yeah the room with the pots is called the bonsai room in the quest book
While I wouldn't run it for any longer than necessary, the Applied Energistics Grindstone is available as soon as you mine three AE quartz, have a furnace, and have a few pieces of lumber and cobblestone. Tedious, but a lot less than swimming to get twice the silver.- Making 16 Factorization mirrors is a real kick in the balls. It costs 2 full stacks of silver ingots before you have any kind of ore doubling. The slag furnace doesn't help - it yields more lead from silver ore than it does silver. I ended up making a set of EnderIO machines just to start on the Factorization machines
The amount of mirrors required has been in version 0.7.0, which is now on the launcher! I'll look into seeing if a grindstone quest will fit in.While I wouldn't run it for any longer than necessary, the Applied Energistics Grindstone is available as soon as you mine three AE quartz, have a furnace, and have a few pieces of lumber and cobblestone. Tedious, but a lot less than swimming to get twice the silver.
It might make sense to have an optional quest for that block, especially since it also significantly stretches out Wheat if you've managed to find any wheat seeds.
I thought the amount of mirrors was fine. It made me get a smeltery up and running to get the mats needed for it.
You can remove Recipes from the TConstruct Smeltery pretty easily, but I don't think you can change it from using Lava as fuel. Mariculture's Cruicible Furnace is more customizable, including changing fuels to include Steam, but you'd need to tweak its recipe pretty heavily to match progression, and very few players understand how it works, and I don't know that the rest of Mariculture matches the pack tone terribly well.
EDIT: were the mobs bumped up in difficulty? I restarted and got one-shot pretty much out of the gate by a Psycho Creeper.
Most of my deaths were from psycho creepers. Maybe it's just that they don't give you time to get distance from them, but they are definitely more lethal.The Psycho Creeper is just a regular Creeper with an invisible Ocelot on its head to make it run around. It shouldn't do any more damage than a regular Creeper.
Biochao, how "done" would you say this pack is? Are you polishing and bugfixing, or are you making substantial changes?