Cheat sheets and weird symbols
Minecraft is an odd phenomenon, game-wise. With the big modpacks, there are now SO many recipes, I keep text files of recipes for each mod ... and a file for recipes where I don't know which mod it comes from. In the Feed the Beast Ultimate modpack, shaped crafting alone (if you accidentally hit the arrow on the crafting table) has 1600+ pages of recipes at 2 recipes per page. So that's over 3,000 recipes. Throw in all the other machines, and I'd guess there are 5,000 recipes or so. Some are variations, different versions of ores and such, but it IS quite a heap.
Anyway, I have many files or recipes, and to make that work, I've come up with abbreviations for all the basic items. The end result is a fun kind of "Minecraft Chemistry" that I may run a separate webpage for. Here are some of the short-hand notations I've come to use over 2 years of gaming ...
Periodic Table of Minecraft:
I use the following symbols for basic Minecraft items:
Au gold
Bk book
Blz blaze powder
BlzR blaze rod
Bn bone
Bnm bonemeal
Brd bread
Brk brick
BrkB brick block
C coal
Cac cactus
Ch charcoal
Chs chest
ClB clay block
Cly clay
Cob cobblestone
Crf crafting table
D diamond
Dt dirt
Em emerald
End end stone
EP ender pearl
Eye eye of ender
Fe iron
Fl flint
GD glowstone dust
Gl glass
GlP glass pane
Glw glowstone block
GP gunpowder
Grv gravel
H2O water
IB iron bars
Lap lapis lazuli
Log wooden log
Lv lava
Mel melon
MgC magma cream
Mk milk
Msh mushroom (BMsh, RMsh for brown or red, if it matters)
NBrk nether brick
Nrk netherrack
Obs obsidian
Pap paper
Pk pumpkin
RS redstone
RT redstone torch
Sap sapling
SC sugar cane
Sd sand
Sli slimeball
SoS soul sand
SpE spider eye
SS sandstone
St stone
StB stone brick
Stk stick (older files used / for stick)
Str string
Sug sugar
Tch torch
Wd wood (plank) (see Log for logs)
Wht wheat
Wo wool
Extra elements found in most modpacks:
Ag silver
Al aluminum
Brs brass
Brz bronze
Cu copper
Fer ferrous metal
Ir iridium
Nik nikolite
Rb ruby
Rub rubber
S sulfur
Sal saltpeter
Sap sapphire
Saw: sawdust
Shn shiny metal
Sn tin
Stl steel
Tg tungsten (I'd use its real chemical symbol W, but I used to use that for wood)
U uranium
Some Ic2 basic items:
|| crop sticks
2XG 2X insulated gold wire
AA advanced alloy
AEC advanced circuit
AMB advanced machine block
CF construction foam
EX energy crystal
Gen generator
HVX high-voltage transformer
EC electronic circuit
IF iron furnace
ICW insulated copper wire
LVX low-voltage transformer
LapX lapotron crystal
MM mixed-metal ingots
MB machine block
MVX medium-voltage transformer
ReU refined uranium
RI refined iron
Notes: items can have these symbols at the end, to indicate the type of item
@ = ore
: = dust or pulverized metal
. = nugget
_ = slab (Wd_ = wooden slab, Cob_ = cobblestone slab etc)
[] = cell
9 = block (so Zn9 would be a zinc block ... they're made out of 9 ingots)
Gr = gear
W = wire
"N" in front of an ore means Nether (NFe = nether iron, etc).
tp = tiny pile
I know that's a tall heap of gibberish. If you want to know why some metals have funny symbole, like Fe for iron and Ag for silver, it's because those are the REAL chemical symbols for those elements. A lot of neat, real history there. Anyway, once there's a notation to use, I can give the full life cycles of items, all their sources and uses, and figure out their optimum use. Here's an example:
::: Bauxite Ore (Bx@)
Source:
- mining
Use:
[IND GRINDER] Bx@ + H2O[]|WBkt + 12800 EU (5s) -> 4 Bx: + Al: + []
[MACERATOR] Bx@ -> 4 Bx:
*[PULVERIZER] Bx@ + 400MJ -> 4 Bx: + 10% Al:
[ROCK CRUSHER] Bx@ -> 4 Bx: + 10% Al:
The names in brackets say which machine is used. Anyway, I don't know if this will make sense to anyone, but that's how I sort it out in my head, with my background in real-world sciences. In this case, you can see that the Pulverizer gives an extra 10% chance of Aluminum dust. So does the Rock Crusher but it's a much more expensive machine. The Industrial Grinder does a little better but is MUCH more expensive to make. So I put a star next to the most beneficial recipe for me.
