VeeTech 1.5.2: Propolis City to Baltica

2/22/2024

I spent some time in the little spwaner/grinder tower right outside the Cathedral, sorting out which mobs in safari nets will work and which don't.  Also, I brought over one of each regular spawner to see if I can just leave them in there and let them passively generate essence.  I think the spawner will always spawn the mobs, but sometimes they aren't recognized by the grinder: Project Zulu mobs, walkers and such.  Others, like wisps, will spawn outside the box.  I have a few things in safari nets that are just too dangerous to spawn near my base, like the battletower golem, and I have a gravestone right there saying I was once killed by a walker king, so I don't think I will use that safari net any time soon.

Then I ran out to Redwood Village, which I guess I renamed to Propolis City years ago, for a project or two.  I expended some walls, cleaned up some grass and got to work.

I jotted down some notes at work, and one of them was to make a little workspace and museum for the Tinkers Construct chisel blocks.  There are only a few of them: iron, gold, diamond, lapis, ble slime, green slime, obsidian, redstone, sandstone, endstone, bone & stone brick.  You chisel a base block or item once then chisel it again for a fancy brick version. My chest of these wasn't where I remembered leaving it.  It turns out I made a tiny little workshop for it, squeezed in between two of the buildings, barely 3x4 on the inside.  Anyway, it's there for now.

From the tiny mine shack next door, I found my way down to an abandoned mine and picked away for a while, and lit up some new hallways while I was down there.  Then I remembered that I had an attempted settlement inside an abandoned mine over by Jasper Fields.  I tp'd over there, and saw it was just as confusing as ever.  I need to stop trying to follow the existing shafts and just dig out a set of 4x6 abodes.  I headed up to the surface and spent the last half hour connecting the two entrances across the snow plains to the safehouse between Baltica and Oulu.  I connected a few other ruins while I was in the area.

I left off at the main mine at Baltica, which was much more advanced than I remembered.  It had drop chests on several levels and pipes pushing the goods up to the work area up top, which sorted the ores and sent them to a hopper over a pulverizer/furnace combo.  Nicely done, but always a little more cramped than I would like.  It gets the job done, though.

From Jerome, looking down on Field of Ruins base with my zoo