My base Build

 

I picked an area close to resources and a built an underground base hidden under a hill. Stairs down to level 20 using red cobblestone stairs.

Here are a few pictures (using Soartex tecture pack) of my builds so far.

Start of my machine lab.. A generator, bat box and macerator.

Enchantment Table (rescued from a dungeon).

My chests and bed. It is in the middle of the room at the moment as monsters spawn outside the walls and they prevent sleep.

Starting a farm, eventually this will be expanded and automatic using Farmcraft

Thaumcraft and Brewing area

My Coke and Furnace for Steel production (Work in progress)

Cauldron boil and bubble!!!

The coolest table in FTB Ultimate. I have created the Power Armor. Need to get resources for upgrades.

I have created a nether portal and a Twilight Forest Portal outside my base and collecting resources from those areas.

Minecraft FTB Ultimate Adventure

 

Welcome back. It has been a while and I have been busy playing various packs in Feed The Beast. On March 4, the FTB Ultimate Pack was released with over 45 mods installed so I decided to reset my world and starting playing with that new modpack. I hope to exercise as many mods over the next few weeks of adventuring.

Lets explain the setup. I have FTB Ultimate 1.01 installed on my machine with additional mods to fill it out:

• OptiFine D5 – Standard for high res pack and better FPS. Add this to jarmods.
• Damage Indicators – This mod interested me when Captain Sparklez and iPodMail showed it on their channels. It is a good idea when you meet a new enemy to assess its strength. Also racking your pets health. Added this to jarmods.
• Mo’Creatures – This is one of my favourite mods to add ambience to the world. It is handy as the creatures tend to drop useful items. I have modified the spawning of Golems as they tend to be more annoying than fun. I had to disable the integratedsoundpacks mod as it prevented the creature sounds. Though the insects can be annoying!! Added Gui-API to jar mods and rest to Mods.
• Timber! – This is for convenience mainly to cut down trees easier then in vanilla. Add this to Mods.
• Better Animations – I will eventually add this mod once I figure out how to show horn it into my specification.

The setup works and I am playing on Normal.

My goals for this adventure are as follows:

• Establish an underground base (I was inspired by the movie Red for this one).
• Build portals to the nether and Twilight forest.
• Self sustain with food and energy
• Others as I think them up

This should be fun…

The Lair Project

 

I have finally decided on a new world and a new set of goals. I decided that I need an evil lair… (maniacal laugh.. maniacal laugh..) so I found seed on the net for V1.2.5 that generates some plains and a few mountains. I will build a lair from scratch in the side of the mountain, conquer some dungeons for resources.

I used the seed 59152177 from http://www.planetminecraft.com/blog/minecraft-123-seed-collection/ and I struck gold. Here are a few screen shots.

This is the location for the lair. Already opened up and a series of tunnels underneath already full of ores and stuff.

A ravine is nearby. There is an ice fortress in the distance!!

Plenty of dungeons to plunder.

I will post progress…

I'm back in Minecraft

I am back playing Minecraft after a few weeks absence... Here is my new build in Single Player using AMCO.

Better Dungeons– Swamp Dungeons

 

Decided to do a little bit of mining in a swamp and was shocked to hear “screaming” underground. It was a bit terrifying and after investigation found a large swamp dungeon crawling with goblins.

These buggers are loud and they moan like little kids till they get excited when they scream. If that isn’t bad enough, some are riding large silverfish and some are riding bees!! The last ones are hard to spot and can do damage especially when you are fighting off a horde of these. I managed to rush towards the spawners to stop the stream of goblins overwhelming me.

The seems to have odd behaviour. In the middle of a fight sometimes they stop attacking and seem to walk around in circles chanting to themselves before attempting another attack. I was deciding whether to laugh or prepare for the next attack when they struck in mass. I could not get some screen shots to show you this action as I was busy fighting them off.

A little rick I learned was to seek higher ground and fight down. They are small after all. That will work with the ones on the ground. Not the riding ones. Also the large silverfish spawn smaller ones as well..

I retreated a few times to save my health. Booty is not really big just a few items. I better get back to the fight.

Epic Mob Grinder Build

 

I have built Mob Grinders before in some of my worlds but decided to try a design I saw on a web site. It took a few days (physical) but I got it done.. Take a look at the build process.

It works great and I removed my original grinder (the last two pictures). I modified the design to include a lip around the outside to prevent spiders from climbing.