Gunpowder
- Thread starter CodaPDX
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Witch soulshard.
Also firebats and ghasts.
Speaking of which, you do know that monsters from a vanilla spawner count towards souls, right?
Also, did you know that you can meld two soulshard on the anvil? The one on the left is which monster the resulting shard will be.
Also firebats and ghasts.
Speaking of which, you do know that monsters from a vanilla spawner count towards souls, right?
Also, did you know that you can meld two soulshard on the anvil? The one on the left is which monster the resulting shard will be.
How about going for bees?
GenerikB has 4 alviaries of them, and it seems to produce at quite an incredible rate.
GenerikB has 4 alviaries of them, and it seems to produce at quite an incredible rate.
IF you have IC2/GT installed you can craft it with sulfar, saltperter, and coal dust. (might be off on the repcie)
I'd suggest going with bees, but only if you've already started breeding a bit. The bee you'd be looking for is Austere, which needs to be bred in the nether, unless using alveary upgrades. It's fairly low on the mutation chain, so if you really want gunpowder, even one apiary or alveary setup with frames will get you a lot of gunpowder, as long as you pipe the bees back in when they die.
Strip a waste land bare of its cracked sand with the wand of equal trade and grind the cracked sand to dust before centrifuging it to get salt peter. Now go into the nether and mine a lot of Greg techs nether ores while avoiding the ones that anger the pigmen. Process those nether resources to get a ton of suffer to combine with your salt peter to make a lot of gun powder.
Or you can go the easy route and get a creeper soul shard which you can combine with a much easier to get zombie or skelly teir 5 shard to get your creeper soul shard. Also note that combining soul shards is a unintended bug and the new versions of soul shards will nerf it as well as getting rid of rare drops from soul shard spawned mobs, aka no more wither skelly head farms.
Or you can go the easy route and get a creeper soul shard which you can combine with a much easier to get zombie or skelly teir 5 shard to get your creeper soul shard. Also note that combining soul shards is a unintended bug and the new versions of soul shards will nerf it as well as getting rid of rare drops from soul shard spawned mobs, aka no more wither skelly head farms.
Of course, you could have also pulled up NEI and found this information for yourself...
Except that it's not in NEI. At least not in mine. I just checked. Must be one of those "secret" recipes.
Smooth.
Just like glowstone from IC2 being redstone and gold dust. And nukes, I believe. And "superfuel"
I don't think there is blaze rod bee, but there are blaze powder bees, last one from embittered line and fire shard one. Thaumic bees also can give you blaze powder from magical flowers.
Not correct. Austere's will mutate anywhere, and in fact their preferred biome is desert. One of the two bees required to mutate to Austere can itself only be mutated in the Nether.
Also, Austere bees will not make gunpowder unless they're in an arid/dry biome like desert or savanna. Batty and Creeper bees will make gunpowder anywhere, but Austere is significantly faster.
The recipe gives you three gunpowder, so it works out to a little more than 8 redstone per TNT, and roughly 40 redstone per iridium plate. Which isn't that bad.
Lemme tell ya, Nether Coal makes coal dust worries a problem of the past. Just grind those up in a pulverizer (get thorium dust from it, as well), and use to your heart's content. I'm not sure if it works in the current version of Nether Ores or not, but used to be, mining the ores via mining laser (on low focus mode, for precision and low power usage) didn't anger pigmen.
Diamonds are worthless to me. I'd trade them 1:1 for AE quartz or 1:4 for copper if I could.