An Aqueous Accumalator

is required to fulfill one of your quests in AS.  So I figured I'd make one.  And wondered what I could do with it after making one.  Cuz it seems such a waste of resources not to use it once you make it.  So I thought about what I wanted to do and what I wanted.  And came up with the idea of a mushroom farm.  Well, actually I was thinking more soul sand farm via witch water but it actually works fairly well as a mushroom farm at the same time.  Coincidence is the mother of inventions for me. 

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But I actually ended up using the first Aquaman to fill up a water drum - because I derped the nice water pond on the island while making my primitive squid farm and it wasn't an infinite source after the derp.  So I put Aquaman into the original pond and placed an empty drum over it.  I then could take the water from the drum and fix my water problem - so the fishnets could go back in place.  Why the fishnets when I have a fish farm off to the side with an Automatic Fisher already, you ask?  Because the fishnets will catch live fishes on occasion but the fisher won't.  

And in case you're unfamiliar with the Aqueous Accumulator, it's a Thermal Expansion machine that lets you 'make' water.  Even if you have no water.  But if you have water, it'll make more of the water, faster when you put it into water.  It's extremely useful for clutzy skyblock players that constantly kill source blocks.  Ex nihilo water barrels will fill when it rains too but this machine will fill regardless so in a sense it was much more useful for this purpose.  Especially for the clutzy players.

And a Drum, you say?  These too are extremely useful items added on by the Extra Utilities mod.  Takes a ton of iron to make (well, actually, it takes 6 iron ingots, 1 iron cauldron and 2 iron plates so that's pretty close, right?) and it holds a ton of liquid - anything you pump into it.  Plus, it changes color to reflect what liquid you pump into it - in this case, blue for water.  I hear that it's also suppose to be portable.  But I've yet to figure out how to do it.  Hopefully, by the time I need the experience drum I have plugged in to my mob grinder, I'll figure it out.  Hopefully.  

Anywayz back to the Aquaman.  Aquaman because AA-kun is already the Autonomous Activator and it really doesn't do to call someone by the same nickname as someone else.  They might get jealous of each other - though maybe if you kept the relation a secret, calling them the same name might avoid confusion, but we digress.  The first Aquaman had his calling and was there to stay.  Especially since the drum is sitting on him and I have no idea how to move said drum, yet.  

The second Aquaman, I made thinking about my soul sand farm.  Because I had just finished making the tree farm and had expanded the island a bit thinking what I wanted next was a food farm.  How does that lead to a soul sand farm, you're wondering?  Well, to get a food farm like the one I wanted to have I need a lot of seeds.  Because there are a lot of seeds in this modpack.  A lot of them. 

A lot more of them.  



And a lot of tree saplings too.  And what's worse, this is probably not even all of them.  I think.  But, to get all these saplings and seeds, I needed to make a patch of grass before making the actual farms.  Because to get all these seeds, you need to break grass to get seeds.  So, taking a grass seed you get from sifting dirt, I planted it on a plot of dirt I set up off to the side of the tree farm. 

Now, this patch of land, I've dedicated to the purpose of obtaining grass and the occasional passive mob spawn for extra protein.  It requires no piping or mechanics to maintain.  So if I had a second floor right below this plot of land it would serve no purpose.  Unlike the second floor under the tree farm - which had all the wiring, planter and chests for storage.  But I had already made the second floor under it anyway so began to wonder what could I put in there.  And I thought, well, one of the foods I wanted to make eventually used mushrooms.  Mushrooms would grow on or pop up from mycelium.  And I could place water barrels on the mycelium so it would turn into witch water.  Then I could put sand into the witch water barrels to get soul sand.  Because I wanted to sift soulsand eventually as I hear it can give me something that grows tons of redstone.  

always one barrel that's witched

And thus, my mushroom farm to be turned into my soul sand farm from the need to make more seeds for my eventual food farm.  And where did the Aquaman fit into this equation?  Well, I obviously needed water to make witch water for the soul sand.  But I didn't think an infinite water pool would work - knowing me I'd probably derp it somehow.....so, I figured I'd put in Aquaman into my water source, connect it to a tank to fill full of water because I had the tank just lying around, and connect my tank to the barrels of water sitting on top of the mycelium.  And somehow, after fiddling around with it a bit, it worked.  A quick and efficient farm, really.  Low tech enough that even I could make it.  Requires very little thought.  Might make you a bit dizzy though as you stand in the middle and spin, click sand, click to grab soul, spin, click, click, spin, click, click.  But then again, I had several stacks of sand I converted into soul sand in less than 15 minutes.  Darn faster than manuallly filling the barrels.  

