MODs........requires some assemble

And instructions are partially included.  Thank god for LPers on YouTube is all I can say.  

Why did we sudden jump into a story about assembling MODs? <We'll get to it.............eventually.  Hopefully by the end of today's recollections.

Well, picking up from where we last left off, I finally got my lava and all we really needed to do was move the darn thing into an old fashion cobble generator.  After looking around and counting some blocks, I decided that the generator could be placed at the back of the house.  Picking the back of the house for the generator spot comes with two benefits for me.  

First off, it was relatively far away from the platform I had built for my tree farm. My all wooden tree farm.   I have a bad habit of making my cobble generators too close to my tree farms and end up finding something going up in flames a number of times when I play skyblocks.  Take a quick jaunt out to the mob tower and looks back to see a tower of flames. Never fails really.

Second, there was still nothing out there at the back of the house - only open air above and void below.  It just screaming for me to do something back there and I did have a few things I wanted some space to build and they were things that I normally don't like having close to me anyway, you know thing like lots of lava, hostile mobs, bulky workstations and stuff.  At least if it's in the back of the house, I don't have to see it unless I chose to go out, walk around the house and go visit the back area.  Out of sight, out of mind.  

*and if we keep getting off the tracks like this the mod part of the story is likely to be in tomorrow's entry*

Anyway, since I did get lucky in my reward bags - been getting a lot of jerkies (staved the starvation away a few times<3) and a set of angel blocks (for the generator) at this point - I was relieved that I would not have to build the generator out of dirt or even out of the island clay.  I really like the island for all it's 'natural grace' so to speak and wanted to leave it intact as much as possible.  I didn't really want to even place the initial crucible where I did because I had to remove a block or two.  I did it there eventually though because it was close to water - just in case. 

Of course, I suppose I could have made one of those lesser mat consuming models with better efficiency than the one I did make.  One particular model I saw on PurpleMentat LP for Agrarian Skies seemed a much more logical choice.  I know myself though.  And I can see what will happen to me if I were to make that particular design.  And though I did have some third thoughts (way past second thoughts) about making them with angel blocks, you gotta take some risks, after all.

What risk is there in making a cobblestone generator out of angel blocks, you're thinking?  Ha, this is me we're talking about.  If it's possible to make a mess of it, I probably will.  In particular, it was the property of the angel block that did make me think thrice about it.  

Angel blocks are wonderful blocks to work with, added on from the Extra Utilities MOD < another mod I'm having so much fun looking into.  The most wonderful thing about this block is IT CAN BE PLACED IN MID AIR WITH NO SUPPORT.  Meaning you can look at that space right at the edge of your skyblock, and think I want to build out in that direction.  Normally, you'd kill your little pinky finger hanging on for dear life to place that block walking backward and looking down.  Which would apparently be a really bad idea on this spot because the edges here are made with microblocks which don't really recognize the fact you are straining your pinky to cling to it - or so I hear.  It's like eye candy, I suppose, serves no good purpose except to look good.  There's a time to use it wisely, this wouldn't not be one of them.  

Anyhowz, this is where the angel blocks would come in handy because of how they work.  You don't have to strain your pinky (q.q baibai sore pinkies).  Just look at the air block and BOOM - place it and it's suppose to go there - as long as it's not diagonal to you.  You could then also make a staircase going up with this, no more torches to place blocks in mid air needed, etc.  Just this alone would make it a wonderful block for me <3.  

But it's got an even better property for skyblock.  It returns to you.  It's like a frisbee.  It's like your dog with a ball.  It's like a yoyo.  Most blocks when you break them, might return to you but it might also drop down to feed the void monster.  Which is good I suppose so it doesn't eat you but it does feel like a waste of good mats and time.  Angel blocks, however, will alway return to your inventory when you break them so no more feeding the void monster with this block.  Although, I do suppose, you could misthrow your frisbee,  your dog could keep running, and your yoyo might get tangled up.  Let's be optimistic though.

