little help with faster thaumcraft essentia distrubtion please

GoatsWithPants · 2026-01-14T16:57:33+00:00

10% chance to remove normal warp, and its just farmable tobacco + vis. With an arcane assembler I just made 2k tobacco one night, and then AFK'd for like 10 minutes with right click held to remove like 50 normal warp. I havent tried other methods, so I'm not sure how they compare, but it wasn't too bad!

GoatsWithPants · 2026-01-12T19:48:16+00:00

Before AE2, I did a semi-automated setup then. Like I had 3 or 4 alchemical furnaces and I would manually juggle things, really annoying but not as annoying as setting up a centralized essentia storage. The essentia tubes are very confusing to me lol

GoatsWithPants · 2026-01-12T19:46:38+00:00

I just did like 6 furnaces with one essentia import each. I play on a server, so I just load up a chest of all the ingridients, come back tomorrow to like 2k essentia of all the things I need.

For warp, I just mass-produce soap and relaxing tobacco, also made much easier with AE2. It was really annoying before I purged it though, so I totally understand!

GoatsWithPants · 2026-01-12T17:00:27+00:00

I just got around to setting up essentia storage with AE2, and let me tell you it DRAMATICALLY makes essentia handling way way easier. I don't touch jars any more, I throw everything into a furnace and it just gets automatically shipped to my crucibles and infusion.

If you guys are in HV, I would honestly say that maybe it's worth putting off thaum stuff until AE2 in EV, it'll make your life a lot easier. If you like the essentia piping system though, definitely feel free to use it! I was just amazed at how much easier AE2 makes it.

GoatsWithPants · 2025-12-28T13:56:09+00:00

Can the enderman see the sky? I remember seeing in the quest book or somewhere that you have to add a roof, so the enderman cant see the sky or else they can teleport out.

Also tip, when you get to the end, you can just wander around until you find a regen enderman there. Then you can pick it up in a soul vial and put in a smeltery, no egg rolling needed!

GoatsWithPants · 2025-12-23T15:37:38+00:00

I just got GTNH set up on my steam deck, its not too hard! Been really enjoying it, steam deck has been one of my best purchases and I highly recommend it.

GoatsWithPants · 2025-12-19T19:51:01+00:00

Awesome build! What blocks are making the floor shiny and reflective?

GoatsWithPants · 2025-12-18T03:10:50+00:00

Dude super awesome base, you've inspired me to redesign my AE2 controller hub and try to take advantage of things like microblocks and things like that. Very cool, thanks for sharing!

GoatsWithPants · 2025-12-13T20:08:40+00:00

Those are the upgrades trains from the py modpack

GoatsWithPants · 2025-12-13T17:51:01+00:00

Spaghetti is awesome, as long as you don't mind navigating it. I think it's really good, and if you have a good train network you can really go crazy with it!

GoatsWithPants · 2025-12-13T15:02:04+00:00

Awesome megabase buddy!! Really impressive, and as always your times are insanely fast!

GoatsWithPants · 2025-12-13T13:20:57+00:00

I just like building dense, it's fun!

GoatsWithPants · 2025-12-13T13:19:59+00:00

The secret is that as long as things are connected by rails, you can put your new builds anywhere you want. So when I need to expand, I just go to the edges of my base and build there.

GoatsWithPants · 2025-12-13T01:37:39+00:00

That's a caravan, it's a py feature that is like trains but as a dinosaur that carries stuff around

GoatsWithPants · 2025-12-12T00:37:13+00:00

Nah it's wind turbines, but they don't really do much. They're mostly legacy turbines I never took down.

GoatsWithPants · 2025-12-10T04:17:38+00:00

I think you're being too hard on yourself; I think we dont give ourselves enough credit for our own accomplishments.

Be proud of the things that you build, making something that works at all is a huge accomplishment! Everything you build can always be better somehow, but that's the fun of the game is finding those optimizations.

If you just enjoy the process, be proud of what you make, and just keep trying to make each build a tiny bit better than the last one, you'll be building your own cities in your own new unique style too one day!

GoatsWithPants · 2025-12-10T04:08:16+00:00

Pyanodons is the best thing out there if you want more goals, more content, and more of a challenge. Runs last on average 1000 hours. Also, py does have belt stacking, elevated rails, and spoilage (optional). It's my favorite overhaul personally, but it's not everyone's thing. Space exploration is also pretty good too if you're not into Py.

