[1.7.10] Regrowth - A WIP HQM pack - Now Listed!
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If shift+right click doesn't work, you may have to go into creative to break and replace the frame. I don't think it was intended to be able to remove them
Hello guys, I've been playing Regrowth a lot lately : I have manasteel tools, most of tier 2 magical seed (air/earth/obsidian ...) and ALL the vanilla crops, magical crops foods and mystical flowers 10/10/10. Also got chicken, pigs and cows. My Botania setup consist of 20 endoflame I feed coal block when needed. Didn't touch Witchcraft yet and Thaumcraft has no quest available. I have some questions :
1/ I need water for my Agricraft sprinklers, the water tank thing I crafted for a quest can't even sustain one so I'm looking for better ways to generate water.
2/ Automation : when will it be possible to automate things like farming and inventory management ? In other modpack it's usually MFR who handle the farming but what are my options on Regrowth ? If I go Botania I'll need to automate mana gen too.
3/ Terraforming : my farm is getting really big, I'm flattening and mining nearby chunks to expand but it's getting really boring, how can I do it faster ? I know there is the great ticon Hammer but I don't have a smeltery yet, so any idea ?
4/ Is there better soil for growing crops ?
Nice pack btw, it's really something fresh : the way magical crops and Botania drive progression is unique.
1/ I need water for my Agricraft sprinklers, the water tank thing I crafted for a quest can't even sustain one so I'm looking for better ways to generate water.
2/ Automation : when will it be possible to automate things like farming and inventory management ? In other modpack it's usually MFR who handle the farming but what are my options on Regrowth ? If I go Botania I'll need to automate mana gen too.
3/ Terraforming : my farm is getting really big, I'm flattening and mining nearby chunks to expand but it's getting really boring, how can I do it faster ? I know there is the great ticon Hammer but I don't have a smeltery yet, so any idea ?
4/ Is there better soil for growing crops ?
Nice pack btw, it's really something fresh : the way magical crops and Botania drive progression is unique.
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At that stage, I've found the Gourmaryllis to be the fastest, especially if you can feed it 4 or more shank foods. I've been using those to boost things along while a pile of 14 endoflames keeps a steady stream of mana going from a barrel completely full of coal/charcoal. Entropinniums are alright, still need an explosion proof box to keep things safe though.
I never cared for the Rosa Arcana. It only eats your XP bar and I think it may be gluttonous, like the Gourmaryllis. That said, it also seemed slow the time I used it but if it was only eating XP enough to fill up then it could probably be much faster than my experiment demonstrated. However you WILL have to stay nearby to keep it eating. IMO, not worth the hassle unless you idle for long periods with a huge xp bar.
At the stage you're at, 3-4 thermalilies would probably suffice but I'd switch to Gourmaryllis once you have redstone and if you need/want a lot of mana fast.
Of course that also means updating agricraft yourself or waiting for the next version of the pack, since golems are still destroying crop sticks right now. At the moment, only Buildcraft robots can do the work without destroying the crops.
1: You could look at using a pump from buildcraft or some such, if you can get a sustainable source of power. Otherwise, with the water tanks from Railcraft, their water generation depends on the biome they're in; changing the biome they're in to a "wet" one (like a Swamp or Ocean biome) would help them generate water faster. You could do this by simply relocating them, or by using Witchery to actively change the biome.
3: It depends how far along you are with things. If you can make a Terra Firma Rod and a Rod of the Lands, then with an ample supply of mana you could flatten the area by raising dirt around your feet. Or you could just work towards a smeltery and get a hammer, like you mentioned
If you have access to a pool of water (probably slightly bigger than your average infinite water source just to be safe, but even that might do), you can set up a boiler and steam engine with buildcraft pipes. Waterproof pipes and a pump can get the water into your sprinkler tanks and keep the boiler topped off so it doesn't run dry. Kinesis pipes can run power to the pump and any other machines you want to power, though I haven't yet gotten to the point of automating fuel input for the boiler. But it's not that onerous to plop a stack of coal into the boiler every now and again. The only problem is I'm told you'd have to have something hooked up to that uses at least some power at all times, because if you don't bleed a little power out of the system, internal energy buffers can apparently overload and explode. (Also, if you're in a place prone to storms, even if you're in one of the wasteland biomes, the water tanks will fill up from the rain.)
