lumie's first gregtech 🤫

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moni is my first gtceu pack and this will be where i share my progress okay lets go (also im gonna add computercraft to my world later so yea)

waiter waiter one spaghetti please

sorting items? what even is that

some sections of my base i just designed idk if its good but i fw it

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babys first sulphuric acid

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Highly recommend gregtech drums for storage of liquids it's fire for batch crafting

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i cant figure out how 2 remove the liquid from the drum

like okay buckets

but i need pipes

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You can open a machine interface and pick up the drum and then click it onto a fluid slot and it'll fill up the machine

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oooooo

i see

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If you want it to pull automatically you can put it on one of the sides of a Greg tech machine and then put a pump on the machine, use a screwdriver to set it to import and it will pull from whatever drum / machine is connected to that side

I use steel drums and they hold 64 buckets

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thats a good shout

ill keep ts in mind tysm

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So say I'm trying to make red alloy cable for circus or copper cable, instead of 1 rubber plate > 1 cable it's 0.5 rubber plate > one cable using the extractor and then the assembler recipe with one of the rubber variants

So I just have a full 64000 mb drum of liquid rubber that I put on top of the machine when I need to make cables :3

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extremely based and i will be stealing this idea

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And that way I don't have to keep filling it when it goes through the 8000 mb buffer in the machine

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Mhm ofc

I like your base layout btw it's cool

I'm just on a cobblestone pad in the void 😭 I don't know how to build for factory games lol idk how much space I need

This is my first tech pack in general

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I was unhappy with my void base so I restarted my world. This is after 6 hours of straight gregging with NO breaks 🤑

@blissful basin

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Let's go

Also nitpick but 1 diamond / obsidian furnace is better than 4 golds imo it just chews through fuel

That's just my preference tho :3

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oh yeah def i just got lazy and didnt upgrade

but im gonna upgrade all those 4 golds to diamonds

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messing with true darkness settings

Evangelion FInally
EBF FInally

now to power it -_-

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congrats

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ty

passive aluminium

i played a lot today but didnt take screenshots

mainly building rooms to put machines in

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why you not using laser io??

it can skip over 9 blocks

it would save on pipes

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im a noob

but ill look into it

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Stick to gt logistics, it's faster, cheaper, and easier to set up then laserio. Plus it gets you used to gt mechanics you'll need later in the pack

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okay! i was wondering, sure, i used a lot of pipes there but like, pipes are so cheap come on now

also ill send some screenshots here tomorrow but ive been doing some building and producing phenol for phenolic circuit boards. currently planning the gallium arsenide line because i want to automate that shi as soon as i can

ill also probably end up automating LV circuits once i enter MV and unlock the LV circuit assembler, because crafting each little component by hand is so not okay

i need to expand my power grid if i wanna run all those processes...

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Yeah plus ulv pumps and conveyors are free from lost cities loot.

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mhm

i love ulv conveyors i used them for the aluminium dust production in the aluminium line

makes everything so neat

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Agreed, I still use ulv stuff in ev to and from interfaces because I just don't need the throughput for passive stuff.

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makes sense

yeah if u dont need the throughput why make something expensive

i get that

also are phytogenic insolators worth it at all for rubber or should i keep chopping down rubber trees manually until greenhouse?

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I did manual until greenhouse

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sick

ill do dat then

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Phytos can be useful for things like flowers for dyes but you still need some form of fertiliser for them.

I just skipped then because of that and you make so much from the greenhouse without fertiliser

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yeah i just use cyan dye from apatite when i need dye for my base decor (eg: xtones)

lucky me i love cyan

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mhm

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That's fair, you get to basically double it if you turn it into liquid dye and then into chemical dye balls

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oooh ill look into it

thats very nice

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Plus a lot of recipes Can use the liquid dye which also gives you double for the rest dye input. Eg liquid recipe gives 0.244b but most recipes use 0.144b

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i see

interesting

a good cheap building block is korp from xtones

i use korp variant 6 everywhere in my base (again, ill send pics tmr)

because its literally just stone and gravel and i just steal that from the aluminium line

lol

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It's basically free, I used laboratory blocks and then concrete for colour

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niiice

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Because sand and gravel are free

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yeah

i have an idea of how i want my base to look like in the long term

its gonna be kinda like a space station (in the void dimension)

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Nice! So very different to your ow base?

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yeah since my ow base was a little town

i already moved to the void world

the aluminium like was too cramped in the ow

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Understandable

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the main body of the void base will be a 10 block tall cylinder of radius 30

so very big and flat

and this will house many rooms which will house different production lines

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Well considering a lot of void bases are just big platforms that sounds like it'll be a lot more interesting than most

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yeah lol

and then i wanna build something on top of the cylinder

like a biodome maybe

that would be cute

i know its a bit early for me to say this but i cant wait for angel ring

it will make building so easy lol

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Honestly I've just stuck with jetpacks and a big battery

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i didnt make a jetpack yet, i should prolly look into that as well

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Yeah it's useful, plus make electric tools while you're at it

At least the drill

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is the lv drill better than the diamond mining hammer?

