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What I thought of spoooky_ghost during the past week

A while back during the Mindcrack Marathon for Extra Life the Mindcrackers promised a whitelist for 24hrs on the vanilla server to the person who would donated the highest amount of money in one donation. So this was my first thought about spoooky_ghost. However, he sticked around for longer than one day, the videos went going and it soon became clear his face would be revealed on Halloween. So there went my first theory. The subreddit started the first hype level by considering a new Mindcracker. I went along in this theory and was hoping it would be Chad. But if it weren't the case of a new Mindcracker, I had no idea. I could cross off most people immediately. Maybe it was Generikb, who wanted to pull a Zisteau-level prank, but he had been busy with so many other series like Survival of the Fittest and his new Zombie apocalypse games. It was impossible he had time left to goof around on the vanilla server in this ghost costume. Generikb couldn't be spoooky_ghost, especially when after he saw spoooky_ghost on the server. So maybe it is Zisteau himself. This was one of my options until the pumpkin prank. Zisteau is a great pranker but he wouldn't prank himself. I also think he would build a prettier (scarier?) ghost right in spawn town than Chad did. No offense ;-) And he would probably prank other people. At least Seth. Maybe it was BTC. Aurey and Vechs had pranked him and his first reaction is that he was planning to do a similar prank on someone. But I never thought BTC would do something like this. Also, just like Generikb, he was very busy with other series as well such as CrackPack. After he spotted the spoooky_ghost himself on the server, I crossed him off the list. And I could go on like this, but Generikb, Zisteau and BTC were my main suspects in case it wasn't a new Mindcracker. Yesterday Chad showed himself next to the spoooky_ghost on the PlayMindcrack server which set off a lot of people. Even though I was starting to doubt it was Chad, I had never let go of the idea. Yesterday I had been refreshing the subreddit, Twitter and YouTube for quite a while, until the subreddit reached the maximum hype level. The reddit alien started turning into a ghost, the announcement bar said "Very soon now!", etcetera. The video came out and I went watching. The Mindcrackers first pointed fingers at each other. BTC obviously was off my list for sure now because he was in the spoooky_ghost busting team. I had my most doubts about Chad and Zisteau at that moment and was hoping it was Chad. When spoooky_ghost finally revealed himself, I was on the edge of my seat, cheering out loud with my arms up. (Scared the hell out of my mother.) IT'S CHAD!! WOOOO!!!! Chad, you'll probably won't read this so maybe I'll copy it to the subreddit in a bit. You did an amazing job. You fooled not only over 50k Pause Alt accounts but also a lot of Mindcrackers themselves. I had been laughing during Aurey's entire episode from discovering her barn was gone up till the point she found it back, what a great prank to end with. Welcome to the server and I hope things will change for you in the most positive direction you can think of :D I'm looking forward to more of your shenanigans on the Mindcrack server!

[omgchad]

On October 2nd, I joined Mindcrack. But none of you knew it yet. We were brainstorming ways to make the announcement and for me to join the server. We thought about me announcing it in the Weekly Recap, just uploading a video one day with no hype, or even announcing it at an upcoming...

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<3

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Short update

Yes, hello. I quit Agrarian Skies at a certain point because a) my world was becoming too laggy and b) friends and I started a new server so I was playing there instead of in my AS world. I had a busy period after that, varying from a week trip to Dublin to moving to starting at university instead of college. Now that I'm finally more or less settled and used to everything, I wanna start using Tumblr again. Not also for dumping random things (mostly Minecraft related) but also for small diary posts like this one. All I wanted to say for now is that I've been busy but I'm fine so yeah, don't worry. All hypes at the moment:

YAY OMGCHAD IS A MINDCRACKER NOW!

My first exam at university went good :)

I am turning 21 in a week

YAY OMGCHAD!

