#Any tips for start of steam age?

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weak schooner
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A horse is an amazing tool for adventuring: It has highstep, 2+ block jumps, and takes bascially no food to ride

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Using a steam buffer, like an RC iron tank, is great! It allows you to use steam even if your generation can't quite keep up

main ermine
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Sorry idk what is that yet haha

weak schooner
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For food, you just need 6 different foods, and if you have 3 berries and a snow golem to harvest for snowballs, you have 3 juices and 3 smoothies.
THere is spice of life carrot edition, which necessitates different nutrients, but if you ahve even one type over 90%, it offstes the bad effects of the others beign 0%

main ermine
weak schooner
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snow golem, the vanilla mob?

main ermine
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I dont play since 1.20

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Oh

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Im like this in quests (now a little bit more advanced(in coke did the better tools quests and coke oven) and thats it)

main ermine
zealous ingot
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F2 to take screenshots or WINDOWS + Shift + S to open snipping tool :)

tawny jackal
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makes sense they might not be intimately familiar with vanilla minecraft considering gtnh is so good it'll probably be recommended to non minecrafters

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I have certainly recommended it to people who weren't super into minecraft

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I think in steam age we had problems getting enough fuel so I'd recommend making a big cactus farm and getting a few coke ovens (like 6 is a good number to shoot for early) to get a good supply of sugar charcoal

honest nebula
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Pro tip

DO NOT FORGET to have fun

vagrant flower
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The important tip: DO NOT GO OUTSIDE IN BLOOD MOON

F7 spot zones where mobs can spawn (yellow cross meaning only at night, red in any time)

For any age: read the quests carefully

For start steam you need a small coal boiler, or any other source of steam. If shortly do quests and make fun

flat heart
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would recommend getting to the multiblock macerator and the multiblock steam oven once you get some single block steam machines and some resources

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check the multiblock goals tab in the questbook whenever you can, there are always new multiblocks and sometimes id forget to go check them out!

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another good multiblock in the steam age is the railcraft high pressure steam boiler with the fluid burner thing, burns creosote oil and consumes water to make a ton of steam

cinder forum
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As someone who has restarted and replayed the first few ages many times, I was going to say don't spend a lot of time in steam overbuilding infrastructure.

Then I saw all the new steam multi blocks and I think I might just never leave steam on my next restart.

flat heart
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yeah I mean the multiblock steam macerator is the best macerator until HV, and even then for items without % extra drops, its still king

vagrant flower
viral urchin
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Exploration is really strong in the early game:
Villages:

  • steel
  • Damascus steel
  • tcon tool/smeltery parts
  • eyes of ender (from villager trading)
    Strongholds (can find with eyes of ender):
  • rare enchantments and bees
  • oblivion frames (bee holy Grail)
    Thaumcraft structures (look for obsidian totems, round hills with openings on the side, and greatwood trees with cobwebs):
  • many ingots and gems
  • spawners
  • nodes
  • any crimson cultist structure can be used to access the outer lands dungeon later
    Special thaumcraft biomes:
  • tainted lands have some special mobs and blocks, needed in rare recipes, for bee breeding, for food completion, etc
  • magical forests have lots of Silverwoods and greatwoods, mana beans, pechs spawn here
    Roguelike dungeons:
  • bricks!
  • spawners, including enderman spawners
  • many ingots and gems
  • mob heads and skulls
  • rarely brewing stands and enchanting tables
  • lower floors have some nether stuff but are probably even more dangerous than the nether
    Various locations:
  • hives for bees (easily visible in the dark)
  • thaumcraft nodes (easily visible in the dark)
  • Pam's gardens for food, and Pam's fruit and bark trees
  • some natura/biomes o plenty plants for food and botania flowers, also some like magic logs are useful for thaumcraft essentia or decoration
  • aluminum ore gravel
  • ae meteors
  • lava pools
  • spawners
  • pumpkins, melons, sugarcane, cactus, cocoa beans
tawny jackal
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eventually we built 6 HV macerators which was nice

vagrant flower
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You forgot lootgames
You can loot they even in stone age (get some blocks and break ceiling by hand)
https://gtnh.miraheze.org/wiki/Lootgames

GT New Horizons
Lootgames

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modern bison
rocky wraith
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I wish i knew sooner the stone->cobble->gravel->sand feature with hammers, like in ex nihilo

brazen gorge
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ik this is a very old thread, but is it worth it to speedrun hang glider once I enter steam age, or just chill and do everything else?