The only problem with this block though, is that it's extremely breakable.  Which is good sometimes, but for me, in this case, it might prove otherwise.  Just one hit and BAM - it'll be back in your inventory.  So if you happen to make your cobble generator with this, and manage somehow to hit the angel block because your aim was bad, the block would return to your inventory.  Now, if it were a block on your water side of the cobble generator this might not be so bad.  Well, it might if you get swept away in the water and manage to fall of the edge I suppose......Anyway, if this were to happen on your lava side of things and the block holding the lava in place were to break.  Let's just say, my luck with lava has not been very good.  And jumping ahead of the story, take a look at the finished product. 

Note that there is a block missing so you can stand there to pound or pick away.  This was not intentional.  Note that there is also a brown clay block at the back of the cobble piece.  This was also not there to begin with.  And currently the angel blocks holding the lava have been replaced with cobblestone.  Just in case.

To be continued tomorrow......(yes, I know we didn't get to the assemble part yet.  It's coming............probably.  Haven't even moved the lava yet q.q).

MODってムズカシイ?

先の話です。ハイ。色々と書く事が追い付いていないのですがMODって難しいのが実感出来ています。

先ずは昨日の続きからです。丸石製造機無事完成したのは上記の写真でもお分かりになると思いますが中々説明だけで延々ダラダラと引っ張ってしまいました。何の説明かと言うと場所設定理由と作る素材に付いてでした。

場所設定。大事なことです。一度造ると其の侭放置が方針な自分です。滅多な事が無いと又作り直そうとしない自分です。要するにモノグサ坊主です。ハイ。

なので出来るだけ最初に作る場所をゆっくりじっくり煮炊きしてから作り出します。大抵は行き当たりバッタリだったりしますが。現実とは厳しいモノなのです。ハイ。

けど今回は割りとアッサリきまりました。家の裏側でした。此方には未だ何も立っていません。そして未だ未だ建てたい建てなければいけない様々なモノがあり、割りと嵩張るモノだったり、怖い方々がお住まいに成ったり、実害が無いのかそうではないのか良く判らないものだったりもするので出来るだけ目に入らない処にこれ等のモノを設置しょうと思い立ちました。頭隠して尻隠さずです。何か違う。えっと・・・・・鳴！荒れです！臭い物には蓋使用です。

で、これ等のモノが作り出されるのには矢張り建築材料(この場合丸石）が大量に必要となり製造機を手近にあった方が早いし、場所も大きな物を作っても島の形を邪魔しない最高な場所だったと思えたので決まりました。後、これだけ離れていれば材木問屋からの苦情も来ないかなと思ったりもしました。材木問屋ってやっぱり木材ですし、燃えやすいし、溶岩設置って大事と想えてしまうんですよね。モブタワーに主張中に山林が燃えていたら虚しいですからね・・・・遠い目。ハイ。

で、ですね？これ迄幾つかのクエストもコンプして(いきなりクエストの話です全然関係ないですが)宝箱成らん宝袋を貰っていたのですが主に食材だったりしました。否、このASでは食料って貴重ですからね美味しく飢えを凌がせて頂いていましたよ。お魚の燻製もお肉の燻製も美味しかったです。でも、ですね？食べられないお宝もゲットしていました。それがAngelBlockというextra utilities MODの追加ブロックだったのです。

このAngelBlockというブロックの優れた点を挙げますと空気ブロックの上に設置出来ることと出戻り機能が付いている万能ブロックです。普通マイクラブロックって他のブロックにくっ付けなければ設置できません。頭上に置くにしても側近しているブロックが無いと駄目、空気しかないとなれば全然駄目。けれど、このAngelBlockなら空気しかない頭上にも置けます。但し斜めブロックには置けないそうです。後、このブロックの在り難い処はブロックを回収する際普通のブロックは落っことしてしまう場合もありますがこのブロックは必ず持ち主の荷物に戻ってきてくれるのです。迷子無しのブロックです。


