Puttering Around

Since I wasn't ready to move on the farm, I actually spent a day or two doing some quests and cleaning up around the base.  It grew some.  But first a better view of the mob tower.

And if you squint, you might even see the extension (at the base of the tower) I added for one of the quests I needed to complete.  Blaze rods and no nether.  Me and nether is a bad idea - unless I go peaceful.  Which would kind of defeat the purpose of the nether I figure so I decided to forgo it for the moment.  A wise decision I'm sure.  But we still need that blaze rod.

Fortunately for us, Ex Nihilo takes care of this for us with the use of a stone crucible, some lava and a doll.  Yes, we're playing with dolls.  Scary, spooky, creepy dolls.  Though really, I'd rather not play with them but of the two evils we are faced with - the dolls seem less scarier- though I won't say that to Chucky. 

So, I ended up making a new room - right next to the other scary thing, the mob tower. Seems an appropriate spot.  All things to avoid in one general direction.  Thinking that the other scary stuff is going to end up in this direction too but that's much later in the game for me.  Much, much later.  Any way, we're playing with dolls.  But since the results might be a bit dangerous after thinking about it a bit, I managed to come up with a set-up that lets us play - at a safe distance.  Hopefully.  Well, I did come out alive so maybe it was safe?

控え室お客様いらっしゃい！

This was the result.  A small room, about 3 blocks high and 4 - or maybe it was 5 - blocks in.  With an AA to place the doll into the lava for us so we don't have to get close - just in case.  A little redstone leading out of the room to the lever block that lets us activate the AA from outside the room.  The thought was that the blaze would hopefully spawn inside the room and not outside.  Luckily, it went as planned.  So we now have our blaze rod.

段々と近代化させられて行く

We also made our pulverizer for the quest.  Attached to a double chest so it would dump both primary and secondary pulverized products into the same chest.  Weirdly enough when you connect thing to a chest via pipes like these itemducts, it seems to think the double chest is two separate chests.  So one pipe will only deposit into half of the double chest and the other pipe will go into the other half of the chest.  Weird pipes.  Weird chests.

And since the AA twins no longer need to switch jobs from pounding to sieving, they're now attached to a gravel double chest.  I still like puttering so I haven't connected it directly to the gravel generator.  And I'm only sieving gravel currently for the ores, coal, and gems and not the dust any more because we don't need the redstone from the dust any more.  Because when we sieved the soulsand we made the other day, we ended up with a few saplings of the Bloodwood tree.

It's a scary tree.  The whole day has been about scary things.  And this one was no exception.  Well, there was one that was even scarier and I'm never going to try growing that one again.  But this bloodwood tree I needed to grow even if it was scary. Sigh.

What was wrong about the tree?  Well, first off, it wouldn't grow like a normal tree.  Most of the other nether trees grew fine but this one was weird.  It apparently didn't grow on top of the dirt but on the under side of it.  So I popped a piece of dirt up in the sky and plopped down the tree and wow, it actually hung there upside down.  And then I bonemealed it.  I had a dream moment not long after.  Dreams are so wonderful.  Really........sigh.

Anywayz, since I couldn't figure out what to do I turned to my adviser in times of need.  That's right, I looked for a video on YouTube.  And low and behold, BevoLJ had a video on just this subject.  It was extremely enlightening.  So enlightening, I ended up just copying his design.  Why try to reinvent the  wheel, after all?  And so it looks like this at the moment.  Unlike his design though, this one is still manual. 

改造の余地あり。でも、どうやるんだろう?

So, were we busy? Yes, we were. And with all this finally done, we moved on to building our farm.  Or at least the eventual farm.  It still has yet to be planted.  Because I had a plan.  < Bad thing this.  It never works out .......sigh.

