Trouble getting copper...

[akaw]

So I have a vanilla world which I moved to ftb unleashed. Obviously I have to mine in the twilight forest to get my ores, or move far far away from my home. The problem is... copper is rare in the twilight forest because of the height. I was able to find some in hills. Any suggestions ? My last resort would be to start a new world, but that's a last resort. Thanks

 

[beauedwards1991]

Is there any sort of retro-generation in the configs? That would generate the ores, I think.

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[Tristam Izumi]

Create Mystcraft worlds until you get one that doesn't suck. Dig there.

 

[Bomb Bloke]

MystCraft is likely the way to go, but I think you may be better off just mining elsewhere in the overworld.

Set yourself up with a portal system of some sort. These days I like to go dungeon diving until I get my hands on a portal gun and some portal spawners - with those, you can then use the gun and a wireless redstone remote to open up instant teleports to where ever you set up the spawners. If you're wanting to take this tactic you'll need to search chests outside of your vanilla-chunks, but having a portal gun early on is EXCELLENT for the purposes of "getting about" in general. Get lost in a cave? Portal gun yourself out. Creeper chasing you? Portal gun it away. Found a mob spawner a million miles away from your base? Pick it up with the portal gun.

 

[un worry]

if you have added Gregtech to Unleashed, the Industrial Centrifuge will extract copper from lava.

why not set up a mining operation in those new chunks (far from home, sure) but use an enderchest or tesseract to send the ore back to your base? if you really want some additional challenge, build a railway to this new area and freight the ores back

 

[RedBoss]

Doesn't CoFH have retrogen? Well at least in 1.6 ive loaded vanilla maps and seen tons of mod ores. I could be off base about the who and how.

 

[DREVL]

Portal gun, might be easier to bhit up a mystcraft world. Blank worlds I'm finding aren't that crazy. Just go out there with basic stuff you don't care to lose. Go to the age, throw down the bookstand, place the book, and be ready to return to the overworld. When you find one that is pretty stable, get to work. Copper is above 35 or something.

 

[robotbees]

I solved this by turning my vanilla world into a Mystcraft age. Start a new world, create an age, link it up, and then move your vanilla world files into the Mystcraft age folder. This way you get all of the joys of new world discovery / new biomes / etc but can still access your old world when you want a bit o' nostalgia. You do lose the nether, but that was worth it to me. Another upside was that once I built out the tech / found pages for Mystcraft and moved the vanilla world over I then got the ability to scavenge my old chests. A nice mid-game accelerator to eliminate some diamond grind, for sure.

 

[Yusunoha]

I solved this by turning my vanilla world into a Mystcraft age. Start a new world, create an age, link it up, and then move your vanilla world files into the Mystcraft age folder. This way you get all of the joys of new world discovery / new biomes / etc but can still access your old world when you want a bit o' nostalgia. You do lose the nether, but that was worth it to me. Another upside was that once I built out the tech / found pages for Mystcraft and moved the vanilla world over I then got the ability to scavenge my old chests. A nice mid-game accelerator to eliminate some diamond grind, for sure.

shouldn't you also be able to just copy over the nether files to a mystcraft age aswell?

 

[robotbees]

shouldn't you also be able to just copy over the nether files to a mystcraft age aswell?

In 1.4.x IIRC all Mystcraft ages shared the single nether with your primary world, I'm not sure if this has changed. I suppose you could copy the old nether only to your new FTB world, but that seemed like a big PITA (and you'd still have to run to the ends in order to generate new terrain.)

 

[Bomb Bloke]

So you're saying it's not possible to make your previous Nether itself a MystCraft age, alongside the new Nether (which would be treated as a "vanilla" dimension)?

 

[steve g]

could just try some bees...there is a bee that generates copper combs, refine the grains into copper dust, smelt, etc etc.

 

[Odovbold]

I solved this by turning my vanilla world into a Mystcraft age. Start a new world, create an age, link it up, and then move your vanilla world files into the Mystcraft age folder. This way you get all of the joys of new world discovery / new biomes / etc but can still access your old world when you want a bit o' nostalgia. You do lose the nether, but that was worth it to me. Another upside was that once I built out the tech / found pages for Mystcraft and moved the vanilla world over I then got the ability to scavenge my old chests. A nice mid-game accelerator to eliminate some diamond grind, for sure.

You are a genius. I probably will only mcedit pruned out my home base and let the world gen regen everything else.


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[akaw]

Thanks guys

 

[steve g]

does the promised land have copper ore? If you have BoP up you could try getting a portal to that going.

 

[DREVL]

pl doesnt have copper

 

[Physicist]

RedBoss mentioned it above, let me elaborate.

The COFH configuration has a retrogen feature that you toggle on. It automatically turns itself off after the successful retrogen. That will do exactly what you want.