I can, but I'm a lazy bastard. Hahaha!Sword with looting and the ability to fly
Of course, you need at least one ghast tear to make a safari net. So there's that.
Nope, you don't. 1 leather, 1 slime, 4 string = 1 single-use safari net.
The ghast tear is needed for the unlimited variant. So use the single-use to snag the first, then once you poke it in the eye and get its tear, get the unlimited variant to get a second.
Though I'm not sure how the safari net is going to help. The problem I have with obtaining ghast tears isn't in the killing of the ghast, but rather the catching of the tear before it falls into lava. A safari net, to hit a ghast, would need to be launched and would fall from where it hits and captures the ghast, thus creating the same problem as the tear.
And the annoying part is that there's no easy way to get Ghast Tears!
Any advice on how to farm them?
All you need to do is catch ONE ghast above Netherrack, as opposed to catching every single one that you need a tear for above netherrack. I'd say that's a sizeable difference.
Eh, not even one. You're going to want a jetpack eventually so why not craft one before hunting ghasts? Then you can catch the tear before it lands in lava. Even easier if you are able to make a Coin of Fortune as well.
I spent about 15m making a T5 Ghast soul shard. Setup a farm with high energy pellet launchers to kill the ghasts. It produces a lot of tears/gunpowder.
The sad part is regardless of how easy it is to acquire those tears the drill bit still isn't worth it.
Looks like I found my answer: make a tier 5 soul shard by combining a level 0 ghast shard with a level 5 zombie shard.
I like the high energy pellet idea. I'll try that.
Why the hell am I doing this? I wanted to build a huge ass tunnel, but I want to try something different other than frames.
Thanks for all the suggestions.
Battbox + batteries + sorting machine + item tesseract + cargo manager = pure win. LOLThat drill will, um, do the trick. It's also insanely fast! Way faster than any frame machine I've ever seen. The biggest problem is that you'll have huge problems storing all the jumk you generate. In 1.5.1+ you can use lava tanks to burn the junk, but alas...
Looks like I found my answer: make a tier 5 soul shard by combining a level 0 ghast shard with a level 5 zombie shard.
I like the high energy pellet idea. I'll try that.
Why the hell am I doing this? I wanted to build a huge ass tunnel, but I want to try something different other than frames.
Thanks for all the suggestions.