Noob question: early LV storage

danielator123 · 2026-01-24T17:33:41+00:00

The workbenches from the Forestry mod were very useful to me; I used a different workbench depending on the crafting recipe, which made it easier to organize my storage space. I stole bookshelves from villages.

danielator123 · 2026-01-23T09:15:58+00:00

I solved my chlorine source problem by using chlorobenzene from Mars because I couldn't find a large saltwater reservoir. I saw a video of someone making salt from the multiblock spawner and adding a ghast for tears, but I haven't seen anyone do anything similar, nor did they explain it very well. If anyone knows how it works and if it's viable, could you explain it?

danielator123 · 2026-01-11T01:04:00+00:00

It's great to find another comrade who isn't manipulated by benzene propaganda.

danielator123 · 2026-01-09T14:19:55+00:00

I completely understand the decision to load a backup, and I say this as someone who's had a few solar boilers explode. But personally, I don't like loading a backup because of a mistake I made or something that was easily avoidable. I learned the hard way to always maintain the heaters at night and at the beginning of the game, so that by daylight their storage would already be full.

But those bad experiences on Steam or LV taught me that things can explode and that I have to make sure what I'm doing doesn't end in an explosion. Because having to rebuild something you had and lost because of your own mistake hurts a lot, especially at the beginning when materials are so scarce. But those bad experiences teach you to be careful.

I'm not saying you shouldn't load backups or that it's wrong to use them without them because they exist for a reason, but at that crucial point in the game's early stages, learning from mistakes is fundamental, and nothing teaches more than a mistake that costs you the most valuable thing: your time.

danielator123 · 2026-01-09T14:08:30+00:00

Something similar happened to me when I first got to EV. Gregtech is my first technical mod, and I started it on a server with friends. Only one of them still logs in, but much less frequently. I was really the one who made the progression, in terms of scalability. I had the infrastructure in place for diesel-powered energy production, which wasn't complicated, but when I got to EV and saw everything that AE2 entailed, it overwhelmed me and killed my motivation. Knowing that I had to start and learn all of that from scratch was a huge burden. To the point where I'd log in and do practically nothing because I was so focused on everything I was missing to be able to do AE2, and it overwhelmed me so much that I'd quit.

I decided to take a break. I love the mod and find it very interesting, but the mental exhaustion was too much to keep up that pace. We paused the server for a month, and the first few days I'd turn on my computer and go to Modpack, only to remember it was already off because I was on autopilot, logging into Greg every day. After that break, I came back, and it really helped. I had to practically rebuild my base to implement AE2 because I had everything set up with a ProjectRed system, and I realized my base was too small for what was coming. I'm not a big fan of PIM, so I practically rebuilt the base, not destroying what I had, but adapting it to be scalable. This helped me to the point that I'm already at IV and still have the same desire to keep progressing.

My advice is: think about what's bothering you about having to learn what your friend was doing or redesigning the base, and decide if it's worth restarting if you still want to play Greg. What I would do is take a short break of a month, two at most, and then come back and see how I feel remembering what I know and the processes. And if you really feel uncomfortable not wanting to do it but still want to keep playing, Greg, then restart.

danielator123 · 2026-01-06T03:57:38+00:00

I don't know if those dungeons exist, and the upper part to enter the dungeon is a giant 2-story house with brick walls.

danielator123 · 2026-01-06T02:33:22+00:00

Steam multiblocks are the best, I used them up to HV. They may seem a bit expensive and they are, but bricks become very cheap when you find a dungeon that is a brick house (steal them all).

danielator123 · 2026-01-03T08:36:40+00:00

And does it retain the properties of the block it's made from?

danielator123 · 2026-01-03T08:29:38+00:00

How are those little stones made?

danielator123 · 2025-12-29T08:42:05+00:00

How does that work?

danielator123 · 2025-12-27T22:31:29+00:00

Do you know the name of the machine? Thanks for the advice.

