WELCOME TO MY ALL THE MODS 8 PLAYTHROUGH
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that's me up there, as of mid july. I think i'm 3 weeks into this world.
i'm not the best at modded minecraft admittedly. it takes me a long time to do things, when it seems like it takes so little time for others to do the same amount
but it's my worst vice. minecraft will have me do "one more thing" well into the early morning. i'm starting this blog as a way to make myself take a break sometimes, actually, by making a blog about it. making me slow down to write about it
i've been playing ATM (all the mods) consistently since ATM3, but this is the farthest i've got. ATM is all about creating "creative" items, items obstensibly used to test things out in creative mode, and not intended for actual play. you craft these with the ATM Star, an item that is very hard to make, and you have to reach the endgame of so many mods to get to it.
throughout my life i've consistently played it in multiplayer with varying groups of friends, who I would charge with doing the parts I didn't want to do. sounds mean, but it's a video game. if they didnt want to they wouldn't.
it's a modpack series full of memories. so many people have come into and left my life, this series a bookmark in their lives as well as mine. people i've gained, people i've lost, people i've run away from, people i can never forget.
this one is completely on my own. i've had to learn a lot on my own, but over the years I feel as if the mods have made themselves simpler for me, and the community is very responsive and polite nowadays. gone are edgy nerds on forums who answer your questions with questions i suppose.
introduction
i spawned on an island in the middle of the sea.I knew i didn't want to stay, so i did some salvaging and managed to make a backpack and set sail. I have large biomes on, so that made the sea almost insurmountable.
after a very long journey, discovering many things along the way, i ended finding a village atop a plateau, with an even higher mountain nearby. By a waystone located there, it was named Merarcmed[1].
determined to end old habits of simply holing up in a cave or taking over an existing structure, i decided to make my own houses for my equipment and storage. here's what that looks like today from above:
i like the convenience of the waystone. its still very helpful for when i travel.
i like mountains nearby for many reasons, mostly aesthetically. it provides something almost divine, a god holding a beacon that i can see from far away to know I'm close to home.
entry #1
all of that out of the way, this is very much in media res. let's show you around.
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this here is my house. i don't spend a whole lot of time here anymore except to sleep. you can see all the ironchests I used early on. I went a long time without generating FE[2], so I didn't have a refined storage system until a while in.
those three (two in frame) furnaces were my ore processing until very recently. very rudimentary i know. i was just preoccupied with exploring and finding things for a long time.
also i was probably looking for a specific thing. you know, like the next step sometimes feels gated behind a random material you need to search very far to find.
lime green windows with various chisel designs, blue wood from a magical forest nearby, wool floor, and a spore flower for decorative particles :)
there's an attic, but it only has barrels instead of chests.
now that I have refined storage, most of these chests are used for NBT3 items like apotheosis gems and weapons.
outside of the house, you can see on left. I never finished the upstairs window lol. on the right is a villager house that I threw banners on that I found in chests. idk if it's just a modded thing but there's a bunch of pride flags and logos sitting in dungeon chests, which I think is pretty neat.
further left you can see my initial machines. just some mekanism machines powered by an rftools goal generator. very messy. it took me a while to find out how to move energy and items around. I'm used to fluxducts from thermal foundation.
center is a little two story house with anything enchantment related inside.
here's the inside of that. it can enchant to level 100 :o. I finally got a fully leveled one a few days ago, basically as soon as I found the End. also found out that the enchantment table doesn't take any bookcases from the third row... which took me a very long time to find out...
the assortment of workbenches shoved against the wall are a smithing table (for shoving apotheosis gems into tools) and an apotheosis deconstructing thing that lets me get essence from tools.
yes that's me throwing diamond and netherite tools and armor into a salvager to get magical pearls XD.
now that i'm in the End and the Other, I get a lot of netherite tools, and the mythic ones go in the salvager for pearls. i have a lot of pearls now, so i don't think I need to do this much more.
