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I HAVE QUESTIONS. HELP?!?


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     Uhm Okay. Hi! I'm rather new to FTB and I have lots of questions (naturally). First off, I was building a terrarium for my Penguins (I got them from the Twilight Forest and dragged them through the portal an to my base with a gravity gun XD) and I was trying to decide what kind of glass to use. So I typed 'glass' in the NEI and noticed a tool called a Magnifying Glass. I wondered what it did, so I looked it up on the wiki but there isn't a page for it. I just couldn't find anything about it! Does anyone know what it is or what it does? (BTW... I decided on Glass Viewers for my penguins... Lol)

 

     Also, does anyone know of a cheap and efficient starter energy source? I made an Electrical Jet pack but I keep using a Generator and Batbox to charge it... Which works great and all, but I've lately started building more and more machinery and I wanted to know if there was maybe a different energy source that would be strong enough to power all of my machines and hopefully not require me constantly needing to refuel it with coal... (not that that's TOO difficult, honestly). 

 

     Thanks for your time!!

               ~Stardream3r

 



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I've not heard of the Magnifying Glass, but apparently it's from Railcraft. (Links to the nav template)

 

A nice starter source might be Lava, using Magmatic Engines, Thermal Generators or Geothermal Generators, in order of EU given per unit of Lava. However, I've heard that the Magmatic Engine tends to 'stall', so Thermal Generators might be your best bet. They might be a bit expensive for early-game, so Geothermal Generators are quite good, but Thermal Generators are an upgrade from Geothermal Generators, so you might consider upgrading later on.

 

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I'd agree with ZL on this one; lava is probably your best bet, providing that you're not playing on a server which has rules against draining the Nether/lava lakes. You can use Geothermal Generators to produce 20,000 EU per lava bucket, Thermal Generators (which are quite expensive) to produce 30,000 EU, or (providing that the mod pack you're playing on has Power Converters) you can use a Magmatic Engine to produce 45,000 EU per lava bucket (18,000 MJ, converts to 45,000 EU.) To use the Magmatic Engine method, you'll need an Energy Bridge, a BC Consumer and an IC2 LV/MV (if you can't make an MFE, go with LV; if you can, make an MFE and use MV) Producer. The latter three must be directly adjacent to one another, although I'd recommend separating your Engine(s) from the BC Consumer via a piece of wooden and then golden Conductive Pipe.

 

I've never heard anything about stalling Magmatic Engines, except when their power has nowhere to go, in which case they will "overheat" causing them to stop burning lava. As long as you're actively consuming the power you're generating or the power has somewhere to go (whether it's your EU storage device or the Energy Bridge's internal energy buffer) then you should be fine. If a Magmatic Engine "overheats" it will simply stop moving. Right-clicking it with an OmniWrench or a Crescent Hammer will allow it to continue work.

 

Theoretically, you could also use Combustion Engines to produce 20,000 MJ/bucket (50,000 EU) but this requires a system to cool the Engines to prevent them from exploding (not required for Magmatic Engines) as well as the fact that it's not good for stopping and starting, as Combustion Engines "store" excess "heat" generated from burning whatever fuel (oil, petroleum, lava, etc) they are presented with. This heat must be dissipated entirely before they can be turned on again once turned off, which tends to take a while. They're also much more dangerous, as an overheated Combustion Engine can generate quite an explosion.


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I've never heard anything about stalling Magmatic Engines.

Well, RZR0 told me they did. :P

 

With the Combustion Engine though, you could put a (Cobble)stone Transport Pipe next to the Engine (instead of a Lever or Redstone Torch) with a Gate, set to giving out a redstone signal when the Engine is at the Blue state (and maybe green as well). That might be good if you have several Combustion Engines, with pipes and gates next to each of them, provided you have enough diamonds for them. The Assembly Table takes 5 diamonds, and each Laser for it requires 2 diamonds, so it's quite expensive. Also, one laser is very slow and often not enough, so maybe three could do it. That would be 11 diamonds, the same as a Quarry!


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Well, RZR0 told me they did. :P

 

With the Combustion Engine though, you could put a (Cobble)stone Transport Pipe next to the Engine (instead of a Lever or Redstone Torch) with a Gate, set to giving out a redstone signal when the Engine is at the Blue state (and maybe green as well). That might be good if you have several Combustion Engines, with pipes and gates next to each of them, provided you have enough diamonds for them. The Assembly Table takes 5 diamonds, and each Laser for it requires 2 diamonds, so it's quite expensive. Also, one laser is very slow and often not enough, so maybe three could do it. That would be 11 diamonds, the same as a Quarry!

 

Since "cheap and efficient" is one of the main criteria for this person, it's probably better to not need to use something that needs both a considerable amount of resources and a considerable amount of power infrastructure (each gate has power costs in the tens of thousands of MJ depending on which kind of gate you make.)


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Railcraft's wiki has an article on the Magnifying Glass:

http://railcraft.wik...ng Glass (Tool)

 

If anyone wants to play around with it and document it on our wiki, that'd be great. I'm not into railcraft at all. I can't stand spending lots of resources to make a blast furnace and then sitting around waiting for a blast furnace to cook some coal.



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Railcraft's wiki has an article on the Magnifying Glass:

http://railcraft.wik...ng Glass (Tool)

 

If anyone wants to play around with it and document it on our wiki, that'd be great. I'm not into railcraft at all. I can't stand spending lots of resources to make a blast furnace and then sitting around waiting for a blast furnace to cook some coal.

Did you mean the Coke Oven? :D


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Ugh. In case I didn't get enough multi-block structures full of expensive resources. I think I'll go throw all my iron into making a tank to store my creosote oil next.



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Ugh. In case I didn't get enough multi-block structures full of expensive resources. I think I'll go throw all my iron into making a tank to store my creosote oil next.

Or make a XyCraft or BuildCraft tank? :D


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