Urist McLurker
Learned
Ah minecraft, that game no one has remotely ever heard of.
This'll be done, as the title ought to have at least implied, using the TechnicPack, which most of you ought to know about because, unless I'm very mistaken(which I might very well be), we have our own Tekkit(Technicpack for multiplayer) server.
Fair Codexia, what else?
Oh yeah, and it's on hardcore. Which means if I die, the world deletes itself and everything is lost.
Some of you might have heard of the superflat challenge or something along those lines, surviving on a superflat world with only villages and slimes for company. That's lame as fuck.
We don't need any damn villages 'round these parts. Codexia is a barren wasteland full of nothing but lost dreams. Not of villages.
After a quick look around, it's clear this is the right place, this is Codexia for sure, no doubt about it.
Time to get some dirt. The superflat map is basically a never ending map of grass, dirt, and bedrock. One layer of grass, two layers of dirt, one layer of bedrock.
That's it.
That's all there is. Forever.
The more savvy of you might have noticed that there's not an awful lot one can do with just dirt.
This, this is our saving grace. For Technic Pack has such a mod as mo' creatures. Or something along those lines.
Using this mod, and Thaumcraft, our fair Codexia will be able to bloom into a beautiful and yet very barren and shitty land.
Just to check, yup, it's Hardcore.
Slimes. Fucking slimes are the bane of all existance on superflat maps. To make matters worse, the big ones like those hit like goddamn trucks.
BEAR ALERT!!
Bears are dangerous, aren't actually hostile unless you fuck with their shit, and most importantly, they drop fish.
Using our cunning and extremely awesome interlecks, a brilliant bunker is created with Dirt, in order to avoid being beaten to a bloody pulp by a bear.
And from which we can beat the bear into a bloody pulp. I call it, the gloryhole of death.
The bear managed to hit once, and then a slime is in the way..
But the prize was gained. One fish. Not two fish, and not blue fish either. Just one.
Technology 1, Nature 0. If you count fists and dirt bunkers as technology, that is.
Goddamn look at them.
Two unicorns. Normally I'd wipe them out, but gotta keep the food bar up as high as possible.
Which seems like a good time to get a proper view of the savior of Codexia
Complete with bunnyhat.
I find it scary how awe-inspiring the rabbit looks.
More bears. Neat.
Woah man, I haven't even hit you off. Shoo, shoo.
OH GOD GET THEM OFF OF ME
I think the bear wanted the bunnyhat to eat.
After a pitched battle, the bear was defeated, the fish was gained, the slimes were ran from, and the hat was saved.
Ducks! Actual ducks. Which drop chicken.
Chicken is bad because it makes you food poisoned for a while sometimes, and it doesn't fill you up much, however, deers drop pokechops(just go with it), which fills you up slightly more than raw chicken does, and without the food poisoning.
The downside of Deers is that they run around like mad, and jump insanely everywhere they can in pure panic, making them a complete nightmare to chase. They are caught though(eventually), well, some of them, and eaten.
Leave me alone! Is dirt slime catnip or something!?
A hole is dug, the good thing here is that you can dig 2x1 without breaking up into where the slimes are(fucking everywhere).
..I forgot I was wearing a bunnyhat and he took a face-full of dirt and died.
Bunnyhat, you lasted 12 screenshots.
White = Good.
Green = Very Bad.
Red = Bad.
Look at all the green around the red arrow, which = us?
Yup, all slimes.
After running around underground for a little while more, a way out is built, for it is getting dark. And that is dangerous; the main advantage that a superflat map gives is that it's very easy to spot danger, plus the minimap helps a lot with that, but if we're underground, it could be anything from a simple zombie, to a horde of ogres ready to kill us.
Each one of the big ones can hit for about 4 hearts, only drop useless(for now, at least, eventually they'll become barely useful) slimeballs, break up into smaller chunks each time you kill one, the next size down can still hurt you, but the sizes lower than that can only push you the fuck around as it tries to enter your physical state of being. The purple ones are thaumcraft slimes, which hurt at any size.
Here he is, our ticket out of here.
Ogres like those drop obsidian, from which a gate to the nether can be made. Fire ogres drop fire, which can then be used to light the nether gate so it's usable, and within the nether, well, we'll get to it soon.
The problem is that ogres hit like trucks, break through blocks like dirt for breakfast, their attacks are aoes(which means they can kill us if we're underground), and have a lot of hp. And we only have fists.
Well, no time like the present, we best go kill that ogre.
I think at point blank range they hit for about 4-5 hearts, on the ourskirts of their aoe(which has better range than our fists by the way) they do about 2.
The good news is that their aoe kills anything about them, except other ogres.
The ogre can be used as a weapon to kill off all these fucking slimes for us, as long as we're careful.
A rat nips us, and nearly pushes us directly into the ogre's warpath.
The ogre just bullrushed through our little monolith of difference like it wasn't even there..
The other thing about ogres is that their aoe attack destroys items on the ground, which means it's very difficult and nearly impossible to get an ogre to kill something else for us so we can get the loot; it'll just end up destroying the loot too.
Also note the slimeballs in slot 1 of the hotbar. That's how much slimeballs all of those slimes dropped, even with the ogre destroying half of the slimeballs.
Did I mention that they hit like trucks?
The only advantage we have is that you can see when the ogre is about to attack; he lifts his arms up like so.
Oh, and the coal? We got that from that rat from earlier.
Uh. While kiting the ogre around I sort of bumped into another one.
By 'another one' I actually meant to say 'three more'.
PANICPANICPANIC
Phew. Their attacks have range on them, the diamond ogres(very rare) have bigger range I think, but for the moment, we're up higher than they can reach.
It's uh. Not looking good.
We need that obsidian, but if we manage to kill one of the ogres, the other three will just destroy it, but we can't really let 4 ogres just go..
It's a bit too dangerous to even attempt to kite four ogres at night with all the other enemies about, so it looks like it's time to build a hidey hole in the air so wraiths(which can fly) can't hit us while we wait for morning.
Not uh, long now...
I expect this LP to not remotely last a long time since it's hardcore and it's very very easy to get killed by accident in minecraft. If we're very lucky we'll make it to the nether.
Inventory: 1 Coal, 50 slimeballs, 3 raw chicken, 3 dirt blocks, 5 feathers.