Friday, April 22, 2016

Seed Research

The crops in the greenhouse I did my crossbreeding with.

I improved a lot of the unfinished buildings I had around here and started work on the blast furnace. It seemed that getting gunpowder and pearls are a difficult task, but I’m managing.

Most of my time was done in agricultural research and getting to the Nether.

The reason why I did extensive agricultural research is because I wanted the presser to make cooking oil badly. My life would have been easier if I could just use a juicer, but there were no olives or sunflowers at my disposal.

It was mainly crossbreeding different flowers and crops. There were a lot of bonemeal on hand, so it wasn’t long before I got the seeds I needed to make the presser. Still hard though. The seeds for the flowers were the most tedious. I had to venture out into the world to a flower field I discovered in my last adventure.

It wasn’t there. Disappointing! However, I stopped by at a village on my way back and found they had the seeds in their greenhouse there. I was so glad to see that! Once I had the blue orchid seeds, everything else fell in place.

I made a flowchart of all the seeds I had to crossbreed. Perhaps I’ll hold this here for future reference. The orange boxes mean I already had those seeds at the start of the game from foraging the forest grasses while the blue boxes are the seeds I needed to make the presser.


Anyway, I finally made that portal to the Nether too. I housed it in a general research building—I intend to use this building to research various things I’m unfamiliar with before putting it to widespread use.

It turns out that the Nether doesn’t really supply me with enough iron I had hoped for. To add to that, it’s more dangerous than it was compared to Tekkit! There’s flaming bats, spiders, wood that doesn’t burn, skeletons that spawn from graves, and so on.

I think I’m going to resort back to my mines in the overworld. I might consider an investment in the tunnel bore machine. I really need iron.

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