Portable prospector scanner is definitely worthwhile in my opinion for prospecting ores and oil. It isn't infinite like the prospector machine, but it will last you long after you can craft more prospectors easily. Especially with the rate at which you are currently progressing. Plus, you don't need to deal with powder barrels, ink and paper
I forgot that you have to make all those random machines and items to print the book to get your prospection data! Maybe I will go for a prospector scanner soon, it'll be helpful in a lot of ways soon.
A single HP solar boiler feeding a steam turbine that you can plop right on top of a lv crop manager. Even fully calcified, it provides enough steam to run it forever. Just gotta figure out how to give it infinite water.
A long wooden water pipe that's run overhead but out of the way will do it. That idea is perfect, I might start working on crops this weekend to get some basic passive automations going.
One thing I will suggest is to just straight up make the silicon loop machines output into each other, while enabling them to input from their output side. I managed to do the loop without any external piping other than pumping in and out the silicon, highly recommend trying that out
Even back in 2.3 you had to do the whole chemical bath / IC2 coolant stuff for Kanthal ingots, or at least as far as I remember. I made this really janky coolant/tank/heat vent/water block on top setup loop thingy just to push through I suppose you have several other power options if you *really* wanted to get into it. In my first playthrough I made a 3x3x3 cube of those creosote ovens along with a 8x8 spruce farm on crop sticks with a crop harvester in the center with a.. 1v or something solar panel on top. The output of creosote was burned in a low pressure boiler to make steam, which powered fluid extractors etc to make the charcoal output into benzene, and later when it was no longer useful, spare toluene. Although time-consuming to set up it was remarkably efficient and best of all, passive, once in place. The excess creosote from that setup was later repurposed into lubricant and even later drilling fluid. Edit: You could also burn the excess creosote from the ovens in semi-fluid generators just as a boost to your power production *now* and stockpile it later for processing. Or make a second 3x3x3 cube. The coke oven bricks are real cheap at this point with access to machines.
The 1v solar panel was enough to power that? That's pretty interesting to me. I really want to set up something passive like that, even if it's more expensive like you said. If I also do oil to supplement it and get me good byproducts like ethylene I think I'll be so set
As I recall it I slapped the 1v solar on top of a 1amp LV battery buffer and had that feed the crop harvester. It didn't really matter to me that it ran out of power over night since it would just keep on going the next day.@@aspectsounds
Before I had void upgrades I did have to regularly go empty out the saplings drawer though. The output of the spruce farm was spruce wood and saplings and they went into locked drawers. The excess was easily made into plant balls for early manual biogas stuff but I didn't get around to fully processing it until I had easy access to distillation towers as well as the fishing farm multiblock (Zhuhei? Or something).
Now that I think about it, that whole setup could likely have been entirely self-sufficient even without the solar panel. The LP boiler certainly had enough spare steam to power a LV turbine for the crop harvester itself so the system just needed a bit of a kick-start in the form of wood into the coke ovens.@@aspectsounds
@@lordxeno Is this machine the lv crop manager? I discovered them last time I played and remember the power usage being really low. There's the cropmatron too which is older and from IC2 but I'm not sure the pros/cons of each
Portable prospector scanner is definitely worthwhile in my opinion for prospecting ores and oil. It isn't infinite like the prospector machine, but it will last you long after you can craft more prospectors easily. Especially with the rate at which you are currently progressing. Plus, you don't need to deal with powder barrels, ink and paper
I forgot that you have to make all those random machines and items to print the book to get your prospection data! Maybe I will go for a prospector scanner soon, it'll be helpful in a lot of ways soon.
can't wait to watch it in two hours when I'm off work ❤
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A single HP solar boiler feeding a steam turbine that you can plop right on top of a lv crop manager. Even fully calcified, it provides enough steam to run it forever. Just gotta figure out how to give it infinite water.
A long wooden water pipe that's run overhead but out of the way will do it. That idea is perfect, I might start working on crops this weekend to get some basic passive automations going.
One thing I will suggest is to just straight up make the silicon loop machines output into each other, while enabling them to input from their output side. I managed to do the loop without any external piping other than pumping in and out the silicon, highly recommend trying that out
omg I forgot you can do allow input from output, I hadn't worked with singleblock machines much in the last like 100 hours of my last run lol
Even back in 2.3 you had to do the whole chemical bath / IC2 coolant stuff for Kanthal ingots, or at least as far as I remember. I made this really janky coolant/tank/heat vent/water block on top setup loop thingy just to push through
I suppose you have several other power options if you *really* wanted to get into it. In my first playthrough I made a 3x3x3 cube of those creosote ovens along with a 8x8 spruce farm on crop sticks with a crop harvester in the center with a.. 1v or something solar panel on top. The output of creosote was burned in a low pressure boiler to make steam, which powered fluid extractors etc to make the charcoal output into benzene, and later when it was no longer useful, spare toluene.
Although time-consuming to set up it was remarkably efficient and best of all, passive, once in place. The excess creosote from that setup was later repurposed into lubricant and even later drilling fluid.
Edit: You could also burn the excess creosote from the ovens in semi-fluid generators just as a boost to your power production *now* and stockpile it later for processing. Or make a second 3x3x3 cube. The coke oven bricks are real cheap at this point with access to machines.
The 1v solar panel was enough to power that? That's pretty interesting to me. I really want to set up something passive like that, even if it's more expensive like you said. If I also do oil to supplement it and get me good byproducts like ethylene I think I'll be so set
As I recall it I slapped the 1v solar on top of a 1amp LV battery buffer and had that feed the crop harvester. It didn't really matter to me that it ran out of power over night since it would just keep on going the next day.@@aspectsounds
Before I had void upgrades I did have to regularly go empty out the saplings drawer though. The output of the spruce farm was spruce wood and saplings and they went into locked drawers. The excess was easily made into plant balls for early manual biogas stuff but I didn't get around to fully processing it until I had easy access to distillation towers as well as the fishing farm multiblock (Zhuhei? Or something).
Now that I think about it, that whole setup could likely have been entirely self-sufficient even without the solar panel. The LP boiler certainly had enough spare steam to power a LV turbine for the crop harvester itself so the system just needed a bit of a kick-start in the form of wood into the coke ovens.@@aspectsounds
@@lordxeno Is this machine the lv crop manager? I discovered them last time I played and remember the power usage being really low. There's the cropmatron too which is older and from IC2 but I'm not sure the pros/cons of each
You can use translocators instead of conveyor modules, they are much faster
I didn't even know those were in the pack, the only difficult part of the cost is the enderpearl for now but I can make that easier soon