I play on an Ultimate 1.1.2 server with a few friends. I was playing solo until one of my friends was accepted onto the server. He now play as a team, he does magic stuff and I do science stuff. His favorite mod is ThaumCraft and mine is IC2, so you can imagine why we chose the set up, also, I have gotten very close to end game. We played for a couple hours, and he is already halfway finished with ThaumCraft. There isn't much for him to do after he finishes the Thaumonomonomononicon. What should he do? All we know is he is going to automate some farms with some golems, but thats it. Any help?
Finished ThaumCraft. Now What?
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Well I never have gone into Thaum with the only goal being finishing the book. Though I normaly do that over time.
Normally I have something I want to do and resreach Thaum parts to get that done.
You can use golems in the place of pipes in most builds by using the clay and stone as a sort of push/pull invtory control.
They work with most machines too just it can take some trial and error to find out what side you have click the little guy on to work one slot on the machine.
To be honest a lot of "WHAT DO?" sort of things comes down to the question. What do you want out of MC and what do you find fun? Instead of what do I do next with this mod.
Normally I have something I want to do and resreach Thaum parts to get that done.
You can use golems in the place of pipes in most builds by using the clay and stone as a sort of push/pull invtory control.
They work with most machines too just it can take some trial and error to find out what side you have click the little guy on to work one slot on the machine.
To be honest a lot of "WHAT DO?" sort of things comes down to the question. What do you want out of MC and what do you find fun? Instead of what do I do next with this mod.
Its sort of a hyrbid of magic and tech. It has a lot of odd items that do a lot of things. Its can be a vary interesting mod to play around with.
its the closest you can get to thaumcraft in the ultimate pack, it does some alchemy stuff, some magic stuff and some weird but cool items.
Thaumcraft gives you some nice toys to play around with. Some are for creative and fun builds, like the arcane levitator, the arcane ear, the warded blocks. The arcane ear is fairly interesting in that you can use it as an alternative to Wireless Redstone, with a more limited reach. It can also be used to password protect anything that responds to a redstone signal, since you tune it to a frequency only you know. The Arcane Levitator is a pretty fun way of going up and down. Warded blocks are pretty, but they're also very secure. They allow things like, for example, a Nuke cannon, or a directed nuke blast. The combat golems are a pretty useful defense system, along with vanilla iron golems and snow golems. Some pretty nifty fights can be staged by combining it with soulshards. If you have the Vis to spare, the Arcane Bore can be a pretty interesting laser display show, just have to combine it with some way of automatically replacing blocks as fast as they are mined so it just keeps working for a good while. The Infernal Furnace is useful for triple meat treats. The Hungry Chest is just fun all around, but very interesting as a trash disposal when connected with void pipes.
As a challenge, automating thaumcraft ingot transmutation is pretty hard, so there's that. Also, thaumcraft crafting in general, is almost impossible to automate effectively, so, another challenge, as is automating aspect production and storage.
And i'm all out of ideas for now...
As a challenge, automating thaumcraft ingot transmutation is pretty hard, so there's that. Also, thaumcraft crafting in general, is almost impossible to automate effectively, so, another challenge, as is automating aspect production and storage.
And i'm all out of ideas for now...
I was going to try automating TC production - had a few ideas as to how to do it - but then we changed servers. I might still get around to it at some point.
I always want to get into Thaumcraft, but I generally postpone it until I have everything else set up. Is there anything worthwhile to get early game, since I've just restarted on 1.47.
I'm a little confused as to what you are meaning when you say that he has "nearly finished the book". You can research the entire tree relatively quickly (as proved by the challenge that Slow et al. did a while back), but that doesn't mean that you are done with TC3. There's the workshop construction, with the aspects and other bits associated with that. There's the use of golems for systems other than putting two clay golems down and letting them fight over inventories (fun though that may be), there's the application of node research, which could be combined with Thaumic Bees to produce a truly colossal node. There are massive amounts of other stuff on top of all of this.
