Modernization
Age 4 - The Modern Age. Looking at JEI, it looks like we’ve got quite a few things on our menu.
The End
Immersive Engineering
Galacticraft
Refined Storage/Applied Energistics
Of course, the moment we unlocked Age 4, we did the most important thing first.
Modern Kitchen
I tore out the antique bookshelves and Engineer’s Workbench to make space for the most wonderful and amazing kitchen on the planet.
Master Chef
The world-reknowned Master Chef TehPiyoNoob demonstrates his prudential culinary skill by preparing his award-winning crispy roast chicken - right out of the oven. Tasty!
The End
Once we got our morale back up, it was time to get to business. I was told to make a Solid Eye of Ender to bring us to the Stronghold. I forgot to bring a boat, though.
Shipwrecked
At least I got a cool screenshot in exchange for being stupid.
Big Bad Cliffs
My Solid Eye of Ender brought me to this insane mountain range. I had to dig down from there.
Overgrown
The End Portal room was overgrown with mossy cobblestone and oak trees. Looks quite cool!
Black Portal
Obligatory End Portal screenshot.
Dragon Slayer
R.I.P. SevTech Ender Dragon. 2019 - 2019.
Outer Islands
To our disappointment, there was nothing at the outer islands. End City chests were empty and we just snagged the Elytra. We did mine out a crap load of End Stone and Obsidian though,
The Between
Instead of making progress in the main Advancements page, we decided to start knocking off some Advancements in the other pages. We started off with the Betweenlands!
I found the Spirit Tree and the Wight Fortress, while TehPiyoNoob worked on killing Betweenlands mobs with their respective weapons. He also found a Cragrock Tower.
I gathered a lot of scenic screenshots which portray how insanely beautiful the dimension is. ZeZePiyo and TehPiyoNoob took on Herblore. They experimented unethically on geckos. Unfortunately, I was caught up working on the base and destroying the Twilight Forest for ores and Advancements so I didn’t get to dabble with this unethical business. What a shame.
The Midnight Jungle
Being an environmentalist from the Overworld, I was against stealing so many materials from its lands, so I did it in the Twilight Forest instead. Well, actually it’s because the ores are easier to find there. In the meantime, I blasted down structure after structure in the Twilight to get more loot.
Honestly, despite what I have said before, the Twilight Forest is a great mod, which has only gotten old over time. While exploring the icy caverns of the Alpha Yeti and the glaciers of the Snow Queen, I’m starting to see parts of the mod which I’m less familiar with. The ideas behind the Twilight Forest are great, but perhaps it will be the most enjoyable experience if it is complete.
The Labyrinth offers a good lot of Steeleaf for me to repair my tools with. I discovered that using blocks of Steeleaf will repair Steeleaf Tinkers Construct tools as well, and at a much faster pace. It became my goal to gather one stack of Steeleaf Blocks, which I obviously didn’t complete. I wonder if there’s a way to quarry out a maze…
Unfortunately Not (Yet)
Instead of feeling sorry for being unable to repair my tools at a faster pace, I decided to do some building. This amazing staircase connects the ground to the Starlight Infuser.
Starlight Power
While on the topic of Astral Sorcery, I also attuned myself to Discidia which provides me with extra damage. The process was painless and made me feel awesome.
Woohoo!
I am one with the stars!
Astral Sorcery has an interesting skill tree system which allows me to specialize in certain powers that make me stronger. My attunement to violent constellation of Discidia allows me to gain experience from attacking poor little mobs in order to make me stronger. I feel like a bully but I think it’s worth it.
Starlight Power
By clicking on certain parts of this cool book after hitting things a couple of times, I can get stronger!
Illegal Parking
I decided to build a plastic factory to automate the production of plastic so I can breeze through Pneumaticraft, but a dumb wooden car made by TehPiyoNoob some time ago was blocking the way. Although I can instantly obliterate thousands of cubic metres of extremely hard igneous rock, I am unable to move this dinky wooden car. Luckily, TehPiyoNoob was around to move his car. He gave me a ride before almost crashing into the river.
Uber Ride
It was a bumpy ride but at least the car is out of the way. The Ultimate Car Mod is quite cool.
