{"id":8243,"date":"2017-10-08T14:49:23","date_gmt":"2017-10-08T18:49:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/?p=8243"},"modified":"2017-10-11T21:02:39","modified_gmt":"2017-10-12T01:02:39","slug":"age-of-engineering-is-more-grindy-than-challenging","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/2017\/10\/08\/age-of-engineering-is-more-grindy-than-challenging\/","title":{"rendered":"Age of Engineering is more grindy than challenging"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When I&#8217;m not doing reviews or playing other games, I&#8217;m playing a Modded Minecraft pack that&#8217;s not like your usual pack. It has a progression system, based on (what I believe) of the actual era of stone tools to automated machinery IRL.<br \/>\nWith that said, there has been a lot of changes to a lot of recipes to make them more expensive. And certain mods can only be used on a certain age.<br \/>\nHere are some examples;<br \/>\n-You cannot ore double &#8217;till you make a Macerator. It&#8217;s not possible to smelt ores with a furnace. And the Smeltry from Tinkerers&#8217; Construct also cannot ore double.<br \/>\n-You&#8217;re required to make a nuclear reactor from IC2 in order to get Basalt, before you can go to the Deep Dark.<br \/>\n-Bee and Tree Breeding (Dire&#8217;s favorite things) is a requirement before being able to use EnderIO.<br \/>\n-The Macerator from IC2 requires 8 diamonds.<br \/>\n-Creative flying isn&#8217;t allowed &#8217;till the final age (where by then it&#8217;s kind of pointless as you&#8217;ll be done with the pack).<br \/>\n-You actually have to make steel in order to have Steel &#038; Flint to get to the Nether.<br \/>\n-Age 11 seems to be the most interesting age, with Advanced Rocketry being the focus.<br \/>\n-If you thought making Greenhouse glass from Actually Additions was hard before, you&#8217;re now required to make a Peat Bog Farm from Forestry.<br \/>\n-Some recipes of the Empowerer from Actually Additions require upwards of 12M RF\/T in order to craft that item.<br \/>\n-The modpack has a &#8216;Mining World&#8217; which can be crafted and accessed on the first age. It&#8217;s a flatworld that&#8217;s eternally day. It&#8217;s recommended to set up your base in it.<br \/>\n-Instead of getting 15 Transfer Pipes from a single craft (from Extra Utilities), you only get 1 per craft.<\/p>\n<p>IMO, the pack is more grindy than it is challenging, as it&#8217;s manual mining-centered. Right now, fuel is the main concern. I keep running out of tiny coal(yes, tiny coal is a thing) having to use furnaces to smelt processed ore from the Macerator.<br \/>\nIts fuel is all Coal Coke (as it burns longer), leaving regular coal for the furnaces (which is lessening the coal coke fuel I&#8217;m able to produce).<br \/>\nLuckily I can make something like a Batbox to act as a buffer, where I won&#8217;t need as much fuel being burned.<\/p>\n<p>I have a feeling that I would likely quit before I complete the pack. I don&#8217;t know when, but I <em>do<\/em> know that there&#8217;s no shame in doing so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I&#8217;m not doing reviews or playing other games, I&#8217;m playing a Modded Minecraft pack that&#8217;s not like your usual pack. It has a progression system, based on (what I believe) of the actual era of stone tools to automated &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/2017\/10\/08\/age-of-engineering-is-more-grindy-than-challenging\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8243"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8243\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8247,"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8243\/revisions\/8247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}