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Chemical decomposition and synthesis in Minecraft
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Trace elements in ores #580

Open MeshPL opened 9 years ago

MeshPL commented 9 years ago

To be honest I'm not sure whether compatibility with mods like tinker's construct, thermal expansion and so on is a feature of this mod or rather modpacks with it included, but it would be nice if decomposed ores would not only yield specific metal but also trace elements.

Example: iron ore could contain traces of phosphorus, nickel and cobalt and quite a lot of oxygen gold ore could contain traces of copper and silver aluminium ores contain quite a lot of oxygen and traces of iron

jakimfett commented 9 years ago

(I went ahead and merged your two comments)

This is something that sounds really cool, and very much in line with what we have planned for v6. As far as v5 is concerned, we've got a feature freeze in place, so this won't be added.

Definitely an awesome idea, and I'm definitely going to make sure it's possible to do with the new v6 system.

MeshPL commented 9 years ago

I could help and work out geologically correct model for decomposing different ores, included in vanilla or different mods, if you could tell me, how much metal (e.g. iron in iron ore), traces (e.g. nickel in iron ore) and waste (e.g. sulphur in copper ore) should a block of ore contain.

hilburn commented 9 years ago

My personal feelings on this are that in general ore processing does not do a very good job of reflecting quantities Each ore block is 1m^3 - but each ingot is only 0.111m^3 (1/9th of a metal block). Now we can make allowances for the additional quantities that can be recovered with advanced processing techniques - which peak at about 5 ingots per ore. Thus, an ore should be roughly 45% stone and output a load of crap alongside the pure metal. That said, I think if by default it was something like 5% trace output and 15% waste output - so you get 1 trace and 3 waste for every 20 base that would work fairly nicely

MeshPL commented 9 years ago

Sounds reasonable. Although realistically, you should get more oxygen/sulphur than useful metal(s), in most cases. Also, is iron a useless impurity or usefull trace element?

MeshPL commented 9 years ago

Ok. That is what I have found out so far. Ore type on the left, impurities on the right: Salt-Br, Cz, Rb Saltpeter-I, Cz, Rb Fe-P, As, Tl, Cr, Ni, Mn, W, Co, Au-Te, Ag, Cu Cu-As, Sb, Bi, Ge, Re, Ni, Co, Ag, Se, platinum group metals Sn-Fe, S, Cu, Pb-Sb, Bi, Se, C, Ag Ag- Sb, Cu, Pb Zn-Cd, Hg, In, Ga, Ge, Pt- other platinum group metals, Fe, Cu Ni-platinum group metals, Co, As

List doesn't contain waste products, just impurities.