Feeling mischievous and evil today. Steam age cleanroom + other shenanigans

[fickle timber]

apologies in advance to anyone playing this pack once i manage to finish it

[crystal jacinth]

what steam age machinery could possibly need a sterile environment to work in

[fickle timber]

Making circuit components. also pain over realism 🔥 🔥

[crystal jacinth]

sterile crafting table 🔥

[fickle timber]

unironically kinda wanna make that now 😭😭 i mean i do plan on having like a steam circuit assembler instead of hand crafting stuff

[subtle pagoda]

is this going to have a custom cleanroom type?

or is this just in kubejs

The filter casings look nice tho

[fickle timber]

yeah and i mean it already does have it :D fully functional, just gotta add some recipes still. oh and thank you!!

[little ocean]

Lmao beautiful

[frozen zodiac]

Why call this clean room?

It can be some sort of Steam room, filled with pressurized steam for specific craftings

[little ocean]

Pressure Chamber
Crafting inside of a vacuum

Steam powered

Could gate ulv circuit components behind a steam multi

[frozen zodiac]

Could gate lv component behind real ulv age

ulv assembler

ulv ebf

[little ocean]

Beautiful
High pressure steam age

[fickle timber]

considering i already made ulv components like the conveyor module and electric pump today, i could probably do this. though maybe more as a more advanced steam age/expanding on the already existing steam age. Forcing the player to do some cool processing lines to get to lv. i meannn adding one more intricate age on top of all of these shouldnt be that bad.... right? (uev-max circuits are from gt--)

[frozen zodiac]

High pressure steam age
Superhot steam age
Supercritical steam age.

Steam age never ends

[fickle timber]

dimensionally transcendent solid fuel boiler:

[frozen zodiac]

Well, my addon already has three extra tiers of single-block boilers and I am not planning to stop

[polar gull]

solid steam:

just copy GT:NH 3.0

[fickle timber]

Back again with some more shenanigans
Who says the assembler should only have 1 fluid input? :D

steam age components + buffer

third primitive furnace multiblock with its own brick type

and finally. i made the communist manifesto which is an post game item that will grant you with anything for free. Though it does come at a price of giving you the hunger effect.

👍

Feeling mischievous and evil today. Steam age cleanroom + other shenanigans

[polar gull]

Add more wires to rexture

And make bronze more shiny or it looks like clay

[subtle pagoda]

You can always make a better texture for them :)

[analog laurel]

Ah yes, the steam room. Also known as a sauna.

[wild wave]

Sauna circuit crafting 🔥

[wild wave]

One day we'll get a play test in here

[summer temple]

they look a bit flat tbh

[summer temple]

the sauna 😭

[fickle timber]

Gotta honor my Finnish heritage somehow :DD

[fickle timber]

No idea how i didnt see this yesterday, but anyways been quite busy with studying/exams recently so not much development has been made. Now that those are over ill be focusing more on making this again. Best case scenario ill have steam age finished in a week or two which ill probably release for playtesting. Current progress is that i have most machines i want to add finished, however i still need to make a couple processing lines and do quests

[fickle timber]

Yeah this feels fair for steam age :)

(Im yet to go through a single chemistry course in my current place of education. This was done with looking stuff up, my experience playing a bunch of gregtech packs and my very basic understanding of chemistry from years ago in middle school. My goal is not to make a fully realistic pack, however if there are any blatantly wrong things do feel free to point those out)

[fickle timber]

might still need some tweaks in the amount of items required

[fickle timber]

The kiln can now parallelize recipes, perform both campfire recipes aswell as having its own recipe type. And it also requires coal not tied to the recipe completion but rather to a 1 minute timer (Great strides from the unneccesary hinderence department!!)