you also get a hint at my inventory management here. all my tools are in the blue backpack, but I have a whole row of gold/diamond backpacks for traveling. they have autopickup upgrades so nothing goes into my inventory until theyre full. with fortune VIII pickaxes and looting VIII swords and luck boosted armor, that happens pretty quick, as an aside, look at this garbage.
witch hats are a reliquary drop, and i have a sword that has insane looting, and an enchantment that boosts reliquary drops, but witch hats dont stack, so when I was in the Other killing witches cause they were in the way of the pigliches, I got absolutely stacked with witch hats. so annoying! at least I can craft a charm to keep them away next time...
getting back on track... non-mythic tools go into a different salvager that actually extracts resources from them, so thats pretty handy.
I haven't looked at how much netherite I have, but it's probably a good amount. no idea how much I need for the ATM star though.
the salvager is located in my machine room, which is in a different building entierly!
those machines on the left are leftovers from latex production, but I grow rubber with mystical agriculture now, so I could get rid of them now.
the real magic happens in the back. so I convert all my ores to raw blocks, which get run through a mekanism purifier, and then into a mekanism enricher, and then into a netherite furnace factory. i feel like I'm missing a step... because there's four machines...
the purifier gets oxygen from a machine back there, which itself gets it from the water. the point is that a raw ore block is 9, but processing it this way gives me 18, which is crazy!
i really need to figure out how to get my refined storage out all this way. that way it can extract raw ore automatically. i'm manually putting it in now, but I honestly don't know how much longer i'll be processing ores. the only one I'm consistently short on is iron. maybe that gets fixed after my next goal of a chunk destroyer.
on the right side is a centrifuge that processing my bee combs. it's very very very slow, and i need to speed it up.
this is the "main hallway" of the building we're in. i'm proud of this armory. it's something i've always wanted to do, but I get obsessed with technical apsects and I have a hard time focusing on aesthetics. that's why so much of this is unfinished. if isn't explicitly practical, it's hard for me to do.
the twilight forest has some of my favorite blocks. I love the smoker on the right, and aurora blocks are sooo cool.
now this is where the real magic happens. sandwiched between the enchantment building and my house is the refined storage network. pretty proud of this. this is one of the things I ALWAYS pawned off to a friend or girlfriend and had done for me. not as complicated as applied energistics 2, but still, I'm proud of myself here.
there's a lot going on in this image. down in the bottom are just chargers and a bee breeding machine. above that is an import bus that takes things from my backpack (yes, I clear it of NBT items before putting it there ;) ).
on the right is my new armory. it's a bunch of barrels sorted by armor or tool type.
there's some powah solar panels up top, but i recently got a big reactor online. I think it's broken because it's using a mix of diamond blocks and unobtainium blocks, but I'll figure that out later.
the glass cables going into the sky go to some crafters... I couldn't find a way to get refined storage to passively automatically craft like ae2 would, so I have export busses filtered for mystical agriculture essence going to a bunch of rftools crafters that make the full resource. overly complicated but it works and it's what I know.
refined storage "auto crafting" requires me to make exact estimates of how much resources I have or else it won't craft anything... really silly if you ask me.
check this bad boy out:
yep, one million. took me a while to scrap this one together, but now that I'm growing silicon, I'm sure I can get one ten times the size in a snap. still made me feel good. almost halfway full already though...
i think that's it for today. it took me just about two hours to write all this, but next updates should be quicker, all I'm doing now is drawing the rest of the owl, so to speak ;)
next entry ->[1]: by nature of whatever randomly generated name thing these waystones use. I'm not always fond of it
[2]: "forge energy," what used to be known as "redstone flux," altough there are still plenty of mods using different energy, much to my chagrin. "forge" is in reference to the standard modding kit for minecraft, Forge.
[3]: "named binary tag." items with damage or enchantments or anything else are saved as the item plus a bunch of numbers and words. they don't stack in storage, and enough of them can even corrupt saves.