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When you use liquiducts, they have to have a redstone signal to pump out. You also have to make sure the little yellow band has a little "arrow" pointing away from the tank to make sure it is alleviated of its fluids. So use a wrench after placing it on the tank (just right click) and it should change the flow (little square "arrow") then use a lever and flick it on. Should start pumping right away.

Malakitin, what version are you using? I currently run the recommended build and it doesn't have that cooperation between mods.

As far as the in-game book is concerned, you can only build the internal well as a 3x3 in length and width, but in terms of height, it says it is unlimited. So you could, theoretically, build a 40 tall smeltery that would do something like 3x3x39 ores at once.

I used liquiducts, liquid tesseracts and bc pipes on my brothers server and it never went awry.

Could always do dimensional doors :)

Yeah, the best setup I've found is to have an elite battery in the tool and chest, then equip it with modules that have little to no weight (don't want to cross the 25kg mark, it starts to slow you and do other things).

You can also put them into a cube from Voltz and it will charge them.

The Solar panels from Voltz have a green side that outputs directly into cable (I used Universal cable, though I'm sure now that it has a limit as to how much energy can flow through it).

It has to be at least Dynamic Tank (walls) around the entire outside, the rest can be any mixture of wall, glass and valve. And it is 15x15x15.

Admittedly, you do already have easy access to all materials. Gathering enough magic essence to get the magic crops isn't difficult, also adding in the fact that you gain a surplus of seeds and magic essence by simply farming the crops. Not being able to automate one insignificant part of the modpack is fine by me. I actually like the fact that I can't automate EVERYTHING, because that gets boring. I do have a feeling that it is by accident that the obsidian seeds respond normally while the rest do not, so if it's fixed or changed to be either, I will not complain. Having to do 2 or 3 things by hand when 94% of your material generation is automated, I don't see any reason to complain. Need netherrack? Bones? String? Wool? Diamonds? Experience? Redstone? Blaze rods? Lapis? Iron, gold, etc? All of these things can be farmed with magical crops, that is true. However, a good portion is also just as easy to set up a quarry or 10 and you'll have so many you don't even know what to do with them. Blaze rods can be infinitely made by pulverizing them then returning the powder back to blaze rods (you double the rods you put in [1 rod -> 4 powder -> 2 rods]). Mob traps will get you all the mob drops, MFR can give you unlimited milk, wool, beef, mutton, pork, leather, and even experience if you use the grinder + auto spawner and kill the autospawned stuff manually. Hell, if you're even lazier than manually placing the quarrys, you could use turtles to automate the movement of them for you. The capabilities are near-endless and heaving because one mod doesn't operate the way you thought is no reason to get angry or sad or frustrated. Just find another way. ((I just wish the soulstones mod was actually in the big dig, cause you can find the shards in NEI, but are uncraftable sadface)) Edit: Just want to add that just because you're supposed to have EASY access doesn't mean you're supposed to quickly have UNLIMITED access to all materials. There needs to be a limit.

You have to have a smeltery, a table to catch the molten "ingots", a cast of the tool head you want to use and the parts it requires, a spout to pour the molten material, and, of course, the material of choice in molten state. There should be a manual in the game that tells you exactly how to craft, set up and use each block.

From what I can tell in the config, you can't change it, so for whatever reason, it's reading the obsidian seeds as a regular crop while the rest are not.

If you have multiple REC (Redstone Energy Cell) connected, and any of them are set to output power, they will output down the line and to anything adjacent to the block. So if you wanted to have a large "capacitor" or "battery", then you could put a few or a dozen of them in-line, have them all output 100 MJ/t and have the last one ouput, say, 49 MJ/t (because that's all you're using) so it will draw from the farthest to the nearest. Having an REC on "Redstone, High" means it will not output power unless directly given a redstone signal. "Redstone, Low" means it will stop outputting power when given a redstone signal, and "None" or "Ignore" does exactly that, it will not react to a redstone signal at all. So if you want to have them all put out power in-line (one feeding another) then have them all set to "Low" or "Off" and have them ouput max power except for the last one, which you can either set to manually control all power needs to just have it throw its power out (for objects like the Quarry, they will run endlessly and use ALL of the power, so make sure you break it down and move it or disable it in a timely manner). If you want a large burst of energy, it would be better to have them all separated by 1 block (so they don't feed each other, then have each one output into the block or blocks (using energy tesseracts is less efficient than pumping lava directly next to where you want the energy, but it allows for a central station of power that feeds everything [the energy tesseract is a direct 25% energy tax (configurable in the config)]). Also, in terms of how you have it set-up, I do not see any problem with it. All the engines have full lava and are directly connected to the supply, so the only change I would suggest would be to make a dynamic tank of decent size (10x10x10 or larger) and have it pump into the tank as well, so you have back-up if the pool runs dry or you want to be able to pump it elsewhere.

