The late MV lawnbase | Pansmith's Kitchen | Page 1

bold cairn Mar 3, 2026, 9:33 PM

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the power is light fuel from oilsands and its all stored in a steel tank multiblock

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Currently I have no dedicated lines (besides light fuel) and I just kinda bulk craft by hand using the barrels but I'm thinking about making a dedicated circuit line in hv since I doubt 4 stacks of bulk crafted hv circuits will last me all of hv like I managed for mv

jolly belfry Mar 3, 2026, 9:38 PM

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They will last you a while, it's more MV circuits and components that'll be the bottleneck at hv due to their use in ae2

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The only lines that you'd need would be polyethylene and cobbleworks.

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Looks like a good start regardless!

bold cairn Mar 3, 2026, 9:41 PM

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jolly belfry The only lines that you'd need would be polyethylene and cobbleworks.

I have a half committed polyethylene line from my saplings and hydrogen sulfide byproducts but it's definitely not perfect yet

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But wdym cobbleworks? I haven't actually done anything with cobble yet besides extrude it all into a drawer

jolly belfry Mar 3, 2026, 9:43 PM

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In renewable resources tab there is a line that starts with cobblestone

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And gives you aluminium, silicon, and sodium

bold cairn Mar 3, 2026, 9:44 PM

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Oh no way ive gotta get on that imediately aluminum will be amazing way better than using up all my lapis

jolly belfry Mar 3, 2026, 9:45 PM

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Good lord yes

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Please do

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And check all the other renewable resources there

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Very very worth to just have running in the background

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I set mine up in mid HV and I've got about 500k of all of them

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And about 150k aluminium ingots

bold cairn Mar 3, 2026, 9:47 PM

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Any way you could provide an example cobbleworks line for mv I could follow?

jolly belfry Mar 3, 2026, 9:48 PM

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Not at my PC ATM so unfortunately not

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But I did drawers between each machine with conveyors pulling from them into the next

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So I always had a drawer for cobble, gravel, sand, dust, and clay.

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And then I used a superchest for each of the big outputs: aluminium, sodium, and silicon

bold cairn Mar 3, 2026, 10:27 PM

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I just made a direct line for now im sure it will be sufficient as it's gonna be fully passive with steam power

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So I doubt efficiently will be a big deal till hv ore processing

fossil copper Mar 3, 2026, 10:32 PM

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At least adding a buffer for sand and maybe clay can really save some trouble when you need to make a bunch of glass or bricks, although you could just buy the clay if needed

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I made my clayline the same way too, but then I got reminded that there is nothing more permanent than a temporary solution

bold cairn Mar 3, 2026, 10:36 PM

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I'll definitely keep that in mind because yeah there's a good chance I never end up changing the line if I make it fully independent

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Currently I've just been testing with this

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jolly belfry Mar 3, 2026, 10:39 PM

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Looks good

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Will you use steam or LV machines?

bold cairn Mar 3, 2026, 10:40 PM

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jolly belfry Will you use steam or LV machines?

Solar steam prob tho I just stole a combustion from my line for now

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Unless its laggy I could probably just spam a bunch of them till I make enough passive steam to power it

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Since it's gonna be renewable I want it to be as passive as I can make it so I can just forget about it and just grab what I need when I need

jolly belfry Mar 3, 2026, 10:45 PM

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One thing you could do is setup a greenhouse to produce fuel for a large bronze boiler and use that to power both steam turbines and the steam machines

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Solar works fine as well, I just haven't touched it so idk how much you'll need.

bold cairn Mar 3, 2026, 10:46 PM

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jolly belfry One thing you could do is setup a greenhouse to produce fuel for a large bronze ...

Actually that could work I have a greenhouse making sticky resin and I definitely could just steal the logs from it to a large boiler

jolly belfry Mar 3, 2026, 10:48 PM

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My partner set it up to be totally passive with its own greenhouse running spruce logs

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So I think it's better to make it independent rather than taking from another system

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Also you won't need sticky resin once you're in hv

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Especially with the higher tier of MV and LV circuits

bold cairn Mar 3, 2026, 10:49 PM

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Huh since I already got alot of resin stocked up maybe now would be the perfect time to move it over for the boiler

jolly belfry Mar 3, 2026, 10:50 PM

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Sounds like a plan

bold cairn Mar 3, 2026, 10:51 PM

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Thank you for the idea!

jolly belfry Mar 3, 2026, 10:52 PM

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No worries!

bold cairn Mar 3, 2026, 11:18 PM

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What would the best pipes to use for this be? So far I've just been using huge bronze and large tin alloy for everything

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I'm thinking about extruding huge stainless steel but I dunno if it's a good investment

jolly belfry Mar 3, 2026, 11:19 PM

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I just used huge bronze

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Didn't see a reason to use bigger until steel boiler

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And that was only to run MV turbines

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And we used aluminium pipes

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Also we used tin item pipes for that side of things

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It didn't need to be fast since it was passive

bold cairn Mar 3, 2026, 11:22 PM

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Definitely going with aluminum then just incase. I got so overwhelmed by all the pipes I didn't even notice aluminum was an option

jolly belfry Mar 3, 2026, 11:23 PM

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Yeah, if you do that you'll never have to worry

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Unless you decide you need to turbocharge your passive line with a titanium boiler

bold cairn Mar 4, 2026, 12:09 AM

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the finished line

jolly belfry Mar 4, 2026, 12:10 AM

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Hell yeah!