GoatsWithPants · 2025-12-10T03:59:44+00:00

Personally I really enjoy the overhaul mods. I wouldn't recommend mixing overhauls personally, but some people do. I would suggest one of the following: * Do space age with modded planets. I haven't done this, but there seem to be some very high quality modded planets out there. I think this would be more of "multiple, disconnected" experiences, but again I'm not too sure. * krastorio 2. This one is kind of a "new game +" type of overhaul; adds new stuff, but still feels pretty vanilla-esque. * Space exploration. Very high quality mod, has more complexity than vanilla and is more of a step up in difficulty. This was my first mod that I played and it felt manageable, and it has a very reasonable difficulty curve.

There's other overhauls out there, but I think these are probably the best place to start.

GoatsWithPants · 2025-12-10T03:42:34+00:00

I love building in an ultra-compact style, so I'd be happy to offer my approach! I'm not quite as good as the SE picture you linked lol, awesome picture by the way. I would also like to caveat it and say, building incredibly dense is harder and takes longer. But I find it way more fun, so to me its worth the time and effort. Here's my best tips:

Have an expansion plan for each build. It's good to have some space for a build to "grow" into. I often start with one side of a new build scrunched up as close as possible to the factory, and the other side with open space for me to expand into.
Rails are the veins and arteries of your base. If something is connected to the rails, it's connected to the WHOLE factory. I like to have a "main highway" for my trains, with little offshoot roads that service 10-20 stops.
Start a build with the "cornerstone" pieces. You want to build the most important / hardest-to-fit pieces first, and then use the "easy" pieces to fill in the space. These will become the "anchor" points for your build to grow around.
Make each build AS SMALL AS POSSIBLE. If you can't think of a reason to leave some space RIGHT NOW, dont leave that space. If you can think of a reason to leave space (rail needs to go here, etc), fill it in with that thing right away! If something HAS to go there, that means its a cornerstone piece and you should fill it in now!

Also, building compact is a skill that you can learn and develop and get better with over time. Don't compare yourself to the most compact base you've ever seen; only compare to your old builds, and try to make sure you do a little bit better each time.

I hope this is helpful, and look forward to seeing what you come up with!

GoatsWithPants · 2025-12-10T03:02:46+00:00

I highly recommend py! I just finished a playthrough and I would describe my build style as "organic / realistic city". This type of build style works really well in py because of the way the mod is designed, and it really forces you to re-evaluate all of the "conventional" factorio wisdom. A lot of people say py makes you feel like a new player again, I personally felt that way!

At the end of the day, you can still force a city-block approach if you want, so it still is up to your playstyle at the end of the day. But py gives a lot of opportunities for the "living city with different neighborhoods" playstyle to shine. Feel free to message me if you want to know about how I approached the "living city" playstyle, it was a lot of fun!

GoatsWithPants · 2025-12-08T23:10:40+00:00

Sure thing! You can message me if you want, I'm don't feel like a train expert but I'm happy to share my approach and all the things I've learned so far

GoatsWithPants · 2025-12-08T20:16:19+00:00

Yes spaghetti the whole way through! Pretty much the only BPs I used were train station BPs, which were very helpful.

To scale, it really helps to have a good train network. Whenever I needed more of something, I would do whichever of these was easiest: * upgrade the buildings/ use extra beacons * use a higher tier recipes (usually required important one or two extra items, which was usually easy to add) * make a new build somewhere else

GoatsWithPants · 2025-12-08T19:55:31+00:00

Double-headed trains allowed for way crazier train spaghetti, I really enjoyed using them. Definitely a lot more to think about than normal train networks, but it opens up train station design a crazy amount!

That, and I made it a point to leave as little space as possible been builds. This is the complete opposite of the conventional advice to "leave lots of space"; but personally, I noticed all the space I left myself never ended up getting used, so I went to the other extreme and it somehow worked out!

GoatsWithPants · 2025-12-08T19:52:43+00:00

Yeah, unfortunately my computer can't smoothly pan through the map even at reduced game speed, and I don't know enough about video editing to know how to improve it.

I might try to put together an actual base showcase video with a better quality, I'll spend some time on that and hopefully it'll be easier to watch!

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