more efficent in a boiler 1 charcoal or 6 planks.

 

[LuisAdeur]

as far as upgrades for your planter and harvester nothing bigger than iron. everything else is OP unless you actually burning that much charcoal or using that much wood.
i have bronze upgrades and my system can't keep up with the wood

 

[LuisAdeur]

more efficient is 6 planks. burn time on coal or charcoal is 1600/t planks is 300 each . a log = 6 with sawmill. only use this method if you have a sawmill made already. if not the is more efficient to put coal or charcoal

 

[jeremyb498]

Okay thanks I am planning on testing this in creative i will try and share my results.

 

[Inaeo]

Might I inquire why you've chosen to pipe Lava around rather than just the steam? Steam is easy to turn into power, but the transition to Lava is problematically lossy in most cases (see below). If you simply enjoy seeing Lava filled piles, I can understand that. If you believe Lava to be more useful as a fuel, I believe you will find steam to be equal or better in most cases.

If you're using MFR, look into the steam boiler. It outputs 400mb/t of Steam using basic furnace fuel. It is one of the better fuel->steam converters going, requiring much shorter heat-up periods than RC with a smaller footprint and material cost. Also, it doesn't explode like the RC Boiler can.

It is so effective in fact, that one can use five Steam Boilers to power a max size Big Reactors Turbine for a load of RF/t, which powers a Lava Fabricator to create lava, a Fluid Transposer to fill buckets, then use those buckets as a fuel for the Steam Boilers with a substantial net gain.

 

[LuisAdeur]

you're right , steam is easy to get . lava is easier to get. i do enjoy lava filled piles but playing with the same power generation over and over is just boring.
and i uninstalled railcraft because is pretty much useless if you have immersive engineering.
boilers are the only reason i had railcraft installed and the iron and steel tanks. but i can use the boiler from MFR for steam and i can use portable tanks from other mods eliminating the amount of resources i need for the tanks ,
i edited my lava fabricator to fit my playing style currently is harder to make requires more resources etc end game stuff but i upgraded the amount of lava you get from it and lowered the tick rate.
i have a bigreactor small 3x3x3 reactor generating power straight for the lava fabricator. steam i use it for end game.
steam dynamos are a good starting source of power.

I don't know about you but i don't enjoy using the same mods over and over on each of my worlds , think about it you and you probably already planning on making a pulverizer and a redstone furnance or a grindstone before that. am i right? either that or sag mill with alloy smelter but not me i want to give a chance to all the mods i have installed. Back in the days that i didn't care i had mods installed that i never touched for a whole series.

just like forestry multifarms , i rather use those than MFR planter and harvester. more fun more resources not simple and complexity. but that's just my style of gaming. i don't like stuff given to me that easily i disabled all my pickaxes only wood then next tier would be quartz from enderio then iron then diamond. no swords except for iron or diamond. i made planks give 2 stick rather than 4 and 2 wood from 1log. i like minecraft the survival way


but is on how minecraft suit you the best.

 

[jeremyb498]

I also like lava filled pipes and I had thoughts on maybe keeping some of the steam power and some of the lava power as a hybrid power source.

 

[DeathOfTime]

I also like lava filled pipes and I had thoughts on maybe keeping some of the steam power and some of the lava power as a hybrid power source.

What I thought of doing was placing pipes as decoration. Never did get to it though. Was going to see if I could just make it look like the pipes were being used. Fill them with the desired liquid and leave them that way.

The critical part to this working though is will the pipes empty out on there own eventually. With nothing hooked to them.

 

[Inaeo]

What I thought of doing was placing pipes as decoration. Never did get to it though. Was going to see if I could just make it look like the pipes were being used. Fill them with the desired liquid and leave them that way.

The critical part to this working though is will the pipes empty out on there own eventually. With nothing hooked to them.

You could have a closed circuit of pipes with a Floodgate and a pump. Leaving just a bit of the pipe still be empty would show the fluid to be moving, even if it only feeds itself. Granted, the pump/floodgate would consume power solely for aesthetic purposes, but sometimes you just need to do things that look good for no other reason.

 

[Someone Else 37]

What I thought of doing was placing pipes as decoration. Never did get to it though. Was going to see if I could just make it look like the pipes were being used. Fill them with the desired liquid and leave them that way.

The critical part to this working though is will the pipes empty out on there own eventually. With nothing hooked to them.

... Why would fluid evaporate from pipes in any case, regardless of there being a destination for it? I'm pretty sure that doesn't happen, and if it did, I would call it a bug.

Also note that lava isn't the only fluid that emits light. Pretty sure energized glowstone and blazing pyrotheum do as well, among others.