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Wabbit

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If you construct a witch farm (when you find one) it wouldn't be so bad.
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I hadn't thought of that, but for the sake of hopping over to the nether with an efficient enchanted pick it just seems impractical.
But then I suppose, Welcome to Minecraft. Right?
 

WTFFFS

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The one thing that doesn't have a recipe and REALLY sucks if you can't find any if you want steel is soulsand, my current world I ported to the nether right next to a fortress thought that was pretty good, then I went hunting around for soulsand haven't found any within ~600 blocks of the portal.
 

Wabbit

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The one thing that doesn't have a recipe and REALLY sucks if you can't find any if you want steel is soulsand, my current world I ported to the nether right next to a fortress thought that was pretty good, then I went hunting around for soulsand haven't found any within ~600 blocks of the portal.
Don't fortress' have soulsand in them where the warts grow?
 

WTFFFS

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Don't fortress' have soulsand in them where the warts grow?
Yeah they do I'd forgotten that.

Just went and checked, I'm positive this game is trolling me now there was one netherwart planting in the fortress which = 20 soulsand I need 36 for a blast furnace lol
 

Omicron

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Oh wow, I did forget all about soul sand.

Yeah, that would make things quite difficult, wouldn't it :p But it was a fun exercise of thought anyway.
 

MCJinzha

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Soulsand is EVERYWHERE in the nether, yet it's sometimes so hard to find. I remember when I walked all the way around a huge lava lake, then climbed up to a floating island and finally harvested soulsand, just to find some right across my portal later that day :(
 

Bibble

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I'll admit that the nether's ... unpredictably is one of the reasons that my railcraft progress usually stalls. In order to get steel (a relatively moderate advancement, I think), you need to be able to find a reasonable supply of:
- Slimes (more common if I settle in swamps, but I don't seem to find them passing through. Their sound and exessive spawning is one of the reasons I've stopped settling in swamps).
- Blazes (the nether is difficult enough to navigate on a good day, if you can't max out your view distance, and get a bad spawn, you could never find the fortress until you get to quantum level).
- Soul sand (if you find the fortress, I often struggle to find soul sand).

On my current world, I've been able to grab blaze rods (yay! boilers!), but can't find any damn slimes to make a blast furnace, which stops me using the top tier stuff. It's something I'll probably be able to sort when I'm further in the other mods, but it's a bit of a pain (4 diamonds in a week of playing is also a pain).
 

Omicron

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I actually have the same issue right now. Can't find any slimes or swamps. I don't have any vanilla biomes at all in a 2 kilometer range around my base, with the exception of 1x extreme hills, and a humongous ocean.

You know you're getting desperate if you start breeding bees in an effort to artificially produce slimeballs out of pollen and propolis... :D
 

Bibble

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I actually have the same issue right now. Can't find any slimes or swamps. I don't have any vanilla biomes at all in a 2 kilometer range around my base, with the exception of 1x extreme hills, and a humongous ocean.

You know you're getting desperate if you start breeding bees in an effort to artificially produce slimeballs out of pollen and propolis... :D
That's tempting, but it's a pain if you don't have the diamonds to make the apiarists pipe. It's a little bit silly that I have BC energy coming out of my ears, butthings like slime balls (that I've been swamped in with previous maps) are scarce.