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So gone is the capacitor bank in my basement and replaced with an auto crafting system. All my refined storage is in my house so I thought I’d keep it all together. This is the first time I’ve played with the auto crafters and I wish I had earlier! It is so nice to be able to click and say you want x number of something and not need to have to think about the crafting you have to do make it.

Oh god yes! It’s the Chaos Guardian, it’s a bit like the normal dragon but stupidly more powerful. Even with fully upgraded and powered draconic armour, fully powered tools, golden apples and all the regen you can make - you’ll probably die still The Chaos guardian is so stupidly overpowered it can even kill you in creative mode!

I’m building towards the draconic evolution armour and tools. Which alone takes stacks of materials and billions of RF (yes, with a ‘B’). For example, just to make 4 awakened blocks which is only part of the recipe takes 350 million RF. Nevermind all the RF that goes in to itber draconic crafting or all the power required getting the nether stars, draconic ingots or that goes in to making high powered solar panels, reactors, generators etc. Then once you’ve made the armour and tools, it takes 500+ million RF to charge them all. So you see why I built a powerful but exploding reactor before I think I’ll take things slower and safer this time though. I don’t want to rebuild a third time! Yeah modded is a little more complicated than vanilla. It’s why I like it, it is more involved and interesting this way.

A little tour of my world so far

Hahaha no, it didn't contain anymore caffeine than I'm used to - stronger yes but it's a smaller can When you mine destabilized redstone, you get the flow of liquid redstone that should disappear but you should also get a destabilized clathrate too (kinda looks like dark red flint). It gets pushed away by the flowing redstone but you should be able to find it. I think you get at least one destablized clathrate per destabilized redstone ore mined (or more if you have fortune / luck on your pick). If you then put the destablized clathrate in a magma crucible you get destablized redstone out of it You can then put this destablized redstone in to a fluid transposer to convert things. For example, put a snowball in a fluid transposer with destablized redstone and you get blizz powder There are loads of recipes though, sandstone + liquid ender pearls gives you endstone, regular brick + lava gives you nether brick etc. etc.

After talking to you on Friday, I had a look at my stats and I’ve played this mod pack for over 7 days! Admittedly some of that is afk’ing but still, I should have some idea what I’m talking about. As for destabilized redstone, it won’t hurt you to stand in it though you can drown in it.......not that I’ve almost done that.....honest! It is worth mining too as it should drop clathrate (or something like that) which if you liquidate it in a magma crucible and then you can use the liquid in a fluid tranposer to covert items. I don’t think I’ve actually made a pure obsidian pick though, only ever used it as a modifier. It is durable but from memory not that fast? Something worth point out with Tinkers tools, you can swap bits out rather than make new tools. So say you want to swap your obsidian pick head for a cobalt one. Put your obsidian pick with a cobalt head in a tool builder and you can swap the pick head while keeping your xp/levels/modifiers. Same applies to bindings and tool rods too.

So didn’t really get any time to play the weekend due to being out Saturday and having to deal an engineer Sunday due to a broken boiler Still, I managed to upgrade my extreme reactor (the non exploding kind) to just over 4 times the size so it now produces about 75K Rf/t. I’m currently only using 10-15k RF/t so I’ve set my reactor to turn off when its buffer is over 80% full to save fuel. I also built a 450 million RF capacitor bank to act a buffer. Though I’m going to need the power as I’m building a big mob farm that by a bit of googling will draw 50k+ RF/t when flat out. I also started working on making some of the solar panels. They’re powerful but so damn expensive to make! I think I’ve already gone through several thousand glass so got to wait to smelt some more sand before I can upgrade them further.

Well if you haven’t watched yet, let me tell you what happens ....

IT’S BACK!!! Bit of a slow episode but the last few seasons openers have been about putting the pieces in the right places. Got a few laughs from me and I’m excited to see where it goes.

Oh you did ask and I forgot to answer, It isn’t you, you can’t sleep in the mining world. I’ll be hopping on in a few minutes to do some building so I’ll be a discord if you’re on too.

That is a perfect description of Lee tbh

Philmeoldchina Phil the Guvna PhilPhiPhoPhum Lee should be named after the Tenacious D song; Leeleeleeleeleeleeleeleeleeleeleelee

Just what you need at 11pm - a shot of adrenaline Except for that creeper how are you finding it so far?

Just making sure you’re awake Hopefully you can have a more successful trip to the mining world and then time for your favourite thing - dig a big hole!

Yeah it’s the same as the nether in that respect. Always a danger a ghast will blow up your nether portal. Though that reminds me, there’s creepers in the nether with these mods. They’re red rather than green and explode faster than normal creepers. If you have armour on they’re easy to survive but have quite the knockback so can push you into lava if you’re close to the edge.