ウロウロ　ガクガク　プンブル

 

な様な数日でした。ハイ。兎に角、大体の下準備も出来たのでソロソロ農園を造っても良いんですがヤル気が出ませんでした。ので、ウロウロベースを駆けずり回りました。色々と。

ハイ。その結果クエストかなり進みました。例えばブレーズ・ロッド確保の件ですが、ネザーに行ってブレーズ遣っ付けて手に入れる・・・てのは無理なので。イヤですね？此方のネザーってフル装備でも死ぬの確実なそうです。ので、普通のネザーでも駄目な自分では・・・言わずもがなだったり？其処で、MODのお力を拝借致しました。警護です。間違えた。敬語です。 偉いMOD様です。Ex Nihiloです。

このMODの一部として人形遊びが出来る様に成っています。この人形等滅茶苦茶材料費掛かりますが作ると便利な事が在ったりします。その一例としてAngry Dollプンプン人形さまです。此方の御仁を作って溶岩入りのStone Crucible石桶に放り込むでお控え為さいますとなんと！ブレーズ様を御呼び遊ばれます。＜変換編です。

でも其の侭ブレーズ様呼んでは危ないので、控え部屋 を造って差し上げました。上記の控え室ですが奥に石桶を設置して、レッド・ストーン引いて部屋の外からAA君を作動出来るように設置（AA君人形を放り込んでね）。前をガラス張りにしてブレーズ様丸見え状態にして。お負けにClear Glass透明ガラスを使っているのでガラスを壊しても回収して又付けえるように。一度でお土産をくれるとは限らないので。その度に溶岩を足さないと逝けませんので。足の部分から攻撃出来るように部屋の高さも割りと低くして外から弓矢待機でした。二、三回程お出迎えしますと親切にも置き土産をしてくれてクエストクリアー出来ました。

後、クエストこなして行くと段々と近代化をお勧めされます。一つにPulverizerを造らせられます。のでダブル・チェストをくっ付けて廃棄物一と二を同じチェストに収めました。面白い事にパイプをダブル・チェストにくっ付けるとパイプが一つのチェスト分しか確認できないみたいので第一廃棄物を第一チェストに、もう一つのパイプが第二廃棄物を第二チェストに収めてくれます。

でもこれでAA双子の金槌作業が無くなりますので変わりに砂利ザル専門お宝発掘機に生って貰いました。でこれも一々九つの砂利を設置するのが面倒になったのでチェストにパイプを付けて代わりを務めてもらいました。序でにVacuumHopperでアイテム回収しているのでItemCollectorは引退を迎えました。最後の勇姿です。


後、クエストと関係なくしていたのは冥土関連作業と言うか延長です。冥土をザルに駆けると色々発掘できます。最も役立つのはBloodwood吸血木だったりします。 血の色の様に鮮やかな赤色の木材が沢山取れます。燃えない木材です。 でもって、最も役立つのは伐採物としてレッド・ストーンが取れることです。
但し普通の木と違いネザーの木の皆さんは必ず何らかの害が在ったりする様な気がします。Bloodwoodさんも例外に漏れず害が在りました。夢見る程でした。分からずに植える、扱えるモノではないネザーモノでした。

吸さんを植付ける床下の部分

先ず吸さん(長いので略しました）普通の木と違い土の上には植えません。ネザーモノらしく意表を突いて土の下側に植付けます。天井からぶら下がって生えるそうです。で、植えたのは良いんですがこれの成長を促せる為に骨粉振るんですが・・・・夢の瞬間到来でした。この木スゲェ～って感じに床筒抜けにして育ってくれます。床消えます。ので、植える場所を考えて植えなければならないし、余り近づかないで骨粉を与えなければ成りません。植付ける瞬間も博打かも。で、如何すれば良いか悩んだ挙句YouTubeを頼って見ました。困った時はYouTubeです。で、検索したら解決なさっている方の方式を初期化して作ってみました。あちらは近代化為さって自動式でしたが自分には無理なので原始的に留まった形です。未だ後でレバーを上に付け直したりAA双子にして骨粉も出して貰ったりするかもです。

で、あんなこんなで色々とクエストも終わったので次回は畑塔に取り掛かったんですが。畑を植える前に思いつきで横道に。 これだったりします。

IT WAS A LIE!

Or maybe it’s just no longer true.  There are mobs that can spawn on the island as I found out when I was doing my first Agrarian Skies (AS).   I am now on my second AS……….Anyway, anything can be a learning lesson so the lesson from that was – once you get the bed, feel free to sleep the night away.  Obviously.  I forgot about that.  The bright side with this turn of event was that it’s really nice to be working in the daylight instead of grinding through the night.  I do need to work on those spawn points though – just gotta figure out where on earth do they spawn from.  Maybe from the island or maybe from *looks up to the sky*……

Another thing that came to light was that a wheat farm of three wheats is not going to work as a hunger management tool.  It grows too slowly and bone meal is only available in limited numbers (I don’t have mob grinder yet).  So I either need to do one of two things to solve this early food shortage problem.  I need to make a mob tower or I need to make more trees.  Guess which I picked?

