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I've been too busy working on re-creating all the ages and then setting up the new Nexus:


There won't be a Mystcraft Sky age this time around. However, Biomes o Plenty adds The Promised Lands, you just have to work to unlock it first...

If Reliquary is now enabled by default I won't disable it. (To be fair it was a bit odd that Reliquary was disabled for being abuseable, and then Dartcraft was included, which is sooo much more abuseable).

As for Hats, I'll take a look. They look fun, but some of the huge hats could get very annoying if people spammed them.

not for me !

So do the Promised Lands spawn above ground level (like Terraria) or... ?

 Wyrmalla wrote:
So do the Promised Lands spawn above ground level (like Terraria) or... ?

It's an entire dimension like the Twilight Forest.

Ah, like the Aether. However is that custom grass or just vanilla? ...The Aether had custom blocks. ...Aether.

So why are you including that particular age? Because it doesn't look so broken as the Sky Age did? Is there a practical reason for it I mean, like for instance people using it as a communal portal location?

reading Thaumcraft for dummies right now...

Deathklaat wrote:
reading Thaumcraft for dummies right now...

I'm reading '"Thaumcraft for Dummies" For Dummies'.

yea, I need a version so dumbed down that it has pages where you do connect the dots and coloring.. it is also a pop-up-book.

 Wyrmalla wrote:
Ah, like the Aether. However is that custom grass or just vanilla? ...The Aether had custom blocks. ...Aether.

So why are you including that particular age? Because it doesn't look so broken as the Sky Age did? Is there a practical reason for it I mean, like for instance people using it as a communal portal location?

It's perma-day, has custom grass, trees etc and a few things you can't get anywhere else (amethyst) as well as some nice treats (that fancy spring water that heals you). Plus it looks damn cool:

its Purdy.

woohoo installing ultimate as we speak, I accidentally installed unhinged earlier :(

Deathklaat wrote:
its Purdy.

woohoo installing ultimate as we speak, I accidentally installed unhinged earlier :(

It's Unleashed you want

Anyway, Twilight Forest could be interesting with hats...

 darkinnit wrote:

Deathklaat wrote:
its Purdy.

woohoo installing ultimate as we speak, I accidentally installed unhinged earlier :(

It's Unleashed you want

Anyway, Twilight Forest could be interesting with hats...

Spoiler:

I know right? Its fantastic XD

I think I'm going to create a nice, humble farm, generating loads of meat, bees, and bee-related products.

Of course, underground will be an industrial superpower.

If anybody ends up with any bees and has no intention of using them, I'll gladly trade you for them once I've set up shop.

I want a house in the promised land.... *drools*

I'll probably live in the Twilight Forest

Ok i have been trying to read up as much as possible on Thaumcraft and how it all works and vis and flux and all of that stuff.

There are a few beginners guides and guides that tell you how to sort of get started but nothing that really encompasses everything.

Could someone post a list of things that would be useful when using Thaumcraft? I do not want a list of crazy stuff but like a smallish guide like " you should build x and then make y and you should try and research/craft z because..."

i have been reading about vis and flux and how to control both, but any additional tips would be a great help!

Well basic startup for thaumcraft make a wand and a thauminomicon. Then read the book it will tell you the basics for getting started, such as how to make the arcane workbench, crucible and so on.

Good tip would be to control your flux by not overfilling the crucible with essences you dont need. Wisps hurt, especially before you get a lightning wand or such to deal with them.

Getting a Netherwart farm going early is good. The netherwart has the flux/chaos symbol on it IIRC, so it's good for researching all the items you need for flux control.

Once you've got your goggles, four arcane alembics on your cauldron and are avoiding overusing aspects, you can then just explore the Thaumonominom and have fun with what you find.

So Reliquary is back in, along with that weird hat mod?

 4oursword wrote:
So Reliquary is back in, along with that weird hat mod?

Reliquary is in, yeah.

I will probably add the hats mod in (and the hat stands) because if you get sick of it, you can set "renderhats=0" in your config, and others can still enjoy it without bothering you.

 darkinnit wrote:

 4oursword wrote:
So Reliquary is back in, along with that weird hat mod?

Reliquary is in, yeah.

I will probably add the hats mod in (and the hat stands) because if you get sick of it, you can set "renderhats=0" in your config, and others can still enjoy it without bothering you.

But i Wuv hats

I will keep hats on then. I think there's a V for Vendetta mask in there, so I'm sorted.

so dark do we have an official eta , or am i going to the nether for asking this ? Also can i ask are we having powerconverters?

 Asherian Command wrote:
But i Wuv hats

Then you can leave them enabled.

That's the main reason I'll add them in, they're don't change the game in any way and they're configurable at the client end. So hat connoisseurs can have all the fun they want, and anyone who considers it nonsense can hide them.


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cptprice0330 wrote:
so dark do we have an official eta , or am i going to the nether for asking this ? Also can i ask are we having powerconverters?

You're going to the nether I'll give an ETA when I have one. It will probably be ready at some point in the next few days, but that's all you'll get for now.

Powerconverters will stay disabled. They've disabled it due to some ability to effectively get infinite free power. Yes the ratios can be adjusted in the config, but if it were that simple, they would have done that and included it.

thanks , i await the wrath of the nitro creepers!

ok i watched a pretty good Thaumcraft 3 playthrough and i am starting to watch a FTB Unleashed one so i should have a pretty decent grasp on things. i also will be trying everything out on a single player world just to make sure i have an understanding of how things work before the server gets the update.

 darkinnit wrote:

Powerconverters will stay disabled. They've disabled it due to some ability to effectively get infinite free power. Yes the ratios can be adjusted in the config, but if it were that simple, they would have done that and included it.

Craaap, are these the bridges and such? :(

note: I'm not generating infinite power with them, I used them for easy delivery of EU and other crap energy to machines that explode mostly, instead of screwing around with so many lag inducing bridges and generators that sometimes vomit coal everywhere I converted over to bridges and tesseracts which is about where I stopped killing the server

There are a lot less EU powered machines now that Gregtech is gone. For those that remain, there are ways of converting power that aren't messy. Also, solar panels are a lot cheaper this time around. Free power anyway :-p

 darkinnit wrote:
There are a lot less EU powered machines now that Gregtech is gone. For those that remain, there are ways of converting power that aren't messy. Also, solar panels are a lot cheaper this time around. Free power anyway :-p

Yeah I'm thinking of it, I never liked all the risk of explosion with every thing you did and when I tried to get crazy with infinite resources the first time I lost a ton of stuff to it :( I really enjoyed the safety that those bridges provided

I'm now rather sad about the removal of Redpower as I now have to reinvent how I"ll do my infinte cobblestone generator.

Also, I finally tried that infinite flux generator from about 50 pages ago. The backlash the mode unleashed to restore balance was so bad I had to nuke the whisps and my lab.