I'm spanish, and trying to get good guides for play ATM8, but definitely u are the best explaining the most of the needed things in this modpack, thanks a lot Alfred! i think u go up to be the best
I just discovered your channel a few minutes ago and I have to say I am really surprised! You deserve more followers that's for sure!! The tutorial is perfect, there's nothing to say!
Alfred, you are extremely underrated! But I am also glad your channel is growing a lot more though, just needs more! Also a well done video, definitely incredibly helpful :)
Thanks for the tutorial! I replicated the setup. The issue with the universal pipez, is that they can either output or input, not both. So, the side that's outputting items, can't input energy, and so on. You only needed an extra universal pipe on each size of the machines that are sending stuff out. The fluid pipe between the sink and the Separator isn't needed, but for it to work, I placed it one block higher and added another pipe segment. Apparently, you can't have multiple sides pulling in the same block, only one of them will work. Using more sides of the sink is useful if it can't keep up tho.
THANK YOU! i kept seeing this set up in episodes of everyone playing atm 8 but they didn't stop to explain it just like "melons + machine = power" cool now lets move on lol I have been looking for this exact video for ages thanks for making it!
I like the use of the compacting drawer to split the melons. My equivalent system used a Mekanism sawmill. Another variation: if you don't have the materials for the PRC and the gas-burning generator, you can pipe the biomass directly into a bio-fuel generator for early game power that's easy to convert to the gas-burning system for mid-game.
@@AlfredGGMC It's not really worth it for the long haul, but it produces up to 140 RF/t -- more than the heat gen or wind generator(unless your base is really high up). The gas-burning gen gives significantly more power both per fuel and per tick, so it's definitely the way to go as soon as you have the materials.
Hey randomly stumbled across your vids while lookin' for Mekanism setups. First, thanks for a thorough step-by-step on the melo-matic, as I like to call. Lookin' at your other vids, you've certainly got personality in your voice as well as your editing~ Nice work, good sir! You need more subs for sure. ✌
This is almost always the best power option in packs even when they nerf it. I setup 6 gas burners for a single setup in a 2x4x3 area and it often is enough to get me to the end game and very often I just duplicate it to get the power for the end game. The only reason I make the fusion or fission reactors is for the byproducts needed for crafting.
I create enough ethylene to power 90 gaz generator, i have tons of energy never build a nuclear reactor (but your right i need nuclear waste for the new stuff)
THANK YOU!!! My head is bloody from beating my head against wall just over trying to configure the machines input and output. I almost through the whole damn computer out the window.
I spoke to soon the Electrolytic Separator quit producing Hydrogen after re routing power from the Coal Generator to the Gas-Burning Separator. Returned power back to Coal Generator and kaput. Never changed the settings. This is some finicky ass machinery.
Do you mean that you removed the Coal Gen and now the machines aren't getting power? Things to check: Make sure that the pipe connected to the Gas Burning Gen is set to extract (shift right click) and is also upgraded to be able to give out enough power (pipe upgrades). Then make sure that all machines are connected via pipes to the pipe that is getting power from the GBG. Also, if you're using speed upgrades in the Separator, you might want to connect more pipes to it for power. You can bypass that with a point if you're using Flux Networks.
No, I put the coal generator back and the whole system has power. The PRC isn't getting hydrogen. I didn't touch any settings, checked all my pipes twice. Man, I worked 20y in surgery and I have literally done brain surgery so I'm totally dumb fuckled why I can't get this fixed. Also, where can I give you some support outside of Twitch?
Make sure that you have the Electrolytic Separator set to "Output 1" on the face that the pipe is going out of, and then make sure the pipe is set to extract. Also make sure that the Sep is making hydrogen just in case. You can find all of my links and such here: linktr.ee/alfredgg I have a merch store (which I should be updating for my MC playthroughs...) and several other links if you'd like to find me elsewhere! Thank you so much for the support!
Caught your Saturday stream. Congrats on your speed run time. Really enjoy your content. It is really helpful the way you go step by step and explain your thought process. Can’t understand why your TH-cam subscribers number is low.
I just started this channel about 9 months ago I think? Maybe 10? We'll get higher!! Seeing how this community responds, I am truly amazed by the support. Thank you so much!!!
@@GeneralHighwaywhat is wrong with you dude. genuinely an unnecessary and worthless comment. you’re a disgusting person for your racism, regardless of if it’s a joke or not
When I did this setup, I was having a lot of problems with the corner pipes only extracting from one of the two machines it was attached to, so I just put drawers with void upgrades all around, and it solved all the issues I was having. I can run the digital miner with full speed upgrades, and I still have plenty of power. I set up 15 of the thermal hydroponic machines growing melons, and I have plenty of melons left over
amazing well done i was watching your play threw and seen you setup basics of this wanted to do it too and know how work and here we are in this video you did that and more your amazing fella thank you for work you put in to do this video you made my life so much easier i was fiddling around heat generation and upgrading that and still didn't have enough power to run x2 ore setup quest book gave with diamond furnace but this setup is going to do that and much more thank you!
Going to build this right now to feed into my induction cell! Thanks for the walkthrough! I hope to see more videos like this in the future. I still think you should post some YT shorts as well! The only thing I suggest in these type of videos is to use the JDI Bookmarks to list items needed and to go over them in the beginning so everyone doesn't have to count number of pots and pipes and such needed, would make it easier to build alone with
Yo thank you so much!!! I still need to build the induction setup in my playthrough world. I felt like I should have shown the recipes, but the # of pots/cables is all going to be dependent on how each person sets up their stuff. For me, I only used 5 for the basic setup, but you'll need a lot more if you aren't using upgraded farmland. I do like the style of "This is the best build, this is what you'll need" and will definitely be using this tip for the future!
@@AlfredGGMC also discovered issues with using mekanism cables with this setup. They reduce the amount of power. They reduce the shorter the cable. My gas burner at closest to the induction cell would make 6k per tick and in order to get 39k the gas burner needed to be almost a chunk away.
The hydrogen REFUSES to pull from the electrolytic seperator and go into the pressurized reaction chamber. I've tried it over and over. Idk what I am doing wrong *EDIT* It was just a glitch on my server. When I logged back on this morning it was functioning just fine! Appreciate it Alfred!
