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**Kugyince** · 08-15-2014, 07:11 PM

Friday I will be purchasing a private Minecraft server from a professional server hosting site.

The server will be running Magic Farm 2 for the foreseeable future. If you would like to join and I trust you, send me a PM and I will whitelist you.

This is the list of major mods the server will run:
Applied Energistics
Not Enough Items
Tinker's Construct
Bibliocraft
Natura
Biomes O' Plenty
MineFactory Reloaded
Forestry
Blood Magic
Pam's Harvestcraft
Deadly World
Thaumcraft
Thermal Expansion
Hunger Overhaul
Mariculture
Mystcraft
Open Blocks
Redstone Arsenal
Special Mobs
Infernal Mobs

More on Magic Farm 2:

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You will not need to donate to the server to play on it. If you do find yourself in the mood to donate I will gladly accept Steam funds to make the process easier.

The server I am purchasing will comfortably support 1-5 players for a heavily modded world as is. I don't expect to ever see much more than 5 players on at a time.

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Server is up and running smoothly. I have sent replies to those that have PM'd me.

A few things before you get started:
You begin with some books. These are very useful reading. If you are unfamiliar with the basics of the Tinker's Construct mod the 2 TC books are required reading for survival if you plan to go it alone.

Katz and I are setting up shop east of spawn in a cherry blossom biome. You are welcome to join us or go your own separate way. (about 250/-150)

Mystcraft Linking Books are off limits until I figure out how much stress extra worlds will place on the server.

The world is meant to be very difficult to survive in. Flight over fight is always the best option.

You should try to let the world load up for a couple of minutes the first time you log in. Biomes O' Plenty can add some stress to player PCs initially.

**CatalystiCam** · 08-16-2014, 01:34 AM

I've been mostly playing offline with the unstable circumstances if the RU worlds, and to practice for the group hardcore I'm doing for youtube.

I'm game to play on this though. I trust a Tenser world to have fun mods and be stable. Might not jump on right away though.

**RU Joe** · 08-17-2014, 03:30 PM

If you've never tried this modpack before, I have to warn you it's like a whole new game, and your prior experience cannot help you!

Near spawn is a Testificate village where I broke out the books .. and realized I have major studying to do!

There was even one book I couldn't figure out how to turn the pages on .. clearly this is a very complex modpack!
Punched down a tree {thankfully that still worked the same}, made a crafting table, but when I went to make my customary wooden pickaxe I was shocked to see it didn't work!

It shocked me so badly that now every sentence I type ends in an exclamation mark!

The bad news for me is I can only run this pack for a very short time before my MC crashes

, so I'm going to try the alternative launcher {for lesser PC's such as mine} next time and see if it improves!

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It's dangerous to go alone.
Take this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpV57TIIby0

**Kugyince** · 08-17-2014, 04:37 PM

Glad you're learning about the server and all the amazing things you can do on it, Joe.

**RU Joe** · 08-19-2014, 03:45 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kugyince

Glad you're learning about the server and all the amazing things you can do on it, Joe.

I'm learning things I never knew I never knew.

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Today I harvested and re - planted a lot of the crops in the Testificate village gardens.
I like how the hoed ground doesn't revert to plain dirt, this is extremely nice as all tools seem to require stencils, templates, special tables, chests and other stuff I can't remember right now.
Basically the process of crafting seems similar to the kinds of things you'd have to do in real life to produce tools, and I have yet to make a single tool.

I took some screenshots but haven't figured out where this modpack stores them yet.
I saw some kind of monster that looked like a stone golem

but I left it alone since I am still naked and unarmed.
There were plants pulsating with light, things that could have been beehives, and a short distance from the village is a tree bigger than the ones found in the Twilight Forest.

It got dark so I found my way back and by chance had a carrot in my hand as I entered one of the small huts .. so now there are 3 little pigs living in one of the huts they followed me into.

By the way, your hunger bar constantly runs down so having food in your hotbar is probably a good idea.

ABOUT the video I posted explaining how to play FTB Magic Farm,
how lucky can that guy be?
The loot he found right at the start is simply amazing when I think of the effort required to make those tools and weapons.

**Wolf** · 08-20-2014, 02:56 AM

Ten i messed up my lava pipes the lava wont go into the pipe not sure why lol

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got the best pickaxe from tinker's construct and died countless times in the nether lol

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i could make all the tools for you joe if you want

**RU Joe** · 08-20-2014, 03:10 AM

Wolf:

Quote:

i could make all the tools for you joe if you want

Your offer is very generous, thank you

, but while I am tempted to accept I think it would be more beneficial to learn how to make them myself.

'Roll a man a joint and he'll smoke for a night
Teach him how to roll and he'll smoke for life'

- Cottonmouth Kings 'Roll it up'

**Wolf** · 08-20-2014, 03:24 AM

lol yeah tinker construct is the only thing i have down pact, slowly learning the other mods

**Dudebro** · 08-20-2014, 11:25 AM

You can make me a set of basic tools and leave them in the open. I don't feel like logging on and running around naked and afraid while I figure it out.

**Wolf** · 08-20-2014, 02:08 PM

Do you want the better tools or to start from flint?

