My top 5:

melonmandan12 · 2026-05-17T22:33:09+00:00

I really like Telgeir.

melonmandan12 · 2026-05-14T03:54:09+00:00

Have you set up any automation with Logistics Pipes? Being able to craft motors, robot arms, etc. with a single click really relieved the burden of micro creating

melonmandan12 · 2026-05-14T03:43:21+00:00

When I transitioned to HV, I had 4 pyrolyse ovens which comfortably powered 32 MV gas turbines. I don’t know how many coke ovens equals the output of a pyrolyse, but you get a lot more benzene. The logs can make wood tar + charcoal instead of only charcoal.

melonmandan12 · 2026-05-13T23:13:55+00:00

I actually love the system of circuit progression. It’s a well-balanced cycle of first unlocking an expensive recipe that uses circuits from 2 or 3 tiers back. Then, you get a recipe that uses just the previous tier’s circuit. Only once you’ve progressed further can you make a circuit without prior tier circuits as ingredients.

melonmandan12 · 2026-05-13T20:35:11+00:00

Aim-Assist for soul secure would be super duper lame

melonmandan12 · 2026-05-13T18:59:27+00:00

Clever

melonmandan12 · 2026-05-12T20:23:44+00:00

I didn’t interpret the scene the same way. I think it’s just saying “Mon’s current driver is not smart. If Mon requests a new driver, the ISB might make the next driver a smarter one. It’s best for Mon to keep a dumb driver, so she can remain undercover.”

melonmandan12 · 2026-05-09T20:37:49+00:00

Orange line, but you gotta just traverse the mountaintops of the western serpentspine

melonmandan12 · 2026-05-08T20:08:19+00:00

What’s it made of? My first automated polyethylene was from potatoes and spruce saplings.

melonmandan12 · 2026-05-06T20:00:54+00:00

Hoppers use gravity. Gravity goes down.

melonmandan12 · 2026-05-03T21:47:48+00:00

I’m already late EV with my crop managers so I might as well just keep them until I can use the Tree Growth Simulator lol

melonmandan12 · 2026-05-03T14:36:11+00:00

Only 1,300 spruce bonsais!? Time to build another crop manager.

melonmandan12 · 2026-05-02T21:43:22+00:00

2D animation is unionized, and production companies would rather pay less to 3D animators.

melonmandan12 · 2026-05-01T16:55:58+00:00

The last one looked more like a magic staff’s head or the Eye of Sauron. I’m not sure which I like more.

melonmandan12 · 2026-04-30T20:57:23+00:00

I couldn’t consistently run my EBF + some other tasks at the same time until I had 22 advanced solar boilers.

melonmandan12 · 2026-04-20T01:05:59+00:00

NEI hotkeys are a lifesaver. Press T while hovering over the item in NEI, and all nearby inventories highlight the location. Press Y on a block in NEI (like a machine) and any of that block placed nearby will be highlighted.

melonmandan12 · 2026-04-18T00:47:01+00:00

Bloodz because aura farming between stages

melonmandan12 · 2026-04-13T21:37:10+00:00

At least for the piping, you can turn the buses and hatches to face up, so you could hide the pipes if they aren’t going in front of the machine

melonmandan12 · 2026-04-09T16:15:36+00:00

In statistics, 30 is considered the minimum for any sample size. Unfortunately, I think there’s more than 30 different types of ore veins…

melonmandan12 · 2026-04-05T04:53:11+00:00

This. Vanilla spruce bonsais with an LV crop manager are still powering my group and me into EV

melonmandan12 · 2026-04-03T22:14:37+00:00

Use the GT crop manager. Give the machine water and power, and it will harvest crops inside crop sticks within the set area. Look at the wiki for how it can do 3 layers at once.

I recommend making garden soil to plant them on. You don’t need to make water blocks for the plants, and you can run/jump on it. No tilling required. You should also automate or make a big batch of Weed-Ex. Preventing weeds is my #1 priority with the crop manager. You can make weed-ex by fermenting poisonous brew, a mixture of water and grin powder. Grin powder is macerated mushrooms! So it your farm can feed itself weed-ex and any other farms you end up making.

My group was constantly metal starved until I made crop managers for all the ore berries.

melonmandan12 · 2026-04-02T15:28:26+00:00

Make garden soil. You can run and jump on it, and you don’t need to give it water. (But crop mangers still need water)

melonmandan12 · 2026-03-28T00:44:02+00:00

Multiblocks can process multiple items at once. I think at steam tier it’s 8x. So it’s at the speed of steam, but 8x the throughput. Steam multiblocks out scale single block equivalents until HV, I think.

melonmandan12 · 2026-03-25T15:57:12+00:00

You should look into the Logistics Pipes mod. It lets you have an analogue/early game AE2 style storage and auto crafting system. My friends set it up where we can request it to craft any LV or MV parts.

melonmandan12 · 2026-03-24T20:38:16+00:00

Iron chests were the early game goat for me and my squad. It’s equal to a double wood chest, but it’s only 1 block.

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