All the mods 10 - my world and thoughts

Wow, just wow. Never in my life have I had so much fun with a modpack. I have spent so so many hours on this game, days on end, it has just been so great.

It's quite funny as when I began this modpack months I felt overwhelmed and lost with all the quest book questlines so I would log in every few months to just go exploring around for a few hours with my incredibly fast roller skates, pretty much just procrastinating. I'll always remember trying to get compressed iron armor pieces as I had no way or replisinishing the one I was wearing (or at least that I knew of).

Then a few weeks ago I decided to give it a proper try, I was mainly aiming for minecolony progress as it seemed fun. From those months ago I had put my supply ship on the water (duh!) and had my town hall somewhere in the water too. For some reason I had the idea of making my colony ontop of the water but right next to the land. I geniunely don't know why I thought about doing this, probrably cause I got confused with the supply ship as I thought that that was my town hall (what I thought was the base of operations).

Now, building a colony on water is not the worst thing in the world but my god do you need a lot of dirt. So I had my first goal: get a fuck ton of dirt. Thus I headed towards mystical agriculture which I was vaguely familiar with.

Getting dirt seeds is evidently easy, but speeding up their production, not so much. As I did not know about simulated hydroponic beds I chose to go with the growth accelerators from MA which got expensive very quickly as I needed a lot of diamonds for them. So then I made diamond seems and I began progressing, quite slowly, adding a new dirt seed farmland with up to imperium accelerators one by one.

But my dirt supply was now massive (and after adding a few wood seeds) I could finally supply my colony to be built. Now during this time my colonists literally had no building so a lot of them died fom going to my boat to the town hall in the water due to the drowned. In fact my first ever builder died, rip William. But then my goat Cassandra took over, whom I have literally built 80% of my colony with.

With my colony now starting I decided that I wanted the best enchantments (I knew that the gear would be a bit harder to get) so I got into apothic enchanting. First I needed a super strong spawner setup but for that I need mob conveyor belts which I had to go to the undergarden for cause I couldn't find any slime balls. I also needed loads of ghast tears which had my setting up a creeper model to get catalyst glands. I did setup more models as well for other resources like blaze rods and redstone, I quickly became a fan of that mod.

Then I found out that I had to kill the warden to get its tendril, great. I had seen a meme a few months back about a guy fighting the warden with iron golems so I thought I'd do the same thing and while scary, it did work, I got myself a few tendrils allowing me the make sculk touched deepshelves. Finally, I went to the end to get some dragon's breath but didn't want to beat it yet so I just teleported back.

With that, I made fully maxed out vibranium gear, letting me storm the dungeon in the other for unobtanium templates.

It was around here were I realised that I would need to set up a proper storage system, so I looked at the quest tree and saw something about drawers but it seemed like it'd take too much space, I wanted something compact. So I got into AE2. At first I wasn't a big fan as stuff like chargers took ages but my god, it got good quickly, really good. It was pretty much all I wanted, a way to store all my loads of items in a few compact blocks.

So I got Cassandra to build a residence where I would then dig a whole deep underground for me to set up my base. It was around this time that I decided to get the most powerful power generator I could think of making: the x64 netherstar generator. Of course, I would need nether stars for this, so I decided to do this through MA which ended up being too slow (at this stage in the game) so I just made a wither model. Now I had loads of power but I needed a constant supply of prediction matrices, so I automated that with MA production now in my base.

I also got into evilcraft to make brooms which let me fly very very quickly. They are lowkey underrated. Alongside this, I was trying to make a mimic model but of course, they were very rare. I also did not know about box of eternal closure tech which would've helped me a lot.

I now wanted 256M storages from ae2 so I setup stuff for that but was limited by silicon production, and MA was too slow, so I went for bees (I had also heard that insanium production was easier through them so aimed for that too). It took me a good while to get best gene bees set up but once I did, wow. I got so many diamonds, prosperity shards, insanium and silicon. Though not quite enough. I had also now expanded my apothic spawner setup to now give me loads of iron gold and redstone (I have millions from it now). I also began producing matter balls from my infinity cobblestone cell as I aimed for the quantum armor now.

But to produce singularities effectively, I needed lava, a lot of lava. So I embarked on making the infinity lava cell, which had be getting the 3 atm alloy ingots. The ars noveau and dissolution chamber ones were pretty easy but my god was the powah one a pain. I first needed loads of blaze crystals which I had to automate with modular routers (not too bad) but it took ages, as I also had to get nitro crystals for strong enough energizing rods, which took a while. Eventually though, I got the infinity lava cell, letting me produce singularities easily and I got the incredible ae2 quantum armor. I finally got proper creative flight (I actually got it before with supremium armor but that wasn't strong enough for my needs).

After all that I decided that I wanted a stronger power source, I couldn't be bothered with any reactors so I just went for the mycelial reactor, and wow, just wow. What a fun challenge that was. Automating all 16 mini reactors was so fun as I got to be so creative with how I wanted to do each. I used harvesting pylons, MA, apothic spawners, models, just dire things clicker for snowballs, bees and ofcourse the industrial foregoing machines to produce pink slime (and balls), and liquid meat.

Finally, I saw the aurora borealis and was extremely satisfied. Though I had the set up break a few times due to minor mistakes. The first time it happened I actually completely ran out of power so when I went to get my x64 netherstar generator from my ae2 storage system I realised that I was fucked. Now fortunately I had a thermo generator from my ether gas setup in the nether so I got that and slowly powered my system back up, letting the machines to keep up the 16 generators work again,

I then took a break and when I came back I decided to make a proper section for all my industrial productions. Hence I used my infinity drill to make a huge area were I built a huge ME controller setup to get the max amount of channels. Ofcourse, I wouldn't neeed 21k channels but I just thought it looked really cool, so after a headache I got that running and began moving my ae2 stuff down there.

During all of this I had also been progressing minecolonies but it was just so slow and painful with the constant supplying of materials but I throughly enjoyed seeing my colony come together. Someone also told me about some tech with the crystal staff from roots which has been INCREDIBLE, that thing makes my workers go so much faster. It's pretty much essential to minecolonies imo

It was with this that I finally built my quantum computer and got into pattern providers which saved me SO much time. I don't know why I hadn't done it before but I could easily just request stuff like omega upgrades instead of painfully crafting them as I did before.

I probrably had some other goals I set and achieved but to not make this too long (which it already is) I decided to go for the atm star, automating it as much as I could.

Now some of the items were very easy to get, like the 28 alloy blocks and creative essence but my god were some of them a pain like the nexium emitter and dragon soul. Cause I was essentially rushing through slow mods like MI and occultism. Especially occultism, how I loathe that mod for making me build so many stupid ritual setups and making the clean up so fucking tedious.

I went into detail about MI in another post but it truly has fluctuated between one of the worst and best mods from the packs so many times, now I just appreciate it.

I got to explore and enjoy many mods in the progress. The automation of each was very enjoyable too, like with immersive engineering were the base automation sucks but working around it was fun (i.e. automated droppers), or voidember fuel from just dire things. Automating the crystal staff was also enjoyable as I wasn't sure it would be possible but it turns out that the just dire things clickers are just op.

And now, I have finally gotten the ATM star. Of course, I am far from over (I believe), I have so much minecolonies to do and an infinity drill to charge (alongside atm star automation and exploring all the mods (™)).

But wow, this modpack has just been so fun and enjoyable, though it's quite funny I thought it would be a bit of everything when it mostly ended up being automation, which I love anyways.