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12foo

Fairly Easy Endergenic Generator, 32k RF/t (only RFTools + a little redstone)

Hi. First time posting, but I feel like I've come up with an endergen setup that's fairly cheap, compact and not that difficult to set up to boot, so I wanted to share. This does 32k RF/t uninfused. Added bonus: works using only vanilla redstone and RFTools, so can be used on 1.12 (no SCM or RedPower signaling on 1.12 yet).

Imgur album with details: https://imgur.com/a/97kJt

Watch me build it quickly with only minor bumbling: https://youtu.be/YUDiQrSH0vU

I kind of feel there are additional gains to be had by tweaking the last delayed pulse on the 8th gen a bit so it's more spread out, but leaving the delay only on the 8th gen has the benefit of keeping the other timings very simple.

Edit: Just to note 2 things: in the video I first set the 8th sequencer wrong and only notice a little while later, so if you're building while following along, the 8th sequencer needs to be on ticks 10 and 12 for firing (upper board) and on 8 for the pre-charge (lower board). Or keep watching and wait for me to figure it out (sorry).

Also, in the video I'm using the wrong kind of TE cable, the cable I'm using can transport 25k RF/t, while the generator does 32k RF/t. That's why the powercell charges a little slowly; the power backs up inside the generator because the cable is a bottleneck. TE cryostable fluxducts would have been the correct choice, but I usually work with XNet (by McJty, the RFTools dev) anyway. If you have advanced RF/piping setups, maybe give XNet a try as well! It's a little complicated for small things, but well worth learning if you have many things to connect/automate.

Posted Oct 13, 2017, 11:20 AM UTC · edited

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LuciusDrake•

With one or two garden cloches, an autocrafter and enderman-seeds this would be a self-sufficient power-gen. Nice one, thank you for the good explanation :)

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pf_moore•

Nice! I've never used endergenic generators. Was considering them for my current world, but I hadn't got round to finding a good design. I'll definitely give this a try.

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12fooOP•

I think endergens are a bit underused because they're notoriously tricky to set up right, especially if you have 6+ generator blocks (which is where the real power comes in). But if you have an enderman farm (or Ender Lilies / Ender Crops), they're a) completely renewable and b) super cheap compared to setting up a BigReactor with similar power output. The priciest parts are the endergen blocks themselves, as each requires 4 diamonds and 4 pearls, but the rest is just gold nuggets, redstone, a bit of iron and a bit of lapis.

I play on a world that's tweaked to make wireless long range transfer of anything (power, items, people) possible but very very expensive, so if I want an outpost with enough power to teleport back and forth, it'll have to have its own considerable power supply in a pretty small space. Endergens are the best bang for buck I've found so far (though Deep Resonance generators aren't bad either), and you can set this kind of build up in 20 minutes or so.

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thegroundbelowme•

And SAVED for later reference. Thanks for sharing! It's always interesting to see new Endergenic generator designs. Maybe one day I'll actually understand them :)

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Cucas360Professional Mid-game quitter•

Pretty cool!

Now I just need enough pearls to supply to that thing

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FirexJkxFire•

About how quickly does this generator consume enter pearls? I guess a big concern for me is knowing if it's worth it to set up a farm if the farm would be really slow-- I:e if this consumes like 1 pearl a minute I'd be okay but if it was 1 per second I'd have to consider the possibility of a larger farm

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12fooOP•

It's configurable in the RFTools config, but the default on most servers is a 0.5% chance per generating tick, so on average one pearl should last 200 ticks. That's 10 seconds. Keep in mind that with this setup, one pearl generates somewhere around 10 million RF* as well, so unless you're using fairly endgame machines, you don't actually need to keep the generator running 24/7. I just use a power bank that stores about 50 million RF, and once it goes below 25 million RF stored, an automated setup throws in two or three pearls until it's back above 40.

Note also that you can build bigger generator designs that have much higher output per tick, but they're more difficult to construct than this one. You can also infuse the generator with RFTools dimensional shards (that you can find/craft) to get about 20-30% more RF out of it.

  • Edit: it's actually 6.4 million RF per pearl on average (32k * 200 ticks). You can see this in the video where the first couple pearls are pretty much bummers (a few 100k). But you can get lucky too-- I've had one pearl generate more than 20 million RF.
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FirexJkxFire•

Thanks! That's great info! Do these larger set ups also cost more pearls or do they just get more power per pearl?

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12fooOP•

Yup, they tend to get more power per pearl because in a well-designed larger generator you usually have the space to always keep the pearl firing at the perfect charging tick (the 10th), where it produces the most power. The chance of a pearl disappearing is always 0.5% per tick, no matter how big the generator is.

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hypernova911•

can you do the same thing with 10 endergen blocks with no loss

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12fooOP•

Maybe, but I don't think anyone has worked out the perfect setup yet! The thing about endergens is that you can set them up however you like, as long as you keep in mind how endergen blocks work and control the timing perfectly. An endergen block generates the most power if it receives a pearl on exactly the 10th tick after initiating the charge and then fires it back out right away, so you have to figure out a way of keeping the firing and charging controlled perfectly. They're kind of a puzzle thing -- the FTBWiki on them explains the mechanics pretty well: https://ftbwiki.org/Endergenic_Generator

You can build larger ones that have much better efficiency and power output than this one, but they're also much trickier to set up. That's why this is the "fairly easy" one. This one by Mizuna gets 47k RF/t, for example, using 12 blocks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bTNs51f0iss

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bluev1121•

I remember with SCM I had a 3 pearl looping generator set up that would inject new pearls into the loop when a pearl was lost. It used like 30 Endergenics but produced 150k RF/t. It had an acceleration section and a looping section. Was a thing of beauty. Sucked down pearls like crazy when trying to fill a t7 draconic orb.

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12fooOP•

That sounds really cool. The lack of SCM or anything else with multicolored cabling/compact circuits is really limiting for bigger builds on 1.12. I don't like playing on older versions either... :/

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Beablebeable•

Cool, saved for later.

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wehrmann_tx•

Awesome

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Royal19•

Pretty late to the party, but can you explain how you measured rf/t with rf tools and xnet ?

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