[fickle timber]

Finally locked in and started doing quests

[fickle timber]

another use for creosote (used to make qol items such as the travellers boots, tool belt and backpack)

[fickle timber]

Steel processing line i made instead of revising for a math exam i have tomorrow

(last step is possible by just throwing the hot ingots into water)

[wild wave]

What about the Math exam tho 🤨

[fickle timber]

i should be fineee. its just some basic analytic geometry stuff :D

[wild wave]

God damnit my nitro ended

I miss my copium emotes

[fickle timber]

Tragic 😔 being so fr the only reason i even have nitro is cause i did the free trial thing and forgot to end it 💔

[fickle timber]

couple multiblocks i wanna add since currently you need quite a lot of steam to get thru the steam age

[wild wave]

Dual boiler thingy is brutal

But the idea sounds fun

[polar gull]

Make dual boiler output redstone signal if it going to explode

[junior cypress]

very excited for GregTech: Eternal Steam

[fickle timber]

Both boilers now work. Ill upload proper screenshots/maybe a video tomorrow. Also i lowkey forgot modrinth doesnt support ftb mods so ill either be redoing all the quests or forcing players to manually add ftb quests (probably doing this since i dislike how odyssey quests looks)

Then again odyssey quests would make it easier for people to play since i dont plan on releasing this on curseforge so we'll see

[wild wave]

[fickle timber]

might actually be done with steam age soon

oh also while create is in this pack like 99% of its functionality will be removed. i only wanted it for the trains and the way to obtain those will be gregified. so basically 0 actual create gameplay mechanics involved

[fickle timber]

also also idk if i showed this before, but the veins are decently larger, but appear less often (every 8 chunks)

no idea how this works for balancing

i just dislike exploration in modpacks 😭 also kinda gives an incentive to do trains early game maybe hopefully

[gritty carbon]

bro is cooking

nice use of MutableComponent

[fickle yoke]

finally interesting steam age!

steamroom is peak

[wild wave]

I just can't wait for the GregTech: Sauna to drop

[fickle yoke]

OP why theres 2 charcoal quests?

[wild wave]

Two ways to make it I'd assume?

[fickle yoke]

that still should be 1 quests

[wild wave]

Ig

[trim wedge]

why no curseforge ;-;

[fickle yoke]

this post is cat approved

https://tenor.com/view/cat-cat-blush-silly-cat-juice-cute-gif-6133838172443289075

[wild wave]

Just made it

[fickle yoke]

make it a gif now =P

[summer temple]

https://tenor.com/view/catspin-gif-10390165497725138728

[fickle timber]

One's to show like it being obtained thru coke ovens and other one is showing the entire processing line to making sulfur

[fickle timber]

old controversy, but id still just rather use modrinth since its what im used to

[fickle yoke]

what all those 3 alloys btw?

[fickle timber]

Stronze and Breel :D (thank you gtnh april fools update) and last one is just tin alloy

[fickle yoke]

https://tenor.com/view/cat-cat-meme-meme-shock-bruh-gif-15075464239506121886

[summer temple]

stronze and breel 😭 😭

[fickle timber]

it was too funny of an idea to abandon

[summer temple]

what do they constitute

bronze and steel?

[fickle timber]

one is 2x steel 1x bronze other is 2x bronze 1x steel

[fickle yoke]

wouldnt that make a recipe conflict in alloy smelter?

[summer temple]

somehow how i imagined it

[summer temple]

different cards maybe

[fickle yoke]

steam alloy smelter doesnt have them

[fickle timber]

wait i honestly have not even thought about that 😭

hmmmmmm

[summer temple]

breel is made with 2 bronze and 1 coal / coke

fixed

instead of using iron and coal you used bronze and coal

[fickle timber]

yk what yeah thats a good idea. could even be done inside the pbf

[summer temple]

yea

or you make a steam pbf

[fickle timber]

considering you have to mass produce steel i honestly might 😭

[summer temple]

😭

and make it slower

[fickle yoke]

but with 8 parallels!

[fickle timber]

i should just make the dimensionally transcendant bricked blast furnace 😭

[fickle yoke]

is that steamgate?

[fickle timber]

its steamgate or twist space

cant remember which

[summer temple]

cause why not

[summer temple]

what is this 😭

[summer temple]

4

4 parallels and 50% slower than normal pbf

[fickle yoke]

nuh uh

8

[summer temple]

nah 4

cause suffering = greg

[fickle yoke]

whats the point of making it then, eats steam and u can make 2 normal ones instead

[fickle yoke]

bro didnt play greg 😭

[summer temple]

yes

i have

[fickle yoke]

https://tenor.com/view/meme-meowl-gif-4510551963260225941

[fickle yoke]

you have what

[fickle timber]

ill probably do 8 parallels or just 4 with no speed debuff. my design philosophy for this pack is hard processing lines, but no annoying gameplay stuff like gtnh does, cause while it does have a bunch of fun recipes despite them being difficult. some stuff feels like its just waiting for hours to even be able to progress

or i could just make it easily expandable so you could have like a quad steam blast furnace

[summer temple]

played greg

[summer temple]

make the steam pbf just one block taller 😭

[fickle timber]

im thinking something like this

[fickle yoke]

make it the same size but with more bronze parts maybe?

