GTCommunityPackModern Playthrough

[gloomy ravine]

I might quit this, I will try to post regularly.
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CURRENT STAGE: Early MV
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GTCommunityPackModern Playthrough

[gloomy ravine]

my mining hammer broke

jackpot

good mining trip

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coke oven

second one done

[lavish sundial]

maybe try and share the output hach might be convinient

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i didnt add an output hatch yet

sorted everything

bronz

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i did some stuff, and im gonna take a break now

[lavish sundial]

oh sry mb

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dw its fine

[lavish sundial]

good progress for one day

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yeah, im on like day 5-6 (in mc)

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imma try and do most of the steam age quests and dip into LV

[lavish sundial]

budy im on like day 105 and have just entered lv

by your pace youll hit early hv by day 100

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hopefully.. steam age looks (and is) a pain in the ass with steel

im gonna make the compressor, then a BUUUUNCH of PBFs

first steam machine

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im adding somnia awoken cuz i hate waiting

FINALLY BRO DIAMONDS 😭

im gonna use a waypoint tp JUST ONE TIME

cause i rlly need those diamonds

actually ill just use waypoint TPs more often

😈

ok it didnt work

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removed somnia

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yaya

[lavish sundial]

lets gooo

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steel

expanded my base

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resistors ready

TYSM GREG

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lets go

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machine 2

im boutta be rich 🤑

half of the steam age done!

THERE IS NO WAY

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a few more things and im finally done with steam

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storage house

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after almost 32 days i have rubber

fun

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gonna get the lv casing later

[slate urchin]

Great job man, i remember when i first played gregtech
It took me 400 days to reach mv
Then in my second world i did it in like 100

Youre pretty fast

How many days you at?

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lemme check

34

solar boiler and setup rearrangement

we need more steel!

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almost into lv...

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gulp

day 37 just began LV

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yay i got EU generation

[slate urchin]

I see you dont have any oil spills nearby

Which is pretty sad

If you had some, you could get into making naphtha

[gloomy ravine]

i swear i've seen some nearby

[rotund arrow]

If you allow yourself some teleportation round waypoints its easy to get the spills. Otherwise probably chunkload them and put a buffer. Raw oil spills should last you well until you get an MV rig

They should be enough to power LV machinery and early MV till you get the rig with naphtha

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im doing a pause on this modpack for now

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the pause is over

made a wiremill

[slate urchin]

Why such big wires

Why copper

Why not tin

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for better throughput

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almost got sodium for the batteries which i need for the drill

turns out i needed distilled water fck

welp its time for a distillery'

NOPE! im making a bender

[slate urchin]

You only need 1x wires for 1 amp
You lose more energy with bigger wires

A 1x tin cable (aka rubber insulated) loses ONE eu/block

A 2x loses 2 eu

Etc etc

And copper is WORSE than tin for lv

Seriously

Copper is supposed to be used for MV

And even then, base copper is kinda ass

Annealed copper is what you should use in MV

[gloomy ravine]

kk, i will change the wires when i log back on

[slate urchin]

Good

Using wrong cables is hell

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also my friend will be joining be tommorow

[slate urchin]

Huh

Aight

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so progress should accelerate a bit

[slate urchin]

Good for you

[gloomy ravine]

👍

[slate urchin]

I always preferred singleplayer, but hey, others dont

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i mean, everyone has their own opinions

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back to gregging, good morning/night everyone

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upgraded my macerator

[slate urchin]

You... didnt upgrade every steam machine before lv?

[gloomy ravine]

nope

[slate urchin]

Damn

I did

Btw make the multiblock oven and macerator

Very useful steam machines

The steam macerator will be good until HV

The multiblock oven will be good until you make a multiblock electric smelter/alloy smelter

@gloomy ravine

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ill make sure to make them

[slate urchin]

I think its as fast as a couple hv macerators

Without the bonus items

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im gonna get a few more LV machines like a lathe for the crafting

[slate urchin]

It macerates 8 items at once

The oven cooks 8 items at once

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imma make the grinder first

the bronze costs.. it scares me

[slate urchin]

Once you get the multiblock electric smelter, the voltage will determine speed and the coils will determine how many items it cooks at once i think

Not sure

[gloomy ravine]

i think its called an EBF (electric blast furnace)

[slate urchin]

No thats different

That needs 16 coils

The electric oven only needs 8

[gloomy ravine]

i only see the rotary hearth furnace which takes 96 coils when i searched "electric furnace" in EMI (the other single-block furnaces are still there)

[slate urchin]

Im not sure abt the name

Cant remember it

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kk

[slate urchin]

Just check it w any coil

One block shorter than the ebf

[rotund arrow]

Super smelter?

Probably has a smelter in it, made with HV circuits that i know

[rancid fjord]

multi smelter, it works as an alloy smelter and a better furnace, i believe it parallels with better coils

[slate urchin]

Yea thats the one i was talking about

[slate current]

its the multi smelter

oh im a bit late lol

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my friend couldn't play yesterday, hope he can today

he cant today :<

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32x greg jumpscare

32 eggs

[slate urchin]

Are those regular wood pipes

[gloomy ravine]

yes

[slate urchin]

You have creosote
You could have made treated wood

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why

[slate urchin]

For treated wood pipes?