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I just entered steam age and havent touched any of the other quests other than the main one for the boiler

tawny jackal
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hang glider super good, definitely get it quickly but I wouldn't say spend your first steel on it

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it doesn't have durability that I remember

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it's just free infinite extra distance when you have something to jump off

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not infinite distance but lots of extra

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you can jump to get extra distance too

brazen gorge
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mostly because I want something that can travel large distances so I can look for tin and copper

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especially tin, because for some reason it seems to spawn far away from literally anything that is worth making a teleportable waypoint at

prisma raft
brazen gorge
prisma raft
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Yeah like cassiterite sand etc.

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Is it just you have none near your base I guess

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And copper is like, everywhere, just tryna work out why you need a glider to get to them

brazen gorge
brazen gorge
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I slapped it into my ore finder but only found a few within walking distance

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and only 1 that isnt in the middle of a cave

tawny jackal
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meh I don't like ore finder, consider just digging down and manually identifying all the veins near your base

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takes a while but it's significantly better for finding things than the ore wand

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that thing is a piece of garbage

vocal dune
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  1. water tanks! humidity is key for automation
  2. build a fluid tank from railcraft(i think the qb has a guide for this) as a steam buffer tank, it makes life so much easier
  3. the only steam multis that are really worth it are the macerator and the centrifuge
  4. find a slime island and grow slime trees, very important and basically solves rubber forever
  5. plan for the healing axe quest(i think its called hunger no more). by grabbing every garden in sight
  6. soybeans can be the only crop you need to grow for food tbh
  7. make good steam generation because you will be using the steam grinder until EV, and probably using steam for power in LV
  8. stay organized storage wise, you dont get a storage system til EV
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  1. for ore processing, just crush the ores once then smelt the crushed ore. doubles them up without taking forever
tawny jackal
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like the squasher

vocal dune
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yeah but generally you don't need multi level production capacity on anything other than macerating and centrifuging that early

brazen gorge
vocal dune
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yeah

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centeifuge or extractor? one of the two

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slime trees also make glue

brazen gorge
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interesting

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Im still grinding rubber trees for the resin, then throwing the wood into the coke oven since I apparently cant make them into planks until later on

unborn cave
vocal dune
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its really good

unborn cave
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for the start of lv-end of steam

vocal dune
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not big

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ive since recycled the machines but this is my entire setup from steam-mv

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unborn cave
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my base is this big rn but im planning to move to underground

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vocal dune
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your base dont really matter since you'll probably move to pdim once you get ev anyway

unborn cave
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eh im just gonna make the base big

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my base is right on top of a kaolinite vein... WHAT IS IT EVEN USED FOR

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dense plover
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NEI will tell you

unborn cave
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i mean

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electrolyzing

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nothing else

dense plover
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It says you can turn it into aluminum

unborn cave
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via electrolyzation

dense plover
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Aluminum, silicon dioxide, hydrogen and oxygen

unborn cave
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so basically no more uses than that

dense plover
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Yeah

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Basically rocket fuel ore

unborn cave
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should i use forge hammer for my bronze plates or save for bender

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(for mb)

dense plover
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Forge hammer

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Then once you get enough bronze then make a blender

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and stop using the forge hammer

unborn cave
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eh ill just save for the bender

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im almost there

vocal dune
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yeah for LV you want wiremill->bender

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first machine you want outta MV is extruder

brazen gorge
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am still grinding wood for a 3x3 base

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(in chunks)

brazen gorge
celest badge
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Is 40% humidity good enough to place my watertank

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I looked around my base the the highest humidity I could find was 40%

dense plover
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You want at least 70%

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I would keep searching

celest badge
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Ig I’ll move further away from my base then lol

dense plover
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I'm in a cherry blossom biome and it's 80%

celest badge
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I think there’s a jungle biome a few hundred blocks away from my base so I’ll prolly try that

prisma raft
celest badge
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I’ll see if I can find somewhere not too far from my base, if not I’ll just build more water tanks

dense plover
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Swamps have the best humidity at 100%

celest badge
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Ok ty I’ll keep looking

dense plover
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Yeah it took me like an hour of searching to find a swamp. Also if you find a lavender field harvest them you'll need them for the healing axe if you want to craft it early.

flat heart
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i have heard that theres a 120% humidity biome

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some type of jungle

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but anything around 90% is fantastic

dense plover
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I looked it up the 120% and it's the temperate rainforest. Only one that is like that

brazen gorge
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my base only has 80%, which is plenty enough for early steam running 2 tanks for 6 small steam boilers, not sure how well it'll hold up against 2 railcraft boilers, since I intend to build them quite large to make sure my stuff keeps running