Crash by the River
We sorta ran out of fuel at the wrong time. Luckily it didn’t go into the river.
Plastics and Pneumatics
With the stupid car out of the way, I can finally get my plastic factory going. I had to craft up some extra Modular Machinery controllers and casings and input valves and output valves, among other things, so that I can get the three machines required to process molten naphtha and steam into molten plastic. Oh wait… steam.
I begged TehPiyoNoob to whack together three more of those solar reflector thingies so that we can have our steam production cranked up to maximum speed. We manually feed water to the system using one of those ugly tanks which can somehow contain more than 1 cubic meter of water in 1 cubic meter of space.
Honestly, I’m pretty proud of the outcome. With a good production of plastic, I can finally get into Pneumaticraft! Being a high achiever, the first thing I did was to construct this huge pressure chamber.
Under Pressure
Using some of those Air Compressors which eventually blew up, we got a simple Pressure Chamber running to do stuff in.
I fumbled with the thing for a while since I couldn’t input the items into the Pressure Chamber through the ports. I eventually realized you need to use an automated item input instead. Oh well, that was a good use of 45 minutes of my time.
Apologies for the streak of glass, the raindrop, and the darkness of this screenshot, but you can see how I tried to mass-produce transistors, capacitors, and PCBs. I discovered that the items in the Pressure Chamber don’t update properly visually and I was feeling sad about my items being stuck in there when there weren’t actually items stuck in there.
I also spent quite some effort setting up an assembly. It looks cool but it’s painfully slow. After a thousand years, I finally managed to get my Advanced Pressure Tubes which are used to make Flux Compressors. Finally, a renewable source of gas!
Base Upgrades
Danger!
Using this dangerous pylon crashes the server sometimes. Don’t use it!!!
“The Smeltery can be any size from 3×3 to 11×11.”
11×11
Well, they said I could, so I did.
Biofuel
We casually used a crap load of Immersive Engineering Garden Cloches to grow lots of strange crops to feed a Industrial Foregoing Bioreactor.
More variety of plants means better yield. Well, they said I could, so I did. It doesn’t show in the screenshot, but we eventually automated 9 different items to maximize this Bioreactor:
Potato
Carrot
Beetroot Seeds
Wheat Seeds
Nether Wart
Pumpkin Seeds
Melon Seeds
Brown Mushroom
Red Mushroom
These are easy to grow and produce and the farms also look pretty amazing, so I see it as an absolute win.
Villager extortion
My New Victim
Say hello to Villager #18! He’s my scam victim for today. A round of applause, please!
In today’s edition of stupid trades, we see a guy who converts 1 fleece into 9 string which can be directly crafted into 2.25 fleece. With a little bit of convincing and just a small flair of charisma, I managed to squeeze quite a good bit of string off this poor testificate. Tough luck!
“This has been the worst trade deal in the history of trade deals, maybe ever.”
Poor Man’s Storage Network
As I peered hopelessly at the expensive crafting recipes for the Refined Storage and Applied Energistics items, I felt overwhelmed with a pang of sadness. I had to resort to using the Simple Storage Network mod, which is although amazing to use and seems cool, is also extremely laggy when used in large-scale.
Simple
It looks nice and clean on the surface…
Storage
…but beneath, it’s a monstrosity of Actually Additions Large Crates.
Network
And it’s laggy! It takes a while for items to go in and out of the network.
But at least everything is in one place now! That should facilitate some rapid progress…
Rocket Science
Double Distillation
Boom! ZeZe casually gave me another set of materials to build another Distillation Tower to get kerosene.
Rockin’ Rocket
Pow! ZeZe used the annoying Galacticraft Compressor to make a rocket.
Woolly Spacesuit
Bam! ZeZe also made me a spacesuit out of lots and lots of wool. I suppose the villager extortion was for a good cause…
I volunteered my life for this mission. Hopefully I don’t forget to bring anything… As I took off, TehPiyoNoob sarcastically waved at me to bid me goodbye. I suspect he’s secretly glad I’m gone.
Took a while, but… aha, I hit the Moon! Amazing. Oh, look! Age 5.
A stupid challenge awaits me…