Gregtech New Horizons S2 44: Enjoying Some Good Old Modded Minecraft

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This episode in New Horizons we must find a new purpose to guide us as we progress. Starting with some automation for Circuit boards and then on to passively crafting the inputs using some chemical we have automated previously. We make use of all the tools at our disposal and have some fun playing some good old Modded Minecraft :)
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[@mikhalkovkonstantin3426]

The consistency is honestly insane. GTNH is a beast of a modpack, and it jas already taken many hundreds of hours of my life, but you Three have taken it to the extreme, building a detailed base, planning for the far future, automating everything non-stop and still having fun! Its incredible you still havent burnt out from this game, i am in awe of your spirit and wish you the best in your coming time with GTNH!

[@hn396]

I can't believe this episode spawned without a bed

[@Threefold.]

Crazy, right? :D

[@rainboat3288]

thanks mister threefold

[@TheShadowofX]

The easiest solution to getting lost is to plop down a to-do list wall of signs with individual tasks. Remove things as they get done, add new things as you close off major milestones or think of something to do. Ever at a loss for what to do? Visit the wall. Simple solution 🙃. Really should be phasing out single block miners in favor of multiblock miners, especially with the possibility of getting some (relatively) early Iridium to upgrade to T2 MBMs. Power is the first priority problem to keep an eye on at all times, and resource income is the second. Once you've got ore processing build up and supplied with steady power that thing should be running full blast every possible second, because sooner or later you'll be needing those resources. If you're interested in playing GTNH past what I consider the early game I really hope you like flowcharts. Because oh boy, does this pack not get enough of it's flowcharts. I called this stage the age of multiblocks before, well going forward we'll enter the age of flowcharts until endgame. Platinum is arguably the most complicated chemical processing line, seeing as how it has a number of different branches that all process at different speeds using different machines and different ingredients, but it's definitely not the longest. This is just the start, it's all downhill from here. Being able to look at an unsymmetrical build and just go "good enough" will save you literal hours playing this pack, even if you're going full lawn base. The actual impact this has is, admittedly, greatly reduced considering it'll take dozens of hours to progress to the point where you even have something approaching a base, not to mention hundreds of hours more to build one of a vaguely respectably size, but still. It'll save time here and there 🙃. Regular circuit boards you will largely obsolete by the time you can craft the microprocessor LV circuits, but they still see use in 4K ME storage components and some miscellaneous crafts. Not wroth crafting passively, if that's the route you choose to go with circuit boards, but worth having on autocraft if you're going to be doing a lot with 4K storage components. Or the other random stuff regular circuit boards craft. At this point it's definitely worth it to use PTFE where possible to get more output/faster recipes. Reason being that if you're lacking PTFE production at this point you're going to suffer horrifically trying to set up IV's various chemical lines, as LCRs are mainly made from PTFE, so if you're at all short that's a problem you need to address before moving forward. There's plenty of sources of Fluorine - or whatever else you might need - available by now, so choose one to invest in and go ham. One thing you might want to check is whether the plain boards have any actual use bar being turned into proper circuit boards, and if not you could consider setting up the AE2 automation such that it'll craft base components into proper circuit boards automatically rather than making them separate crafting steps. Doing this is a key trick to keep autocrafting jobs simple and small, at least as far as AE2 is concerned, although an even better solution - if you can afford the resources - is to just produce the necessary crafting components passively and not have AE2 craft them on demand at all. And this is GTNH, resources are never the issue. If you keep on top of your miner situation. Processing ores is the bigger issue. Reminder that ore processing Meteoric Iron - or Mars Stone Dust, if you're desperate - will yield iridium metal residue dust you can use to get some early-ish iridium. Alternatively you can process Chalcopyrite and/or Pentlandite to yield Platinum Group Sludge Dust, although both can also be used for straight Platinum Concentrate, so up to you whether it's worth going for PGSD. I don't know why EnderIO conduits insist on trying to connect to everything and the kitchen sink-well, the kitchen sink at least has a fluid input so that makes sense, but energy cables and AE2 cables less so. At least one of my designs ended up keeping conduits and energy cables separate just to prevent people from having to turn off a million connections. Maintenance Lights would make inspecting those turbines for maintenance issues a lot simpler. As for the rotors they only take damage when they're actually running, so they'll start to eat through their durability more quickly once more of the base is build and drawing power. Admittedly their durability is still very good, basically top grade for this stage of the pack in fact, but once they get going they won't last forever. Which is actually half the reason you automate shutting them off despite fuel basically being free. Some of you might be wondering why you want to macerate spruce into wood pulp instead of fluid extracting it into wood pulp and resin. Well, the simple reason is that particular resin has very few actual uses, and macerating yields over ten times more wood pump on average. If you're building a pretty base using wood resin is definitely something to look into as it's part of the Woodworker, but otherwise it doesn't serve any real purpose. One benefit to going the benzene route is that the 1,2-Dimethylbenzen you produce will cover you for carbon dust for a very, very long time. And if not that you can easily turn charcoal dust into carbon dust besides. Three is missing an electrolyser in his GT++ benzene setup to take care of that, but 1,2-D has uses elsewhere so that'll take some figuring out automation setups as well to keep at least some amount in stock, and only electrolyse the excess. Coils are still very much an important aspect of the multi smelter, since they'll determine how many recipes they can run in parallel, whereas throwing more power at it make it go faster is like trying to add a nitro booster to a bicycle. Keep on top of your coil multis, because expecting miracles from multis that are given spare garbage to run will only lead to disappointment. Always carefully check NEI for what you do and don't want to smelt directly. As a general rule ignore things like oxygen and hydrogen, since you should be getting those from dedicated sources. If your base runs out of oxygen because you run out of malachite to electrolyse you've done something seriously wrong. Likewise ignore byproducts that you're going to get in huge quantities anyway, like centrifuging cinnabar dust for 1x quicksilver and 1x sulphur instead of directly smelting it for double the effective quicksilver. Something else you can do with a lot of dusts, if you want to, is throw them in an EBF with carbon dust to get 150% output out of them. Malachite, for example, can take this treatment if you're desperately short on copper and need to get more by any means possible. Generally it's better to not bother with those recipes at this stage since the multi-smelter is a million times faster and resources should be plentiful anyway, but these same recipes also exist in the BBF using regular charcoal or coal coke. Though at *that* stage you're generally too hard-pressed to have your BBFs do anything but run steel all day every day, which is why people tend to forget these recipes exist. As I've mentioned before, if you're going to use MBMs with just local storage - and you can access magic mirrors before you can access MBMs themselves if you're sorely lacking in IV lootbags showering Ender Chests from the heavens - you'll want a dedicated drawer for the relevant dimension's stone dust, another dedicated drawer for the impure version thereof, and...it's actually been a hot minute since I tested this, but IIRC 12-16 compressed chests depending on what vein(s) you're mining and what tier of MBMs you're using. Veins like Lapis, Redstone and Apatite - and *especially* their Nether variants - are going to fill up local MBM storage very quickly, so prepare plenty of storage space ahead of time. Or bite the bullet and manually do the PBI questline for more IV lootbags in the hopes of finally drawing that thrice-cursed ender chests. Magic? Eh, we'll get to that eventually, at some point. Totally 🙃.