[summer temple]

oh this is kinda fire

[summer temple]

i think this is fine

[summer temple]

whats that block at the top?

the grate looking thing

[fickle yoke]

filters for steamroom

[summer temple]

ooh

[summer temple]

I think i cooked smth up.
You make Stronze in the normal block alloy smelter.
and then you make the stronze blocks to make this machine. Which lets you craft Breel

[fickle timber]

Mhmm yeah. ill probably do something like this

[summer temple]

peak

[fickle timber]

omg im 100% adding this alloy

[gritty carbon]

Helicopter helicopter

[trim wedge]

what wiki is that from
also how tf does it have helium 🥀

[fickle timber]

https://gtnh.huijiwiki.com/wiki/HeLiCoPtEr. You really do find some gems when looking thru chinese gregtech stuff

[trim wedge]

chinese people just smoking some bullshit

[fickle timber]

Couple new multis. Primitive tree farm, Fuser (alloy smelter) and the steam powered blast furnace

[fickle timber]

still need to make recipes for the tree farm though

does anyone know if theres like a faster way to do recipes than just one by one typing them out in kubejs cause it gets a bit boring after doing like a hundred of them

[trim wedge]

Ig make a function for them

[fickle timber]

hmmm if thats like the only other option i lowkey might after finishing steam age just start working on another mod that adds a ui which converts the items there into kubejs stuff

so you dont have to

/kubejs hand

on everything

[wild wave]

How does one recipe definition look?

[wild wave]

Oh god

Well there goes my will for making a mod pack in the future

[fickle timber]

yeahh. it gets a bit painful after a while. Unironically the most painful part of modpack development

[wild wave]

Surely there's an easier way than writing everything manually

I can't imagine everyone just doing it like this and not getting mad to the point of making a solution

[gritty carbon]

because it's not a big deal?

there are tools

they exist

they just dont help much

the biggest difficulty of recipes isnt writing them

its coming up with them

[wild wave]

Ig I didn't use it so I can't say much

[wild wave]

Fair

Forgot about the creative part of the process

[fickle timber]

idk for me its definitely writing them. ig im just bad at like repetitive tasks maybe

like a couple recipes isnt a big deal yeah, but having to do like 20 in a row does get a bit tiring

[gritty carbon]

hold on, i can grab the mod if you want

the tool i mean

ah dang, can't remember the name

ive also made my own for java stuff

[wild wave]

This is the first result for me
https://modrinth.com/mod/visual-recipe-editor

[gritty carbon]

there was one that worked with gtm recipes but didn't have any of the unique recipe ingredients or conditons

like for example it could only do euT, duration, id, then item/fluids

[summer temple]

what is this 😭

[summer temple]

no idea

[gritty carbon]

helicopter

[summer temple]

thanks

[plain fern]

are you planning to release an early access/preview when steam age is finished

[subtle pagoda]

like license violations :p

GTO be like

[fickle timber]

Ohhh so thats why the GTO stuff reminded me of gtnh so much

[subtle pagoda]

idk abt gtnh themselves but ik that there have been a ton of times that GTO has taken code without proper attribution and ignored anyone who said anything

They also make some really suspicious decisions like adding an anti-tamper guard to their core mod

Read this issue lol
https://github.com/GregTech-Odyssey/GregTech-Odyssey/issues/1552

[fickle timber]

"We do not accept bug-fix requests framed as accusations, commands, or bad-faith assumptions." Is an insane response to that. what 💔

[subtle pagoda]

yea like bro wtf

maybe there was smth said in chinese that i can’t read

But in English there’s nothing rude

[fickle timber]

I have so many questions like nothing makes sense to me from that. Why would they want to disable it? why would they not inform the players about it?? and why would they refrain from answering to the previous two questions

like what could possibly be their motive

Chinese state level censorship just for a basic question 😭

[summer temple]

better hide than confront your problems

am i right

[fickle yoke]

Me when furnace is just a box

[wild wave]

It's a good box tho

[fickle yoke]

No its not

[trim wedge]

needs a better tree farm
like some sort of.... diggyfactory greenhouse......

