GregTech-6 Main Thread

system · November 24, 2019, 2:50pm

Another GregTech Update has been released!

Cue the fully automatic Changelog:

Lots upon lots of fixes and Gameplay Improvements. Also an NEI Handler to give at least a slight hint for certain Relations between some Items.

6.11.21:
[COMPAT] Some MineFantasy II Stuff is now supported, but not much of it.
[COMPAT] Soil Types of Enhanced Biomes now have more individualised Sifting Recipes.
[COMPAT] Water Blocks from the Streams Mod count as Infinite now, just like River Blocks. Please be aware those Stream Blocks do spawn vanilla flowing Water around them which do NOT count.
[FIXED] Compatibility with Tinkers Gregworks for GT6. It broke whenever I renamed some Variables.
[FIXED] Lack of certain Types of Support/Recipes for Milky Quartz. Now it should be just as compatible with GT6 as Nether Quartz. (This does not mean decorative Blocks yet)
[FIXED] Rails are now no longer considered Furnace Fuel even though they have Wood in them. This caused Issues with the Railcraft Tunnelbore and should be fixed now.
[FIXED] Long Distance Electric Transformers are no longer infinitely producing Energy when IC2-Exp is installed. HOW THE FUCK DID THIS NEVER GET NOTICED!?!
[CHANGED] Lazurite and Sodalite can now be used to make IC2 Coolant too.
[CHANGED] I decided Niter is now a 50:50 mix of KNO3 and NaNO3, that way mixing those two together can be used to craft it if needed. Also KNO3 and NaNO3 Ores have now been replaced by Niter Ores. Should you want to separate KNO3 and NaNO3 for certain Chemical Recipes, use a Centrifuge. Most Mixing Bowl Recipes such as Gunpowder allow Niter too now.
[CHANGED] Dryer and Distillery are no longer subject to Overclocking Penalties.
[ADDED] NEI Handler for “Other Relations” which is dedicated for random helpful Information, such as “Air Vent -> Air” or “Drain -> Water”.
[ADDED] Adamantium Gearboxes and Axles as a high Tier, so that it’s never impossible to transmit large amounts of Power.

And as always, the Patreon Post should follow up later today or somewhen tomorrow.
^{unless Patreon is broken.}

Gregorius · November 24, 2019, 8:27pm

Many things have been fixed and polished this week. I’m glad that I got to fix certain Bugs I never knew about before.

Well then, the Changelog actually has details, so I dont need to repeat those. Patreon is probably still broken, so I am not even gonna try this week. I did a Blog Post a bit ago already, so nothing to say there. And there is no meaningful Features to Game Progression, though Stuff is definitely easier to look up in NEI, and Adamantium got a new high Tier Axle&Gearbox use.

The reason I did so many fixes is because I kinda want stuff to just work better. I should work on actual Features soon. ^^

system · December 2, 2019, 4:19pm

Another GregTech Update has been released!

Cue the fully automatic Changelog:

ZPM Decharger for EU and QU respectively.

6.11.22:
[NOTE] Enabled Weather and Fire Related Explosions now. But not the Overcharge ones.
[COMPAT] Plantmegapack has had some Stuff done such as its Bamboo Types being Wood Types now.
[FIXED] Mode Selector Covers now update their visuals whenever a Block Update happens. This only ever happened if someone was dumb enough to use 2 Mode Selector Covers on the same Block.
[FIXED] GalaxySpace Ores were not recognized for removal.
[CHANGED] Nerfed ZPMs again to be 500 times less, and therefore exactly as much as they were pre-buff. I decided instead of realism the ZPM has to be a convenience.
[ADDED] ZPM Dechargers. One for QU and one for EU, so you have to decide if you just wanna use a ZPM for Massfabs, or if you also wanna use it for Electricity but then inefficiently convert from EU to QU.

And as always, the Patreon Post should follow up later today or somewhen tomorrow.
^{unless Patreon is broken.}

Gregorius · December 3, 2019, 6:50pm

So lets see whats left on that List, after I did the ZPM Decharger and nerfed ZPMs back to their old Values.