[@crunchycol5913]

One thing to add is that platinum group sludge dust is actually 1.5x as efficient with the chalcopyrite/pentlandite for platinum concentrate, plus the rest of the byproducts that you don't get from the direct platinum concentrate recipe. The sulfuric acid from PGSD is also fully recycled, so I would say it's very worth it given that you only need 3 machines for the full PGSD "line"

[@user-vf8ok1uw8d]

The threefold nature of Treefold: Gregfold - superior technical and structural engineering Chemisthree - joyful and easy mixing substances Threebeat - building with a touch of musical rhythm

[@Infinity-iq6ri]

watch this 10 times already. I can confirm this is a Threefold classic

[@forceofphoenix]

ahhhhhhhhhh xD

[@wallywalrushd243]

How do you watch a 40 minute episode 10 times in one hr xdd

[@drencor7402]

@@wallywalrushd243 time dilation duh

[@nathbregou27]

@@wallywalrushd243 10 monitor ofc

[@Infinity-iq6ri]

@@wallywalrushd243 10 monitors 3 times speed ez clap

[@tru1988]

Been watching the entire season and must say I really appreciate the recaps, editing, and overall voice over. Excellent series, please "complete" the pack; I'll be watching :)

[@Threefold.]

Glad to have you here! The biggest challenge in NH in my opinion is the mental challenge to persist through the pack, but I'll give it my best shot. Thanks for watching

[@maxpearson8213]

The Output Bus (ME) stores an infinite amount of items by default, so long as you don’t break them, even if they power off they will output all saved items to the ME system when re-powered. This function can be disabled with a screwdriver.

[@Threefold.]

