Tompa's survival laboratories - 1.6.4 Pic LP

[Tompa974]

Hey there!
Tompa here with one of those picture Let's plays. This one has been long time coming which I have given a lot of time planning on how I will build things. I just recently put together my dear stationary computer which handles FTB a lot better than my 5-year old laptop.

I will play with a personally modified TPPI pack with the Invictus texture pack which is a continuation of the Soartex pack. I'll try to go for a modern but industrial/laboratory style, the gameplay and building theme being me being an alien on Mineterra trying to understand this blocky world.

There is a intro to the whole picture LP that I feel needs to be said before starting. First of all I started a world with the ATG biome generation. It turns out that Forestry bee hives have a very hard time spawning in conjunction with ATG. This was a sad thing I figured out because I had found this beautiful Autumn forest valley with a big and gorgeous lake in the middle of it. I had big plans for the scene, but I just can't play without bees, seeing I have big plans for them.

That led me to start over with a save with Biomes'o Plenty generation. After an hour or so I found this gorgeous Canyon setting, which will be the site for many scientific deeds hence forth:

As far as progression comes so far:

• Mekanism ore tripling
• Mek Armored Jet pack
• Turtle mining in Aroma1997's mining world
• Found a nether fortress
• Set of Redstone Arsenal tools
• Three Mek wind turbines for early game power
  • A note on these: they really suck in TPPI when it comes to getting power, really. So I decided on using them as my first and only "set and forget"/easy obtainable power source.

What I aim to do now is to plan the first set of buildings and decide more closely on what materials I'll going to use for building. The most important set of buildings will be farms for MFR biofuel and the factory building. Also, once I start build a basic base on the plateau I will aim to get a basic AE storage system going.

I will play with what I think is fun to play with, simple as that. MFR biofuel to steam isn't probably the best way to go for a first main way of power, but I will do it nonetheless. I won't, pretty much, play with IC2 at all, but I will have it installed if anything comes up that I'll need. Which takes me to my next point: I uninstalled GregTech from TPPI. Why? I haven't played FTB in a *long* time, and I don't want progress to be hindered by me having to learn all the ins and outs of GT. Maybe for my next playthrough.

A note on 1.6.4 vs 1.7.10+: I decided long before modded 1.7 was real that I was going to do this playthrough, and that's why I stick with it.

I hope you guys will enjoy what I have in store for this picLP =) Have fun!

 

[Tompa974]

I'm very happy to be writing this. Everyone that have played or is playing TPPI knows that those tweaked item recipes can be a pain to make. Today I made the Mekanism Digital Miner, which almost took all of my Iron and had me hunting for more Diamonds. But now it is done, together with two Tessaracts! I also moved in from my starting cave to this little house. It will be the base of my operations until I make appropriate buildings for bigger scale operations.

Next on the To-do list is to finish the MFR Biofuel complex I've started on and the farm setups along with that, so I can get some proper energy production going.

I hope you enjoyed ! =)