[subtle pagoda]

the anti tamper nonsense and the hostility make you wonder if theyre mining bitcoin or sum shit 😭

Why even have the mod when they disable all of its functionality

[subtle pagoda]

I translated the chinese part back into english and its literally the same

[fickle timber]

yeah thats what im wondering 😭 😭 like i dont see any reason other than something like that to act like they do

[fickle timber]

no progress today. too busy playing subnautica 2 💔
also i got exams from the 21st to the 28th to thatll also slow development down

[wild wave]

Have fun!

[trim wedge]

you dont need to progress every day bro
i forgot about my modpack for 4 months and everything is still fine... so dont worry

[gritty carbon]

no nothing is fine

[trim wedge]

shut up yes it is

[fickle timber]

mhmmm ik ik. i would still prefer to get early game done soon, so i could actually start working on the cool stuff 💔 got so many cool ideas that just cant be implemented yet lol

[fickle timber]

(mainly nuclear stuff at ev and a couple things at uhv+ but those are a bit far away so im just going to focus on making my treefarm for steam age 😭 😭 💔 )

[summer temple]

you should get an early build to test and stuff

trust

[fickle yoke]

When nuclear ulv

[fickle timber]

yk what i have kinda had the urge to make a proper ulv age, but idk lol

[summer temple]

nuclear stage for every tier trust

[subtle pagoda]

the usual problem is that steam age already exists and can do LV recipes on the machines it has so adding a ULV age that makes sense is a large undertaking thats probably best in an expert level pack

[fickle timber]

Mhmm exactly. Only way i could really see ulv used is with machines that dont normally exist in the steam age, but since i already have the different steam variants for the assembler, distillery, mixer, etc (though they do have their own recipetypes to avoid access to easier recipes) i think the best option is just to move onto lv. I feel like ulv would probably just get more in the way than be a cool gameplay mechanic

[summer temple]

ulv would be better in a pack where steam doesnt or barely exists

or is super super limited

[fickle timber]

finally did the tree farm thingy (+ processing line for fertilizer :D)

[trim wedge]

steam chemical reactor

[fickle yoke]

huh

but steam machines cant do liquid recipes 😶

[wild wave]

[fickle yoke]

ig they can in this universe

[fickle timber]

they can now :D

[fickle yoke]

horrible

[fickle timber]

mehh, gregtech was too easy anyways

[fickle yoke]

its not about hardness =P

[fickle timber]

welll whatever it is about i can always just use the excuse of 99% of this was created with the idea of "lol thats a pretty funny idea ill add that"

oh yeah also.. added this :D

[trim wedge]

Waterline ahh liquids

[trim wedge]

The best way to add features imo:
Coolness > funnyness > pain > realism

[fickle timber]

lowkey remembered the existence of that right after i got the idea

[wild wave]

Holy shit distilled water proc line

[fickle timber]

or actually no. after i implemented it

[fickle yoke]

F

[fickle yoke]

cats >>>

[fickle timber]

100% agree

[trim wedge]

And that's why I'm adding the 67 line to diggyfactory

[fickle timber]

realism is cool, but id rather have silly stuff than constantly try to make everything as realistic as possible

[fickle timber]

what 😭 😭 😭

[trim wedge]

Silly sausage😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[trim wedge]

not actually a thing that i did but it's on my mind

[fickle timber]

what do you do with the 67 line and what does it include 😭 💔

[trim wedge]

probably a bunch of sludge
getting the exotic tung tung logs from a planet in the barnard's star system to carve them into tung tung tung sahur and beating him to make the Tung Tung Star which makes a diddy ahh emitter to make the khaby lame mechanism
using the ai datacenter multiblock to make the new AI Slop liquid

[wild wave]

67th element of the periodic table ofc

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holmium

[trim wedge]

making a machine that simulates an amazing digital circus
Combining 67 burgers to make the Eric Burger, crafting a speaker to put in a machine that farms aura by saying Darren Watkins Jr, mutating the tung tung sahur tree into an Are You Are You Coming To The Tree, making a phonk composer multiblock, all of this to make 67, then with 67 67's and 67 holmium blocks you can make a tier 67 rocket that brings you to Six Heaven

[fickle yoke]

7*7=49 line

[trim wedge]

