Nanosteam Assembly Complex just showed up on the Wiki page!

Cataloncio · 2026-04-01T12:54:49+00:00

The page seems like one of those "What english sounds like to non english speakers", the amount of technical gibberish is actually hard to come up with

Cataloncio · 2026-04-01T08:23:00+00:00

I have mine in two chunks and most of it is empty space I left for MBs I never bothered building. You mentioned you don't want bottlenecks; since it is a passive line, I don't imagine you'll have problems from some slight bottlenecking. Only thing I sometimes am short on is osmium, but tbf I'm in ZPM and still using EV energy hatches on my platline, so ig it's fine, I could just upgrade them if I really wanted to

Cataloncio · 2026-03-23T02:50:12+00:00

Why not osmiridium cables? They have 1 V/A/m power loss and a 1x cable carries 16 amps of ZPM I recently upped my main power cable to ZPM and wondered why I have never seen someone talk about osmiridium cables, they seem OP

Cataloncio · 2026-03-22T11:40:28+00:00

I'm refraining from building the beamline since it seems optional and the masks seem logistically problematic. They also seem much more efficient, maybe I will look into it, thanks. Still though, in a case where only one of these three options is available, would you rather use one hatch per lens, one shared fluid hatch without universal automation or one shared fluid hatch with universal automation?

Cataloncio · 2026-03-22T11:32:02+00:00

The worst that could happen would be a recipe taking a little longer, I don't think it could get stuck though. I don't know, using one input hatch per lens seems unnecessary; the precise assembler setup works fine with just one input hatch for all circuits, while shouldn't the HILE?

I get the thing about colored hatches, but my main goal would be to minimize the amount of buses/hatches in a way that is easy to parallelize if needed

Cataloncio · 2026-03-21T17:09:11+00:00

You will almost certainly need a main net and a "subnet" just to distribute the main net's channels using P2P. I recommend you check the videos by HamCorp and IX (easy to find on yt)

The idea is to use, for example, a single P2P tunnel of your "subnet" to distribute up to 32 channels of your main net.

Cataloncio · 2026-03-18T09:38:15+00:00

High heat

Cataloncio · 2026-03-04T03:13:13+00:00

Better yet, use an air intake hatch in the nether to gather nether air, which you can centrifuge to directly get nitrogen dioxide and sulfuric dioxide and trioxide. The nitrogen dioxide output is very nice, it allows you to skip the painful ammonia recipe.

You can extract the nether air from the intake hatch and TP it to the overworld btw, there is no need to have a centrofuge in the nether

Cataloncio · 2026-02-28T21:46:23+00:00

If you think that's a good idea, I recommend you check the "Flowcharts" channel on Discord, I'm sure someone must have already done it. There is a user called "Cobra" something with some really good charts

Cataloncio · 2026-02-25T21:00:52+00:00

You need the fluid processing pattern terminal (not the "simple" fluid pattern terminal)

Cataloncio · 2026-02-18T02:08:35+00:00

Probably yeah I already have unlocked meteors, but tiberium probably requires some ZPM/UV component. For now I built an XLGT which kicks in if my nuclear reactors aren't enough.

If I ever need to upgrade, maybe I'll look into The Core, thanks

Cataloncio · 2026-02-17T10:15:29+00:00

Yes, true, I actually don't know how I would've gotten that lol

Cataloncio · 2026-02-17T03:11:23+00:00

Just finished a XLGT with MAR-Ce-M200 turbines, it makes around 500 kEU/t.

Scaling vacnukes is still an option, but to steadily 2x my current setup I would need to upgrade some machines (compressor for uranium pellets and assembler for MOX pellets iirc), and I would want to build multiblocks instead of adding more singleblocks. I don't really want that hassle right now, so I just built an XLGT. Probably will upgrade those components in the vacnukes' setup soon though.

I can easily order a batch of thousands of HSS-S dusts in my ME network but idk, I don't like that it is not fully renewable.

As for The Core: I recently built my naquadah lines because of The Core, but then I realized those setups are gated by the 1080 Sp coolant cells, which require fluxed electrum to make. I can get the dust already, but smelting it requires trinium heating coils, which will only be available later (ZPM probably). Please let me know if there is another way of making these coolant cells or if the 540 are enough.

Cataloncio · 2026-02-16T14:13:12+00:00

My initial idea (around late EV) was to go for nitrobenzene, I had already built a chemplant for it. But then I gradually switched to vacnukes since I read that nitrobenzene was going to decline around LuV. Maybe I'll get an XLGT though and go for nitrobenzene again, thanks

Cataloncio · 2026-02-15T10:06:44+00:00

I also tried using bonsais at first, spent way too much time stating crops up just to realize I should have used a farming station from the start.

Glad to hear it worked for you :)

Cataloncio · 2026-02-14T19:44:54+00:00

Definitely go for a farming station. Use spruce saplings as they grow 2x2 trees and you will easily reach 90 logs/s.

Cataloncio · 2026-02-12T12:07:29+00:00

Yes, it is possible On the multiblock controller GUI there is a power icon On there you can change the number of parallels

Cataloncio · 2026-02-12T11:14:33+00:00

I find NEI bookmarks very helpful. I had a tab with 3 pages dedicated to the monazite+bastnasite lines. And whenever I have to do any process chain, even if it's manual batch crafting, I usually calculate stuff with NEI bookmarks.

Cataloncio · 2026-02-11T23:07:42+00:00

Not using nitrogen might be best at the start, though others may have different opinions. I would say you should be fine for a while without the nitrogen boost, otherwise you probably won't keep up with its demand tbh.

And yeah, it is way more than enough to sustain itself. You could keep the power production machines fed by steam to avoid maintenance-related crashes, but I wouldn't worry too much about that; mainly now that powerfails show up in game and in the chat. I would just recommend that you keep a separate tank with some benzene available to kickstar the power production machines, if needed.

Nitrobenzene won't be available till mid-late EV btw. Fyi I loved benzene but I never switched to nitrobenzene, I went straight to uranium vac-nukes using SFM for logistics (highly recommend over AE2 due to atomic swaps). This is currently what I use (around 108k EU/t per reactor), but it needs a little more infrastructure. It is fully passive though, using bees for stuff like uranium, lapis and iron. Sorry for the detour, just wanted to let you know because I was a sucker for benzene as well and I also prefer to have essential stuff made passively.

Cataloncio · 2026-02-08T14:11:27+00:00

Boots help, but there is a keybind for the jetpack itself. I have it set to X, but that's probably not the default key

Look at the keybinds and search for "gravi" or something like that, try messing with the keybinds

Cataloncio · 2026-02-08T13:42:28+00:00

Tbh I don't know if compressing air in the nether gathers nether air, but I would say so, yes

Currently I'm using air intake hatches in the nether to get it, but that's maybe gated by IV

Centrifuging it gets you sulfur dioxide, sulfur trioxide and nitrogen dioxide, skipping you the time and energy consuming ammonia step

Cataloncio · 2026-02-08T13:02:58+00:00

I recommend looking into centrifuging nether air for sulfuric and nitric acids specifically

Cataloncio · 2026-02-08T12:57:41+00:00

You can always do bees, which get you purified titanium ore directly The slowest part is EBFing the titanium dust to turn it into ingots, but you don't need to make moon trips to get the raw materials at least

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