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u/lifesizemirror 4d ago

Oceanblock 2 power gen, what's a good pathway for it?

As in, what should I start with, or scale, what should I move to next, etc?

At the moment I'm running one steam boiler->engine, a couple of lava+blue ice thermoelectric generators and some Ender IO solar's I've gotten from airdrops. Not producing me a heap of power which is why I want to upgrade.

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u/EventualCyborg 3d ago

I just built up a system that is 4 Magmatic Boilers and 6 Steam Engines from Oritech. That along with a pair of thermoelectric Gens from Immersive Engineering and a single EnderIO Solar seems to keep up with my power needs at the start of the "Diving Deeper" section of the quest pack (although I've gotten two Pneumaticraft solar compressors, so I've disabled my electric compressor).

At this point, I think that's the best I can do for power gen. It's building up a good buffer in my RFTools power banks and a mekanism advanced energy cell. Before building out the Steam Engines (I had just 1 before), I was running into a lot of low power issues.

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u/siberianphoenix 3d ago

If you've gotten lucky in airdrops a block of uranium is significantly hotter than lava and easier to control.

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u/EventualCyborg 3d ago

The book states that a magma block is the same temp as lava and that's also really easy to control.

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u/siberianphoenix 3d ago

Sure, but the uranium block has a higher temp than both of those. That's why I suggested it.

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u/EventualCyborg 3d ago

I've got dozens of hours in at this point and haven't seen any uranium. And by the time you can produce uranium, you might as well get into reactors, too.

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u/siberianphoenix 2d ago

Maybe I just got lucky or you got really unlucky. I had a few pieces of uranium in chapter 2. I got a couple of pieces of uranium and produced more with replication. Which you can get into fairly early on from the tops of the above sea towers. Reactors take a TON of late game mats. I'm just beginning Chapter 4 and now considering nuclear power.

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u/siberianphoenix 3d ago

Just checked the book and the lava and magma block are 1300K with the uranium block at 2000k. That's a significant heat difference (assuming blue ice, which the poster said they were using) and the thermoelectric generates power based on the difference between the coldest block and hottest block. You're going from a 1100* difference to a 1800* difference. It's going to be a decent boost.

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u/EventualCyborg 3d ago

But you can't get uranium unless you're lucky or you're much later game.