Advice for Monster at end of beginning-game-stage?

[Middleclaw]

Guilty as charged. After mastering both Skyblock and Oceanblock in vanilla mode, I've taken the plunge into modded versions.

 

[null123]

Guilty as charged. After mastering both Skyblock and Oceanblock in vanilla mode, I've taken the plunge into modded versions.

HANG HIM FOR HIS HERESY!!! THERE IS NO VANILLA; THERE IS ONLY THE MODDED!!!
@Jadedcat You are truly evil. This pack is tormenting, yet I find it impossible to even think of anything else. Thankyou for letting me relive my first Minecraft experience.

 

[asb3pe]

Taint is... a sickness of the land, caused by bad magic. It is also a disease, I guess. It spreads, and can infect living things(players aren't able to be infected beyond the normal taint damage AFAIK), and these tainted creatures usually end up spreading the taint.

What you can do about it depends on what Thaumcraft addons you have. If you have Technomancy there is a way to clean it on a massive scale(or cause it). Not sure what other addons have, but it's a better solution then just throwing those shimer bloom things all over.

Another trick that isn't commonly discussed is using Rainbow Trees from Rainbow Forest by Reika to clean it. See, they slowly can purify the land, and even Mystcraft ages benefit from them too.

Rainbow Trees worked well to remove all the taint from the land, and worked quickly too. They seem to have a horizontal radius of about 40-50 blocks or so (didn't count exactly) and a vertical radius of unknown but the taint seems to be gone from deep below ground too as far as I can see. I planted 4 of them and left a chunk loader there too. It took maybe 3 minecraft days for all taint to disappear? One real-time hour maybe? Pretty quick, really. I was expecting a lot longer time period.

In case anyone else uses this method, I found my Rainbow Trees in the overworld, NOT in the Twilight Forest. I don't know if they are the same trees in each dimension, but I flew around for a full hour looking for an Enchanted Forest biome in TF and couldn't find one. So I gave up on the project. But then I was flying around in the overworld and stumbled across a biome called, um... a Rainbow Forest, I think? It's a really colorful biome, I think I might move there... anyhow the rainbow trees in this biome are very tall and they are a 2x2 sapling tree (can be bonemealed) which turns into a 4x4 trunk at the base (so watch out when bonemealing). I also got about 800 of each of the 16 dye colors when I chopped down all the trees. Pretty cool! Thanks again for this helpful tip, YX33A. That taint was so darn ugly, now its gone, yay!

 

[YX33A]

~Snip~Thanks again for this helpful tip, YX33A. That taint was so darn ugly, now its gone, yay!

Don't thank me, Thank Reika. I had no idea that they did this until Reika mentioned it.

 

[asb3pe]

EDIT: Oh right, shale blocks. They're from Emmasher's GasCraft, and unless you know how to use a modular socket I would ignore them for now.
I'd also suggest ignoring them until you have slickwater production going strong, since you waste half of the natural gas in those things unless you use slickwater.

Since my quarries uncovered two shale oil and three shale gas blocks, I'm gonna use the oil blocks instead of hunting down an ocean oil biome since I prefer to run fuel in my dynamos. So yeah despite your warning I'm going full-bore into GasCraft/Engineer's/Emashers. Belly flop, for the win.

How come I cannot find the recipe for slickwater anywhere? It's not in NEI, and it's not shown on Emashersmods wiki which I just can't understand - as usual, forum folks to the rescue please? Which is the limestone I will need? The "Chisel" blocks? The "Geostrata" blocks? Thanks.

Don't thank me, Thank Reika. I had no idea that they did this until Reika mentioned it.

Stop being so durn modest. And yes, thanks Reika, indeed.

 

[YX33A]

Since my quarries uncovered two shale oil and three shale gas blocks, I'm gonna use the oil blocks instead of hunting down an ocean oil biome since I prefer to run fuel in my dynamos. So yeah despite your warning I'm going full-bore into GasCraft/Engineer's/Emashers. Belly flop, for the win.

How come I cannot find the recipe for slickwater anywhere? It's not in NEI, and it's not shown on Emashersmods wiki which I just can't understand - as usual, forum folks to the rescue please? Which is the limestone I will need? The "Chisel" blocks? The "Geostrata" blocks? Thanks.

It is on his wiki, but not in NEI due to a total lack of usable GUI elements to his machines. But in short, a mixer filled with water in the fluid slot and a couple of specific blocks(IIRC you'll want sand, gravel, or mixed sand) and you get slickwater.

Stop being so durn modest. And yes, thanks Reika, indeed.

NEVER! I am allowed to be modest or cocky, and while I know I should stick with cocky until I'm wrong, I err on the side of caution and act modest yet allow for no doubts in my mind until I am wrong.
EDIT:

Which is the limestone I will need? The "Chisel" blocks? The "Geostrata" blocks? Thanks.

The ones from Emasher Core, but Chisel can switch most(if not all) types of limestone from one type to another.

His wiki is a bit lacking in understandability, but it certainly doesn't lack the info needed.

 

[asb3pe]

It is on his wiki, but not in NEI due to a total lack of usable GUI elements to his machines. But in short, a mixer filled with water in the fluid slot and a couple of specific blocks(IIRC you'll want sand, gravel, or mixed sand) and you get slickwater.

