I finally got around to blood magic (beyond the sacrificial orb) and am actually surprised at how much I'm liking it, especially the dagger of sacrifice on zombies and creepers. However, the resource costs are now definitely going up. Wondering how I'm gonna have to get the magician's blood orb...
I haven't started on beekeeping or my high oven yet, by the way, because I need to free up one of my metal-producing smelteries for the high oven's scorched beicks, and for the bees...I just don't feel like beekeeping.