I usually have one of these cheat sheets open at the bottom of the screen as I play. I don't know any other game with that level of complexity or supply-chain strategizing. Yes, I can pull up recipes in-game using NEI, but in the FTB Ultimate modpack, if I click to see Uses of an item, the game freezes for about 50 seconds while it analyzes all the recipes! So my cheat sheets are quicker.
Anyway, I have many files or recipes, and to make that work, I've come up with abbreviations for all the basic items. The end result is a fun kind of "Minecraft Chemistry" that I may run a separate webpage for. Here are some of the short-hand notations I've come to use over 2 years of gaming ...
Periodic Table of Minecraft:
I use the following symbols for basic Minecraft items:
Au gold
Bk book
Blz blaze powder
BlzR blaze rod
Bn bone
Bnm bonemeal
Brd bread
Brk brick
BrkB brick block
C coal
Cac cactus
Ch charcoal
Chs chest
ClB clay block
Cly clay
Cob cobblestone
Crf crafting table
D diamond
Dt dirt
Em emerald
End end stone
EP ender pearl
Eye eye of ender
Fe iron
Fl flint
GD glowstone dust
Gl glass
GlP glass pane
Glw glowstone block
GP gunpowder
Grv gravel
H2O water
IB iron bars
Lap lapis lazuli
Log wooden log
Lv lava
Mel melon
MgC magma cream
Mk milk
Msh mushroom (BMsh, RMsh for brown or red, if it matters)
NBrk nether brick
Nrk netherrack
Obs obsidian
Pap paper
Pk pumpkin
RS redstone
RT redstone torch
Sap sapling
SC sugar cane
Sd sand
Sli slimeball
SoS soul sand
SpE spider eye
SS sandstone
St stone
StB stone brick
Stk stick (older files used / for stick)
Str string
Sug sugar
Tch torch
Wd wood (plank) (see Log for logs)
Wht wheat
Wo wool
Extra elements found in most modpacks:
Ag silver
Al aluminum
Brs brass
Brz bronze
Cu copper
Fer ferrous metal
Ir iridium
Nik nikolite
Rb ruby
Rub rubber
S sulfur
Sal saltpeter
Sap sapphire
Saw: sawdust
Shn shiny metal
Sn tin
Stl steel
Tg tungsten (I'd use its real chemical symbol W, but I used to use that for wood)
U uranium
Some Ic2 basic items:
|| crop sticks
2XG 2X insulated gold wire
AA advanced alloy
AEC advanced circuit
AMB advanced machine block
CF construction foam
EX energy crystal
Gen generator
HVX high-voltage transformer
EC electronic circuit
IF iron furnace
ICW insulated copper wire
LVX low-voltage transformer
LapX lapotron crystal
MM mixed-metal ingots
MB machine block
MVX medium-voltage transformer
ReU refined uranium
RI refined iron
Notes: items can have these symbols at the end, to indicate the type of item
@ = ore
: = dust or pulverized metal
. = nugget
_ = slab (Wd_ = wooden slab, Cob_ = cobblestone slab etc)
[] = cell
9 = block (so Zn9 would be a zinc block ... they're made out of 9 ingots)
Gr = gear
W = wire
"N" in front of an ore means Nether (NFe = nether iron, etc).
tp = tiny pile
I know that's a tall heap of gibberish. If you want to know why some metals have funny symbole, like Fe for iron and Ag for silver, it's because those are the REAL chemical symbols for those elements. A lot of neat, real history there. Anyway, once there's a notation to use, I can give the full life cycles of items, all their sources and uses, and figure out their optimum use. Here's an example:
::: Bauxite Ore (Bx@)
Source:
- mining
Use:
[IND GRINDER] Bx@ + H2O[]|WBkt + 12800 EU (5s) -> 4 Bx: + Al: + []
[MACERATOR] Bx@ -> 4 Bx:
*[PULVERIZER] Bx@ + 400MJ -> 4 Bx: + 10% Al:
[ROCK CRUSHER] Bx@ -> 4 Bx: + 10% Al:
The names in brackets say which machine is used. Anyway, I don't know if this will make sense to anyone, but that's how I sort it out in my head, with my background in real-world sciences. In this case, you can see that the Pulverizer gives an extra 10% chance of Aluminum dust. So does the Rock Crusher but it's a much more expensive machine. The Industrial Grinder does a little better but is MUCH more expensive to make. So I put a star next to the most beneficial recipe for me.
I usually have one of these cheat sheets open at the bottom of the screen as I play. I don't know any other game with that level of complexity or supply-chain strategizing. Yes, I can pull up recipes in-game using NEI, but in the FTB Ultimate modpack, if I click to see Uses of an item, the game freezes for about 50 seconds while it analyzes all the recipes! So my cheat sheets are quicker.
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