Terrasteel and tiberium both have "Tr" chem abbreviation.

[vovaksenov]

Your GTNH Discord Username

VovassGreat#2054

Your Pack Version

2.2.8

Your Server

private

Type of Server

Vanilla Forge

Your Expectation

Two completely different materials should not have same chemical "element" abbreviation.

The Reality

Both tiberium and terrasteel use "Tr", which can be confusing especially considering very similar color of the two.

Your Proposal

As far as the pack history is concerned, Tr was used for tiberium for a long time before botania was added, so terrasteel abbreviation should probably be changed. In my opinion, botania chem stuff is weird in general: using separate "elements" for livingrock/wood, manasteel, terrasteel and gaia spirit (and maybe even other stuff I have not yet paid attention to) feels unreasonable. I suggest removing chem abbr from all botania stuff as it is unnecessary for any related integration with gregtech. In case the developers wish to nevertheless leave something there for some reason, I would follow the example of thaumcraft here: Thaumium is FeMa so, something like SiO2Ma would fit livingrock, Fe50CMa for manasteel and maybe something of similar nature can be used for others too.

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[leagris]

The suggestion here makes sense, is documented and justified. Botania is really a pure magic mod with nothing related to chemistry. Whereas Tiberium, while also fictive; has been given some extensive chemical background as a crystal, ability to concentrate minerals and metals from ground and binding with carbon life forms as a toxic and cancerous agent.

I regret that such fictive materials were not prefixed or rendered with something very distinctive, like italic or even fictional alphabet symbols like the Standard Galactic Alphabet already used for Minecraft magic symbols. So Tiberium Tr would turns out as T∷ (See: https://lingojam.com/StandardGalacticAlphabet)

[Steelux8]

All element notation that isn't referring to real life elements should definitely get some unique character(s) to differentiate them from the rest. Optimally, this would be standardized so that these new fictional elements are categorized in some way.

[combusterf]

There's three free options for elements: T for either, Tu for tiberium and Tt for terrasteel. Based on the crafting recipe, FeBeC2Ma would be my suggestion.

And while standard galactic alphabet is nice visually, you can't type it to locate it in NEI that way

[vovaksenov]

No reason to change tiberium, especially to something as ugly as Tu or visually not fitting as T. Tr is fine. Terrasteel as Fe/Be/C/Ma mix is a good idea though.