Firstly I am not going to be responsible for anything in this thread which may spoil your game, if you don't want to spoil it look away NOW!!
I must emphasise that there are other methods to do things, these may not be the only ways. If you want something added PUT IT IN SPOILER tags.
Starting out help - secret
Where are all the mobs?
Accelerating the making of dirt!
Early Food/Not Starving to death
Early furnace/cooking - kinda secret cos not a lot of people know this
Quest reward Sabotages!!
That Hammer!! what use is that!! (TIP: if you don't have it yet then don't worry)
Processing Ores something you may not know
Hell's Kitchen - Toasty Bread quest
The best cobble gen (IMO)
The best lava Gen (IMO)
MFR Autospawner and Grinder against mobs
High Oven v2.0.3 or later - making steel tip
I'm outta IRON dammit (or running short)
I must emphasise that there are other methods to do things, these may not be the only ways. If you want something added PUT IT IN SPOILER tags.
Starting out help - secret
Look under the only dirt block you have
Where are all the mobs?
You wont get any to start with unless you start building outwards or you cover up the sky. Mobs will only spawn with you close by if the sky is covered. Be warned though, if you don't light up all the dark places on your original island when you start building outwards and the night time comes you might be faced with a lot of mobs
Accelerating the making of dirt!
Beat up zombies until you get 2 iron, use that 2 iron to make shears, instead of using saplings to make dirt, shear the leaves from the trees (you still get saplings shearing leaves). Eight leaf blocks = 1 dirt just like 8 saplings=1 dirt. Alternatively you can use string (25 string=1 dirt) to make dirt too, so silkworm all your trees. Both ways are faster than using the sapling route.
Early Food/Not Starving to death
Fishing is your friend, you have a pool up top and all a rod requires is wood and string. Once you get seeds put a dirt block by your pool and start growing wheat. Wheat > bread > cooked to toast gives 2 food bars. If all else fails you can eat silkworms if you have means to cook them.
Early furnace/cooking - kinda secret cos not a lot of people know this
The quest "In the beginning" has a reward choice of axe or pan. Take the pan, you can put it on the floor and cook stuff on it just like a regular furnace.
Quest reward Sabotages!!
Watch for hearts which remove lives instead of giving you them, read the description it does say.
Spawner Eggs, oh naughty naughty be careful with any reward spawner egg they might not just contain what the description says they do. Look at the colouring of spawner eggs in NEI and match them up.
Spawner Eggs, oh naughty naughty be careful with any reward spawner egg they might not just contain what the description says they do. Look at the colouring of spawner eggs in NEI and match them up.
That Hammer!! what use is that!! (TIP: if you don't have it yet then don't worry)
I'm of course talking about the diamond hammer with Fortune III on it, see ore processing below.
Processing Ores something you may not know
Unless you know about Ex Nihilo in some detail there's something you may not know about the ore processing side.
You get gravel ore by sifting gravel and combining 4 of them right?
You can also sift sand and combine 4 sand ores into a block!
You can also sift dust and combine 4 dust ores into a block!
Yeah Bob we already knew that, but did you know this.... (you will if you read the book and not skim it)
Combine 4 gravel ore into a block, place that gravel block into the world and break it with your diamond hammer +3 fortune. It gives you sand ores and a chance of more than 4 (it will never give you less than 4 so no loss). Combine the sand ores into blocks, place those into the world and break with your uber hammer again and you can multiply that sand ore into more than 4 dust ore.
So you now have a way to take gravel ore and break it into sand then dust, multiplying it as you go along. You will still need to sift sand and dust at some point to get the non-ores from it.
Lastly the broken ores will smelt direct into the smeltery without combining them into blocks.
You get gravel ore by sifting gravel and combining 4 of them right?
You can also sift sand and combine 4 sand ores into a block!
You can also sift dust and combine 4 dust ores into a block!
Yeah Bob we already knew that, but did you know this.... (you will if you read the book and not skim it)
Combine 4 gravel ore into a block, place that gravel block into the world and break it with your diamond hammer +3 fortune. It gives you sand ores and a chance of more than 4 (it will never give you less than 4 so no loss). Combine the sand ores into blocks, place those into the world and break with your uber hammer again and you can multiply that sand ore into more than 4 dust ore.
So you now have a way to take gravel ore and break it into sand then dust, multiplying it as you go along. You will still need to sift sand and dust at some point to get the non-ores from it.
Lastly the broken ores will smelt direct into the smeltery without combining them into blocks.
Hell's Kitchen - Toasty Bread quest
Don't do the 3 wheat > 1 bread > cook bread.
Make flour (ID 15504) - combine that flour with salt, water and a mixing bowl to make 1 dough, cook that dough to make 1 bread, so this way 1 wheat = 1 bread. Ok it takes more materials but if you have a MFR farm set up a sludge boiler gives salt.
Make flour (ID 15504) - combine that flour with salt, water and a mixing bowl to make 1 dough, cook that dough to make 1 bread, so this way 1 wheat = 1 bread. Ok it takes more materials but if you have a MFR farm set up a sludge boiler gives salt.
The best cobble gen (IMO)
Igneous Extruder - put in 1 water and 1 lava and it makes cobblestone endlessly without the need for power
The best lava Gen (IMO)
See above cobble gen then take output of Igneous Extruder to a Deep Storage Unit AND a Crucible (or as many crucibles as you like) take the itemduct output from the Igneous across the DSU and crucibles setting the output segment to "round robin" and you get an endless supply of cobble AND lava
MFR Autospawner and Grinder against mobs
Using a MFR's autospawner and grinder with vanilla mobs will produce "boss" infernal mobs and net you their loot. This loot can be ender lily seeds, ender pearls (even from non endermen mobs), to enchanted Invar armor and other stuff like pictures and boats (yeah I said boats).
High Oven v2.0.3 or later - making steel tip
Shift clicking the items into the High Oven will most likely result in stuff being put into the incorrect place.. here's a diagram (and labels cos I use a texturepack) of what goes where for making steel
I'm outta IRON dammit (or running short)
A LOT of TE recipes have aluminium alternatives instead of using iron.
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