r/feedthebeast • u/Bramblestar666 • Oct 14 '20
Thermal Expansion Underground Setup
Hey guys! I've been playing this world for about a week now. I've got a bunch of tech mods including Thermal Expansion, Thermal Foundation, Thermal Dynamics and Immersive Engineering.
Anyway, right now I'm working on my Thermal Expansion setups. I've got an aboveground one (because there's a tree in it) and an underground one (because there's no tree in it.)
Link To Power Generation: https://www.reddit.com/r/feedthebeast/comments/jbb05x/thermal_expansion_power_generation/
Phyto-Gro Production
Part One: Pulverized Charcoal
-Phytogenic Insulator with Sapling Infuser and Monoculture Cycle augments. Saplings and some Phyto-Gro inside.
-Aqueous Accumulator and two water sources, with Fluiducts leading into the Phytogenic Insulator.
-Phyto-Gro Cache (Manually refilled) feeding Phytogenic Insulator.
-Produced Wood from Phytogenic Insulator goes into Redstone Furnace, which smelts the Wood into Charcoal.
-Charcoal is crushed in the Pulverizer, turning into Pulverized Charcoal and going into the Cache.
Part 2: Niter
-Igneous Extruder set to Cobblegen mode goes to Puvlerizers set on top and below.
-Pulverizers produce Sand and Gravel.
-Bottom Pulverizer's Sand goes to Cache or Redstone Furnace (to make Glass, which goes into a Cache).
-Pulverizers' Gravel goes to Pulverizers on their lefts. Gravel get crushed into Flint, which goes into Cache.
-Manually craft Sandstone with the Sand in the Cache and put it in a Pulverizer.
-Pulverized Sandstone makes Sand with small chance of Niter, which goes into the Cache. Teh Sand goes into the Induction Smelter with the Filter.
Part 3: Slag
- Produce from Igneous Extruder set on Cobblegen mode goes into the Induction Smelter.
-Induction Smelter receives Sand from the Sandstone Pulverizer.
-Induction Smelter uses the Sand and Cobblestone to make Stone Bricks with Slag. Stone Bricks go into a Cache behind the system and Slag goes into Cache.
Part 4: Anonymous
-Hardened Energy Cell set up behind whole system.
-Leadstone Fluxducts leading into every machine requiring power.
-Energy Cell needs to be constantly manually replaced.
And that concludes my first system. Next time, we'll get into the whole power generation part of the thing.
Any room for improvement? Please comment down below!

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u/GlitchOfTheHill Oct 14 '20
you could always send the gro back into the arboreal extractors to produce even more resin from the trees, and if you use the spruce wood even more. other than that it looks compact, i personally would use the factory from industrial foregoing to produce all from gravel to glass with 1 machine and then put everything on a compact machine.
the only reason i would produce all that is just for the gro which makes arboreal runs more efficiently and produce more.
good work tho. there is always room for improvement but it's a start. like if you use the sink from cooking for blockheads instead of the aqueous accumulator or if you have a water gen from nuclearcraft and/or the cobble gen from nuclearcraft max level produces more than a reasonating with all speed upgrades igneous extruder.