Yeah I'm aware of the functionality of the ME Output Bus, I just heard when the server restarts it loses the cache, correct?

[@king6790]

@@Threefold. No, it does not

[@thestonesphilosopher1710]

Three, I’ve been watching since the beginning of the series, and every time I see an episode in astounds me that you’re not more popular. Your editing progress and gameplay is so incredible. Not to mention you yourself. How are you not the most popular moded Minecraft KZbinr?

[@Threefold.]

I think Gregtech is just niche, but I don't do this for popularity or views. I do this because I love it! I absolutely do appreciate all of you guys watching still

[@Livingcooler]

@@Threefold. i would love to see you again on more recent modpacks. This would bring many more followers but more importantly your playthroughs of Inferno and atm8 were super refreshing and nicely edited. I learned a lot, which i dont necessarily with other modded youtubers. After you finish your gtnh journey of course :D

[@Threefold.]

@@Livingcooler I still follow the vanilla game and the newer modpacks, so it's not out of the question. I think there is a high probability we tackle some newer challenges at some point soon ;)

[@deinemam7115]

I mean he basically is the most popular one. Direwolf has more subscribers but way fewer clicks, and IGBLON just carried his vanilla viewers over to modded. He didnt organically grow with it.

[@iznmedia]

I love this series more than other KZbin videos! It's crazy to me how you keep us hooked, thank you💙🙏🏼

[@Threefold.]

That's great to hear, I'm really glad you enjoy the series :D

[@king6790]

Fluid solidifying on demand isn’t a bad idea, it’s quite quick CE has fluid in the assembler for pumps You can smelt plates into ingots and then turn ingots into rings for the plastics Not every circuit assembler recipe uses soldering alloy Item detector doesn’t work on me output bus, you’ve tried that before

[@de4dbutdre4ming]

i wasn't really getting the reference @ the house, thought you were just talking about it being like, the first bricksource or something. but when you said "still doesnt have a bed" i instantly smiled. such a great series man, keep it up :D

[@avamightavamight5042]

Ae2fc have block to keep exactly number of item you want. So you can use just 1 solidified with dual interface for all type of sheets

[@lewismassie]

"Still without a bed" lmao I also like how you originally said you would build a second steam oven and then never did

[@littlemissmisses2981]

Pure unadulterated joy experienced when I get a Threefold notif *chefs kiss*

[@no_mnom]

Let's get greggin 😊 So excited

[@Agora2021]

I can't understate how difficult it is to create a good looking base with machines and production in mind. It's really hard to get it all to fit together nicely, while still remaining aesthetically pleasing.

[@itsthenewdx2898]

needed this episode today, love this series

[@Hyglott]

Loving the pacing and content of this episode, just some good ol' Threefold modded MC

[@28punish52]

I'm enjoying this series so much man it's insane ! Thank you so much Three

[@Threefold.]

[@xFallme]

Dude, your videos are insane! Thank you!

[@saarker4791]

the "hehe steam oven" at 8:17 knocked me

[@xanderridley-smith3613]

Dude I have so much admiration for all your skills and knowledge, i just couldn't believe how simple that fluid solidifier setup was!

[@Holy_Sandro]

Loved this style of episode 👍🏻

[@duartexcg7258]

The steam oven is starting to become a meme in itself

[@DukeLinen]

I am absolutely loving the series. It just makes me happy.

[@Threefold.]

Amazing! It makes me happy knowing others find some joy in the series

[@HeruKane]

Awesome episode, awesome progress, awesome manufacturing and base design! Such a cool series.

[@sherrifmarty00]

One of the most Greg episodes of this series so far. Grrrrrreeeeeggggggg

[@argoeon9244]

Ropes are neat!❤

[@hhvhhvcz]

always enjoy one of the relaxed episodes doing old school automations. Also i play GTNH myself (took relaxing 100 hours to get into LV and another 40 for Blast Furnace) and i've personally utilised like 2-3 clipboards and signs not to forget "wtf im aiming for and trying to do rn" because this whole thing is always rabbit hole of needing million things at once

[@jakeread9668]

100 hrs to get to LV! Did you craft things one at a time...

[@Threefold.]

Don't worry about the time it takes, as long as you are enjoying the process overall. Relax, have fun and Gregtech! :D

[@supernexon]

Love your content! Keep greggin ;) Thanks ❤

[@ooprincessoo7113]

I love watching you play this pack even though I am not playing it myself. I also love seeing that your channel has grown since I first subscribed, you deserve it.

