Tech World Adventures - Chapter 2

Chapter 2

          When we last left off, I was starving, almost to death. Today we're going to try to solve that.

          First, what I should do is make a juicer to get more yield from all these apple trees around here. It's made simply with a piece of stone and a stone pressure plate.

          I wonder why these HarvestCraft tools have no durability bar. I mean, in the real world an apple cutter isn't going to last you seventy-five years. It's eventually going to rust, the metal is going to warp, and maybe a freak dishwashing accident will cause the plastic handles to melt.

          But whatever, I'm not complaining. In the meantime, I'll just murder these chickens for their meat. I try to leave two around so I can breed them later, but I keep finding more everywhere I go!

          I have the game set up to disable wooden and stone hoes. This means that I need iron to start a farm. I have three pieces of iron, but I'm saving them for a pickaxe. Though I later find out that I want to take a different path, so...hmm......

          Whatever the case may be, I go down into the other cave, which turns out to be just a shallow valley. So much for exploring. I pick up some resources and then move on to the next cave. Well, actually, I run for my bed because it's getting to be night time.

          Okay, now I head for the cave. I am curious about something, though. Since Minecraft's day and night are ten minutes each, wouldn't that mean I'm theoretically near the world's equator? Another point: the day and night continue to last ten minutes each even when you move ten thousand meters away from where you first spawn. So, wouldn't that mean....whatever, it's just a game. Since when have game mechanics ever made sense in the real world?

          So I'm just taking my pick of the ores when suddenly I hear the ol' rattle of bones coming down to meet me. I managed to snap a picture of the bugger before he shot me in the stomach:

          Oh, and I'm STILL hungry. I guess this sack of bones feels the same way. No wonder he's trying to kill me.

          I didn't run into any more trouble, although my pickaxe broke when I mined out the last of my yield. Here's what I mined out:

          It's all right there in the right-hand corner of the inventory and the furnace. If you can't see it, here's the list:

• 14 iron ore
• 54 apatite
• 17 salt
• 21 copper ore
• 1 tin ore
• 27 coal
• 5 aluminum ore

Apatite is good for fertilizer, which is what I'll need if I ever want to get that farm up.

          After I make myself another set of tools and a hoe, I nap in my totally-well-protected bed. Like, seriously, if the monsters spawn during night time, wouldn't they just be able to push me out of the bed and kill me right there? What kind of crazy wizardry protects a sleeping person out in the open from being transformed into a legion of the zombie army? Because I'm pretty sure that's what would kill you in a zombie apocalypse.

Disclaimer: I have never watched any movies about the zombie apocalypse.

          All right, so now that I've slept a less-than-ideal sleep out in the wilderness, I start to work on my farm. I usually make my farm cells in a 5-by-5 square, but since I have tons of seeds, I decide to make a much larger 9-by-9 cell.

          After clearing out the land for the farm, I start to plant all these seeds that I got from cutting grass. I would've had more, but they were accidentally disabled, so I went and enabled them in the game files.

         All right, so now that that's taken care of, I gaze over my farm. It's going to provide me with a lot of much-needed sustenance. It's getting dark, let me show you real quick:

I did add an offshoot for some cotton that I came across.

          Oh geez, it's really getting to be night-time now. I guess it's time to go to bed. I made some tool tables so I won't have to continuously make new tools over and over again. The tools I have now will just break when they're used up. I just fix them up with more cobblestone.

I'm still way out in the open. I'm probably long-overdue for a house. Looks like I need to work on that.


Chapter 3: http://ninjamc.blogspot.com/2014/07/tech-world-adventures-chapter-3.html

Chapter 1: http://ninjamc.blogspot.com/2014/06/tech-world-adventures-chapter-1.html

Tech World Adventures - Chapter 1

Chapter 1

So...I spawned in a plains biome. I think. Let me check.

          Well, sort of. I spawned in a plains biome, but in front of me is a pool of liquid ender pearls from the Ender Forest mod.

          Oh, I forgot to say, "welcome!" I'm Ninjaofquest and this is my first blog. I've written a few things before, but most of them were for contests or the school newspaper. This is my first piece on the Internet. I do like to write, however. I would like to pursue a writing career in the future.

          I also like playing video games. I've brought these two interests together to bring you something that I hope will be sort of successful. 

          I'll post in the way that you're reading now. Sort of freeform, sometimes random, hopefully not too obtrusively. Now, while I will insert pictures, I'm not going to post any crafting recipes or similar things, as that would inflate the size of each post with unnecessary information. Useful information, but nonetheless unnecessary.

          With that said, I'll start walking. East, maybe? Perhaps. I usually travel east in order to set up a home, whether on a server or on a single player world.

          While I'm walking, perhaps I'll tell you of my goals for this series. While playing, I hope to expand my knowledge on mod integration and learn a few new tricks. I want to try new mods and features, such as bees and RotaryCraft. I also wanted to challenge myself slightly by making hunger more of an issue, hence the reason for Hunger Overhaul. I didn't add any extra mobs into the game because while they make the game more challenging, one can easily sleep through the night and escape them through daytime. I will take mod requests, but since I am playing on a 5-year-old Mac laptop, there's not really that much I can add. As a rule, there will be no magic mods except Mystcraft. Mystcraft was included in the original pack and I'm not going to remove it.

I still have no idea why Project Red wasn't included in Tech World 2. I'm sure Jadedcat has a reason for it. Who knows?

Author's note: While writing the prologue I didn't realize that Project Red wasn't included in the pack. However, since Feed the Beast includes all the configs to all their packs, I disabled the dyed trees from that mod anyway.

Ah, it seems that the sun is setting. Why don't I make a bed and sleep the night?