今日のゲストは人形姫です。

又の名をAqueous Accumalator（Thermal Expansion　MODより）と言います。人形姫は水付属で水不足を補ってくれる優しいお助けマンです。姫だけど漢です。水夫の方が良いんでしょうか？

一応クエストをこなして行くと必ず造る事になる御仁ですが使い方がやや微妙な方でした。別段と水に困る島でもありません。桶を外に置いておくと何れ雨で水が補えますし、既に小さいながらも池もありますしね？ね？でもって、必要になったんです。その池の為に。

上記の写真を良く見ると水がちょっと減っていますよね？右側に見えますか？これ、イカ狩場を造っている時どう遣ったかは知りませんがその時まで立ち水だった池を落ち水に変身させたのです。ハイ。

で、こうなると網が水面に置けないんです。困るんです。自動釣り氏は既に出来ていますがMFR用MODモノです。魚取れても生簀が出来ないんです。Mariculture自動釣り氏だと出来ますが未だ未だ先の企みです。ので、今は原始時代宜しく網を張っていたいんです。でも落ち水には網置けないんです。ので、早く立ち水にする為に水夫人に登場してもらいました。

水夫人は水に漬かれなくても水を生産しますが水に漬かせるともっと早く水を生み出します。ので水にドボーンと設置。その上にドラム缶Drumを乗せると見る見る水が溜まっていきます。このDrumですがExtra Utilities Mod の追加品で液体アイテムの保管チェストの様なものです。Jabbaチェストの様に一品しか持てませんが同様に量が半端ないです。経験値液体、ドロン液、水等を保存する為に使ったりしています。こう説明すると何やら貴腐人的思考が～ドラムに乗っ掛かれる水夫人。枯れること無い絶リ・・・・ゴホン。ええっと、話戻しまして。ドラムと合体した水夫人ですがお陰で池を無事元通りに戻し、網を張りなおしています。ので、思わん処で役に立った水夫人ですが本来はこの様に使う心算もありませんでした。最初はキノコ畑兼冥府土又の名をSoulSand栽培に役立てる心算でした。

で、ですね？木牧場が完成して島も拡大して食物畑でも造ろうかな～と思っていたのですが。多いんですよね？種の種類が。木の種類もですが。で、それらを確保する為に何が必要かと言うと草地がいるんです。草を刈って堕ちる種を拾う作業。土を設置するだけの簡単土台だけが必要になるのですが木の栽培宜しく二段階を立ててしまった為上に草地じゃ下は？と成りました。そこでこの二階を如何使うかと考えていた所にキノコの事を思い出しました。キノコも土を設置して古代種Ancient Spores(砂をザルに通すと物凄く低い確率で取れるとか。割りと簡単に出ましたが。双子万歳）でmyceliumに変えれば取れるかも、と。でmyceliumの上に水桶を設置すれば魔女水Witch Waterに変身して砂を入れると冥土SoulSandに早や代わり。

真ん中に立ってグルグル。冥土毎度。

と言う感じで冥土に燃える自分でした。で問題なのが水でした。だって、土設置して水置けば狭いし、一々水汲みも面倒だな～（ここ重要）という思いから水夫人の活用方法を思い出しました。水に漬けてドラム・・・高さ的に置けなかったので横にタンクを設置してパイプ繋いで桶に水をドボドボ入れてもらい水が変わったら砂を入れて冥土を手に入れました！かなり行き当たりバッタリな感じでキノコと冥土を両手にした果報者です。