[@BrunoSantos-lm1pz]

This episode was probably one of your best ones yet! Keep up the good work! May greg be with you.

[@Smokeywolf64]

Great series! Amazing base!

[@Tacet137]

When kharax made it to T7 rocket recently we congratulated him on finishing the pack tutorial XD

[@niceelbowslmao4347]

I have never been this exited seeing a video getting uploaded

[@Ellenox147]

More automation !!!! Thanks for the quality of the episode again Three

[@whalewarrior6420]

As other people have said, If you're not aware of it, you should definitely look into the conduit probe from EnderIO. I'm not sure what the Gregified recipie for it is, so it may be out of the question for now, but if not, get it. It allows you to copy and paste conduit settings, and it will save you _so_ much time. As of 1.12 it can even copy and paste filter settings. No idea if that's the case in GTNH, but even still it would be worth it. The conduit probe has saved me probably _hours_ of mind-numbing copy/paste -- and I'm not kidding. Also, the pace you've been putting out content is absolutely ridicuous-- you are a complete powerhouse man, and it's all top-notch stuff. That being said, I think I speak for most viewers when I say that the number one thing we like to see is you enjoying the game, so don't burn yourself out. I would much rather have one 20 minute episode a week of you having a blast than five 40 minute episodes of you hating every second of it. Do as much as you want to, and no more. Keep up the great work Three! We love you!!

[@Threefold.]

Thank you thankyou! I'm afraid that I'm going to burn myself out any day now but I'm still hooked on the game haha. I'm doing my best to keep the content interesting, and as you mention the best way to do that is for me to enjoy the game, which fortunately is still very much the case. Thanks for watching and I hope you have an awesome day

[@poobnis]

yesss I love catching these videos right as they're posted

[@CommanderCort]

Even with the bookmarking for items, I still find myself just running round in circles. XD

[@luka188]

I really love this series. Watched every episode basically within a few hours after you posted them, and always looking forward for the next one!

[@Threefold.]

Thanks Luka, it's great to see you here every episode

[@410Picasso]

Awesome Episode. I am very excited for your new videos. Hoping that you will continue after the tier 7 rocket and you go for the stargate :D

[@davidaugustofc2574]

Our favorite KZbinr has uploaded again folks

[@hecz_ranger7738]

Amazing episode!

[@venger2190]

Nothing beats the feeling of getting a notification about new video right after you thought about wanting to watch one earlier

[@progh1tman943]

great video as always

[@nedern]

Love the series

[@malsiastas3223]

And yet again another Banger episode, wanna send you flowers every time i see an upload

[@rmi6794]

I too cannot believe those things spawn without a bed.

[@markokrebs9063]

it really hit different

[@matthewprior2820]

Great episode Three. Just a heads up, you dont need item detection cover on me output bus. As it will infinitely cache items until theres room in ae2 system for it. Meaning will never void

[@riripebby]

I can't believe he hasn't blown up a machine yet in 44 episodes!

[@liroutii2936]

Once again, thank you for another video

[@dbridle09]

Love the back to basics feel of it, it felt very Nomifactory esq!

[@davidgibson1551]

How do you keep coming out with episodes man? You're insane! I love all your content and it inspires me to be a better modded player! Thanks for everything you do.

[@wywerngaming1061]

man it is a good day when three uploads, keep up the good work

[@Train3014]

Perfect timing!

[@kubistokoski4910]

Yessir another one dropped, instantly the day became better

[@cy_mx]

the base is looking so cool

[@anusficker-hw2xe]

this is a certified hood classic (threefold is officially announced a gang member)

[@LightroNight]

That was sooner than normal I feel. I like watching this while I'm playing other packs.

[@danielboothman567]

Nice chill episode 😀

[@BT10e]

"i put my miner on a diamond vein" gets 6 compressed chests of lapis.

[@ImDominicanIswear]

Its always a good day when three uploads

[@jonathonwhalen2516]

3 bees are great they can give you any resource you want passively. Amazing stuff, much love.

[@Threefold.]

Yeah, Ive been informed on the power of the Bees. We will get to them very soon :D

[@Dancept]

Finally automation similar to that in DJ2!

[@onthehorizon4097]

My day just got better.

[@edge3663]

Great Video!

[@westloar]

Has a huge turbine room, high tech chemical reactors, automated circuit boards and a mass energy system, still walks between travel anchors 😅

[@yiannchrst]

This episode felt good. I felt good watching it.

[@Threefold.]

