ZyCraft: What's it good for!

[Mr. Analog]

I'm sure if you're like me your quarry has picked up a bunch of Zycraft stuff, but don't throw it out!

Sulphur can be made into sulphur torches, which combined with Aluminium creates aluminium torches (both of which add at least 1 block of additional light from the source)

Corn kernels can be planted and made into a variety of food items (corn on the cob, popcorn, etc)

The crystals themselves can be smelted into bars and formed into decorative blocks or extremely blast-proof plates.

By far the cheapest blast-proofing currently available in Feed the Beast.

From what I've read there are going to be "end-game" or high tier applications for this stuff as the mod develops, so don't recycle it all just yet

[Lazybones]

Turning them into their block form they don't take up that much space anyway... I was planning on making some very fancy looking buildings with them

[Tom]

Yeah, I saw some of the "machines" that will be coming from xycraft in the future, and it looks fancy. Something you may want to play with in the future.

[Lazybones]

I do sometimes wonder if Zycraft is displacing more valuable items with how much of it spawns...

[Mr. Analog]

I had that same thought which is why I looked it up.

one video I saw showed a nuclear bomb being blocked by ZyCraft plates, it was nuts.

[Lazybones]

I had that same thought which is why I looked it up.

one video I saw showed a nuclear bomb being blocked by ZyCraft plates, it was nuts.

That may need to be balanced.... However I have seen videos showing re-enforced Glass and Stone used as aswell.

[Mr. Analog]

Reinforced glass/stone is good for that as well but is much more expensive.

For 7 blocks of reinforced glass you need TWO Advanced Alloys

Mixed metal ingots used to be cheaper to make when tin/copper was much more abundant in Tekkit.

[Tom]

I don't think its ores are replacing anything. Otherwise there'd probably be no iron left in the map with everything else that gets generated.

I have to wonder about RP2's marble though. I know the volcanos and buildcraft oil stuff will wipe various things out...

[Mr. Analog]

To me it's odd, as I recall Tekkit being a lot more copper/tin friendly. Like I had so many stacks I didn't know what to do with it all.

Maybe we just got lucky on that server?

[Tom]

To me it's odd, as I recall Tekkit being a lot more copper/tin friendly. Like I had so many stacks I didn't know what to do with it all.

Maybe we just got lucky on that server?

Nope. FTB changed the ore setup a little. The copper and tin are all coming from Thermal Expansion rather than IC2 or RedPower. And TE's default rules are quite different than IC2/RP2s.

Restarted the server a little while ago, so the second uppage of copper+tin is live. So we should see some decent amount of copper/tin now,

[Mr. Analog]

Good good! I will move my current quarry to new unloaded lands

[Lazybones]

Restarted the server a little while ago, so the second uppage of copper+tin is live. So we should see some decent amount of copper/tin now,

If you move your mining to new, unexplored chunks.

[Tom]

Restarted the server a little while ago, so the second uppage of copper+tin is live. So we should see some decent amount of copper/tin now,

If you move your mining to new, unexplored chunks.

Indeed.