Welcome to Magic Farm 2

[PhilHibbs]

Oh but the rewards. That sweet iron hoe 5 mintues into the game. Oh my sides.

The very definition of "unbalanced". Far too much randomness - sometimes the game is unplayable, sometimes it takes away a major part of the challenge.

 

[Hoff]

The very definition of "unbalanced". Far too much randomness - sometimes the game is unplayable, sometimes it takes away a major part of the challenge.

To each his own. I wouldn't say it takes away a major part as you're still limited to 251(?) uses of the hoe which actually do run out fairly fast with the number of crops you might need to plant. As well as processing and moving forward in mining.

It's like villages or slime islands. They give huge benefits IF you find them. I personally love the randomness to it all.

 

[keybounce]

Yea, a village, especially in magic farm, is very imbalancing. And yet, Jaded actually considers a village to be perfectly reasonable, as an "easy" start.

Hint: If you find thamium ingots, or iron ingots, you can make a vanilla pick and avoid all of TiC. And the food that is just there for the taking ...

 

[Hoff]

Yea, a village, especially in magic farm, is very imbalancing. And yet, Jaded actually considers a village to be perfectly reasonable, as an "easy" start.

Hint: If you find thamium ingots, or iron ingots, you can make a vanilla pick and avoid all of TiC. And the food that is just there for the taking ...

Not quite. Only finding diamonds would allow you to skip TiC altogether.

 

[Yusunoha]

I once fought an infernal pech with my awesome fully upgraded manamana cleaver, but the pech had an ability that made me drop the item I was holding... so yea, after that I deleted infernal mobs...
I think it'd be good if infernal mobs would give abilities to mobs depending on what mob they are, and also give a reward based on the mob.
so an infernal animal is very weak and gives useless items, but an infernal enderman... yikes

 

[keybounce]

Not quite. Only finding diamonds would allow you to skip TiC altogether.

With a vanilla iron pick, you can mine vanilla diamonds.
And finding iron ingots in a smithy chest means you can make a vanilla iron pick.
(OK, I am basing that off finding thaumium ingots and making a thaumium pick. Have not tested iron ingots directly.)

 

[Hoff]

With a vanilla iron pick, you can mine vanilla diamonds.
And finding iron ingots in a smithy chest means you can make a vanilla iron pick.
(OK, I am basing that off finding thaumium ingots and making a thaumium pick. Have not tested iron ingots directly.)

Vanilla iron picks cannot mine tin in MF2. Iguana changes the hardness of blocks directly without ever changing the ability to mine a certain hardness for vanilla tools. Then he uses that to setup different tiers of mining for TiC. Thaumium was also changed I believe to only mine up to copper.

 

[keybounce]

Ahh. Those two ... pieces of information are new to me.