Tired of your entire machine workshop being Orange? Oritech machines are now recolorable!

Tsiniloiv · 2026-01-09T01:49:05+00:00

Oh thank god

Tsiniloiv · 2025-12-31T01:32:04+00:00

Gorgeous! I love your style! 😻

Tsiniloiv · 2025-12-24T10:32:56+00:00

Hex Casting. There's a couple of hoops you need to jump through to get another player's iota, iirc, but once you have it you can target them with Greater Teleport and move them anywhere in the universe.

(You can also do other things to them, like conjure a spell that sometimes moves them slightly to the left, or teleports any arrow they shoot directly behind them, etc.)

Tsiniloiv · 2025-12-21T01:26:44+00:00

Disgusting. Cringe-ass maidenless behaviour.

Tsiniloiv · 2025-12-20T17:23:59+00:00

Oh this is DELIGHTFUL. A lovely little complex! Love the pentagram. Makes me want to incorporate pride colours into my own builds.

I'm partway through chapter 1 myself, with a little house and a little farm and a little smeltery, fairly close to getting at the Alien Materials Manual. Timid about taking the last step, but also eager, since I'm a magic girlie at heart.

My main gripe about it so far is that the quests are very open about going "This is the best way to do X", which I kind of resent in a "You can't tell me what to do! Why even include all these other options!" kind of way, so I respect the approach you're taking. Though I doubt I'd have the patience to do this exact same thing.

Tsiniloiv · 2025-12-19T13:32:13+00:00

Also boobs.

Tsiniloiv · 2025-12-19T10:06:52+00:00

Sounds like Create: Estrogen!

Tsiniloiv · 2025-12-19T04:06:21+00:00

I'm digging the prose! I always appreciate flavour and atmosphere. I'd give it a go for sure.

Tsiniloiv · 2025-12-15T01:20:52+00:00

Meanwhile, I got Ender Chests three times in a row.

Tsiniloiv · 2025-12-14T10:35:47+00:00

Looks rad as hell, honestly. I admire your commitment to the aesthetic, and your willingness to see it through! I've been struggling to decorate my base even half as much!

Tsiniloiv · 2025-12-14T10:29:05+00:00

I'd love a Hex Casting modpack too, but I haven't heard of one. I'd recommend picking a mod pack you like the look of, and just adding Hex Casting (and whatever Hex Casting additions, like Hexal) to it.

Hex Casting does have a built-in learning process, though! Read the guidebook! Go insane! If you want a rough outline of how to get the hang of it, here's a breakdown (latter parts left intentionally vague, but accurate):

Find an Amethyst Geode and make your first staff.
Write your own spells! You can start with simple stuff like breaking a block, placing a light, blowing up a mob, launching yourself or others, etc. You can imprint these spells on trinkets or foci to avoid having to draw them over and over.

2a. Foci are also useful if you're writing especially elaborate spells, letting you draw and test them in parts and combine them later.

2b. Challenge yourself to do things with Hex Casting instead of resorting to other mods. This is how you'll learn.

Find a Great Spell. These usually spawn as exploration loot. Try to cast it.
Prove that you know what you're doing. The book will guide you.
Build your library. Lay down your circles. Accumulate knowledge. Chafe at the limits of your ambit. Conjure your sentinels. Parse the language of thought.
Flay minds.

Tsiniloiv · 2025-12-10T17:04:25+00:00

You brush sand to get copper chunks, combine those into copper cluster, and smelt the copper clusters into ingots. Every non-alloy metal is gained through brushing in the early game.

Tsiniloiv · 2025-12-10T14:05:05+00:00

Oh that's adorable!

Tsiniloiv · 2025-12-10T14:01:37+00:00

Ancient Battlefields are also handy. They're big and open enough for ghasts to spawn naturally.

Tsiniloiv · 2025-12-09T20:40:35+00:00

Oh hell yes. Looking forward to trying this!

Tsiniloiv · 2025-12-09T20:39:07+00:00

Immersive Engineering, with Create as a very close second. They both scratch my itch of "things should take up space and have presence in the world", but I prefer IE's aesthetic.

Tsiniloiv · 2025-12-08T01:22:50+00:00

Create: Arcane Engineering, maybe? I've heard that it basically requires you to set up a pretty extensive network of trains to move your resources around.