Com'on it's FG there can be only one name; Philyourmum

Can we make suggestions on what your new name should be Phil?

It is easy to lose time around the mountain section. One corner off line can throw you off for then next couple meaning a small loss becomes a much bigger loss than at other tracks. Still a fast time though I know we passed the new track time but we were enjoying this so left it but will post another combo up later. For the daily races, you just have to bear with it to get your driving rating up. The other option is don’t qualify so you always start at the back, let everyone get a lead and just drive round on your own. It’s boring and you’ll drop some skill rating but probably the quickest way to get your driver rating up. Though even in S rating I’ve had people push me off as you draft past on straights.

Does it? I always have a chest plate on and the sleeping bag on my hot bar and thought my armour level drops when I sleep. It’s a but irrelevant though as long as you sleep at night most mobs won’t have time to spawn.

No worries I’m trying not to tell you too much as I think it can make people play a certain way or stick to specific methods / mods rather than explore the different mods. I’m certainly guilty of building up a basic base in the same way every time. Though any questions or things you want to know I will tell you.

You should be able to just search JEI by bringing up your crafting menu and clicking the search bar at the bottom and searching for sleeping bag. However I think the recipe is; blank blank blank carpet carpet blank wool wool wool On the subject of JEI it reminds me of another tip; if you click once you’ll just search the crafting menu. If you double click it darken your inventory and highlight what you search for. This also works when looking in chest or crates. Yup, that’s the recipe. I think you found the openblocks mod sleeping bag but this pack has a specific sleeping bag mod https://ftb.gamepedia.com/Sleeping_Bag_(mod)

I don't know how you would be missing a mod as it should come as a pack but the mod is actually called sleeping bag as the only thing it adds is the sleeping bag.

You downloaded it - nice Yeah it does take quite a bit of RAM to run, I thought it was suggested 4Gb but always good to give as much as posisble. Watch out for Draconium reactors, they explode! To be honest though the whole Draconium evolution is late mid / end game so I wouldn't worry about that to begin with. A few general tips to start with is when searching the crafting menu if you type @ and the start of the mod name you will get all of that mod. So @Themral gives you all Thermal Expansion, @Tinkers will give you tinkers construct etc. Another general tip is make a sleeping bag. You still need a bed to set your spawn as in vanilla but a sleeping bag allows you to sleep anywhere and won't reset your spawn should you die. Very handy to have if you're out and about so you don't always need to go home to pass the night. Finally, on the items on the right side of the screen that you can click on to craft with, if you left click it will tell you how to craft it, right click will tell recipes it is used in. I'd say the first 2 mods that are worth getting in to is Aroma1997 Mining world - You go through a portal like a nether portal but it takes you to a flat mining world which you can dig up to your hearts content without ruining your normal world. The second is Tinkers Construct - it takes a little resource gathering to build the smeltery but it comes with the benefit of early game albiet manual ore doubling. The biggest advantage is the tools it allows you to build - picks, shovels, axes etc. that can be upgraded and modified. The perks each material has when making the tool or in modifying it you will need to look up as there's too many to list here I'd also say look in to setting up a refined storage system, it's my preferred storage system as it integrates a crafting grid and is easy to us, make things and see everything in one place. Though know, a Refined storage system isn't cheap to make so you'll need a little mining under your belt first. The refined storage system uses power though (mostly called RF in this mod pack) so before you can build it you'll need some of power generation. How you generate power is up to you, there's a number of generators that run on coal, lava, food or other fuel sources through to solar panels, extreme reactors (which won't explode so no worries there) to nether star generators or Draconium reactors (which can explode!) etc. After that though it is up to you, I think it's pretty clear I like the automation side of things so I go off down that route but there's no reason you have to so the choice is yours. Any questions though just ask and I'll try to answer them as best I can

I’m currently playing the FTB Beyond modpack. It’s a kitchen sink mod pack so designed to all work together and includes a bit of everything from technical mods to magic mods. I think all in all there 191 mods in the pack so quite a few to explore. I’d love to set up a modded server with it but they can be quite temperamental and I have no experience of admining a server nevermind a modded one.

Haha yup, I’d left my base chunk loaded so wasn’t that close else I would have died and lost my inventory too. Thankfully I had most of my tinkers tools on me so mining and rebuilding the basics hasn’t taken too long. I’ve got a couple solar panels built and a small reactor (which won’t explode like above) to generate my power. So I’ve got a small storage system built up so thankfully don’t need chests cluttering up the place. I’ve also got a single ore processor, I manually have to fill it and it’s one processor for all the ores rather than one per ore so it’s feeling rather slow but I’ll get to rebuilding the lot. I just need to find more emeralds first which are proving hard to come by at the moment