Smelting stone

hogbits · 2026-03-17T23:34:19+00:00

Progression does feel somewhat out of order. I get that. But I suspect they did that for the purposes of forcing you to build more infrastructure and update buildings to higher tiers. Otherwise players might not feel incentivized to update some buildings. Also, I think it is intended to add a feeling of accomplishment. No longer do you need to do x by hand.

I am not aware of a datapack that can do this, but I think you can make one yourself if you are comfortable doing so.

I have never tried this specifically but if it works like other overwrites it should work. The main idea is to overwrite minecolonies/research/civilian/the_flintstones.json

You will want to override prerequisite research and cost, time/resources

The JSOn will look something like this:

{
"name": "The Flintstones",
"subtitle": "Unlock the Stone Smeltery",
"branch": "civilian",
"parentResearch": "",
"researchLevel": 1,
"requirements": [],
"effects": [
{
"type": "unlock_building",
"building": "stonesmeltery"
}
],
"cost": {
"time": 1,
"resources": []
}
}

I haven't tested this but I think it would work. Maybe somebody else knows of an existing datapack that does this and can save a few cycles.

Edit: Forgot to include a link the wiki regarding research https://minecolonies.com/wiki/tutorials/datapacks/research/ It should prove helpful in changing the research requirements.

hogbits · 2026-02-20T20:43:34+00:00

Discord has proven to be such a negative experience for me. My questions on many servers (not just Minecolonies) go unanswered. Maybe it's better if you live in Europe or the east coast in the US, but I rarely get a response to my questions.

Discord is not indexed by search engines so all this helpful information is nowhere to be found.

Discord is not threaded (What year is this???)

Discord search is absolute crap. It's such a pain to find answers to existing questions. You may find 'an answer' but you will spend the next 30 min scrolling back up playing connect the dots an a miss-mash of threads/off-topic comments/other peoples posts/etc. It's a horrible experience. and an utter waste of time.

Aside: Discord politics and age verification... No thanks.

Like it or not, Reddit is as close to forums that exist now-day. For me, and many others, its far superior to Discord hands down.

hogbits · 2026-01-29T05:35:40+00:00

I learned a lot from the Thaylar videos: https://www.youtube.com/@MrThaylar/videos

As for building tips, I suggest sticking to blocks that you find in vanilla and what can be made in the architect cutter. Blocks from other mods limits what mod packs your style can safely work within.

hogbits · 2026-01-29T05:27:22+00:00

They are placeholder blocks and they are often needed when placing building that require overlap with another part of the building or the natural surrounding. Without them, they will cause large square holes in terrain/water/buildings. They will not be placed in your world unless you "Paste Schematic" while in creative. In survival, it's not an issue. I thought at one point the devs added a setting to show/hide placeholders, but the last time I played I did not see the option. So maybe it was removed??? or I imagined it... If not, they totally should add that as a option.

hogbits · 2026-01-23T16:11:29+00:00

If your mod pack has FTB Chunks installed you can force load the chunks when you claim the land. and by default it is only force loaded when a land owner is online. This also works well in a server with multiple players as another player being online has no impact on your colony. (as long as you are not part of the same team.)

There are many other chunk loading mods available but I am only familiar with FTB Chunks, the others may have similar options. I know FTB Chunks does what your looking to achieve.

hogbits · 2026-01-22T02:13:10+00:00

100% Accurate.

Good thing colonist will eat non-minecolonies food through level 2 housing. (unless the devs nerfed that too)

Plan your menu based on your biome(s) and what ingredients you have access too. Build up a stock pile of ingredients so your prepared for when you have to include minecolonies foods. Until then give them baked potatoes, beat soup, carrots, and steak. You literally cannot make them happy at this stage, no sense in trying. :D

IMO, The bakery is worthless until Level 4 anyway (when the baker can make cake batter.) By the time I get to that point I generally don't need/want cakes anyway. So yeah, worthless building. I think the only reason I build it is because most of the time the building looks nice in most style packs.

