I'm starting to playtest this mod for possible future pack development and I've helped set up the page on the FTB Wiki for documenting as I go. Putting that out there for anyone more experienced in the mod than I who might want to pitch in!
So, the brick textures in this mod are, to be frank, not well done. I've put together a pack of redone textures for both types of brick and the polished stone that makes them consistant with vanilla Minecraft bricks and blocks. (I can also do the offset brick pattern from the existing brick in a similar manner if that would be preferable.)
I've zipped them up as a resource pack for anyone who wants to use them now; I'm offering them up for use in the mod if you want. If the new maintainer still has the mod on GitHub I can submit it as a pull request.
I could not find a Magical Forest in my BoP world...then I went into BoP's config and set it to add the BoP biomes to the default world. Then I simply chose 'Default' instead of BoP for my world type...Magical forest spawned next to me.
I don't know for certain if it was just luck or changing back to default that did it, but there you go.
This always worked but doesn't help those of us who already generated a world with the "wrong" settings. The fix that went in with 4.03 might and that's what I'm trying to confirm. Apparently it also affected vanilla alternate world types such as Large Biomes.
A mostly non-spoilery hint guide to magical bees...in rhyme. (In spoiler tags for length.)
To start out in the arcane way,
find a hero to save the day.
Though if a hero can't be brought,
royalty is what should be sought.
First face off against the fire
to find the devil you desire
Then travel to the ends of the earth
to find a mate of incalculable worth.
Take the sum of both these parts,
and you're on your way in arcane arts.
Against forces unseen, be brave,
You'll chance upon an uncommon knave.
From your duties, never shirk,
know well the value of hard work.
Charm with bravery goes a long way;
Enchantments work by night or day;
The supernatural path is yours
when both together open doors.
To crystallize what you have earned,
there are things you will have to learn.
With the knowledge you attain,
meld the supernatural with arcane.
The other elements you want to find
are in the book, so expand your mind.
If lore is what you wish to find,
The arcane student must apply their mind.
Learn enchantment and embrace the tome,
a library they call their home.
If this arcane path a pupil will take,
Genius will follow the scholar's wake.
What monsters skulk in this mystery?
You might wish to ask the desert bee.
Down the sinister path are eyes of red,
Down the unseen path is a gossamer thread
Which leads to the world of the fearsome fey
whom with ancestors refined, don't act that way.
Down the lean path is the belfry for where the bell tolls,
Down the driest path are the tears of tormented souls.
If the height of power you would dwell,
Face off, you must, both heaven and hell.
From hell, the demon, the glowing bee,
From heaven, the garden of the forbidden tree.
From both these forces, make one whole:
A bee that knows the depths of your soul.
Into this empty vessel, deign
to teach it knowledge of the arcane.
For further steps on the path to flower,
commune with heaven in places of power:
In the stone circle with the angry fey,
By the glimmering tree in the shade of day,
And the last in any place suitably bright,
But only with vis on a half-lit night.
There's a traveler who seeks what's just,
whom often lies yet we always trust.
Eternally laboring with the magic of time,
A kingly figure, the last of his line.
Find then, when none may fail to speak true
The truth of the unanswerable question: Who?
Chuck Jones?!
NO. He did the other (late), worse (in my opinion) series of Tom and Jerry.
The real men behind this were William Hanna and Joseph Barbera...
That's not what he's best known for. Chuck Jones worked for Warner Brothers ; he did a lot of the most famous Bugs Bunny cartoons, and (most relevant to the subject of falling anvils) created the Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote characters.
Can some help me please?
When I go in the transmutation table I get massive amounts of lag that its extremly hard to transmute stuff.
This didn't happen in the early part of this map.
Updating Forge and EE to their most recent versions fixes this (thanks to whoever figured that out earlier in this thread).
A workaround I found before updating was that if you place an item in the target slot while you're working, the lag decreases significantly.
P.S.: I finished Blood and Water. Whoever decided on that reward? EVIL.
