Agrarian Skys help, venting, and discussion thread
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Yeah, I went with lots of cyclics myself (wasn't using a smeltery) - If you can pull the schematic out of a cyclic via itemducts, and find a way to round robin insert them back, you could cut it down to a single cyclic. Not sure if that's doable though.
Ok guys, another derp and this is the place to vent rage:
That is what happens when you try summon a blaze in a wooden barrel, and not stone >.<
That is what happens when you try summon a blaze in a wooden barrel, and not stone >.<
No shears can beat an early mob farm, gets you both bonemeal and flesh to compost and other stuff that is useful for later
.tbh playing AS is the first time that i built a mob farmNo shears can beat an early mob farm, gets you both bonemeal and flesh to compost and other stuff that is useful for later
so not much experience there
I've been watching the direwolf20 + pahimar AS walkthrough. Pahimar made a mobfarm that had me scratching my head till it was "activated." (I couldn't imagine the mobs stupidly wandering onto the water from their large, safe platforms)No shears can beat an early mob farm, gets you both bonemeal and flesh to compost and other stuff that is useful for later
Frankly it blew my mind. I hate my noob mobfarm now.
I just put them in my MAC after all, and it took me all day to realize that the ores aren't being crafted because the Induction Smelter was full.
Ok guys, another derp and this is the place to vent rage:
That is what happens when you try summon a blaze in a wooden barrel, and not stone >.<
OUCH!
Besides the blaze, what about putting lava inside a wooden container sounds right to you in the first place?
Putting trap doors makes it even more efficient, because that way you dont rely on mobs pushing each other off. Also there is far more efficient design. Watch GennyB's episode 7 or 8 I think it was where he shows his design.
Btw: With the most recent update there is a 8th quest tab, forgot how it was called, nor know how to unlock it since I started from scratch because I didnt like my progression and how I tried to not add much platforms at all, making stupidly unplayable area.
You mean replacing the floor with trapdoors? I gather ideally it would be redstone-clocked to auto-open them occassionally.
You can also use buttons, signs, micro blocks and a few others to trick the mobs into walking off the edges. Later you can replace water channels with conveyor belts. Even later you can skip the funneling of mobs altogether and just have a large dark room with MfR Grinders along the walls to cover the area.[DOUBLEPOST=1397746586][/DOUBLEPOST]
Trap doors at the edge where you want them to fall into water, onto conveyor belts or into your long drop. Mobs see retracted trap doors as being a full block and try to walk onto them and just fall through. You can also use a "shifting floor" design with pistons and timers, but that is more for vanilla where you don't have the tools available to you in this mod pack. Youtube has some great videos all about different mob farms.
When starting off, you often get rain on the first night so be ready with the barrels
Also, for a starting boost, get hell's kitchen done asap and make 2 shears. This will get you around 40 dirt, enough for a cobble gen and expanding your farms.
Food quests lead you to ways of getting hunger satisfied in efficient ways like turning 1 wheat into 1 bread instead of using 3 by making flour and dough. I definitely agree with getting shears as early as possible as the amount of dirt you get allows you to get a decent wheat farm going early and if sieved into stones and made into cobble, hammered into gravel then sieved to get broken ores put together to get ore gravel then hammered to get ore sand then hammered to get ore dust then cooked into ingots.... One set of shears will get you enough iron to make 2-3 new shears plus all the extra stuff you get out of the process. Win Win..
Mobs have basic AI that tries to prevents them from walking off things that count as 'ledges' without reason, but blocks with trapdoors (or signs, or a few other block types) don't count as ledges to the AI. So if you line the drop hole and canals with trapdoors or signs, the mobs will drop into the water much faster as long as you're within distance. Just leave them open and generally unconnected to redstone (unless you want an off switch). This becomes more important with larger mob grinders.
In practice, I'd recommend going straight to an MFR Conveyer-based system directly once you've got a furnace and smeltery -- they're not that expensive to make a stack -- and are a bit simpler to set up. More importantly, they can also grind Endermen if you set up a 3-block tall darkroom, and Ender Pearls are vastly more important at the early skyblock stages.
I'd argue it is the best use for your first two iron. Even better, since you probably have a ferrous ingot at that point, make them invar shears which last longer. Note that sheared leaves still drop saplings at the vanilla rate. That'll net you enough dirt to get a decent farm going.
If you mean they won't compost, make sure the barrel is completely full.
If you're running out of things to compost, make a vanilla-style mob farm. Rotten Flesh makes great composting material.
You can also add different composting materials to a single barrel, so if you don't have enough leaves to fill it up, add something else to top it off.