I posted a thread for ideas to make a harcore server a few weeks ago. A few friends and I did managed to do just that. But now that we have started, we are realizing that we may have made things too hard maybe. I was hoping someone who has tangled with GregTech's hard mode before could give me some pointers for my team. Specifically:
With GT, stone is very hard and mining it takes a long time. With Custom Ore Gen, ores only spawn in certain places and are alot rarer. Add Hunger Overhaul and Iguana Tweaks and health regen is incredibly slow, as is growing crops and breeding animals. Basicly combining these, we are finding ores very very hard to find and caves tough to explore. Plus with GT the ores we need are deep in mountaints it seems. We're just wondering if there's any mods that add mining techniques/tools that might help without being OP here. Someone suggested using explosives for getting through all the new tougher stone. Obviously old techniques of using stone picks to tunnel through a mountain isn't going to work here so maybe dynamite IS the way to go. But is there a mod that adds any good mining explosives ?
Or...maybe some other mining tool/technique we haven't thought of ? Or maybe some GT vets could give us some tips or something ??? With the encumberance added by Iguana Tweaks, even when we DO find some ore, we're going to need to make trips with mules to get them back to camp and eventually build some rail systems for transporting the ores. I actually really like that though, its realistic and adds a real use for minecarts...
Also, finding ores with custom ore gen and GT together feels almost impossible, 3 of us like the camouflaged ore, the other 2 want it turned off, so we're considering adding Greg's Prospecting to our pack to help out. Anyone know of any other mods like that, which aren't too OP but do help find ore to a certain extent ?
And last but not least, when we get all this ore back to the base, what should we do with it ? Is it worth smashing Tethradrite (s?) and Cassiterite (s?) ore and then smelting it to make nuggets ? Whats the FIRST bronze machine we should make ? Thanks for the help gang !
With GT, stone is very hard and mining it takes a long time. With Custom Ore Gen, ores only spawn in certain places and are alot rarer. Add Hunger Overhaul and Iguana Tweaks and health regen is incredibly slow, as is growing crops and breeding animals. Basicly combining these, we are finding ores very very hard to find and caves tough to explore. Plus with GT the ores we need are deep in mountaints it seems. We're just wondering if there's any mods that add mining techniques/tools that might help without being OP here. Someone suggested using explosives for getting through all the new tougher stone. Obviously old techniques of using stone picks to tunnel through a mountain isn't going to work here so maybe dynamite IS the way to go. But is there a mod that adds any good mining explosives ?
Or...maybe some other mining tool/technique we haven't thought of ? Or maybe some GT vets could give us some tips or something ??? With the encumberance added by Iguana Tweaks, even when we DO find some ore, we're going to need to make trips with mules to get them back to camp and eventually build some rail systems for transporting the ores. I actually really like that though, its realistic and adds a real use for minecarts...
Also, finding ores with custom ore gen and GT together feels almost impossible, 3 of us like the camouflaged ore, the other 2 want it turned off, so we're considering adding Greg's Prospecting to our pack to help out. Anyone know of any other mods like that, which aren't too OP but do help find ore to a certain extent ?
And last but not least, when we get all this ore back to the base, what should we do with it ? Is it worth smashing Tethradrite (s?) and Cassiterite (s?) ore and then smelting it to make nuggets ? Whats the FIRST bronze machine we should make ? Thanks for the help gang !
