What should I do now

[TheAxeLeader76]

A few days ago I asked how I should start and they said to do what ever. Now that I'm okay in the game I have a Big reactor that can be used but the only thing its using is my pulverizer, redstone furnace and a buildcraft quarry I really have no idea what to do right now. I have Alumite tinkers tools and a good base for what I have and I can definitely expand my base. I want to move my quarry to a better place than a few chunks from my base but I have no idea where to put it. Thanks

 

[JaRyCu]

Well, none of us have access to your map, so we can't tell you where to put your quarry. Personally, I run an Ender Quarry instead of a BC one so I don't leave gigantic holes in my map. I also have it about 9000 blocks away from my base, just because I can. Do you have the Silk Touch upgrade on your quarry, assuming it's an Ender one? If not, go for that next.

My server's been up for almost 2 months now, and I'm running into "stopping" points every couple of weeks where I feel like I've gone as far as I want to and don't know where to go next. I did nothing but tech until this week because I just didn't understand the magic side of the game. This week, I decided to go that route. Right now my base has 4 large areas: 1 each for Botania, Thaumcraft, Witchery, and Blood Magic. Since the Expert mode ties them all to each other, you have no choice but to level them alongside the rest. After 2 days of grinding things that are well-below my tech-level, I'm finally starting to get gear and baubles that, while they won't replace my tech gear, will augment it to make me even more effective.

Luckily I'm doing this on a multiplayer server...when I get stuck, I just visit other player's bases and see what they're doing. If I'm stuck in Botania, I know which base to visit to get an idea of where to go next. If I'm stuck in Draconic Evolution, I can go to spawn and visit our powerplant. I tried regular Infinity in a single player world, and it wasn't as rewarding because it was just me on the server. When I got stuck, there was no one to push me on.

 

[KingTriaxx]

I tend to like ocean quarries. Water prevents lava from interfering, and tends to obsidanize it so it doesn't turn your very expensive mining machine into a glorified cobblegen.

 

[Inaeo]

A few days ago I asked how I should start and they said to do what ever. Now that I'm okay in the game I have a Big reactor that can be used but the only thing its using is my pulverizer, redstone furnace and a buildcraft quarry I really have no idea what to do right now. I have Alumite tinkers tools and a good base for what I have and I can definitely expand my base. I want to move my quarry to a better place than a few chunks from my base but I have no idea where to put it. Thanks

What pack are you playing? The question of what next is the pivotal downfall of Minecraft. My solution is to be balls deep in as many mods as possible at the same time. They compete for resources, so I'm always running around doing something (usually more than I can remember). Perhaps pick a mod or two, then dive through them till the end.

Get into bees/trees if Forestry is in your pack. Bees can make almost any material renewable if you go far enough into them, but they take a while. They do their thing passively for the most part. If you're looking for a use for your reactor, Gendustry can make the RNG nightmare more manageable, although those machines chew through power.

All else fails, pack a backpack full of food and walk till its empty. Wander the world you live in, taking in the sibuild Find interesting places to build, make outposts, then connect them back to your main base with Nether railways.

The possibilities are near endless...

I tend to like ocean quarries. Water prevents lava from interfering, and tends to obsidanize it so it doesn't turn your very expensive mining machine into a glorified cobblegen.

If I'm forced to quarry the Overworld, I agree that I usually do it over an ocean. That said, I hate making ugly holes in the Overworld, so I do most of my quarrying in a different dimension. If I have Nether Ores installed, I'll occasionally quarry the Nether. If I have TE installed as well, I can make all the power I need by melting down the Netherrack to Lava.

 

[rhn]

I want to move my quarry to a better place than a few chunks from my base but I have no idea where to put it.

Aroma1997s Dimensional world:
http://www.minecraftforum.net/forum...aroma1997s-mods-betterchests-mining-world-mod
Or a Mystcraft world(more complex to create).
Or RF tools world.

Don't quarry the overworld...

 

[KingTriaxx]

I don't mind putting quarries in the overworld myself. Gives it a lived in feel, and they're all in water, or oceans so they aren't visible unless you're watching the mini-map. Besides it's a pain in the neck running trains through portals.

 

[Azzanine]

Dig down far enough so the quarry ends up with a roof when you set it up.
Sure you can put it in the sea but then you restrict your material output.


