Bit late to the quote, but Blood Magic has no world gen, and sacrificing villagers has no negative consequences.
My Little "Picture-Through" Mark Two
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Do MFR spawned mobs work to fuel the Altar? I know they're treated such that you can't harvest souls from them for Soul Cages, but does Blood Magic ascribe the same principle?
Also, if you run into some track, you might consider making a Steve's Cart farm. I'm going to build one if I can get it to work with Magical Crops, and Agriculture.
Also, if you run into some track, you might consider making a Steve's Cart farm. I'm going to build one if I can get it to work with Magical Crops, and Agriculture.
Haven't tried it, but I'd be surprised if it didn't add LP.
I haven't specifically tried it, but I know that it works with Cursed Earth, which (once you've got it) is even cheaper than MFR mob farms, so I'd imagine it'd work.
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*evil laughter*
I have run into an Abandoned Mineshaft, but I have yet to explore it fully due to my innate slight arachnophobia. I have however, so far, gathered 17 tracks. I will return to the mineshaft to look for more tracks later, but for now, I'm hopefully satisfied by cutting willow trees down manually and converting the logs into charcoal!
When we last left off, PhantomRage created his very first Farm to grow a ridiculously small amount of each type of Agriculture product. He also, finally, made an ore processing facility to double his infinite riches!
I am ashamed to say, however, that there will not be much content or building in this section. Instead, you will see me being pushed around by gatling gun-wielding skeletons! I am currently thinking of potential things to do next, and some of the top things are to create a portal mold for the Nether (nobody has time to waste Diamonds around here!), creating an automated tree farm which will probably not be MFR, as the sheer number of leaves being cut really takes a toll on your FPS, and finding more redstone, as purely Mimichite cannot keep me going if I plan to delve deeper into agriculture/technology.
A Fire Skeleton. It seems quite menacing, but I'm sure it cannot set me on fire. It totally can't light me on fire, as there is totally no way it can reach me!
*Flame I*
Chaps, it seems I have misread the enemy's battle plans. They do have a way to set me on fire, and they do have a way to continuously keep setting me on fire. This will not be a good situation for our poor armor, which is composed of only an Invar Chestplate and Leggings. I have a feeling this will be a pincushion-y day. The original goal of why I was out here was to obtain string to create some Miner's Backpacks. Long gone are the days of 'equivalent exchanging' 1 wool into 4 string via Cheat Mode! I am a reformed man!
See that Skeleton in the fancy-schmancy golden goggles to the right? He might just be worse than those elemental creepers. He always seems to keep me back from him with his rapid-fire bow, but it may also be just me staying in the water than attacking him on land. I did eventually kill both of the skeletons, suffering around six hearts of damage and degrading my armor slightly. My reward for my valiant efforts were only bones and arrows. Seriously, you could have given me a near-dead Golden Helmet or Boots, at least! RNG is RNG, though...
There needs to be a 'Pincushion' achievement, in which you must have a required amount of arrows on your player shot by someone other than you. I have no idea how this would be coded, and this entire paragraph may be sarcastic, but a Pincushion achievement would be quite interesting indeed!
For the price of only ONE Portal Gun and ONE Mimichite, you can have TWO Portal Guns! It is a miracle upon miracles, for you only have to fight the Wither ONCE! Maybe you even won't have to fight him AT ALL!
So, I was hunting for some Clay for a Smeltery, and then I died. I painfully died ~5-6 more times before I could retrieve all my items. I have never drowned that many times consecutively before. It is quite embarrassing as I die to something more frequent - like a Zombie.
In our next adventures, PhantomRage upgrades his infrastructure and seeks to enter the Nether, the hottest of places! All the cool Pigmen and Blazes party there; it's a shame the sad Ghasts are excluded!
You should definitely use fences to breathe underwater. Makes clay digging easier.
That's a crappy singled-portal (always blue) portal gun. So it's not that good of a trade... unless you can uncraft those into nether stars (2), they are worthless :/
True, except all the special guns require one of the original to make. So you can dupe the original and then convert one into another, repeat as desired.
Hopefully I will keep that advice in mind!
When we last off, PhantomRage more or less voluntarily became a pincushion, and succumbed to cold Polar waters thousands of times due to drowning!
A disclaimer, I did not achieve the goal of entering the Nether in this post. However, I am inching ever-closer to entering the Nether, as I have obtained necessary tools to directly mine Obsidian. More further down!
I do love cutting down Willow Trees with the help of VeinMiner. Currently, the only type of wood I convert (due to ease of access) to charcoal is Willow, as each Axe use cuts down a sizable amount of logs. Of course, this may be just me being lazy, but, "...convenience is king!". (~DartCraft 2013)
The amount of wood I have gathered in a 15-minute
With the clay I obtained from the suffocating Polar waters which I never want to enter again, gravel from dark, scary underground caves, and sand from beaches far far away from my home which I won't miss, I finally converted it into nearly seven stacks of grout. That should be plenty for the size of Smeltery I will create, which will not be very big in the first place. This size should suffice for my alloying and tool part-creating purposes.
