Feed the beast has many different packs and settings, so for the sake of consistency we shall use the most common combination of core mods, Industrial Craft 2, GregTech, Buildcraft, Forestry, Minefactory Reloaded, and Thermal Expansion. With everything available to you from these mods, what machines generate EU?
The Nether Star Generator x8 is a power generator added by the Extra Utilities mod. Its actual name does not include the 'x8', this is in fact the power multiplier applied to the power generated by this block. It generates 8 times as much power per tick as the basic Nether Star Generator and uses Nether Stars as fuel. The power generated by the block is RF at 320,000 RF/t. The game minecraft is seriously fun! When you have played long enough to be at a stage where you are building nether portals you can use this quick calculator to find where to build your return gate for it to be connected as a pair between the nether and the overworld.
Note: I'm not asking for all the different strategies available, rather I'm looking for a small list of the specific machines that generate power.
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EU is implemented by Industrialcraft and is generated by so called 'generators'.
While there is a simple way to generate MJ from EU by just building a electrical engine and hooking it up to EU by some cables there is no simple solution to convert MJ to EU.
There are ways around this, like a magma crucible (using MJ) can be used to output lava from cobblestone. This lave can be used for your geothermal generators to generate EU. Cobblestone costs 24000 MJ to concert to a bucket of lava in a magma geothermal generator this yields 20.000 EU, not bad. However if you use netherrack in your magma crucible to convert to lava this only costs 12.000 MJ, this is afaik the most efficient conversion there is.
With this setup you can basically generate/convert to EU with every possible way you generate MJ.
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So, I learned that in the most recent version of Extra Utils that these two generators don't output their energy correctly. I put a nether star in a 1x, it made 96 million RF. 8x, 30 million RF, x64, a measly 3.8 million RF. So, I decided to look the issue up, figuring out if it's a known bug, and it definitely is, and I found this response from RW Tema: https://github.com/rwtema/extrautilities/issues/303
Is anyone else bothered by this response? Why bother putting the generators in if they don't work, and you don't intend on fixing them? This is just something that grinds my gears a little.
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