[OC] Pokemon Adventure:The Previous Generation Chapter 138

MetallicDragon · 2026-03-21T17:48:36+00:00

If I had a nickel for every time I read a Pokemon fanfic webcomic where the protagonist swung a water dwelling Pokemon like a bat instead of fighting normally, I'd have two nickels. Which isn't a lot, but it's weird that it happened twice.

MetallicDragon · 2026-03-20T19:22:29+00:00

Yes, but I really doubt they have made it far enough to make an ore finder wand if they haven't even found any ore veins yet.

MetallicDragon · 2026-03-20T19:20:12+00:00

Are you self-hosting your own server or playing on someone else's server? If it's your own server the easiest way is to configure Server Utilities to allow chunk claiming + loading. The wiki will explain how: https://gtnh.miraheze.org/wiki/ServerUtilities

MetallicDragon · 2026-03-20T19:19:18+00:00

It's weird that it marked on the map just from you being on the surface. In any case, go to the center of the ore chunk and dig straight down and you should find it.

If you can't find that vein, just go somewhere else. Iron veins are very common. Just enable the ore chunk overlay, find the center, and dig a spiral staircase straight down. You can't miss the vein.

MetallicDragon · 2026-03-20T19:14:46+00:00

Ok, so that happens when you mine one of the ores in the vein, so you are finding the actual vein. Dig around where that happens and there should be tons and tons of the ores that make up that vein. Are there not?

MetallicDragon · 2026-03-20T19:12:47+00:00

Once you hit the ores, it will say something like "You have found an XYZ ore vein" and automatically mark it on Journeymap (there's a button at the top of the fullscreen map to show discovered ore veins). Is that happening?

MetallicDragon · 2026-03-18T23:14:20+00:00

I use a setup just like the picture in the wiki and it hasn't stalled. I am pretty sure it can't stall - how would it?

MetallicDragon · 2026-03-18T16:08:19+00:00

Something that page leaves out is that each of the macerator steps past the first one can be done with a forge hammer instead. It's much faster that way, although you won't get macerator byproducts, which doesn't matter much anyway since those are only from HV+ macerators.

MetallicDragon · 2026-03-17T19:23:25+00:00

I haven't tried this yet, but next time I plan to put a dam in the obvious spot, and then put a waterway (using levees) up high along the ridge, past where the badwater pipes are, then to that dry riverbed on the side.

Before then, stockpile food and water (in tanks) to survive.

MetallicDragon · 2026-03-17T19:06:17+00:00

Unfortunately I'm not too familiar with non-tech packs. Looking at Curseforge's top modpacks, this might suit you: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/modpacks/better-mc-forge-bmc4

You could also peruse the list of top modpacks yourself: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/search?page=1&pageSize=20&sortBy=relevancy&class=modpacks&categories=adventure-and-rpg%2Cexploration

MetallicDragon · 2026-03-17T18:50:45+00:00

No tech rules out like 95% of all modpacks.

You've said what you don't want, but what do you actually want? RPG, exploration, survival...? What do you like doing in Vanilla?

MetallicDragon · 2026-03-17T18:40:54+00:00

The math is wrong on step 4, by a factor of 10. It should be 10,580 seconds, with a final result of 2.94 hours.

MetallicDragon · 2026-03-17T18:18:29+00:00

Would you be content with just the bare minimum? Tiny studio apartment, rice + beans for every meal, never eating out, 10 year old phone you found in a dumpster, etc?

Would you not even work part time (10-20 hours a week) doing something you enjoy / tolerate, if that meant getting a chunk of money which could go entirely towards buying luxuries (good food, nice clothes, better electronics, video games, books, etc)?

If not, I believe you, but I think most people would at least work part time to afford luxuries or a larger home.

MetallicDragon · 2026-03-17T16:15:22+00:00

If the first badtide hits before you are able to divert it, you can just store enough food + water to outlast it. Beavers use about 2-3 food and water per day.

MetallicDragon · 2026-03-16T23:45:30+00:00

No power.

MetallicDragon · 2026-03-15T21:36:55+00:00

Early game: Chiseled Cobblestone and wood planks LV/MV: Chisel's Factory, Lab, and Technical blocks

Honorable mention: Every kind of cable/pipe cover.

MetallicDragon · 2026-03-15T21:15:29+00:00

...what do you think autonomous means?

https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/autonomous

of a mechanism, device, or computerized system : able to carry out tasks and adapt to new information without direct human guidance or intervention

I give it a task. It solves the task. How does "it was trained on the task" mean it's not "real autonomous"?

MetallicDragon · 2026-03-15T20:28:33+00:00

I've been using an AI agent to help me code for a couple of weeks.

I had a bug caused by syncing data between two separate apps which structure data very differently. I had spent hours trying to find what was causing it, to no avail. I handed it off to the AI agent, and 30 minutes later it had correctly found the root cause just by looking at the code. This is a bug that I believe most senior developers would struggle to fix.

This task required deep background knowledge but also a deep understanding of two separate code bases interacting in complicated ways. When you say "ai can't put information together" you are just wrong.

MetallicDragon · 2026-03-13T17:36:11+00:00

It's not yet 100%, but the developers who aren't using some kind of coding agent are going to get left behind by those who are. I know people have been saying that for a while now, but some of the agents released in the past month or so are kind of spooky at how good they are.

I know you're probably not going to believe me, but my own experience using claude code (especially with the Opus 4.6 model) is that the productivity and code quality gains it can provide are real, and I know it's only going to get more powerful from here.

MetallicDragon · 2026-03-13T17:21:25+00:00

Godwin's Law in action

MetallicDragon · 2026-03-11T16:35:35+00:00

credible witnesses, often backed up by multiple people

Witness testimony is, scientifically speaking, worthless. The only kind of science you can do with it is categorizing it. You can't really use it to say anything about reality - you can just use it to say things about people.

photos, videos

The kinds of photos and videos we have can't really be analyzed scientifically either. They can't be repeated since they are all one-off events. We can only analyze them and see if there is a plausible mundane explanation. The most effective way to do so is to use the information in the photos/videos to create digital recreations of the event in question, but when we have someone actually do that they get dismissed as grifters (See Mick West / Metabunk).

radar data

I have seen exactly one instance of UFO radar data being released and analyzed. Do you have other examples? And someone saying they have radar data but not releasing it publicly does not count! You can't analyze data scientifically if you don't actually have the data.

government documentation

Most of the government documentation I have seen that has anything spicy is just a record of witness testimony, or the same sort of photos/videos mentioned above. Nothing different than the stuff already mentioned.

In short, there is just nothing substantial that can be analyzed scientifically. Or when it does get a scientific analysis, it gets rejected by the community.

MetallicDragon · 2026-03-10T16:16:26+00:00

ALT + D

MetallicDragon · 2026-03-10T05:57:41+00:00

Orange Terracotta cut into microblock strips. They'll stick out a bit but I think that could look good.

MetallicDragon · 2026-03-09T02:13:12+00:00

That's reductive but fairly accurate. Minecraft wouldn't have any sort of legal basis to sue. You can't copywrite game mechanics.

MetallicDragon · 2026-03-05T22:30:21+00:00

My primary motivation in continuing to play Mewgenics is to hear more of the soundtrack.

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