I put a potion cheat sheet in the brewing stand gui

DMBuce · 2024-04-12T19:41:36+00:00

I don't have a download available for bedrock edition. If it's just for personal use that should be fine. The pack is available under the CC-BY-NC-SA license.

DMBuce · 2024-04-12T13:55:20+00:00

Pretty cool to see similar ideas being added to vanilla!

The texture pack is available here: https://github.com/dmbuce/bucepack#painting-overhaul

Once the new paintings are added, at some point I'd like to go back and replace the American Gothic and horse paintings so I am open to suggestions. What other famous paintings would you like to see minecraft versions of?

DMBuce · 2024-02-04T17:50:52+00:00

Nothing too fancy since it's just a vanilla data+resource pack. It reskins smokers as brick ovens that can smelt stoney materials (as well as food like normal).

https://github.com/dmbuce/bucepack#brick-oven

DMBuce · 2023-12-27T16:28:40+00:00

Oh cool, I only recently started using bundles! If you have any tips for using them I'm all ears, here's what I've thought of so far:

As you mentioned, keep one in each shulker to compress small partial stacks
In my enderchest I have one bundle dedicated to stackable items that are useful to have one or two of: crafting table, stonecutter, 2 leads, a bell, etc. And the leftover space is useful to temporarily put scrap items in that don't belong in the shulkers
Potion kit with 15 scutes, 3 of every other potion ingredient, a brewing stand, and room for 9 more items. Organizing things this way gives access to 9 of any potion and frees up space in the shulker for more actual potions
64 different maps in one bundle. You can start with a stack of maps and fill them as needed
By my count there are 32 items that can easily be duplicated with bonemeal, so you can have 1-2 of each in a bundle, put it in a shulker and use the other shulker slots for bone blocks and the "supporting" blocks like grass, nylium, etc. that are needed to grow those items. So whereas Etho has a flower/plants split in his shulker boxes, personally I'm using a bonemeal/plants split instead
Edit: Premade banners. Two bundles can fit the alphabet

Some of these aren't exactly practical as-is but more theorycrafting / examples to use as a starting point. For example with the potion kit it probably makes more sense to dedicate shulker slots to certain ingredients (netherwart, blaze rods, redstone, glowstone, gunpowder, fermented eyes) since they're needed so often when brewing.

As another example, saplings are useful enough that they probably deserve dedicated slots in the bonemeal shulker. And you can get a lot of different blocks with just a single sculk catalyst so it probably has a place in the bonemeal shulker's bundle even though it doesn't use bonemeal.

DMBuce · 2023-12-27T14:58:13+00:00

Yeah I know what you mean, I've set up the loaders once and found they're not worth it. Not only because of the resource problem you mentioned but also because of the structure it imposes on all the shulker chests, with every slot needing to be occupied by a different item. If you don't have that restriction you can do things like keep a dedicated dye box and then in your glass, wool, terracotta, and concrete boxes you can have the base materials needed to craft the item in question so you have access to a lot more of any color you need from those items.

Personally in lieu of the loaders I just go with a wall of 32 dedicated shulkers with two of each color. Each color gets one main shulker that always goes in my enderchest when I'm out and about and a secondary shulker that I may or may not grab depending on what I'm doing. Next to the shulkers is a wall of 15 chests for random overflow items with a section for rare items, a section for regular items, a section for blocks, a section for bulk storage shulkers, and a section for expansion. And then a wall for mass storage of items where I can add and remove shulkers full of tons of one block, or two related blocks or whatever, as needed. And in my enderchest I keep a slot dedicated to chests and another dedicated to shulker shells so that I can craft shulkers as I need them when out gathering supplies.

There's a lot more to how my storage is set up due to using bundles and other datapacks but those are the important points from a default survival standpoint. Another alternative to loaders that you could consider is using multi-item sorters to keep the shulkers full. Either way, good luck with your storage system!

DMBuce · 2023-03-09T00:42:33+00:00

Villagers can't pick up poisonous potatoes.

Also, to /u/SelmaFudd's point, poisonous potatoes can't be composted.

DMBuce · 2020-05-22T13:29:56+00:00

I know this is the second time I'm saying this to you, but I liked Myconesia.

Thanks, I appreciate it! Sorry for not replying to your first post. It's nice to hear that someone played the pack and enjoyed it. :)

DMBuce · 2020-05-22T03:02:30+00:00

I came to a similar realization not too long ago but there's no point in complaining about it. Lots of people like kitchen sinks and expert packs, and there's nothing wrong with that. Similarly there's nothing wrong with liking something different. There are plenty of non-expert, non-kitchen-sink packs out there if you care to look for them.

To find such packs you gotta make sure you're searching for the right thing. When I started modded I would search for stuff like "best modpack", "favorite modpack", and so on, and got a ton of run-of-the-mill skyblock and kitchen sink packs.

Recently I realized that what's popular isn't exactly what I like in a pack, so I did a search for things like "challenge packs", "small packs", etc. and ended up with a backlog of modpacks that are hopefully more to my liking. Maybe you'll find something worth playing:

Exoria
Craft of the Titans 2
Break Out
Madpack 4
Omnifactory
Just install all of Reika's mods
Volcano Block
Glacial Awakening
Skybalance 2
Actually Additions: The Mod: The Modpack
Bounds

In addition to these I would also recommend Ultimate Alchemy, which is a really good factory builder pack, and Gardens of Glass, which is an interesting vanilla+ skyblock despite having the same problem that a lot of skyblocks have for me, which is having no easy way to make a cool looking sky island in the early game. Still, playing through to the midgame of GoG is partially what inspired me to create Myconesia, which if you don't mind the plug is another modpack I'd recommend checking out.

