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I was under the impression that using a serum on a queen has no effect on offspring. There might be a few situations where you want this (say you're trying to isolate the 1x fertility trait from rocky bees, and want to produce more drones without losing the trait), but in most cases you want to...

Episode 73: Mystcraft is still terrifying

Yep, that's accurate but can also be misleading. I'm able to break one of the valves in a two-valve tank without losing any liquid, as long as I don't touch the other one until I've reformed the tank. I'm guessing the way this works is that when the tank is broken, the liquid gets evenly split...

Yep, another thing they did was remove all chunk loaders. Apparently that hasn't solved it either, though I do wonder if they managed to get *everything* that keeps chunks loaded - world anchors (which can be in minecarts), turtle peripherals, nuclear reactors, quarries, and possibly some other...

If you're going to break one valve, be sure to do it while the tank is formed. If you break a different block, then break the valve without first reforming the tank, you'll lose half its contents. Found that one out the hard way.

Oh right, the territory trait tells you how far they search. Derp. Forgot about that.

Nope, they all run independently.

Your flowers appear to be too far away from your apiaries. As I recall, bees look for flowers in a 9x9 area centered on the apiary (not sure on the vertical range, but it's at least 2 blocks), so you can go up to 4 blocks in any direction from it. If you move your mushrooms and redstone torches...

It depends. Saplings give the most per item, but aren't the easiest thing to farm, and give you a lot of waste products if they're the only thing you're looking for (though there's plenty you can do with wood, of course). Wheat could work, since you can ferment wheat directly and also turn seeds...

Rockwool. Looks and sounds like wool, but has as high of blast resistance as stone and is non-flammable. Silverwood planks also look pretty amazing, but it feels so wrong to use them for building. :-(

BdoubleO put up an episode today where he showed that server performance problems have persisted after Xycraft tanks have been dismantled. Seems they weren't the source of the problem after all, or at least not the only one.

It sometimes takes a few tries to get what you want. Even after getting a mutation and purifying it, you might have to do it a second or third time to preserve all of the species's default traits. I had the same problem with Arid bees and non-pollination...if you lose a trait you're going for...

I can confirm that this works (at least with a portal gun, haven't tried gravity gun), though it can be tricky to do. Probably also considered an exploit, so expect it to get fixed someday. As for adding silk touch to a scoop, did the enchantment just not go onto it, or did a...

Silk touch axes are useful for glowstone. Otherwise, I'd just treat it as a normal axe.

Episode 72: Factorized

I'm not sure how the find-house-at-night algorithm works, but from my observations no attempt is made to distribute evenly between houses. Having all of your villagers crowd into a single house is normal, even if there's lots of other valid housing around. At a glance, his spacing appears to...

If I'm remembering correctly, doors check the sky visibility of 5 blocks in front of and behind themselves (excluding the block they're on). When the number of blocks in that area that can see the sky is added up, the two sides have to be unequal for the door to count as a house. With that...

The acclimatizer actually does all drones in a stack simultaneously. Using a stack of drones lets you do the process just once, instead of twice + a bunch of breeding if you do a princess and a drone.

Oh man, you can use blaze powder? Here I was burning through stacks of lava cans in the early game where they were a pain to get in mass quantities... Though I guess blaze powder would've been too at that point. Another tip: If I'm not mistaken, once you have tolerance in one direction...

Xycraft tanks are another option. Fill tank with biomass, pipe empty cans into item I/O, pipe filled cans out.