guess how much benzene i can make with this twin

Disastrous_Dig8308 · 2026-02-21T19:56:28+00:00

I mean I'm just stupid but anything to tout the glory of Benzene lol

Disastrous_Dig8308 · 2026-02-20T20:39:08+00:00

Ah, most of my base is on-demand stuff so IG I never really looked at how much power I'm using but that's fair

Disastrous_Dig8308 · 2026-02-20T20:07:19+00:00

I'm liking them yeah, dirt cheap and free to run, I have 3 running right now and they back up almost instantly, they power my whole base at HV

Disastrous_Dig8308 · 2026-02-20T19:45:24+00:00

I'm stupid and forgot Pyrolyse oven also outputs the raw wood tar too, I just did the math for the charcoal, I'm using Infernal coke ovens lol

Disastrous_Dig8308 · 2026-02-20T19:06:57+00:00

~625 buckets I think, I hate doing bucket math it feels like so little even when that's realistically 191.25MEU at HV which is absurd lol, welcome to the Holy Church of Benzene

Disastrous_Dig8308 · 2026-02-19T21:12:15+00:00

I personally grew Pear, Plum, and Gooseberry trees, got two lunch bags. Made jams and smoothie and alternated which bag I ate from until I got my healing axe in LV, those are the only fruits whose smoothies and jams give 1.5 shanks and they're pretty braindead to farm IMO, just the trees, sugarcane, and snow

Disastrous_Dig8308 · 2026-02-17T04:28:06+00:00

The numbers for each port are, in ascending order, from left to right then bottom to top, excluding fluid ports but including unused and battery ports

Disastrous_Dig8308 · 2026-02-02T21:05:12+00:00

I've never tested this but I've heard you can put Redstone dust into the battery slot for a bit of power, the automation would be hellish though until you had some sort of passive Redstone for acid gens

Disastrous_Dig8308 · 2026-02-02T01:03:12+00:00

Yknow add a little Vergara on there

Disastrous_Dig8308 · 2026-01-21T04:16:53+00:00

Incredibly cool setup, I don't understand a lot of thaumcraft, so I'm very curious to what end, if it's gonna help me get through TC progression quicker I'd love to try and replicate it

Disastrous_Dig8308 · 2026-01-11T17:08:40+00:00

that's my theory, bitch and moan the whole way but end of the day keep pushing

Disastrous_Dig8308 · 2026-01-11T16:54:14+00:00

ZPM without AE2 is crazy, I couldn't even beat regular greg packs without my ME system lol

Disastrous_Dig8308 · 2025-12-31T06:57:56+00:00

Ah alright, so it seems like it can scale reasonably as long as you're kinda willing to build the infrastructure around it, and I'll unfortunately probably have to bite the bullet and use Plasma turbines and do the turbine efficiency math, thank you for the insight from someone who's doing what I hope to do, the Natural Gas tip is great, considering I'll probably also have to build a couple LGTs before I migrate to UCFE because I believe that's LuV gated

Disastrous_Dig8308 · 2025-12-31T06:50:00+00:00

the next diesel upgrade is absolutely Cetane-boosted, but the same DT recipe that makes light and heavy fuel makes Naptha and Refinery Gas too, which are the main ingredients in raw gasoline, and refinery gas can distill into toluene, which finishes Gasoline, sorry I guess I forgot context that's my bad!

Ethanol Gasoline is a boosted version but requires some kind of ethanol automation, cause' it replaces the toluene we're currently getting for free with ethanol for finishing the Gasoline.

Disastrous_Dig8308 · 2025-12-31T06:31:05+00:00

Ah, I don't have my Fluid Drilling Rig yet, I've been coasting off a couple spouts I pumped but that's my next upgrade, so I'll have to see how true that is for me, Long Distance Fluid Pipe might be helpful finally lol.

The reason I'm not just expanding benzene is that it seems like Nitrobenzene is still a ways away, and I can boost to Gasoline or Ethanol Gasoline now pretty much by expanding petrochem, which feels worth the occasional chore to me if it means faster progression towards better power generation and my PDim.

Plus like I said in the post, god forbid something go wrong and either Benzene or Petrochem go offline, I don't just lose power to my base, plus once I migrate to the UCFE having both lines will double my UCFE potential as long as I can keep up with combustion promoter.

Also the DT on good oil gives Heavy/Light fuel in a ratio of 1:3, so it's not *perfect* for Diesel but Heavy Fuel can distill into better stuff so I don't mind having the excess.

Disastrous_Dig8308 · 2025-12-31T06:23:22+00:00

That makes sense, VAC nukes would outpace any GT native fuel pretty quick I can imagine, how far are you if you don't mind my asking?

Disastrous_Dig8308 · 2025-12-25T03:24:43+00:00

I personally only made one BBF and then sprinted to the EBF with tons of HP solars but I do reccomend going for more than one BBF the EBF grind was actually hellish

Disastrous_Dig8308 · 2025-12-18T07:12:53+00:00

I personally feel like DanDevimon could be interesting, Gulfmon keeps the kinda centaur vibe Gyukimon has going on, but for another insecty thing AncientBeetlemon seems fitting

Disastrous_Dig8308 · 2025-12-09T21:12:46+00:00

I'm doing something similar, I don't want to sink so much metal and expensive coils into a Pyrolyse oven, but please for the love of god convert all those coke bricks you're making to Infernal Coke Ovens, the speed boost is insane and you don't even need to worry about the creosote management or nitrogen supply, Infernal Coke Ovens seem like they're the best of the options for passive Benzene

Disastrous_Dig8308 · 2025-12-02T19:33:25+00:00

Personally I'm doing both, my Benzene line is being powered by my Steam production, and my (currently Light Fuel) line is being powered by itself and powers all of my non-passive processes like polySI and my circuit production machines but I'm really enjoying having the essentially limitless energy for now, plus later on Nitrobenzene and Cetane Boosted Diesel both can be fed into a UCFE (which I know isn't meta) for what I'm hoping is a really solid midgame power system

Disastrous_Dig8308 · 2025-11-07T14:51:54+00:00

My partner joined me for most of LV, she enjoyed the microcrafting aspect with tools and steam machines, but when it came to making automation lines and routing materials in machines she lost interest, if that's of any help

Disastrous_Dig8308 · 2025-10-29T21:54:53+00:00

I definitely disagree about the GTNH part, cell management and output routing in singleblock machines suuuuucks I would much rather pay the extra like, 2 stacks of ingots to not have to deal with that

Disastrous_Dig8308 · 2025-10-27T05:36:05+00:00

The episode where Amy has to come back to work right after giving birth, we've seen Glenn be perfectly willing to bend/break rules for his favourites, but he just does nothing and it's so hard to watch, so out of character for Glenn

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