難点は・・・・無い様に思えますが其処は自分。難点を敢えて挙げます。自分用難点、それは壊れ易いブロックなのです。1クリックで出戻りです。普通なら在り難い機能ですが今回丸石製造機素材に使いたいと想った時点でこの機能は非常に危険なシロモノです。溶岩を入れるんです。間違ってクリックするとラバー（Lava)にダバーです。下手すると自分だけでも済まなくなるのです。また夢落ちになるのです。

でも敢えてAngelBlockを使って丸石製造機を造るんです。他に材料と言えば土、木材、島を作る粘土しかないからです。勿論気長に逝けば10個の丸石をSieveから作り出せば良いだけなのですが我慢が限度なのです。丸石欲しいんです。モブタワー造りたいんです。工房建てたいんです。在庫に箱並べたいんです。なのでAngelBlockを今使うんです。今使わないで何時使うんだと言う啓示下っているんです。天使ブロックから。後、木材は燃えるし、島は壊したくないし、土は見た目アレです。ので、AngelBlock～見た目重視で選ばれた素材でした。 

では又明日。溶岩をやっと移します。どれにしようか随分悩みました。

今日の三言。
その一。クエストって順調に進めると色々知ることが出来ますが色々悩まされます。 人間選択肢が多い程幸せとは限らないそうです。＜実際の研究談だそうです。

その二。MOD製作者のJadedCatさんって意地悪です。腐った心には死が宿る。ご褒美は気を付けて選びましょう（Q.Q）

その三。島の端がMicroblockで出来ていると色々落ちやすいんだそうな。小指必死に押しても無視されるそうな。普通に落ち死だそうな。罠だらけな島です。Microblockこそ見た目重視の基本ブロックだそうです。

A busy weekend

In Agrarian Skies, that is.  Yes, we progressed and digressed quite a bit this weekend.  And will do so again today as well.  Here's a list of all the things we managed to do over the weekend!

1) Made a cobblestone generator.  Some time after - Made an automatic cobblestone generator.
2) Made a Mobtower.
3) Made a passive mob spawner - unintentionally.
4) Made a temp farm - intentionally.
5) Made a barrel room and moss generator room - pretty sunset <3
6) Made a SMELTERY! - which I don't know how to use - yet.

Yes, quite a lot done.  And I even had the time to take a nap a few times - I mean, I must have because I could've sworn I died a few times there - reading too long, eating a heart and getting knocked off unexpectedly.  But I figured I must have been imagining those things, as when I woke up, all those things I thought I had made before going to sleep were gone and I had to remake them again.  At least, I got to practice in my dreams, right?
At any rate, picking up my trail from where I last left off - the barrels, we moved on to the sieve. 
The sieve from ex nihilo is the most useful tool you will ever have in a skyblock map.  With this tool you can have virtually any and all ores, seeds and mats from any normal or modded map.  All it needs is gravel, sand, dust or souldust and it will expel any number of mats.  Iron, gold, aluminium, spores, crystals, glowdust, redstone, etc. all at your beck and call.  It just depends on what you chose to sift.  But in the beginning what we are really after is stone - which you can get from dirt.  (see why the tree farm is necessary?)
Once you get stone, you can Hammer (2 planks and 2 sticks)your way to dust.  Hammer, you say?  Another tool from ex nihilo (don't you just love this mod?) you can use the hammer to ground cobble (4 stones can be made into a cobblestone) into gravel.  Then hammer the gravel into sand then the sand to dust.  And we wanted dust.  Why?  Why, so we can make an unfired crucible.  Hope you haven't used up all the bonemeal q.q
Because you need 8 balls of clay (1 block of clay give you 4 balls of clay when you break it with your shovel - at least you can make a shove q.q).  AND 8 pieces of bonemeal to make the 8 porcelain clay - from which you make the crucible.  Oh, and the clay is made from the adding dust into the water barrel.  It all ties in with each other.
You can make an unfired crucible by baking it in a furnace.  And a furnace takes 8 stones to make - at least in normal minecraft.  And so I thought (imaging my chagrin when I realized that in AS it only needs 8 slabs q.q)  And once we cook this unfired crucible, WE CAN GO AND MAKE LAVA!  Yes, you can make LAVA!  Because placing a fire source - a torch for now - under the finished crucible lets you melt things like stone to make lava which really is just molten stone when you think about it.  