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Diamond drill lasts like 5 times longer but needs some way to charge it

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wouldnt LV charger work?

thats what i use to charge the building gadget

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That works, yeah

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nice

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I just liked to keep some batteries on me as well for the jetpack and tools, especially with how little power the early jetpacks hold

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i dont think ive made a single battery in this run yet😭

which is a lil crazy

but just a lil

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This has helped me a lot with tools.

I think I went diamond LV to blue steel HV

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Nothing wrong with that, I didn't make a battery buffer until ev

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saved. tysm

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xD fair

i love spreadsheets sm

im hoping i get to make spreadsheets later on for stuff in my world

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There are a bunch in the bot, if you check the bots channel you'll see them

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Like what?

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oh i meant i love making them but thats useful too

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Oh fair

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idk i always hear people saying they make spreadsheets for their gregtech stuff

in their worlds

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A big one is for people that do steam only runs

That I've seen at least

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steam ONLY? so no benzene?

i didnt even know people did that but i guess why not

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None, steam only

I know of one person that's done steam to creative power in moni

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whoa

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And there are a few on similar runs currently

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do u recommend i do that for my first time playing a gregtech pack😭

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Absolutely not hahaha

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pffft fair

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Steam got me to HV but then swapped to oil

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i see

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Oil is easy mode for power

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i wanted to ask btw speaking of oil.. how do i use the pump? like to extract oil from liquid veins? idk how to

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Single block pump on top of a oil spout

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so that means i cant get oil in the void then

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Fluid rigs

The void only has oil I believe,

If you shift right click the prospector you'll swap to fluid mode

Then you can see the fluid veins

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water is free anyway lol

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You can drain then with the fluid rigs multi which the steel one will go down to 20mb/s

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oh i didnt know there was a multi for that

okay nice that makes more sense now

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And you can have as many of them as you want in a chunk, just once it's at 0% they'll all only give 20mb for the steel one

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Yeah, fluid pump for in world fluid, fluid rigs for sub bedrock veins

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i see

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It's more for salt water and fluids on other planets

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sub bedrock is a nice way of thinking of it

lol

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ah mhm

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Yeah, just pulling from the void.

Also the miner single block will mine all the ores from a vein it's on top of and in range of. I used it for sulfur/sphalerite in the nether because I was sick of dealing with lava

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oh okay good to know

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sulphur is blaze prediction?

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sodium persulfate (needs more distilleries)

my base as of now

as soon as i get greenhouse the rubber trees will go

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In normal mode yes, that is one way to get it. But it's Soo much faster to empty a vein in the nether plus you need sphalerite for gallium anyway so you'll be mining those veins no matter what

Unless you buy the ores

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That looks very different but in a good way!

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thank u so much!

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sodium persulfate + bauxite is a more efficient gallium production way

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im doing the sphalerite way now but the sodium persulfate is here waiting for me

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That's fair enough, I never did that route tbh, I'll probably look into it at some point if gallium is an issue.

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cant really use sphalerite for gallium because you never get to centrifuge sphalerite

after earlygame

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Ah right, haven't even thought about gallium since LV so that's good to know.

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but yeah, you don't need that much gallium

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i just like automating stuff lol but fairs

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Yeah automating is awesome

I'm moreso saying that you can definitely get a few thousand of gallium early and dont run out until midgame, esp if you don't passive things

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But passive is bestive

And automating is fun

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true

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Why think about having strong enough infra when you could just have stuff already there when you need it?

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real

btw whats the diff between passive and ondemand

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In ae2 terms, on demand is a pattern for the item, passive is a storage bus on a container with the item already in thete

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oh i see

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In other terms, on passive runs in the background with no need for player interactions to produce, on demand requires a demand for it to be made

Take a look at anything in Angelia and hikaris base for max passive

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tbh angelia and hikari's base is a pretty extreme example

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im setting up hostile neural as its veryyy much required to produce the basic things for it(iron and sulphur) which will make it TRULY passive

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yesss

cant wait for that as im always running out of iron

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im using it for enderpearls(i have a cycle of preidtion matrix)
blaze rod
sulphur
iron
diamonds(i use nuismatic)

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is numismatic better than oil

?

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idk

im making 12k fe/t with one

i have 6

70k fe/t

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waow

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thats 20k eu/t

i used my old thermal starts

i like to transition to oil at ev

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oil scales to like several million eu/t later on

without too much spamming

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interesting

👀

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like this is 1.5 million per tick + most predecessing steps for it

(the red rectangles; generators are in middle right)

there are ppl pushing oil to hundreds dozens of millions per tick, though I wouldn't go that far, personally (since generators have to be scaled)

also you can do, like

%t jean66

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just casually request several billions of power

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ohhh

yeah thats not very much space at all

also i think im gonna remake my base after i unlock ae2

idk

i started using laser io for some minor things

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(also that space goes towards giving you things for other processes too)

I've rebuilt like three times, definitely did not have to do that 😄

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I think there's 2 major rebuild points: ae2, and IV where you get multiblocks for most things.