slime islands

[buncheesy]

playing FTB Monster, ATG-alternative world gen. Looking for TiCo slime islands and finding none?

1. do they generate in ATG? if so how commonly?
   
2. I need to make sure the mini maps setting for "transparency" is enabled yes?
3. look up - are they easy to spot?

What I really want to do is use single use safari nets to capture endermen to kill in a controlled environment to get ender pearls to get a an ender pearl magical crop going...(I think? am at work.) Basically want enderpearls without spending days wandering around getting killed by endermen in the open while being chased by creepers....so far spent 1 hour wandering around anyway and no slime islands...to my knowledge.

 

[Eruantien]

playing FTB Monster, ATG-alternative world gen. Looking for TiCo slime islands and finding none?

1. do they generate in ATG? if so how commonly?
   
2. I need to make sure the mini maps setting for "transparency" is enabled yes?
3. look up - are they easy to spot?

What I really want to do is use single use safari nets to capture endermen to kill in a controlled environment to get ender pearls to get a an ender pearl magical crop going...(I think? am at work.) Basically want enderpearls without spending days wandering around getting killed by endermen in the open while being chased by creepers....so far spent 1 hour wandering around anyway and no slime islands...to my knowledge.

1. IIRC, they're somewhat less common than in the normal BOP-style world type, but, I believe, they do generate fairly often. (If my memory serves me well at this wee hour.)
2. Not sure about what you mean here; are you referring to cave-mapping? Or the ability to map transparent blocks (e.g. air, flux gas, somewhat_water) as such? If the second, then yes, I think.
3. No, not terribly easy, unless you're flying at about y=100. You can rarely, and with much difficulty, spot them directly from sea level (y=64), but if you're on a mountain, you should be able to see any close-by ones fairly easily.

Another question is: have you got an animal farm, as well as some basic power (RF or MJ)? Direwolf20's most recent Agrarian Skies video showed how to make pink slimeballs from MFR slaughterhouses, which (I assume) are OreDictionaried with vanilla slimeballs.
Let me know if I made any sense after all...

EDIT: Also, if you happen find any ender-lily seeds in dungeon chests, you can plant those to start with. They are slow, but they do the job.
EDIT^2: Is your goal to find a short/long-term source of ender pearls, or a source of slime? You could make a random Mystcraft age, I believe that slime islands are allowed to generate in them, for whatever reason you want them slimy things for... =/

 

[buncheesy]

My 1st thought was I need a chunk loader for my base (your know for crops and machines)
In previous packs I had the redpower2 athame which made getting ender pearls as easy as killing pigs.
I then thought perhaps I can catch endermen with a safari net and put them in a box before killing them....therefore need slime balls to make disposable safari net.
then noticed i can grow enderpearls with magical crops but need 4 enderpearls (and 4 diamonds I think?).

Sooooo read about slime islands to get slimeballs to get safari nets to get endermen to get enderpearl to get enderpearl crop ...oh and make a chunk loader.

NB: could just build Saice's vanilla enderman trap in the sky I suppose?

PS thanks for you post @Eruantien - made sence

 

[Eruantien]

You could build a vanilla mob spawner tower, but it's not guaranteed to spawn endermen, or drop them, especially if you use water.
A couple of other ways to get slimeballs are from TiC, such as: dropping a horse in a smeltery, from which you get glue balls, or standing in a smeltery, from which you get liquid blood that can then be cast into a blood-slimeball-thing. Look at NEI for the exact method, methinks... also, a sawmill from TE3, processing IC2 rubber wood, has a chance to give you glue as well, I think, which also works as a slimeball.
But, your real point here is to brave the dangers of the wild, capture an enderman, then bring him back and somehow kill him safely at home, correct?
Methinks you'll need a few ender pearls in order to get some ender pearls...

 

[buncheesy]

Methinks you'll need a few ender pearls in order to get some ender pearls...

yeah...thats the point. hey but its all fun. Will go home tonight and stumble around my world for a while looking for slime then perhaps chase some endermen in the moonlight. *sigh* I do miss the athame sword. Maybe I will go to the nether get nether quartz make a sharpened cactus sword and chop a few wild endermen's legs off before they teleport behind me and thump me to death as they seem to have been doing cause really I just need to kill endermen somehow

 

[Eruantien]

yeah...thats the point. hey but its all fun. Will go home tonight and stumble around my world for a while looking for slime then perhaps chase some endermen in the moonlight. *sigh* I do miss the athame sword. Maybe I will go to the nether get nether quartz make a sharpened cactus sword and chop a few wild endermen's legs off before they teleport behind me and thump me to death as they seem to have been doing cause really I just need to kill endermen somehow

Well, what's the point of the game if you don't hurt a little? (Read: die, and often.)