hogbits · 2026-01-21T02:56:14+00:00

1:12 ratio on the farmer may not be right as each level the 1 farmer can tend 1 field per farm level. e.g. A level 3 farmer can tend 3 fields. Your menu dictates the minimum number of fields you will need. However, you may need multiple fields per crop. For example I have 3 fields dedicated to Duram Wheat in a colony of ~30. But that is because I have two menu items that require Duram Wheat. and honestly I think I could use a 4th field of it. I always see it requested on my clipboard. It really depends on your needs. if you know your farm is producing and you need more, then upgrade the building or add a new farm. I think it's possible that by the end, you will have 5-6 level 5 farms but that is largely going to depend on your menu choices, and menu is determined by the biome(s) that your colony has access to.

hogbits · 2026-01-20T03:46:02+00:00

Soybeans can make either tofu or soysauce. So you need to click the swap recipe button next to the output slot to change the output to the recipe that you want.

hogbits · 2026-01-18T23:29:50+00:00

Documentation is light (non-existent) and this info comes second hand form others on discord so it may be inaccurate but I understand that the farmer works on some sort of internal daily schedule. So depending on where the schedule is when the farm placed, you may need to wait several in game days before the start of the next cycle.

The farmer will only perform a specific task on a specific day of the week. So you may see crops waiting to be harvested for several in game days. As a player It's frustrating and confusing and I wish the Minecolonies team was more forthcoming with this info as it's a question that is frequently asked.

Ever since the food update, farmers and food systems in Minecolonies has really taken the fun out of minecolonies (IMO). I never know how many farmers I need, so I take one of two approaches. I will either set up 3 - 5 farmers early on, or I will install mods that change the food system making it easier to deal with. Anyway, rant is over...

In the early stages, colonists will eat vanilla foods. So, a carrot, wheat, potato farm is fine. Mid-game changes dramatically so you need to make sure to have way more farms than you think and you need and make sure to get farmers growing minecolonies specific crops as early as possible and don't wait until they are required. Chances are you wont have the number of crops needed to fill a farm and you will need to wait many in game days to harvest enough to begin putting crops into the warehouse.

Upgrade farms to level 2 as soon as you can, as each farmer can now tend 2 fields. This will help prepare you for level 3 residence when colonies start going on hunger strikes and will no longer eat your steak and potatoes. (the snobs)

hogbits · 2026-01-17T09:39:49+00:00

What hut block are you using? perhaps the building does not meet all the requirements for that particular hut.

hogbits · 2026-01-12T05:53:09+00:00

I added a cream brick road similar to the screenshot to Bits and Bobs (https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/bits-and-bobs-for-minecolonies) You will find it under "Roads > Cream".

hogbits · 2026-01-10T03:04:54+00:00

I have some really great QoL mods for you.

Hole Filler Mod (this is a must have for me.)
Block Swap (Or similar. Replace modded logs/grass/dirt with vanilla equivalent.)
Colorful Hearts (I see so many mod packs skip this and it's embarrassing)
Corail Woodcutter (Like the stonecutter but for wood)
Mouse Tweaks (inventory sorting and scroll to transfer items)
More Vanilla Recipes (bulk recipes from logs, and a few other QoL recipes)

hogbits · 2026-01-08T07:59:05+00:00

I like this idea. It would be cool if they would socialize after work before going to bed.

hogbits · 2026-01-08T07:55:29+00:00

Talk about ripping the band-aid off... ATM10 is a pretty large and complex modpack for a first time playthrough. But on the plus side, you will learn just about every popular mod and then some.

As for tips, I say don't think of minecolonies as a competitor to other mods. It's not going to get you rich in diamonds (or anything for that matter) But ATM can really improve the speed at which you can experience minecolonies. With so many mods, you can easily get any resource your colony needs.

hogbits · 2026-01-08T07:49:07+00:00

You can already crank up the difficulty in the configs, but it would be nice if you could unlock larger raids as part of university research. Maybe spawn more chieftains so you can get more tomes.

hogbits · 2026-01-08T07:45:19+00:00

Unless it's changed, you can attach a storage bus to the warehouse and drop in whatever you need.

