[🪶]: New multi-blocks like in Star Technology

[utkuinn]

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Version modpack used

0.11

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The first GregTech modpack I ever played was this one, and I really enjoyed it — I managed to reach the LuV tier. After that, I took a break for a while to wait for new updates. During that time, I played the Star Technology modpack, and it had a feature that I found extremely logical and well-designed: at the HV tier, you could use an upgrade kit to turn many HV machines into multiblock versions. These multiblocks worked great and supported excellent overclocking.

It was really frustrating to be stuck with single-block machines from HV to IV, and then once you reach IV, most multiblock structures become very resource-intensive and time-consuming to build.

Secondly, tungsten ore was extremely rare. Even though I found some, it never lasted very long. Has this been improved or balanced in recent updates?

Thirdly, it seems like Bedrock Miners have been removed. Yes, they were a bit overpowered, but I’m curious what replaced them. It would have been nice if they worked like fluid miners — for example, mining within a certain limit before the resource was depleted, and requiring us to supply mining fluid to continue. That would’ve been a fair and balanced system.

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[Pyritie]

It was really frustrating to be stuck with single-block machines from HV to IV, and then once you reach IV, most multiblock structures become very resource-intensive and time-consuming to build.

Sounds like you should've built more of them! If you're only ever building one of something in gregtech and then thinking wow this is slow, you probably aren't scaling big enough!

Secondly, tungsten ore was extremely rare. Even though I found some, it never lasted very long. Has this been improved or balanced in recent updates?

Yep! Mars (the EV planet) has huge tungsten veins.

Thirdly, it seems like Bedrock Miners have been removed. Yes, they were a bit overpowered, but I’m curious what replaced them. It would have been nice if they worked like fluid miners — for example, mining within a certain limit before the resource was depleted, and requiring us to supply mining fluid to continue. That would’ve been a fair and balanced system.

That's roughly what the new systems do. Each planet has a different way of getting infinites -- the moon's is easy and just takes energy and is biome-dependent, whereas mars' requires drilling fluid + energy, and is in a difficult to reach location you'll have to set up logistics for. It also ties in with mars' new fission system in order to actually process the infinites. Venus will have something involving geothermal geysers and chemistry probably.

[utkuinn]

I had a lot of machines, but it is easier to adjust the entry and exit directions in multiple blocks and it looks nicer from a distance