I tried making a compact setup with Meka pipes or pipez , gave up and learned how to use xnet, much easier to compact that down and expand in the future, much recommended
@@AlfredGGMC i figured out why it wasnt working properly, idk why but my sink fluid pipe didnt connect directly into the electro thingy, so i had to manually config the fluid to the top of the electro thingy and it started working
Nice work! I always love to watch your videos, now i'm going to build that mobfarm what you built. Your videos are awesome :D Ui: if you want to light up a big area use Feral Flare Lanterns :)
It's just an energy pipe that runs straight down then connects to each of the bottoms of the machines. It just has to touch each machine that needs power.
Did you hire a spare room in an Ikea warehouse to film this vid? 🤣 Helpful guide as always!w Would it possible to get a tutorial on RS and NBT items please? Alot of people mention about seperating the NBT Items from RS, but don't really explain it from what I've found so far. Would be awesome to learn how to automatically handle the NBT items and transfer them somewhere else, to avoid corruption!
Can you do a comprehensive tutorial for sorting items with AE2 or RS? It's so hard to find decent content relating to this. The wikis are good, but I'm a total noob and can't figure it out. You and Chosen are my only hope. I don't mean how to set it up, more like how to sort items in and out, the best ways to keep the system clean. Maybe break it up into multiple parts, would be super helpful because ATM 8 after like 6 years of not playing modded has blown my mind.
I do this method on almost every mod pack it has mechanism it’s so good it’s Broken ❤ also, I grow my melons in Cloches immersive engineering, their outfit is a lot higher.
idk what's wrong with my melon power, but i'm burning 0.05 Ethylene per tick, it's totaly full and I have a whole ore factory from the book connected to it, this mod is so complicated and my machine keep telling me they're out of power every 0.1 sec
Any chance we could get a little guide on Mekanism reactors and fission reactor ive tried looking them up and ive just had a hard time finding something thats more current
Its very nice tutorial! it is nicely explained everything in detail very nicely, thank you very much for that. Please make more tutorials in the future. 100% SUBSCRIBES 🙂
Flux networks is honestly the best way to move power around, very underrated mod (as popular as it is i still dont think ppl really give it the credit it deserves)
I've got a bit of a weird one for you, can you do a tutorial about how to do automation using Ars Nouveau? I want to do a "low tech" play through with a few friends of mine and I heard that there was a way to basically automate almost everything using Ars Nouveau. I just got caught up with your ATM8 series, and I can't wait for more! Catch you later.
I’m having issues. Built a very similar setup but when I try to use the pipez energy pipe to distribute power, I’m not getting hardly any output. Have tried using most of the upgrades for the pipes and still nothing helps. The default mekanism pipes work better over farther distances and are more consistent, but the pipez energy pipe are very very quick up close, and horrible from a distance and seem to stop working right. Is this normal
This kind of sounds like a bug, and I was experiencing something similar. Did you try an advanced pipe upgrade or better? When I set this up in creative, I ended up using points, but that could just be a bug.
Can I please ask why didn't you connect the gas burning generator to the crushing factory? That would be an infinite energy setup (as long as you keep your melon farm working).
@@AlfredGGMC I see. Thanks! I guess maybe using quantum entangloteleporter could save a lot of places as well (but it's gonna be very annoying to set up XD).
If you hit del on the keyboard, it sends it to the trashcan (if you show the trashcan with t). Shift-del deletes everything of that type (all cobblestone for example)
what of im playing a different version with almost all the mods but the melon one how should i get melons? or another crop the best thing i can think of is Farmers from Easy Villagers but if theres smth better in All the forge 10 that you can tell me please because i don't see much .
It's a shame I bothered farming mats to make a max size Extreme Reactor when that produces way more. I even tried Powah and the costs were substantially more in both cases than a melon farm would have been. Bow to your Mekanism overlords!
@@AlfredGGMC Would it not cost less total resources to scale up the 'melon reactor' to match or beat even a Extreme Reactor turbine or even multiple Powah generators?
The way I have it set right now and will be added in a future update, is that a 5x5 reactor can output around 25k RF/t. A 9x9 can hit over 300k, which imo is cheaper and easier to get.
@@AlfredGGMC Probably should have updated my comment, so I got around this by just having 1 universal pipe, then the sink on top, it still passed water in front without extra pipes
All of the other machines can accept a pipe on any face, but the GBG will only push power from the front. You can see the pipe sticking out of the front of the GBG, and it just goes down and connects to the bottom of every other machine! Hope this helps.
@@AlfredGGMC i got it to work! I used flux points, i just didnt undertstand when u mentioned it in the video but i listened more carefully and realized i needed flux points too
Hey! Dont know if youll see this, but im playing atm 8 version 1.1 i think but for some reason the burn rate of my gas burning gen. Is only 0.03 with full ethylene and im only getting 128 FE/t using this set up. Do u know what can i do to fix it? :( Also btw its connected to a quarry and my RS and none of those are barely getting energy
It's super nerfed for ATM9. A basic setup using 2 GBG's should produce ~20k RF/t last I checked. That is if you fill both of the GBGs and have a need to pull from it. I suggest on using the BioGens by themselves, each produces 500RF/t and outputs 1k RF. 20 is easier to manage than the GBGs
I have immense problems with too much ethylene that I can't really find a workaround. i have the same setup as the first one you showed but with 3 gas generators and my ethylene is still overflowing. what am I doing wrong?
The PRC needs to input power, water, biofuel, and a gas. This is all done by the universal cables you see coming from the crusher (biofuel), the separator (gas), water (from the sink), and power from the points. It needs to output 1 item (the substrates from the middle via item pipes) and 1 gas (ethylene, which is pumped out of the back via gas pipes) to the Gas Burning Gens. Hope this helps!
Gotta go through the checklist! Is it getting Ethylene? If so, and it shows that it has power inside, you gotta make sure it is pulling power from the front face. It will only output power in one direction, that front face. Make sure if you are using a pipez pipe that you set it to extract. If it isn't getting Ethylene, you need to check the PRC. Is it getting Hydrogen, Water, and Bio Fuel? If so, make sure that it is properly outputting gas in the right direction of the GBG, and that auto-eject is turned on at the top of the Gas Side Config screen. If it isn't getting Hyrdogen, check your Separator. Make sure it is getting Water, and make sure that Oxygen is set to "dump excess." If it's producing it, then make sure it is outputting to the right face. Lastly, if your Crusher isn't producing Bio Fuel, check to see if it's getting resources and outputting properly. Hope this helps!