7x7 = 49🤤

[fickle timber]

https://tenor.com/view/fire-writing-gif-24533171

[fickle timber]

after doing recipes for the past couple hours i think i finally have a recipe for everything in steam age

[fickle timber]

pretty sure all thats left now is to write quest descriptions and a few tooltips

Oh and also i have to add a new alloy for faster early game fluid transportation since youll be making a shit ton of steam

[trim wedge]

youve heard of Potin now get ready for Medvedev

[polar gull]

boring

make CELL CHEMISTRY

for steam chemical reactors

that would be 100 times more interesting

[summer temple]

https://tenor.com/view/fire-writing-writing-fire-his-writing-is-fire-is-this-fire-hold-up-gif-15400153686296022809

[fickle timber]

having to use fluid cells for chemical reactors in gtnh is basically what originally inspired me to make this 😭 💔

[gritty carbon]

Cell chemistry is so dumb

It was made for a time when ae2 couldbt pattern fluids

Why it still exists is beyond me

[trim wedge]

i also dont like cell chemistry, its why i made my vial items not need a vial to be made :v

[fickle timber]

had some ideas on how to make space stuff actually interesting in this pack (for when i get to that point)
looks like the gtnh devs had the exact same ideas 😭 😭 https://youtu.be/FuaTJaefo2Q

[trim wedge]

https://tenor.com/view/pepe-laugh-pepe-frog-soy-soyjak-gif-6888376920668906304

[fickle timber]

What emotion is this supposed to convey 😭

[trim wedge]

laughing at your misfortune

[fickle timber]

Oh 😭 💔

[fickle yoke]

u wanted to make planet with no content except ores?

[summer temple]

in most packs ive played, you go on planet once to get ores then theres some sort of way to farm the ore

[wild wave]

just make some recipe that has a biome/dimension restriction for the planet

[fickle timber]

Make processing on planets actually required and have cargo rocket logistics between planets instead of just. Go on planet, get ore, make new rocket, go on different planet, get ore, make new rocket and that looks for however many tiers of rockets there are oh and sometimes you might even have to place down a miner and an ender chest 😱

[fickle timber]

Being so fr thats exactly my plan😭 😭

[summer temple]

oh wait thats so good

like the cleanroom requirement

but for the planet's atmospheres

[fickle timber]

That or making just ore transportation fuel expensive, but refining them into other parts is more fuel efficient

[summer temple]

yea

and try to do smth for ae2 so its not dirt cheap to transfer stuff maybe

[fickle yoke]

🐈

look into tfg, it has some logistics thingies

[fickle timber]

Ill probably let the player unlock wireless transportation inside dimensions kinda early as to make it less laggy. As for transportation between dimensions ill probably fully disable it from ae2

[gritty carbon]

My main issue with stuff like this is it kills ac

Having to have a fully seperate ae2 net per dim

[summer temple]

i think its nice

[gritty carbon]

I just hate using non me inputs/outputs

[summer temple]

smh

[gritty carbon]

Without them you have less speed, you cant wallshare without risking voiding

[summer temple]

tbh it all depends on how she wants to do it

but i think that not having a interplanetery AE2 system right off the bat is fun

it encourages cargo ships as she proposed

[gritty carbon]

I suppose, just a risk players will have to be aware of ig

Dont wallshare fast machines

[summer temple]

i feel like once you get to the point where you have super fast machines that risk voiding materials then youll have ae2 or a faster system

[gritty carbon]

This happens in hv btw

With lcrs

[summer temple]

ive never had it

[fickle timber]

Fair point, but i think these downsides are sacrifices id make to avoid just having a really boring gameplay loop between planets. And if you desperately wanted ae2 hatches. Its not that bad to set up a small system for it

[gritty carbon]

True

Subnets could be used and fed to the logistics system

[fickle timber]

mhmm! though for now i should probably try to get steam age finished before i start thinking about interplanetary travel.. ill probably start working on this next thursday since thats when ill be done with exams (still got biology, math and physics left)

[summer temple]

goodluck

[subtle pagoda]

yea I’ve removed all interdim ae2 from AGE and TFG has it removed until UV/UHV afaik

Oh yea ender covers as well

its a better solution to remove everything bc otherwise ae2 just kinda takes over the late game and everything kinda becomes about copy pasting setups with it

[summer temple]

i agree

[fickle timber]

mhmm exactly. too many modpacks are plagued by like too easy transportation across long distances. i want to keep like. straight up teleporting items really really end game

[summer temple]

its why i get demotivated. they become so easy to trasnfer items that its boring and just copy pasting as haze said

[sour dawn]

What about creates storage system?

