Long time players need new project
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Build something pretty
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Seriously don't get it why and how uncreative people can play Minecraft modded or not for longer then a month. Building pointless pretty buildings is like 60% of the game even with mods installed.
Ohh wait... never mind.
Seriously don't get it why and how uncreative people can play Minecraft modded or not for longer then a month. Building pointless pretty buildings is like 60% of the game even with mods installed.
You know, sometimes people aren't creative AESTHETIC builders (not everyone is Etho or Beef), some are creative CONTRAPTION builders. Like DW20. He is surely not the best aesthetic builder out there, but he surely knows how to create an original contraption (Smeltery automation, for example). Of course, there's always the ingenious guys like Saice.
For example, I suck at building. On the other hand, ever heard of powering your base using Biofuel from Mekanism?
This is true but creative building can be learned. Aesthetics are like any art form the more you try and experiment the more you get better at it. And it is really something you only get better at by doing.
I highly suggest to anyone that feels they are not good at aesthetic building to try something in creative mode. Give yourself a simple task. Build a small house and then after you do that do it a few more times but do not allow yourself to repeat the blocks you use. This is a fairly simple thing you could do and most likely you will come away with at least something that is semi decent aesthetic wise. And even if that is all you ever do get one good aesthetic system that still will work for many people.
For the love of kittens I die a little inside when Is see peoples bases are just collections of 9x9 rooms or just one huge cube with everything just spread out around the massive floor.
Also browsing the Community Showcase can help many people. Coping someones style or build is not a sin you can learn for that sort of thing. And then there are even a few threads people have done to try and help people.
http://forum.feed-the-beast.com/threads/this-old-9x9-challange-and-share.25358/
http://forum.feed-the-beast.com/threads/pimp-your-nether-portal-challenge.25687/
And of course the huge show of your
http://forum.feed-the-beast.com/threads/lets-see-some-bases-give-us-a-tour.5793/
That's not the point. The point is that for a lot of people it's simply not the most interesting part. I do try to make my base look kinda nice but for me the most fun is the internal workings of the factory, not the facade. A well thought out factory process gives me much more satisfaction than a pretty building.
Hmmm...an idea I'm harbouring for doing on my server but maybe you guys can do it and let me copy the build? T5 Enderman Shard in a MFR Grinder, getting Ender Pearls and Minium Shards. Use of DSUs, BC pipes, Logistics Pipes, TE Aqueous Accumulator and Cyclic Assemblers to make an automated system where the minium shards, smooth stone, iron ingots and gold ingot are crafted into minium stones on demand and supplied to the cyclic assemblers which make use of them to turn ender pearls into iron ingots > gold ingots > diamonds, and later when you have enough of those, auto craft the ingots and diamonds into blocks and 3 beacons of largest size using iron, gold and diamond blocks only. Please do let me know how you automate those when you do have it done. 
Hmmm...an idea I'm harbouring for doing on my server but maybe you guys can do it and let me copy the build? T5 Enderman Shard in a MFR Grinder, getting Ender Pearls and Minium Shards. Use of DSUs, BC pipes, Logistics Pipes, TE Aqueous Accumulator and Cyclic Assemblers to make an automated system where the minium shards, smooth stone, iron ingots and gold ingot are crafted into minium stones on demand and supplied to the cyclic assemblers which make use of them to turn ender pearls into iron ingots > gold ingots > diamonds, and later when you have enough of those, auto craft the ingots and diamonds into blocks and 3 beacons of largest size using iron, gold and diamond blocks only. Please do let me know how you automate those when you do have it done.
I have something like this: 3 T5 shards (zombie, skeleton, spider, easy to get in TC dungeons) in an MFR grinder. Mob essence is then used in MFR autospawners that spawn endermen, ghasts, etc. It's rather hard to actually get T5 shards in unleased if there are no spawners because the bug where you could use an anvil to create them is fixed.
Don't forget that you can also auto-spawn pigmen this way: they drop a LOT of gold.[DOUBLEPOST=1377170079][/DOUBLEPOST]
I got bored with that mod pretty fast. They're trying to make it so realistic that it takes as much time in-game as it would IRL. Well, I don't have that kind of time just to build a single pickaxe.
Have you tried delving into more advanced computercraft turtle contraptions?
For example, making a self-replicating turtle factory?
that is, it creates turtles, sets the turtles to gather resources for creating more turtles and for storing up resources until there's enough to build another factory, then it creates turtles that builds the new factory and starts up another setup?
EDIT: And of course, once the new factory is finished, all previous diggers/builders should be "repurposed" by going into a uncrafting table and be recrafted as sword turtles.
And in a few days you have a cylon revolution.
For example, making a self-replicating turtle factory?
that is, it creates turtles, sets the turtles to gather resources for creating more turtles and for storing up resources until there's enough to build another factory, then it creates turtles that builds the new factory and starts up another setup?
EDIT: And of course, once the new factory is finished, all previous diggers/builders should be "repurposed" by going into a uncrafting table and be recrafted as sword turtles.
And in a few days you have a cylon revolution.
No they don't aim to make it take as much time as in real life! xD Just a bit more time than it does currently. It's a very different game for sure, much more focused on survival. But yeah, it's not for everyone.
I got my T5 Enderman shard before anything else thanks to other players killing the dragon for me and using Force Sword with Soul V.
If you're having trouble with soul shard mobs, perhaps try and get an auto-spawner first?
I believe kills from mobs spawned from that will count towards your shard, and are able to be replicated like a normal spawner (just can't consume it for 200 kills)
Something like that is for me ! I got bored with quarries, mining lasers, Mass Fabs, etc., so I reset the world and used turtles instead, but with one rule : my own code. I can't tell you how many turtles I lost, but I can tell you it took a good week of trial, error, troubleshooting, and sometimes pulling my hair out to get a reliable turtle quarrying that didn't use GPS. Once I had a reliable quarry script that was just as automatic (easy) as a quarry, but much more configurable, I made other scripts to automate tedious tasks.
And, it was well worth it. I got my feet wet with ComputerCraft and ended up with something cool in the end : some scripts I could run every world reset as soon I found 3 diamonds to build my 1st Mining Turtle, ex. I've done my fair share of mining Obsidian by hand over the years and I'm glad to let my turtle do it for me now while I fend off creepers.
My next challenges are indeed along the lines of a self-replicating turtle factory. I'd like to write scripts for structure-building turtles that use the equation for the surface of a sphere, pyramid, etc.,. scouting turtles that drop chunk loaders and wireless repeaters along the way, report their findings back to base, and then build a remote outpost, turtles that mine, looking for specific minerals, etc.,. and after that, who knows ? The next challenge would be my own mod.
Add the Redstone in Motion mod,(which in case you don't know is a replacement for rp2 frames) and make a war in the server, flying machines with dispensers and lasers and thaumcraft bores just tearing the world or if you want something functional just make a good ol' tunnel bore with them.
I can see your point. I'm on the opposite and could care less about the machines. I just want enough juice to run some farms and keep the lights on. But a well thought out factory is still a creative design process. The end goal may be productivity over aesthetics, but creativity is still the core of both strategies.
Minecraft is about mining & crafting. Or crafting something that is yours. That's the core of the game. If you're confused about how to do something, that's understandable. But having no clue about what you want to do means you should probably go play something else.