Semi random item suggestion: A self-filling/ever-full cauldron, infused with some combo of a cauldron and aqueous crystals/extracts. I know infinite water supplies are trivial to make but they are sometimes impractical for space reasons, like my 2nd-floor workshop which holds both my brewing stand and thaumatorium.
May I request that Thaumcraft-compatable texture packs be linked in the first post of the thread? Would be so much easier to find that way. I run Painterly in my vanilla install but I'm pretty sure I can't just drop it in Thaumcraft and expect it to work.
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Hi there,
I'm starting to playtest this mod for possible future pack development and I've helped set up the page on the FTB Wiki for documenting as I go. Putting that out there for anyone more experienced in the mod than I who might want to pitch in!
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Hi,
So, the brick textures in this mod are, to be frank, not well done. I've put together a pack of redone textures for both types of brick and the polished stone that makes them consistant with vanilla Minecraft bricks and blocks. (I can also do the offset brick pattern from the existing brick in a similar manner if that would be preferable.)
I've zipped them up as a resource pack for anyone who wants to use them now; I'm offering them up for use in the mod if you want. If the new maintainer still has the mod on GitHub I can submit it as a pull request.
Mineralology Revamped Brick Texture Pack (Dropbox)
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MY GOD, YOU ADDED CHAIRS! YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW LONG I'VE WANTED CHAIRS!
*runs around screaming while downloading update*
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This always worked but doesn't help those of us who already generated a world with the "wrong" settings. The fix that went in with 4.03 might and that's what I'm trying to confirm. Apparently it also affected vanilla alternate world types such as Large Biomes.
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find a hero to save the day.
Though if a hero can't be brought,
royalty is what should be sought.
First face off against the fire
to find the devil you desire
Then travel to the ends of the earth
to find a mate of incalculable worth.
Take the sum of both these parts,
and you're on your way in arcane arts.
Against forces unseen, be brave,
You'll chance upon an uncommon knave.
From your duties, never shirk,
know well the value of hard work.
Charm with bravery goes a long way;
Enchantments work by night or day;
The supernatural path is yours
when both together open doors.
To crystallize what you have earned,
there are things you will have to learn.
With the knowledge you attain,
meld the supernatural with arcane.
The other elements you want to find
are in the book, so expand your mind.
If lore is what you wish to find,
The arcane student must apply their mind.
Learn enchantment and embrace the tome,
a library they call their home.
If this arcane path a pupil will take,
Genius will follow the scholar's wake.
What monsters skulk in this mystery?
You might wish to ask the desert bee.
Down the sinister path are eyes of red,
Down the unseen path is a gossamer thread
Which leads to the world of the fearsome fey
whom with ancestors refined, don't act that way.
Down the lean path is the belfry for where the bell tolls,
Down the driest path are the tears of tormented souls.
If the height of power you would dwell,
Face off, you must, both heaven and hell.
From hell, the demon, the glowing bee,
From heaven, the garden of the forbidden tree.
From both these forces, make one whole:
A bee that knows the depths of your soul.
Into this empty vessel, deign
to teach it knowledge of the arcane.
For further steps on the path to flower,
commune with heaven in places of power:
In the stone circle with the angry fey,
By the glimmering tree in the shade of day,
And the last in any place suitably bright,
But only with vis on a half-lit night.
There's a traveler who seeks what's just,
whom often lies yet we always trust.
Eternally laboring with the magic of time,
A kingly figure, the last of his line.
Find then, when none may fail to speak true
The truth of the unanswerable question: Who?
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That's not what he's best known for. Chuck Jones worked for Warner Brothers ; he did a lot of the most famous Bugs Bunny cartoons, and (most relevant to the subject of falling anvils) created the Road Runner and Wile E. Coyote characters.
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Updating Forge and EE to their most recent versions fixes this (thanks to whoever figured that out earlier in this thread).
A workaround I found before updating was that if you place an item in the target slot while you're working, the lag decreases significantly.
P.S.: I finished Blood and Water. Whoever decided on that reward? EVIL.
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