Oh man I've been playing around with IC so much I haven't even touched anything else. I got a miner machine up and working on powering it (it's kinda sputtering with an incomplete solar flower attached to it).
I quickly see how a nuclear reactor can be attractive (especially with overclock upgrades), but a mere solar flower or two is enough for now. Although my house is more of a hodgepodge with ridiculous additions. I need to demolish and rebuild it far better.
I was also wrong before, takes 64 coal to make one diamond. And that's just downright sexy.
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I think EE was added to fill the chemistry gap that was missing, but alchemy is all magic-y, so it ruins the ambiance of the rest of the content. But on the other hand we have enchantments in vanilla MC, so that may be why they felt they had to bridge a gap between that all of these machines.
EDIT:
I finished redesigning most of my house into a more IC friendly manner. More room for wiring, machines, space for expansion. I've yet to add a basement that was also going to be for cable management.
Old house. It was very ugly, and very poorly designed.
That was the main room in the basement. Fairly well organized, but it was in the basement, which I had to climb up a wall then back down to get to (and since I spent 90% of my time there, fff-). Terrible for cable management since it was underground and I was trying to run off of solar power.
New house! And new texture pack. Far better designed than old house, that pavilion on top is for cable management for solar flowers, which get imbedded into the top. I left my old solar flowers that I moved during the redesign, though, I may move them once I install more solar flowers, but I should be okay for now.
Inside of new house. Far better machine management and a few aesthetic details, also lots of space. The trench is a cable leading to a miner at the back of the house, I'm excavating everything under my house since that's where the power supply is.
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All of my energy is 100% solar, and no real complaints. I can run all of my machines without draining any power, and I have two batboxes in the event it rains. The only real power drain is my miner, which sputters along without enough EU to support constant mining, since it has a diamond drill and OD scanner (or OV, if that's the better one).
Although, still no upgrades on any of my machines yet, although I had two overclock upgrades but a creeper blew up the machine that had them while I was constructing the house (grr). But right now I'm working on just making solar panels, so I'll be cranking out some medium level EUs eventually.
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