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Aluminum and Aluminium confusion


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The last time I played a modpack with GregTech, there was a difference between Aluminum (TiCo) and Aluminium (GregTech) and the two were not interchangeable. I think some of the newer mods like Galacticraft, Magneticraft and Immersive Engineering made a mistake and use them interchangeably, but originally Aluminum was a fairly easy to acquire item and Aluminium required special GregTech machines.

 

I think the wiki pages for Aluminum and Aluminium along with the disambiguous page should either reflect that they are different or note that they can be different depending on the modpack. or at least specify that only with certain mods are the 2 interchangeable.

 

 


 

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Can you point out specifically where you're seeing an issue? The two pages below each specify, without mistake, which mod adds which.

 

http://ftbwiki.org/Aluminium_Ingot

 

http://ftbwiki.org/Aluminum_Ingot



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The Aluminum page suggests they are interchangeable:

http://ftbwiki.org/Aluminum_Ingot

As does this page:

http://ftbwiki.org/Aluminium

Although the Aluminium Ingot page suggests that it is a GregTech specific Ingot that requires more than just smelting an ore to obtain:

http://ftbwiki.org/Aluminium_Ingot

 

When I played a modpack with Gregtech, I remember confusing these 2 until noticing that they were not interchangeable.


 

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In reality the word Aluminum is specific to mostly the USA and the rest of the world uses Aluminium and they mean the same thing. In modded Minecraft, Aluminium started as a distinct ingot/dust for GregTech while TiCo and other mods used Aluminum. They were separate and Aluminum was easy to get by simply finding and smelting Aluminum Ore and Aluminum Gravel Ore, while Aluminium required advanced processing of Bauxite Ore. I think this should be clearer on the wiki and we should maybe even encourage the mods that use the 2 names interchangeably to stick with Aluminum to avoid possible problems with GT or IC2.


 

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I think that nowadays ever since oredicting became so popular these two metals will essentially from now on be the same thing oredicted together.

Sure we can notate that they originally weren't but people nowadays don't like there being twelve different ores with the same name in one modpack.


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I think that nowadays ever since oredicting became so popular these two metals will essentially from now on be the same thing oredicted together.

Sure we can notate that they originally weren't but people nowadays don't like there being twelve different ores with the same name in one modpack.

I hope that stays the case and someone like Greg doesn't come along and break the recipes for half this stuff!


 

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I hope that stays the case and someone like Greg doesn't come along and break the recipes for half this stuff!

I feel that Greg has learned his lesson and besides nowadays anyone can manually oredict things if they want.


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