This mod idea is based on PowerCrystals "Power Converters" Mod.
You probably know the feeling when you start your base, completly decked out in RF based machines like sag mills or arc furnaces... and then you need that one industrial craft machine to craft your jetpack. This mod helps you generate the needed energy by converting from one energy type (i.e. Redstone Flux) to another (IndustrialCrafts EU). You can even convert from EU to EU... if you want to do that for some reason...
Energy Converters provide you 3 different Block Types: Energy Consumers, Energy Producers and the Energy Bridge.
The Energy Consumer will consume energy from an energy source and store it inside an adjacent Energy Bridge. An Energy Producer will convert that energy to another type - just connect a cable or any machine to the producer and you are good to go.
A single energy bridge supports up to 6 consumers and/or producers (1 per side) - but any consumer/producer may only connect to one bridge at a time!
The mod currently supports
- Redstone Flux (RF)
- IC2 EU (Lv, Mv, Hv, Ev, Iv)
- Tesla
- Forge Energy (FE)
- Special support for TechReborn (1.10.2 only, not needed in 1.11.2 since TR improved its FE support)
- Buildcraft (MJ)
The conversion rate is currently 1 Eu : 4 RF : 4 Tesla.
Recipes
Energy Bridge
IC2 Energy Producer (LV in this case, just replace the Transformer with any other transformer for its corresponding tier)
To get the Energy Consumer, just put any producer into a crafting grid and you get the corresponding consumer.
Modpack Permissions
Yes.
This mod would be absolutely perfect. The only problem are the recipes.
Why do I need to get Eye of Ender simply to enjoy the luxury of being able to convert power? This is far too expensive and restrictive.
I'm using IndustrialCraft 2 and Techguns as my only two tech mods. Techguns runs on RF/FE and has literally no power generators of its own. This means that with this combo, the entirety of Techguns content is locked behind an Eye of Ender progression gate, meaning I either need to get to a nether fortress or get a lucky drop from a chest somewhere, which is absolutely ridiculous.
Gold ingots have the same problem, to a lesser degree. Not all machines require gold, especially the starting ones, so this requirement is excessive as well.
I'd love it if there would at least be an option to enable cheaper recipes, so as to allow the use of the mod in early game, where it's actually most useful.
In reply to vykrom0d:
If you have an issue with the crafting, install a mod called craft tweaker and make your own recipe. It is a small and easy-to-use mod with very few mod conflictions.
In most versions of the game an eye of ender is easy to come across and a farmable resource. If the mod included alternate recipes it would only create further complications on whether the cheaper option is too cheap or not cheap enough, or why isn't there a more expensive option etc.
In reply to warpigftpb:
I know about craft tweaker - that's what I'm actually using to solve the problem. That however is slapping a separate mod on top as a workaround, which is less than perfect.
I'm not entirely sure how having more options in the config is a complication. Unless there are any problems with the game to begin with, most people don't even have to look at the contents of the config file. Even if the cheaper/more expensive options are not ideal, it's still a lot better than being locked to a single recipe which doesn't make sense (in both gameplay sense and in-universe logic - why do I need a rare magical item to power my purely electric machines?).
The problem is not farming the eyes of ender. The problem is that they impose a content gate. The only ways to get them are:
A) - Happen upon a lucky drop from a chest in a randomly generated dungeon (which is extremely chancy and not at all reliable)
B) - Kill an enderman, build a nether portal, obtain enough gear to survive nether hazards, and kill a blaze.
Unless you're lucky, this eliminates using power converters in early game, until you reach nether tier. Again - if you want to power an RF-based content with EU/MJ (or vice versa), you literally cannot do that until you are able to fight blazes in the nether. In my opinion, this is a disproportionately big requirement for solving a problem which shouldn't even be a thing to begin with: every mod pointlessly using their own, incompatible power systems.
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Хм, очень очень полезный мод.. но к сожалению он ко мне не подходит, я ищу энергию от мода Ender IO, почему бы не сделать и μl/тик.
И это странно что довольна популярный мод Ender IO, и нету конвертера.
Если нет, то ответьте почему?
Hmm, very very useful mod.. but unfortunately it does not fit me, I am looking for energy from the Ender IO mod, why not make and μl/tick.
And it is strange that the popular mod Ender IO is happy, and there is no Converter.
If not, why?
In reply to Rimmer_Rimmer:
Because EnderIO supports FE (Forge Energy). There is no point in explicitly supporting their energy system when there is already support for FE.
Hey can you please release a the update to fix the MJ Energy Producer
sometime it works sometimes it didn’t work please fix man
In reply to phoenix_blood2003:
Make sure you are on the latest version. It's working fine for me, you will need to provide more information, otherwise I can only guess.
forgive me then I made a mistake with the mod and didn’t do it right at first I wanted to understand why I didn’t recycle energy from Аpplied Еnergistics 2 into AE, but then I realized that I forgot to put one block and because of this I could not use
(sorry i'm bad speeck ENG для меня проще на русском но всё равно простите что побеспокоил)
hello, I wanted to ask why there is no converter from FE to EU with mod industrial craft or when will it be added?
In reply to delite1234:
I'm not sure what you are talking about. Ic2 EU and FE are both supported
Is it suitable for EU from GregTech:CE?
In reply to chromalumex:
No, GregTechs EU is a different system that is not supported at the moment.
I've noticed the MJ producer never works. It just doesn't make any power regardless of what I do.
Edit: Nevermind you need to use a wooden pipe on it.
It doesnt work with opencomputers. I fried connecting it to a cable and capacitors but nothing.it doesnt accept it. Can anyone tell me what's wrong here?
In reply to oaklizard2047:
OpenCompuiters supports IC2 and some other power mods out of the box. Use the Open Computers "Power Converter".
Did you guys could make a HV energy producer ? I've replicated the recipe but theres no item in the end! im using it on a 1.12.2
EDIT: Nvm, got it! its a little different from the main picture here
I'm guessing there are no plans for IC2 EU to GTCE EU, is there?
This might be just me but the MJ producer seems to hang up sometimes. I'm feeding a quarry with it via immersive engineering and it just doesnt give it power sometimes then suddenly does it in massive spurts.
Nice to see there is a mod that makes all energy sources compatible. Keep it going!
Is it compatible with the techguns mod?