Technics Pack – Industrial Craft

After selling the villagers plenty of wood and a few bricks, it seems I’m a bit more welcome: my status is now “Regular Visitor”.

The village is growing nicely too..

I had to check.. but the Town Hall has even had an upgrade, with the walls of the central part now being made from the smoother-looking cooked brick, rather than the mud bricks it began with.  The bricks take rather a long time to make, though, and I wanted to move on..

I decided to leave the villagers to do the rest, while I finally started on the Industrial Craft part of the Technics Pack!  I did have to resort to a tutorial from the Industrial Craft wiki though, as I just didn’t know where to start..

The first task is to find a Rubber Tree, and extract the rubber using a simple Treetap.
The tutorial said the trees were rare, but I found one without too much trouble.  After taking the rubber from the one Sticky Resin hole on it, I ripped the tree down, hoping for saplings.. and with the help of a little bonemeal, I soon had a Rubber Tree farm!

So now I can start on the long-winded stuff..

Gather resin, turn it into rubber, combine it with copper to create cables.. which are then combined with more and more stuff to create machines, such as an extractor which will increase the efficiency of rubber production.  However, the machines require electricity.. which means building a generator.  The generator requires rechargeable batteries (cable, tin, redstone), refined iron, and an iron furnace (more iron and a regular furnace)..

Hmm.  I’m building things to build other things, to do a job I was already doing, albeit slightly more efficiently.  Long term gains, I guess..
Fortunately, I found a lot of resources while looking for redstone, so it’s now just a matter of following instructions.

Out in the rest of the game world, I managed to tame and ride my first horse.. though I had to check the internet again to find out how to dismount X)

As well as horses, there’s a Unicorn and a Pegasus, which have lower spawn chances, and the Pack Horse, Nightmare (black unicorn) and Black Pegasus, which are only available through breeding.  Like the crazy friend who got me into this mess, I will probably attempt to collect them all.. collect ALL the ponies.. 😉

More Technics Pack

I’ve been struggling for quick answers to things in my new modded game, due to there being so many mods added all at once, and not being familiar with any of them to begin with.  Some things are easy to quickly look up.. for NPCs and villages: Millénaire, for creatures: Mo’ Creatures.

But green ore?

It turns out that the green ore in my little cave is uranium, and needs to be dug up with an iron pick.. but I had to ask a friend to find this one out.  Google searches for Minecraft tend to return lots of videos and installation guides.. and well, I just don’t have the time or inclination to wade through hours of video footage in the hopes of getting an answer to whatever question just came up.

I suppose most people come to the Technics pack after having played with various other mods, if not the specific mods included themselves.. whereas I’ve come to it through the pestering enthusiasm of a friend, and find it all a far cry from the comforts of vanilla Minecraft and the wiki..

My friend has now linked me to the Industrial Craft Wiki though, which should alleviate my frustration enough that I properly look at this side of the mod pack, instead of just hunting Ogres or watching the villagers build stuff.. though maybe I’ll watch a little more first, as I do want to see how much they’ll expand 😉

There was a death in the village today too!  A bear attacked a woman.. and after taking just a few hits, she disappeared in a little cloud of dust 😮