Don't mind me, just creating some Aluminum Brass to create some Metal Patterns with. Nothing to see here.
So, to solve my Mossy Cobblestone problem for Balls of Moss, I decided to create a Liquid Transposer. I saw a recipe for 1,000 mB of water + 1 Cobblestone = 1 Mossy Cobblestone, and I was instantly hooked. The energy requirement is no matter for me; my single Hero Dynamo will pull through and power everything with the help of the Hero Energy Cell! I like to think that they are at an imaginary Hero level, but they are not. Saddening for me.
PhantomRage. The Transposer doesn't go here, idiot.
So, I realized that I couldn't directly stick a bucket of water in a Transposer. So, I decided to rely on an old block I have forgotten a long time ago - the Portable Tank! The lowest level shall do for now. I will fill it with water from the Aqueous Accumulator line which is also supplying my Steam Dynamo. It saves me a considerable amount of time; the alternative would have been running back and forth between the Portable Tank waiting for the Liquid Transposer to potentially explode, even though that would never happen. 'Tis is the inner sanctum of PhantomRage's mind.
Alloying 128 charcoal and 32 Iron Ingots in the Induction Smelter later, I finally have created the Hammer which will bring me great Redstone wealth, hopefully! I will, for now, only stick one (my only) Lapis on the Hammer in hopes for the Luck level increasing, as a kind soul said in my previous "Picture-Through", as well as two Mosses, as I can't spare Redstone for now for speed. The mining speed isn't bad for a Hammer, but it certainly is slow. I hope I don't consistently run into those hard GeoStrata rocks when I'm tunneling. As an added plus, its mining level is Cobalt, so I should theoretically be able to break Obsidian - at a helluva slow speed.
Now that I think about it, I may want to obtain an Enchanting Table very soon. I am drowning in experience quite severely thanks to RailCraft Saltpeter and Vanilla Coal.
In our next adventures, PhantomRage finally sticks to his promise of breaking Obsidian and trying to enter the Nether, and is blessed with the fortunes of one more vein of Redstone Ore!
No worries, even a steel hammer isn't too slow at going through obsidian.
Also, if you have chisel, it can make stone into mossy bricks. Upon learning this, they rage shall be Phantom no longer!
Also, I feel you about the Transposer. Mine is at y128, so if I didn't have a portable tank, I'd be up a creek.
Also, if you have chisel, it can make stone into mossy bricks. Upon learning this, they rage shall be Phantom no longer!
Also, I feel you about the Transposer. Mine is at y128, so if I didn't have a portable tank, I'd be up a creek.
Those are good things to know!
When we last left off, PhantomRage finally created a Hammer out of Steel, and took the Mechanical way to solve his mossy cobblestone problems.
Yep, the Steel Hammer isn't as inefficient as I thought it would be. The 3x3 mining area helps quite a bit, thanks!
After two minutes toiling in the obsidian mining fields, I walked away happy with 12 obsidian. Ten would go towards a portal, and the other two could be duplicated using Mimichite later.
I'm having a nostalgia moment right now. I have never legitimately created a Nether Portal in a long time. On another note, entering the Nether took a legendary two minutes to generate. I suppose it could have been worse, but it certainly was a crucial moment in the thinking I crashed Minecraft.
But, before I enter the Nether, I must obtain a worthy weapon to fight back the embodiments of Evil itself. So, I decided to make a Broadsword with a Steel Rod, Paper Wide Guard, and Steel Sword Blade. It is conveniently named TrollDestroyer 5000 for no particular reason, as it just flowed through my mind at that certain moment.
I have had many nostalgia moments throughout this post. I have not seen Nether Ores in a long, long time. I think I know why Redstone is very sparse in the Overworld; they all decided to move to the Nether! I also remembered that Nether Ores explode if you fail to mine the entire vein completely in a certain amount of time, but thanks to VeinMiner, that is not much of a problem. I expect to see myself drowning in Redstone if I don't get lost in the Nether with no waypoints first.
Delicious Nether Lapis is delicious. Once I run both the Nether Redstone and Nether Lapis ores through the Pulverizer, I should be able to confidently say my Nether and Lapis supply problems are solved. If I remember correctly, pulverizing these ores grants ~8-16 of the dust form, or at least twice as much as if you had pulverized the regular Overworld ore (silk-touched).