■ Fermenter Multiblock
■ Massfabrication related Multiblocks (gonna be this week)
■ Heat Exchanger Multiblock (though I am not 100% sure how I could manage that nicely)
■ A Small Fuel Powered Engine
■ Better handling of distribution of Crucible Fluids towards Molds.
■ Enabling Nuclear Explosions (Gonna be on December 31st or January 1st, depending on your Timezone)
■ And ofcourse Fusion (that’s likely gonna be the last thing I do, or I might do it right before the Winter holidays, remember that I am still gonna fix eventual Bugs or disbalances once I abandon GT6)

Seems very doable in a Month. Might be a bit stressful near the end (with all the holiday related bullshit interrupting me), but hey it’s over soon anyways so a bit of stress doesn’t hurt much, and might be what I need for motivation on a project I am mostly burnt out on (due to how crappy MC is, and having the desire to want to work on something better and more streamlined, mostly, heck that was the reason I gave up GT5 too).

Since I guess Patreon probably craps out again, thank you all for your Support.

system · December 9, 2019, 4:58pm

Another GregTech Update has been released!

Cue the fully automatic Changelog:

And as always, the Patreon Post should follow up later today or somewhen tomorrow.
^{unless Patreon is broken.}

system · December 16, 2019, 2:09pm

Another GregTech Update has been released!

Cue the fully automatic Changelog:

Multiblock Matter Fabricator running on 4 ZPM Quantum Dechargers.

6.11.24:
[FIXED] Taped Mass Storages were voiding Items when used with the Storage Inserter. I’m sorry for anyone losing Resources due to that.
[FIXED] Botania Ingot Shiftclicking on Beacon resulting in placing Ingot instead of summoning Spirits.
[CHANGED] Adamantium, Gaia, Bedrock-HSLA and Draconium Fluid Pipes now have a higher Capacity.
[CHANGED] Chemtubes can now be used for setting Fluid Filters.
[CHANGED]
The Matter Replicators are working 256 times faster/cheaper now, and Matter Fabricators are half as fast now (to offset the cheapness).
This means the actual Matter Fabrication is gonna be the Bottleneck now, and it also means that it’s easier to produce on Demand, if you have enough Matter fabricated in advance.
I did this because Multiblock Matter Replicators don’t make sense since they could only do one Material at a time. (And I also dont wanna deal with all the USB Blueprint Stuff for a Multiblock)
[CHANGED] Matter Fabricators and Matter Replicators now no longer require constant Power Input and can be interrupted without losing Progress. Same goes for Time Based Machines such as Bath, Coagulator, Coke Oven, Generifier and Autoclave.
[ADDED]
Matter Fabricator Multiblock.
Accepts any Power Input between 1 and 2097152 QU/t and has a 100% Efficiency. (Made to accept ZPM Levels of Quantum Power)
Made with a crapload of Lead (to shield against “radiation” from making the Matter), Osmium Coils and Quadcore CPUs.

And as always, the Patreon Post should follow up later today or somewhen tomorrow.
^{unless Patreon is broken.}

Gregorius · December 16, 2019, 9:02pm

https://www.patreon.com/posts/32402595

This time it was a Post working first try. But I need to make some serious considerations on ditching Patreon because of its constant Software Issues.
If everything works properly IRL, I wont really need additional money anymore anyways.

And as the Post Title says, Fusion is gonna be around the Holidays! ^^

system · December 23, 2019, 7:10pm

Another GregTech Update has been released!

Cue the fully automatic Changelog:

Got the Fusion Reactor to run like it should.

6.11.25:
[CHANGED] Matter Fabricator Multiblock now uses Ventilation Units instead of Galvanized Steel Walls.
[ADDED] A few new Ore Processing Recipes to make getting Lithium-6 possible and Nuclear Ore Refinement more possible.
[ADDED] Fluid Display Items can now rightclick fill Blocks with their Fluid directly.
[ADDED]
Fusion Reactor.
An Octagon fitting in a 19x19 Square. If you dont know what an Octagon is, the Sesame Street has you covered YouTube
The Center has a Computer shaped Cube in it.
Its GUI has Instructions as to how to build it in simple 3 Pictures. The Tooltip states how much of each thing you need.
You need to power the thing with Laser Units in order to start it up, but once it is running you can turn off the Lasers. Laser will have to go into the “Glass” Windows of the Ring.
8192 EU/t Output on the Sides that have the Electric Interface on it.