Which are better

[gloomy ravine]

oh ok ill make sure to do that when i get the chance to

[rotund arrow]

Doesnt really matter. Wood or treated. If you arent hitting the transfer limit for the pipe you dont need a better one. I am still using tin item pipes for most of the stuff

Or aluminium for fluids since it is cheap in hv

I think I used regular wood pipes to power 16 HP solars so…

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chem reactor time yay

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second HP solar boiler

cheap rubber at the cost of my sanity

[rotund arrow]

It's gregtech. Sanity is cheap

[gloomy ravine]

you can automate it at some point

with a byproduct of fun

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aluminum is mine (kind of)

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new machine

[gloomy ravine]

either a good investment or dogshit

its.. a good investment..?

takes not that much time to smelt stuff and doesnt take that much energy

automation moment

[rotund arrow]

usually getting a bronze big smelter is better, it smelts pretty fast. As well as the bronze grinder. They will serve well until you get HV alternatives

[slate urchin]

The steam multiblock oven (not real name i think) is better

It smelts 8 items at once

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gonna make that soon

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finally bro

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final setup

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'the mixer mixes..' peak writing

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yaya an assembler

[slate urchin]

GOOD JOB YOU MADE THE MOST EXPENSIVE SINGLE-BLOCK LV MACHINE

(Not including circuit assembler)

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yay

all i get is 4 lv circuits and and lv machine casing.. FAIR DEAL!

i am sick and tired of my mining hammer breaking so im making a diamond one

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due to some issues, i will now make a steel drill

ive been scammed i thought all drills mined 3x3x3

[slate urchin]

Lv mines 3x3x1
Mv 3x3x3
Hv 5x5x5 and so on

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my friend IS joining me today yay

sorry for the back-and-forth guys

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fixed my steam problems (ft. my friend)

yay

im working on stuff while hes working on the EBF

[rotund arrow]

Enormously Big Furnace

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automated ore washing (sorta)

gonna upgrade my base

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second turbine

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begone microcrafting! (also getting coils already :D)

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yay

automation (ft. 123minecrafter)

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WE DID IT!

we've been here for a long damn time

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was busy playing block tales ch5

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added a few more turbines for the EBF, but its not enough (ft. 123minecrafter)

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I DIDNT FORGET ABOUT THIS!!!!

(at this time the wire setup is being renovated by me)

look at this bad boi

[bitter sable]

making pretty solid progress

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i will try and make my machines be lined up in a snake-like line /j

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LETS GOOOO

ALUMINIUM FINALLY

[agile compass]

GGs!

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Thanks! Me and my friend will be playing until we start/beat HV

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Legend says 3 tags were applied this day

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MV!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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yay

allat in under 100 hours

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MV machine

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auto-oil

america calls and i answer

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this is still alive n' kicking ive just been taking breaks

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progress has not been made yet, since my friend is rarely online.

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didn't know that you could make them like this

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time to get oily

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i want hydrogen gas..

[rotund arrow]

What do you want hydrogen for? I do not recall needing much in early mv

[gloomy ravine]

Oil refining, as steam isn't enough for me and the MV machines need more power.

[rotund arrow]

wait are you hydro cracking something?

because if you make hydrogen sulphide you can perfectly loop it for free sulfur and only need a few buckets of hydrogen to bootstrap

[gloomy ravine]

i need sulfuric heavy fuel

[rotund arrow]

and why do you need hydrogen?

sulfuric heavy fuel best gotten from heavy oil. Or raw oil can give a trickle of it if you don't need a lot of it

and hydrogen, again, perfectly loops through electrolysing hydrogen sulphide (you don't need it anyway)

[gloomy ravine]

you need hydrogen to make sulfuric heavy fuel i think

[rotund arrow]

No, sulfuric heavy fuel is distilled from oil (preferably heavy oil), to desulfurise it you need hydrogen, but it produces hydrogen sulfide as byproduct, which perfectly recycles through electrolyser to hydrogen you spent and some sulfur dust byproduct

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oh ok

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pasghetti

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DAY 200!!!!

wow this took quite some time to make

holy op

f*ck.

[rotund arrow]

oh you tried to power LV with an MV amp?

yeah no, machines and cables burn if supplied with voltage above their base

you use transformers to transform from one voltage to another

[gloomy ravine]

so i need a transformer right?

ill make one of those rq

[rotund arrow]

although be careful of cable loss

in lv cable loss is pain

[gloomy ravine]

can i use an MV buffer?

[rotund arrow]

you can, but it is for storing energy, not fighting cable loss

or wdym

i thought of a battery buffer

[gloomy ravine]

so like, im gonna move my power setup a bit back, put the MV battery buffer before an LV transformer, and it will work right?

[rotund arrow]

idk what you are trying to do, but it will transform MV power from battery buffer to LV

[gloomy ravine]

back to using this pile o' dung

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my base is now restored to it's former glory

will this work?

its an LV transformer transforming down and an advanced combustion gen

IT WORKS!

[rotund arrow]

yeah cable loss is probably abysmal

[gloomy ravine]

why doesnt the pipeline export?