Just a quick question about Soul Shards

[Succubism]

Hey so I'm playing Unleashed 1.1.3 and I have like 16 shards, however unlike previous versions anvil combining them doesn't seem to work anymore? Have they changed this feature?

 

[Succubism]

Just checked the wiki.

Apparently it was an "exploit" previously. News to me, but hey. I guess monotonous grinding is fun for some people.

Though I hear you can use vanilla cages. So I'mma try that.

 

[Succubism]

Apparently it only works with soul cages with the appropriate monster in.

 

[angelnc]

It only works with the same monster in it, except for Wither Skeletons. You can get Wither Skeleton souls with a normal Skeleton spawner.

 

[Succubism]

It only works with the same monster in it, except for Wither Skeletons. You can get Wither Skeleton souls with a normal Skeleton spawner.

Yeah, that was the one I was using. You can also get wither skeleton gems by making a skeleton shard cage in the nether and breaking it.
Same thing vice versa for wither skeleton > skeleton in the overworld.

 

[Yusunoha]

this was always a bug, as shadwdrgn really wanted people to grind for their shards. but because it was so much work, he added the soul stealing enchant for people, but he didn't fixed the anvil bug fast enough and FTB started to share the mod in their modpacks and people were told by others it was a "feature"

right now Soul Shards 2.0 got released for 1.6.4 with some new changes, I haven't tried it out though as I kind of prefer MFR's kind of spawning then Soul Shards kind of spawning...

 

[Adonis0]

What I personally do with this is get an MFR spawner for the mobs you only use occasionally, and if you want mob drops as part of automation, get a soul stealer enchant and beat those MFR spawned mobs to bits

They still count and are so much less grindy than hunting down randomly spawned ones or vanilla cages

 

[Pokefenn]

*grumbles that the reason they are expensive is because they are seriously op when you have them*