Uses for Ores? Gems?

[Azdoine 218]

I use gems as currency, cause me and the guys on my server know that they'll be super, super useful someday hopefully soon

[GeneShark 0]

Hey, me and my friends have been trying out TFC on a server the past week or so and a use for gems has been something we've talked about a bunch.

The idea we seem to end up on each time is using them as an enhancement system that would replace vanilla enchantments using "Gem dust". Crushing say, a diamond, and applying it to the edge of a tool or weapon would add Efficiency/Sharpness and the like. If there aren't enough vanilla enchantments that fit the TFC realism, perhaps split the gems into groups, which would give the same enhancement. Better grade gems could give more dust when crushed. Needing something to crush gems with means you could effectively "price out" enhancing tools with a high crafting cost to stop it being overpowered in the early game, though the crushing machine (maybe a grindstone?) would lend itself nicely to some of the new crops too, so maybe a high crafting cost would shut down farming which wouldn't be so good.

Of course, no-one seems to be opposed to decorative blocks either, though perhaps limiting the gems that can be used for them to the higher grades would make them less obtainable in number and more of a fancy decoration.

Thanks for the work you've put in, this is a nice change of pace from our usual IC2/RP2 setup.

[Chezzik 22]

Gems are far easier to acquire with sluices than through standard mining, and, as far as I know, there's no particular strategy for getting them other than using sand instead of gravel.

When we finally get a use for gems, I hope that acquiring them will be a bit more strategic. Maybe gem types could be tied to the types of rock or dirt in the area, similar to ores.

[Cadde 5]

Please don't refer to tool improvements as "enchanting"... I use mods like this one to get away from the "magic" part of Minecraft where you would add some fairy dust to make items magically better.

Let's just say, leave the "magic" (IMHO cheat) modding to EE.

That said, lining your axe, handsaw and pickaxe with crushed diamonds makes sense as a speed improvement and maybe even a requirement to mine the harder rock types?

What remains is gems as a currency and for decorative purposes...

And finally, in a very distant future when no more stoneage/bronzeage etc stuff remains to be done, gems could see a use again in industrial applications like lasers and whatnot.

[BloodravenD 7]

Please don't refer to tool improvements as "enchanting"... I use mods like this one to get away from the "magic" part of Minecraft where you would add some fairy dust to make items magically better.

Let's just say, leave the "magic" (IMHO cheat) modding to EE.

That said, lining your axe, handsaw and pickaxe with crushed diamonds makes sense as a speed improvement and maybe even a requirement to mine the harder rock types?

What remains is gems as a currency and for decorative purposes...

And finally, in a very distant future when no more stoneage/bronzeage etc stuff remains to be done, gems could see a use again in industrial applications like lasers and whatnot.

You do realize there are plenty of other mods that use magic right? that aren't "cheating" even though EE3 is supposed to be balanced. Also EE was never cheaty, just that when used with other mods, it became more powerful. Also there wouldn't be anything remotely close to lasers and such in TFC, because of it being more about survival and most of the items are roughly medieval, at least that's how I see it anyways and I'm sure others would agree.

I would just like a use for them, because I get tired of just throwing them away. I mean even with RP, you only had tungsten with no use, but this mod adds a bunch of gems, as well as a few ores that are useless.

[GeneShark 0]

Please don't refer to tool improvements as "enchanting"... I use mods like this one to get away from the "magic" part of Minecraft where you would add some fairy dust to make items magically better.

Let's just say, leave the "magic" (IMHO cheat) modding to EE.

Hence I said enhancing, rather than enchanting.

[nightdagger 1]

At least in the most recent version, Ore Dictionary does not recognize TFC copper, tin, or iron/steel alloys. I tried making IC2 copper wire, batteries, and an iron furnace using the TFC metals and none of them would work, although converting TFC wrought iron to vanilla iron and using that works for the iron furnace, of course.

[flamestrider 35]

TFC uses Forge's Ore Dictionary, right?

It used to have it, but, it's broken currently.

Lapis, does it exist in TFC?

glowstone, this would seem easy to add in.

Lapis is found, it's a mineral spawned in 52e

Glowstone can be manufactured in IC2, gold dust and redstone dust in a "dynamite" pattern, more expensive, but then TFC isn't an easy mod so why should an added on IC2 be?

At least in the most recent version, Ore Dictionary does not recognize TFC copper, tin, or iron/steel alloys. I tried making IC2 copper wire, batteries, and an iron furnace using the TFC metals and none of them would work, although converting TFC wrought iron to vanilla iron and using that works for the iron furnace, of course.

see my response at the top of this post :/ forge changed around a bunch of stuff, including how to register the ores in the dictionary, so until it's fixed...