And the lava is the one missing piece of the puzzle you needed to start your progress foward - the standard by which all skyblocks start off with, which we have been missing so far.  THE COBBLE GENERATOR.  Or in this case, the cobble/gravel generator - at least in this skyblock this first generator can kill two birds with one stone. 

二歩進んで一歩下がって

が今週末のASでした。夢見が酷いのか色々と建設したはずのモノが起きてみたら無かったり。本の読みすぎで読死とか、内蔵の食い過ぎで果てたりとか、遣り逃げとかされたとも思いましたが何やら皆夢だったようです。ハイ。

でも夢で練習も出来たので進む進む。以下のモノが無事建設されました一石二鳥モノです。
丸石製造機。 更に一歩進んで自動式丸石製造機も出来ました。
モブタワー。これで餌作り放題土作り放題。
食料保存の為即席農場。思わず動物園も出来た優れたシロモノ。
桶の置けば及びコケ牧場。これで水貯め桶も土貯め桶も設置できた。
最後に工業場も収納場もお宝発掘場も設けてみました。

でもこれ等をセッセと進めるには先ず必要なモノは丸石製造機でした。で、その丸石製造機に必要になるのは溶岩LAVAです。でもってこのスカイブロックには何処を探してもないのです。(隠し土箱は在りましたが。姑息な。）なので作ることに取り掛かります。で、どうやって作るかというとCrucible （ex nihilo) と言う容器に石を入れて火で炙れば不思議と石が溶け溶岩が出来上がります。出来上がった物です。 ＜他にも色々と未だ日記に説明を載せていない物も先見出来たり。

Crucibleを造る過程としてはまず9個のPorcelain Clay磁器を用意します。磁器は骨分と粘土を混ぜ合わせて出来上がるモノです。粘土の作り方？前にも申したと思いますがもし夢だといけないのでもう一度言います。Dust粉末を水桶に導入すれば出来上がったりします。ハイ。

え？ Dustは何処から来たかだって！？そこも夢でしたか、ハイ。夢と現実の境目が・・・・兎に角、先ずは丸石です。在りますよね？これは夢じゃなかった筈(日記を読み返してみる）。読み返し大事ですね(目を逸らします）。えっと、気を取り直して。

丸石です。土から掘り出します。と言うか振るい掛けます？兎に角、ザルSieveを用意することから始めます。Sieve(木材と糸の網で出来ます)というとex nihiloの七不思議道具(実際には七個在りませんが響きが良いので）の一つで土、砂利、砂、粉末、魂砂に右クリック(押しっぱなし）するとアラ不思議。それぞれ違う素材のお宝を落として下さいます。だからこそ不思議道具なのです。ダイヤ、草種、鉄屑、鉄粉末、鉄コロ、など色々のMODに使われる鉱石の素、土に使えば不思議効果の古代種とか様々なモノが手に入る一石何百鳥の万能道具です。

え？粉末を振るうのは良いが肝心な粉末は何処から来たかって？急がない急がない。気にしない気にしない。気になりますか？丸石です。土を振るうと石っころが出てきます。これを四個合わせると丸石が出来上がります。これを更にHAMMER金槌で砕くと砂利に。砂利を砕くと砂に。砂を砕くと粉末Dustになっていきます。因みにこのHammerもex nihilo七不思議道具です。この様にして粘土が手に入り、粘土玉を(肝心なのは粘土を玉に粉砕してから使うこと。普通にマインクラフトで遣り方も同じです）骨分を合わせて磁器を作り、8個器の形に固めれば鍛治入れ前のUnfired Crucibleが出来ます。更にこれを竈に入れて焼けばやっとCrucibleが出来上がります。

此処で一言注意です。自分アホっ子ですので馬鹿正直にマインクラフトの竈を作って焼きましたが。跡でクエストをこなせば丸石8個竈成らんSlab竈成るものが存在することが判りました。MOD便利だな～シクシクした瞬間です。