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2 - With redstone you can setup a Forestry Farm. This is achievable around the same time as golems, but as others have pointed out, golems do not work without manually updated Agricraft. I think the Farms are little easier.
4 - Garden Soil is the best soil.
railcraft water tanks double in speed if they can see the sky, but even then they are still very slow.
but once you get a single piece of redstone from killing a witch you can make the builcraft pump and power it with one ore two wooden engines.
these require no fuel, only a redstone signal to work.
that hammer is achievable without a smeltery.
as far as tinkers is concerned, manasteel, elementium and terrrasteel are no metals.
so you can create tools of them without casts using the part builder.
Quick and dirty:
Press escape, choose open game to lan and the option allow cheats.
After that, open chat and type '/gamemode c' and you are in creative. Type '/gamemode s' and you are back in survival.
There are other ways with NEI but this one works anywhere, modded, vanilla...
After you made your changes I advise you to exit the world and go back again, since it is open to lan, it is running as a server and you will not be able to pause the game when you press Escape, so exit and load the world to go back to default single player behaviour.
When placing the ender frame, you must always be in the center of where the portal will be, so the blocks are placed facing the center. If they are not facing the center, they will not create a portal. And these blocks have bedrock hardness, you cannot ever remove them unless in creative. So, think where you want the portal before place them.
Forestry farm does not work with tiled garden soil... At least its what I was told.
Currently, only BC robots work.
Thnx worked like a charm. Maybe the way to lay the portal frame should be explained in the quest book.
I'm using Forestry Farms with tilled garden soil... manual farm, orchard type.
I was going to post this yesterday. Decided it sounded to much like nit picking though. It keeps bothering me every time I think about it so I decided to post it anyway.
I was looking at the patch notes on dropbox when I noticed there was a version 0.8.3 area with notes in it. I thought this was most likely upcoming changes. It did take up the spot where upcoming changes used to be posted. I had to take a look anyways. Searched this thread. Read of few pages of it too. Booted up both the FTB and Curse launcher. The update didn't seem to be out. Got me to thinking of a suggestion though.
If it isn't to much of a bother could you start adding something besides the new patch iterations to say that they are released? So that the line would read something like "0.8.2 (Released - 13/10/2015)".
I know it isn't that much of a biggy. I think it would be a general all around QOL improvement though.
I was looking at the patch notes on dropbox when I noticed there was a version 0.8.3 area with notes in it. I thought this was most likely upcoming changes. It did take up the spot where upcoming changes used to be posted. I had to take a look anyways. Searched this thread. Read of few pages of it too. Booted up both the FTB and Curse launcher. The update didn't seem to be out. Got me to thinking of a suggestion though.
If it isn't to much of a bother could you start adding something besides the new patch iterations to say that they are released? So that the line would read something like "0.8.2 (Released - 13/10/2015)".
I know it isn't that much of a biggy. I think it would be a general all around QOL improvement though.
Small scale but very simple early semi auto mana: furnace with wooden extraction pipe wooden engine feeding to a clay pipe leading back to the furnace to keep it fueled. cobble pipes off the clay one to an open crate over four endo flames. feed the furnace wood with a hopper. Because of the way endo's burn fuel the furnace produces charcoal 4 times faster than one endo can eat it so the endo to furnace ratio takes care of all the timing. one out of every 8 charcoal goes to the furnace (one out of 16 with the netherrack furnace).
This is more of a gap filler between passive flowers and getting redstone than long term solution but it takes a lot less attention than hand feeding anything and can be set up as soon as you have trees.
This is more of a gap filler between passive flowers and getting redstone than long term solution but it takes a lot less attention than hand feeding anything and can be set up as soon as you have trees.
TPL removed redstone from witches.
hammer does require the upgraded tool station wich needs four blocks of copper/iron and seared brick with means that it is after the crucible furnace at a minimum. and if you have started making seared bricks you are effectively at the smeltery stage.