I read the mixer page, no slickwater recipe, then I typed "slickwater" into the search box on the wiki page - the three links that came up were pretty irrelevant. I'll hunt and peck for more info there. Now I have to go read up on Chisel mod to learn how to switch between the various limestone blocks, I only know of the Unifier from MFR but that's obv for ingots.

Well, that was quick, just make a chisel with one iron ingot and a stick, then right click with it in hand. Instant limestone conversion. And oh my, the chisel mod is... interesting.

Holy cow, it can convert both the geostrata and the chisel Limestone blocks to Emasher Limestone, but I have 8000 total of those from my two quarries. I hope this can be automated, I guess put the chisel in an autonomous activator perhaps?

 

[Padfoote]

Now I have to go read up on Chisel mod to learn how to switch between the various limestone blocks, I only know of the Unifier from MFR but that's obv for ingots.

Right click holding a chisel, toss the block into the center slot in the GUI, and pick the one you want from the columns. Normally in the two columns closest to the center slot.

 

[asb3pe]

Making my slickwater now. Limestone grinding is really slow, so I can see why it's the last resort since I also have to convert each block manually by hand (by Chisel) to Emasher Resource version. Much quicker to use Mixed Dirt but I'm gonna run out of dirt and gravel soon so using my Limestone materials to get rid of em.

I also didn't realize that GasCraft also has Shale Gas blocks in the nether, it wasn't in the mod spotlight that I watched. I ran a 64x64 nether quarry (basic buildcraft) and it's almost to bedrock and I already see at least two of the shale gas blocks - I understand they provide "nether plasma" and can be used in fusion reactors - fun, fun, fun!

 

[malicious_bloke]

You can convert a stack at a time with chisel

 

[YX33A]

Making my slickwater now. Limestone grinding is really slow, so I can see why it's the last resort since I also have to convert each block manually by hand (by Chisel) to Emasher Resource version. Much quicker to use Mixed Dirt but I'm gonna run out of dirt and gravel soon so using my Limestone materials to get rid of em.

I also didn't realize that GasCraft also has Shale Gas blocks in the nether, it wasn't in the mod spotlight that I watched. I ran a 64x64 nether quarry (basic buildcraft) and it's almost to bedrock and I already see at least two of the shale gas blocks - I understand they provide "nether plasma" and can be used in fusion reactors - fun, fun, fun!

Hope you've got plenty of lava to frac those nether plasma shale blocks. Also, a "cool feature" of Nether Plasma and to a lesser extent Corrsive Gas: They can wreck blocks. Nether Plasma is the only way to get Emasher Steel, and this is done by venting some so it touches iron blocks(storage blocks of iron, that is), nets you Steel Blocks.

 

[asb3pe]

Well I updated to Monster 1.1.1 this morning and suddenly got item ID conflict errors. Not sure what to do, been on hold all day but it appears I'm not going to get an answer anytime soon. Obv the only thing to do is re-download 1.1.0 and ignore 1.1.1 for now. sigh

Also, the EmashersMods (Engineer's Toolbox) refinery block is horribly slow. Given the complexity of the mod versus the very simple BC refinery, I'm going back to those. I'll still pump the oil using Engineer's Toolbox fracker, since I got it all set up and working, and since I have 10,000 buckets of slickwater I need to use up. LOL But now I need a tank for the oil, which I had hoped to eliminate by refining the oil immediately.

 

[malicious_bloke]

I hate how the launcher keeps nagging me to update to 1.1.1. I literally can't be arsed to go through the new modlist and remove the fluffy stuff I cut before.

Also oil flowing into a quarry is the single most annoying thing in my current existence. I usually end up in the water that fills my quarries, removing it with dirt (the troglodyte way). Doing the same with oil is impossible due to :nausea and wither ffs:

 

[asb3pe]

I hate how the launcher keeps nagging me to update to 1.1.1. I literally can't be arsed to go through the new modlist and remove the fluffy stuff I cut before.

Also oil flowing into a quarry is the single most annoying thing in my current existence. I usually end up in the water that fills my quarries, removing it with dirt (the troglodyte way). Doing the same with oil is impossible due to :nausea and wither ffs:

I went out the other night so I started a quarry and let my computer run. When I got back, it was finished, except I immediately saw there had been a small pool of water about 5 blocks below the top of the quarry... and this "small pool" had now covered the entire 64x64 area from a height of about 95 to bedrock. 90 levels of flowing water blocks, 64x64 area.

I got out my dirt and filled in the couple of watersource blocks, and the water began to recede.

Well, it took at least the next 30 minutes before the water was gone. I stayed there and watched it. LOL One by one, block by block, extremely slowly even on my good computer. I had to fly around just so the graphics would update, if I was at one edge, the other edge wasn't updating so it looked like a cliff until I flew over there and it went away.

When the water finally got down to about elevation 20, then it finally began to speed up, and by the time it got to bedrock it was really fast. But this shows what sort of computation must have been going on with all those water blocks inside my computer. It was just grinding away!

 

[asb3pe]

Found an unexpected oddity. NetherOres mod has a block for Nether Pig Iron. I wasn't sure what to expect when I threw it into my pulv/furn combo. Guess what came out? Steel ingots!! And a heck of a lot of em too (I ran a 64x64 BC quarry from roof to bedrock)! Enough to make a whole bunch of max size steel railcraft tanks. I love my tanks filled with all the different colored fluids. Lava oil fuel creosote honey dna slickwater mob essence and probably many more to come. No water tank because I use a 24 AA array with endertank to get the job done