Overgrown: EnderIO Recipes, Smart Hoppers

4/8/2021 Overgrown-1-1

(1000pm) Did some reskinning of the machinery tower, one strip two-high all around, just above door level, alternating magma and cobblestone bricks.  Started adding the second floor (icy netherrack brick & stone bricks).  Did a run down to bedrock for grains of infinity, got 25.  Kick off my main EnderIO lab (future).  

(1014) Quest for iron ... oh, the caves just outside (Birch Forest biome) have both andesite caves and Quark marble caves.  Dug around a while, came home and made 4 simple machine chassis.  (1025) Simple stirling generator, simple SAG mill, simple alloy smelter.  Ran for sand to make silicon for electrical steel next.

Wow, I forgot how annoying the industrial dye blend is to make, to progress to the industrial machine frames.  Needs 2 lapis powder, 4 quzrta powder, 1 organic black dye, 2 organic green dye.

Alloy Smelter:
organic black dye
 - slime + 6 coal dust = 2
 - or egg + 3 coal dust = 1
organic green dye
 - slime + 12 clippings & trimmings* = 2
 - egg + 6 = 1
 * from SAG milling flowers, leaves, grass, etc
organic brown dye
 - same but with twigs & prunings (only real chance of these is from dead bushes/shrubs)

Ran 9 quartz, 8 dandelions (only got 1 clippings).

(1039) SAG milled some bones, bonemealed the grass outside, now milling 62 grass ... 54 clippings, 4 twigs & prunings.  Meanwhile, I added/upgraded two gold furnaces and two iron chests.  And outside at the sheep pen, the vacuum chest has grabbed two pinky poos.  I guess the previous drops were getting stuck against the fence and despawning, so I cleared it out for the sheep to walk right up to the side of the chicken coop where the drops are collected.  Put 8 electrical steel in the alloy smelter.

(1045) Electrical steel done, run clippings & ball of tree resin, fast recipe.  Added a simple wired charger to recharge my dark steel swords, ,but left them back at PRefab home.  Tp over there and crash.

(1117) While I was crashed I added a recipe that had been on my mind: 4 bookshelves, 4 aquamarine and a hexcite to make 4 mirage bookshelves (Cavern mod).  Sure, you're supposed to go hunt for hours to find the things in those tiny library rooms, but this is expensive enough to balance out.  Then I tp's to my enchanting room and made 3 diamond axes hoping to get Fortune, but no luck.  I brought my best dark steel sword back to Brixton and charged it up to 150,000.

I read up on the Archaeologist enchant, which goes on pickaxes to increase the chance of relic scrap and scarab gem drops.  There is also a Palaeontologist enchant which does the same but for frozen meat.

View of Brixton from the roof of the Machinery tower: that's the Welcome Center across the pond.

(1125) Started on the Smart Hoppers mod.  These things are expensive:

ABA/ACA/-A- (iron, redstone comparator, block of redstone) = smart hopper shell
smart hopper shell + crafting table + chest = autocrafting hopper.

ALongside that you needs stamps and paper:
log + brick + wool + slime (equiv.) = 8 blank stamps
8 blank stamps around bread = 8 recipe items stamp
paper + redstone = stamp paper
-A-/BBB/BCB (blank stamp, black dye, crafting table) = slot card crafting table

Smart Hoppers also has a fun way of storing XP:  
Bottle O Enchanting + melon slice = slice O Enchanting (8,000 XP)
x 6 = Big Slice O Enchanting (48,000 xp)
x 6 + sugar + empty bottle = Big Gulp O Enchanting (384,000 xp)
And technically the Slice can be converted into 8 Bit o' XP (1,000 xp each) but I'm not sure why you would need that.

(1140) Anyway, I found a way to get black dye: bleaching powder + coal/charcoal = 4 black dye each.  And my stash of bleaching crystals was here in town by the Nether portal.  So, I got the slot card crafting table.  Put the stamps and stamp paper in the slots, choose a recipe, stamp it.  My first recies are: redstone comparator and smart hopper shell, to make more of the things.

(1148) And I have my first four more autocrafting hoppers that I can put in strategic places around the world.  (1152) And pistons, my least favorite vanilla recipe ... chug chug, 16 of them in no time, just have to keep dropping the materials into it.

Okay, this dark steel sword of mine is insane.  The tips cover half the screen.  It has Micro Anvil, Direct (sounds like magnet mode), Empowered II (150,000 uI, 60% of damage absorbed by power), Travel (rclick to activate a travel anchor), increased skull & ender pearl drops, when powered, endermen cannot teleport after being hit.  (1205) The bonsai hoppers  produce so much stuff over time, it IS like having a little logging company in a box.  So many sticks, I turned two sets of 9 stacks into branches blocks, and SAG mill the leaves, and use some logs to make charcoal of other logs, and still had enough to turn 6 stacks into Prefab pallettes of wood.

(1220) Poo patrol: cows have 63 manure, make blocks out of it and for fun see if Fortune III has any effect.  Well, I was able to get 34 larva without losing any poo.  Anyway: pigs dropped 23 manure & 2 toxic.  Sheep: 3 pinkly poo.  Looks like the next step is using packed leaves/sugarcane or a ton of other things, plus a manure and 3 larva to get a green waster block that has to dry in the sun to attract earthworms.

(1236) Well, that was a lot of shuffling things around to get packed grass clippings, packed sugar cane, and other bits to make just two green waste blocks.

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