Here are some pics of my new setup on the new pack. I am playing with a lot of new things I have never played with before in mekanism like heat generators, universal cables, and rock crushers! Lots of fun! Can't wait to get deeper into the pack and play with things like logistic pipes and I am also going to do all the minefactory reloaded stuff this time around too. Woot woot! *rubs hands together and grins*
In this first pic you can see my current method of power generation. There are 4 heat generators in there surrounded by 28 lava source blocks.. hehe ATM all it is powering is my rock crusher, pulverizer, and powered furnace. Next step I am going to be putting a couple batboxes into the system. For those of you who don't know batboxes are storage units for MJ power. Almost everything I will be doing this time will be with MJ power since almost all the mods using EU have been removed from this pack.
This is a picture of my tinkers construct smelter, the one of the left, and my mekanism rock crusher. I built the rock crusher cause I have been to the nether a dozen times already and haven't found the first fortress yet... really f'in sucks cause I need blaze rods and I need nether stars. But the rock crusher has a 10% chance to make blaze powder from crushing blast furnace blocks so I have been using that but it is so tedious and inefficient that it is eating me alive to keep doing it that way lol I am going to see if I can't find a damn fortress soon.
This is one of the Great Trees in the back of my house and inside it will be my thaumcraft room. I am lining the floor with basalt brick since this pack doesn't have Xycraft in it.
This is the other Great Tree in the back and as you can see it has my nether portal in it so I don't have to listen to those annoying sounds it makes all the time hehe
This is the bridge I built on the front of my house to attach it to the top of a mountain. If you look closely you can see about 7 tombstones. These are from where I died. I have been collecting them and putting them around my house with how I died just for S&Gs hehe
And here are my bridge guardians... turrets from portal! LOL If all 4 focus fire I have seen them take down a werewolf so they seem to have it handled pretty well and they are so cheap to make too... 2 obsidian, 1 red stone, and 5 iron is all it takes. You can also see a couple of my manual farms that I have over to the right of them. I have another 3 reed farms down the mountain some.
I'll post some more pics as I progress today. Gonna be at home playing all day so should get some good progress done. Going to be making some automated farms today so I can get started early on my biofuel power plant. Wylker, the guy who made the pack I am playing, has a LP series based on this pack and he does boilers next. I have never been a big fan of them cause they always seem to explode on me but maybe I will give them another try. Going to think on it some more today while I play. What do you all think? Setting up 8 auto wheat farms, a moistener, 10 stills, 10 magma crucibles, and 30 bioengines for biopower or do 3 boilers, 4 auto tree farms, 6 powered furnaces, and 1 aqueous accumulator for steam power?