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Smelted 40 stacks of netherrack and turned it into nether bricks, and used an anvil to make an efficiency V unbreaking III silk touch pickaxe. It's starting to be a pain trying to repair my tools since I don't have an exp farm on my world. Currently working on collecting a couple stacks of obsidian for my current project.

Just jumping in (after reading and checking out some of the first posts)
really cool redstone stuff btw, indeed those automatic doors deally have always hunted my intrest.

ANYWAYS

Got a whole new world,

Seached ,found a chunk of desert and plotted an odd and random fence/gate ((all in creative btw I'm a ventran minecraft i keep telling myself im allowed a certain amount of free blocks ;D rofl))

Created a ^mini-castle/home
^some housing for a town (Storage house, smith, mayors home, and a lucky couples home haha)
^Then While @ my local coffee shop one day, i was playing and decided make a minecraft copy of
the place its cool to me OK lol.
+(btw all the while im using "Devine RPG" mod)


Future plans: Posibly take a break and find a small group of peps who want to smp together.

(Ima newb at posting spoilers or any photos for that matter, so heres a link to my FB where they are all at IDK if this is cosure but its all i got please message me how or what i cant read to lean how to upload photos

https://www.facebook...&type=3

working on a new bigger giant pine forest.

Suddenly decided I wanted to build a blaze farm. No real reason. I have no need for an XP farm because I have an enderman farm. I don't really need blaze rods either, considering I have 3 double chests full of coal and have found all of the strongholds. But I thought it would be cool to build one. So I followed Etho's build. Was pretty simple and it's working fine.

Really want to build an iron golem farm, but am afraid that it will just take way too much time to build.

That's the problem with having an established world. No real reason to build anything. I found a skeleton spawner a couple weeks ago. My first one. I'd found spider and zombie spawners before, but never a skeleton one. I finished it and collected a bunch of arrows and bones. But now I have more arrows and bones than I'll ever need.

Maybe I should start a new world when 1.5 comes out? I'm tempted, but I don't think I want to abandon everything I've already built. I'd started new worlds before, but got bored once I realized how much of the advanced stuff I was missing.

I visited some more Mystcraft Ages, and got a few more Symbols, notably those for lava lakes, skylands, wooden tendrils, dungeons and most importantly, crystals. These are bluish in color and allow you to create portals to travel to different Ages. The screenshot below is what they look like:



This Age also has glowstone crystals in it.

It has taken 73 Ages to find those. I took back about a stack and a quarter with me.

In addition, I got down to level 33.62 of my branch mine, and found a little bit of gold there. I have about 1/3 of that level completed.

I was getting a lot of excess cobblestone, dirt, gravel and marble from storing it in my chests rather than recycling it. The chests I had them in were almost full, so I made a couple of Factorization Barrels, a RedPower 2 Filter and Pneumatic Tubes to funnel excess blocks into the barrels. Each can hold 64 stacks of one type, but if you have the Extra-Dimensional Storage Upgrade on one, it can hold 1024 stacks. The only caveat is if you break it, you lose the excess items in that barrel (they used to explode in older versions of Factorization if you broke one). That upgrade is part of the Wrath system in the mod, which requires the usage of Nether Brick in many of its components.

I upgraded a second barrel to hold 1024 stacks. This one has dirt in it, which is the second most common block I have left over from branch mining. In addition, I added barrels for gravel and RedPower2 marble, as both of these are also filling up chests more than I want. Even a diamond chest has only so many slots (108), and a barrel with the extradimensional storage upgrade frees up a lot of those slots in the chest. So far I haven't done this with the marble and gravel chests, as they aren't close to holding 64 stacks. I want to add a barrel just for blocks of iron, as I am accumulating them as well. I am getting way more of it than I need, and having IC2 macerators and Thermal Expansion pulverizers just increases it as both machines double your ore output.

