How do you light up your base?

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Mirality

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kittle said:
But recently I found that you can take a glowstone block +saw and carve it up into microblocks. Then place those around your base as needed. 1 glowstone block will get me 16 strips. Each strip gives light like a normal full block of glowstone, so that gives you a 16x multiplier, so it doesnt take too many full blocks to light an area.
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That's a great idea. If that works on inverted lamps too, it'd be perfect.
 
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Yusunoha said:
sadly the radius of the magnum torch has been changed... it used to be 64 horizontal and 16 vertical, but now it's 32 both horizontally and vertically...
quite a pain for my Agrarian Skies world with my mobtrap
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I'm glad you said that because I've been wondering... I did assume it was a 64 block radius but I was seeing mobs closer than that. Kind of annoying when something changes like this, because how can we keep track of every change? That's why I post here and read here daily, to learn these sort of things.
 
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asb3pe said:
I'm glad you said that because I've been wondering... I did assume it was a 64 block radius but I was seeing mobs closer than that. Kind of annoying when something changes like this, because how can we keep track of every change? That's why I post here and read here daily, to learn these sort of things.
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the radius of the magnum torch has changed a few times, would be nice if the radius was mentioned in the ingame NEI info window that extra utilities adds
 
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Staxed

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kittle said:
But recently I found that you can take a glowstone block +saw and carve it up into microblocks. Then place those around your base as needed. 1 glowstone block will get me 16 strips. Each strip gives light like a normal full block of glowstone, so that gives you a 16x multiplier, so it doesnt take too many full blocks to light an area.
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Make them into nooks instead of strips, then you get 32x instead of 16x :)
 
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Depends on how deep ingame I actually am. If I just start out I simply use Torch spam + Forge Microblocks. Midgame I use Arcane Lamps/Nitor/Glowstone. Endgame would be Gaseous Illuminae (Thaumic Tinkerer).


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Why use lighting? Live life on the edge. Couple creepers spawn near your bed, that's OK. Just tell them to tidy up after they're done.
 
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Eruantien

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What's "light"?

I AM THE NECROMANCER.
I DO NOT FEAR THE UNDEAD.
(Just the living suicide bombers.)
 
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Eruantien said:
What's "light"?

I AM THE NECROMANCER.
I DO NOT FEAR THE UNDEAD.
(Just the living suicide bombers.)
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Light is teh opposite of dark.
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Eruantien

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Lux capacitors work quite well, as well.
(Lux, not flux. Flux capacitors don't work well at all.)
 
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Eruantien

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Current options for spammy lighting:

Reliquary's Sojourner's Staff
MPS Lux Capacitors
AM2 magic lighting
FLORBS
 
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Eruantien said:
Current options for spammy lighting:

Reliquary's Sojourner's Staff
MPS Lux Capacitors
AM2 magic lighting
FLORBS
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If you REALLY want invisible light and are pretty endgame in Thaumcraft, use Gaseous Illuminae from Thaumic Tinkerer.


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dalekslayer96 said:
If you REALLY want invisible light and are pretty endgame in Thaumcraft, use Gaseous Illuminae from Thaumic Tinkerer.


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Well, I'm not there yet... plus, it's not quite as spammable as others - although, I'm not there yet, of course.
 
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Wekmor

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Forge microblock covers (out of whatever your floor) is and torches below the covers

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