I am so tired I don't even know what I wanted to tell besides YAY OMGCHAD and this other random crap

More updates coming soon! (TM)

[tekkeretlikes]

Agrarian Skies

Yes hi, I'm alive. Been busy with Agrarian Skies ever since. I now completed the first three chapters. Regarding the bees chapter: I'm gonna make me a lot of industrial apiaries and advanced mutatrons before I continue in bee breeding because I don't even have any cultivated bee. So that quest line is stuck. Regarding the magic chapter: I have to upgrade my blood altar to tier 3 for the next blood orb and I have to think of something that fills my altar. I also have to find a lot of aura nodes and a pech before I can continue in Thaumcraft. Doing great on the hoarding and fluid quests. I'm working on this huge lava power plant and then a line of igneous extruders and pulverizers for the cobble, sand, soul sand (gonna automate the barrel method) and glass quests. Also pulverizers for the sieves so I can get more resources. There are a few fluid quests I wanna tackle with bees, besides the DNA quest and the honey quest. I am not fond of setting up a lot of autospawners, it feels cheaty. But I'm not gonna kill tons of blizzes and blazes and it'll take a lot of time for me to generate all the right ores with the laser drill. So yeah. Bees are the answer to all your problem, especially with Gendustry! And then there's the End chapter (I unlocked the food quest) and the Bragging rights which are both hoarding / Hell's Kitchen quests all over again. Probably fluids too. I did the decorative bragging rights quest but I think I'm gonna leave these chapters until I finished the first seven chapters. :)

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Agrarian Skies

I started playing this not even a week ago and I'm hooked. I go to bed thinking about Agrarian Skies and what I'm gonna do next, then get up the next morning rushing to my computer, immediately start working on my plans and try to complete at least one quest a day. Gets harder and harder though. Gonna finish my mob farm tomorrow and then I'll probably rush through some quests. I do need cows though, and Ender pearls...

[deshommesetdeschatons]

[tekkeretlikes]

A lot of progress

I have done a lot of research in Thaumcraft 4 and I'm really into the mod. I set up my infusion altar and the jars around it, then rushed to a tallow golem with an alchemy core and now my jars are slowly getting filled. My only problem is the lack of alumentum. I am so done with making alumentum so I made the alchemical construct which automates crucible alchemy things, like alumentum. But the essentia need to be piped in through essentia tubes, something I don't like at all. I labeled all my jars and my golem is a very hard working golem. I don't wanna take away a few jars or mess around with essentia, so I might keep walking with phials every now and then. Meanwhile, my boyfriend found his Aum yesterday and completed his... I believe it was his third spell for Ars Magica 2. We got some meteores with moonstone near our base which come in really handy. I also really like the Morph mod, so I can fly for free. The only costs are that you're hungry way faster. We also set up an ME network and our next quarry will be connected to an Ender chest, the other end to the network. It's really nice. We got quite some storage space now but I still think we need to filter out the cobblestone. But that's a lot easier now, just put a servo in the itemduct from the normal chest to the Ender chest, I think. I think I'm gonna use phials and empty warded jars with the alchemical construct and a lot of calculation will be going on so no essentia will be left in the construct or one of the jars. I believe it's 3 ignis, 3 potentia and 3 perditio for each alumentum, so 3 phials for each of these aspects will give me 8 alumentum. I think I can handle that.

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Another restart

Yeah.. We had to do another restart this weekend but all should be fine now. No more TPPI but still the same custom modpack we put together, now with a few more configs. We could not find any villagers, or any biomes from Biomes O' Plenty. Now we can't find any Vanilla biome so it's certainly turned on now. My boyfriend and I live in a savanna, a nice flat biome with a few Acacia trees, and one of our friends lives relatively close to us, about 100m. Lol. We'll be terraforming that savanna, setting up small buildings for everything we want. I made some room yesterday so I can start with Thaumcraft 4 for the third time. We have this huge farm in our 'front yard' because of all the seeds of Pam's Harvestcraft. My boyfriend started all over with Ars Magica 2. And this time we will succeed. We have three wind turbines now, and a pulverizer and a redstone furnace. Oh and we have a smeltery for Tinker's Construct, but no lava... It's the beginning of something awesome, I can feel it.

