1.7.10 HQM/Survival - hypovolemia - something bloody [Open Alpha]

[Chriss22]

this is the first modpack i think about cheating because everything takes forever at the start.
Currently i have no food and no way to use other blood sources than my own.
Cant even make a pipe because i need steel and to make steel i need steel.
Guess i will get some steel as a quest reward but how long will this take at this rate?

 

[mjvmine]

Yes it is grind and can be frustrating. But part of the mod pack is figuring out how to progress through the pack in an efficient fashion. Look at the quests, some of the rewards help you. The ore berry bushes are important early game. Make sure you base is near a substantial source of blood. Make a bucket as early as possible so you can make water and lava, which give you some of you first essence seeds I think. There will be a quest reward for a portable tank fairly early. Use that to gather blood, and put it on top of the altar and use the configurator to automatically feed the altar blood. The ore berry bushes grow faster in darkness, and if you put a block of dirt under the ore berry bush, and the pulsar underneath the dirt, the Ore Berry bush grows much faster.

You will need the metallurgic infuser to make steel, but once you have 4 steel you can make steel seeds. All of the ores you can make seeds for. Much better than making from Ore Berries.

Some of my early episodes may help a bit....

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWImOElzB7HZunOfkHCNtXNWQRM8HJfqA&nohtml5=False

 

[Chriss22]

Wait a moment. i can use the tank to fill the altar with the blood from those blood oceans? wish i had known that. Thought i need some pipes (which needs steel) to pump it in.

 

[Sunseahl]

A lot of the early quests will require your own blood.... Check out Arturio's Lets plays that he's been posting here to learn your basics of getting started.


As for steel.... i haven't played in a while so i've not seen the newest update(if it's out yet) but once you have Osmium seeds and are making osmium ingots you should be able to make the metalurgic infuser, from there you can stick in 1 iron and 1 coal/charcoal and it will make inriched iron... stick it in again(coal/charcoal provides 20 fule in this pack) and you will get Steel dust that you can smelt into steel ingots.

Damn.... Arturio beat me to saying the same thing.... ^-^

 

[Sunseahl]

Wait a moment. i can use the tank to fill the altar with the blood from those blood oceans? wish i had known that. Thought i need some pipes (which needs steel) to pump it in.

Yea... the portable tank has a Bucket mode (Shift M) that you can scoop up blood with. you have to hit Shift M again after you're full or you'll spill the blood all over your alter instead of placing the tank.

 

[AlexanderDario]

Good news!

The update is finished! Being compiled, being pushed forward, and will need to be Oked! It's there, though!

Bad News:

Questbook will reset, but detection is your friend, and a world reset is recommended.

Back story:

I approached the Spirit World of Witchery with hesitancy, and came to the realization this would not work, Worldgen needed work, and that, came in to play the Mod Hypo-Fixes, by @Bennyboy1695, which works to fix our World generation issues. I am informed that a world reset is recommended.

Great news!!
Have you any idea when it will come downloadable from FtB laucher?

sorry for any mistake made in the question but English isn't my 1st language

 

[Sunseahl]

Great news!!
Have you any idea when it will come downloadable from FtB laucher?

sorry for any mistake made in the question but English isn't my 1st language

Your enghlish is fine, sweety.

As for the update to FtB it's usually a longer process than simply updating the pack, mostly because the updates go through a verification process. In many respects updates to even publicized third-party packs are like console updates to PC games, it can take weeks to get final approval just because of testing.

I remember waiting months for the update to Galactic science via FtB even though the update had been out all that time on another platform.

 

[Sandstroem]

Steel seeds? Never thought of that.

 

[Sunseahl]

Yeup... Steel seeds. It's also interesting to note that once you have a basic blood pump automation setup going the lower levels of Magical Crops can be transfused(ha-ha, blood jokes) in the Blood Alter to transform them into the next seed of that tier.

I think the T1 seeds require 50k blood
T2 something like 100K

and that's per transformation.

 

[Sandstroem]

What do you mean with next tier seeds? Skeleton into wither skeleton?

 

[Sunseahl]

Kinda.... Redstone, Obsidian, Glowstone and some other seeds all exist on the same "tier."

This is to say they all use the same form of essence to be crafted; Accacio, Zivico, Imperium, etc.

You can put a spare glowstone seed in the blood altar and with blood and some time you'll get another seed from that tier of seeds... redstone or obsidian.

but, like I said... you should master setting up blood automation. That is, drawing mass quantities of blood from a nearby blood-sea with a pump and mechanical pipes and having the water-drop blood runes(forget their name) because they increase the rate at which your altar fills itself from a portable tank.

 

[Nicolás Granelli]

Quick question: is there a way to get dirt in good quantities without skulls? I managed to craft a stack, but now I need more. The other option I now is that rod fro botania, but I'm not near that point

 

[Ultimaheart4]

question... this doesnt seem to have server option in the ftb pack i wanted to try this with some friends. is it super easy to transfer files into a server for this?

which mods should i remove ive removed 3 different mods that are client side only and still cant seem to get this to run.

 

[Chriss22]

Quick question: is there a way to get dirt in good quantities without skulls? I managed to craft a stack, but now I need more. The other option I now is that rod fro botania, but I'm not near that point

You could use the Earth Seeds from magic crops to get some dirt. but you need a huge field to get a good ammount of dirt or you need a good mutated seed to get more than 1 earth essence per harvest.

 

[Sunseahl]

Quick question: is there a way to get dirt in good quantities without skulls? I managed to craft a stack, but now I need more. The other option I now is that rod fro botania, but I'm not near that point

You could use the Earth Seeds from magic crops to get some dirt. but you need a huge field to get a good ammount of dirt or you need a good mutated seed to get more than 1 earth essence per harvest.

The best way to do this is by using those Growth Pulsars in a 2x2 square with a dirt block above them and a nearby water source

Then Cross-breed the dirt seeds with each other in this way

o-x
x-o

- o = base seeds
- x = 2 sets of Crop Sticks to cross breed

Doing this will make the mature crops breed themselves up into a higher tier. Thankfully this modpack stops output at 10, 10, 10. That'd be about 3-4 earth essence per harvest.

 

[mjvmine]

Ok folks, Episode 30 is now live on youtube. Here if fight the Engraged Guardian of Gaia and talk a little bit about how to make the fight a bit easier.

 

[Rathlon]

I'm running into an issue on this pack.
I've progressed far into it[Chapter 1 of quests done] that I'm starting into the thaumcraft chapter.
But I've already made 5 Iron Capped Wooden Wands and the quest won't accept that I made any of them.
What could be going on with it?

 

[mjvmine]

There is a bug in the quest book. Several quest lines have problems. Thaumcraft won't let you turn in a wand and get credit for the quest. A few other lines have problems here and there too.

The good news is that the guys currently managing the mod pack are working on an update. The update is done, but it is undergoing testing. Once the testing is complete it will be uploaded to the FTB launcher. Hopefully it will be soon.

 

[Rathlon]

Well I don't use the FTB Launcher anymore I'm using the Curse Launcher.
So I'm not sure when that will be updated with the latest fixed version when the FTBL one gets it.

 

[Chriss22]

Now i need glowstone but no pre quest gave me a way to get it.
In the first quest chapter the quest "More Hell".
First i need to create 10 obsidian and now 32 glowstone
I see no way to complete this quest. To get the glowstone seed i need glowstone so thats not a way. And i cant transform redstone seed to glowstone seed because i need glowstone to make a level 3 altar.
I dont see any way to proceed.

This modpack is very complicated. To make a simple thing you need to do 20 other things before.