話を戻して、このCrucibleですが祭壇を造って上げます。そしてCrucibleの真下に松明を置きます。すると段々と熱くなりやがて石が溶岩に様変わりします。これでやっとスカイブロックが始まります。この溶岩を使った初代丸石製造機を作ります。全てこのCrucibleを如何にして早く作れるかが鍵です。後、どうやって溶岩を丸石製造機に持っていくんだろう？

(Q.Q) Restarting

I’m restarting again for the third time.  Not because I fell off, not because I was murdered, not because I starved.  I’m starting over because my CHESTS STOPPED WORKING.  And I don’t know why!!!!!  Maybe I clicked or did a key combination that caused the chests to do this.  Maybe the darn mod is just glitched.  I’ve no way of knowing and since no one else seems to be fussing at the moment about derpy chests I’ll assume it’s me and just restart.  Because if I can’t store things in chest (when I click to move things to the chest it just get thrown out of my inventory) it would be virtually impossible for me to continue I think. 

Other than these minor irritations with trolling chest, it’s still a fun game – about the only one where I haven’t turn to peaceful  - yet.  Might have to later but for now playing in normal mode seem good at least the mobs don’t seem to hit as hard as hard mode (XD)

Anyway, so I am doing the quests and building up of mats again, and since it’s the third time around, the going is pretty fast.  Thus far, I have made my TC corner, barrels, sieve and basic tree farm.  I’ve also expanded the tree farm platform so I might build out from there or add my storage system in place there later.  Not sure yet. 

I am also getting better at hunger management with the full tree farm and protein snacks.  Haven’t gotten down below the fourth bar yet since this third retry.  And since the tree farm platform is better built this time I think I might even be able to make a fishing area here this time.  Last time the platform was somewhat intrusive to fishing.  I might have to make the water way a bit lower at that end though, we’ll see.

At any rate, I seem to be collecting more mats at the moment and turning in more quests.  Even figured out how to turn on the mob spawn lighting grid.  F7 I love you!  It makes it so much easier to light things up.  And finally figured out why they were spawning at that time and not any earlier.  It was because earlier I stayed in the house which keeps every block within your 24 block range so the mobs wouldn’t spawn.  Whereas when I went outside to work in the yard, it removed me from the spawn block range on the outmost edge and it allowed some mobs to spawn there.  Thus mob massacre.  (Q.Q) Lesson learned, mystery solved, move on. (XD)  So I guess it wasn’t a lie <3

Now, if I can only figure out how to turn in the upgrade chest quest because I made it like the other stuff and even put it on, but it’s still not registering as completed. (q.q)

嘘じゃなかった！

三度目の挑戦中です。え？何故？と思われるかもしれません。殺されたんか？イエイエ。落ち死か？イエイエ。餓死だろう？イエイエ。じゃ何かと思われるはずです。簡単に言うとチェスト利用不可に成ったからです。チェスト半空状況で物の受け入り拒絶です。何故こうなったかは判りませんが成ったものは仕様が無いと早々に諦めて又世界を製作しました。今回だけのバグでありますように願うばかりです。(他に何が悪かったのかも思い付きません)

兎に角三度目にも成れば馴れた物でアっという間に材木問屋に成れました。それに三度目と言うこともあって、色々と判明したことも。例えば

F7

大事なキーです。モブ湧き場が反映される！と言う有難いキーでした。後、昨日言ってた嘘だと思っていたことが嘘じゃなかったと言うことが判りました。多分。要するに初期段階では夜になると家に篭っていたのですが段々と慣れると外に出てしまったのが逝けなかったのだと思います。家の中にいると湧きブロックが丁度２４ブロック内に収まるのでしょう。つまり自分の威光が周囲を圧してモブ等湧かせないぜ！と言う状況だったようです。それが環境に慣れて夜の内に家を出るようなったのでモブに湧く隙を与えてしまったようです。自分の馬鹿(Q.Q)。兎に角、反省を踏まえて沸き層を周辺から全て絶滅。原因が判り、謎も解け、スッキリです。

