Monifactory Part 4 - HV and Automation

As I move into HV, I find that my ore processing setup is insufficient - time to upgrade it, by which I mean quadruple it.

Next, I made a bunch of HV machines, tapping out my stainless steel supply, and moved into the real base; along the way I moved my EBF and multi smelter over, although I couldn't equip them with HV power hatches yet - I need a cleanroom for that.

I also upgraded my toolset to HV power and materials, then started setting up AE2 crafting automation - this was going to take a lot of materials, though, so I made a side trip to the end and fought the dragon. The fight was easy, probably because I was forced to be in peaceful (expert mode, remember) and so the dragon did no damage to me and I just had it hit it a bunch.

Going back to the overworld to pick up my autominer, I realized that I had forgotten to put a roof over it and expert mode had made the generator explode. Well, let's make a replacement generator.

Next, a lot of crafting happened and I made a bunch of multiblocks and a cleanroom setup - I was now definitively at the end of HV. As I waited for nichrome to process, I started considering next steps. At this time, real life had intruded and I had to set Monifactory aside for quite some time.

Three months later...

I came back and decided to do a bunch of crafting and get full autocrafting set up.

I also started thinking about future plans - taking a brief survey of the available infinite sources, I came up with the following list (omitting some useless resources and options):

• AE2 has infinite water and cobblestone cells
• And rock breakers at LV could make stone and cobblestone
• Rock breakers at MV could make diorite, calcite, granite, and andesite
• Rock breakers at HV could make basalt, moon stone, black stone, obsidian, and marble
• Rock breakers could also make more stuff, but required access to planets I couldn't yet get to
• Gas collectors could collect air, nether air, and ender air, although I could only distil air and nether air
• Fluid veins could be drilled for salt water, heavy oil, raw oil, oil, light oil, natural gas, deuterium, helium 3, and lava
• The greenhouse could grow flowers, logs, saplings, plants, fungi, rubber, and ender spores, among other things

Additionally, I could process stone through the start of the stoneline up to uncommon residue and turn it into netherrack to be further processed, but the stoneline requires some hydrogen as an input.

But before we get to that, I built out and connected some storage for elements - I was going to be making a lot of them soon and I wanted space to store them outside of my ME network. This involved a fair amount of resource gathering, actually - storage busses are expensive.

But actually building out the infrastructure is going to be a story for another day.