Ah, so in the Nether, the Crystal's effects are reversed. If I had a Nether base, putting these crystals in strategic locations around it may bake unarmored or weakly armored players in the heat of the Nether. I also ran into a Speed crystal earlier on, and it gave me Slowness. This is good to know, it may prove useful. Who knows!
I was getting quite paranoid as I had not seen a single hostile mob in the nether (I'm sure I was on Easy Mode), so I decided to leave. I did see this beehive in the background of my Nether Portal, and thought it looked interesting. When I returned to the Overworld, I realized I forgot to get something which I would certainly need in advanced stages of Machines - glowstone. Stupid, stupid PhantomRage!
In our next adventures, PhantomRage corrects his wrong and obtains some Glowstone Dust, and drowns in Redstone and Lapis from Nether Ores!
If you bake the nether ores, one of the methods yields two normal ones. Those can then be pulverized. Doing this for Cinnabar from Redstone is extremely useful.
Also, as long as you have the hammer one way or another, it's all but impossible to lose nether ores.
Also, as long as you have the hammer one way or another, it's all but impossible to lose nether ores.
True, but directly pulverizing the Nether Ores, for most recipies I see, either has the same output or more, such as Nether Redstone Ore, which pulverizes into 24 dust directly, rather than into two Redstone Ore and 12 dust from pulverizing the Redstone Ore. However, I have not yet found any Cinnabar Ore. It might have been a GregTech nether ore, but I am not sure.
When we last left off, PhantomRage took a field trip in the Nether! And forgot glowstone. Yuss.
I am getting quite the collection of metal ingots. So much the collection that I made a separate chest for them. However, thanks to the magic of Nether Ores, even a separate chest could not hold all the ingots. I am starting to quell my Redstone Dust drought; thank Nether Ores!
I remembered something about Hammers having Smite II innately. Being the somewhat-experimental person I am, I tried it out on a few skeletons. 11-12 damage per hit; not bad at all!
If only I had a Scoop...
I have traversed the world tenfold to find you, and I have achieved that. Nether Diamond Ore, you shall be assimilated into my mechanical empire, with your precious diamonds being gathered for
Well, I guess it's time to say now that I finally figured out how to set waypoints! Just had to change some keybindings, and now waypoint-setting works. I seem to have found a Gravestone, and I have not died in the Nether. I'll mark this place in the event that there is some sort of dungeon or whatever, but I highly doubt it. I'll also steal the gravestone because I can.
I decided to create some new Tinker's Construct tools with the Cobalt and Ardite I was obtaining. I forgot to picture the Pickaxe, but off the top of my head, it has:
Cobalt Pickaxe Head
Paper Tool Binding
Manyullun Tool Rod
Lapis (Luck) Upgrade
Full Redstone (no moss)
I also created a Sword, which deals up to 15 attack damage (7 1/2 hearts). Far better than my gem swords, and very effective. Time to mess some hostile mobs up!
Manyullun Sword Blade
Paper Wide Guard
Manyullun Tool Rod
Lapis (Luck) Upgrade)
Full Quartz (no moss)
I strategically decided to avoid using any Moss upgrades, as I wanted to maximize speed/damage, respectively. I can just obtain some cobalt or manyullun if I need to repair the tools, which shouldn't happen in a long time. I will probably have to make an Ingot Cast in advance.
Seeing as I was getting many resources and running out of space, I decided to create some barrels to store the resources. I'm not at a stage to make an AE system, so Barrels will have to do. This should, however, be enough storage for a while until I can create a proper AE system. Should be good enough!
In our next adventures, PhantomRage makes more machines, and makes more power. All your likes belong to us.
The cinnabar he was talking about is from pulverising (not macerating) vanilla redstone ore and is used for tripling ores. It's a thermal expansion thing, but gregtech does have a nether ore called cinnabar which is also used for increasing some outputs...
There's the Thaumcraft Cinnabar Ore, which makes Quicksilver. Then there's Thermal Expansion 3 Cinnabar, which looks like pink Flint, which is what you get from grinding the plain Redstone Ore.
*just responding*
silly phantom
Oh, my mistake!
silly phantom
True, I should probably install JABBA barrels. But we all know how lazy I am! (I'll probably install it later)
I personally don't mind either way whether I use one type of barrel or the other, but I certainly like keeping Factorization in the mix. I will probably install JABBA later on to satisfy my barrel needs, but Factorization will do for now!
(Apologies for the double-post on such short notice)
When we last left off, PhantomRage was rich in everything and everyone was shaking their heads at why PhantomRage didn't make more stuff!
We aren't going to reach the immediate goals I set in the previous post, but I certainly tried to make it partly there. I was contemplating whether to return to the Nether to keep mining, but I knew that I needed to confront my power problem head-on, or face eternal boredom. So, I decided to create some more tools and wrap up odd ends, and browse NEI a bit to see if there was anything I could craft to my advantage.