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[KingTriaxx]

I just use several quarries. I've got everything set to massive oceans, so I can run four max size BC quarries without any trouble.

 

[Inaeo]

Dig down far enough so the quarry ends up with a roof when you set it up.
Sure you can put it in the sea but then you restrict your material output.


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I have done this a few times inside of large mountains. I stopped after a friend decided to settle one without knowing I had been there. It was hilarious when he started to dig out his basement. Well, I thought it was funny. He had other thoughts.

 

[Azzanine]

Mofo shouldn't have dug down. That's like rule zero man.

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[RavynousHunter]

Make the most powerful armour you can, something like the high-level stuff from Simply Jetpacks, bedrock armour from RotaryCraft or, if you've got it, ProjectE gem armour. Turn yourself into a veritable god. Build farms for every resource you can imagine, then find a use for them, even if its off-the-wall or stupid, like farming enough sugar cane to power a Railcraft steam boiler or filling a gigantic EnderIO capacitor bank by running culinary generators off pumpkin pie. If it sounds insane and stupid, do it, because that stuff always turns out to be the most fun, and the most challenging engineering-wise.

 

[asb3pe]

One thing I always recommend is to find a Division Sigil in a chest somewhere (abandoned mineshaft minecarts or desert temples are usually the best places to look), perform the ritual and obtain Cursed Earth (you will need a silky touch Tinkers Construct tool, and also you will need to be very careful as the mobs it spawns during the ritual are tougher than normal). Once you have at least one block of Cursed Earth, make yourself a mob grinder with it - fully enclose an area, use Dark Glass to keep the light out, and then add something like MFR Grinders or Extra Utilities Spikes to kill the mobs and collect the drops. This will give you an important source of Ender Pearls among many other items. Kill a ghast, get a Ghast Tear, make a reusable Safari Net and an MFR Auto-Spawner. By using the Essence coming from your Cursed Earth mob grinder, you can now spawn other mobs in the Auto-Spawner. Witches are terrific to run in it since they will give you redstone dust, glowstone dust, etc. I combine a 9x9 cursed earth spawn setup with the Auto-Spawner right in the middle of the floor, flush with the Cursed Earth. The regular mobs generate excess Essence to run the Auto-Spawner non-stop. I make it 5 tall inside so I can even spawn Ghasts for their tears.

I think a Cursed Earth/Auto-Spawner setup is one of the most important things you can build, and I try to build it as soon as I can. Once you have a solid, reliable source of Ender Pearls, you can begin to make Enderium and make Tesseracts and all that good mid-to-end-game stuff.

 

[epidemia78]

I sure am glad I dont play the game just to follow recipes and multiply ores. BUILD SOMETHING

 

[KingTriaxx]

Agreed. I've usually already been making train networks by this point. I love building things, but I hate building things that don't DO something.

 

[epidemia78]

Agreed. I've usually already been making train networks by this point. I love building things, but I hate building things that don't DO something.

Yeah, the mods should be viewed as a means to an end not a checklist of things to craft.

 

[KingTriaxx]

Unless of course crafting all the things is the end you're after.

 

[Inaeo]

Unless of course crafting all the things is the end you're after.

Which, in Infinity, would be no small feat. So there's the new answer: craft all the things!

Edit: Then put them all together so they function as intended.

 

[KingTriaxx]

I played about two hours of Infinity, and abandoned it. It was just the same thing over again. Modular Mayhem is way more fun.

 

[RealKC]

Get enough pink generators to run your base and have a backlog of power!

 

[Inaeo]

I played about two hours of Infinity, and abandoned it. It was just the same thing over again. Modular Mayhem is way more fun.

I find packs like Infinity are great for learning mods and seeing what mods play well together. It also makes a nice canvas to build on, due to there being so many block choices in your pallet. They also make fun packs for engineering mad-scientist ideas. I do feel they run their course a bit to fast from dirt hovel to end game, but if building creatively is your aim, maybe getting all that silly infrastructure done and over with quickly is a boon.

I'm beginning to find I enjoy packs that hold me back a little while not tying my hands completely. It helps me keep progressing in a tiered manner, whereas in Infinity, I routinely used cross mod exploits to jump ahead (which actually hurts my understanding of the mods in question over the long haul).

To each there own.