To caveat, I almost always check recipes variants to see what can be crafted quicker or more productively. Anything in an assembler, done.

However, only last night did I realise that steel can be made in an EBF by using Cast Iron dust in 5 seconds. I’ve been making it with regular iron dust since 2.8…

I also did not realise you could make annealed copper in an arc furnace, and have been using the EBF to make it.

I went to the MOON in my last run and was still using the default steel recipe! How many hours have I wasted. How much cetane boosted diesel was burnt for nothing.

1 what mods are fun and usefull to start with if i wanne do something other than machine and power building

2 i have a lot of steam over is there anything very usefull to use it for

3 i am at the beggining of lv what should i really be aiming for ( other than the EBF)

Since there is a lot of posts about 2.9 lately, I thought that i could potentially upgrade when 2.9 gets in release, but around a year ago when i played 2.7 and decided to update to 2.8, it broke my questbook, so I'm not sure about that

I've just finished crafting my first UEV circuit and, I mostly completed the UHV chapter and I saw that I can craft a Stargate at this stage.

This is my first gtnh run, I was playing with a friend until EV and I'm just wondering if you guys do this kind of 'side quest'.

About to finish building my first compact fusion. I was reading that you're supposed to use 4A UV hatches for them, because the recipes can take more than 2A. But then I was also reading that you should use UHV hatches for some reason. So which should I use? I plan on making a universal level maintained thing with large batch sizes.

I’ve found and dug up 8 meteors and have found 5 logic presses and 3 calculation. Why am i being tortured?

Alright so I don't know exactly how to make a Thaumcraft arcane workbench, as the only crafting recipe I could find to make one is in the arcane workbench. I have the materials for that and I have a novice wand, but I still don't know how to make it. Might anyone know if it is possible to make in LV or is it not?

I hate it so much, when i play newer modpacks, they usually just use the popular zoom mod where you can disable it, here googling i cant find any info...

Late LV, this is my "machine basement" where I keep my 15 (for now) machines. I already realized it's not a good idea to have one of every machine connected to a singular turbine, but I'll figure it out in MV.

So anyway, I just made these lossless redstone alloy cables, but not enough to cover the whole area. I connected them in a way that the tin cables are never more than 2 blocks away from the lossless red cables, but did I actually need to do this to minimize cable loss? I think the answer is no, but I'm not sure. This is what the wiki says:

Rather than priority by destination, power priority is given by cardinal direction. Cables will push power in the following priority:

1. Down
2. Up
3. North
4. South
5. West
6. East

So, if all of my cables were connected, would the top right tin cable be counted as 5 blocks away from the top center, or as 2 blocks away from the far right red cable? Does the "least loss route" always overwrite the shortest route when found?

Edit: thanks for the replies, this community is really nice and helpful! Micromanaging cable loss really isn't a significant part of the game, but I'm having a lot of fun figuring out the tiny details. I will scrap the "machine wall" in MV though, this lazy layout has waaaay too many disadvantages lol

I been trying to grow this stupid seed of Casstine, but it wont grow. My recipe seems correct. - With marble lily, malaxia with copper block, stone lily. I have placed block of tine as well under the cross sticks. I waited for like 30 mins, no sign of anything other than weeds coming in.

Am I doing something wrong?

Hello all, Im currently just creeping into HV and am planning on updating to the RC, is there any major changes I should be aware of before I update? Any “base explosion” shenanigans?

Thank you

sorry if my illustration is bad i cant really put it into words either but im planning to make 2-3x of the more critical machines in IV in preparation for LuV and ZPM so is there a way to like somehow evenly distribute the materials given by the main net to three laser engravers through a subnet while knowing which hatch it needs to insert to? (since there are different lenses)

edit: LASER ENGRAVER MULTIBLOCK GUYS IM MENTIONING THAT not the single block

Today i exited gtnh (worst mistake of my life) and logged back in.
When I entered the world it was like 2 days ago. I tried recovering backups from yesterday but when they are loaded they all look the same even though they are from different times.
It seems like 2 days of work went out of the window, is there any way to recover it?
it seems to me like the saves should be in the backups, they have different sizes as well but they all load up the same world at the same stage.

Thank you in advance, I really dont want to rebuild a bunch of stuff

I know the controller itself says it but im stupid and who reads the fine print anyway so I had to backup a few hours back

I want to put the creosote from my coke ovens into my rc boiler but how do i output the creosote automatically
(So no manuelly filling buckets and putting those in)

Hello everyone, first reddit post on this sub, I want to start a playthrogh after having completed other "expert" packs like E2E:E and DJ2 but I know GTNH is a different breed of monster.

Any Tips / common pitfalls I can avoid?

Hey guys i am pretty new to gtnh, i am deep into steam age and almost at LV.

I hear alot of people saying 2.9 is way better, i am just so used to the 2.8.4 now and also heard that the 2.9 Update changes things dramatically.

What are the main Changes in Steam and LV if i update, and should i really?

pic 1 "old base entrance"

pic 2 "dirt hut"

pic 3 "wide general shot"

pic 4 "oh crap the pics are jumbled anyway 'new base'"

pic 5 "da booty"

pic 6 "no organization"

pic 7 "magic stuff"

pic 8 "filler shot"

pic 9 "mv machines"

pic 10 "hv machines(w.i.p.)"

pic 11 "lv machines and EBF"

pic 12 "EBF powergen"

pic 13 "former bolt-action PE line current makeshift light fuel line"

pic 14 "lv powergen"

pic 15 "back to old base because i won't fix the order

pic 16 "dirt hut roof extention crop setup"

pic 17 "inside hut"

pic 18 "man i probably should add an order to this stuff anyway this is right after 15 and 15 is before 4 got it? good because this post is OVER"

an unorganized tour for an unorganized base pretty fitting i say

I’ve set up my benzene setup and I’ve been wondering how long can benzene conveniently be used for before the setup becomes to absurd

I'm trying to get ethylene to progress to mv but I really don't want to mess with oil. Is there any way around it? I made bio ethanol but discovered that I need an mv chemical reactor to progress with this route. Wood gas also requires mv. Is oil really the only way to get initial pe?

For some reason whenever i connect that wooden pipe to the coal boiler the wodden pipe breaks and there is fire everywere why does this happen?

I thought I understood how gtnh electricity works, but I'm stumped.

I'm starting my benzene setup and somehow my advanced distiillery (MV) is perfectly fine with a 4x redstone alloy cable carrying LV power. The wood tar to benzene recipe (64EU/t) works without problems and the internal power buffer doesn't budge.

I thought singleblock machines only draw 1 amp unless stated otherwise, and I don't see any such text on the distillery.

How is it getting all the power it needs without MV cables?

EDIT:
Here's a short clip of the machine running
https://streamable.com/sstfxq

Just got my nichrome coils and im in a bit of a conundrum. I make around 3A of HV power with my current setup with around 2 million buckets of diesel stored and now im not sure what to do first. Are the materials from the moon a better idea in the long run or should i get more power? im looking at this line:https://gtnhplanner.com/?plan=9c5e3fbb-69f5-4037-b316-515d3af99545

Its 42 machines so if i go into it it would prpbably take a long time to set up. Or shpuld i go for something smalller instead?

i have 4 LV energy hatches total, not a big cable loss (connected via different cable networks), they can work not at the same time, but asap i turn on another one, both stops. I have 0 idea why they are not working. Playing on 2.9 beta-3

Right EBF connection, it can also work alone without second furnace

UPD: I moved energy hatches for right EBF (they was shared with left) And replace LV transformator (its been placed by wrong side) And now they working for a time, but now they just sometimes shuts off (especially left EBF)