Feed The Beast Revelation Server (Minecraft)

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**Anvildude**

What're you burning down in the Crucible? Is it an item with pure Herba essentia? Because what might be happening is you may have another Essentia type trying to get out of the Calcinator, through the Alembic, but the jar may already be 'marked' by the system for Herba, so there's nowhere for the other essentia to go.

Do you have access to valves yet? You might want to try putting a valve on with a voided jar, and switch the destination output for a while to see if you have any other essentias that come out.

From what I understand, the Calcinator (That is what the alchemical furnace is, right?) actually always stores all the various essentia it pulls from the things you burn- the purpose of the Alembics is to draw those essentias out one by one.

**Grey Templar**

Looks like he's just burning leaves.

**4oursword**

How do you even tell what aspects things have anymore?

I'm using the cheat sheet, so i have access to everything. And i am indeed just burning leaves- when i first furnaced them, they only gave off herba so I went with it.

**Anvildude**

Thaumometers man.

**4oursword**

bleurgh. Curse you Thaumcraft.

**dsteingass**

The Thaumometer in a power helmet is the way to go. It shows ALL of the essentia. Stack another alembic on top and you'll see any leftover essence for earlier burnings or what-not.

**4oursword**

Ok, I might want to place a biiiiiiig thaumcraft order from someone on the server. Anyone think they are able to supply:

81 Lamps Of Growth
9 Warded Jars
60 Essentia Tubes
9 Alchemical Furnaces
9 Arcane Alembics

Or I could buy a little bit of it from different people.

I should be able to pay all of the required parts minus thaumcraft-centric bits (nitor, for example) but will make up for the shortfall with other materials. I can do gunpowder, nether wart, and glowstone, which I think a lot of mods use, as well as Ghast Tears, Iron, Gold, Redstone, both types of quartz, and I'm sure I can get some other bits and pieces.

Anyone up for it?

**Melissia**

I could make the jars and tubes easily enough, but I really don't feel like logging on to ftb right now :/

**4oursword**

That's entirely fine, there's no rush to have them. I want things ready for the next world, but that could be a while off anyways.

**cptprice0330**

That can be done good sir

**4oursword**

You supplying the Lamps of Growth, Alembics, and Furnaces for their cost in materials (excepting the thaumcraft stuff I can't craft) and some other materials as well?

Or I'll pay you a barrel of Iron Blocks for the whole lot.

Edited for derps.

**Melissia**

Eh, I'm nto doing anything, I'll go make the jars at least-- I have an excess of glass panes anyway.

**4oursword**

What can I pay you for that Melissa?

**Melissia**

4oursword wrote:
What can I pay you for that Melissa?

Iron blocks are always a good currency for me. I plan on making some iron tanks later anyway.

**4oursword**

10 of them ok?

**Melissia**

Sure. Also your base is a fething mess. I left them in the iron chest below the crafting station slab thing.

Feel free to deliver whenever, just put them in one of the chests in my skyhome.

**4oursword**

Oh i know. It's horrible down there. I blame Shrike. Shrike and laziness.

I'll drop the iron by now.

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cptprice0330 wrote:
That can be done good sir

Can I also get the tubes off of you, in addition to the rest of the stuff? Melissa has kindly provided the jars. My evil plans are approaching fruition. He he he.

**cptprice0330**

4oursword wrote:
Oh i know. It's horrible down there. I blame Shrike. Shrike and laziness.

I'll drop the iron by now.

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cptprice0330 wrote:
That can be done good sir

Can I also get the tubes off of you, in addition to the rest of the stuff? Melissa has kindly provided the jars. My evil plans are approaching fruition. He he he.

Check the Obsidian chest in your house, supplies have been left there

**4oursword**

Holy Hotdog in a hot tub.

What payment do you want then? All the materials or the [MOD EDIT - Ack! Language, please! - Alpharius] of iron? Or some midpoint between the two?

Seeing as that was so quick, I might place another order with you soonish. It'll be more of the same

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Whoops, sorry Alpharius- I thought all instances of that word were censored, even as part of a compound word. I'll bear that in mind for the future.

**Absolutionis**

As a curiosity, may I use someone's assembly table? These QuarryPlus items are taking an absurdly long time with my setup. I'll provide the power with Resonant Energy Cells if that's a concern.

EDIT: Nevermind. I figured out a way to just pipe produced items back into the assembly table in order to get the minimal system working overnight.

**Melissia**

I need to think of a new project. With Iustis not playing because of technical issues, I don't feel any enthusiasm to finish the current project I had for her.

Dunno, it feels like there's TOO much stuff and I have no idea what to do next. Maybe a reactor from reactorcraft or Big Reactors? Not sure how to start that out...

**Absolutionis**

Big Reactors is actually surprisingly easy. Get a Quarry and you'll have all the Yellorium you'll ever need for a long while. Plus, with the server eventually updating to 1.1.X+ the Big Reactors will have a big update adding actively-cooled reactors.

Reactorcraft/Rotarycraft is mind-blowingly convoluted.

**Anvildude**

Takomak reactor (if it's implemented). Because it's a frikkin' Takomak reactor.

**Melissia**

I'll try BigReactors then. Not looking forward to doing this modpack's version of Gregtech.

**Absolutionis**

I've been playing around with Rotarycraft a bit in creativemode.

It seems that the difficulty comes from interfacing the blocks and making them work as a coherent whole. It's a puzzle, of sorts. Building the individual pieces doesn't seem like that much of a problem.

Gregtech's difficulty comes from nerfing recipes and making everything take long to make with tons of resources. Plus, many things are 'gated' in that you need one machine before you can build another. It's awful.

**Minx**

Absolutionis wrote:
I've been playing around with Rotarycraft a bit in creativemode.

It seems that the difficulty comes from interfacing the blocks and making them work as a coherent whole. It's a puzzle, of sorts. Building the individual pieces doesn't seem like that much of a problem.

A nice feature of these RotaryCraft machines is that you can speed up their operation quite a bit (down to an op. per tick in some cases) if you increase the supplied angular velocity after meeting the minimum torque requirement. The necessary information is mostly available in-game using the mods craft-able handbook.
ReactorCraft on the other hand isn't that well documented (and a bit laggy and perhaps dangerous for the server map with free floating steam blocks). And there've been quite a lot of changes since Monster 1.0.9. I would recommend using a newer version if you'd like to play around with a fission or fusion reactor from said mod.

**Melissia**

What does the Big Reactor output, is it only the Thermal Expansion's annoying RF energy?

**Minx**

Melissia wrote:
What does the Big Reactor output, is it only the Thermal Expansion's annoying RF energy?

Newer versions with active cooling output steam or RF. I believe our version of Monster has only the RF output option. Both EnderIO and TE (and possibly other mods as well) have convenient and failsafe options to transport RF.

Engineer's Toolkit has a simple converter if you need IC2 power, there's also the mod Power Converters and RotaryCraft can convert most forms of power into its own and then into nearly everything else (some converters explode if they are fed too much power though). TEs energy conduits convert RF automatically into MJ (not the other way around) if the machine needs it.

**Absolutionis**

Hah. It seems that my Smeltery overflowed a little...

**Melissia**

Well, THAT is an impressive bug.

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Minx wrote:
Engineer's Toolkit has a simple converter if you need IC2 power

I'll have to look that up.