What cool little thing have you discovered today?

[Someone Else 37]

I vaguely remember that someone, a while back, analyzed TiCo tool materials in depth and found that a pickaxe with cobalt head, paper binding, and thaumium/paper rod with (at least) 100 redstone was about as fast as, if not faster than, a damaged full Ardite pick with 100 less redstone.

However, that was quite a while ago (before the Tool Forge and associated tools, IIRC), and things may have changed since then. It was also back in the days when the Electric upgrade (no flux yet), when applied to an almost broken tool, would still let the tool work at maximum speed all the time. I've heard that's changed as well, making it much harder to actually get the most out of your Stonebound/Jagged tools and weapons.

I might have to experiment with TiCo at some point and see if the above is still true, and how it applies to hammers and the Flux upgrades. I wonder if there's any way to run down the durability faster than just mining with it, though...

 

[malicious_bloke]

I refuse - on principal - to add knock back to a weapon by adding a piston as I just cannot conceive in my mind of the result being a viable thing.

If you haven't ever snuck up behind someone with a frying pan fully loaded with knockback modifiers and walloped them one, you should consider a change to your lifestyle.

It's hilarious.

 

[PhilHibbs]

I refuse - on principal - to add knock back to a weapon by adding a piston as I just cannot conceive in my mind of the result being a viable thing.
TiC really annoys me as a mod that adds so much depth. And then just takes the piss by adding stupid alloys and ridiculous tool upgrades.

To me, Minecraft is a cartoon. Exploding shrub-monsters? Floating landscapes? Teleporting men in black? Slime cubes? Infinite water? I gave up on any expectation of realism when I first punched a block out of a tree and it didn't fall down. I guess it's all about personal expectations.

 

[adamich]

I fail to see any exemple where paper would beat cobble stone or slimes (let alone ardite). The modifiers just don't worth that much. How many do you need anyway ? flux + emerald + and lapis. you dont need much more...

if U has tons of redstone and use flux, then make paper tools and upgrade it with flux+redstone and U get MORE mining speed than with other materials.
paper blade with tons nether quartz will give U more damage then ardite/cobalt/maniline blades

 

[Iluvalar]

if U has tons of redstone and use flux, then make paper tools and upgrade it with flux+redstone and U get MORE mining speed than with other materials.
paper blade with tons nether quartz will give U more damage then ardite/cobalt/maniline blades

No, there is better material. Ok give me a full design and I'll come up with something better using the same level of technology.

 

[xTordX]

STOP TALKING ABOUT TiC THERE'S A DIFFERENT THREAD FOR THAT!

 

[Pyure]

So today I discovered that xtordx hates the happiness of others.

 

[xTordX]

No. I'm sick of so much TiC discussion...

 

[Lethosos]

I refuse - on principal - to add knock back to a weapon by adding a piston as I just cannot conceive in my mind of the result being a viable thing.

You, sir, need to play Space Monkey Golf. Frying Pans of varying Knockback modifiers, Tropicraft monkeys (with MFR Reusable Safari Balls), and part of Galaticraft Moon landscaped into a golf field. Have fun.

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[GamerwithnoGame]

You, sir, need to play Space Monkey Golf. Frying Pans of varying Knockback modifiers, Tropicraft monkeys (with MFR Reusable Safari Balls), and part of Galaticraft Moon landscaped into a golf field. Have fun.

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...that is genius.

 

[Iluvalar]

You, sir, need to play Space Monkey Golf. Frying Pans of varying Knockback modifiers, Tropicraft monkeys (with MFR Reusable Safari Balls), and part of Galaticraft Moon landscaped into a golf field. Have fun.

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I suggest you make the holes in TiCo smeltery. So you could count the blood remaining in the monkey to keep track of the score ?

 

[Lethosos]

I suggest you make the holes in TiCo smeltery. So you could count the blood remaining in the monkey to keep track of the score ?

I think it was Random Things Entity Detector hooked up to a light that determined when you've made a "hole in one."

 

[rhn]

I think it was Random Things Entity Detector hooked up to a light that determined when you've made a "hole in one."

A MFR Mob Counter should work as well for 1.7 packs (still baffled why the Entity detector was removed....)

 

[Psychicash]

Today I discovered that a single ghast tear + 4 ender pearl + enderman + various machines and 12 hours = 10k + ender pearls I didn't have the day before.

This realization also rendered the understanding that when anyone wants to lock technology away in the "end game" chapter and keep it out of the begining or middle they use ender pearls as a wall. The rarity and difficulty in optaining them (normally) mean that things like tesseracts (LOL), ender anything, qed stuff, all needs ender pearls or some form of it in order to go forward with it. When ender pearls are no longer an obstical... there's not too much left that you can't optain tech wise. The one thing I can think of is MFR Laser precharger but if I remember correctly even that can built without ender pearls.

SIGH, wonder if we can discover a different and more widely diverse set of obsitcles to seperate the tech tree other than Pre-pearl and post pearl.

 

[GreenZombie]

Today I discovered that a single ghast tear + 4 ender pearl + enderman + various machines and 12 hours = 10k + ender pearls I didn't have the day before.

This realization also rendered the understanding that when anyone wants to lock technology away in the "end game" chapter and keep it out of the begining or middle they use ender pearls as a wall. The rarity and difficulty in optaining them (normally) mean that things like tesseracts (LOL), ender anything, qed stuff, all needs ender pearls or some form of it in order to go forward with it. When ender pearls are no longer an obstical... there's not too much left that you can't optain tech wise. The one thing I can think of is MFR Laser precharger but if I remember correctly even that can built without ender pearls.

SIGH, wonder if we can discover a different and more widely diverse set of obsitcles to seperate the tech tree other than Pre-pearl and post pearl.

You mean nether stars?

 

[Psychicash]

You mean nether stars?

Nether star technology is more novelty than functional. Is there anything nether stars make that is truly end game functional awesome?

 

[GamerwithnoGame]

Nether star technology is more novelty than functional. Is there anything nether stars make that is truly end game functional awesome?

Blood Magic Tier 5 altar maybe?

 

[ljfa]

Nether star technology is more novelty than functional. Is there anything nether stars make that is truly end game functional awesome?

The Kami stuff from Thaumic Tinkerer?
Gaia stuff from Botania?

 

[PhilHibbs]

SIGH, wonder if we can discover a different and more widely diverse set of obsitcles to seperate the tech tree other than Pre-pearl and post pearl.

Why? What's so good about obstacles?

Some mods have done this in their own ways. There's Unstable Ingots, which not only require diamonds (not really a problem) but also are extremnely difficult and dangerous to craft with (cue the compulsive braggers saying "it's easy lol"). There's compressed cobblestone, which I think is an inspired idea, taking the resource that everyone always had far too much of, and switching it around so that no-one ever has enough of it. Genius. Ok, well those are both Extra Utilities. EnderIO has those soul vial things that are a bit of a throttle. And I still can't get me an enderman head. But that's more of an RNG annoyance than a resource gate.

 

[ljfa]

Some mods have done this in their own ways. There's Unstable Ingots, which not only require diamonds (not really a problem) but also are extremnely difficult and dangerous to craft with (cue the compulsive braggers saying "it's easy lol").

I guess the obstacle there is finding a division sigil or killing a Wither.