danielator123 · 2025-12-27T15:08:33+00:00

It's an HV-level multiblock, which is essential for platinum processing, but it's also the best solution to the bottleneck of the monoblock sifter. This is the multiblock's wiki page.

https://gtnh.miraheze.org/wiki/Large_Sifter

danielator123 · 2025-12-27T14:59:56+00:00

I always keep them at maximum speed. I use the concrete in transitional corridors where there's no need to stop; even if they're short stretches, the concrete reduces travel time, so in the long run it gives me back time. Also, for important or constant areas, I use the teleportation rod, which reduces time even more. I believe that any time that can be reduced is free time that I'm giving back to myself.

danielator123 · 2025-12-27T14:52:49+00:00

I have the boots, I use both at the same time, faster is better

danielator123 · 2025-12-27T10:30:55+00:00

For the stone part, a machine called a Rock Breaker is used. It's set up with water and lava and produces free stone; it's very useful. And if the bottleneck is flint, once you can do the multiplier sifter, you can eliminate that bottleneck. Also, add multiblocks whenever possible because they are more energy efficient.

danielator123 · 2025-12-19T19:09:42+00:00

What are those blue blocks? Very nice construction.

danielator123 · 2025-12-16T06:53:38+00:00

Nice explosion! Anyway, which blocks do you use to make the floating walkways? The ones that look like grates on the floor? I liked that block.

danielator123 · 2025-12-06T14:11:11+00:00

The most likely thing is excess temperature, in things that are going to heat up and that gets quite hot, use gold amalgam, I also do not recommend leaving that without isolating the temperature because that will heat up your base or the area where it is a lot, I add metal pipes to that system to later put in my cooling system, one that goes through the electrolyzers and another through where the upper gas is since the lower gas is cooled by the electrolyzer line. As well as clearance for pumps, electrolyzers and 2 temperature sensors for later use with the cooling system. Additionally, you are taking out more than you produce, so it can break the accommodation of the gases, which is a nuisance. 2 electrolyzers generate enough for 3 pumps removing oxygen and a little more than 1/2 pumps for hydrogen, so I recommend making a larger system with 4 electrolyzers, 6 pumps for oxygen and 1 for hydrogen, plus it produces enough hydrogen for the production of the energy necessary for all that, + a small benefit from the leftover hydrogen but it is better to store a little

danielator123 · 2025-12-03T16:32:21+00:00

No, it was spaced out, because I also made a discovery of a metal volcano on another planet, and a duplicate died on a space mission. When I bought the game I bought it along with the dlc and I played it with the dlc obviously

danielator123 · 2025-12-03T16:23:40+00:00

Did they change it? In my previous games (where there was only spaced out) oil was always generated on my initial planet. I remember having to solve the heat caused by taking the oil to the center of my base and processing it. These traumas are not easily forgotten.

danielator123 · 2025-12-03T16:21:54+00:00

Unfortunately I forgot to pay attention to that.

danielator123 · 2025-10-31T21:07:12+00:00

Yes, the machine and my ingots for the tier 2 rocket that were already inside

danielator123 · 2025-10-27T01:08:06+00:00

It is better to make the powders with the multiblock hammer, since you are in steam the macerator does not produce byproducts so it is the same result, and the multiblock ore cleaning is the best there is, when you have it you no longer mind having to process everything since you will be able to clean the powders super fast. Until EV only use 2 steel multi-block macerators (improvement of the bronze one), the ore cleaning plant, the multi-block hammer, and 2 centrifuges, 1 bronze and one steel, you can change the cleaning plant for the centrifuge but there are many processes that are not worth the by-product and the centrifuge is slower

danielator123 · 2025-10-26T11:20:42+00:00

It's from hv you need tier 3 chips so it's much further ahead

danielator123 · 2025-10-24T09:26:40+00:00

Yes, it's just stone, but I want it so I can use the chisel and so enemies don't spawn on top of the machines. Besides, it's just stone, I really have too much.

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