Minecraft FTB Ultimate Server

[LiamH]

Update for those interested / still playing.

 

Updated my skellie/xp farm to wither skeletons, so now farming heads to summon the wither.

Set up a force shielded area to battle said wither, killed a few so far, so if you want nether star's just give me a shout. Used to make portal guns / super charged grav gun

 

Still having no look finding more iridium to make a matter fabricator Might be worth pooling any iridium ore we have to make one, then repaying the iridium once we get some UU-matter, or just re-enable the mass fab in the gregtech config

 

Pretty close to having a lvl 5 enderman soulshard, so should be swimming in enderpearls soon if anyone needs them.

[Geoff]

Still having no look finding more iridium to make a matter fabricator Might be worth pooling any iridium ore we have to make one, then repaying the iridium once we get some UU-matter, or just re-enable the mass fab in the gregtech config

 

You're doing it wrong. Go to the End then fly out to some of those 'asteroids' (you can go out as far as you like, they spawn for ever) and mine Sheldonite.

[Garacesh]

Not sure if I have much/any iridium, but I certainly need a matter fabricator to upgrade my solar panels.

Living on a flying island carries certain.. energy problems xD We can't all have automatic blaze farms!

[localzuk]

Maybe an energy tesseract or 5 will do the trick for you? Tesseract - Feed The Beast Wiki

 

Create your energy elsewhere and tesseract it in...

[LiamH]

You're doing it wrong. Go to the End then fly out to some of those 'asteroids' (you can go out as far as you like, they spawn for ever) and mine Sheldonite.

 

Good call! got enough iridium to start putting a matter fabricator together, just need to build the implosion compressor and start churning out some TNT to make the plates. Have a chest full of scrap for when its up and running.

 

Might need to look at increasing my EU production before it gets put together, have 8 thermal generators so far which seems enough to keep my MFS and 2 MFE's full but think the matter fab will drain too much power. Might just use solar panels, will be slow but free at least.

@localzuk is the nuke ban just for the explosives or for reactor's too?

 

Edit : Tesseracts will work for build-craft power (MJ) but wont work for IC power (EU), shame there is no power converters in the pack yet.

Edited May 1, 2013 by LiamH

[localzuk]

Good call! got enough iridium to start putting a matter fabricator together, just need to build the implosion compressor and start churning out some TNT to make the plates. Have a chest full of scrap for when its up and running.

 

Might need to look at increasing my EU production before it gets put together, have 8 thermal generators so far which seems enough to keep my MFS and 2 MFE's full but think the matter fab will drain too much power. Might just use solar panels, will be slow but free at least.

 

Local is the nuke ban just for the explosives or for reactor's too?

 

Just the explosives. If you blow up your own base with a reactor, that's your own fault

[Geoff]

Edit : Tesseracts will work for build-craft power (MJ) but wont work for IC power (EU), shame there is no power converters in the pack yet.

 

There is actually. Look up the Energy Bridge in NEI. If you want a working example there is one in my base in the corner of my IC2/mystcraft room converting from BC MJ to IC2 EU (Although I think I have the IC2 side disconnected as I was running my semi-fluid generator dry of biomass).

Edited May 1, 2013 by Geoff

[LiamH]

There is actually. Look up the Energy Bridge in NEI. If you want a working example there is one in my base in the corner of my IC2/mystcraft room converting from BC MJ to IC2 EU (Although I think I have the IC2 side disconnected as I was running my semi-fluid generator dry of biomass).

 

Ah nice, was thinking about making another (high pressure) boiler, rather than use turbines to make EU i could convert power from steam engines. good to know!

[Geoff]

There's actually an issue with that. If you plug a 36HP boiler into an energy bridge then run the power out to an MFR Oil Fabricator, refine it to fuel then heat the boiler with the fuel you make you'll end up energy positive (An oil fabricator takes 600k MJ and converts it into 1 bucket of oil. A refinery converts 1 bucket of oil into 1 bucket of fuel for 30,000 MJ. Finally, a 36HP boiler will (supposedly) get 872,736 MJ per bucket of fuel, giving a net gain of ~250k MJ per boiler). Edited May 1, 2013 by Geoff

[LiamH]

There's actually an issue with that. If you plug a 36HP boiler into an energy bridge then run the power out to an MFR Oil Fabricator, refine it to fuel then heat the boiler with the fuel you make you'll end up energy positive (An oil fabricator takes 600k MJ and converts it into 1 bucket of oil. A refinery converts 1 bucket of oil into 1 bucket of fuel for 30,000 MJ. Finally, a 36HP boiler will (supposedly) get 872,736 MJ per bucket of fuel, giving a net gain of ~250k MJ per boiler).

