Yeah, I examined the slime chunks and checked entity radar and there was only one slime for each slime chunk. In my vanilla world I got way more slimes. Probably just that other mobs are still spawning as I have not lit up the caves yet. Making an actual spawning area would be too much of a trouble when I can just go find the swamp as I would want to find a Witch Hut anyway.
The most underused starting strategies?
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I always look at the slag furnace, consider it, and pass. It just doesn't seem worth it to me to blow through all that extra fuel for a few more ingots. When I think about it though, it probably would speed things up a wee bit, if only to get more iron pickaxes so I can get the stuff I really want, namely gold and redstone for my first pulverizer.
I almost always dig for a few hours when I start a map: One thing I always make sure to do in the first hour or two is make stairs. Stairs may be the single most underrated way to save precious food in the very early game.
I almost always dig for a few hours when I start a map: One thing I always make sure to do in the first hour or two is make stairs. Stairs may be the single most underrated way to save precious food in the very early game.
yeah I used the slag furnace just a little bit... but now I've moved onto TE machines and have my first (of usually 4) coke ovens sorted
I agree with you there. I built my base on top of a redrock ridge mountain, which means an extra 40+ blocks of travel with my loot. By the time I'd jumped all the way back up from the depths, I was near starving all the time.
I'm not sure if this is so underused as I've seen a few people do it too, but I make a jetpack and a generator to charge it in among my first machines, way before I develop any real power system. (Making the glowstone for the jetpack out of gold of course.) I also use steel found in mineshaft and dungeon chests to make power tools early on.
My starts are pretty generic, but last server I started playing on I forewent the typical "get a macerator as fast as i can" route and went with Thermal Expansion machines fed by a steam boiler system. This was a pretty slow way to start, but it was much more interesting.
The only thing that I consider a stumbling block to this strategy is that GregTech forces you to make a Compressor for components of some Thermal Expansion recipes (weird.), so you do have to venture out of TE as you expand your base capabilities.
The only thing that I consider a stumbling block to this strategy is that GregTech forces you to make a Compressor for components of some Thermal Expansion recipes (weird.), so you do have to venture out of TE as you expand your base capabilities.
My starting routine is the same as vanilla for the most part. Wander around until I find a spot I want to live at. Gather as much wood as possible the first day there. Start digging down switching to stone tools on the way. Find 3 or 4 iron then find lava. Make a Nether portal. Go get Netherrack, NetherBrick, Glowstone, Blaze Rods, Soul Sand and Netherwart and if lucky magma cream then head back to the overworld.
Then I start on the Mod stuff. Make wheat, corn, flax farm and possible potato farm if I ran across a village. Place some bog earth to cure. Head down to lvl 12 and start branch mining until I get 11 diamond and stopping up at copper level on the way out. Make a pulverizer and a peat engine. Start on biomass production(peat engine is for powering the pulverizer). Make quarry and biogas engines and let that run.
Then I start on the Mod stuff. Make wheat, corn, flax farm and possible potato farm if I ran across a village. Place some bog earth to cure. Head down to lvl 12 and start branch mining until I get 11 diamond and stopping up at copper level on the way out. Make a pulverizer and a peat engine. Start on biomass production(peat engine is for powering the pulverizer). Make quarry and biogas engines and let that run.
To this day, I have yet to make a quarry in my world. Not only that, GregTech does that only because it has been configured to do so, which you can change. "Force" is thus an improper word choice, at least from the mod
With FTB, I dont feel it's such an issue. I mean between the portal guns, mystcraft & nether portals, teleport pipes & tesserects, etc. Players aren't really disconnected if they go way out to god-knows-where.
Instead, I just unsubbed from the one that was annoying me. (Which wasn't Bdub or GenB, as they're clearly playing fun) To be fair, on a server, there is force involved. Guude is forcing that config on the other players.
I've honestly never found any of the mindcrack guys to be interesting at all... maybe I just haven't watched the right one yet idk... either way, that's probably one of the reasons I don't use GT
Mythcraft books being so craftable and usable actually seems like a really positive thing for servers. People can easily join a hub network but control things at a very early level. If the server uses the Nether as its hub, it's even better. Once someone gets a stable age with farmable crystals, it's better still.
Speaking of which: starting strategies. As soon as possible you should make a minium stone and use this to gain access to the nether (2 logs make 1 obsidian, be careful placing). Then you can use linking books to move between your mine, your cave and your prospective base. The biggest challenge to this is getting leather and sugarcane.
Tune the config it the way you want. If pulverizer isn't equally on hard-mode (there is such an option in TE config) then turn macerator hard mode off.
Personally, I turn macerator hard mode off, forestry bronze on, and crafting storage blocks instead of compressing.[DOUBLEPOST=1360263891][/DOUBLEPOST]
Odd, I find the ability to use books to travel from nether to overworld an oversight bug and breaks the "story" of Myst books not allowing inter-Age travel. The nether and end (and twilight forest) are clearly all the same "Age" as you cannot travel to them from other Ages.
All you need to get to the nether is 1 bucket, flint and steel, access to 1 source block of water and a lava pool. Everything that can be found on the surface.
1. Get one diamond.
2. Rush to twilight forest. (Hope to not appear in hollow hill)
3. Find castle.
4. Take ALL the book shelves.
5. Go nuts with mystcraft ages.
And a bit later on.
1. Go to nether.
2. Find blaze spawner.
3. Setup Mystcraft portal to bring all blaze on a single kill spot.
4. Farm Soulshard.
5. Create new blaze farm with Mystcraft portals again.
5.a Setup 4 attack turtles with attack command in the the boot sequence. (lagged server out way too often from people forgeting to turn on turtles)
A note for brain in a jar : They now have a limit of 30 levels in them so it's no longer pertinent to put them next to the blaze farm.
Never have to worry about fuel or xp again.
This can be done in 4-5 hours with 1 person. Much less with coordinated team.
2. Rush to twilight forest. (Hope to not appear in hollow hill)
3. Find castle.
4. Take ALL the book shelves.
5. Go nuts with mystcraft ages.
And a bit later on.
1. Go to nether.
2. Find blaze spawner.
3. Setup Mystcraft portal to bring all blaze on a single kill spot.
4. Farm Soulshard.
5. Create new blaze farm with Mystcraft portals again.
5.a Setup 4 attack turtles with attack command in the the boot sequence. (lagged server out way too often from people forgeting to turn on turtles)
A note for brain in a jar : They now have a limit of 30 levels in them so it's no longer pertinent to put them next to the blaze farm.
Never have to worry about fuel or xp again.
This can be done in 4-5 hours with 1 person. Much less with coordinated team.
You do know you can skip 3 and 4 and just consume the spawner most Neither forts as 2 to 4 of them and you only need 6 to max out a shard.