The tree farm obviously.  1st tree farm  This requires very little resources, gives me more building resources, lets me compost and on top of that it feeds me with crunchy protein and apples, nom nom nom….. So with this in mind, I made a bunch of wooden slabs and started extending the island outwards between the water flow and the house.  A lower platform extending out, a dirt block and more slabs on the lower half of the dirt block as to prevent spawns.

Next what I need is charcoal.  So I can light up the island and more importantly so I can cook to make crunchy protein from the frying pan I got from the quest (I chose that over the axe because you get another axe from another quest anyway).  Logs I have a bunch of, so I need a furnace to cook it up.  For this I need cobblestone.  And there is no lava in sight or any stone to mine.  And I’m jumping ahead of myself anyway, so let’s start at the beginning.  Again.

So since I was redoing my adventure after being slaughtered by a bunch of skeletons (q.q), I start by build up some materials – wood plank, slabs, and a bunch of saplings.  Do the plank quest, do the submit mats quests, etc.  We do start of with only one block of dirt, but with the two additional tools I mentioned yesterday, it doesn’t have to stay that way.  And since that’s where we left off yesterday, we’ll pick up from there as well. 

First off we make a barrel *wooden barrels for dirt water clay*(ex nihilo).  This consists of 6 wooden planks and 1 wooden slab.  You can also make this later with stone but we’ll get to that later.  Place the wooden planks in the grid on the two end columns and the wooden slab on the bottom row between the two columns of planks to form a barrel.  While you can make just one early on with limited supplies, I went ahead and made three just in case I have a lot of saplings later on.  And also because I have enough wood to spare at the moment. 

Barrels are useful in skyblock because they serve several purposes – multitasking tools are great when resources are limited and somewhat finite.  Barrels can be used to compost organic material into dirt – and you can never have enough dirt in skyblock.  Left outside to gather rainwater, it can essentially act as an infinite water source.  Made into slime jelly by adding milk to water-filled barrels.  Water filled barrels with cobblestone or stone bricks placed in appropriate areas can also produce mossy versions of themselves and stone barrels can hold lava and also be used to make netherrack and end stone.

But right now I am interested in making dirt, so I place the newly made barrels inside of the house so it will not collect rain.  Because if it rains and you have it outside, the barrel will quickly fill with water and you will not be able to make dirt.  Anyway, once placed the barrels can now be filled with organic material like sapling, worms, fish, and apples.  Apparently  you can also use leave blocks but with no iron to make shears yet I’m currently limited to 4 mats to chose from.  Since hunger is a serious problem at this point, it really limits my choice to saplings because I need to eat my apples.  It takes approximately 8 saplings to fill a barrel.  Once the barrel is full and no other can be added you simply wait for the organic sluice to turn into a dirt block. 

Now there are several branches of thought I have at this point on what I can do with this dirt.  I can make a tree farm and make more dirt to keep on expanding.  I can infect some trees with a silkworm and collect some string to make a bed, sieve and fishing rod.  I can then use the sieve to collect rock pieces from the dirt – 4 rocks make 1 cobble stone.  And with cobble stone you can make a furnace for charcoal.  When I use the sieve I might also get various seeds from the dirt besides the stone.  Pondering on the wise course of action………..

And reached the conclusion that since I already died once to hostile mobs and I don’t want to do that again, I’m going to go ahead and make that sieve get stone seeds and other ores, bed and fishing rod.  But I will keep the dirt and make the tree farm for more composting mats and food because farming is still slow at this point.  Because they really aren’t related to each other – except in my head.  Also if I collect more saplings, I can make more dirt so I can eventually sieve the extra for more rock.  And get my furnace.