[tekkeretlikes]

yes hello

this is dog. Nah. This is me, tekkeret. But hi. I'm still alive, yes. Hi. Helloooo. Our server's been up for almost a week now. We first tried running the TPPI modpack but it's too heavy for creeperhost, so we cut in TPPI and have our own custom modpack with 88 mods, and it's AWESOME! This new modpack went up today so I have just started and I can keep you all updated :-) Today was very exciting. I spawned and I punched a tree and soon found out I got just 2 planks per log. GregTech can be a bitch sometimes. Vanilla tools had barely any durability, etc. I still have my left hand on WASD keys, lol. It was pretty tense. I started living in a hole in the ground, right under our spawn point because I barely had enough wood before I wanted to leave or make tools. I started a mine, kept walking up for stone pickaxes, and eventually hit a dungeon. Not just a dungeon.... It's the ULTRAFUCKINGHUGE dungeon from Roguelike Dungeons. It's that dungeon with this tiny castle on the surface with the spiral staircase, leading down to the FIRST FLOOR of the dungeon. I cleared it myself, immediately ate the whole cake because I was low on food. Food is really an issue, the only thing that really seems to fill you up and leaves you satisfied for a while is just vanilla cooked meat, like steaks and cooked chicken/porkchops... So I am planning on getting an animal farm really soon! Anyway, first floor. Nothing much to it, maybe two or three spawners. Wasn't that big of a floor. Then I went down to the second floor and carefully chose a direction, started blocking off other branches in the maze, walking forward. I had a tactic which basically means: "always go left and you'll end up at the start again", so I kept going left and I soon found a ravine below the dungeon. A friend joined me for the second floor and he fell down. Dead. There's a gravestone somewhere down there. I still have to grab it sometime. I actually can now because I can morph into a bat and just fly down. The second floor was eventually cleared out with the help of another friend, since the first one went offline and never came back. We had a decent amount of loot, we went up a few times to regenerate, grab some more food and store the loot somewhere safe. We have been to the third floor as well and have already cleared most of it, but it's not safe yet. The floors get bigger, the loot gets better, the mobs get stronger. Infernal mobs is included in this modpack, which is awesome and hard at the same time. It is absolutely impossible to clear a dungeon like this on your own, even when you have full armor and whatsoever. At least I couldn't do it, I still died three times this evening in that stupid dungeon. It's really big, we spent multiple hours in there which consisted of "left here, left here, do you have any torches left?, there's still a dark part here". But well. It was really tense. I have a lot of loot now up in my tower but I don't have much to do with it. The plan (or at least my plan) is to 100% clear this dungeon, use the mob spawners as mob farms (they're natural, so they spawn a lot more mobs than others and don't require anything but darkness), pick up all chests, explore caves that end up in the dungeon, put up signs leading the way and make it my own place to live. The first floor is safe, the second floor is I think for at least 95% safe and the third floor for like 60%. We got a bit lazy in the end by just blocking parts instead of lighting it up and there's still a lot of dark places. There are also iron doors with spawners behind it. We can't open them but there are pressure plates on the inside so the mobs can get out. We could just break the stone next to it but then they keep attacking us. It's a long term project, absolutely. But we found anvils, an enchanting table, lots of wood and chests, lots and lots and lots of armor and tools, most of them enchanted. We even left some behind because our inventories were full. I am gonna craft a few backpacks and then first clean up the first few floors tomorrow. In the meantime, my boyfriend can come to the dungeon (it's still quite close to spawn) and fix other stuff, like our Tinker's Construct smeltery and some more tools, and some basic machines and some farms outside. And Thaumcraft 4 is also in our modpack. I already found an aura node right next to our front door, which I almost broke with my shovel :( I started with Thaumcraft 4 on our TPPI server but the server kept crashing because it kept running out of memory. So I have to start all over... Hmm what else? Mob farms, animal farms, we got armor and tools now but I still love Tinker's Construct so I am absolutely gonna make some tools with that. Thaumcraft.. A treefarm, because we keep running out of wood. And I really should start mining as soon as the dungeon is a bit more safe. Keep my eyes out for gravestones because they can either be spawners for zombies and skeletons or the place where one of us died, because we did not find all our gravestones back. But yeah. Mining is a major issue. We do not have any resources at all besides the few iron and tin ingots that were in the chests. We also wanna rush towards a ME network so we have all our storage in one block. It's just for our own sake. I know myself, as soon as my inventory is full, I just start dumping things in random chests while it may fit perfectly in another chest. Until then I am maybe gonna make a chest room somewhere. I really wanna get into brewing and fully automate it, just for fun. I can farm a lot of the ingredients already, because of the creepers and spiders downstairs. I haven't seen an Enderman spawner but that might be because we just disabled every spawner with four or five torches, lol. And I think that's it for today. More tomorrow because my boyfriend will log on and the other friend who has helped me A LOT (!) can finally go home. He filled his backpack with half the loot and I gave him the single diamond we found, 'cause that's how I roll. I am gonna show my boyfriend around tomorrow and discuss these plans, he'll probably agree and maybe even help first before we move along. I don't know if we'll stay here because we have nowhere to mine. We keep hitting the dungeon. The third floor reaches at least 500m in each direction :/

