Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-7463332-20130619005342/@comment-25572441-20141023155907

Quarries are a mid-game BC stuff. They are neither that expensice, nor endgame, I agree.

Personally I do as follows: house, mining a few real life days (couple of hours a day or so, whenever you have time), going to the house, buildidng a macerator (and some other IC2 things), doubling your ores, building a transmutation tablet for dmds, going to the Nether for glowstone and ores, going back home, building an energy condenser and then, after a few more machines, chest/house organization, DIAMONDS, etc. – a quarry. I did this in about 5 days by being on the computer for like an hour a day (a bit more at the weekends). So it's far from engame. However, if you set up a huge quary, as much fields as possible (64x64) with combustion engine(s), pipes and you might as well use a recycler, then you can have your life eased times more than before! Proving that it is a very good thing to have a quarry. ;)