I have also started beekeeping, one of the main areas of the Forestry mod. So far I have only 4 species, Meadows, Marbled, Watery and Steadfast. Marbled and watery bees are part of the Extra Bees addon, while the others are in Forestry itself. Of the Steadfast ones, I have found 21 of them, all in Thaumcraft3 Barrow Hills or vanilla dungeons. They are all drones. I currently have 10 Apiaries set up, with Untreated Frames (3 each) in them. Those speed up bee product production by 70%, but are only good for about 4-5 life cycles of an Apiary's Queen. Impreganted Frames are the next step up, but I am trying to save my Seed Oil for other uses. 5 of the apiaries are going to be used for crossbreeding bees, while the rest are for purebred ones.

Seed Oil is made by placing seeds (only vanilla wheat, pumpkin and melon work) in a Squeezer. Each seed produces 20 mb (1/50 of a bucket) worth of Seed Oil, so a lot is needed for most uses of it.

I have also been branch mining some more. I have a rather large backlog of ore to process - it is filling 2/3 the slots of the gold chest I made for this. An iron chest is the same capacity of a vanilla double chest, while a gold one has 81 slots, triple that of a vanilla single chest. Iron, gold and diamond chests are from the Iron Chests mod; it also has copper and silver chests, but I don't use those at all. There's also a Crystal Chest, which you upgrade from a diamond one. Its walls are transparent, allowing you to see what items are inside.

I built overworld zombie pig man farm for the golds.

I downgraded to minecraft alpha 1.2.3

I started building a fortress that connects 3 mountains.
Its so big, I have to do it in segments.
I'll post a picture of it when its done.

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I have been working on my mob farm, and my desert base I use for sand collection.

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I started building a fortress that connects 3 mountains.
Its so big, I have to do it in segments.
I'll post a picture of it when its done.

....and now I just realized that I deleted the world that I was making my fortress in....


Anyways, now I'm going to build a tower in a jungle.

Slayed the Ender Dragon.

I got the mo creatures mod, spawned in a village that had 5 diamonds, 4 iron and 2 iron chestplates. Haven't done anything else.

Since the 1.5 update came out, I thought I would try out the hoppers. I have a simple chicken farm, where the chickens are on water suspended by signs; the eggs dropped to the floor below and I just picked them up. The chickens occupy a 2x3 space.

Underneath I placed 6 hoppers in the floor, 2x3, about a two block drop directly below. Each of the hoppers feeds to the one in front of it, with the last pair of hoppers feeding into a double chest. From the double chest are two hoppers that feed into two dispensers, side by side. I put a stone button on one of them. Now I can activate the dispensers to shoot the eggs into a wall above a 3 deep pit, where I can go down by ladder to slaughter chickens for meat, feathers, and XP.

Once I find some quartz in the Nether I plan on hooking this up to a comparator to make the dispensing automatic.

I upgraded the Direwolf20 modpack on the FTB launcher to 5.2, and got no crashes or memory leaks like many users reported with 5.1.

I went exploring through some Mystcraft Ages, and found a few libraries. These have a lot of bookshelves in them, a couple of lecterns on which can be found Symbol pages, and a chest hidden behind some of the bookshelves. That contains some more pages.

The pages are a recent change made with Mystcraft 0.10.0.0. Now you can no longer get Symbols by randomly generating Ages. Instead, you have to find them in libraries in Ages, as dungeon loot, or trading with a Mystcraft villager. But I have most of them already, as all my existing Symbols in my Notebook were kept after the upgrade. I made several more notebooks, and arranged the symbol pages by type, such as Biomes, Biome Controllers, Features (caves, ravines, villages, dungeons etc.), Celestial (sun, moon & stars) and so on.

You also now need to keep the Writing Desk stocked with paper and ink vials. These are made by combining 2 ink sacs with a water bottle on the crafting grid. In addition, when making Descriptive Books now, you need to use a new block called a Book Binder. This uses 3 iron ingots and 5 wooden planks, with the ingots on top, and the bottom center slot of the 3x3 crafting grid empty.

Used the redstone update and started to automate everything.

Quote from MazeCraft

edit:
I rewatched the video. There is nothing about pistons. Most of the farms uses pistons moving the spawning floors back and forth that causes mobs (except spiders and slimes) to fall through the floor.

That'd be this , by Pommes Peter:

Just finished building a small part of my castle (the part I finished isn't small, I'd say it is actually about 25 chunks long. But the castle is going to be huge, so it is small in comparison)