Ideas for my Stonehenge! (Thaumcraft)

[BarningOwls]

Hey guys. I got inspired to make a kind of parallel universe using mystcraft. The age will basically be a kind of mystical bronze-age kinda place. Similar to the Twilight. With this mystcraft age, I get more control. Its gonna be a survival map kinda thing. Lots of forests and villages.

In the overworld, the portal is gonna be in this Stonehenge I built.

I wanted to ask you guys, what kind of cool tricks I could use to add some drama and effects.

I was wondering what kind of Thaumcraft I could use to make this thing more of a riddle. A portal you have to unlock. (for fun, and also to keep the majority out of this new age I guess)

I am still learning about Thaumcraft. I am curious, are there any mechanisms to hide entrances?

I guess I could use any of the machines from FTB. But it would be cool to keep the magic theme.

What do you guys think?

 

[Pokefenn]

you need to have a node in the centre, or one of those crystal cores (i think thats what it is)

 

[Ako_the_Builder]

secret rooms mod might be useful to you, don't think you said which pack you're using, it's included in ultimate and magic world.

 

[YooKahZee2]

Use a portable hole from thaumcraft that will let you go through blocks

Also make the floor some cobble and mossy cobble it might look cool.

 

[jumpfight5]

Microblocks can make it look more dilapidated, bricks or stones on the ground.
Maybe some underground complex, kind of like a stronghold, but restored to it's former glory?

 

[BarningOwls]

Thanks for the input, guys. I was trying to move a node to the center. I'm not sure how. I planted some silverwood trees. They raised the aura, but also made a ton of flux.

Do you know much about arcane pressure plates?

Is there anything in Direwolf that acts like a motion sesnor?

 

[Technician]

Player Detector?

I know a lot about Arcane plates they're useful

Put a infusion altar in the middle maybe? and other sideways laying rocks and one of them is the way down to a giant box wait that's Doctor who.. Still put the portal in the box!

 

[Mash]

That's very cool.

I don't know the actual history of stonehenge (or even if you care if it applies) but a node right in the center there would certainly look cool. Maybe a pure node or normal node, if you didn't want it boxed up.

Other than that... Nitor might look cool for lighting, if you wanted to stick to the magic theme.

 

[Technician]

That's very cool.

I don't know the actual history of stonehenge (or even if you care if it applies) but a node right in the center there would certainly look cool. Maybe a pure node or normal node, if you didn't want it boxed up.

Other than that... Nitor might look cool for lighting, if you wanted to stick to the magic theme.

Or put down Alumentum it really looks good.

 

[Chocorate]

I think you ought to use RP2 lamps for the lights, because RP2 is perfect

 

[jumpfight5]

Wraith lamps look eerie though

 

[Lambert2191]

Spoiler: What stonehenge looks like today:

Spoiler: What stonehenge likely looked like in it's day

Notice the Altar and Heel stones? You should add those, maybe try get yourself a pure node ontop of the altar stones and a couple of beacons beneath the heelstones?
oh and maybe try populate it with testificates as druids?

 

[Technician]

I use beacons now, beacons are cool.

 

[Lambert2191]

I use beacons now, beacons are cool.

they coulda fooled me

 

[Technician]

they coulda fooled me

I actually hate beacons

I had two smaller ones and they ran 68 blocks of iron.

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[Cieronph]

FFS not a player detector a god damn TRIPWIRE also try adding one of those obsidian nodes

 

[Saice]

To be honest I like the idea of the underground secrect base taht can only be gotten to via using the portalable hole right in the middle of that place.

 

[jumpfight5]

Yea, and use the levitators so you don't fall to your doom

 

[Technician]

To be honest I like the idea of the underground secrect base taht can only be gotten to via using the portalable hole right in the middle of that place.

YES YES YES

 

[jumpfight5]

OR!
Make a portable hole that leads into a frame lift that lands you into a huge bio-dome lit by wraith lamps and is all zen-like, and have a completely rebuilt stonehenge! The old one should have a bad node, and the new one should have a pure node!
Mind=Blown