I think I love Cinnabar now. I should've hung on to my Ferrous Ore so that I could get the guaranteed Shiny Ingot, but it's too late now! However, I will (hopefully) keep this in mind when I go on a Nether or Overworld mining trip and find a sizable amount of Ferrous Ore. This will certainly help later on in end-game TE. I am certainly not hurting on Redstone, so I will convert some of my Nether Redstone Ore into four Redstone Ore using Mimichite.
I spent seven Mimichite and my seven remaining Nether Redstone Ore to create 28 Redstone Ore. I netted around ~6-8 Cinnabar from the pulverization. About accurate, seeing as there is a 25% chance for Cinnabar to come from pulverizing Redstone Ore.
I decided to create a TiC shovel with a Cobalt Shovel Head and a Manyullun Tool Rod. I figure that I will probably have to dig a lot of things eventually if I plan to expand at all. I decided to stick a Ball of Moss on it, seeing as it will serve as a minor tool in my arsenal, and stuck Redstone on the remaining two modifiers. Props to you if you can figure out the tool name's reference...
So, to solve my power situation without resorting to a tree farm, I decided I would use my old Sugar + Sewage Reactant Dynamo setup from my last Picture-Through. I decided that I will need to get some MFR machines, and for that I would require, first of all, rubber. I decided to go on a rubber tree-hunt, both IC2 (3?) and MFR. I can say for a Swamp-related Biome, I was not very pleased. I only obtained around ~28 raw rubber, but the saplings I obtained should provide enough renewable rubber for the things I need. I also need to find some sugar cane, but I haven't found any yet.
I find myself at this Crag biome. Why couldn't I have just headed the other way at spawn, this biome would be cool to make a cave base in! -.-
This Aluminum Brass recipie helps. A lot. I also learned that I could Cinnabarize Cobalt and Ardite Ore as well, so I promptly obtained six Cobalt Ingots and three Ardite Ingots for future tool creation. Thank the godly Lemming for this great thing called Cinnabar! dont forget us too! ~purple mimichite beings
In our next adventures, PhantomRage goes on a sugar cane hunt and captures some animals solely to poop in an enclosed area!
When we last left off, PhantomRage was rich in everything and everyone was shaking their heads at why PhantomRage didn't make more stuff!
We aren't going to reach the immediate goals I set in the previous post, but I certainly tried to make it partly there. I was contemplating whether to return to the Nether to keep mining, but I knew that I needed to confront my power problem head-on, or face eternal boredom. So, I decided to create some more tools and wrap up odd ends, and browse NEI a bit to see if there was anything I could craft to my advantage.
I think I love Cinnabar now. I should've hung on to my Ferrous Ore so that I could get the guaranteed Shiny Ingot, but it's too late now! However, I will (hopefully) keep this in mind when I go on a Nether or Overworld mining trip and find a sizable amount of Ferrous Ore. This will certainly help later on in end-game TE. I am certainly not hurting on Redstone, so I will convert some of my Nether Redstone Ore into four Redstone Ore using Mimichite.
I spent seven Mimichite and my seven remaining Nether Redstone Ore to create 28 Redstone Ore. I netted around ~6-8 Cinnabar from the pulverization. About accurate, seeing as there is a 25% chance for Cinnabar to come from pulverizing Redstone Ore.
I decided to create a TiC shovel with a Cobalt Shovel Head and a Manyullun Tool Rod. I figure that I will probably have to dig a lot of things eventually if I plan to expand at all. I decided to stick a Ball of Moss on it, seeing as it will serve as a minor tool in my arsenal, and stuck Redstone on the remaining two modifiers. Props to you if you can figure out the tool name's reference...
So, to solve my power situation without resorting to a tree farm, I decided I would use my old Sugar + Sewage Reactant Dynamo setup from my last Picture-Through. I decided that I will need to get some MFR machines, and for that I would require, first of all, rubber. I decided to go on a rubber tree-hunt, both IC2 (3?) and MFR. I can say for a Swamp-related Biome, I was not very pleased. I only obtained around ~28 raw rubber, but the saplings I obtained should provide enough renewable rubber for the things I need. I also need to find some sugar cane, but I haven't found any yet.
I find myself at this Crag biome. Why couldn't I have just headed the other way at spawn, this biome would be cool to make a cave base in! -.-
This Aluminum Brass recipie helps. A lot. I also learned that I could Cinnabarize Cobalt and Ardite Ore as well, so I promptly obtained six Cobalt Ingots and three Ardite Ingots for future tool creation. Thank the godly Lemming for this great thing called Cinnabar! dont forget us too! ~purple mimichite beings
In our next adventures, PhantomRage goes on a sugar cane hunt and captures some animals solely to poop in an enclosed area!