The Night is Darkest Before the Dawn: A Dark Trilogy Playthrough

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Dark Trilogy Version 1.1.1 with Electro-Magic Tools added.
Also, I'm intentionally not using TiCon because I've done it so many times before I wanted something new, hence Electro-Magic Tools.


I find a cave soon after I spawn. I cut down a tree on the way, and made a simple workbench out of the wood.
The cave will hopefully shelter me from the wild animals and the wroth of Mother Nature.

A sharpened stick provides me some protection against the corpses of humans past. I stab him through his chest, as his rotting flesh falls off his bones. He soon falls, dead, his blood staining the stones. I move the corpse out of my cave for now.

I regret a peek outside. Nearly 5 more corpses attacked me. I barely survived, yet my wounds heal quickly as long as I am satiated. Interesting, that.

My quick mining operation finds a cave underneath my hovel. My new forged iron pickaxe easily hews out ores and gems in the ground, as I carefully wind my way down into the cave.

I have quickly gone from a sharpened stick to a hewed stone to a sword forged from purple gems for a weapon. How a stick, some gems and a workbench combine to make a sword is beyond my comprehension.

A small computer chip was implanted in my head; it provides many services, such as marking certain locations, analyzing and detecting animals, and telling me how to make things. As well, I used the rest of my newfound mineral wealth to make more tools.
--End Today's Journal--
 
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So EMT was sadly causing crashes, so I decided to remove it, but I'm going to use the vanilla IC2 and TC4 tools instead.
 
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Okay, so I had to downgrade to Version 1.0.8 because of a loading bug in 1.1.1. As well, I disabled mob griefing just as a personal preference.
-----Part 2: Mining and Starting Thaumaturgy-----
I find a curious little item as I delve deeper into the earth to find it's riches. To my astonishment, it is a beehive! I wonder how evolution could have adapted these creatures into eating the earth itself for food instead of the nectar of normal bees. I mark it in case they prove to have good traits when I start bee breeding.
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I wore my pickaxe down to mere shards of amethyst, but it is truly worth it. I found many treasures while mining, ranging from simple iron to glistening diamonds and emeralds. I shall start processing this soon.
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I found some berry bushes just outside of my cave. The fresh, juicy fruit is a welcome break from the cold pork I have been eating.
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I now endeavor to start my progress in the magical arts. The first thing any thaumaturge needs is his trusty thaumonomicon, and for that I need leather and paper for the books. I find a small herd of cows clustered under a spruce tree not far from my cave. I slaughter too, to ensure that there is still a breeding pair, but alas I only get enough leather for 2 books.
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However, a quick run back to my cave to fetch some wild barely I harvested so that I might lure them back somehow works as an aphrodisiac. The two cows mate and a calf born shortly afterwards. I was baffled, to tell you the truth, considering that this went against every principle of biology, but I slaughtered one of the breeding pair and I have enough leather for my books.
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The next step is to get paper. Normally, I would flatten papyrus into thin sheets of paper for writing, but I have not found any. Luckily, I find a solution in a pressing machine normally used for compressing soy into tofu, but also can squeeze the pulp out of a log into paper. I next make a simple grindstone system to remove slag from ores before I smelt them, nearly doubling my rate of usable metal from each ore.
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The new grindstone helps refine my iron into a block that has two pistons facing each other. When I crank a mechanism, the two pistons collide, smashing the object held between them. (Note: The presser actually works without player interaction, but I wanted a more plausible explanation).
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I gather some fresh logs and I stick them in the mechanism. It easily crushes the log into paper. I keep working until I have enough paper to make a bookshelf.
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The next step is to make a wand. With the help of my grindstone, I quickly convert some ore into two iron caps. I screw them on a stick, and the basic wand is made.
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A light tap on the bookshelf, and I have my thauminomocon.
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--End Journal--
 
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I'm now realizing I should have named this "The Night is Dark and Full of Terrors."

---Part 3: The White House and Farming---
I need some ink for my research notes, so several squid in the nearby river fall prey to my sword.
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A strange creature assaults me as I look for feathers for quills: a tiny zombie on a chicken, riding to kill me. The chicken runs surprisingly fast, but my blade catches the zombie and knocks him off of his mount. I behead him, and then slguhter the chicken for his crimes.
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I start scanning the various objects in the world around me. I discover many aspects, but I have not started more in-depth research.
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I stumble upon an aura node. I gladly tap it for the vis and mark it for future purposes.
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I decide to move out of my cave, and to build a real house. I quarry marble out from a nearby mountain.
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The frame is completed.
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Stone dyed with squid ink provides a nice contrast to the white marble of the frame
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A stylish pink door completes the house.
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Finally, a farm provides some much needed variety in my diet...
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...as well as providing milk and meat in the future with my animals
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--End Entry--
So I wanted to post a map of my area so far:
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Please excuse my horrible Paint skills.
I plan to build a tech lab on the peninsula (marked in light blue) for all my IC2 + TE + EIO machines. I also have plans for a magical library close to my current house. A village is marked, and we'll check that out next time I update, and finally the approximate location of the old cave.
 
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