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When you install a bunch of mods and it works on the first boot up.

Install Chisel 2 on your server and troll people covering their houses with a bag of clouds.

Redstone For Dummies

Redstone conduit similar to the tech mods. Can go up walls and on the ceiling. Can go as long as you want it to.

Wireless transmitter and receiver blocks.

A BUD block that emits a redstone signal when a block adjacent to it updates.

A BUD Piston that does the same, but activates the piston when the block next to the piston face updates.

Pistons that can push/pull up to a certain number of blocks, instead of just 1. Like with the slimecubes but any block.

A powered pressure plate that automatically powers all redstone within a certain number of blocks. So you could power pistons for a cool door without even running redstone.

Add some more buttons, levers, etc. as well for cosmetics, various functionality.

Add some more powered lights ranging in light level and range.

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Singleplayer Survival actually has tons to do. It just really depends on how you approach it. You can literally choose any sort of play style and roll with it. Just pick a few of the things that are most enjoyable for you and combine them in unique and interesting ways. Your play style will likely differ from mine, but this is what I do most of the time.

I play like an environmentalist-conservationist/explorer.

This means I spend most of my time exploring while making an effort to leave the world in as pristine condition as I found it sans what I mine out of the earth.

Chopping Trees:

When I cut down trees, I leave the bottom stump of the tree so I can directly see the effect I am having on the environment. This also allows me to put the exact same tree in the exact same spot when I go back and replant. I also don’t bother with giant oak trees as they are a pain in the ass to fully clear. This ensures that my world can easily return to its original, lush state over time.

Mining:

I do not mine any more stone than what is required to get at the exposed ores I find in caves. I do not create any kind of mines, tunnels, quarries or anything like that. I believe in taking only what is freely available and not damaging my world in order to obtain it. I simply find and explore as many caves as I can. This fits nicely with my preferred play style as I am an explorer at heart.

Pickaxes:

I only use the minimum necessary pickaxe to mine something, meaning I mine coal and stone with wood; iron and lapis with stone; and gold, redstone, diamond, and emerald with iron. I don’t usually mine obsidian or even turn lava into it unless I need it for something like an enchantment table or Nether portal. Yes, this many times means I miss out on things that are beyond lava. Oh well. Unless it’s a diamond or emerald, I don’t really care.

Shelter:

I try to leave as little footprint in the environment as possible. I prefer to live in caves I find along the way. I might block the entrance off with a wooden wall and a door if it’s not deep enough to go far enough in to be safe from mobs. If I build a free-standing shelter of any sort, it is of renewable wood and not cobblestone (see above for why), and does not contain glass (since that is a non-renewable resource and hard to move).

Food:

I might build a small 9x9 farm with a patch of water in the middle in the vicinity of a cluster of caves so I have a ready supply of food to come home to. If I’m along a coast or on a small island, I usually just hoe out a small portion of the grass shoreline and plant stuff there. I eat mostly bread, fruits, and veggies. (Am I the only one that thinks eggs REALLY need to be cook-able?) I rarely if ever slaughter an animal unless I absolutely need the resource it has in addition to its meat. Meaning leather from cows, feathers from chickens (I also really think you should be able to pluck a feather or two from a chicken without having to kill it), or ink sacs from squids. The meat is just a bonus.

Resources:

I do not try and centralize all my resources. I gather up everything I find in a single cave and place it at the only or most easily accessible entrance to that cave (which is usually the one I initially start exploring it from). I then know I can utilize those resources when I am in the area should the need arise. This is especially helpful when I need something when I am far away from my latest ‘home’, wherever that may be. It allows me to access resources much more easily as I travel instead of having to trudge all the way back to wherever I have my largest base.

Crafting:

I do not craft things simply to craft things. I leave everything in its raw form until I decide I’m going to use it, and then I craft it.

The Fun for Me:

Part of the fun I get out of the game is the thrill of the unknown, what’s over the horizon, and the challenge of clearing caves and harvesting the resources. I explore everywhere, conquering mobs and mining stuff. Trying to figure out how to navigate each of the unique caves is a challenge in and of itself. I make prodigious use of signs to mark where I’ve been and which way things are underground. I also use signs to mark the entrances of caves and whether or not they are part of the same cave system on the surface.

Mapping:

I am also highly addicted to mapping. I love just walking around with a map in my hand and seeing what I find. I usually map at 1:4 scale and then put all of them up on a map wall. This is the most sure-fire way for me to not get lost. I keep the originals on the map wall and make copies for myself as needed for traveling.