I forgot to mention that I killed some sheep whilst walking.

          Ah, good morning! I seem to be a bit hungry and these chickens look VERY appetizing. The grapes look pretty good, too! Also, I'm in some sort of Apple Orchard biome. So I guess it's a pretty great place to get both wood and food.

          I've made a few wooden tools, but this chicken won't taste very good uncooked. Let's go find some stone. I do like to bore into a cave for my first night, so that's where I usually get stone. Failing that, however, I just sort of sleep on the ground. Well, not quite on the ground, but in a bed...in the middle of nowhere. Honestly, who makes a perfectly good bed and sticks it outside under a tree in order to sleep in it? Isn't that what tents are for? I'd imagine that unless you were camping or homeless, you would want to be in a cozy sort of home so you wouldn't want to drown in the annoyingly persistent humidity and suffer in the late-night summer heat and get tons and tons of bug bites...

          Okay, okay, that's enough for my rant. Let's go look for some stone. I know of a few caves nearby. Why not explore them?

          So I walk a bit north to find these caves, chopping down some trees on the way. But wait, I need to make a pickaxe! After searching for five whole minutes for my bed again (hey, it's not my fault, the grass was too long!), I make a pickaxe and sleep the night again.

          All right, I have my pickaxe, so let's go mine some stuff! I'm going to go pick up some stone for a furnace.

Ooh, hey, iron! I'll get that soon.

Anyway, let's go down into this cave. I'll pick up some stone as I go down. I see some coal, I think I'll pick that up too!

          Oh, sorry about that. I went and made a stone pickaxe. Anyway, I listen to the hostiles echo around me as I mine this coal. Suddenly I feel something breathing down my neck. I turn around and slice off its head! Meh, it was just a zombie. Just an expendable pawn of Minecraftia's chess set. So let me j- OW! Arrow right in my frickin' hip! Now there's skeletons coming out of the other caves. Oh, and here's a few more zombies.

          Okay, sorry about that. Had a little monster brawl on my hands. I made a barricade so I can breathe. I can hear a zombie breathing through my peephole, let me take care of him. So, I forgot what I was going to say beforehand. But I can add that if the zombies are the pawns, then skeletons can be the rooks. Creepers are bishops, spiders are knights, endermen are the kings... Oh, hey! Someone could make a real-life chess set out of Minecraft! One probably exists, though.

          So I make my way out of the cave and I chop down a few trees. I notice a large brown-leaf tree nearby, and I take note of it because that will give me cocoa beans. I get back to my bed and sleep the night again, then wake up to decide what to do next.

I think I have actually found my permanent home.

Oh, by the way, I'm also hungry. I'll have to remedy that problem soon.


Chapter 2: http://ninjamc.blogspot.com/2014/06/tech-world-adventures-chapter-2.html

Prologue: http://ninjamc.blogspot.com/2014/06/tech-world-adventures-prologue.html

Tech World Adventures - Prologue

It has been over 200 years since the first Steve made his mark on the realm of Minecraftia. The land has grown and industrialized. New, eager Steves look to harness this new world's resources and inhabit the land. You are one of them. Industrialize the world!

Hey, welcome to this new blog-style-Let's Play titled Tech World Adventures! I'm Ninjaofquest, and I'm a newbie to this whole blog thing. I used to post on this site called Catacomber.com, but I took a long break because I was so busy with real life. Now I'm trying this new-fangled idea that I came up with in the latter portion of 2 days.
Now, while I am playing a pre-made Minecraft pack, I have added a few more mods. As a rule, I have not added any magic mods to the pack, as it would go against the original pack's nature. I have added the following:

- Roguelike Dungeons (adds an exploration factor to the game)
- Better Chests (adds a cool adjustable chest that does awesome things)
- Aroma1997's Dimensional World (keeps the nasty-looking quarry holes out of the overworld)
- BiblioWoods Biomes O' Plenty Addon (adds furniture made out of more types of wood)
- Carpenter's Blocks (more building blocks. Isn't that what Minecraft is all about?)
- Chisel (same as above}
- EnderIO (never used it, but it's supposed to add some convenient blocks for integrating systems)
- Ender Storage (adds customizable ender chests. And honestly, this is a staple in most tech packs.)
- Translocators (adds liquid pipes and has a cool crafting grid function)
- Gany's Nether, End, Surface (just a bunch of random things that I never got to explore very closely)
- Pam's HarvestCraft (I love farming in this game and I felt like I needed some more things to automatically farm)
- Hunger Overhaul (makes hunger more deadly and all that food in HarvestCraft will come in handy)
- Logistics Pipes (features fancy sorting options)
- QuarryPlus (more powerful automated mining options)
- Dye Trees (colorful trees that drop dyes. For this reason, I disabled another mod's colored trees. Also, more farming things)
- Ender Forest (easier way to get materials for late-game matters)
- ElectriCraft (Addon to RotaryCraft that stores power and stuff)

In order to access the regular Tech World 2 pack, you need to download the FTB Launcher, located at feed-the-beast.com. Follow the installation instructions and when it's installed, just log into your account and select the "Tech World 2" modpack. Install the added mods if you want, but be warned that you will need to update RotaryCraft, ReactorCraft, and DragonAPI to their latest versions if you want to include Dye Trees, ElectriCraft, or Ender Forest. If you don't want to, then just leave those three out or you'll probably get crashes.T

I hope you guys enjoy this new blog-style Let's Play. First post should be coming within the week!

Disclaimer: I own no part of Minecraft, Feed the Beast, or any included mod.

Table of Contents

Last updated July 22, 2014.

Chapter 1: here
Chapter 2: here
Chapter 3: here
Chapter 4: here