Questions for advanced survival players

[Ironclaw2000]

In my single player world, I'm about early-mid game (red stone conduits/storage, and starting to use reactors) and quite new to tekkit, and I have some questions about how near-end game players play.

1. How do you efficiently and quickly get ender pearls? Or do you just use A philosophers stone?

2. Other than a mining laser/precharger, what is the point in having a 20k + rf/t reactor and tons of resonant energy cells? Do big manufactories use that much power?

3. Based on previous question, do you have big factories creating/pulverizing/smelting items? If so, how to you get a consistent input of materials? Do multiple quarries do the job?

4. How do you get shiny metal efficiently? Platinum is rare in the nether, and the 10% chance from pulverizing ferrous ore is annoying. Is there any way to make it more efficiently?

5. Any easy way to quarry in The nether? So annoying constantly watching it to eliminate lava.

6. And last, but not least, could you give me any tips on what I should be doing at this stage? What mods to be using?

I am currently using thermal expansion ( red stone components, magmatic dynamos and a small reactor, various machines), modular power suits (low-mid), buildcraft (engines, pipes, quarry), and probably more that I can't think of atm.

Thanks!

[Kezr]

1. Eary game I use the Minium Stone to get ender pearls. Once you stumble upon a Division Sigil in a dungeon chest you can make a small mob grinder that will keep you supplied forever.

 

2. Nope. Laser Drills is pretty much the only thing that can use that ammount of power. I guess the Particle Accelerator uses a fair bit too, but the only thing it is used for is Antimatter. And Antimatter is utterly useless.

 

3. Personally I tend to keep things at a pretty small scale. A single quarry is usually enough to keep things running. Other people make larger things.

 

4. Get a silk touch pick and go Redstone mining. Pulverize redstone ore to get Cinnabar. Combine Cinnabar and Ferrous ore in an Induction Smelter to get a guaranteed shiny ingot. Another way to get redstone for pulverizing is quarrying the nether, since Nether Redstone Ore smelts into two regular redstone ores.

 

5. Fill your quarry with Destabilized Redstone. Works just like water but doesn't evaporate in the nether. Looks pretty cool too.

 

6. Start looking into Applied Energistics. It can be used to automate pretty much everything. Also Modular Force Field System is pretty cool.

Edited September 7, 2014 by Kezr

[EvilOwl]

6. Do you have a ME Network?

Edited September 8, 2014 by bochen415

[Ironclaw2000]

No, what is an ME network?

[EvilOwl]

Imagine all your items in one block and plenty of free space for more.

No more chests.

 

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>Text version.

 

Video version

Edited September 8, 2014 by bochen415

[Curunir]

1. The Philosopher's Stone is without function. A Minium Stone will do the job and transmute 2x2 Iron Ingots to Ender Pearls. Those Iron Ingots can be transmuted in turn from simple Obsidian, which can be >auto-generated. If you don't want to use this because of the 'cheating feel', a mob farm is the way to go. But you don't have to build it with Cursed Ground, just use MFR Mob Spawners together with the Grinders. This requires a supply of Mob Essence, which can either come from a regular MFR farm, or another Grinder in a dark room, optionally with Cursed Ground. You can place captured Endermen in the Spawners to guarantee that only those will spawn. It's probably a good idea to spend some time and resources on a proper configurable mob farm, like my example >here.

 

5. I >covered Quarrying the Nether in my >Quarry guide. But it appears that using Destabilized Redstone to keep the pit flooded is even more efficient than using Gelid Cryotheum. Somewhat cheaper, too.

Edited September 7, 2014 by Curunir

[Silmenume]

In my single player world, I'm about early-mid game (red stone conduits/storage, and starting to use reactors) and quite new to tekkit, and I have some questions about how near-end game players play.

4. How do you get shiny metal efficiently? Platinum is rare in the nether, and the 10% chance from pulverizing ferrous ore is annoying. Is there any way to make it more efficiently?

 

 

If you have sufficient power then running a Laser Drill with 6 Light Blue Laser Foci will give you 10k Shiny Metal dusts in something like 2-3 days.  This will favor the generation of Nether Platinum Ores which when pulverized with give you 4 Shiny Metal Dusts.  You will be drowning in Shiny Metal very quickly!

 

Edited September 7, 2014 by Silmenume

[Zleubb]

1. Some mystcraft world with precious ore tendrils and a minium stone. It covers every basics need of obsidian/iron/gold/diamond/ender pearls. A farm tree can do the tricks too.

 

2. A Modular Force Field System®

 

3.4.5. I haven't try it yet but an automated turtle could easily set up some tesseracts + quarry

 

6. The AE storage network and a Modular Powersuits ?

Edited September 7, 2014 by Zleubb

[Calvin54]

1. How do you efficiently and quickly get ender pearls? Or do you just use A philosophers stone?

You can plant ender lillies or use a phil. stone. By the time you get to mid-end game you can use an autospawner to make it for you.

2. Other than a mining laser/precharger, what is the point in having a 20k + rf/t reactor and tons of resonant energy cells? Do big manufactories use that much power?

There really is nothing in the game that uses the same amount of power for a mining laser.. Maybe if you have an huge processing plant that runs on ME because it can draw a ton of power.

3. Based on previous question, do you have big factories creating/pulverizing/smelting items? If so, how to you get a consistent input of materials? Do multiple quarries do the job?

I personally use ME with my pulverizers and they are attached to redstone furnances. ME Pre. Export->Pulv.->Redstone->Basic Import.
I think 6 of these should be enough to handle quite a few quarries. Later on with a laser drill you need to take account of those pure block form items i.e. Diamonds/Redstone. Nether to regular ores..etc

4. How do you get shiny metal efficiently? Platinum is rare in the nether, and the 10% chance from pulverizing ferrous ore is annoying. Is there any way to make it more efficiently?

Be very efficient with this.. Go to the nether get some nether redstone.. heat it up then pulverize it.. you will get cinnabar and use that in an induction with ferrous ore, you will get a shiny every time.
You can also use lasers later to do this for you instead of finding nether readstone.

5. Any easy way to quarry in The nether? So annoying constantly watching it to eliminate lava.

Use a quarry with ice blocks. Break the Ice then you will have water that does not disappear?

6. And last, but not least, could you give me any tips on what I should be doing at this stage? What mods to be using? 
What stage are you at? First I would try to figure out how to get enderpearls(very important for end game).. You could try overworld quarrying or in the End. Eventually you can build AS reactors or you can build a bigger BR reactor for energy. A good source of nether quartz should also be considered or you have to spend a ton of time in the nether mining those.
I think that should cover most of it. Try to get a better suit, it will make your life easier without the fear of dying. Autospawner + cursed dirt + Grinders are great. 

I am currently using thermal expansion ( red stone components, magmatic dynamos and a small reactor, various machines), modular power suits (low-mid), buildcraft (engines, pipes, quarry), and probably more that I can't think of atm. 

[Curunir]

About power usage, an Energetic Infuser will draw quite a lot when recharging a Resonant Jetpack or Resonant Flux Capacitor. But those batteries "only" hold 10 million RF, so even a low-key power plant will produce all you need if your buffer is large enough.

I would like energy-consuming teleporters, but right now all methods of teleport are based on "magic" stuff instead of energy. Unless I'm mistaken about QCraft.

Edited September 9, 2014 by Curunir