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callisto8413

Starting playing again....

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Uploaded the new Build from the Download section and started a game just about an hour ago.  Survived two days and nights living off of cooked seaweed, some berries and some tomatoes I found.  Seem to be either on a large island or a series of linked island - following the coast because every time I went inland I found no animals and only a few items I could eat besides the sea weed.  And the only source of fresh water happens to be on the coast - one small area - that ALSO happens to be hard to get out as the landscape around it is crumbling into huge pits.  Lucky for me, found clay early, so am firing jars so I can starting to plan a series of quests to find a better spot.   No metals at ALL - that I can see on the surface.  

 

Even building a small shelter at this point would be useless - I would have to tear it down in a few days anyway.

 

It's perfect!  Just the kind of problems a human being should try to overcome.  :D

 

I have to check the wiki about fishing.  Maybe I could live by the sea!  

 

By now in regular Minecraft I would have a farm already going with a small cottage and maybe some farm animals.  I would be picking out which type of wood to make my doors out of and feasting on pumpkin pie.  How boring....^_^

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Uploaded the new Build from the Download section and started a game just about an hour ago.  Survived two days and nights living off of cooked seaweed, some berries and some tomatoes I found.  Seem to be either on a large island or a series of linked island - following the coast because every time I went inland I found no animals and only a few items I could eat besides the sea weed.  And the only source of fresh water happens to be on the coast - one small area - that ALSO happens to be hard to get out as the landscape around it is crumbling into huge pits.  Lucky for me, found clay early, so am firing jars so I can starting to plan a series of quests to find a better spot.   No metals at ALL - that I can see on the surface.  

 

Even building a small shelter at this point would be useless - I would have to tear it down in a few days anyway.

 

It's perfect!  Just the kind of problems a human being should try to overcome.   :D

 

I have to check the wiki about fishing.  Maybe I could live by the sea!  

 

By now in regular Minecraft I would have a farm already going with a small cottage and maybe some farm animals.  I would be picking out which type of wood to make my doors out of and feasting on pumpkin pie.  How boring.... ^_^

If you have spare resources, you can also leave the shelter there to come back later when you have a propick. Perhaps you found some ravines where you could descend and prospect the walls and the bottom of them when you get a propick. Or you might just want to get back there for the flowers or the trees that only grow there

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Hey, you're doing better than me. I started playing TFC just a few weeks ago. I died because of thirst! I thought all you had to do was stand in fresh water. You should have seen me...jump in the water, sneak in the water, run, walk, swim, dive, nothing worked. So I just stood there frustrated, watching my character die a very slow, painful death. (It takes a long time to die from thirst!) Needless to say, I did a little more research after that. But yeah, I was well fed; that seaweed was a lifesaver (after I figured out how to drink!)

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Well, I explored, found a few fruit trees (orange and green apple), battled and killed a bear, found and ran away from another bear (that seemed too busy posing on the top of a very high hill top to notice me), found some garlic, started farming and gave in to the need to make a shelter out of wood and jack-o-lanterns.  Mostly because I found some ores on the ground, so maybe I could make some tools, but also because I want to try to live in this one area.  It is kind of pretty.  Also, with the straw bed I at least have a spawn point.  If I could find more animals - outside of bears - I could start some kind of meat and leather industrial.  

 

Thing is, I like Stone Age stuff, so metals don't bother me.  You can be surprised how much you can do without metal in this mod.

 

I have tried raw and cooked seaweed.  Not sure there is much difference.  Maybe the cooked seaweed keeps you warm?   ^_^   At least there is tons of the stuff.  As long as the water does not ice over in the winter.

 

I should think about making a "kitchen" table top with a knife to see if I can make some salads.  

 

I just wish the land would stop collapsing.  I think I lost a block of farm land.

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A few screenshots - the landscape is somewhat impressive...

 

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Running about at night may make it hard to see the beauty.   :D

 

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Home Sweet Home.  My places always look simple...

 

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Interesting rock layers...

 

I had a accident - set fire to my house and had to rebuild it.  Lost my hide and straw bed in the process so until I find that other bear I know which is running around I will sleep on straw.   :P

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My first night base was nothing but a clay pit.  This is where I stopped, and stayed, on my second night.  But I have found some large inland fresh water lakes.  So there is a move in my future.  But I do need a saw.

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Oh, folks, what do you use thatch blocks for?  Now that it acts like "air" it is useless as a roof and using as a door would be silly as a bear could just walk right in anyway.  I've heard it is great for cellar doors, as it blocks light, but I don't have a "cellar" right now anyway.

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Thatch is useful as a roofing material, just spider proof the eaves. Also useful to use as light blocking door for cellar. In early/temp shelter it is useful for bracing dirt and/or cobble blocks so that you can use them as wall material.

