advanced TC help

[Lothos]

I have finally gotten my base progressing along. Still expanding my solar array to keep my quarry on full time though. I have a nice sized sugar farm working away and have been doing research. My warehouse storage sorts and dumps excess into my thaumium crucible which turns it into vis that i use 4 filters to purify. that feeds an infuser, crystalizer, repairer, duplicator, and enchanter. I have a small crystal farm on my roof too.

My problem is the relatively low income rate of vis I get coupled with figuring out how to lower the taint in the chunk my base is in as well as raising the aura which is also rather low. I have silverwood trees within a few chunks scattered about, but if they dont drop saplings I don't see the trade off to cutting them down. I have the totem of dawn researched, but isn't the tree better? I also read the tree needs at least 4 logs to be of any use.

I'm not sure really where to go from here with TC. I have taint I could go fight about 30 chunks away or so, but still vague on how even with all the reading.

[okamikk]

use shears to get the leaves off the silver wood trees, then transplant them

[Lothos]

yeah, i got that part. it's not overly helpful to my situation though.

[NoobMiner84]

few things pending on your total resorc's and what not but if you use mystcraft make an age and just chop down any silver tree's you find. further more you can research vis potions to lob here and there to bring the vis up. to control taint use a few vis condensers with death and silver enhancements with a few purifiers (also have to research) and pumps can also do a youtube search for some tutorials.

[Lothos]

ok, figured i'd bump this a bit and update.

i've been doing as noob had suggested and delved alot into mystcraft mainly to fetch research artifacts and silverwoods to transplant.

today I finally made some goggles of revealing. Info I needed and had been lacking was an actual reading of the charges. First off, I noticed something I had not seen mentioned elsewhere. Normal trees that get infected by taint and become tainted trees add to the taint charge in a chunk thereby speeding up the spread of taint.

Much like a forest fire. I therefore decided to use forest fire tactics and clear cut trees from the surrounding chunks and establish a "burn" barrier around the taint hot zone with a low cobble wall. My current infection I am battling covers 33 chunks now spread from its initial 20 at first appearance.

Once I had that initial setup I began adding more to my transplants. 1 silverwood per chunk was my start and now I began to see the charge +/- so i made sure to stop all taint charges that I could. and then in outlying chunks I began to ensure I had positive charges there first. Does a steady positive charge in a chunk that has taint levels eventually cause those taint levels to drop though?

My dilemma at the moment is a lack of taint crystals to feed the 1 condenser w/ purifiers setup I have in the center of the zone. Beyond that though I don't know of much more effort I can do without a bigger crystal farm.

[NoobMiner84]

I am just wondering are you using your quarry close to your base? the reason i ask is that it will more then likely add more taint to the area. since the crystals break if the connecting block is destroyed 1/2 of all crystals will not be harvested and instead taint the area every few ticks for up to 5 min (was looking for the thread i read this on but unable to find it) last i heard some one from BC was working on a possible mod fix that makes all crystals from facing up. http://www.mod-buildcraft.com/forums/topic/quarries-and-vis-crystals/

as far as finding taint crystals well that's just luck or for those who don't mind cheating ( you know who you are) you can NEI them

[gman96734]

you could always run normal crystals through a crystalizer with concentrated evil until you get some taint crystals. It'll probably take more vis than it's worth, but that's how it is.

[Mageleon3860]

Best thing to do lothos is to go to a Cave World and you will find thousands of artifacts, ive done this before with an alchermy bag and came out with 3 shovels of renewal like 6 rare artifacts and everything possible you can get from a chest.

[Lothos]

sorry, was out of town this past week. I put that world on hold and had started a new one, but torchlight2 has been feeding off my time lately. I'd been age hopping in a new map trying to buildup a crystal farm before I delved into TC again. I thought about transplanting in alot of silverwoods too before I got going.