**Dudebro** · 08-20-2014, 04:16 PM

Just some basic stuff please. When I start a game with advanced stuff it really kills the motivation for me.

**Wolf** · 08-20-2014, 04:55 PM

Yeah that is always true

**Kugyince** · 08-20-2014, 06:06 PM

Why not just let DB use your TC station since you're right next to spawn, Wolf?

**Wolf** · 08-20-2014, 06:59 PM

He can use it and he can even join my house lol

**Dudebro** · 08-20-2014, 08:57 PM

I don't understand how all this works yet and I don't wanna be naked and afraid.

**Wolf** · 08-20-2014, 10:21 PM

i got a pick, shovel, axe, and all the tables for tinker's construct made for you in my house near the spawn

**Dudebro** · 08-21-2014, 01:18 PM

Thanks. Also blame JG for scaring me about being naked in this new world.

**Wolf** · 08-21-2014, 01:52 PM

I could show you how to work tinker construct

**Kugyince** · 08-21-2014, 02:23 PM

Tinker's Construct (the tool mod) is the only required mod to play. Besides that you can freely play the server as if it were vanilla. Tinker's Construct is an easy, inexpensive mod to delve into and is quick to reward the player for doing so.

My advice is to pick one mod and focus on it. This helps you from being overwhelmed. Both Wolf and I do the same thing for the most part.

A few suggestions after TC:

Mariculture: Very easy to start but very time consuming and slow to pay out.
Thaumcraft: Heavy grind at the beginning but quick to pay out and has a great in game tutorial.

**RU Joe** · 08-21-2014, 07:06 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Dudebro

Thanks. Also blame JG for scaring me about being naked in this new world.

All I was saying was that regular MC crafting techniques don't apply, and in order to make basic tools a bit of effort is required.
I'm completely new to Tinker's Construct and am already getting the hang of it.

When you start you have a tan colored book in your inventory which shows how to make the various worktables you will need to get started.
I've already made most of these in my little hut and have patterns for basic tool parts - now I need to figure out how to put them together!

If you don't want to read the book then you can watch the video I posted earlier in this thread:

Quote:

It's dangerous to go alone.
Take this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpV57TIIby0

Overall the biggest problem is starvation,

so gathering food should be top priority.

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Ok now I'm making progress!
Turns out my trouble was centered around a missing table - there are about 5 that you'll need along with a pattern chest to get started.
Once you get this figured out you're on your way.

Got some flint and bone, made a couple of picks and an axe.
Made a shovel to get some clay and sand, which are needed to get to the next level of crafting.

Lit up the town, still have to get a couple of rooftops.
Planted more crops and a few oak trees around the town, chopped down excessive spruce trees.

**Kugyince** · 08-21-2014, 08:08 PM

You're lucky to have the villager crop fields. Normally you can't till dirt until you've made it to the copper stage.

**RU Joe** · 08-26-2014, 08:09 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kugyince

You're lucky to have the villager crop fields. Normally you can't till dirt until you've made it to the copper stage.

This and the fact that even cooked meat doesn't give much health made the village crops a game - saver for me.
Had I been left to killing animals and eating them I probably wouldn't have lasted this long.
Jadedcat certainly made a challenging modpack!

Speaking of food, I planted a large farm with every seed I can find on the west side of the village.
Be kind and replant what you take please; some of those seeds are taking this side of forever to mature!
There is a double chest on the side nearest my hut for the seeds and I'm going to throw an iron hoe in there too.

By the way, thanks again to Wolf who helped bring me into the smelting stage of the tech tree; I tried it myself but it's one of those things better demonstrated than attempted by instructions alone.
The book that appears in your inventory 'Mighty Smelting'? = is helpful but not comprehensively descriptive.

**Dudebro** · 08-26-2014, 09:54 PM

Any idea how to fix JGs issue with certain biomes lagging him out? If I can't get mayor joe to my npc village it's gonna bum me out. I'd look it up myself but I wouldn't know where to start looking.

**Kugyince** · 08-26-2014, 10:01 PM

@Joe: There's not a need to replant crops in this modpack. If you right click a mature crop it will harvest the crop without destroying the plant.

**RU Joe** · 08-27-2014, 06:30 AM

I was lucky enough to get this screenshot:

{click on picture for larger farm}
Attachment 3543

^
The last few times I tried to take a screenshot while in 'Normal' render distance my MC crashed.
Most of the time I have to play 'Short'

so the picture would have had even more fog than it does.
This is why I like Optifine.

Ten:

Quote:

@Joe: There's not a need to replant crops in this modpack. If you right click a mature crop it will harvest the crop without destroying the plant.

Certain plants only, others still need to be replanted.

DB, I tried a solo expedition to the new blossom biome to see if the lag had to do with there being other players on, but no, the lag was every bit as bad despite the fact I was alone this time.

Right now I'm tunneling from under my hut toward the new area at about Y = 15 to see if the lag effect is still the same underground; I haven't got there yet but found a really neat cave system with lots of those odd spawners - primed TNT, arrows, fire arrows, etc. with most guarding a chest .. but the loot inside is junk!

What I really want to find is an abandoned mine so I can get the tracks from it.
Has anyone seen any of these mines yet, or are there none generated in this modpack?