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Yeah, I've still got my little starter home with thatched roof. The first layer was dirt then a layer of one-log logpile, and then thatch roof. I had a chest outside along the wall that I used to jump on and then jump through the thatch to get inside (even though I had a door!) Thatch will keep out the rain, so you can have a campfire or pit kiln.

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It will keep out the rain?  I saw a recent Let's Play where it looked like the rain was leaking through...good, I don't have to waste so much wood then.  I can reclaim it.

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Just be careful with pit kilns inside the house the log piles in the walls will catch fire even if they are one (and if I am not mistaken 2) blocks away. Campfires are OK.

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Just be careful with pit kilns inside the house the log piles in the walls will catch fire even if they are one (and if I am not mistaken 2) blocks away. Campfires are OK.

 

I see.  The pit kiln was outside but not far enough away.   I figured as much and moved it farther away.  I am now working at my home but also working on my future home.

 

First, I found an area with some animals.  Sheep, Pigs, and some wild hens (pheasants but I can't remember how to spell that half the time).

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Also found a nice area where, if I was on a server, I would suggest a Dwarf Fortress.  :D

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But more importantly - I have getting a somewhat balanced diet...

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And preparing the new home site at one of the inland lakes....

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That also is right next to the sea.   Fresh water and seaweed - yummy.

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Does anybody know what this is?  Not that I can do anything till I find more ore off the ground.  And maybe start to pan for ore....I hear that works now.

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WOLF!  Eh, I guess we're in the New World.  Because Old World wolves DO attack people.

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And deer.  I left them alone - animals don't seem to drop much in the way of meat and I seem to be finding a lot soybeans.

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New second home looking good.  Made a cellar too.

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Once you planted a tree - can you recover it or do you have to wait for it to grow and then take saplings from it like the adult trees?  

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You can not recover it. If you break, it just goes kaput. So wait for it to grow and break the branches to multiply your Orchard.

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Hard to tell from picture, but I'd guess Galena or tetrahedrite, maybe Jet or slim chance it is coal.

Amount of meat is linked to butchery skill. So since your level is low you drop little. You raise it by killing animals or fishing.

You can break and pickup saplings. Edit, oh partly grown fruit sapling. What he said.

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Well, found enough copper to add to my ton of tin to make a bronze saw.  So made a loom, made a tool rack, a large box, and so on.  Can't make a bed till I have more wool.  I'll pick spots around the main island to pan for ore.  I found a large Western Island - I guess I'm in Japan - plus some more fruit trees.  Bananas!  

 

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Now plan to make some fences and also some ropes to bring in the animals.  And I have bones, so can try to tame the wolf.  AFTER all the animals are fenced in.  

 

And found some more ore in the rocks (found it by walking right on it) - which I marked.  Not sure what half of it is.  But my next metal tool will likely be a chisel so I can make a quern - I love bread and look forward to sandwiches.  Oh, and stairs.  

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If you have NEI installed, you can turn on the HUD and it will tell you what type of ore it is when you look at it.

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Okay...so I made a chisel and used my fist to get three rough stone blocks (for the grinder of the quern).  Then used the chisel to smooth a block and then punched all the stone around it...I will do this three times to make the base.

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Yeah...that didn't work...

 

I'll wait for my pick before doing anything else with that stone.  It scares me.

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Smooth stone is harvested with a pickaxe. That's kind of the point of smoothing it, so you don't have to quarry it out.

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Smooth stone is harvested with a pickaxe. That's kind of the point of smoothing it, so you don't have to quarry it out.

But I don't have a pickaxe and this method always worked before.  And it's floating.  I have noticed a LOT of blocks floating in this save.

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No. That method has never worked before for smooth stone. It has only ever worked for raw stone.

 

Not every block in the game is gravity affected. In fact, if the block is not cobblestone, dirt, sand, or gravel, it will float. This is intentional, because otherwise the creative aspect of building in this game would be essentially impossible.

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Well, moving on, I have collected a nice number of seeds.

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And have fenced off a small tract of land.  Any suggestion on what animals to collect?  My choices are pigs and sheep and...that about it.  I assume sheep because of the wool but there seem to be more pigs running around also.  May be easier to bring in pigs.  I assume pigs reproduce faster.

 

Frankly, with all my veggies, fruit, and grains, I am not sure animals are a smart investment.  Has anybody compared output of animal flesh vs. harvests from plants?

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If floating blocks annoy you, try out Enviromine. It probably has the best block physics known to Minecraft 1.7.10

 

If you are going to combine TFC and Enviromine, I'd suggest starting with the Enviromine configs from kev12east's Technofirma mod pack and editing them to your liking

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You'll want cows as you need dairy.

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