Can someone please help me. I set it up exactly just as he said but for some reason the oxygen is going from the electrolytic separator to the pressurized reaction chamber. So the electrolytic separator doesn't have any oxygen. Thanks
your setup doesnt work, pressuized chamber is not pulling water from the sink, tried to redo it over and over, doesnt get it to work with your setup, replacing the universal pipes fixed the problem.
Universal Pipez had a bug the update after I made this video where they don't pull from more than one machine in the same block space. Because of this, this setup became bugged :( I just move the sink forward a block and it fixes it.
The gas burning generator is the roadblock for me, I don’t have the refined obsidian and pretty sure that is a loot only item. Is there a cheeped generator that will work in this setup?
@@AlfredGGMC Also, new problem, I can't get the energy pipe to connect to the electrolytic seperator. It was connected and working for a minute, but now there is just a gap between the pipe and the unit that wasn't there before and it won't get power from anything. Ever see that before?
@@CeeJ1968 Sometimes there are bugs like that. Usually breaking and replacing the pipe fixes it, but you also might need to check the side config on the machine!
I have like 175 fe output when connected to an energy cube. i don't know if i'm doing something wrong i can't find anybody talking about this. Is this been nerfed even more?
GBGs will only output what is being pulled or needed from it. This means that if the cable or pipe you connect to it isn't upgraded and can't pull more than X amount of FE, it will only pull that. At the same time, if you aren't using that much FE, it will also not burn as much as it needs. Mine actually sits at 0 and then will randomly tick up when it needs it, then back down to 0.
@@AlfredGGMC I realized that the entire system is using more than 95% of the energy it produce, because after i took the pipe that connect the gas generator to the system and leave only the one connected to the energy cube the output jumped from 175 to 8K+.
You can add a Rotary Condensentrator and PRC to make HDPE pellets from the substrate. They really nerfed it’s production. In ATM7 it’s 72k per generator. I’m not a fan of “balancing” to forgive you to use inferior mods. Bigger reactors is nothing but a waste of time and resources. Powah is nice and compact but it’s a time suck setting it up unless you’re late game and have everything you need. Even then it’s time consuming.
As someone who speedruns, I always want to use the best way of doing whatever. As one of the devs in the pack, I personally don't want there to be "only one way" to do something because it makes the other mods inferior. I'm going to be buffing the production of Bigger Reactors in a future quest update to put them up to par with Mek/Powah. Powah has also recently been balanced. 72k per generator is honestly just broken with how easy it is to make the setup, so I am glad the nerf came through.
@@AlfredGGMC bringing other mods up is great. But I’m not a fan of bringing down the best one because the other mods suck. W/ how long it takes to generate resources w/ these packs anything to speed up production is great. Very few people are speed running them.
I wouldn't say the other mods suck. I would definitely say the GBG/Ethylene setup is just OP and needs to be nerfed by the mod itself. There is definitely something to say for preference, however. Breaking ores down to dust via Create vs breaking them down via Mek are completely different. In a pack like this, everyone should be able to do whatever they feel like and not feel bad for not using a different mod. Sometimes, you can't get around that, so I understand.
@@AlfredGGMC I look at these packs for what they are, kitchen sinks. I know it’s a balancing game because the end goal is to make the star. But many play them simply because they have all the mods and they work w/out them having to do anything. In that respect I don’t think they should be nerfed but I understand why they are. Mek ethylene has always been OP. But it also relives you of the burden of power production why you are playing w/ all the other mods. And if you’re trying to make the star it gets you to fission/fusion a lot faster. I’m probably jaded but I’m at 3400 days in game. I’ve tried most of the mods and found the ones I like. Anything tedious, Botania, I simply don’t play w/ unless I have to. Same goes for mods that just don’t produce enough for their cost.
Any idea why my machines leading to the reaction chamber are saying output is full? I can't figure it out :( it seems like it's not getting hydrogen but I have no idea
Idk what the problem is but i followed this setup almost identically, only thing i did differently was a second sink for the prc but this is only generating 201 rf/tick after the cost to the run the machines. Edit: It was my pipes, even with upgrades, the pipez mod didn't want to work with this setup
Even with nothing but energy upgrades, it's costing me 6 wind generators just to break even on power without running anything else. It can't even sustain the 14 fe needed for my RS system. Idk what happened to this setup but I can't get it functioning
Why is my gas burning generator producing less than the max output, I have flux plug with bypass limit on and set up to an induction matrix the other end.
I believe it will always produce less than the output because it has power storage. Otherwise you would never tap into the storage unless it was turned off!
Was this nerfed? it seems that in the latest version of ATM8 my compacting drawer cannot turn melons to melon slices. In fact, there is no recipe to convert normal melons to melon slices and only mini-melons to melon slices.
You'll need a melon slice first, then put the melon slice in the bottom right part of the compacting drawer. Mini melons convert to melon slices in your inventory, or you can use a sawmill or a cutting board to break melons down into slices.
So I followed every step but when it came to pumping water into my pressurized reaction chamber my universal pipes wont pump the water from the sink into the PRC
For some comparison, the first setup (before speed upgrades) is comparable to a Powah Niotic level Magmatar. With speed upgrades it exceeds a single Nitro Magmatar. I would stop at that setup and switch to Nitro Magmatars at that point, fed from an Ender tank connected to a hose pulley with a liquid pipe and netherite speed upgrade. These scale at roughly the same footprint as the upgrades shown here (ignoring the melon farm that was conveniently ignored here for 2nd and 3rd upgrades in the video).
Nitro anything requires killing the wither, which for a lot of players, that means that they will need better armor and weapons. It would take a very short amount of time to reach making about 50k RF/t with the melon setups, because even at base, getting the materials for more melons (getting more botany pots) and machine upgrades is almost trivial. Also, automating the Energizing orb is annoying to most.
hey had a problem where the gas pwered generator isnt receiveing anything. everything else is working but the gas powered generator, after awhile it all just stops
If the PRC is generating Ethylene, then make sure it is outputting properly to the GBG. Also, it's very easy to rotate the GBG on accident with a wrench, so it's best to break it and place it back down to reset the sides.
