The Last Day

of the month.  How fast time flies.  Unfortunately, I can't say the same about the progression of my quests in Ag Skies.  I am stuck.  Because it requires you to go to the Nether.  I really, really, really shouldn't have updated to 3.1.1 *sobs*  

So instead, let's go back to Mariculture.  Because that's what we were working on, after all.  And because with the construction completed on our fishing pond, we can now go play with some toys that come with the Mariculture pack.  Like that Vat I plopped down earlier because of a full inventory.  What's a vat?  Well, I'll come to that soon (read as - in a day or two, if you're lucky).

Now, in Mariculture - at least in the Ag Skies' Mariculture, you can fish up a variety of fishes (some have to be breed, apparently) in any environment.  In a normal Mariculture world, you'd probably have to go look for the right environment for the fish.  Aren't we lucky up here?  But what's so good about having different fishes, you may think?  

Well, if you're familiar with bees - I'm not  (o.o) - Mariculture fishes seem similar to them.  Fishes, when various means of tortu.......ahem, fish

end product = fish oil + leather

mechanics are applied to them, will produce different end products depending on their species.  Once fishes are caught, they can either be 'cooked' in a Crucible Furnace or 'breed' in an Incubator.  But first, we need to go catch the fishes.  

So we start out with the fishing poles.  The simplest of fishing poles added by Mariculture is the pole you receive from the quest - the reed rod.  It's made with 3 pieces of sugar cane and 2 pieces of string, same as a vanilla rod.  Unlike the vanilla rod, these Mariculture rods need bait to catch fish.  Which is where the Mariculture sifter comes in  (you made this earlier in your quest).  You sift various organic matter - like leaves, dirt, rotten flesh, etc. - to shake out the bait that live in them. Bait, like worms, crickets, and ants (and although you can eat this bait, it is highly ill-advised.  DON'T DO IT q.q).  With some rods, you can even use bread.  Each rod has different baits they use so press 'shift' to get the list.

Besides the beginner's pole, the reed rod, there are also some other rods you can use to fish.  The vanilla rod, in AS, will catch you vanilla fish.  Reed rods, will catch you the same thing, and also live and 'raw' fish, as well as some junk like bowls, bows, string, etc.  To catch higher tier 'junk' you'll need a higher tier rod, like the next one, the fishing rod made from 'Polished' wood.  This rod can catch things like pearls, records, and coral rock.  And the next tier rod is the titanium rod - which I'm still working on because it requires rutile - which I need to go to the Nether to get or maybe not.  But if I do go to the Nether, I could also complete the other quest at the same time.  There in lies the debate, should I or shouldn't I?  I still can't decide.  

王道です

釣りの日です。だって、「スカイ・ブロック学び教室」フルコンプに必要な最後のクエスト。ネザー逝きです。ネザーです。自分＝ネザー・・・・合わない合言葉です。ハイ。

という訳で、王道です。Mariculture釣りの続きです。で、先ずは釣り竿に点いてです。初心者にクエストご褒美として貰える竿、ReedRod笹竿です。実際は砂糖キビで作っている竿です。砂糖キビを三個に、糸を二個です。ASでは普通のマインクラフトの魚の他に色々なMariculture用お魚さんが釣れます。活きた状態のお魚さんと逝きた状態のお魚さんとか。その他に塵も釣れます。弓や糸やお椀とかも。でも所詮初心者向き竿です。もっと上位な塵を釣るにはもっと上位な竿が必要とされてきます（あと餌も関係しているかもしれません）。

でも何故色々な魚が存在して色々と釣って行きたいのでしょうか？と言うとですね、マインクラフトBees蜂と同様に（と思います。自分、蜂の実態もよく知らないので）様々な魚から様々の材料が得ることが出来るようです。例えば逝き魚をCrucibleFurnaceで焼きますと魚油と珠にその他材料が作られてきます。例えば牛の毛皮。謎です。

では上位の釣り竿の方がより良い魚が釣れるかというとそうでも有りません。上位の竿で釣れるのは上位な塵です。この塵が実際の狙いで上位の釣り竿が欲しくなります。例えば笹竿の次には木の漆竿モドキWooden Rodがあります。この竿は普通のマインクラフトの竿に見えても一工夫をしてから出ないと作れない竿です。唯の木の枝では作れません。でも手間暇掛けて作ったお陰で真珠やレコードやサンゴブロックとか釣れるようになりました。又この真珠とかで様々なモノも作れたりしますからもっと釣りたくなります。貝も釣れるように成りたいですが其れには次の上位竿TitaniumRodチタン製竿が必要でこれに必要な材料Rutileですが・・・・・ネザーにあります。やはりネザー逝き決定でしょうか？明日の運命は如何に？それとも回避出来るのでしょうか？できるのなら夢は見たく有りません。でもどうでしょうかネ？