And as always, the Patreon Post should follow up later today or somewhen tomorrow.
^{unless Patreon is broken.}

Gregorius · December 24, 2019, 1:43pm

Interesting, that Link in the Changelog got Converted into a simple Link saying “Youtube”

Anyways, we finally got Fusion for the Holidays. Hurray!

Now only tiny things are missing which I am definitely gonna add no matter what, even if I run out of time (or actually motivation, I’m tired yet too active to sleep at the same time for some reason), so don’t worry I will add that Fuel->RU Motor and the few missing Multiblocks for sure, as well as the Vibranium Fusion Recipe and some way to get Vibramantium. ^^
Oh right and ofcourse the Mold Extender thingy I promised. XD

I’m so glad that the first part of making my own Game is actually just searching for a good Top Level Domain (with the unique name I am going to use everything seems free) and the .onion Version of it (as a good fallback, because paranoid), and setting up basic Code Stuffs, so nothing to actually “program” on, so even if i run out of time I can still do a little GT early January, but I really dont want to let it come to that.

I won’t attempt to post on the broken as fuck Patreon again until I consider GT6 done.

system · December 31, 2019, 4:52pm

Another GregTech Update has been released!

Cue the fully automatic Changelog:

Large Fermenter for bulk creation of Biomass. I know I might be a bit late with some of the promised Stuff, but it will happen. ^^

6.11.26:
[FIXED] The Ender Garbage System and some other things, did not save their contents properly when the Server was shut down because of Forge “resetting the Item and Block IDs to what they were when the Client was started” for no reason whatsoever.
[FIXED] You can no longer jumpstart a Fusion Reaction using a cheap Fuel just to run an expensive Fuel afterwards for nearly free.
[FIXED] Multiblock Baths, Coagulators and Centrifuges were conducting Logistics like the Logistics Core.
[FIXED] Part of the NEI Lag Spike Issue when clicking the Progress Bar for the Recipe List.
[CHANGED] Normal Electrolyzer, Centrifuge, Distillery and Dryer now can process multiple things in Parallel (ofcourse for increase of overall Duration).
[CHANGED] Adamantium has its Melting Point lowered by 200K to 5225K. Now it can actually be molten properly in the highest Tier non-Adamantium Crucible.
[ADDED] More Fusion Recipes in general. Not all are useful, but if you want to get rid of Helium, you can do that now.
[ADDED] Recipe for Vibranium using the Fusion Reactor and molten Adamantium with Beryllium-7. It’s also a good working Fusion Fuel as in outputs lots of Tritium, Helium-3 and Helium.
[ADDED] Multiblock Fermenter. Should make Biomass Production much less bothersome.

system · January 14, 2020, 8:04pm

An Update to GregTech has been released!

Cue the fully automatic Changelog:

Multiblock Heat Exchanger (16384 HU/t), Crucible Crossing, Diesel Motors and the Multiblock Squeezer!

6.12.00:
[NOTE] Bugfix Releases will still happen ofcourse.
[FIXED] A long going Bug in the Steam Engines that made it impossible to run them at their upper Limit. I would still not recommend running them that fast but I cant tell you what not to do.
[CHANGED] Large Fermenter Auto-Emits Items and Fluids at different places now. Fluids stay at the same Position, Items are one block above.
[CHANGED] Reactors can explode now.
[CHANGED] Welder has 9 Input slots now. Because someone wanted to add GalaxySpace Recipes to it via MineTweaker.
[ADDED] NEI Recipes for GT6 Machines are more sorted now thanks to a Code submission by codewarrior.
[ADDED] Singleblock Diesel Engines for easier usage of Rotational Units. They run at 16, 32, 64, 128, 256 and 512 RU/t depending on Tier.
[ADDED] A Crossing for Crucibles so that more Molds can be around one Crucible without having to use limited Universal Extenders.
[ADDED] Squeezer Multiblock, even though it was not on the List. It was easy to just copy most of the Multiblock Shredder to do this, also it was kinda needed for the Multiblock Fermenter.
[ADDED] Multiblock Heat Exchanger. 16384 HU/t split evenly over the 8 Heat Transmitter Outputs, so cover them all up in Heat Accepting things or some large Heat Accepting Multiblock.