It's something that always puzzles me a little when people say that they are "done". I can understand getting bored of something, but not feeling that you have accomplished everything that a modpack has to offer. Most of the mods for minecraft, while they may present some manner of inherent goals within the content itself, the much larger part of them tends to be tools for other things, and a lot of the fun is in combining the content to something new and different that wasn't expected.[DOUBLEPOST=1371639134][/DOUBLEPOST]
As far as I can tell, it does make a fairly viable starting tree. It's a little different to the usual (the ore doubling doesn't come in until reasonably far in), but there are aspects such as the wands, and thaumuim, and transmutations that are very useful early game, when certain materials can be difficult to get, and enchanting the more "expensive" tools is quite costly, for the reward.
The main downside is the materials that you lose in the research.
It's something that always puzzles me a little when people say that they are "done". I can understand getting bored of something, but not feeling that you have accomplished everything that a modpack has to offer. Most of the mods for minecraft, while they may present some manner of inherent goals within the content itself, the much larger part of them tends to be tools for other things, and a lot of the fun is in combining the content to something new and different that wasn't expected.[DOUBLEPOST=1371639134][/DOUBLEPOST]
As far as I can tell, it does make a fairly viable starting tree. It's a little different to the usual (the ore doubling doesn't come in until reasonably far in), but there are aspects such as the wands, and thaumuim, and transmutations that are very useful early game, when certain materials can be difficult to get, and enchanting the more "expensive" tools is quite costly, for the reward.
The main downside is the materials that you lose in the research.
Completing the research is barely the first part of Thaumcraft. I'm biased since it's one of my favorites, but asking what to do next is simple. Make something.
Golems are detailed in previous replies. The tools, weapons, and wands can make your enemies quake with fear and envy. The arcane bore is the coolest mining device in the game. Reactor chambers have style thanks to warded blocks, and warded doors, pressure plates and keys offer non-plugin base security for your server needs.
Honestly you just don't understand the mod if you think the research is actually using it. Also the Thaumonomicon is actually an in game manual, so it'll tell you how to use the items. In 1.5 there's the add on mod, Thaumic Tinkerer that spices things up even more.
But I really don't understand these types of posts in general. Minecraft, and it's mods are non-linear games. There is no end, there is no story. You make it into what you want. It's open world in its most pure state. If you don't know what to do with this level of game freedom, then perhaps Skyrim or an MMO is what you need to be playing since they tell you what to do and there's a slight element of open play.
Most games are color by number books with crayons included. Minecraft is a blank canvas, with the only paint provided being the primary colors that you mix to make others. The painting is what you make of the near limitless tool set.
Golems are detailed in previous replies. The tools, weapons, and wands can make your enemies quake with fear and envy. The arcane bore is the coolest mining device in the game. Reactor chambers have style thanks to warded blocks, and warded doors, pressure plates and keys offer non-plugin base security for your server needs.
Honestly you just don't understand the mod if you think the research is actually using it. Also the Thaumonomicon is actually an in game manual, so it'll tell you how to use the items. In 1.5 there's the add on mod, Thaumic Tinkerer that spices things up even more.
But I really don't understand these types of posts in general. Minecraft, and it's mods are non-linear games. There is no end, there is no story. You make it into what you want. It's open world in its most pure state. If you don't know what to do with this level of game freedom, then perhaps Skyrim or an MMO is what you need to be playing since they tell you what to do and there's a slight element of open play.
Most games are color by number books with crayons included. Minecraft is a blank canvas, with the only paint provided being the primary colors that you mix to make others. The painting is what you make of the near limitless tool set.
as above why not combine magic and science and do some really crazy shiz, get his golems doing your item transfers for instance, make his magic powered farm feed your machines to make fuels and have his decanting golems move that liquid about. possibilities are endless.
I would do this, but I already have my entire sorting system finished.
I just asked him if he likes bees/wants to do bees:
"Maybe. I don't really know anything about bees though".
"Bees are like ThaumCraft."
"I know."
"You find stuff out about it! Discover things!"
"I don't really know how to use Forestry though"
"Oh, it's easy. I could help you out. I know how to start with bees."
"Maybe once I'm done."
So, he might do bees and/or XReliquary.