後はチェスト上級者編の完成。が出来れば良いんですが。何故か製作しても登録してくれない(Q.Q)

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。

OMG!!!!! AGRARIAN SKIES IS NOW PLAYABLE! Day 1

I so wanted to play that mod for so long since I first saw it on youtube.  I mean, it's a modded skyblock! With a bunch of quests! And I was so disappointed for a long time because I kept spawning in the void q.q I still kept trying ever so often though and when I tried this morning!!!!! O.O it had a MAP - and it never did before.  So maybe someone somewhere fixed it for those of us who had no idea of how to get it to work otherwise?  Either way, THANK YOU UNKNOWN ENTITY!!!  (maybe it was the mod author, jadecat XD)

Any way, I'm so excited and scared at the same time.  Because I finally get to play this and you only have 2 lives.  I think there is a way to get more lives - at least Youtubers seem to have a greater number of lives than that but maybe I'll just try it like this for now. Me, on hardcore q.q  Either way, I'm SO HAPPY!  (guess you can tell? XD)

So, starting off we have the quest book and a bunch of quests we can start off with.  Nice narration, by the way, of the opening story.  Really sets the mood for the quests.  First is to make a bunch of plank – so I go and take the oak tree sapling and bone meal from the chest (yes, there's a chest with a bunch of goodies inside to start you off).  Out to the one block of dirt in the fenced yard area and plop goes the oak tree.  Now pray for an apple because the number one cause of death other than falling is most likely to be starvation.  At least early on, when you start that is.  Because the island is not big enough to let anything spawn - yet.  And besides, this is minecraft so to start you need to go punch a tree.

With bonemeal in hand, pop goes the tree and now it’s time to get more saplings and APPLES!  Trying not to move around too much before I get more food, now comes the mod in action.  Taking the 4 planks I made for the quest – which by the way gave me an apple and some sort of pick as a reward – I now make a work bench.  Converting 2 more logs, I then go on to make 2 crooks. 

What is a crook?  It’s an item from the ex nihilo mod pack that will let you ‘hit’ leaves and get more things to drop than normal, like saplings, apples and SILKWORMS!  Silkworms, you ask?  Yes, silkworms.  These creatures are also an added feature of ex nihilo (at least I think it's from ex nihilo) that serve a duo purpose for us. 

What do they do?  Well, first off, if you were really desperate for food because the apples simple aren't dropping even with a crook, you can cook up these little squishy wishies and have a crunchy little protein snacks.  Yes, you can actually eat those things like Bear Grylls.  Just don't think too much on it or think escargot if you have to.  Not that I eat that either but come to think of it, I do eat lobster and they are suppose to be related to those big brown things whose name we will not mention for fear of summoning them.  

Any way, going back to the usefulness of silkworms, their most useful purpose besides being a snack is the fact they can produce silken threads aka cobwebs aka string!  Yes, you no longer need a spider to get string.  Hooray!  All you do is release a silkworm onto the leaves of a tree and they will start turning the leaves white with their silken threads.  When the tree is entirely white, it's time to harvest the string.  When you hit the leaves to get their drops, instead of the normal saplings and apples, you will end up with a bunch of thread drops!  The only thing to remember about these worm infested trees is that they do NOT drop saplings so making sure you have a few saplings before infecting a tree is essential.  It is also good to remember that they will spread so if you don't want it to spread it's probably best to do this on an isolated tree far from your usually wood production area.

Now, you might be asking yourself, why would I want to produce a bunch of string?  Do I need a bow or maybe I need the wool to make a bed, you might think?  Well, no.  Thanks to ex nihilo, the string is an important component in crafting the other tool, the sieve.  But I'm jumping ahead of myself.  What you actually want before the sieve, is the barrel.  But I'll work on that tomorrow.  Once I get more saplings and food.......