And with that we go back to the idea of the tree farm after making the bed.  The bed is important.  (and no, I didn’t mention Tinkers Construct yet even though I made them already)

TLDR Steps Summary

Read book.  Take bone meal and oak tree sapling.  Plant sapling and grow with bone meal.  Punch out 3 blocks of wood.  Make 12 planks.  Make a crafting table.  Left with 8 planks.  Turn in quests for plank and submitting plank.  Make more trees and collect saplings, apples and worms.  Keep 3 sapling in chest for emergency purposes.  Make the stations for tinker’s construct.  Chose the frying pan as a quest reward.  Make some stairs.  Place on edge to make jump-less access to house and dirt block.  Place the frying pan outside (shift-click it to the ground) near the hole.  Grow final tree and infect with worm.  Make 3 barrels (18 wood planks, 3 wood slabs).  Place barrels inside of the house.  Places excess saplings into barrel.  Go and collect string from infected leaves.  Make 3 wool block.  Make a bed.  Go to sleep at night.  Take dirt block from barrel.  Make wooden slabs.  Build out platform – lower and higher level.  Make lower level bigger and wider than higher level.  Make sure torches can not be placed on either platform = no mob spawns.  Place dirt block in higher platform slots.  At least four blocks away from fence would be good.  Grow the tree farm.  Make the sieve and fishing rod. Continue on another day….

嘘でした(Q.Q)

怖い方々がスポーンしないと言うのは嘘でした。ハイ。何処から沸いたのか謎です。島の何処か或いは・・・・空から降ってきたとか？上を見上げてみる・・・

と言う訳で又一から始めました。別にこれで良かったんだよと思う事にしました。色々と見えてきた物もありましたので前に進みすぎる前に遣り直して良かったんだよ。別に悔しくないです。ハイ。

前回で駄目な点を反省してみました。その一、モブが夜に沸きました。その二、餓死寸前迄逝かなくてもかなり際どい処まで逝きました。小麦畑を三ブロックで造ってみましたが成長速度が・・・・骨分を使うと減り具合が・・・・魚釣るにしても時間が・・・木も一本では・・・。と言う訳で作戦を変更して攻略して行こうと思います。

先ずは木の数を増やす事で食料困難を脱出したいと思います。これのお負けとして木材と苗木も一緒に手に入るので一石二鳥です。Skyblockではこれこそ大事。一石二鳥。次にベッドを出来るだけ利用しましょう。これだとモブも沸かないし、暗い闇の中で作業をしなくて済む。一石二鳥です。

なので、今回のAS開始時点解説を致しますと以下のように進みました。

      木を育てる。木材を使いCrook製作。葉っぱを叩いて、林檎、蚕、苗木を入手。繰り返し作業。

          クエスト数分完成。ご褒美にフライング・パンを。Tinkers Construct作業場も完成。未だ使わないので説明無し。

          又木を育てる作業。繰り返し数回。桶製作。

で昨日も書いたと思いますが桶Barrelです。此方はex nihilo MODアイテムで使う事によって様々な材料が手に入る様になります。作り方はWood Plank６個とWood Slab1枚（丸石でも作れます）。クラフト台で一列目と三列目にWood Plank設置。二列目の三段目にWood Slab を設置したら完成。NEI MODも入っているので説明不足や如何しても作り方が思え出せない時は使って補われる優れもの。

さて、このBarrelですが一応家の中に三個程設置しました。こうすると苗木が多く収穫出来た時待たずに次の土ブロックが精製出来ます。そうです。Barrelで土が作れるのです。ハイ。

Barrelの使い方。様々な材料を堆肥化してくれて土を作ってくれます。又外に設置すると雨水を貯めます。貯めた水に粉末を入れると粘土が出来たり、ミルクを入れるとスライム・ボールが出来たり、怪しい水を作り出したり様々に利用できるものです。正に一石二鳥です。ハイ。

兎に角、これで土を増やすことが出来ます。手持ちの材料で土を作り出せるモノと言えば苗木です。林檎も蚕も魚でも出来ますが餓死が・・・と言うことで苗木以外は使いません。設置した桶に向かい苗木を手にクリックすると！緑のドロドロ。が段々と増えていきもう入らないようになると後は待つだけです。待てばいずれ土に変身。その土を持って初期段階の林業地を建設。目指せ！材木問屋です。

追記：ベッドも作っています。Tinkers Constructs急遽作業場も出来ていたり。釣竿もSieveザルもです。ハイ。