Farming in Magic Farm 2?

[Fauxglove]

Call this a stupid question if you want, but I'm done giving myself a headache.

How exactly are you supposed to get yourself started using the Magic Farm 2 modset?

I've figured out the basics for creating tools, but whatever mod has set up the more complicated tool building set has disabled the ability to make a simple farming hoe, but hasn't provided a way of making one to replace it.
Combine that with the retooled hunger mechanics, and you wind up starving to death before nightfall with an inventory full of useless seeds.

I try to avoid using the item menu to just generate basic tools, because I prefer playing the game straight, but there doesn't seem to be another way to get your hands on a farming hoe. Seems like something that would've been addressed early on in the testing phase. ._.

 

[ThatOneSlowking]

You can make vanilla tools, just not wood and I BELIEVE stone. You can make an iron or gold hse if you wish

 

[Drawde]

Mining first. There's a strict progression in MF, barring finding some thaumium early.

Flint tools, then I believe it's copper, then tin (for bronze), then iron. You need each lower tier to mine the next. Plus a rather complicated system to allow each tool to reach that point that I turned off in the configs and can't remember.

You need to use Tinker's Construct to make the tools, with a smeltery for all metal. You can make stone parts, but those are used only to make casts. So you need at least three aluminum and one copper ore to make casts for the metal tools. You use a single-use clay bucket for the lava for the smeltery.

Once you get some iron you can finally make a TiC mattock to till the land. IF you get lucky you can find thaumium to make a pick. I don't know if the TiC village house spawns parts in it. Also, tools are limited to 25 repairs at an escalating cost, adjustable in the configs.

Until then you're stuck with finding berries or meat.

 

[Yusunoha]

Mining first. There's a strict progression in MF, barring finding some thaumium early.

Flint tools, then I believe it's copper, then tin (for bronze), then iron. You need each lower tier to mine the next. Plus a rather complicated system to allow each tool to reach that point that I turned off in the configs and can't remember.

You need to use Tinker's Construct to make the tools, with a smeltery for all metal. You can make stone parts, but those are used only to make casts. So you need at least three aluminum and one copper ore to make casts for the metal tools. You use a single-use clay bucket for the lava for the smeltery.

Once you get some iron you can finally make a TiC mattock to till the land. IF you get lucky you can find thaumium to make a pick. I don't know if the TiC village house spawns parts in it. Also, tools are limited to 25 repairs at an escalating cost, adjustable in the configs.

Until then you're stuck with finding berries or meat.

doesn't copper work aswell for the mattock? as it's also metal...

 

[Drawde]

doesn't copper work aswell for the mattock? as it's also metal...

Iron's the first metal you can make other tools besides picks (I think) out of. The progression of metals is extremely strict. I can't remember what's after iron. But by default you need to use monster heads to allow picks to work on the next upgrade. Though you can replace parts of the all-metal picks to keep the exp for them. The picks level up as well as you use them. Can't remember the specifics though.

 

[Tankh]

The normal Tool Station can build metal tools, and it can build a mattock. You do not need the Tool Forge (the one that needs iron blocks to build) for that
Copper can not mine tin ore btw, but I think it can mine iron? I never got to test that particular tier since I was lucky to find iron bars in some chests to make a vanilla iron pick and thus get more iron. admittedly that was a bit boring as I would have rather followed the intended tiered system.

 

[Pied_Piper_11]

You can make a 3 part copper mattock but the rod must be copper also.

 

[lavarthan]

Here is a video by Jaded Cat, the creator of the mod pack, about getting started in Magic Farm 2.

 

[Yusunoha]

The normal Tool Station can build metal tools, and it can build a mattock. You do not need the Tool Forge (the one that needs iron blocks to build) for that
Copper can not mine tin ore btw, but I think it can mine iron? I never got to test that particular tier since I was lucky to find iron bars in some chests to make a vanilla iron pick and thus get more iron. admittedly that was a bit boring as I would have rather followed the intended tiered system.

you start with a flint pickaxe, with which you mine copper. when you've copper, you upgrade your pick with that copper. at first you'll only be able to mine copper at most, but your pickaxe will level up, when it's leveled up, it'll be able to mine iron

 

[Tankh]

you start with a flint pickaxe, with which you mine copper. when you've copper, you upgrade your pick with that copper. at first you'll only be able to mine copper at most, but your pickaxe will level up, when it's leveled up, it'll be able to mine iron

Yeah I did the flint part, but didn't know at the time that one could make metal tools in a normal tool station.

So levelling up a copper pickaxe is the only way to get iron, unless you find resources in chests like I did?

 

[Yusunoha]

Yeah I did the flint part, but didn't know at the time that one could make metal tools in a normal tool station.

So levelling up a copper pickaxe is the only way to get iron, unless you find resources in chests like I did?

yup, leveling is the only way unless you get lucky with chest loot

 

[Pied_Piper_11]

...or use a mob head.

 

[Fauxglove]

All that just to get a basic farm going.
Damn, I'm all for ramping up the difficulty on Minecraft, but this is close to abusive.
Thank you all for the help.