It figures. I just have a tech kind of mind.
Magic mods a plenty in this pack, and I just haven’t gotten deep enough into any one of them to do the flying thing.
Or the buffing with magic potions and brews thing. Or the fighting badass bosses thing.
All I do is run around, harvest crops aimlessly while watching Netflix in the other screen, and wonder what to do next.
Somehow, it occurred to me tonight that I wanted to fly.
And Mekanism has a jetpack.
Perfect.
Some machinery and messing with gas tanks later (it’s fueled with hydrogen gas, that one gets by separating water into hydrogen and oxygen), I now have lots more freedom to move in the z-axis.
Bird’s eye view of the base, with farm compound on the left, an artificial mini-lake area that is housing my basic attempts at Forestry tree-breeding (we need the ocean biome climate for bees to function, hence the weird outcroppings over the ocean) and the more haphazard original machine-centric starting area on the right.
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I’m in a bit of a weird place right now with most of my games, and Minecraft is no exception.
I feel like I need a more focused goal, except that I can’t really decide on anything, and I’m afraid of deciding on anything because I know it’s going to take a lot longer to complete than I’d like and involve too much focus that I can’t spare right now.
So I avoid declaring that I’m going to do my second map complete in GW2 or build a dedicated room/area/building to properly and fully explore a Minecraft mod like Thaumcraft, Botania, Blood Magic or Mekanism…
…and instead run around for an hour or two, collecting resources of all types and chucking them into storage, awaiting the later half of the year where I can -hopefully- throw center focus back on gaming again.
On the bright side, I am seeing visible progress on the long procrastinated-on decluttering project. Still not as quick as I’d like, but we -are- talking about literal decades of stuff fossilizing and moldering in place and insufficient hours in a week (after work, raids and dailies) to attack the mess.
Ah well, it’s gonna be like building a Legendary in reverse. A little here and there, with occasional bouts of focused effort.
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