FTB: nether spasms
So far on our FTB world, the Nether has been a bust. A pain in the rump. The first gate spawned on a tiny soul sand island wayyyy above a lava sea. It took several trips for me to replace the soul sand with stone brick (while ghasts were trying to blow me away), and make a fortified spot out of it, with a fenced stairway up to a little spit of netherrack that was hanging down from the ceiling.
From there I made my way down from the ceiling of the world to the lava shore, made a small fortified room there. Went further thru the ceiling to build an Upper Fort. Had one good run outside where I went about 150 blocks and found 4 stacks of pyrite. All that time the pigmen were calm. Then one guy came up to me and picked a fight, and they've been out for blood ever since. Every trip I have to seal myself into a tunnel or room or they drop down or pop around corners (some of them in armor) and just bash me. Died a few times. But I did manage to setup one strongroom with Mystcraft book links back home.
Now, I really needed a few magma creams to make a blast furnace. On 10 trips I never got up close to a magma cube. Heard em a few times, couldn't survive long enough to catch one. Anyway, I found that running a stack of redstone thru the industrial centrifuge will output ONE endereye dust plus a heap of useful things. So, 16 stacks of redstone -> 16 endereye dust -> 8 blaze powder (and other products). BUT of course, that only makes 32 blast furnace bricks where you actually need 34 to finish the blast furnace. Blast!
I tried running 800 blocks north and planting a new portal, but it came out in the same crappy portal on the Nether side! I spent one more night down there. Saw a magma cube in the distance, shot it with arrow, waited about 10 minutes for it to plop down onto the stone roof over my head ... cut a hole in the roof and it dropped down on me. Whack whack. Got my magma cream finally.
Finished the blast furnace. Now I can make steel for my Railcraft rock crushed -- I've never had one to play with before. Quite the never-ending progression of toys.
From there I made my way down from the ceiling of the world to the lava shore, made a small fortified room there. Went further thru the ceiling to build an Upper Fort. Had one good run outside where I went about 150 blocks and found 4 stacks of pyrite. All that time the pigmen were calm. Then one guy came up to me and picked a fight, and they've been out for blood ever since. Every trip I have to seal myself into a tunnel or room or they drop down or pop around corners (some of them in armor) and just bash me. Died a few times. But I did manage to setup one strongroom with Mystcraft book links back home.
Now, I really needed a few magma creams to make a blast furnace. On 10 trips I never got up close to a magma cube. Heard em a few times, couldn't survive long enough to catch one. Anyway, I found that running a stack of redstone thru the industrial centrifuge will output ONE endereye dust plus a heap of useful things. So, 16 stacks of redstone -> 16 endereye dust -> 8 blaze powder (and other products). BUT of course, that only makes 32 blast furnace bricks where you actually need 34 to finish the blast furnace. Blast!
I tried running 800 blocks north and planting a new portal, but it came out in the same crappy portal on the Nether side! I spent one more night down there. Saw a magma cube in the distance, shot it with arrow, waited about 10 minutes for it to plop down onto the stone roof over my head ... cut a hole in the roof and it dropped down on me. Whack whack. Got my magma cream finally.
Finished the blast furnace. Now I can make steel for my Railcraft rock crushed -- I've never had one to play with before. Quite the never-ending progression of toys.
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