Ok so I think I got it.
So basically:
1. Create some new species yourself with the mutatron
2. produce drones of the same type
3. Use princesses of the same type you get from rewards only with these drones
That would be the safe way then?
The quest mentioned did not tell me that I had to create those two species before, so I just had the princesses and did not know how to continue.
I will continue playing and give some more feedback from a bee-noob point-of-view and also quite a modpack-noob (only started modpacks 2 month ago)
Couple of issues:
1. If you have enough combs you can buy a lot of bees in the shop that you have not created yourself before. That kind of defeats the purpose somehow. Maybe at least hide some of the advanced ones unless you have bought some others before. Will the chapter be completed if I buy each bee once?
2. Looking after your bees is kind of fun, even if you have to do a lot manually. The mod that shows the content of the apiaries and chests etc is useful here. But there are still times where you have to play the waiting game. Adding the Tinkers Tweaks mod would be a first good thing to have some more motivation to chop wood.
3. I would like to have the possibility to do the Chisel 2 Thingy from the start. I hate it that the special cobble you get is not the one from the starting plaform and after that you just have normal cobble. Maybe I missed something there, but some more options to build fancy without doing it over later would be nice. At least add the starting cobble from the platform to the two quests where you can select between the 3 cobble types.
I started multiple times to test some good opening strategies. As mentioned before ignoring the tutorial line and using only furnace and pulverizer speeds up things a lot.
Maybe add the tutorial quest after you have done some of the grinding. Putting an apiary on your power line sucks everything up and slows down.
Not sure about the rain, I guess since it is a saved world, it will always come at the same time around day 2 or 3, if I don't sleep, right?
Some things in the tutorial line are confusing, I will add something about that later- Also forgetting stuff in machines and handing them in is a big game breaker. Had to start over once because of this.
I like the whole idea of forcing people to use bees and leaving them most of the time no other choice. But you should come up with some other things for people to do in the meantime.
I watched the first episodes of Delgars series, very nice. In the first episode there was a commenter who had quite a lot of ideas, I liked the one that proposed skipping the skyblock theme and coming up with a modified world without ores. I woudl even go a step further and say create a customed map which restricts everything to an island or something where you can explore and find certain things.
The normal nether does not fit to the skyblock theme, why not give us a "modified" nether? Just a floating island of netherrack or something.
I also found some spelling errors, but I have to go now, will list them later. Hope so far my points were helpful.
I have quite the lag when it comes to the builders wand, it sometimes does nothing, after a second the cobble comes but sometimes all around me. I had no issue with the thingy in AS1. Memory cannot be an issue here, I have 8GB assigned in the FTB Launcher.
Also have one missing block ID at the start, is that expected?