Gregorius · January 14, 2020, 10:02pm

There it is, the final major Release of GT6 that I actively worked on personally (apart from eventual Bugfixes). Time for me to go to the IC2 Forums and Patreon as to Announce me leaving those two places.

The IC2 Forums because they are pretty much abandoned by now, not even Chocohead is there anymore. I will close by Mega-Thread there after 7.5 years of working on GregTech. It’s been a fun time. ^^

And Patreon because not only do I not really need extra Money anymore, but also because their Website started to break more and more in the past few months, and that is just unacceptable for a Site with their purpose. Should I ever decide to allow recurring Donations again, I might consider the GitHub Sponsors Feature.

I am currently importing GT6 into GitHub (might be finished after I’m writing this). That way it might be easier to find Contributors than the in hindsight dumb Gitea way I originally did. The Link to its GitHub Organization is here:

I hope the import is gonna go right. Contributions will ofcourse be accepted, just please don’t hope for it to be instant. But at most 1 or 2 weeks should be the thing, maybe a month. Still better than certain other Mods! Also gonna depend on what the submitted PR is ofcourse.

Well then. I’m gonna go link this Post on Patreon and the IC2 Forums now. ^^

PerliousFalcon · January 15, 2020, 4:08am

Congrats on finishing your mod Greg.

I remember checking your thread on the IC2 Forums years back. Never made an account though.

Also I’m seeing a link to your channel on your profile. Any plans on making videos in the future?

Gregorius · January 15, 2020, 4:54am

I once planned for GT5, but the Videos did not turn out. Though I do wanna show Stuff from my Game in Video Form, so that might happen. Or I will just upload some form of GIF. XD

Already got a Bug Report, but a very minor one (a Tooltip doubled up), so existence of upcoming Bugfix Release confirmed. Just not instant since its not really needed.

Kevinthedude · January 15, 2020, 3:47pm

You may not remember me but I was pretty active on the IC2 forums 7-8 years ago when you started GregTech and I just wanted to say its been cool watching you grow from making an IC2 addon to being a major part of the Minecraft modding community as a whole. Gl on your future endeavours.

system · January 21, 2020, 9:30pm

An Update to GregTech has been released!

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Gregorius · January 21, 2020, 9:52pm

Well, I finally “unlaunched” my Patreon Page. And I was perfectly right to do this one week after my final Post as Patreon decided to disable access to all the Posts I have made over the years. Hurray for giving me one singular choice there. Oh and if I would have needed to access any other billing history for tax reasons or whatever, I cannot do that either.
So if I had to do it (which I luckily dont have to), then I would need to relaunch my Creator Page, trigger all sorts of Notifications for all former Patrons, might have to do that during the billing Cycle so they would end up having to pay for one month, and then read the Statistics to give accurate Statements about income and Stuff, and then unlaunch the Patreon Page again, resulting in even more potentially funky Stuff!

So since paranoid old me never ended up “needing” to use the money, I decided to stop dealing with their incompetence and just not take money anymore until I really require it.

Okay with that out of the way then: This is obviously a Bugfix Release. The next Release will automatically trigger the Notification for people that a stable Update is ready. ^^

psusi · February 3, 2020, 6:14pm

So the weight of the stuff you throw into the mb crucible is half of what it normally is?

psusi · February 3, 2020, 6:20pm

What kind of crazy is this? We have something that pumps air already: the vent cover. Why did you not use that? How is a crucible supposed to take KU? It doesn’t have an axle or gears or fan blades in it.

Gregorius · February 3, 2020, 6:35pm

No, the Big Crucible itself is worth 100 Units, but can hold much more than the Small 7 Unit Crucible. Ratios, Percentages, Maths, etc.

It acts like Bellows as it is a piston going back and forth pumping Air into the Crucible, also the Vent Cover cant be attached to the Crucible.