Concrete – This is the main feature of the Concrete module of this mod.
It provides liquid concrete, which can be poured and hardens to solid concrete.
Liquid Concrete is crafted in the Mixer, Place sand, Gravel and cement in the two rows of slots. Then place a bucket of water in the lone slot. It will consume 3 sand, 4 gravel, 1 cement and 1 bucket of water per 8 buckets of liquid concrete produced. Place a tank in the same slot as the water buckets to extract the liquid concrete.
Water can also be piped in via buildcraft or other pipes to the top of the structure, and concrete can be piped out of the sides or bottom.
Liquid concrete shortly after pouring on flat ground
Partially dried concrete, with some of it painted
a simple rebar structure
pouring concrete into it (spout provided by Thut Tech, poured into the small hole contained by dirt at the top)
Reinforced concrete is mostly dried, some has been painted
Asphalt
poured some liquid asphalt
poured some asphalt, this can also be painted (not shown)
MultiBlock Structures:
- Lime Kiln – This burns coal or other furnace fuel and is used to convert calcium carbonate based materials into Lime, A common CaCO3 source is bonemeal.
- Dust Furnace – Uses the same fuel as the above, converts stone to dust, dust and lime are used in the recipe for cement.
- Mixer – This is currently used to craft liquid concrete, it will also be used to craft asphalt as well, once the prerequisite materials are added.
MultiBlock Structure Instructions: (needed for crafting things in Thut Concrete)
All of the multi-block structures added consist of the following:
- Build the basic structure, normally made out of bricks or stone bricks.
- Place the active block where it should be in the structure, then right click it.
- All of the basic structure blocks can then be right clicked to access the mult-block, pipes work to any of them as well.
Dust/Lime Furnace:
Note: Build this structure with Bricks for the Lime Furnace and Stone Bricks for the Dust Furnace.
Mixer:
Use hoppers for best results, place sand, gravel, cement and water buckets into a hopper feeding the mixer, then use a second hopper below to extract the empty buckets. place an empty tank into the lone slot to extract the concrete.
Automation with BuildCraft