Reproduction:

Even before all this, I must find 6 diamonds + some copper for machines:
- mutatron (need 4 diamonds)
- mutagen producer
- 2 diamonds for labware
- a steam dynamo + 2 upgrades
At the same time run a diligent princess to get her drones.
Then produce a copper/tin bee:
diligent + meadows = clay; majestic + clay = copper; diligent + clay = tin
copper + tin = iron
[NB: my existing diligent bee is a hybrid with noble]
[NB: diamond bees will be needed later to move into rubies]
An adv. mutatron needs 12 diamonds and 3 ender pearls.
It doesn't care about the biome
A common princess will provide me with drones; these drones will be sampled one
by one for production etc.
Minimally needed traits: flowers [or rock or mushrooms]/normal-normal tolerance/
Need also to assemble a sampler [5 diamonds], a transposer [8 diamonds] and an i
mprinter [4 diamonds] - but after setting a production line for coal queens
+ 4 lifespan upgrades
4 mutations need:
- 5m RF
- 5 glowstone blocks
Total: 5,800k RF for 4 operations
austere + industrious -> coal
Austere bees require finding modest ones
A hibeescus Botania bee will help me with them - it does!
requirements:
- 4 diamonds + 1 ender pearl + 4 nether quartz per gen./env. processor (hence ju
st processor)
- 1
processor for mutatron
- 2
processors for adv. mutatron
- a
hiveacynth for stabilizing bees
- 1
processor for a biome override
+ 2 blaze powders for a hell biome override
- 1 diamond per 16 labware (need to craft 2 bunches of labware)
- 2 processors for a transposer
- 1 processor for an imprinter
- 1 processor + 1 diamond for a sampler
total 17 diamonds + 3 ender pearls
+ 14 additional diamonds later on [for adv. mutatron and for normalization]
+ nether wart
1 template = 1 diamond; I need ideally to make just one template w/all the info
gene samples do not require diamonds
transposer is not really necessary _as of now_; thus 9 diamonds + 14 later on
+ 2 ender pearls (stand idle for 25 or so min. in minecraft and kill some enderm
ans on the 3rd night)
adv. mutatron
additional 6 diamonds etc. required for normalization
800k RF for an imprinting
transposer-sampler-imprinter required to get to austere bees
Replication:
For replication, 10 porkchop is optimal. Converted to 5 protein for 2m RF
sampling a bee takes 200k RF
4 diamonds for a liquid extractor
extracting a DNA takes 800k RF.
8m RF needed to produce a bucket (from drones/saplings)
or 4m RF for 2 buckets from pollen
Can imprint a bee for 800k RF or create a new one for 2.5m RF
total 13m RF for 2 bees if pollen is used _or_ 12.5m RF for a bee if drones/sapl
ings are used.
Sampler (5 diamonds) -> genetic replicator ()
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stannum = industrious + forest
cuprum = industrious + meadows
ferrous = common + industrious
a common mutatron suffices for these
besides they just produce nuggets
test all the combinations in the adv. mutatron
The super-project will be over, when I have a renewable supply of copper, iron a
nd coal.
Each of these bees is:
- as overclocked production-wise as possible [upgrades/implants]
- pristine stock
- wholly automated, outputting combs in a common chest [and excess drones in ano
ther one, from where they might be fed to a beegonia]
- preferably require as little upgrades as possible to function
This marks the end of the "1st tier".
The 2nd tier is extending the existing supply (bootstrapping coal)
- replicator
- prot. liquifier
- DNA extractor
- Botania hiveacynth (itself requiring 6 diamonds + nether wart) for stabilizati
on
Getting chrome is the 3rd tier - after getting HV and steel boilers
This would require:
- adv. mutatron
- imprinter
- genetic transposer
- sampler
Other bees of interest:
- a smouldering bee for blaze rods - normalized
- the entire metallic branch
- the entire ender branch - normalized [but note: 25 combs for an ender pearl]
I need 20 diamonds = 20 stacks of coal [10 collected]
+ 4-5 ender pearls