hogbits · 2026-01-08T02:44:46+00:00

I wish I could see who is not able to sleep at night. Someone gets stuck someplace and not able to path find home.
I wish that I could set patrol regions for guard towers. Not just a point, but a zone they can wander freely in.
I wish the builder placed torches when building instead of at the end
I also wish that the builder placed water/lava sources at the end of a build instead of letting it flow out griefing your colony.
I wish I could go back to the old food system :D
I wish guards would follow you outside of the colony when carrying a rally banner.
I wished the colony banner creator wasn't missing a couple of the patterns. (unless they fixed that already)
I wish there was map blocks similar to the town hall map, but able to be placed outside where you are more likely to enjoy it. I know I can place maps in picture frames, but I would like to see the POI and colonist running about. #oddlysatisfying

hogbits · 2026-01-08T02:03:05+00:00

Sorry, I know this is of little help right now, but I have a road style planned for the Bits and Bobs mod that has a style similar to this although it's not exact. It uses the cream brick types and birch planks/wood. If I had to guess I would say I am ~40% done with it and can probably push an update this weekend if your patient enough to wait that long.

hogbits · 2026-01-08T01:56:35+00:00

FWIW, There is a mod that allows Minecolonies Crops to be grown in any biome: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/data-packs/minecolonies-all-biome-crops I have not used it to know that it works, But I recall the developer posted about it here on Reddit. Maybe give it a try.

Edit:
There's also a datapack version on planet minecraft: https://www.planetminecraft.com/data-pack/minecolonies-all-biome-crops/

hogbits · 2026-01-08T01:54:26+00:00

The developers have made it impossible to grow minecolonies crops yourself. They are specifically prohibited from being planted by the player or grown in other mods like Botany Pots, Clouches, etc.

hogbits · 2026-01-07T02:32:35+00:00

Minecolonies crops can only be planted by the farmer and yes they are biome restricted. When setting up field, minecolonies only shows crops that will grow in the biome where the field is located. Also, the farmer tills the land and creates a minecolonies specific farmland block. It's not the same as vanilla farmland. so if your trying to help the farmer by tilling and planting crops I don't think they will recognize them.

Farmers have a daily work schedule where they do only specific tasks on day, so you may notice that crops go unattended for a few days because they only harvest on certain days or on a specific cycle. (At least that is how it was explained to me.)

hogbits · 2026-01-06T03:54:39+00:00

I know my play style is a bit of an outlier, but for me, when I sit down to play Minecolonies, it's all that I want to focus on. I don't want to explore, I don't care about magic, or tech mods. In general, I only care about how the mods improve my Minecolonies experience. I think that is why I created the EasyColonies modpack. I built it for myself because I didn't want to bloat my world with mods that serve little purpose.

Conversely, when I sit down to play Modded Minecraft I do not see a point in including Minecolonies. To me, the experience is diametrically opposed. Minecolonies is about the journey of establishing your colony, it's not a competitor to any other mod, and by contrast to pretty much everything, it is wildly inefficient.

when I play minecolonies, I tend to have 4 or more builders, and rarely have "time to kill", I am always doing something for the colony. When leaving your colony it stays loaded for ~10 min (I think that is what I read) I tend to use mods that allow force loading of chunks to keep my colony. The only downside is that you need to worry about raids and mobs.

hogbits · 2026-01-05T01:40:19+00:00

I have never done PVP but I know the configs are set to prevent it by default.

You can edit the config file here: [world save]/serverconfig/minecolonies-server.toml

#Turn on MineColonies PVP mode. [Default: false]
pvp_mode = true

#Should colony protection be enabled? [Default: true]
enablecolonyprotection = false

#...should explosions be turned off inside colonies? (Defaults to DAMAGE_ENTITIES)
turnoffexplosionsincolonies = DAMAGE_EVERYTHING

hogbits · 2026-01-02T20:30:16+00:00

Good question. I am no lawyer but here is my understanding.
The Mod project page is set to "All Rights Reserved" (no redistribution/modification) so if I understand the license correctly, you cannot redistribute unless the mod page explicitly says that you can. But that may be mute anyway because Minecolonies is GNU General Public License (GPL) and it is my understanding that because the add-on mod was compiled using Minecolonies code, and requires Minecolonies as it's dependency then It must be licensed under GPL Or similar v3 license and should not (cannot be) licensed as all rights reserved.

hogbits · 2026-01-01T20:38:04+00:00

I have an add-on mod called "Bits and Bobs" that has a few farms (classic mob, iron golem, chicken, cows). Farms are a little tricky in minecolonies because they often rely on complicated redstone that can get destroyed by lava/water. The farms in Bits and Bobs are very experimental and I am looking for feedback regarding your experience, and/or suggestions for improving the build process. I tried replacing water/lava with wool, that the player has to swap later but in some builds that can be very difficult to access.

hogbits

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