FTB Ultimate: Builds & Scraps

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I am endlessly fascinated with how endless this game can be.  There are always new challenges.  Getting the top blocks on every tech tree, breeding all the trees & bees & things, visiting new dimensions, build projects, exploration & discovery, terraforming, and so on.  Even with the basic task of finding and crafting things, there are all kinds of goals to be had: crafting or finding the first one, or first stack, or a chest full, or a tank full.

2130: Well, that was a whole string of small to medium projects.  I added two more Railcraft blast furnaces out by the tower of 4 coke ovens.  Next to that I setup a Railcraft rock crusher (2x3x4 multiblock) powered by two semifluid generators -- I chose those because they can run off the surplus creosote oil from the coke ovens, which currently fills 449b of 556b  of a multiblock tank, with 65x16+2 capsules in a barrel next to it.  There's a very compact setup to make rails and tracks next to that, but I have 1599 tracks in my ME system and nowhere to track to.

Then I added another wireless access point with 16 boosters so my signal can reach all the way past the traders to the massively overflowing IC2 farm, past the deep storage unit with 102,729 ink sacs thanks to the MFR Rancher by the pond where sometimes squids spawn..

The much bigger project was hooking up two more igneous extruders going into the already cramped recycling lab, but I got it working in about an hour.  Replaced the autocrafting table with a packager only to find that the packager MUST be loaded from the top, so anything sent to the sides passed through to the scrapboxinator.  Likewise, the recyclers MUST be unloaded from a side, not the bottom, so I had to stagger them up or down a block to squeezer all the pipes in, with a lot of iron pipe joins.

Over to the row of assembly machines, the reason I couldn't get the router to do what I wanted was that it needed a machine filter upgrade.  Then you can click the "--" button to select machines and slots to extract from.

Over at the bee lab and the hives, it is really disappointing.  7 hives of copper bees produced only 9 copper nuggets, and 10 hives of ruby bees produced one ruby comb.  Huh.  I remember the ruby ones cranking out the goods.

Did a trip to the Twilight Forest to re-save a bunch of the old waypoints.  Nice how I would put a redstone block on the ground and a sign saying the name of the waypoint.  One of them was a huge hollow hill, and I was able to jetpack around and find 41 copper ore while dodging arrows.  My old voxelplayer.points file had 212 waypoints.  I am not sure why it got disconnected when moving to the server and back to local.

End of the night: I checked the mass fabs, grabbed 7 stacks of UU, made a stack of Ir.  Then hung out in front of my enchanting house where the 8 hives of edenic bees crank up my xp.  The level requirements to add one diamond to either of these diamond pickaxes is 28 (Fortune II, Unbreaking II)  or 36 levels (Silk Touch, Unbreaking III).  Plus 5 if I want to rename them.

I did the 28 level repair, will AFK here until I get back up to 36.

2250: Okay, 36 levels, did the other repair.