今 日からMODAgrarian Skiesの実況プレイ日記を開始したいと思います！今迄マップが如何してもDL出来なかったようで悔しい思いをしておりました。スポーンで即落ち死でし た。が、今日DLしてみたらマップが！と言う訳で本日よりプレイ日記を付けて行こうという成り行き次第です。

先 ずはスポーンして回りを確認。キョロキョロ。綺麗な家が建ています。中華風味？自分じゃ到底作り様が無い程の代物で何やらこれからが思い遣られる。何時も 豆腐ハウス。取り敢えず気を取り直して、本を開いて見ました。すると何処から摩訶不思議声が！物語の始まりを殊更丁寧に説明してくださいます。

何 でも悪の軍勢が雪崩れ込んで世界を混沌に導こうとしていた処三大賢者が立ちはだかったのです。何とか悪を滅ぼし侵略を止めたのですが物質世界が可也破壊さ れた為、貴方の助けを貰い此れから又物質有機物様々なモノを作り出して世界を元通りに、復活を目指します。只今貴方が住むだけの小さな島、家、そしてチェ ストが無事に保存できただけでも有難い状況な様です。色々と大変そうです。他人事です。 取り敢えずマインクラフトなので木でも殴ろう。

チェ ストの中を見れば様々なものが納まっており、第一クエスト項目木材板（wood plank）を四個ほど作る事から始まるそうです。Bone mealも在りますので取り敢えず、Oak Tree の苗木を手に取りBone meal共々外出。囲いの中に一ブロックだけの土がありますので木を植え骨分で成長を促します。

さて此処で敢えてOak Treeの選択ですが何故Birch(白蒲)やSpruceでは無いのかというと林檎が欲しいからです。大抵Agrarian Skies初期即死原因は餓死では無いだろうか？と思っていたりもします。落ち死より餓死です。空腹。それは肉バーが徐々に減り気付いたら死んでいたと言う落ちです。イヤです。落ち死は納得逝きます。餓死は駄目です。なので先ずは食料保管活動。人間衣食住です。住は既に立派なものを貰い受けました。衣はこの場合防具等の類の物ですが初期段階では島が小さ過ぎてモブ発生条件がクリアーできていません。要は沸く隙無しだそうです(受け売りです）。
唯食は自分で補足する必要性があり手っ取り早く林檎を刈り取っていく作戦です。

先ず、木を植えます。骨分を使って育てます。木を数ブロック切り取り(完全に切り倒さず）板を作ります木材を。第一クエスト達成です。これでcrafting table作業台を作ります。此処から最初のMODを使います。クルックcrookを作っていきます。

『Crook』てなんですか？何故Crookが必要なのでしょうか？Crookとはex nihiloと言うMODの道具で葉っぱを手で叩き落とす代わりCrookを使って叩くと苗木と林檎が落ちる確率を上げてくれます。Skyblockでは有難い道具です。おまけとして蚕も落としてくれます。ハイ、蚕です。

で、蚕の使い方ですが。非常食に『も』なります。焼けば食えるを地で逝く。背に腹は代えられない。お腹が減れば虫をも食いましょう。で、『も』ですが。蚕を葉っぱに解き放つと虫食い葉に成ってこれを刈り取ると糸が取れます。蜘蛛いりません。蚕カワユイです。でも虫食い葉っぱは苗木を落とさなくなるので苗木を十分に保管してからお勧めします。

更にこの糸ですが、Sieve(ザル)成るものが作れます。一家に一台Skyblockが非常に充実なる物変えてくれるんです。万能ザルです。でもその前に桶が必要ですよね・・・・

 

終了と開始

初めてのSkyblockやっと種目というか目標というかとにかく、全クリアーできました！そして又新しいSkyblockを始めました！

マップは何時ものSkyblockなのですがちょっとMOD馴れをしておきたいので此方の慣れ親しんだマップで又遊んでみようと思っています。実際はAgrarian Skyという冒険Skyblock編を遊びたかったのですが慣れていないMODが一杯導入されていて行き成りはちょっと無理っぽいと 身の程を弁えまして先ず此方から。出来るだけ冒険Agrarian Skyと同じ機能MODを導入して遊んでから実際のAgrarianに挑戦してみようかと目論んでいたりします。ハイ。