 

that would require me to create some form of liquid fuel to get the boiler up to temp, not sure if i want to you a potential exploit that could be patched out. They already nerfed blaze rod and lava after all! I did hear that the liquid fueled firebox's are more efficient so i might look at getting a refinery running. I currently have a 36LP boiler so i'm guessing the values would just be halved on that?

[Geoff]

Yes it's half. 10 steam/tick/m3 for LP and 20 steam/tick/m3 for HP. a 36HP boiler needs approximately 1,932k heat to reach 100°C (from 20°C), and approximately 22,300k heat to reach 1000°C (from 20°C). Edited May 1, 2013 by Geoff

[LiamH]

Ender farm up and running at my base if anyone is wanting enderpearls. feel free.

 

Going to have to start void piping blaze rods soon (have 3 full extra dimensional barrels) so if anyone wants blaze rods let me know.

 

Matter fabricator should be up and running this weekend.

[Geoff]

Why do you have so many spare?

[LiamH]

T5 blaze spawner chucking them out faster than my boiler can use them, its been running a while..

 

Could make more boilers but the one i have running is more than enough for my current needs.

[Garacesh]

You could just, y'know, turn the spawner off with some redstone lamps? xD

[localzuk]

Or build a bigger energy generation system...

[LiamH]

Its tier 5 so run off redstone anyway with a switch. I could reconfigure my barrels to loop back but the issue at the moment is they are set up like..

 

Ender chest (boiler) > barrel > barrel > barrel

 

So if i turned it off the ender chest would empty eventually and boiler would cool down, would need to loop them back from barrels to chest but would be easier and less hassle to just void pipe the excess.

[Geoff]

Use a closed applied energetics network with a level emitter. It will toggle a redstone signal based on the number of items in the storage network. Thereby only turning on your spawner(s) when you need to. Also the server will lag less. \o/

[LiamH]

I could use a logicgate to send a redstone signal if the chest is full too I suppose. might just power a second boiler, will need a ton of energy for the matter fab anyway.

[Geoff]

Yeah, I'd just keep building boilers until the blaze spawner can't keep up.

[MrEprise]

Just the explosives. If you blow up your own base with a reactor, that's your own fault

 

Glad i'm nowhere near him!

[Flatpackhamster]

Goodness, when I read what you guys are doing on your Minecraft I'm totally baffled. I'm playing the vanilla one and haven't really done anything with redstone circuits, let alone download mods and construct nuclear-powered thermowatt zap cannons or whatever.

 

Guess I failed my geek test.

[Sunnyknight]

Goodness, when I read what you guys are doing on your Minecraft I'm totally baffled. I'm playing the vanilla one and haven't really done anything with redstone circuits, let alone download mods and construct nuclear-powered thermowatt zap cannons or whatever.

 

Guess I failed my geek test.

 

Lol... don't worry, i've only got a wall, a gate, and i'm stuck. So many ideas, so clueless of how to implement them, one for being a castle. Two for being a piston gate that moves 60 blocks in 2 seconds which doesn't look horrible. Three, a 'by' day water moot thing, and a 'by' night lava moot thing... Automatic farmer / genny.... a railroad system that covers 5000 squared blocks...

 

You see how i get frustrated at the game. lol

 

P.s. Tons of piston / redstone tutorials online

Edited May 7, 2013 by Sunnyknight

[LiamH]

Goodness, when I read what you guys are doing on your Minecraft I'm totally baffled. I'm playing the vanilla one and haven't really done anything with redstone circuits, let alone download mods and construct nuclear-powered thermowatt zap cannons or whatever.

 

Guess I failed my geek test.

 

Should ask if you can join the server, happy to help you get your head around everything, its a lot more fun when you know you are working towards a fusion reactor rather than a diamond pick axe

 

Portal room is coming along, using wireless redstone to activate portals to different peoples base's, got pads at a few peoples, if you want one let me know.

[Garacesh]

Should ask if you can join the server, happy to help you get your head around everything, its a lot more fun when you know you are working towards a fusion reactor rather than a diamond pick axe

And then there's me with my solar panels.. xD

I'm still relatively new but I've also learnt a lot, so if you join, I'll be able to give you some 'from the ground up' help, rather than simply giving you things that you need (although I'm still rather grateful for my Magmatic engine etc.! Did have to make a new one though, when I broke the first in the move..)

 

Portal room is coming along, using wireless redstone to activate portals to different peoples base's, got pads at a few peoples, if you want one let me know.

Of which I accidentally broke mine because I wanted to nosey at how it worked

Edited May 7, 2013 by Garacesh