Does this still work for ATM 9? I am trying to build it again but the issue is that my PRC won't accept biofuel at all. I can't even manually put it in.
hi pretty late but what can i do if i don't have hopper pot ? bcs it's the heart of this system, i need silk touch if i want the whole melon (9 slice) so it's not autonomous anymore and even if i do a melon farm i will still not have nine slice per melon so i will lose power
@@AlfredGGMC oh wow, I didn't expect any response, thank you very much for your answering. I just checked and yes, I have a garden cloche, no idea what it is though
@@AlfredGGMC ok it work well thx a lot but do it decrease the amount of surplus my gas generator produce for power up other machines ? since cloche use energy
has this been patched? i cant get power to anything from the coal generator, and the water wont go into the pressurized reaction chamber? any help would be nice
You'll need to move the sink forward or run a different pipe from it. Universal Pipez had a bug the update after I made this video where they don't pull from more than one machine in the same block space. As for the power issue, you'll need to make sure your pipez are set to extract from the coal gen to "kick start" the power.
My gas burning generator is not producing anything. Why is that? It’s not showing that there’s any kFE but in all of the other machines are working correctly and getting power. I built everything correctly or at least I thought I did. Does anyone know why this might not be getting anything?
It only pulls out power when it needs it. It generates so much so quickly that it's probably instantly filling those machines and telling you it is isn't producing anything. Try pumping into some kind of power storage!
as someone who is new to this stuff. you did great until you got to the power supply. im lost you said you went underneath and also vaguely talked about flux. i went underneath with the energy pipes and idk its not working for me. im so lost. and the flux networks wont work at all for me either. so frustrated update* i figured out what was wrong. just forgot to wrench a pipe. however if you could please explain how to attach a flus system to this I would appreciate it. Every time i try to set up a network and attatch the plug and the points they get no power. confusing me
I'm spanish, and trying to get good guides for play ATM8, but definitely u are the best explaining the most of the needed things in this modpack, thanks a lot Alfred! i think u go up to be the best
I just discovered your channel a few minutes ago and I have to say I am really surprised! You deserve more followers that's for sure!! The tutorial is perfect, there's nothing to say!
Out of curiosity did this work for you? it wont draw power to my crusher :( the struggle is real
also wasnt sure if there was an update or something preventing it...
Alfred, you are extremely underrated! But I am also glad your channel is growing a lot more though, just needs more! Also a well done video, definitely incredibly helpful :)
I love reading these comments. Thank you so much!
Perfect! And perfect timing as I just got to a point where I needed to upgrade my power infrastructure. Great video as always! Thanks :)
Video helped me setup melon power on ATM9. Thanks
This setup carried me through almost all of the game
Thanks for the tutorial! I replicated the setup.
The issue with the universal pipez, is that they can either output or input, not both. So, the side that's outputting items, can't input energy, and so on. You only needed an extra universal pipe on each size of the machines that are sending stuff out.
The fluid pipe between the sink and the Separator isn't needed, but for it to work, I placed it one block higher and added another pipe segment. Apparently, you can't have multiple sides pulling in the same block, only one of them will work. Using more sides of the sink is useful if it can't keep up tho.
Back when this video was actually made they could but they recently changed it
I have watched a lot of people explain and set this up over the years. You have by far done it and explained it the best
Thank you so much!!!
THANK YOU! i kept seeing this set up in episodes of everyone playing atm 8 but they didn't stop to explain it just like "melons + machine = power" cool now lets move on lol I have been looking for this exact video for ages thanks for making it!
I am glad I could help! Lots of people asked for it, and I'm glad that people are liking it!
Love your outro song... I've been listening to it on repeat for the last few days
I like the use of the compacting drawer to split the melons. My equivalent system used a Mekanism sawmill. Another variation: if you don't have the materials for the PRC and the gas-burning generator, you can pipe the biomass directly into a bio-fuel generator for early game power that's easy to convert to the gas-burning system for mid-game.
I always wondered if the Bio-Fuel Gen was worth using. I'll need to check it out! Thanks!
@@AlfredGGMC It's not really worth it for the long haul, but it produces up to 140 RF/t -- more than the heat gen or wind generator(unless your base is really high up). The gas-burning gen gives significantly more power both per fuel and per tick, so it's definitely the way to go as soon as you have the materials.
Hey randomly stumbled across your vids while lookin' for Mekanism setups. First, thanks for a thorough step-by-step on the melo-matic, as I like to call. Lookin' at your other vids, you've certainly got personality in your voice as well as your editing~ Nice work, good sir! You need more subs for sure. ✌
Thank you sooooo much! I really appreciate the kind words :)
This is almost always the best power option in packs even when they nerf it. I setup 6 gas burners for a single setup in a 2x4x3 area and it often is enough to get me to the end game and very often I just duplicate it to get the power for the end game. The only reason I make the fusion or fission reactors is for the byproducts needed for crafting.
I create enough ethylene to power 90 gaz generator, i have tons of energy never build a nuclear reactor (but your right i need nuclear waste for the new stuff)
THANK YOU!!! My head is bloody from beating my head against wall just over trying to configure the machines input and output. I almost through the whole damn computer out the window.
I spoke to soon the Electrolytic Separator quit producing Hydrogen after re routing power from the Coal Generator to the Gas-Burning Separator. Returned power back to Coal Generator and kaput. Never changed the settings. This is some finicky ass machinery.
Do you mean that you removed the Coal Gen and now the machines aren't getting power?
Things to check: Make sure that the pipe connected to the Gas Burning Gen is set to extract (shift right click) and is also upgraded to be able to give out enough power (pipe upgrades). Then make sure that all machines are connected via pipes to the pipe that is getting power from the GBG. Also, if you're using speed upgrades in the Separator, you might want to connect more pipes to it for power. You can bypass that with a point if you're using Flux Networks.
No, I put the coal generator back and the whole system has power. The PRC isn't getting hydrogen. I didn't touch any settings, checked all my pipes twice. Man, I worked 20y in surgery and I have literally done brain surgery so I'm totally dumb fuckled why I can't get this fixed. Also, where can I give you some support outside of Twitch?
Make sure that you have the Electrolytic Separator set to "Output 1" on the face that the pipe is going out of, and then make sure the pipe is set to extract. Also make sure that the Sep is making hydrogen just in case.
You can find all of my links and such here: linktr.ee/alfredgg
I have a merch store (which I should be updating for my MC playthroughs...) and several other links if you'd like to find me elsewhere! Thank you so much for the support!
i sure love melons! i gotta try this out. thanks for the video alfred!
