DireWolf20 made one at the end of Season 3 of his SMP LP on YouTube. If you get a tunnel bore and expand the block breakers to like, a 9x20, you will be RAKING in the ores. You won't have to worry about moving it like the Quarry, and with the Quarry, you have to get past the top layers before getting to goody goody Diamond layer.
The quarry takes buildcraft power, or MJ, and I think from the latest update, they can take a wide range of power, with the higher the power in, the faster the quarry runs. If you've got the resources, I would be filling an energy cube from thermal expansion and sitting that next to the quarry to power it, so that the max input power for the ...
This page is about the Fuel added by BuildCraft. For other uses, see Fuel. Fuel is a Liquid introduced by BuildCraft that produces 6 MJ/t when consumed in a Combustion Engine. Fuel is made by refining Oil in a Refinery. If GregTech is installed, a Distillation Tower can be used for the same refining of oil into fuel, along with the production of several useful byproducts. Fuel can …
Stirling engines (formerly referred to as steam engines) are the second tier of engine. They use cobblestone instead of wood or iron so are still cheaper than the Combustion Engine. Previously, it had been stated that Stirling Engines would not blow up and would simply stop operating when heated too much. In recent versions, the Stirling Engine will only explode if energy produced …
For the quarry in buildcraft 1 - see this. For the quarry in buildcraft 3 - see this. The Quarry will excavate a 9x9 by default, or an area (up to 64x64 blocks) specified with landmarks. Place landmarks, activate them with clicking, and place the quarry next to a landmark (in a corner of the landmarked area), outside the red lines and also NOT on the red lines. It will continue mining …
I'm talking about the quarry frame, not the entire 5 block high by 64x64 center. I just tried this over the weekend. My underground quarry would not set up along my marker lines until I had dug out the material around the perimeter where the frame sets up. If you don't want to lose all of the ores in the center while it is setting up, you can follow the laser around and mine …
If you spend every diamond on your quarry then you extend your current branch mine for the 5-15m it takes to find 3 more diamonds to make a diamond pick. if you have computercraft you can make a mining turtle. can turtles still use ruby tools to mine obsidian? if you have Thermal Expansion you can make an igneous extruder or the new block breaker.
I'm looking to make it go significantly faster. My only idea so far is to go to the nether, pump out lava, and use it to power dozens of Magmatic Dynamos. I've done that in the past, but it's a pain in the ass to find a good sized lava lake, put down the pump, make the tesseracts, etc, etc. Plus, it may end up running out of lava sooner than I ...