Recent content by ddejong

This weekend I finally made my T4 rocket. (So much gelled toluene!) When I went to Io to grab the pattern for the T5 rocket, both of the dungeons I found ended in a room with a T5 chest, but no Evolved Ghast Boss (or any room sized like the previous boss rooms), so there's no way to open them...

I've been having quite a bit of fun with a mostly pure Botania Garden of Glass world; just the NEI type mods beyond that, nothing with blocks. It's interesting trying to figure out how to automate things without the normal transport solutions. Since it's a skyblock you can easily add new mods...

The 1.8.9 mod BuildingBricks adds dirt slabs - including using them in worldgen! It's wonderful not having to bunny hop across the terrain. I ran into it in the Simply Magic 2 pack.

TerraFirmaCraft handles it quite well. There's various food groups (vegetable, fruit, protein, etc.), and if you don't eat enough from each of them your maximum health gets scaled down. Basically a bar for each that steadily decreases over time, and is increased when you eat something...

Do yourself a favor and add two more - it will actually be more energy efficient (defined here as EU consumed to process 1 cobblestone) to bring it down to 1 tick per cycle. I found recyclers have a number of weird breakpoints when I checked recently. 1 overclocker is more efficient than 0...

By midgame, "wasting lapis" makes as much sense as "wasting atmospheric nitrogen". Given how long it takes for it to get all the way to 450 from 1, you might as well get it all the way there rather than wasting drops.

Hats and Hatstand can definitely be dropped.

Don't get too attached to using them there - they're hurt by the Well of Suffering ritual, so if you want to start using that you'll need to find some other method to transfer items.

You may be better off just exploring - I've found corn to be fairly common in the village greenhouses.

Though sometimes the best way to recharge wands isn't to use nodes at all. If you have your wand on your hotbar, when you kill mobs you'll get small amounts of vis. Early on just run around at night and kill things. Later I like to set up a cursed earth spawner whose mobs end up in a...

Botania's managlass (though unfortunately not its panes) is a light source. That makes it great for a building material when you don't want torches; just the right amount of clarity, and even with Expert mode it's quite easy to obtain in large quantities reasonably early. Making the vitreous...

They're kind of hidden, but if you go to the curse website for the pack in question and click on the files link, then click on the filename, it will show the details for it including the changelog. This of course depends on whoever is maintaining the pack to create useful changelogs; sometimes...

Endoflames are actually quite weak. I have a fully automated stuffed eggplant to gourmyalis setup right now that's producing more mana than I know what to do with - I ended up just setting down a hiveacynth just to have it going somewhere. That can be done without going down the tech tree at...

What are you dropping into it? Is it (or what it turns into) burnable, and an endoflame nearby? It'll happily gobble it up.

My preferred method: Grab a couple buckets of milk (or milk bottles if MFR is present) on your hotbar, then make a standard 1x2 tunnel about 64 blocks long. There shouldn't be any caves or other tunnels nearby, but otherwise it can be basically anywhere. Now at the end dig out space to place...