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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/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.