Soul Shards & Anvil Combining

[OneSullenBrit]

I'm going to necro this thread because I have a question regarding the old anvil mechanic.

I'm currently playing some singleplayer FTB Unleashed v1.1.3, and the old 'combine 2 soul shards on an anvil' trick doesn't work any more. I understand that it was a bug, but it was more enjoyable for me to go farm skeleton/zombie spawners in the Twilight Forest and combine them with low-level creeper/enderman/cow shards than to grind for hours on end to get the same thing.

So is there a way to 'unfix' the fix?

 

[Wekmor]

Get a sword with that soul stealer enchant. done.

 

[OneSullenBrit]

It's still a boring grind.

 

[RedBoss]

It's still a boring grind.

Cheat it in then. I believe you can get a tier 5 shard in creative, kill your choice mod and you'll be done.

I agree that it is boring but outside of endermen, most vanilla mobs can be put onto shards fairly quickly after a few twilight forest runs. You can absorb spawners for lump sum kills

 

[PierceSG]

Or combine soul shard leveling with mfr auto spawner. Them together make it less tedious since you can funnel all of the spawns to a chute that drops them down to 1hko. With DartCraft, craft yourself a Force Sword with Soul Stealing V so you can get 6 souls per kill, cutting dow the need of 1024 kills right down to a mere 171 kills.

 

[OneSullenBrit]

Or combine soul shard leveling with mfr auto spawner. Them together make it less tedious since you can funnel all of the spawns to a chute that drops them down to 1hko. With DartCraft, craft yourself a Force Sword with Soul Stealing V so you can get 6 souls per kill, cutting dow the need of 1024 kills right down to a mere 171 kills.

Yeah I only just found out about MFR Auto Spawners. Unfortunately, I somehow managed to crash my world, so now every time I try and load it up it crashes, and I've had to start a new world.

 

[PierceSG]

Well, good luck in your new world.

 

[Yusunoha]

I'm going to necro this thread because I have a question regarding the old anvil mechanic.

I'm currently playing some singleplayer FTB Unleashed v1.1.3, and the old 'combine 2 soul shards on an anvil' trick doesn't work any more. I understand that it was a bug, but it was more enjoyable for me to go farm skeleton/zombie spawners in the Twilight Forest and combine them with low-level creeper/enderman/cow shards than to grind for hours on end to get the same thing.

So is there a way to 'unfix' the fix?

Soul Shards was always meant to have a grind mechanic, but to help the people who don't like to constantly grind, the Soul Stealer enchant was added. as mentioned you can use other mods to help you with the grinding part of the mod, but I'd suggest using the MFR spawner. it's more challenging to set up, but less grindy, and it can spawn a whole lot more kinds of mobs

Yeah I only just found out about MFR Auto Spawners. Unfortunately, I somehow managed to crash my world, so now every time I try and load it up it crashes, and I've had to start a new world.

you should consider installing Forge Backup https://bitbucket.org/monoxide0184/forgebackup
it's a great mod to automatically backing up your worlds