vladspellbinder
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3 years ago Oh, well, I guess I should have looked at what I needed to make the Arc Furnace because that needed Reinforced Blast bricks, which need blast Bricks, which you can't make.
Guess I won't be getting any Phyto-Gro because I'm not messing around with the Induction Smelter's low drops rates. And, yes, I consider 75% to be "low" when I could instead have a 100%.
So, to make Phyto-Gro you need "any -crystalSlag" and the two "-crystalSlag" items are the ones from either Immersive Engineering or Thermal Foundation mods, the one from Industrial Craft 2 is an "-itemSlag" but is not a "-crystalSlag".
Normally I get my Slag from the Immersive Engineering Blast Furnace but in this modpack the Blast Bricks needed to make that Blast Furnace are disabled and can't be crafted, so I don't have an easy 100% chance of getting Slag.
I can get it via the Induction Smelter and a Very Damaged Anvil but that takes a lot of work to get the Anvil to that state. All of the other Induction Smelter recipes only have fractional chances to give it.
For now I'm going to get it via the Arc Furnace, but this is going requires me to make Ores via the Combiner which is just adding in a bunch of steps to get the item I actually want. I don't mind going through steps to get things, but this is just silly having to grow seeds to make Ingots to pound into Power to make Ores only to then smelt the Ores back into Ingots and Slag, losing three fourths of the Ingots I used in the process! All to get one piece of Slag!
All of this so I can make a better Watering Can and actually use my Phytogenic Insolator.