don't neglect your enderIO powered spawners.

[hard flower]

some context, I had just made my EEC and spent the half hour infusing a eldritch guardian soul into my powered spawner only to see the base cost of 2000, plus 4x infernal cost made it unusuable. close to putting it away and doing some actual infusion (ew), i put it down and powered it on a whim. after some unexpected results, it quickly became a very low investment, powerful, farm. specially because every enemy is infernal, the infernal drop table has many things you want, but maybe not in quantity, things like pistons, ghast tears, and golden apples (health upgrades). I estimate the farm takes approximately HV 1amp to run, and produces a few dozen iron and gold per minute, thats with looting 3 sharpness 5 spikes. obviously youll get more if you make goose spikes with looting 180 by resetting the meta data on your diamond spikes so you can re overenchant them, but you wouldnt do that would you. next posts ill give a brief bill of materials.

the conduit was just for speed, this is broadly the loot table, with the chest feeding into two HV macerators.

9 fans blowing forward, spikes, two more fans inwards, arcane levitator to push items towards the vac chest

the killing zone

the collection setup, you may use item pipes instead of conduits but each armor is a stack so youd need a lot, alternatively you can use nodes if you got them from a bag

[green zephyr]

haha

[hard flower]

these things happen to be pretty hazardous when you are attempting photography

anyways this is HV. i expect for you to have one by days end

[plucky orbit]

Personally been powering my base with blaze spawners stolen from the nether long ago, using Timewood Clocks (112 of them, make the spawners stupid fast) and Cursed Earth (ignore players), spawning 120~ per minute, or more, For free, using 32 Magical Energy Converters (mv) powering 1/3 of my base, with more MEC's coming (hv) soon. Golden (notch) apples produce 12 hours of power in MV MEC's.
The time taken to convert it from water to conveyor belts was worth, also running 32 steam (lv) off 9 Railcraft Max Size (high pressure) Boilers off the same farm (plus witch and potato farm) to make firewater (for liquid fireboxes).
The final 3rd of my power is Nuclear (thorium).

Been running it since LV-MV start (got the poly rounds from getting poly from a quest reward or reward bag).

It's literally provided all my steel the entire pack, Plain Steel never came from a EBF at all.

1 Steam macerator, handled it until I speed upgraded the farm recently, now it voids 60% of the chainmail.

Gold armour, apples, melons, tools go to the smeltery, and get turned to ingots, then the array of 8 steam compressors make blocks, then send 10 chunks away to my main base to be turned to Notch Apples. (the steam gets sent there too). With the blazes above the steam, they also get weakness, providing me blood shards, (before I even started blood magic).

So don't Neglect Spawners at all, I also stole 2 Slime Beetle spawners from Twi, to farm aluminium (manual kill with scythe) early to avoid wasting EBF time

Remember that spawners ontop of cursed earth ignore players, so they work when you're away.

Timewood Clocks speed up Crops, and Spawners (including Thaumcraft Sinister Nodes) Meaning farming Brain Zombies and Eldritch Guardians is simplified too

[worthy mist]

Them blaze spawners are hot

I've been using witches, but blaze into boilers sounds hella fun

[velvet parcel]

where do you find timewood?

[hard flower]

Twilight

[velvet parcel]

where specifically in the twilight forest?

[hard flower]

I could never find them myself

[velvet parcel]

ah ok

[hard flower]

https://ftb.fandom.com/wiki/Tree_of_Time may be wrong

[plucky orbit]

Top of the giant fking trees, look for large cube of leaf, usually has a spider spawner and a chest inside, sometimes no spawner and chest, rarely no chest. Took me 12 hours (roughly 600 dungeons) to find the saplings of all 4 types (time, mining, sorting, biome change (forgot the name)). It's renewable.

[velvet parcel]

Huh, I didn’t get any saplings from a timewood tree I had

I guess I’m just unlucky?

Got a lot of clocks though

[plucky orbit]

I got lots more from manually breaking leaves with tic scythe

[velvet parcel]

Ok, scythe, got it

[gentle fjord]

if you do infused crops from taumic tinkerer, you can directly get all the tf crops.

It's really fast to get the herba infused crop with the hoe of growth, since it cna actually bone meal them, even if it costs a ton of dura. You cna put unbreaking 3 tho.

unfortuantely, theres a 60 wapr barrier to get into them,

why, i have no idea

[plucky orbit]

Too late for me, long had them now

[gentle fjord]

tis a tip and trick after all

[velvet parcel]

Ooh, that sounds good for me, I have an unbreaking ten hoe of growth

[hard flower]

super-tip

you can use an item from the elvish gate to make your hoe of regrowth repair with mana very fast

and thats why i have the spam right click macro and the right click 3x times, left click, scroll down, right click, scroll up repeat macro

the second is for thaumic bases crops because they have to be special

[velvet parcel]

Ooh yeah, I need to play with my elven stuff more. That sounds kinda irrelevant to me, given that I can make basically anything unbreakable, but definitely something to look into

[hard flower]

Its a vine thingy, kinda handy if you have mana

[wheat talon]

if I were to do an imitation of people in this server I would say "don't use powered spawners just make an EEC" and then if you said you don't have enough power they would say just build more power infrastructure

[hard flower]

you need a luv hatch for infernal only mobs, which good luck making that at iv

really ender io spawners are unreasonably efficient

[gentle fjord]

Can't you put double IV for infernal mobs?

It's only 16k iirc