で、実際に遊び始めて分かった事ですがMODって万能すぎます。泣ける程Skyblockが簡単単調に進み、怖い位です。土は作れるは、腐った肉処分に困らなくなるは、色々な木が生えるは、レッドストン、グローストン、ガラス、砂、粘土、その他の素材が簡単に手に入るは、で今までの苦労が何だったんだろうと思えてきたりします。唯MOD故の苦労も在ったりします。機能が在り過ぎて色々勉強しながら学んで行かなければなりません。

日記をノット代わりにして覚えていった事から載せておきたいような～感じです。ハイ。

と言う訳で。先ず、導入したMODについて。FORGE 1.6.4 ( http://files.minecraftforge.net/　)これが無いと始まりません。
それから今回のSkyblockの為にex nihilo(ex nihilo)とex aliquo (ex aliquo)を導入。これだけでもSkyblockが見間違える程簡単に成りました。
他にも色々のMODを入れましたが先ずex nihiloに慣れてから手を広げて行こうと企んだりして。ハイ。

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Yeah, so I FINALLY FINISHED MY FIRST SKYBLOCK CHALLENGE!  Probably get around to posting some pics later.  But now that I've finished that challenge, I found another skyblock I wanted to try.  Agrarian Sky (AS)!  But it keeps spawning me in the void q.q.  And I couldn't find the starter maps so I decided to try ex nihilo instead - especially because AS seems to have so many mods and this would actually be the first time I might actually play with mods - other than the occassional remi's map.  (I've found some copies of the starter maps since then).

So downloaded forge, ex nihilo and a few other mods and trying it out on the old skyblock map I just completed and boy, does it make skyblock so easy.  Makes me want to cry, seeing as how easy skyblock can be with just the ex nihilo mod installed.  With just using ex nihilo add-ons I've completed my tree farm, animal farm, pumpkin and melon farm, temp sugar cane farm, mob tower, collection area all in less than 3 days.  And with less playtime too.  It took so long to do this with just vanilla skyblock.  q.q

Any way, I figure I need a place to keep a note on how to do things with these mods and since the blog would be accessible from any pc a few post here and there will probably be devoted to the various functions available from the mods I installed.  Much easier for me to keep track of instead of looking it up on youtube every single time.

マインクラフトで色々

最近マイクラで色々目移りしまいまくりな駄目人です。ハイ。

スカイブロックもソロソロ種目クリアー出来つつ。余計な物も色々作りつつ。その内お披露目したいな～な様な感じでしょうか？残す大建築物は自分の家だったりして。イヤ～だって家って帰って寝るだけで良いからベッドで十分～な感じだったり。アハハハハハハ～

うん。でも本当に自分を励ますためにも、と言うか蹴りを入れるためにも色々出来上がったものから実写載せたいような～。中途半端の儘に作用している建築物又の名はモッブトラップ落下式タワーとか、キノコ栽培農園兼プール兼釣り場とか、1ブロック農園畑とか、零度収納部屋とか。後は予定は未定のスライム生産地、家畜所、村人保護センタ、鉄人落下式鉄工作場とかも建てて載せたいかな。

けど今は色々と建てた後なので当分はマッタリと釣りを楽しんで、木材と石材を貯めることにイソイソ中。

なので、色々と目移りに成りがちなマイクラMODを見つけたり。一番はAttack of the B-Team!このMOD色々と万能過ぎると思う。一度やり出したら遣られそう。しかもDLするだけでMODに付き物の色々めんどくさいフォルダ弄りとファイル弄りとかが全然、大事なのでもう一度、全然必要なく色々のMODで遊べる用にしてくれる有難い神MODと思いました。一番嬉しかったのは農業物～米、トマト、イチゴ等の増加MOD。色んな植物、料理レシピが増えて楽しそう。イヤ、本当はこれメインは料理じゃないんですが自分的にはこれが目的。ハイ、ズレています。youtubeの動画を色々観つつ自分も何時かやろうと思ったいたりの今日この頃。