Foreword
In the early game, a large amount of ore is needed for machine and material production, especially after entering the Steam Age, various large steam machines require a large amount of bronze, so the demand for copper is high. In GTO, the Ore Condensation Orchid has been enhanced, consuming only 100 mana to produce one ore block. Therefore, after some development in the magic line, you can build an Ore Condensation Orchid miner very early to supply ore demand.
Machine Display
Overall introduction of the machine
As shown in Figure 1, the mining machine adopts a compact design overall, with dimensions of 14*5*11, a mining rate of 9 raw ore per second, built-in eight multi-sided quick-plank crates for storage, storage capacity up to 294912 ore, can fill storage in only nine hours, fully meeting the early mineral needs.
As shown in Figures 2 and 3, the main body of the mining machine can be divided into three modules: the stone production module, the ore conversion module, and the ore collection and storage module. The following will introduce each module in detail.
stone production module
The stone production module is shown in Figure 4 and Figure 5. It uses eight high-pressure steam rock crushers to produce stone, with an output of exactly 9 blocks per second. It is powered by five high-pressure steam solar boilers (retired solar reemployment plan O.O). In the figure, creative tanks are used for demonstration purposes. When implementing in a survival world, it is recommended to use super tanks plus wireless fluid transmission overlay. Of course, you can also use external pipes for water supply (though external water supply may not be very aesthetic, it is cheaper). In the bottom view, the cupronickel pipes at the bottom of the crushers are used to transport stone to the super chest (only for stone caching, you can also use other storage blocks, drawers are recommended). The aqua bronze fluid pipes are used to transport steam. Remember to configure the active transmission function of the GTO pipes. At this point, the stone production module is complete.
ore conversion module
As shown in Figure 2 and Figure 3 (for convenience, the figure is repeated here), the list of the mineral conversion module is as follows: Piston *9, Redstone Wire Column Relay Base Plate, Basic/Enchanted Spell Turret *2, Ore Condensing Orchid *2, Mana Pool *1 (in the figure, an Eternal Mana Pool is used for demonstration), Redstone Repeater *1, Wireless Redstone Relay *6 (Note: The Redstone Relay in Ars Nouveau is not translated and is 'Redstone Relay' in EMI), Hourglass *1, Obsidian *9, any Slab *9. The setting of the upper spell turret is Touch -> Place Block -> Pierce *8; the setting of the lower spell turret is Touch -> Gravity -> Pierce *8. The working principle is as follows: When the hourglass emits a redstone pulse, it first activates the two spell turrets through the right wireless redstone relay. The upper spell turret places stone, and the lower spell turret converts ore into dropped items; at the same time, the redstone pulse passes through the redstone repeater delay and then activates the upper piston through the left wireless redstone relay to push out the minerals. This cycle repeats to achieve mineral conversion. The repeater at the front bottom is also connected to the two repeaters next to the hourglass. By supplying a redstone signal to this repeater, the miner machine is turned on and off.
Mineral Collection Storage Module
As shown in Figure 3, mineral drops are collected into a backpack via funnel flowers, and then transported through pipes to multiblock crates for storage. However, since the collection range of funnel flowers far exceeds the mining machine range, (Note: If there are other item drops near the mining machine, such as mana steel conversion, mana tablet charging, it is strongly recommended to add a filtering upgrade and blacklist to the backpack! At that time, while charging the Terra Pickaxe nearby, it was directly picked up by the funnel flower, and I thought it had disappeared O.O) The multiblock crates are accessed via a storage lectern, and exactly one book dragon can access eight crates.
Conclusion
Since this is my first time encountering the GregTech modpack and also my first attempt at writing a tutorial, please point out any shortcomings. Additionally, the Netherrack Ore can also work in the overworld, each block of ore only requires 160 Mana to produce. Therefore, if you only use the mineral conversion module and the mineral collection and storage module, and have an external source of Netherrack (recommended: Mana Infuser), you can make a variant of this miner to produce other ores. I hope this article can provide help for everyone's gameplay.