Thank you! Very helpful video for people without knowledge on all the various mods!
It's hard to create a guide without prior knowledge, but hopefully I explain it well enough to help people get started!
Caught your Saturday stream. Congrats on your speed run time. Really enjoy your content. It is really helpful the way you go step by step and explain your thought process. Can’t understand why your TH-cam subscribers number is low.
I just started this channel about 9 months ago I think? Maybe 10? We'll get higher!! Seeing how this community responds, I am truly amazed by the support.
Thank you so much!!!
I figured it out before you got to uploading this BUT THANK YOU!
Everything’s powered by melons?? Just like me 😏
Let me guess with chicken and kool aid?
@@GeneralHighwaywhat is wrong with you dude. genuinely an unnecessary and worthless comment. you’re a disgusting person for your racism, regardless of if it’s a joke or not
@@GeneralHighwaywhat's that supposed to mean🤨.
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Love your content man! My wife, me and my buddy are playing through ATM 8 right now. Still pretty early game!
Thank you!! I hope my playthrough hasn't been too overstimulating for y'all lol
@AlfredGGMC no not at all, I love the energy! We're a bunch of goof balls too so it works out haha
When I did this setup, I was having a lot of problems with the corner pipes only extracting from one of the two machines it was attached to, so I just put drawers with void upgrades all around, and it solved all the issues I was having. I can run the digital miner with full speed upgrades, and I still have plenty of power. I set up 15 of the thermal hydroponic machines growing melons, and I have plenty of melons left over
That's a nice help, thanks so much. I'm kinda new to modded so stuff like this make my life so much easier xD. Keep up the good work, love your videos
I am happy to hear that!!! Thank you :D
amazing well done i was watching your play threw and seen you setup basics of this wanted to do it too and know how work and here we are in this video you did that and more your amazing fella thank you for work you put in to do this video you made my life so much easier i was fiddling around heat generation and upgrading that and still didn't have enough power to run x2 ore setup quest book gave with diamond furnace but this setup is going to do that and much more thank you!
I am glad you enjoyed the video! Thank you!
Going to build this right now to feed into my induction cell! Thanks for the walkthrough! I hope to see more videos like this in the future. I still think you should post some YT shorts as well!
The only thing I suggest in these type of videos is to use the JDI Bookmarks to list items needed and to go over them in the beginning so everyone doesn't have to count number of pots and pipes and such needed, would make it easier to build alone with
Yo thank you so much!!! I still need to build the induction setup in my playthrough world.
I felt like I should have shown the recipes, but the # of pots/cables is all going to be dependent on how each person sets up their stuff. For me, I only used 5 for the basic setup, but you'll need a lot more if you aren't using upgraded farmland. I do like the style of "This is the best build, this is what you'll need" and will definitely be using this tip for the future!
@@AlfredGGMC also discovered issues with using mekanism cables with this setup. They reduce the amount of power. They reduce the shorter the cable. My gas burner at closest to the induction cell would make 6k per tick and in order to get 39k the gas burner needed to be almost a chunk away.
The hydrogen REFUSES to pull from the electrolytic seperator and go into the pressurized reaction chamber. I've tried it over and over. Idk what I am doing wrong
*EDIT* It was just a glitch on my server. When I logged back on this morning it was functioning just fine! Appreciate it Alfred!
There is also a glitch with the pipez...maybe I should redo this video lol
had the same issue, just use seperate gas pipes instead of universal
yeah the fix is to just restart Minecraft. That worked for me
I tried making a compact setup with Meka pipes or pipez , gave up and learned how to use xnet, much easier to compact that down and expand in the future, much recommended
@@10010Linus This is definitely one of the mods I need to learn!
I absolutely love your videos man! i wish i was as inclined as you are, plz keep up the hard work
so i for the life of me spent to much time trynna build this melon power farm lol
Did you get it to work?
Thank you soooo much!!
tbh idk lol it keeps shutting off
it doesnt run constantly like yours
@@AlfredGGMC i figured out why it wasnt working properly, idk why but my sink fluid pipe didnt connect directly into the electro thingy, so i had to manually config the fluid to the top of the electro thingy and it started working
Nice work!
I always love to watch your videos, now i'm going to build that mobfarm what you built. Your videos are awesome :D
Ui: if you want to light up a big area use Feral Flare Lanterns :)
do you have a link to a video that shows the piping at 12:00 because you never showed it?
It's just an energy pipe that runs straight down then connects to each of the bottoms of the machines. It just has to touch each machine that needs power.
Op in stoneblock 3 love it thank you
WadZee would be proud
Appreciate the tutorial boss
Did you hire a spare room in an Ikea warehouse to film this vid? 🤣 Helpful guide as always!w
Would it possible to get a tutorial on RS and NBT items please? Alot of people mention about seperating the NBT Items from RS, but don't really explain it from what I've found so far.
Would be awesome to learn how to automatically handle the NBT items and transfer them somewhere else, to avoid corruption!
I liked the blue lol I am addicted to the look of concrete currently.
I definitely could talk about it in a future video!
Can you do a comprehensive tutorial for sorting items with AE2 or RS? It's so hard to find decent content relating to this. The wikis are good, but I'm a total noob and can't figure it out. You and Chosen are my only hope. I don't mean how to set it up, more like how to sort items in and out, the best ways to keep the system clean. Maybe break it up into multiple parts, would be super helpful because ATM 8 after like 6 years of not playing modded has blown my mind.
with AE2 tunnels the extraction of power would be unlimited, the only transfer limitation they have is how much you can push into it
I do this method on almost every mod pack it has mechanism it’s so good it’s Broken ❤ also, I grow my melons in Cloches immersive engineering, their outfit is a lot higher.
Don’t forget to void upgrade the seeds and substrate so this process doesn’t get interrupted.
idk what's wrong with my melon power, but i'm burning 0.05 Ethylene per tick, it's totaly full and I have a whole ore factory from the book connected to it, this mod is so complicated and my machine keep telling me they're out of power every 0.1 sec
Any chance we could get a little guide on Mekanism reactors and fission reactor ive tried looking them up and ive just had a hard time finding something thats more current
Its very nice tutorial! it is nicely explained everything in detail very nicely, thank you very much for that. Please make more tutorials in the future. 100% SUBSCRIBES 🙂
Flux networks is honestly the best way to move power around, very underrated mod (as popular as it is i still dont think ppl really give it the credit it deserves)
It's amazing!
