AE quartz has in the latest update had its name changed to something else still something quartz but not just quartz anymore and its not compatible with nether quartz. Also I would say quartz crystals are a lot more abundant than AE quartz (not to mention that you get quartz dust too from AE quartz) meaning that if they were interchangeable it would throw off the balance of AE.
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AE quartz has in the latest update had its name changed to something else still something quartz but not just quartz anymore and its not compatible with nether quartz. Also I would say quartz crystals are a lot more abundant than AE quartz (not to mention that you get quartz dust too from AE quartz) meaning that if they were interchangeable it would throw off the balance of AE.
I like the idea of the crystal being changed to a block format, perhaps like you find geodes' in the real world. Break it open to find all the crystals growing on the inside. But, I'd like to see them retain their current form once placed by the player. And I have yet to get into AE, been waiting on it to come out in the DW20 mod pack... Kinda tired of fitting all the mods together for myself and nephew's, since they can't seem to be bothered to figure it out themselves despite being shown and told several times >.>
XYcraft quartz is way to common to be used for AE stuff atm most of the time the only thing holding you back from expanding the network is quartz
I just looked at this mod-spotlight of direwolf20, and the xycraft tanks.
this height-depending valve blocks are a neat thing for boilers.
imagine this: a boiler runs at full temperature, feeding steam into one tank (or even some conjoined tanks). the top plate is used as inlet for the tank, and the output height of the valves depends on the priority of the machines. so bottom row of valves: supply for the most important machines including some EU-production.
medium level supplies the not so important machines like for example the engines of a quarry.
and the highest level supplies a row of turbines, just to eat away any steam, that might else be lost due to the fact, that the tank runs full. so these turbines only get the steam that would be wasted if no machine consumes it. or englines combined with oil fabricators or whatever is interesting as steam-dump.
this height-depending valve blocks are a neat thing for boilers.
imagine this: a boiler runs at full temperature, feeding steam into one tank (or even some conjoined tanks). the top plate is used as inlet for the tank, and the output height of the valves depends on the priority of the machines. so bottom row of valves: supply for the most important machines including some EU-production.
medium level supplies the not so important machines like for example the engines of a quarry.
and the highest level supplies a row of turbines, just to eat away any steam, that might else be lost due to the fact, that the tank runs full. so these turbines only get the steam that would be wasted if no machine consumes it. or englines combined with oil fabricators or whatever is interesting as steam-dump.
Ya, in early game xycraft tanks are one of the best ways to go. But, once you get enough iron flowing in you are better off switching to a railcraft iron tank for storage. You could, of course, still keep a xycraft tank in line somewhere to help prioritize steam usage. I haven't thought about using them to do that so great thinking probably use that idea myself sometime. Thanks for sharing ^^
you could also use RC-tanks for that. stack a few RC-tanks on top of each other and connect them, so they act as one even larger tank. and then dran the tanks from every floor (the lowest level of valves). but with XYcraft-tanks, it's more elegant and even more compact, since it is just one tank.
Well, the issue is if you are trying to be compact Xycraft tanks don't provide a high capacity in a small space enviroment. And yes, you could stack RC tanks to do the same thing however, that would require a lot of iron. Where as if you used a xycraft tank as the first buffer for your liquid, say steam in this instance, using multiple levels of valves to bleed off extra when needed you could run liquiduct, or other style pipe, from a valve at the top most layer to run to a RC tank and then cycle it back to the Xycraft tank in the event that your boiler runs out of steam. You could also run such things as turbines off the RC tank so if you ever run out of excess steam none of your important machines lose productivity as they would feed from the Xy tank. But, thats my take on it and I think would be a great mid-game way to setup a system.
What I normally do for my liquids storage when I want to switch over to RC tanks for space efficiency is build small RC tanks then either deep underground or in another dimension build full sized Xycraft tanks and then use tesseracts to keep the small tanks at my base filled up.
That's a good idea, but recently I've been playing the Slow Poke Mod pack, so I don't have mystcraft. I do have a few other dimensions but after 3 days playing I'm only just getting to the point where I'm advanced enough to take on the weakest of the other dimensions... Divine RPG adds a lot of game play elements and new mobs/bosses. Also, I don't have Xycraft so I can't make his tanks sadly 
Although I may just use small RC tanks in my main base and make the big ones in another dimension... Perhaps the nether XD
Although I may just use small RC tanks in my main base and make the big ones in another dimension... Perhaps the nether XD
wow, did you really need to do a necrobump just for that?