Thank you Jonny! I'm glad you enjoyed it :D

[@ye-et8290]

Love ur content great work!

[@kylecissell958]

I honestly enjoy watching three play GTNH more than I enjoy playing it myself

[@fosterkrause1611]

Loved the video, I am not crazy enough to play any gregtech modpack (yet) but currently playing through ddss and would love to see you play through it at some point, but thats obviously not going to be for a while since tier 7 rocket is still quite a ways off. Keep up the amazing work though!!

[@enderguz3213]

i found you from a random comment someone made on a video and boy am i happy i did your content is amazing

[@Sengyizhe]

I have been playing with greg tech for thousands of hours and never once considered chunk boundaries when building anything and have never had any issues related to corruption or the like. if you really wanted to play a multiblock on a boarder for aesthetics i would just go ahead and do it. Been enjoying the videos, even helpful when playing community edition

[@josiahsimmons9866]

42 minutes of joy!!

[@captainwasserstoff6750]

I enjoyed the classic style a lot. It was a bit more calm, that was pleasing ;)

[@flaviocamargos748]

Made my day!

[@offlineoak8798]

thank you

[@XiaVods]

Nearly caught up finally [: loving this so far

[@antonbarlovic5432]

Love your videos

[@Cera_01]

Hell yeah more Gregtech

[@WolfrostWasTaken]

Your ability to plan is just incredible. I'm early EV and I'm planning to move my base somewhere else. Too messy!

[@KitsuneGB-hc9zb]

In the meantime before saltyroot, you can pump chlorobenzene on mars

[@cointosskenku]

I know your schedule is likely ram packed as is with the consitent uploads (thank you btw) but have you considered doing Tutorial/Guide type videos more in depth in your style? examples being "this is what you wanna do with this ore specifically and this is the reason why etc" for early/mid/late game? As another GT:NH enjoyer your videos have been instrumental in helping me overcome some barriers!

[@Threefold.]

I have considered tutorials before, and i'm not completely against the idea. I just am not sure the best format to put them in if that makes any sense. It's something I'll definitely experiment with and hopefully one day you will see something similar on the channel :)

[@mrchaos4222]

I don't want this series to end.

[@KaneYork]

The ME output bus will infinitely buffer items if the AE2 network is out of power. There's no cheating concerns with trying to use it for infinite item storage, because it always dumps all its stored items as soon as the power comes back.

[@FezSauce]

Love me some good ol' modded

[@Threefold.]

Indeed! :D

[@KaneYork]

Wooden planks have a much better recipe in the Assembler with glue!

[@Rebel_Clef]

Spruce wood is back-logged. 😆

[@MegaRaja54321]

I best as soon as you get iridium setup for those enderchests... you're gonna get them in a lootbag lol

[@sakhre7749]

i enjoy this type of videos more

[@voidknight007]

You can passively make only the plastic ingots and use an extruder to turn those to plates, rings etc. Diamonds can be made passively 👍

[@luka188]

Diamonds require a lot, like really a lot of coal/carbon and whatever gregtech ore equivalent counts for the recipe, like insane amounts. He does not have nearly enough yet to make them from other resources in the quantities that he needs diamonds.

[@Huabun]

Man, I remember, you really did get quite unlucky with the house not having a bed. Jokes aside, love the episode (as always) :D

[@ethancharim7321]

Aw yea, more Threefold! Can't wait for platinum next episode (probably) (hopefully)

[@RERE-iz2dy]

i just realized something the biggest multiblock is the applied energistics system you can expand it to tousands of block

[@davidk8699]

I guess you could process the salty root at tour farm and send the chlorine back to base via an ender fluid tank

[@jonasgajdosikas1125]

38:15 the reason the first filter didn't work is that it would check whether the item is an ingot an a gem at the same time, which I assume no item is; the same would have applied to any gems you would have filtered before. if you don't have practice in programming, then it may sound weird, but the ore dictionary filter is just a checklist where it goes through and checks if the end result is true; so the way to think about it is not about all the items you want to filter, but what an item that should pass is

[@Threefold.]

Yep that makes perfect sense. Recording and thinking out loud sometimes it's difficult to compute those tiny things on the spot hehe

[@McBaconator5000]

Yo! Passive time? That's my favorite!

[@stacklysm]

Enderman: Would you like to see a magic trick? Three: Oh no... Btw, these episodes have been awesome, the machine/autocrafting is my favorite part (even tho Threefold can, as has made, IC2 crops and magic interesting as well)