pffff two potato guns in the same chest.RNG is RNG. In one world I found a Sword of the Zephyr & a portal gun within 50 blocks of my spawn. I didn't even want to use the sword because I knew it'd be a while before I could slap Repair onto it.
i just spawn within 50 blocks of a chest that holds one.Indeed, my last two worlds, I have not had to build myself a Portal Gun. Riiiiight around the time I had progressed to make one myself, I would find one in a chest.
Yes. Even just a bare Thauminomicon would be nice. Thaumcraft already has a steep enough learning curve as it is.
But, to argue the other way, AM2 also doesn't give you squat to start with and getting the guide book is even more esoteric. It makes sense *after* you get into AM2 a little bit more, but taking a picture frame, a book, and placing the frame, then the book in it beside an essence pool is not exactly intuitive.