I've noticed that sometimes flux networks glitch out completely.
I've got a bit of a weird one for you, can you do a tutorial about how to do automation using Ars Nouveau? I want to do a "low tech" play through with a few friends of mine and I heard that there was a way to basically automate almost everything using Ars Nouveau. I just got caught up with your ATM8 series, and I can't wait for more! Catch you later.
I’m having issues. Built a very similar setup but when I try to use the pipez energy pipe to distribute power, I’m not getting hardly any output. Have tried using most of the upgrades for the pipes and still nothing helps. The default mekanism pipes work better over farther distances and are more consistent, but the pipez energy pipe are very very quick up close, and horrible from a distance and seem to stop working right. Is this normal
This kind of sounds like a bug, and I was experiencing something similar. Did you try an advanced pipe upgrade or better? When I set this up in creative, I ended up using points, but that could just be a bug.
Been using this exact setup since ATM 6 and enigmatica 6. Great explanation! What shader are you using btw? Love the video.
Complementary Reimagined! Also, thank you!
i build this on my own but not able to sustain melon production then again I'm just using one pot and using whole melon
Any other way of getting the melon slices? I don't have those potty things
I take it this works in atm9 aswell?
is there anything similar to this for ATM 3 for the automated melon farm
Can I please ask why didn't you connect the gas burning generator to the crushing factory? That would be an infinite energy setup (as long as you keep your melon farm working).
I do! I clipped it out of the video but I say "Now to connect everything to the GBG"
@@AlfredGGMC I see. Thanks! I guess maybe using quantum entangloteleporter could save a lot of places as well (but it's gonna be very annoying to set up XD).
is there anything i can use to replace the planter hoppers for FTB unstable ?
What can u use instead of the hopper botany pot ?
late response but garden cloche and thermal expansion
how do u use flux
I built the Ultimate Factory version and for some reason none of my PRCs are getting hydrogen
Very random question but in your all the mods 8 series how to you auto send things to the trash like u just click it and it’s sends it to the trash
If you hit del on the keyboard, it sends it to the trashcan (if you show the trashcan with t). Shift-del deletes everything of that type (all cobblestone for example)
what of im playing a different version with almost all the mods but the melon one how should i get melons? or another crop the best thing i can think of is Farmers from Easy Villagers but if theres smth better in All the forge 10 that you can tell me please because i don't see much .
@AlfredGG
It's a shame I bothered farming mats to make a max size Extreme Reactor when that produces way more. I even tried Powah and the costs were substantially more in both cases than a melon farm would have been. Bow to your Mekanism overlords!
I'm currently balancing it out, so that reactor should make you a ton more soon enough!
@@AlfredGGMC Would it not cost less total resources to scale up the 'melon reactor' to match or beat even a Extreme Reactor turbine or even multiple Powah generators?
The way I have it set right now and will be added in a future update, is that a 5x5 reactor can output around 25k RF/t. A 9x9 can hit over 300k, which imo is cheaper and easier to get.
@@AlfredGGMC TBH I wasn't expecting that. Thanks for the info!
Why is my pressurized reaction chamber not taking water through the universal pipe? Have wrenched to extract from sink
There is currently a bug with Pipez where they won't output multiple things from the same block. You'll need to use another pipe on a different face.
@@AlfredGGMC Probably should have updated my comment, so I got around this by just having 1 universal pipe, then the sink on top, it still passed water in front without extra pipes
Im tryna build this but at 12:00 it doesnt make sense? You didny show where you connect the energy pipes. I build this setuo but its not starting
All of the other machines can accept a pipe on any face, but the GBG will only push power from the front. You can see the pipe sticking out of the front of the GBG, and it just goes down and connects to the bottom of every other machine! Hope this helps.
@@AlfredGGMC thank you so much!
@@AlfredGGMC i got it to work! I used flux points, i just didnt undertstand when u mentioned it in the video but i listened more carefully and realized i needed flux points too
the pressurized reaction chamber doesnt break down my bio fuel
edit: i got it working
how i have the same issue currently
Edit: Oh... A simple restart of the server (not the game) fixed it for me LOL
any chance on a tutorial for a setup for fission reactors?
2:22 u can just place and break the melon no?
Hey! Dont know if youll see this, but im playing atm 8 version 1.1 i think but for some reason the burn rate of my gas burning gen. Is only 0.03 with full ethylene and im only getting 128 FE/t using this set up. Do u know what can i do to fix it? :(
Also btw its connected to a quarry and my RS and none of those are barely getting energy
its because of the pipez enegry pipe use the fluxducts!
Built it, but it only produces between 40-400 FE/t is that a bug? built on ATM9
It's super nerfed for ATM9. A basic setup using 2 GBG's should produce ~20k RF/t last I checked. That is if you fill both of the GBGs and have a need to pull from it.
I suggest on using the BioGens by themselves, each produces 500RF/t and outputs 1k RF. 20 is easier to manage than the GBGs
@@AlfredGGMC Ok I will try that, Thanks for the quick answer :D
I have immense problems with too much ethylene that I can't really find a workaround. i have the same setup as the first one you showed but with 3 gas generators and my ethylene is still overflowing. what am I doing wrong?
For the best setup for the melon farm. What is the inputs and output for the prc? I’m confused. A little.
The PRC needs to input power, water, biofuel, and a gas. This is all done by the universal cables you see coming from the crusher (biofuel), the separator (gas), water (from the sink), and power from the points.
It needs to output 1 item (the substrates from the middle via item pipes) and 1 gas (ethylene, which is pumped out of the back via gas pipes) to the Gas Burning Gens. Hope this helps!
I have a problem. The GBG is not producing power to power the rest of the machine. Basically its not producing power at all.
Gotta go through the checklist! Is it getting Ethylene? If so, and it shows that it has power inside, you gotta make sure it is pulling power from the front face. It will only output power in one direction, that front face. Make sure if you are using a pipez pipe that you set it to extract.
If it isn't getting Ethylene, you need to check the PRC. Is it getting Hydrogen, Water, and Bio Fuel? If so, make sure that it is properly outputting gas in the right direction of the GBG, and that auto-eject is turned on at the top of the Gas Side Config screen.
If it isn't getting Hyrdogen, check your Separator. Make sure it is getting Water, and make sure that Oxygen is set to "dump excess." If it's producing it, then make sure it is outputting to the right face.