[sour dawn]

Depends on the recipe

[sour dawn]

If you don’t need item data, just use f3 plus h

Advanced tooltips

[fickle timber]

oh i already solved that issue (still wip and these are kinda outdated. ive updated this mod quite a bit after these)

[sour dawn]

Oh wow

What mod is that

(Obviously it’s custom)

[fickle timber]

just a little something im working on. no actual name yet

[sour dawn]

Could you make it usable for other modpack devs or no?

[fickle timber]

yeah. im planning on uploading it once i get it fully working. though if youre interested i can send it to ya in its current state (all of the gregtech stuff works and shaped vanilla crafting. ive yet to test any other types of vanilla crafting though)

[sour dawn]

I would like that very much, if it isn’t too much of a hassle or anything

[fickle timber]

lowkey forgot that even existed so maybe? ae2 is locked behind hv so ill probably have atleast some pre hv storage thing

[fickle timber]

Uelibloom. no idea what im gonna do with it just felt like adding it to take a break from studying

[fickle yoke]

what those brown things are?

[fickle timber]

little like uhh tree branch/root thingies

[subtle pagoda]

treengot

[summer temple]

the groot ingot

[fickle yoke]

Ironwood is real

[fickle timber]

Slightly disappointed that none of y'all know what it's from 😔 💔
Also last exam tomorrow. After that I can finally lock in on doing this again

[wild wave]

Not everyone modded terraria 💔

[fickle timber]

Missing out on peak

[humble otter]

calamity mod spotted in gregtech server

[fickle timber]

Peak meets peak

[fickle yoke]

I dont like terraria that much to fully complete calamity

[summer temple]

never played terraria i wont lie

[fickle timber]

kinda changed the steam age questline

and wrote descriptions for the introduction quest line thingy

oh also regular furnaces dont exist

[fickle yoke]

Thats tragic

Does that mean smoker and blast furnacе (not multi) doesnt exist too?

[fickle timber]

yeah. cause thatd be too easy and fun and efficient :D

[fickle timber]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1456771296779309344/1508104130131136512/aslpo1.gif

[summer temple]

poor soul

[fickle timber]

wrote descriptions for these. will hopefully get the rest done tomorrow

pretty sure thats the only thing left for steam age

[summer temple]

peak

[fickle timber]

Everything is done? I think

No idea what I'm supposed to do now😭 💔

[wild wave]

Now make LV living hell

[fickle timber]

hell yeah!! i think itd be pretty funny to make aluminium production the same complexity as the plat line

also trains

[wild wave]

Maybe there's something interesting in here https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_aluminium

I didn't read the whole thing because it's long

But it's talking about first attempts and the origin of the metal from what I read so far

[trim wedge]

let me write descriptions

😈

and also let me make planets i cook with planets

[fickle timber]

should have asked like a week ago and i would have lmao

[trim wedge]

https://tenor.com/view/duck-duck-angry-meme-gif-25118227

[fickle timber]

sure. though no idea how long till i get up to a point where ill actually be doing space travel since i think ill have that at HV

[trim wedge]

https://tenor.com/view/yes-jack-black-nod-nodding-approve-gif-7978418700455447011

[fickle timber]

did not think aluminium lore could actually be so interesting

[fickle yoke]

Playtest!

[summer temple]

maybe not

maybe not as complex

like 4-5 machines maybe

[summer temple]

@fickle timber have you played satisfactory before?

[fickle timber]

4-5 is less complex than one of steam age processing lines 💔

[fickle timber]

"Beat" it back when it was 0.8. haven't touched it since

[summer temple]

you could do a similar aluminium process

i think the one satisfactory has is neat

[summer temple]

"GT : Sauna"

i like that name suggestion ive seen in this chat

very representative

[fickle timber]

I'm gonna be honest I don't at all remember how you get aluminium in satisfactory 😭 😭

[summer temple]

i somewhat do off the top of my head

its a 3-4 machine step iirc

[fickle timber]

It's funny, but considering the steam age is just a minor part of what I have planned (despite all the content I added it'll still probably be quite short compared to the others) idk how much it'll fit in a few months lol. Only reason that this is so steam central thus far is cause making everything alone takes a while lol

[summer temple]

YEa thats a good point.