Additional Thoughts:

Here is a thought I just came up with. You could also play like a photographer/sight-seeing tourist. Explore everywhere and take screenshots of your adventures and keep them in a journal or diary. You could even post them here. This way you can keep track of all the places you visited and things you did in your world along the way.

Why I Don’t Necessarily Care for Multiplayer:

One of the things I hate about Multiplayer is what VampArcher said about the overabundance of mines and completely cleared caves. I hate how many underground areas simply turn into a block of Swiss cheese, or a badly planned subway, or a strange Esher maze, with branches to absolutely nowhere. It makes things so needlessly confusing. Yeah, I could just go and live off by myself but then that defeats part of the purpose of multiplayer doesn’t it?

Otherwise I tend to get along just fine with people who act like adults on public servers. I am not a griefer or thief and I appreciate when everyone on a server can control themselves in those regards. I hate it when I come home only to find my property vandalized and my most valuable stuff gone. That really gets my goat. Servers with plugins to help prevent this kind of nonsense help, but overall I find it a very unsavory element I’ve had to deal with far too often when playing publicly with others.

Now private or whitelisted servers are much easier for me to deal with because usually those playing are either family members, friends, or those that have gone through some sort of evaluative process to ensure they all play well together. I’ve had numerous vanilla and modded servers I’ve played with family and friends and have had little to no issues with any of them.

PVP has always been a joke. It's nothing but spam clicking and whoever has the most god apples wins. Now that god apples are not craftable and you can no longer spam click, it requires skill and all of these 14 year olds are butthurt about that.

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You can already get apples from trees.

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First of all, there is the Actually Additions Manual, as I already told you. How about you just read that? Because that's what it's used for.

The front page of the Reconstructor entry has an exact explanation and there is also a tutorial on how to automate it in there.

And look at this: JEI has a handler that can open the book DIRECTLY.

If you're not seeing any of this, then it's not my fault. Update JEI.

I have absolutely no idea what you're on about, as there IS the "good documentation" you were asking for, there is an in-game manual and there is even an easy JEI Handler.

People my age (22) tend to stick to smaller survival community servers. You aren't going to see many adults on Mindcrack, Hypixel, Factions servers, etc. I stopped playing on servers that have more than 50 players years ago. Just too much spam, immature kids, pay to win garbage, etc.

If you are starting a server and don't have the skill to do any of these things and think it's a good idea to have a bunch of staff members and no players, then you aren't going to make it very far. The first thing a new player will see is how everybody is a staff member and then they're gonna ask. When you tell them no, they quit. I would advise you to keep it minimal with just you and your friends. Once you start getting more players than you can handle, start recruiting. That said, if you need any custom plugins, I am for hire. Or know people that are depending on what you need (I don't do mini-games/game modes).

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Is this a survival or creative journal? This thread is 5 days old. If you have done all of this in 5 days in survival, you need to go out and do something more with your life. Just saying.

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I thought of Ender Storage a few minutes after making that post and got it installed already. I think that's exactly what I was looking for. And I was watching YouTube videos about the Tesseracts in TE and didn't really want to install the mod just for using that. Basically I was just wanting to transfer lava from Nether pumps to the overworld to power some generators that store power into some energy cubes.

Also, you wouldn't happen to know of any small mod that has multiblock energy storage like Ender IO? Don't really feel like installing a bunch of tech mods just to use one or two items. I think Advanced Generators is what I'm looking for it but it doesn't work.

The crafting table mod your talking about was Crafting Table 3 which is abandoned. However there is a successor known as Easy Crafting.

http://www.minecraftforum.net/forums/mapping-and-modding/minecraft-mods/1286751-1-7-10-easy-crafting-automatic-crafting-table-one

As for tools you'll want Tinkers Construct, Metalurgy 4, and Extra TIC. Combined they give nearly unlimited tool/weapon options with traits based on construction material such as wither, poison, ect. Also the three mods aren't as heavy as most would believe.

http://www.minecraftforum.net/forums/mapping-and-modding/minecraft-mods/2218638-tinkers-construct

http://www.minecraftforum.net/forums/mapping-and-modding/minecraft-mods/wip-mods/1445212-extratic-tinkers-construct-mod-support-add-on

http://www.minecraftforum.net/forums/mapping-and-modding/minecraft-mods/1295123-metallurgy-4

Try Thermal Dynamics, it's standalone from Thermal Expansion and adds just the conduits with no machines. However you'll need to also run Cofh core and Thermal Foundation for it to work, but they add no tech.

http://teamcofh.com/