Lastly, if your Crusher isn't producing Bio Fuel, check to see if it's getting resources and outputting properly. Hope this helps!
@@AlfredGGMC Thank you! With all the pipez going around i made such a simple mistake. Love the Vids!
Can someone please help me. I set it up exactly just as he said but for some reason the oxygen is going from the electrolytic separator to the pressurized reaction chamber. So the electrolytic separator doesn't have any oxygen. Thanks
Hey i made the factory setup but my universal pipes arent pulling any biofuel from my facotry crusher im on atm9
Tried building the factory setup, nothing gets power? are universal cables supposed to transfer power?
Make sure you are extracting from the machine that generates power!
@@AlfredGGMC thank you yeah I just had my cables set up wrong. Great power source it really helped me out!
Tons of Power from just Melons.
(melons have water irl but u need extra water in atm9)
Seems a little familiar 🤔 great extra info though mate!
your video was so dogshit compared to this one it made me cry
My PRC keeps getting full of hydrogen and it completely stops my production. Fix?
How does it stop? Does it not have enough water or is it getting full of Ethylene?
He messed his inputs/outputs and didnt dump oxygen. He meant oxygen, not hydrogen
your setup doesnt work, pressuized chamber is not pulling water from the sink, tried to redo it over and over, doesnt get it to work with your setup, replacing the universal pipes fixed the problem.
Universal Pipez had a bug the update after I made this video where they don't pull from more than one machine in the same block space. Because of this, this setup became bugged :( I just move the sink forward a block and it fixes it.
@@AlfredGGMC aight, thank u, will try it
My PSR is buring bio fuel but its not producing ethylene so my gas burning gen isnt turning on. any tips?
İs this better than a 3x3x3 bigger reactor setup? My rs setup doesnt get enough power or anyting in that matter
Yes. It is easier to increase the size of your reactor, however. In a future update, the reactors will also produce more power.
The gas burning generator is the roadblock for me, I don’t have the refined obsidian and pretty sure that is a loot only item. Is there a cheeped generator that will work in this setup?
You can make Refined Obsidian using an Osmium Compressor! Otherwise, I'd just make the Biofuel Gen instead. Lots of them!
@@AlfredGGMC Hey thanks so much. I've been out of town and just saw this, but I appreciate you responding :D
@@AlfredGGMC Also, new problem, I can't get the energy pipe to connect to the electrolytic seperator. It was connected and working for a minute, but now there is just a gap between the pipe and the unit that wasn't there before and it won't get power from anything. Ever see that before?
@@CeeJ1968 Sometimes there are bugs like that. Usually breaking and replacing the pipe fixes it, but you also might need to check the side config on the machine!
I have like 175 fe output when connected to an energy cube. i don't know if i'm doing something wrong i can't find anybody talking about this. Is this been nerfed even more?
GBGs will only output what is being pulled or needed from it. This means that if the cable or pipe you connect to it isn't upgraded and can't pull more than X amount of FE, it will only pull that. At the same time, if you aren't using that much FE, it will also not burn as much as it needs. Mine actually sits at 0 and then will randomly tick up when it needs it, then back down to 0.
@@AlfredGGMC I realized that the entire system is using more than 95% of the energy it produce, because after i took the pipe that connect the gas generator to the system and leave only the one connected to the energy cube the output jumped from 175 to 8K+.
It sounds like you aren't producing enough Ethylene then. Double check to see if you are breaking down the slices and if you are producing enough!
Hello, you can tell the version of the modpack on which the video was shot? I want test a Pipez bug
I have no clue which version of the pack I was using at the time. I know it was right after the first mek nerf we did, but that's all I remember.
Ethylene is disabled in ATM9 so its not working in the new pack
Next patch it will be back.
yeah I was so confused on why it didn't produce ethylene. Now it makes sense
A little tip is the actual easiest way to get melon slices out of whole melons is to just place the melon and break it.
.......am I dumb.... lol
Anyone know why prc not get bio fuel from crusher I’ve already check every output it still not work
I have problem when get out coal generator everything stop to work
HEY ALFRED, could you tell me what shader that is
Complementary Unbound!
You can add a Rotary Condensentrator and PRC to make HDPE pellets from the substrate.
They really nerfed it’s production. In ATM7 it’s 72k per generator. I’m not a fan of “balancing” to forgive you to use inferior mods. Bigger reactors is nothing but a waste of time and resources. Powah is nice and compact but it’s a time suck setting it up unless you’re late game and have everything you need. Even then it’s time consuming.
As someone who speedruns, I always want to use the best way of doing whatever. As one of the devs in the pack, I personally don't want there to be "only one way" to do something because it makes the other mods inferior. I'm going to be buffing the production of Bigger Reactors in a future quest update to put them up to par with Mek/Powah. Powah has also recently been balanced. 72k per generator is honestly just broken with how easy it is to make the setup, so I am glad the nerf came through.
@@AlfredGGMC bringing other mods up is great. But I’m not a fan of bringing down the best one because the other mods suck.
W/ how long it takes to generate resources w/ these packs anything to speed up production is great. Very few people are speed running them.
I wouldn't say the other mods suck. I would definitely say the GBG/Ethylene setup is just OP and needs to be nerfed by the mod itself.
There is definitely something to say for preference, however. Breaking ores down to dust via Create vs breaking them down via Mek are completely different. In a pack like this, everyone should be able to do whatever they feel like and not feel bad for not using a different mod. Sometimes, you can't get around that, so I understand.
@@AlfredGGMC I look at these packs for what they are, kitchen sinks. I know it’s a balancing game because the end goal is to make the star. But many play them simply because they have all the mods and they work w/out them having to do anything. In that respect I don’t think they should be nerfed but I understand why they are.
Mek ethylene has always been OP. But it also relives you of the burden of power production why you are playing w/ all the other mods. And if you’re trying to make the star it gets you to fission/fusion a lot faster.
I’m probably jaded but I’m at 3400 days in game. I’ve tried most of the mods and found the ones I like. Anything tedious, Botania, I simply don’t play w/ unless I have to. Same goes for mods that just don’t produce enough for their cost.
Any idea why my machines leading to the reaction chamber are saying output is full? I can't figure it out :( it seems like it's not getting hydrogen but I have no idea
Double check your Separator and make sure that Oxygen is set to dump overflow! This sounds like the most likely reason it isn't working.
