So here I am, mid-game, getting everything automated.. and yet I’ve still been putting off building a roof to my base (using Chisels & Bits). I am planning to get on that.. eventually.
Yet there’s also something that’s keeping me from really advancing in areas I feel I should, yet I’m unsure if it’s worth the time and the resources.
And that, is the one and only Mr “Nice!, “Cool!”, and “Awesome!” (Direwolf20). Back in 1.7.10, I didn’t get back into Modded Minecraft for a very long time (since 1.5, when using just IC2 was enough to call it for me) until angry got me back into it.
And even that, I never really watched any of his videos until angry.. well, he forced me to watch dire’s Season 7 and how he setup AE2.
Since then, I thought “hmm.. I should watch his entire series. This seems interesting” (instead of just that episode).
Fast forward a few years later, I’m literally on my own here to try out these cool new mods in the latest pack. And it hasn’t been easy. I struggled for over a week since the pack’s launch of trying to think of a lava-based RF power gen (as I was used to it since IC2).
Thankfully I finally found something that would work, from ‘To Azgaard’. I like his Texan-like accent. Though this guy, he doesn’t do his let’s play like dire does. It’s on the lines of “by the way, I built a base/built all of these machines/stopped climate change and world hunger since the last episode.”
Now there’s nothing wrong with doing it like this, but in hopes of following what he does, he only does it if it’s something that I personally need to know how to do (like having an alternate means of producing ‘tier 3’ (Charcoal) power using generators from Draconic Evolution)… and this is his early game.
He’s so far ahead of Dire (and myself) that it’s mindblowing.. but really, it’s not. For dire, and what I hear he has done since all the way back since Season 2, he enjoys explaining step-by-step of what he’s doing (like a mini-mod spotlight), which has helped me greatly!
So much, that now I depend on dire to be my “guiding light” (perse), to show me if it’s worth getting into these other mods (that I personally feel they have no real purpose in my version of the pack).
But now it’s gotten to a point that I’m so far ahead, that I have to wait for him to catch up. What’s worse, he’s taking too much time (and depending on) AA(Actually Additions) to get him through early game. Episode 14, and he was struggling on power. Back in 1.7.10 at this time, he was automating Botanica.
Personally, AA isn’t really that interesting to me. Sure, it gave me lava power (that I definitely do appreciate), but I have 0 interest in its sorting system (when RefinedStorage/AE2 is vastly superior).
But I just wish he would hurry up and get to my current tech level (or even surpass me). For I would hate to know I “waited too long” to fully get into Botanica or Blood Magic.
Yet after watching dire’s latest mod spotlights on both mods, I feel no real urge to go for either one (especially going all the way ’till the end of both mods).
Now I get the whole thing about Modded Minecraft; that you’re supposed to want to ‘tear open’ these new mods like a present on Christmas Day. Yet when you’re confused on what the present does (and no one else in the room seems to know), you’re not sure if you should return it or not.
I depended on angry to show me these mods (because I care more about “is this worth it” instead of the typical “let’s figure out what it does, for it’s FUN!” people). Now that those days have passed, direwolf is the only one I got to depend on. That.. or any other Youtuber doing a let’s play of this pack (who’s hopefully doing what I’m doing and knows how to advance).