[fickle timber]

A bit short imo but we'll see. Size doesn't matter but rather how you use it 🔥 🔥 💯

[summer temple]

fire quote

[summer temple]

tbh if i had actually learnt and finished learning how to code in java id love to work on something like this 😭

[summer temple]

I just thought of something devious. Apart for steel (which youve done iirc) Make every casing metal easy to get, luring the player into a sens of safety then create the most attrocious lines possible

[fickle timber]

Yeahhh fair lol. Honestly I didn't really want to learn java either, but I couldn't make a cleanroom with kubejs so had to do it :D

[summer temple]

😭

how did you call the steam cleanroom

if it isnt a sauna its a missed opportunity fr

[fickle timber]

Mhmmm yeah. Or make it something where it's difficult to setup the processing line for it, but once you get it going it'll produce it forever/long time. Don't want to make casing metals too hard to obtain since you'll be needing them a lot for machines which you'll need a lot of for processing lines

[fickle timber]

Think currently its named "Primitive Cleanroom" the tooltip of it does however reference saunas

[summer temple]

hmm

yes

[summer temple]

alright

[summer temple]

i actually had to learn java for a school project

but my adhd carried me away and i didnt learn a thing

[fickle timber]

Yeahhh real. Though surprisingly this is like the only project in a while I've been able to work on without getting too distracted from it and moving onto something else

[summer temple]

yea well when its your own project and you like the growth its hard to sail away from it

[fickle yoke]

Lubricant?

https://tenor.com/view/cat-cute-hello-hi-kitty-gif-18013307

how crafting table recipe looks then

[wild wave]

Do recipes with primitive cleanroom requirement work in the regular one?

[fickle timber]

doesnt exist lol

[fickle timber]

yeah

[fickle yoke]

how do u make an assembler then? Steam one works?

[fickle timber]

mhmm yes

[fickle yoke]

oh okays

Its quite confusing to remember u have steam stuff and see electricity menu

now add special lubricant for complex parts such as robot arms and fluid regulator >=)

12 machine line

[fickle timber]

i mean i do plan on having multiple levels of lubricant lol

[summer temple]

https://tenor.com/view/unspeakable-violence-unspeakable-violence-poke-slapping-gif-14451091994871827607

[fickle yoke]

gt players when they are forced to play their favorite mod

[summer temple]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1077181038045966429/1507303040388960307/togif.gif

^^^^

this too

[fickle yoke]

^_^

[summer temple]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/962726922108940308/1478679306090840166/caption.gif

[summer temple]

uhh off the top of my head its the following
bauxite + water into alumina solution (liquid)
coal / pcoke + solution into scrap?
then alloy scrap + copper into ingots

[fickle timber]

mhmmmm alright. i could do something like that yeah

more quests

aluminium line tomorrow!?!?

either that or i get sidetracked and invent a completely new gameplay mechanic for no reason

thinking about doing some kind of botany plant stuff thats not really required for progression but would allow you to increase the efficiency of producing stuff. similar to oxygen with plastics but just better? ig. or just redoing how gt does research to make it more interesting than just scanning items

[summer temple]

i think that instead of doing bees for stuff, you do something with MA or a totally custom ressource generation

it'd be interesting

[summer temple]

it somehow looks too normal

[fickle timber]

I probably won't really be doing either. I kinda dislike being able to grow ores with plants or bees so you'll probably just be mining thru the entire pack or eventually a eye or harmony type of thing

[dark furnace]

remake geores to be balanced around gregtech

could have some sort of machine based around crystal growth

[trim wedge]

bro trying to steal the diggyfactory greenhouse

[fickle timber]

wait whats like your plan on the plant stuff so i dont actually just copy it 😭

[trim wedge]

nah dont worry its not like i copyrighted a mechanic

but anyways it basically works by making you keep track of all of the conditions in the greenhouse like humidity soil nitrogen temperature etc. and you have to make sure that theyre all in a certain range for you to be able to grow plants

[fickle timber]

yeahhh ik lol, just want to avoid just exactly recreating what youve been doing :D

[fickle timber]

Mhmmm alright. for me atleast rn i havent too much thought about the growing part more what you do with plants. i mean i want to have some kind of breeding system with them maybe and uses for them would be well the more efficient recipe thing i mentioned and potion effects for longer times. but honestly idk if ill even go thru with this plan and also when ill actually do this lol

