I finally got around to make a real base on my server. I was browsing the interweb the other day, and saw a pretty cool looking castle that I really liked. I tried to copy while building, but I couldn't make the main castle in the side of a mountain, due to a lack of mountains. Anyways, the idea is pretty awesome, but difficult to mimic. I also need to tekkit a closable porculus, because the fence ones are useless for keeping creepers out. They look like what I want, they just aren't what I want.
I didn't have much time to work on this, in fact it was the work of only a couple hours. I was busy chainsawin trees (IRL). Anyways, These are some pictures of my base as is. Any holes you see are the result of creepers trying to help me dig.
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| The entrance to my base. To the left, right, and behind are creeper holes. There also appears to be a creeper in the middle of the street... |
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| This is the whole thing as seen from the top. From left to right, the building are: Unused/ food storage, beer brewery, and machine room. The tower at the top is the mage tower. The walls are all hollow, which is not as useful as it seems. I had creepers spawning it them for ages until I stuffed the place full of torches. |
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| The contents of my machine workshop. In comparison to the other server.... |
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| My machine are in the other server |
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| The contents of the mage tower, a Power Flower! This room is very difficult to get into. You either have to take a very long path thru the walls, or travel via sewer. |
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| My house (castle) The towers in the corners keep spawning things into my castle, which I haven't fixed yet. Sheesh. There is nothing worse then escape ing from the monsters outside only to find a creeper waiting for you next to your bed... |
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| My throne. With real gold. Also the ground floor of the castle. Too bad there isn't actual chairs in the game, otherwise I would use one of those. |
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| My nice pretty bedroom. The third floor is empty, it will have my enchanting table and stuff in it. I was trying to add the awesome item displays from 4.2, then realized its tekkit :( |
That more or less summarizes my base right now. My sisters is almost started- she has a floor made. I have no idea what she is trying to build, otherwise I would do a whole bunch of it. It will probably take her forever to finish it. I have been thinking about just building her something, but also I need to teach her.
We went mining again, which was similar to the first one. I came over to her base, and she was really high up, trying to get more stuff. I told her that 16 blocks above bedrock is the best spot, and then she managed to get lost. The result was another mineshaft, again made by my magic destruction catalyst. I found her even more diamonds, as well as a pile of other crap. Sooner or later I will start teaching her about machines, because she is still using a stupid vanilla furnace. She should upgrade to a macerator and a electric furnace, or a tablet. That is kind of what the goal of sending her to the nether was, to get her a transmutation tablet. Most people who play Tekkit hate EE, because it makes it too easy to get anything. I think it is good, partially because of all the all the cool stuff, but also because then I can do shit with my dirt and cobblestone. Still, parts of it are OP. The gem amour is just a 'little' too strong.
I also had some 'fun' playing with the mo'creatures. I had noticed before that there was almost no mo'creatures spawning. There was three ostridges, five goats, and seven pig things. And that was it. Nothing else. on the entire map, or spawning, or anywhere. At all. After screwing around with the files, I finally managed to get the damn thing to spawn. Now there are horses and birds and stuff, but I still can't make them into pets. Nor can I ride any of the animals, which kind of screws up the whole point of horses. I am trying to find a solution to this problem....
