Recent content by Rhodan

According to the Manaseer Monocole (and the creepers themselves) the flower has a range of about 21x21. It doesn't have much range in the vertical direction though, only about 3 blocks or so. Your best bet is to put it directly below the Cursed Earth.

A Tigerseye flower will keep creepers from exploding. It has a pretty decent range and doesn't require any mana. I put a floating variant under my mob farm to prevent the random explosions caused by (presumably) Enderminies.

You can use teleposers from Blood Magic to teleport to your (mobile) frame quarry and back, using only one teleposition focus. Put the teleposition focus in the teleposer on your frame quarry, then trigger it with a wireless redstone signal while standing on top of the teleposer at your base...

My first derp was building out too far without making sure my home was well lit. My second derp was composting my last sapling, only to realize my tree farm managed to grow a big tree that touched my silkworm tree. I ended up with a lot of string. I'm having a lot of trouble finding any ancient...

Have a look at the Illuminator block from Thermal Expansion. You can set it to emit a light level based on redstone signal strength.

Put an ME Interface block on top of an IC² electric furnace with an ejector upgrade. The furnace will eject the smoothstone upwards as soon as it finishes cooking, giving you a very compact smelting solution. My fully upgraded electric furnace cooks complicated recipes in a jiffy, since it...

The Carminite Reactor is a miniature version of the experiment that caused the destruction at the top of the tower and summoned the big ghast. It's a plot device. ;)

I know a lot of popular designs depend on water behaving as it does now, but I secretly hope they find a way to allow water and other fluids to exist in the same spot as a multipart block. Underwater levers, buttons, signs, trap doors,... Water flowing through fences or iron grates,...

That's only for pickaxes and basic tools. The hammer seems to take the average mining speed of the materials used in the head and both plates. A cobalt hammer head and paper plates gave me a mining speed of 5, for example. The other advanced tools probably use a similar method, but testing is...

Getting blocks to work with Forge Multipart is a job for the mod creators, so as more and more mods update their stuff, they'll start to become compatible.

The entrance will most likely be in the nearest Dark Forest. It looks like some ruined tunnels.

Actually, I had no trouble inoculating swarmer bees. (With a little [-] symbol) I usually inject them with max fertility to get as many drones as needed to extract the species serum.

UberBreeders are still perfectly viable in 1.5.2. While you do end up with a swarmer princess, the chance of her disappearing is low enough to allow you to breed her up to the level you want and then isolate her species genes. I rushed my rocky princess all the way up to corroded, inoculated...

Have the interface output the items into a smaller pipe system that sorts and transports the items into the correct sides. The crafting system doesn't care where it puts the items, it just waits until it receives the finished product. I've had AE crafting recipes that just put the items in a...

The biggest advantage the trash can has over the other disposal options is that it looks like a cute little trash can.