I've looked a bit into the ars magica affinities and to be honest feel a need to lock into one so I don't have to deal with locking into one I'd rather not be in. The options I've seen have been earth, air, and ice as the best choices. Earth would be painful if your one to explore with the exception of that damage reduction to 10%, but I do that very little as I instead mine through areas to make it easier. Air I was thinking would be nice as it said "Sneak to negate movement." if that is what I believe it is then you can sneak when being attacked by a phantom and you won't move. As well as the other benefits. It's downside is almost none existent due to the lack of weather in a cave system
. Now Ice removes some of your speed again but you can bugger across water and lava with out buckets or tons of stone at the risk of being hit off by a phantom. Idk, I'm leaning on the air one because it sounds great to me. Any thoughts?
Also the water taking in flowers in botania aren't active? 0.o that confuses me. Though I do stick with endoflames I thought a bit on the other.
As well as: Is there any way to get a constant source of mushrooms? There a bit... rare? maybe? found one in my adventures which was enough to start a clayconia but it was kinda annoying how long it took me as well as how I couldn't figure out how to reproduce them.
To the criticism guy:
~ I've had a lot of dealings with the creepers and which cause a lot of anger though the chest trick that cake did SO FAR has worked. Though I've only tested it in a specific situation. I'd need a bit more time.
~Along with the hungry/theif guys: I haven't run into them yet thank god. Instead I've just had ender creepers delete everything.
~I've also noticed a trend where the ones who seem the most successful tend to have built out a large area to semi imitate an outside environment. Some of it was luck in finding a wide open area and the other was crafted. This is all from what I've concluded tho.
~The issue with creepers exploding even when you get away is annoying, I agree, but if you train your reflexes you might kill them before they explode. It just changes your mind set into kill fast vs run away.
~Geists sadly have no effect on me by now. Literally go like: "K, more exp then." since range screws them over. Of course any mob in the right situation still can kill you.
~Grave stone mod does that unpurpose because it's actually logical to think that a zombie will pop out. Did you know if you mine the block underneath it's just like mining the grave stone? Maybe try using that to you advantage. Or deal with any creepers for seen on the map, hope none teleport onto you, mine it and jump away, kill the mob with range/melee, and then get your stuff.
Though keep this in mind: I'm still new and experimenting very little things so I've barely gotten through a fourth(I think) of the mod pack. Yet that run in which I did got far into the pack turned into a 100% experiment area since I'm fairly unfamiliar with most of the mods and simply felt enraged. Specifically thaumcraft in which I have a hard time starting up.
My new legitimate run through right now has me cornered(after being chase by 2 creepers, flame lycanites, and another thing I can't remember into falling down off a cliff into water) into a little island similar to a Y shape with the end raised. I was forced to retreat to the raised area since the other two could form a flank of archers and just starting made me helpless to them. I've built a bridge to connect the raised area I am in (bottom of the Y shape.) to the cave system so I can get SOME early game supplies. It lead to a grab of 20 or so obsidian to use for a mini shelter I build. I have yet to see if it works since the area I'm in is kinda condensed. My plan is to dig it out to be more like a triangle and the block off the flanking sides so that I could get as close as possible to imitating the large area to work strategy. I am a bit concerned at the drop of player ability from the dark power nerf early and am seeing how it goes out right now. The phantoms are still three shot by a stone sword thank god, I thought it would be a lot worse (was almost driven into two lobbers on my exploration for resources). If any one has suggestions on what I should do please fire away XD. I haven't even gotten my tree yet so mining out the area and farming a bit of dark power (If I'm lucky.) will be needed. Other than that I'm at a semi loss of how I should continue to defend against the every 8 day thing seeing as my only protection is a box (3(width) by 6(length) by 4 (height), excluding unnecessary obsidian placement.) of obsidian with 4 poke holes(One top left, Bottom left, Top right, Bottom right. Tops and bottoms are not together as that'd open mobs up to enter.) to attack out of in which I'll fill if in dire threat. The front of it is two cobble stone, as I can't do much for entry and exit. If I can carve it out to float that might work better.
~My apologies on this block of semi unnecessary text.