 

[Azzanine]

Slimes are annoying, when you need them they are rare but when you don't they bug the shit out of you.
I kind of find slimes easily though as my mining technique has gotten a bit lazy thanks to the TiC hammer I clear a sizable cavern in the search of ore.
The slime usually soon follow.

But yes ATG does generate the islands.

 

[Elec332]

ATG indeed generates Slime Islands,
I got plenty on my server, using the ATG worldgen.

Good luck finding one

-Elec332

 

[buncheesy]

So last night I circumnambulated 1.5km or so around my base. Found in chests in those thaumcraft thingies, 3 ender pearl and 4 ender lillies as well as tonnes of other useful stuff...still no slime island after climbing to the top of every peak and looking up....then as I crawled into my base I look up an behold! Slime Island almost directly above my base (like within3 chunks!!). Its large, and obvious on the right angle...how did I miss it?!

Suffice to say no problem with ender pearls or slime any more.

NB: there are so many toys in chests it feels slightly cheaty (wand of building, some blood magic binding thingie, 4 teleportation wands, ender lillies and pearls off the top of my head and plenty more)

 

[Eruantien]

So last night I circumnambulated 1.5km or so around my base. Found in chests in those thaumcraft thingies, 3 ender pearl and 4 ender lillies as well as tonnes of other useful stuff...still no slime island after climbing to the top of every peak and looking up....then as I crawled into my base I look up an behold! Slime Island almost directly above my base (like within3 chunks!!). Its large, and obvious on the right angle...how did I miss it?!

Suffice to say no problem with ender pearls or slime any more.

NB: there are so many toys in chests it feels slightly cheaty (wand of building, some blood magic binding thingie, 4 teleportation wands, ender lillies and pearls off the top of my head and plenty more)

It's reeeeeally nice if you find a portal gun.
Glad you (finally) found that trolling island!

 

[Azzanine]

So last night I circumnambulated 1.5km or so around my base. Found in chests in those thaumcraft thingies, 3 ender pearl and 4 ender lillies as well as tonnes of other useful stuff...still no slime island after climbing to the top of every peak and looking up....then as I crawled into my base I look up an behold! Slime Island almost directly above my base (like within3 chunks!!). Its large, and obvious on the right angle...how did I miss it?!

Suffice to say no problem with ender pearls or slime any more.

NB: there are so many toys in chests it feels slightly cheaty (wand of building, some blood magic binding thingie, 4 teleportation wands, ender lillies and pearls off the top of my head and plenty more)

I'm starting to love that builders wand, but dungeon chests are a tad cheaty feeling I have like 5 builders wands strewn around my base. But it's not all fun and games, once I went on a real big dungeon hunt and ended up with 7 white stones from Random Things (they save you from death) then I boated in to a Hungry node... Died way too many times in one sitting 9_9.

But that's the thing you need to explore in this game, it yields too much benefits not to.

Also circumnambulated.

 

[Elec332]

I'm starting to love that builders wand, but dungeon chests are a tad cheaty feeling I have like 5 builders wands strewn around my base. But it's not all fun and games, once I went on a real big dungeon hunt and ended up with 7 white stones from Random Things (they save you from death) then I boated in to a Hungry node... Died way too many times in one sitting 9_9.

But that's the thing you need to explore in this game, it yields too much benefits not to.

Also circumnambulated.

Ah, thanks, I didnt know what whitestones were for

I once after 1 dungeon had like 14 staffs of travelling

 

[Azzanine]

Ah, thanks, I didnt know what whitestones were for

I once after 1 dungeon had like 14 staffs of travelling

Sad thing is you only really need one.

 

[DREVL]

Hop in your smelter. 160mb gets you some blood thingy that is an alternate to slime for your auto spawner.

 

[Elec332]

Sad thing is you only really need one.

hehe

 

[Eruantien]

Uncrafting table?