VeeTech2 Rocket Into the Web Again

 251218 VeeTech2

I still can't believe my rocket got snagged on a spider web trying to get back from the Moon.  That is one of the funniest, most surreal unexpected interactions I've seen in my 15 years of Minecraft gaming.  I am planning a future expedition to go back up there, break that web, deconstruct the old rocket, and add a matter receiver so I can get back there for future base building.

It's already after 10 tonight, so no big adventure.  I thought it would be fun to craft some of the Draconic Evolution armor, but even the wyvern armor set needs a wyvern core for each piece, which needs a nether star.  In the Cyclic mod config file, I removed end_crystal from the uncrafter black list, but I guess I have to restart the pack for that to work.  So next time I will have the nether stars I need, and will probably turn it off again after that to be fair.

Looking for other quick experiments, sulfur + flint makes "EFLN" which claims to be safe for mining.  Made 16 of them and went down deep.  Yeah, they blow out about an 8 block sphere and drop everything.   I can fill a backpack in just 8 blasts.  So I filled two of them.  I was able to drop about 30 stacks into my compressing drawer and bump it up to one more sextuple compressed cobble.  Something that I blew up dropped fluorite (NuclearCraft).

I ran the rest of the ores, punched the bag onto my input chest to dump the rest into my RS network for later.

Time's up for the night.

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We had a little time to drop in today, and I wanted to show Anne how these crazy rockets can take us out of the regular Overworld.  She got a kick out of me sitting on the seat on top of those engines, exposed to space.

I expected my second rocket to land on top of the one that got stuck trying to come back to Earth.  But no, it got stuck and hung there, drained all the fuel and asked me if I want to launch up to Luna again.  This time, I could not exit the rocket and look around, or do anything in creative mode.  But I looked up the keybinds and hit K for the rocket inventory screen, where I could deconstruct the new rocket and get out.  It turns out the second rocket got hung up on a cobweb about 10 blocks above the cobweb that aborted my last attempt to leave, and the slimes were still raining down.

I was finally able to deconstruct both rockets and remove the cobwebs, then fly up in creative mode, drain the purple island slime water with three sponges, and cut out about 1/3 of the island.  So nor more slimes means no more infernal slimes who can cast webs at me and my rockets.  But I brough an RFTools matter receiver and installed it in my little cave, so I can now bounce back and forth from Earth to Moon with no rocket at all.

I showed her my RFTools dimensions, highlighting the one with the vast ocean below the thin crust of snow.  It was a lot like the water dimension in the Cavern mod in my other packs, but without the guardians always sneaking up and zapping.  Once I let her know the dimensional ore is rare, she helped spot it from a long way off, and we came back with about a stack of crystals.

Fun trip.

I tried using the uncrafting grinder on the end crystals but even with the crystals removed from the blacklist in the config file, it did not work.  It gave me all the pieces except the nether star, so that's probably blocked by some other setting.  I don't want to spam the world with nether stars, but I want enough to do some draconic stuff, so I need to make a custom recipe.

I made it in the CustomNPCs table: ----/-A--/ABA-/-A-- (eye of ender, end crystal) = 1 nether star

I don't think that's too cheap or expensive.  I have to go to the End and fight bugs to get those crystals.  I made 11, then the wyvern helm, leggings and boots as an upgrade to my old dark steel armor.

I tried to figure out the dimlet workbench, but no combination actually creates a dimlet.  I used material absorbers and followed all the guides I could find.

So I made a mostly random Dim 13.  This is a totally inverted world, trees pointing down below, over a nasty purple-speckle void effect.  I dug up to the surface and it's an endless flat stone plain with tons of ore.  I did a quick spectator mode and saw there were caves, but none are visible from the stone surface.  I dug down to a lush cave and again the trees were upsaide down with purple-speckle void inside every leaf block.  Disturbing, but low cost and full of materials.