Thursday, September 25, 2014

TIPS AND TRICKS - Elemental Caves and Iguana's Tweaks

Iguana's Tweaks were added to the latest full release

This adds a couple new tweaks to Tinker's Construct tools.

-Stick your tool into the crafting grid with it's construction material (example, steel for a steel pickaxe) and it will repair your tool.

The tools with support for Iguana's Tweaks now level up. Each skill level adds a modifier randomly applied to the tool/weapon and +1 Modifier slot.

This means a couple things:
1. Carry around more than one pickaxe (in case you get something like smelting or silk touch on a pick and don't want to be doing that with every block.)
2. Your Tinker's Tools are even more OP. :)

Elemental Caves -
This adds some really cool crap. See this link for a feature list:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1VwO9OpUe34ydSyQi31V32MZ5h9T-KSo1FAHhxEOQjyo/edit

Some tricks I've tested with Elemental Caves Forest Crystal are: 1) Massive super-fast crop growth - Useful for various reasons. Be careful however in setting up a better-chests farm using these or Fertilized Dirt, because they can cause the B-Chest to tick, which sucks badly.  The Rich soil functions like Fertilized Dirt but it found in-game rather than requiring mob parts to make. :) It also grows Sugarcane and maybe cactus too...

Other notices:
You can make mob-drop crops seeds and grow them on soul sand or Rich Soil - they are combined using the mob drop  and wheat seeds (example, bones + Wheat for skeleton crops).

Just a couple tips.

About Shaders:

I'm about ready to dump support for them. They make the world look absolutely amazing, but cause all kinds of other issues- these range from massive lagspikes to black-out screens in Twilight Forest to other annoying "improvised features". I'll make them optional, but probably will no longer take them into heavy consideration when posting updates or checking for issues. Besides, most people have gutless computers and can't run them anyway....

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