Not sure if you're using the recommended version of BigDig or not, but seeing as I am, the current alternatives to the induction furnace are the elite factory. It smelts 7 items at once, requires only MJ or Joules to run, and at max speed (with 8 speed upgrades (which are not expensive at all)), can run somewhere around 1 operation per second. So it's fairly efficient in terms of energy and space. The alternative to REC is the Ultimate Energy Cube. While there is a power loss when converting back from Joules to MJ, the Elite Energy Cube holds (before accounting for the energy loss, which is about 5-6%) 128 mJ (mega Joules) - the current coversion of MJ to Joules is 1:10 - So it holds 12,800,000 MJ. While it does take some infrastructure to be able to create, the energy storage and flow is well worth it. Here's a few pictures of the total storage of the UEC and how much power is left in the UEC after transferring it into the REC. UEC Power left-overs: http://tinyurl.com/mohaj22 REC filled: http://tinyurl.com/kk77ynz

Another alternative is to use the MFR mining laser. From what I remember, it doesn't directly affect the landscape in any way, but will automatically mine all ores underneath it. It takes some time, but it won't mine anything useless (to a degree) like cobblestone or dirt. You should look into them, they're pretty damn neat. As for the geothermal replacement, Magmatic engines are your best bet. A whole bank of them with 1 pump/magmatic engine tesseract in the nether can easily quench your power needs. There's even an infinite loop of energy using the magma crucibles and magmatic engines. ((IF YOU DONT WANT TO KNOW HOW TO MAKE INFINITE ENERGY AND/OR INFINITE ITEMS, DO NOT CONTINUE READING)) So there's 2 infinite loops of energy using the magma crucible and the magmatic engines. First is using netherrack inside the magma crucible. Every piece of netherrack generates 1 bucket of lava after 12,000 MJ of energy. However, the magmatic engine produces 18,000 MJ per bucket of lava. For the most part, netherrack is easier to use because it takes less per bucket, but, if you want more energy efficiency, you can set up an infinite loop to pulverize blaze rods, which give you 4 blaze powder, then craft them back into blaze rods (2 dust = 1 rod). So your overall efficiency when crafting the blaze rods is doubling every process, however, when placed in a magma crucible (blaze rods, not powder) it only takes 10,000 MJ to make one bucket, however it takes 4 blaze rods for that same bucket. More energy efficient, and can be auto-looped, but potentially more demanding in terms of personal interaction.

The easiest way to start off with small generation of infinite, clean power is using the heat generators. Once you have a decent bank of those, but need more, look into Mekanisms advanced solar generators. They work pretty well for the mid-game, and using clever placement of quarries, you can set them up at bedrock if you'd wish it. I, personally, use an ever increasing bank of hydrogen generators with electrolytic separators. 1 of each per pair, and an Aqueous Accumulator per 2 pairs. Generates significant power and is completely renewable (AA's from Thermal Expansion have no power cost, no water cost, only a slight item cost up-front). When you have them set-up, just make sure to have the electrolytic separators pumping out all excess oxygen (or storing it, if you wish) into the atmosphere otherwise the separators will eventually stop running.

So far, from my limited testing, the size of the dynamic tanks cannot be as large or larger than 20x20x20, unsure about 19x19x19 to 16x16x16. Just made a 15x15x15 in a creative world, and it looks as if its going to hold perhaps 20-30 thousand buckets. Will edit and reply with more info as I do further testing. Edit: 15x15x15 holds 35,152 buckets. Pic 4 (shows total capacity of a 15x15x15 dynamic tank): http://tinyurl.com/lut98zd Pic 1: http://tinyurl.com/l84wov8 Pic 2: http://tinyurl.com/knrqllm Pic 3: http://tinyurl.com/mtovsqx