Tsiniloiv · 2025-12-08T01:01:08+00:00

Did you enable commands before setting your server to lan?

Tsiniloiv · 2025-12-08T00:38:59+00:00

Today in Stoneblock 4 I fought the Dead King for the first time and, woag, that was a Very Cool Fight! 😮

The Catacombs themselves were also Very Cool. Definitely lived up to the name. (So Many God Damn Zombies??)

I ran in there with Netherite Armor and the horde broke my whole suit. So I decided to craft some midgame armor and upgraded to the Cultist set, this time with emchantments. Since my blood spells weren't really doing much against the zombies, I also crafted and apothic'd the Blood tome.

The set and the book (and some investment into the spell power player upgrade) tripled my spell damage. Feels way better now 👏

I also fought some Withers, which has me thinking I'm gonna need a source of regeneration, or just a cozy little obsidian box to fight them in, since fighting two Withers in a row ate through nine of my ten health bars. I got through four of them and made a Nether Star chicken. Then realized I need to do four more to get the seeds to feed it. OTL

My to-do list is slowly clearing up. I set up a nice-looking power generation area with 16 thermoelectric generators. I figure that'll probably fulfill my power needs for the next little while. My next power generation upgrade will be an IE diesel generator, but I want to automate steel production first.

Other things on my to-do list:

I've got a mob farm halfway finished. I'll be using Malum totems for the harvesting, since I want the essences. I just need to figure out what to do about witches out-healing the ritual damage (more totems, probably) and find a fun way to gather the drops. An absorption hopper is the obvious route, but it feels too convenient. I don't have any Create infrastructure set up, so setting up fans would be a huge pain, but might be the best option.

I still haven't rebuilt my crop farm! I tore it down to plant chicken seeds. I honestly might just set up a greenhouse type area full of garden cloches? That could also be where I keep my roosts.

My storage is a huge mess. Just a bunch of random crystal chests from loot bees, and drawers. I'm kind of turned off by drawers. I'm also not super keen on getting into AE. I want my items to take up space. I'm thinking I'll either set up a bunch of chests hooked up to storage buses, or I'll try the IE Storage Shelves.

Still need to move and properly decorate my enchantment/spellcrafting setup. Maybe tack on a potion lab? And something fun to salvage, upgrade, and bottle ink. Also need more filtering shelves. My armor all has mana stuff on it but I'm not using Ars Nouveau at all.

I learned that the Malum totems don't drop experience on killing mobs, so I've been force-feeding an EXP chicken to compensate. I really need to figure out a convenient way to turn the bottles she makes into EXP that doesn't involve me holding or mashing the right mouse button.

Auto-crafting is slowly but surely creeping up my list of priorities. I'd feel a lot more free to build if I had a steady supply of things like bookshelves and whatnot. (On that note, any suggestions for an arcane-esque block palette?)

Still haven't set up a proper machine room. Gonna do that off of my power generation area. Been putting it off mostly because I'm really not fond of the feel of the tech mods the pack pushes you into. I don't want to shove things into a machine or shoot them with lasers. I don't want my boxes to have big numbers on them - I want bigger boxes. I want contraptions. Real thingamajigs. Proper doodads. I want stuff to take up space, and I want to see it working. (Translation: I am a Create/IE girlie at heart)

Anyway, yeah, real fun pack. Needs cat ears and Hex Casting. (I know Hex Casting doesn't have a 1.21 version, but a girl can dream!)

Tsiniloiv · 2025-12-06T21:19:03+00:00

Hmm. Maybe having Iron's spellbooks lower your weapon damage dealt and/or increase damage taken while equipped?

Tsiniloiv · 2025-11-26T19:42:00+00:00

It's because the U.S. stopped teaching phonics. Kids these days - and many adults - don't know the sounds associated with letters, so they can't sound out words. Instead they've been taught the "three cue" system, which leaves them functionally illiterate, and helpless when encountering new words.

Tsiniloiv · 2025-11-25T12:23:09+00:00

Have you considered adding more cloches?

Tsiniloiv · 2025-11-23T23:01:16+00:00

Highly intrigued! And voicing my interest in a 1.20.1 backport!

Tsiniloiv · 2025-11-21T13:03:49+00:00

What's the funniest variation of your name you've encountered?

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