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Enjoy free aluminium

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Also look into Moni superconductors

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They don't need to be covered with rubber and can transfer double the power with no loss

bold cairn Mar 4, 2026, 12:11 AM

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jolly belfry Also look into Moni superconductors

Thankfully I've actually been running my main setup on 16x energetic alloy wire

jolly belfry Mar 4, 2026, 12:11 AM

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Once you hit HV it's worth starting to consider gt supercon

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At Ev it's worth and at IV it's a joke to use the Moni one

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Just due to cost

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The gt supercon does significantly more transfer

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Like at hv vibrant does 32A at 16x and the gt supercon does 64A

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At Ev the gt supercon (uranium triplatinum) does 96A

bold cairn Mar 4, 2026, 12:13 AM

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Okay yeah definitely gotta look into that because I was gonna try to use supercon as much as I can just to get the most outta my power

jolly belfry Mar 4, 2026, 12:14 AM

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They can just be expensive until ev

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At that point it's as cheap or cheaper than the Moni ones

bold cairn Mar 4, 2026, 12:16 AM

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Yeah I can see the moni ones are very reliant on also getting the last tier so that definitely seems like it adds up fast

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Compared to the gt ones being independent

jolly belfry Mar 4, 2026, 12:20 AM

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Yeah, plus the recipe times. Enderium is a joke compared to its gt counterpart

bold cairn Mar 4, 2026, 12:23 AM

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Honestly im wondering if I should dive into ae2 so I can get to patterns or hnn for even more passive resources

jolly belfry Mar 4, 2026, 12:24 AM

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Ae2

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Then you can pattern the hnn stuff

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And set up hnn logistics with ae2

bold cairn Mar 4, 2026, 12:24 AM

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Oh your so right that would be so much easier than trying to do it with pipes

jolly belfry Mar 4, 2026, 12:25 AM

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100% pipes still have their place but it's mostly local, on site stuff

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Also, if you can afford to do it I highly recommend putting an ebf at the end of your cobbleworks to autosmelt the aluminium into ingots

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You can have the dust in a superchest and the ingots in a drawer so you don't eat all the dust.

bold cairn Mar 4, 2026, 12:27 AM

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Hmm that's definitely gonna be taxing on power but I shouldn't need to make it above mv ever right?

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Just better coils so it's faster

jolly belfry Mar 4, 2026, 12:28 AM

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Don't even need better coils, just run it at MV with cupronickel

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It's running in the background so you'll build your base and come back to a full drawer of aluminium ingots

bold cairn Mar 4, 2026, 12:29 AM

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Oh yeah true then I just gotta figure out the exact amount of power I need for it

jolly belfry Mar 4, 2026, 12:29 AM

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1 MV steam turbine

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Also a large bronze boiler can only support 3.5 MV turbines

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Imo, it's best to run cobbleworks on high pressure steam machines or LV machines

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It doesn't need to be MV because it's running passively

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Anything that's passive can be slow

bold cairn Mar 4, 2026, 12:32 AM

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I'll probably keep it mv, I made so much mv circuits and aluminum that its honestly cheaper rn than lv and high pressure

jolly belfry Mar 4, 2026, 12:32 AM

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Totally fair

bold cairn Mar 4, 2026, 12:32 AM

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I'm absolutely struggling on the steel and iron front

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I can never have enough

jolly belfry Mar 4, 2026, 12:32 AM

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Check out the amethyst line

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In the renewable resources tab

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Infinite iron and oxygen

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So free infinite steel

bold cairn Mar 4, 2026, 12:33 AM

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I'm not seeing amythest in renewable

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I'm seeing stone, wood and prediction matrix tho

jolly belfry Mar 4, 2026, 12:34 AM

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That's strange, maybe it's a hm thing because zombie predictions make iron

bold cairn Mar 4, 2026, 12:35 AM

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Yeah I'm on Normal so that may be it

jolly belfry Mar 4, 2026, 12:40 AM

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That makes sense

bold cairn Mar 4, 2026, 2:49 AM

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hv circuits on the way

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still making ic because thats super slow

jolly belfry Mar 4, 2026, 2:50 AM

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Just a heads up, don't use hopper upgrades because they can void items instead of pushing them

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Better to use a conveyor on the machine

bold cairn Mar 4, 2026, 2:50 AM

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jolly belfry Just a heads up, don't use hopper upgrades because they can void items instead o...

Yeah I learned the hard way if you break the block under it it just sends stuff to the void

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So I just refresh it before every bulk craft by taking it in and out

jolly belfry Mar 4, 2026, 2:51 AM

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Smart!

bold cairn Mar 4, 2026, 2:52 AM

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But yeah I may upgrade to conveyors it should be faster, I just like the ability to toggle it rn

bold cairn Mar 4, 2026, 4:05 AM

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i have learned how to make it night, best discovery yet

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had to edit the jar

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