[trim wedge]

breeding is cool
i spent like an hour yesterday just making breeding recipes for bees in my coremod

[fickle timber]

Almost 150 hours spent on this (probably more since this is just the time i had minecraft open)

[fickle yoke]

When cats update

[fickle timber]

Trying to design a logo thingy for this. no idea where i should put the text

[fickle yoke]

3rd one looks the best (but id remake logo and text in general tbh)

[summer temple]

same

it depends on the vibe she's going for tho

buts its a sbit too simplistic with that background

[fickle timber]

yeahhh im not too good at details 💔 ill maybe try cooking something up

[gritty carbon]

A logo should be simple

[trim wedge]

imo you shouldnt make most of the logo just the blue gt logo

[gritty carbon]

Its like the hook of a song

If it cant be easily reconized its not good

I like 2 tbh

[fickle timber]

yeah thats kinda more waht im thinking. i mean imo its alright where its at currently, but we'll see. not the best thing ever but i dont really know what id change

[fickle yoke]

u can always re-brand

[summer temple]

ask ai for ideas and build from it

dont take an AI image

just take ideas

[fickle timber]

yeahh ig. i mean i dont really care about branding that much. i just wanna make my silly little modpack lol

[summer temple]

"silly"

i think its an understatement

[fickle timber]

thinking about adding some movement to LV. kinda between adding grappling hooks or dashes rn

[summer temple]

dashing

[trim wedge]

add that one mod that adds the entire super mario 64 moveset

[fickle yoke]

lol

[summer temple]

whut

[wild wave]

It's the aluminum line ofc

[summer temple]

ikik

but what are the items

we need names here

i bet the liquid that gives 1.152 buckets is the alumina solution or something

[summer temple]

oh thats cool

[fickle timber]

more quests. mainly already existing chemical lines. except polyethylene is now required at LV and its kinda hard to get since most ways to obtain are MV+

[fickle yoke]

Scary

I like it!

maybe most important quests should be bigger?

start and end

[wild wave]

what even is the PE production like in LV

[fickle yoke]

Oily

from steam cracked naphta

[trim wedge]

Where are the bees...

[fickle timber]

theyre in the sludge

[trim wedge]

You will wait in ze queue of bee breeding recipes und YOU VILL LIKE IT.

This is only half of it btw

[fickle timber]

huge news: slave acquired for quest making

[gritty carbon]

surface indicactors too small to be useful

[fickle timber]

imo definitely better than having to mine down to check like it is in gtnh

[gritty carbon]

yeah

just could be bigger

[fickle timber]

gregified create recipes <3

[fickle yoke]

no bees

[humble otter]

Greggify the Productive Bees mod now!

[wild wave]

Massive productive lines from basic materials > bees

[trim wedge]

its why all of my bees are for ores only

[summer temple]

yes

bees stink

[hardy oriole]

I've always thought the way pyanodons for factorio does material processing. Really simple to begin with but you unlock more efficient recipes as you progress through the pack. The idea obviously doesn't port amazingly to gregtech as your demand for a specific material such as alu kinda decreases after MV but if you could incorporate something like whats done for NH water line or what youre thinking of doing for lubricant that would be cool

sorry that's such a paragraph

[fickle timber]

mhmm yeah i am doing pretty much exactly this with polyethylene for example. its hard to make in LV but once you get stuff like the mv distillery you'll be able to make it more efficiently

[hardy oriole]

thats good to hear then I just think its also such a cool concept I've also always liked the idea of having to make outposts secondary to your main base that need their own power infra and they run a chain or a series of chains via the use of forcing recipes to run in certain biomes and I think thisll work well with create trains as well

[fickle timber]

exactly!! i feel what many gregtech packs lack is the need for setting up multiple bases. cause while im not the biggest fan of exploration its mostly because it feels like a thing where its just "find place, get one item, go back to base" instead of having to find a location, setting up some automation infrastructure there and then running the results back to a central base

[hardy oriole]

Ye I’m the same I’ve never found “pointless” exploration fun but the idea of having an ever growing base and rail network running from my central base to a growing biome outpost is really cool

[fickle timber]

more quests!! (LV age is done????)

[dark furnace]

this scares me

I like that trains have a questline tho

they're fun