Right, I have to warn you - this did take a fair bit of trial and error and “What the..” moments. But I succeeded in the end, from creating Diamonds with RF, sorta . First up lets take a look at what the problem really is.

We have a nice reactor that feeds our draconic Core (Tier 6 right now). So we have plenty of RF, what we do not have is IndustrialCraft2 energy at hand. And since Direwolf20 Server does not have Conversions mod installed, and we're not going to install it by hand - I had to figure something out. Now, I know IndustrialCraft has a reactor, but that one requires Uranium and centrifuges and stuff, and all I want is diamonds. So, what do you do?

The answer lies in a combination of Actually Additions, Extra Utilities 2, DeepResonance, EnderIO, Refined Storage and of course, IndustrialCraft 2. Extra Utilities requires Grid Power - this was solved with slapping quite a lot of Solar panels down, not the best of solutions I know, but it worked! The energy to IC2 comes from Lava into a Thermal Generator, via a Pump with Fluid exporter.

So the list of items (if you want to know how to make them, look up the recipes)

• Vanilla Minecraft
  • 2 buckets (could've done with 1 really)
• Actually Additions
  • Metric ton of Extreme Energy Laser Relays (for RF power)
• Extra Utilities 2
  • 1 mechanical user, set to use Item, Right Click
  • 1 Lava Factory
  • 4 Casing (needed for the lava factory)
• DeepResonance :
  • 64 tank
• EnderIO :
  • Tank
  • 6 Ender fluid Pipes
  • Vibrant Capacitor (25MRF)
• Refined Storage:
  • 1 Controller
  • 1 Disk Drive
  • 1 Storage disk (1K, you REALLY only need 1 slot to keep the bucket)
  • 1 exporter (set to export empty buckets)
  • 1 importer (set to import Lava buckets)
  • 1 Interface (set to Export Lava buckets, Imports Empty buckets)
  • 1 Grid
  • Cable to connect RS units.
• Industrial Craft
  • 1 Pump
  • 1 Geothermal generator
  • 1 Compressor

Lava factory is wonderful, it takes 150KRF and returns a lava block, and I realized late in the process that I could've shortcut the whole process by just slapping the IC2 Pump on top and be done with it, but A. there are no cables in IC2 that I know of, B. The Lava factory didn't really fit into my IC2 room's Feng Shui and C. I was way overthinking this :) Anyway, Set up Lava Factory and connect power. Make sure you pick up a bucket of lava (for later).

Now, I tried several different solutions - one of the main issues with the lava factory is that it has casings on all 4 sides where the lava is. Meaning, if you slap something on top, you really have NO idea what is going on, i.e. I tried the Fluid Pump from Immersive engineering - that one worked once, then turned the lava into cobbelstone, plus issues with “Where does the power go”. Since I've done something similar before in Botania (autofill the petal apothecary), I thought it might work if I set the input side towards the lava, set the block to “use item” and “right click”, and plopped an empty bucket inside. Shortly hereafter I had a filled bucket, it that was then rapidly emptied, but.. I had it! The Grid Power for the Mechanical user came from quite a lot of solar panels. Solar panels only work daytime, so I thought, “I am not going to use as much energy on IC2 - but, I'd rather have a decent buffer during nighttime”, hence the tank from Deepresonance, more about that later.

Now, I like Refined Storage (RS) for several reasons. It is a no frill, no nonsense storage mod with some nice features in it like export and import. A laser relay was connected to A vibrant Capacitor and around it was placed a small basic setup of a RS Network with a Controller, Disk Drive (1K disk installed), Grid (to see where the bucket went). And made sure everything worked before I went on.

Then I connected an importer to the Mechanical User (Importers import into the RS network) set it to import lava buckets. Also slapped an exporter (exporters export from the RS network) onto the mechanical user, set it to export empty buckets. Threw in an empty bucket in the grid, and was rewarded with a lava bucket shortly after. Score, we now transport it to/from grid.

I connected an Interface to my RS setup, configured it to export Lava buckets, it will import whatever I connect to it drops. So the EnderIO fluid tank was connected to the Interface. Lava started filling - 1 bucket at a time.

Argh, the EnderIO fluid tank doesn't do a very nice job of being “Big”, and it didn't do multiblock - boo!! So, Enter DeepResonance Tank - 64 of them to be exact in a nice 4x4x4 cube.11 !! From the EnderIO Fluid Tank to the DeepResonance tank, I connected some EnderIO fluid Conduits. And configured them to export from the EnderIO, and import into the DeepResonance tank, and ONLY lava. Lava now flowed into the main buffer of it all.

The EnderIO buffer serves a dual purpose, I have a comparator right in front of it, and if it is full, it will ship out a signal of 15, this can be used to turn off the Mechanical user - but you could also just let it run, then the bucket will end up in the interface until there is room, effectively stopping the mechanical user (only 1 bucket in the system).

Finally, I setup the IC2 pump atop the DeepResonance Tank, remember to set the Tank to export on the block you wish to connect it to. Upgraded the pump with a fluid ejector upgrade, plopped a cell in (No, I don't know why.. I just did). Set down the Gothermal Generator next to it. Stuffed a lava bucket into the Geothermal Generator to kickstart it, and after a couple of rotations of the Pump, suddenly the Generator flared up and the pump started working. it requires about 60 EU/t to run continously. Set down a compressor next to the generator and gave it pull/eject upgrades (advanced apparently didn't work for me..) - And compressor received energy.

From here it was a simple matter of using RS to setup autocrafting recipes and checks to make sure I have what I need to make diamonds.

• Coal Powder
• Flint
• Coal Ball
• Compressed Coal ball
• Coal Chunk
• Diamond (or Industrial Diamonds..)

• 8 Coal Powder + Flint = 1 Coal Ball
• 1 Coal Ball + Compressor = 1 Compressed Coal Ball
• 8 Compressed Coal Ball + Obsidian = Coal Chunk
• 1 Coal Chunk + Compressor = Diamond

So it costs, 1 obsidian, 8 flint and 64 Coal Powder to get 1 diamond .. and quite a lot of time.. *Sigh* :)