Idk what the problem is but i followed this setup almost identically, only thing i did differently was a second sink for the prc but this is only generating 201 rf/tick after the cost to the run the machines.
Edit: It was my pipes, even with upgrades, the pipez mod didn't want to work with this setup
Even with nothing but energy upgrades, it's costing me 6 wind generators just to break even on power without running anything else. It can't even sustain the 14 fe needed for my RS system. Idk what happened to this setup but I can't get it functioning
Got it working, I had to switch the energy pipez out for some universal cables from mekanism
@@WhoNeedsNames you mean the pipez universal cables? cause i couldn't make it work too
@@diogo6716 Nah, I had to use Universal Cables from the Mekanism mod but it fixed the issue for me.
@@WhoNeedsNames the universal pipes from pipez work out fine? i had some issues with them
Why is my gas burning generator producing less than the max output, I have flux plug with bypass limit on and set up to an induction matrix the other end.
I believe it will always produce less than the output because it has power storage. Otherwise you would never tap into the storage unless it was turned off!
Was this nerfed? it seems that in the latest version of ATM8 my compacting drawer cannot turn melons to melon slices. In fact, there is no recipe to convert normal melons to melon slices and only mini-melons to melon slices.
You'll need a melon slice first, then put the melon slice in the bottom right part of the compacting drawer. Mini melons convert to melon slices in your inventory, or you can use a sawmill or a cutting board to break melons down into slices.
Pressurized reaction chamber will not accept bio fuel. I followed all the steps but bio fuel cannot be inputed into reaction chamber, how do I fix?
Double check to make sure the Hydrogen and Water went into the right slights in the PRC.
Ehtylene was disabled in atm9 but you can change the configs and re enable it
It was brought back in a recent version.
Why is my bio fuel not breaking down into substrate when its in the pressurized reaction chamber?
Never mind, found out I didn't connect an energy pipe on the bottom to the pressurized reaction chamber!
from what mod is the sink? seems like my sink isnt giving water
Pretty sure it's from Cooking for Blockheads, but I could be wrong
So I followed every step but when it came to pumping water into my pressurized reaction chamber my universal pipes wont pump the water from the sink into the PRC
There is currently a bug where pipez can't pump out of 2 things in a single block space. I suggest moving the sink down the pipe by one to fix this!
@@AlfredGGMCit worked!! Thank you 😁
For some comparison, the first setup (before speed upgrades) is comparable to a Powah Niotic level Magmatar. With speed upgrades it exceeds a single Nitro Magmatar.
I would stop at that setup and switch to Nitro Magmatars at that point, fed from an Ender tank connected to a hose pulley with a liquid pipe and netherite speed upgrade. These scale at roughly the same footprint as the upgrades shown here (ignoring the melon farm that was conveniently ignored here for 2nd and 3rd upgrades in the video).
Nitro anything requires killing the wither, which for a lot of players, that means that they will need better armor and weapons. It would take a very short amount of time to reach making about 50k RF/t with the melon setups, because even at base, getting the materials for more melons (getting more botany pots) and machine upgrades is almost trivial. Also, automating the Energizing orb is annoying to most.
Do you know why my botany pots are not harvesting watermelons into the draw?
I'm using Hopper Botany Pots, maybe thats the difference. Also make sure you set the pipe to pull.
Its weird for me bc the crusher dont get any Power to launch the farm, everything got it, the only one who dont take energy its my crusher
hey had a problem where the gas pwered generator isnt receiveing anything. everything else is working but the gas powered generator, after awhile it all just stops
If the PRC is generating Ethylene, then make sure it is outputting properly to the GBG. Also, it's very easy to rotate the GBG on accident with a wrench, so it's best to break it and place it back down to reset the sides.
@@AlfredGGMC Thank you so much. only just saw this and ended up getting a reactor set up. Thank you anyway :)
Does this still work for ATM 9? I am trying to build it again but the issue is that my PRC won't accept biofuel at all. I can't even manually put it in.
Works for me just started again atm9 ,didn't use universal pipez,i used pipez for gas,items,fluids,idk why with universal dont work
@@I.M.Bogdan93 I got it working as well. I'm not sure what issue I was having but whatever it was I managed to fix it.
I ran into this problem now. Any of you two remember the solution? Did you use a gas pipe anywhere (between the prc and the biofuel machine?)
hi pretty late but what can i do if i don't have hopper pot ? bcs it's the heart of this system, i need silk touch if i want the whole melon (9 slice) so it's not autonomous anymore and even if i do a melon farm i will still not have nine slice per melon so i will lose power
Do you have Garden Cloches from Immersive Engineering?
@@AlfredGGMC oh wow, I didn't expect any response, thank you very much for your answering. I just checked and yes, I have a garden cloche, no idea what it is though
@@AlfredGGMC ok it work well thx a lot but do it decrease the amount of surplus my gas generator produce for power up other machines ? since cloche use energy
I'm not sure what the exact number is, but I believe they use a very small amount of energy so you should be fine.
@@AlfredGGMC yes it work well thx you
has this been patched? i cant get power to anything from the coal generator, and the water wont go into the pressurized reaction chamber? any help would be nice
You'll need to move the sink forward or run a different pipe from it. Universal Pipez had a bug the update after I made this video where they don't pull from more than one machine in the same block space. As for the power issue, you'll need to make sure your pipez are set to extract from the coal gen to "kick start" the power.
My gas burning generator is not producing anything. Why is that? It’s not showing that there’s any kFE but in all of the other machines are working correctly and getting power. I built everything correctly or at least I thought I did. Does anyone know why this might not be getting anything?
It only pulls out power when it needs it. It generates so much so quickly that it's probably instantly filling those machines and telling you it is isn't producing anything. Try pumping into some kind of power storage!
@@AlfredGGMC Ok thank you so much!
as someone who is new to this stuff. you did great until you got to the power supply. im lost you said you went underneath and also vaguely talked about flux. i went underneath with the energy pipes and idk its not working for me. im so lost. and the flux networks wont work at all for me either. so frustrated
update* i figured out what was wrong. just forgot to wrench a pipe. however if you could please explain how to attach a flus system to this I would appreciate it. Every time i try to set up a network and attatch the plug and the points they get no power. confusing me
I've already made a video on flux! You can check out the guide here: th-cam.com/video/3Q1lJfJW1Ws/w-d-xo.html