Monster: A Few Questions RE: Mob Essence, NetherIndurium, Geostrata, ICexp

[Alcheya]

First things first.. I am on FTB Monster 1.0.3, but I added Morph.

Mob Essence:

Before, I usually gathered enough mobs for soul shards and made my grinder with that. I also used MFE auto spawners to make a mob grinder. In monster, with the absence of soul shards, I opted to use auto-spawners. The grinders, however, no longer kill slimes in the way they did before to make a self-sustaining system of spawner/grinder. So far my best solution was to wait until I could craft a Portal gun to bring a spawner over (since grav gun is also gone) but is there another way to get quick mob essence or another way to move spawners I'm not seeing?

NetherIndurium:

It spawns with netherores, but I can't use it in a pulverizor and it shows no recipes in NEI but one, which is turning netherindurium to netherindurium. Just a bug or is there something else I can do with it not in NEI.

Geostrata:

Is there any proper documentation for this mod? I have no clue how to use the Crystal Brewery. It's quite a nussaince trying to figure it out and the mod's site doesn't even mention how to make the potions. The potion crystal lamps are ridiculously OP (unlimited 5 minute potion effects) but I'm not complaining about that, I just wanted the potions. Also a bunch of other things I'd like explained on the mod.


IC Exp:

What is going on over there? It's like they wanted to make the mod unneccessarily complicated. Throwing iron in a furnace was annoying enough. I heard they wanted to remove some of the redundant steps or something along those lines... so they made it even more annoying to automate basically requiring an additional machine/tool? Ugh..

Edit: Found a thread on IC exp.. strike that.


Any help appreciated. Thanks in advance.

 

[Alcheya]

Anything? -_- Kind of feel blind here.

 

[DriftinFool]

You can move and control vanilla spawners with rotary craft, but you have to get fairly deep into it. Craft the rotary craft handbook and go check out the borer. It says it will drop the spawner and maitain the mob it had when it hits them mining. Then there is a control module you can put on the spawner to control the spawn rate and on/off. I haven't set one up yet to give you the details, just going off what I have found while poking around.

As lost as you on many other mods in the current packs.

 

[PierceSG]

RotaryCraft's Bedrock Pickaxe can also harvest spawners intact.

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[Alcheya]

Thank you guys! I will try the bedrock spawner. Also figured out the cursed earth method which is looking promising.

 

[The Snipe]

I made a vanilla ender ender (Its much easier in FTB) which is all the spawning platforms, hooked up with a timer and red alloy wire with grinders on the bottom.

AFK it for a few hours and come back too a full RC Tank full of essence which will do you good for atleast a few days.

 

[Alcheya]

Not a bad idea. I haven't been to the End yet as I usually save it for later.

 

[The Snipe]

I was lucy, in when I was starting out on our server, when I was caving I found a system of dungeons that led into a mineshaft right into the fortress, and since I needed to get enderpearls, I really needed to get there.

 

[Fe2O3]

I just build a regular ol mobtrabtower in a mystcraft age with just 1 island or a void age. Bottom floor = mfr grinder, floor above that holds the mfr autospawners (hint you can load//unload the net with pipes, pipe wire and gates); 10+ floors above that have the usual 2 high rooms with water channels on the borders dropping regular mobs down.

Idle there for 1 hour, and the normal mobs will have built enough essence up to keep you going forever.

 

[The Snipe]

My mob essence, aswell as being used for mob spawning, is used for villager spawning, so I can sort em to get my mystcraft pages so its not really an option. Going for some form of mob grinder is usually one of the first things I do, so I can have plenty of enderpearls, and other mobdrops that are usually a pain to get.