[danielkaluuya]

[tekkeretlikes]

More TPPI talk

Yes. One week left. Next monday the server will be up and running. I talked to Stephan yesterday and he really liked my plan. He's in, he has some ideas and wishes as well, like nuclear power and advanced ME networks including crafting CPU's. So we've been discussing things till 1:30AM. We're planning to live near a mountain, set up this very basic base and a mine inside that mountain and then expand outside the mountain, resulting in a lot of tiny buildings scattered around the landscape. TPPI includes the QuarryPlus mod so we're thinking of setting up a quarry around 5 or 10 blocks below surface, so we can do all the background work there and on top there's just the entrance, a shop, or whatever. For example a brewing shop. We could hide all mob farms underground. I still can't wait, did some more testing in creative yesterday and this morning. Been to a few mystcraft ages and the possibilities are endless. I really wanna try and find a Dense Ores page and create a cave world with that page, so we basically have infinite resources without a lot of trouble. Just place a quarry there and connect it to an Ender chest or something. Can't. Wait.

[tekkeretlikes]

So excited!

Me and some friends are starting a new Minecraft server in 1 week with the TPPI modpack, so we can finally do the things we like. My boyfriend's computer couldn't handle bigger modpacks so we've been playing Voltz for a while but it got boring really soon. We're hiring a server at creeperhost and we wanna install the TPPI modpack, which contains 167 mods lol. Basically everyhing we want is in there. A few of us like Thaumcraft and Forestry a lot, some are really into GregTech and will be rushing towards quantum armor, and it's always nice to have a lot of other technical mods in your pack like IC2, BC, TE and AE for storage. I can't wait but we're gonna start monday the 7th of April :( This is because everyone has exams next week and if we'd start the server now, no one would pass a single test ;-) So until then: I just keep drooling on the modlist. I am still not studying lol. It's kinda sad because I really wanna do great at school but all I can think of is minecraft. Our new server, other people's let's plays and server plays.. Kinda sad. But look at it: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AoDq0dQBZJODdGR0aENSUEp4a0FRLVhnRGNoX2lRMGc#gid=0 That's a google doc spreadsheet with all mods included. It's crazy and I can't wait!! It's in 1.6.4 so we have Thaumcraft 4, finally. But there's so much more to it. The first few days I'm gonna be in a hole in the ground. Diggy diggy hole with my own Tinker's Construct tools. As soon as I have a small stock of resources and enough gold and diamonds for a quarry, I'll probably never be mining again unless I need something very specific on that certain moment. I'm also gonna craft a shitload of wind turbines from Mekansim so I'll need to place my house on top of a mountain or a hill. As soon as I have a steady input of resources (quarry) and power (wind tubrines), I can basically do what I want. And I want to do a lot of things which always include farming. I want everything automated. Automated mob farms, perhaps automated farms with bees for certain products, automated tree farms for charcoal as a second power source. There's a lot to it in this modpack. I also really like brewing so I think I'll set up farms for all the brewing ingredients. Farm nether wart, creepers, spiders, ghasts (this is a tough one), blazes, zombie pigmen (for gold around melons), melons, glowstone (with bees), sugar canes, slimes and carrots. All automated, of course. Crops can be farmed easily, creepers and spiders too. I think ghasts and blazes and zombie pigmen too as soon as I get my hands on a few reusable safari nets. Unfortunately these cost Ender pearls and ghast tears, but it'll be worth it. Oh. And something else I always wanted to do: set up an emerald farm that runs on villagers. I know this is something that can not be automated, but well. I can give them a safe place, put chests in front of them with the items I can trade with them and get emeralds whenever I want. They do not have a lot of uses but it's just cool to finally have them. I'll probably gonna have to farm skeletons, sheep and wheat for this (villagers often trade arrows, wheat and wool) but it's gonna be awesome. I wanna made this empire of automated farms ;-) Last but not least: Thaumcraft 4. I can't wait to get started with it. I've seen a lot of let's plays about this and also the mod sportlight by Direwolf20 (which is 3 videos of 30min each). You can do a lot of things with Thaumcraft which I don't even know about. I want to combine this all with ComputerCraft and Applied Energistics, so everything is automated. I just want to be able to stand somewhere and say to my ME network: "oi, give me some of these. Oh you don't have them, well craft them for me!" I'm gonna farm Mana beans and make sure I'll never run out of aspects, I'm gonna use a lot of golems because they are very cute and can also be very smart. Maybe I'll use golems in the automation of some of the farms mentioned above. Depends on how far I am with Tinker's Construct and how many resources I have to do it the non-Thaumcraft way. So this turned out to be quite a long text post... Sorry. I am really excited ;-) I have way more plans than these and I could go on forever, but I'll write it down for myself and not bother you with it. But I'll sure as hell keep you updated with the progress!!

[tekkeretlikes]

Hi all. I want you to meet this guy, he’s a comedian from the Netherlands and he got ADHD. So yeah. His shows are very… intense ;-) Anyway. I follow him Twitter and he was telling his followers this morning he had to go to Ikea with his wife and he didn’t feel like it at all of course, since Ikeas are big and they design them so the customers walk past EVERY SINGLE ITEM they offer. Now, 2 hours later, he posts this picture with the description: “I SPOTTED THE CHECKOUT PAYING THINGY! I AM FREE.” hahahaha :D

[kirbycrow]

After the emotional rollercoaster of Takiawase, I figured Fannibals needed some love, something to bring us back together.

It’s not much, but hey gotta try, so here’s a Fannibal heart for you. It’s a strange beast, but think of it like one of those badges you get for learning how to start a campfire: "If we survived losing Beverly, we can do anything!"  :)  Reblog, stick it on your page, a button, put it on a mug. Do whatever. If anyone needs higher-rez images or files, or even a different color, just add it to the reblog and I’ll get them to you. ❤

peace

-Kirby

[wanderingreviver]

[binickandros]

The hour of departure has arrived, and we go our separate ways, I to die, and you to live. Which of these two is better only God knows. (x)

[tekkeretlikes]

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[tekkeretlikes]

I really like Fever by the Black Keys, their new single, woah