so the new 152 packs... I took RP2 for granted.

[DREVL]

Never realized how much I relied on somethings....

Never used red power stuff, but I am realizing how intricate rubies and sapphires were to my mid game progression...

Flax for wool was something I took for granted at the very beginning...

I got put in extreme hills where there is nothing but natura wood that does nothing but make doors.

no probs... the progression is just going to be less convenient than I originally thought.[DOUBLEPOST=1374515598][/DOUBLEPOST]Thank god tinkers came around.

 

[SpitefulFox]

You can grow Cotton for wool now. You'll see cotton plants sitting around all over the place thanks to Natura. Right clicking a mature cotton plant gives you the cotton without having to uproot the plant. Although, I've noticed that wild cotton has a tendency to drop dead if you try to pick it, so I would still recommend planting some cotton plants of your own.

It's not as productive as flax, but with Flax and Henequen gone, they'll be your only way of farming string/wool.

 

[glepet1962]

I've been playing my own 1.5.2 mod pack for awhile now. I'm using UE, TE, MFR, Natura, TiC, etc. I used to think I'd hate not having RP2 in my list of mods, but not anymore. I think she's going to have to hit a homerun on the next version for me to add it to my next modpack.

 

[Symmetryc]

Never realized how much I relied on somethings....

Never used red power stuff, but I am realizing how intricate rubies and sapphires were to my mid game progression...

Flax for wool was something I took for granted at the very beginning...

I got put in extreme hills where there is nothing but natura wood that does nothing but make doors.

no probs... the progression is just going to be less convenient than I originally thought.[DOUBLEPOST=1374515598][/DOUBLEPOST]Thank god tinkers came around.

Rather than rubies and sapphires you can use certus quartz to make mid-game tools.

 

[Deathshroud09]

Yeah...Redpower 2 does things better than a lot of other mods...the one thing i wish would be replaced however is frames. That other frame mod is above and beyond what Redpower does.

 

[ShneekeyTheLost]

Rather than rubies and sapphires you can use certus quartz to make mid-game tools.

Or TiCon tools... the only thing Iron can't mine is Obsidian. You can fix this with a single diamond, if you feel the need, and Redstone to speed it up.

 

[Symmetryc]

Or TiCon tools... the only thing Iron can't mine is Obsidian. You can fix this with a single diamond, if you feel the need, and Redstone to speed it up.

What I usually do is kill green slimes for a slime pickaxe and break obsidian using that. It saves me the diamond that I would usually have to apply to another pick to allow it to mine obsidian.

 

[Albeleo]

Or TiCon tools... the only thing Iron can't mine is Obsidian. You can fix this with a single diamond, if you feel the need, and Redstone to speed it up.

Or just be like me and get lucky enough to spawn right next to a village with a nearly fully functional smeltery and a blacksmith chest with a whole BLOCK OF STEEL.

Mid-game tools? What are those?

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[ShneekeyTheLost]

What I usually do is kill green slimes for a slime pickaxe and break obsidian using that. It saves me the diamond that I would usually have to apply to another pick to allow it to mine obsidian.

That works too. Or if you get lucky and find some Steel somewhere.

Of course, mining obsidian is kind of pointless with TE installed. The Igneous Extruder can make it for you by feeding it lava and water, no more need to mine it! Which means you can go straight to either Alumite or Steel as your mid-game material, then upgrade to Cobalt/Ardite/Manamana as you see fit.

 

[Zjarek_S]

Why use machines to make obsidian, when with MFR you can make it yourself.

 

[Symmetryc]

That works too. Or if you get lucky and find some Steel somewhere.

Of course, mining obsidian is kind of pointless with TE installed. The Igneous Extruder can make it for you by feeding it lava and water, no more need to mine it! Which means you can go straight to either Alumite or Steel as your mid-game material, then upgrade to Cobalt/Ardite/Manamana as you see fit.

Yeah lol. I find that TE unintentionally messes with TConstruct. Like the obsidian thing, getting moss using the liquid transposer, and getting fire aspect more easily using the Pulverizer's blaze powder recipe.

 

[Methusalem]

What I'm missing most, are the micro blocks. Never really realized, how much I used them until they were gone. *sniff*
Then, far behind that, the simple logic gates and the inverted lights.

On the bright side, I can add Immibis Microblocks and RedLogic to my mods and should be fine.
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[Daemonblue]

The other option is to make a slime headed pickaxe, mine your first obsidian incredibly slowly, and then make an obsidian headed pickaxe and mine obsidian with it. Of course the other, somewhat more logical approach is to set up a pump, aqueous accumulator, and igneous extruder to turn lava into obsidian with no mining involved.

Edit: Derp, was mentioned while I was busy reading and typing this.

 

[Vauthil]

Yeah lol. I find that TE unintentionally messes with TConstruct. Like the obsidian thing, getting moss using the liquid transposer, and getting fire aspect more easily using the Pulverizer's blaze powder recipe.

I wouldn't even blame that so much on TE. I can do those things with EE3's minium stone (2 logs->1 obsidian), a manual mossy cobble recipe (cobble+wheat+water), and tapping away with my AE grinding stone even earlier.

 

[DREVL]

Or just be like me and get lucky enough to spawn right next to a village with a nearly fully functional smeltery and a blacksmith chest with a whole BLOCK OF STEEL.

Mid-game tools? What are those?

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rubies and saph's made tools and weapons that were almost to par as diamonds minus the durability and the obby mining. that was huge until I could get the end game weapons tools.

 

[ShneekeyTheLost]

rubies and saph's made tools and weapons that were almost to par as diamonds minus the durability and the obby mining. that was huge until I could get the end game weapons tools.

And Tcon's iron tools do the same thing. Only if you get a ball of moss, it's infinite durability because it is self-repairing. Throw some redstone on it, and you'll be going faster than diamond pick. Throw some lapis on for fortune.

 

[DREVL]

And Tcon's iron tools do the same thing. Only if you get a ball of moss, it's infinite durability because it is self-repairing. Throw some redstone on it, and you'll be going faster than diamond pick. Throw some lapis on for fortune.

true... started my world in a place that has nothing to do with wheat. I can't tell you how much I hate making wheat farms. DW didn't post or mention anything of the inclusion of AE, was wondering why he didn't... Low and behold I went mining after I had made my pulverizer and saw some quartz. At first I was like Shyess! and then I was like boo, I wasted iron and gold getting up thinking I didn't have the quartz grinder.

I wishes I was around a village :/

 

[KirinDave]

Never realized how much I relied on somethings....

Never used red power stuff, but I am realizing how intricate rubies and sapphires were to my mid game progression...

Use quartz if you're desperate. Those tools are pretty good.

Once you get tinker's going, my very first tools are a flint pick+wood handle+stone binding pickaxe, and a similar shove. Flint has a speed of 5.5 and throwing a cobble binding on there makes it have Stonebound, so it gets faster. Combined with a flint shovel for fast digging, your initial mining will be flint-positive and keep you in the money for awhile.

Flax for wool was something I took for granted at the very beginning...

Natura cotton is actually better.

I got put in extreme hills where there is nothing but natura wood that does nothing but make doors.

May I suggest walking, but as for the doors things, that is a bug you should report.

 

[DREVL]

probably will find my way to the tilight forest for the moss.... better yet, make stone brick, slap it with the minin stone to make moss brick repeat 9 times= ball of moss = profit according to NEI anyway.

 

[Saice]

Natura cotton is actually better.

I'm going to disagree. Flax is much better. Natura three cotton = 1 string.

Flax you kick the plant and it rains string and seeds.