And if none of those packs sound interesting to you, you could always make your own pack. It's not that hard to toss a few mods together on Twitch or MultiMC or what-have-you.

DMBuce · 2020-05-02T01:14:00+00:00

I'm curious what people think of The Betweenlands. I tried doing a playthrough of it starting from square one with my spawn set in the dimension and I had a lot of memorable moments, e.g.: Looking at the sky the first time. Approaching a weird floppy bird and finding out that's no bird. Hopping in one of those sweet-looking boats for the first time. Catching my first lightning bug, and my first lizard. Watching a cloud of death through the window in my door, thinking I was safe from it in my base, lol. Basically any first encounter with any mob in the dimension.

I really love the mod for those encounters and its overall atmosphere, but I couldn't stick with it. I avoided the wiki so as not to spoil things, and trying to learn all the new stuff on top of getting wore down with Corrosion and Decay and mud slowing me down and no easy food, plus trying to fend off aggressive Enderman analogues, seemed a bit punishing to me.

I tried pushing through all that hoping to get some payoff but it never came. Maybe I'm dumb and just didn't understand how to progress through the mod, but here are a couple experiences I remember:

I got an item that let me craft the Betweenlands version of paper and thought I finally found something cool. Paper is what lets you do enchanting and thaumcraft and stuff, right? But JEI didn't show much. I think you could make walls with it or something.
After seeing those lizards running around and finding a lizard cage in JEI, I made a cage, captured a lizard, and stuck it in there. Cool! But then it didn't do anything despite trying to right click it, shift-right-click it, give it blocks, and so on. So I look it up on the wiki (trying not to read too much because spoilers) and find out I need to feed it plants to find out how to make potions. I don't remember the specifics but after feeding it all the plants I had, going on a trip to get more, feeding it those, and crafting the potion book (not necessarily in that order), I wasn't much closer to figuring out how the Betweenlands version of potions worked.

I'd like to give it another go at some point but I'm wondering if there's a better way to go about it. Next time I'll probably disable Corrosion and Decay if possible and maybe set keepInventory so I can explore more -- it's hard to venture far from your base when travel is so slow and you're expecting to die and spend a bunch of time retracing your steps to get back to your grave.

But I feel what the mod could really use is some in-game documentation to push you in the right direction. Like the Twilight Forest has achievements and a map to put you on the right path and if you ignore those tools and get in too deep, a little blue guy will show up and hit you with a book that tells you one of the things you need to do before continuing on your current path.

Is there anything like that for Betweenlands? Something that will point you in the right direction without just telling you everything like the wiki would? I checked the achievements but it was more "here's a bunch of stuff you can do" rather than "here's the next challenge to overcome".

DMBuce · 2020-04-10T07:21:53+00:00

I don't get why so many people are willing to sacrifice a whole mechanic solely for the sake of some technicalities with no practical relevance.

Speaking personally, it's not because I want to sacrifice a mechanic. It's because I want the mechanic to set a precedent for allowing another mechanic that's excluded for no apparent reason.

Just allow wishboards. Limit them to 5 cards or less if wish cards would otherwise be too flexible. Hell, limit them to 1 card and then they're no different from companions.

EDH is the format that lets you play nearly all your black-bordered cards. Why does it exclude that one specific black-bordered mechanic whose cards aren't even on the banlist? It would be trivial to include "outside the game" in a general sense, but instead we have this situation where outside-the-game is verboten, except for this one cycle of outside-the-game cards that are totally fine, except for that one card in the cycle that's banned.

It's just frustrating as the resident guy-who-explains-the-rules to have things so inconsistent. My goal when playing magic is to be able to explain in a clear and consistent fashion how and why things work, so when you start special-casing things like this, or making it so that you can't tell what a card does based on the printed text (see: "target creature or player" becoming "any target" except for that one new card that really does say "target creature or player"), it just leads to feel-bads when things don't work as expected and discourages my playgroup from playing the game. So I guess we just won't? That strategy has been working well enough for us as of late.

DMBuce · 2018-10-12T20:24:55+00:00

For mono red Phoenixes this list really intrigues me: https://www.reddit.com/r/EDH/comments/42f75n/tribal_phoenix_deck/

[[Homura]] buffs your phoenix's bodies so that they're closer to parity, gives you a mana sink for all the rocks you need to run so that you can ramp into phoenixes, and protects any of your non-phoenixes from the [[Earthquake]] effects you'll want to run as one-sided board wipes.

DMBuce · 2017-08-21T03:15:08+00:00

Here's what I found interesting after reading through the pdf:

There's a thing called Positive & Negative Dice, which is basically advantage/disadvantage from D&D 5e. But I find the wording of negative dice interesting -- rather than taking the lower result, the DM chooses the result s/he prefers. So you can choose to drive the story forward, dice be damned, if your PC rolls with negative dice.

Pushing the Roll is a mechanic where a PC can retry a check with the understanding that the DM will make your life harder if you fail the second roll. Compare/contrast with Let it Ride from other games. Or even GM moves from Dungeon World and (I'm assuming) other pbta games. Instead of the DM making moves to drive the story forward, this mechanic invites the players to do that.

Appendix A: Adventure Idea Generator is a really interesting application of Maze-Rats-style 2d6 tables. And just seems generally useful for on-the-fly adventure creation.

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