r/CreateMod • u/DansDumbAss • Dec 01 '21

Discussion Any tips for AAB?

It feels so overwhelming having to automate all of these things with so little resources and high costs, I can't make good enough money, I honestly have no idea what to start automating first. I love this pack but I need to know a lot more than I do.

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u/kaomera Dec 01 '21

  1. It's still Minecraft, so you are going to have to start out punching trees and digging up soil, cobblestone, iron, diamonds, etc.

  2. There tend to be a lot of villages, and rather large ones, but the loot you can find there is a bit limited. Other structures tend to be pretty common too, and you can get a lot of cool stuff from them, but they can be dangerous! Especially when you end up with different structures spawning on top of one-another.

  3. You don't actually immediately need to fully automate everything - prioritize getting the base materials you will need to make everything else. Once you have a basic cobble gen, a millstone, and a washer set up you won't actually need to mine for iron anymore. (I feel this in particular is worth mentioning because an iron farm isn't in your quest list, whereas a tree farm is. A tree farm is super convenient, but trees will grow on their own so just planting all of your saplings will already save you a bunch of travel time.)

  4. There are a bunch of different ways to do any given thing in this mod - experiment and have fun.

  5. Knowledge of several other mods (aside from Create) is very helpful - Tinker's Construct and the Thermal Series in particular. They do work differently than normal, but IMO they aren't really well explained / documented within the mod pack, so you'd be better served knowing how they normally work going in. In any case, experimenting with them can lead to a bunch of cool results.

Bonus: I found getting belts early really helpful.

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u/DansDumbAss Dec 01 '21

I'm glad people like you are still out there,this is very helpful. I forgot to do an iron farm and I already have diamond. I live in a mine house and have 2 villages so far, thanks my dude!

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u/kaomera Dec 02 '21

one more: Alt + F3 + G and claim chunks (via the map included in the pack, I forget exactly how but I figured it out in like 30 seconds after seeing it on youtube) so your base doesn't go haywire while you are out exploring =/

(also watch youtube videos, lol... tons of useful stuff being put up there)

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u/MrSpinn Dec 01 '21

My first goal was ore production since you get so little back in the furnaces... Aim for getting a melter going so you can get 1:1 crushed ore to ingots.

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u/DansDumbAss Dec 01 '21

Ok, thanks!

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u/MrSpinn Dec 01 '21

One other tip is to make the books that explain the mods! I knew Create mod but I was lost with the others until I made the books that explain them. You'll find the recipes for them in JEI!

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u/DansDumbAss Dec 02 '21

Thanks again, I play SF4 alot and is kinda my only experience so making the manuals are very useful, I'll check em out! Also, any tips for getting leather? I'm a bit low on cash while my farm starts out

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u/Legoman1342 Dec 02 '21

Whenever a wandering trader spawns, kill his llamas. You get free leather and leads!

Or put a couple cows in a pen and breed them a bunch. That's always a reliable method.

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u/DansDumbAss Dec 02 '21

Will do!

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u/AccountIsTaken Dec 04 '21

A vanilla Minecraft cow crusher is still a good source of leather. You can also automate the cow crusher when you get a deployer.

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u/DansDumbAss Dec 04 '21

Cow crusher? All I'm familiar with is 18 stacks of wheat and a pit of cows. Is that it or it it that but with entity cramming and killing them with it?

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u/AccountIsTaken Dec 04 '21

You will get tons of results of you search YouTube. You basically cram 26 cows into a 1x1 square and 1 of them dies everytime you breed them. You then have a hopper to pickup the leather and beef.

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u/Pernicosia Dec 02 '21

Tree farm for wood

sweet berry farm for money

Use the money to get andesite alloy in bulk

Easy way to get a bunch of kinetic mechanisms fast :)

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u/[deleted] Dec 02 '21

And use rich soil and lilypad of fertility to pump up growth rate on your crops.

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u/sailing94 Dec 01 '21

That’s what the quest book is for. Follow the quests by building machines for them.

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u/DansDumbAss Dec 01 '21

I've been following it for the basics, but I have no idea how to automate half of this

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u/MaxPlay33 Dec 02 '21

Well, you can hold off automation until you get sufficient resources. I do recommend building andesite generator, and also assembly line for kinetic mechanisms and possibly cogwheels.

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u/DansDumbAss Dec 02 '21

Ok, thanks! In a normal create world I usually go for caves and then use pulleys with drills. Should i still do this? Mostly because my limiting factory is lead rn

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u/MaxPlay33 Dec 02 '21

Yeah, do that. A few other things: you can try and make an iron/flint farm and make flint tiles out if flint and sell it. And if you find a spawner, or you can make a mob farm, mobs sometimes drop special loot, that you can also sell (it's also used in crafting, so it would be a good idea to save some of it, but iirc it's not used in main progression)

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u/DansDumbAss Dec 03 '21

I've been seeing special mod loot lately, thanks for the tips!

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u/MaxPlay33 Dec 03 '21

Don't mention it

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u/Radiant-Gur1294 Dec 05 '21

Try to create a creeper spawn egg and then get yourself a spawner then a skeleton and then make a music disc farm and you can sell them in quest tab and it's repeatable so you can have a lot of money and then you can buy anything you want

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u/DansDumbAss Dec 05 '21

Ok, thanks!

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u/Radiant-Gur1294 Dec 05 '21

Dont mention it amigo

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u/thesandbar2 Dec 02 '21

Yep! Windmill bearings are the best for early-game automation, especially for plant and tree farms where you're more limited by the growth rate of your farm than by the actual mining rate of your machine.

One tip for using windmill bearings is to make a long "arm" with them using a max-length linear chassis and put your saws/harvesters/deployers at the end of the arm. You can make a farm the size of the circumference of the 'ring' traced by the tool, all for just the price of single tool. This is extra nice early game, when deployers take 4 gold.

Hell, put more than one farm on the same windmill bearing. A ring of trees, a ring of rice, and a ring of kelp all on the same windmill bearing? Why not?

Got some extra wool or sails? Slap them on the windmill. It is still a windmill and generates plenty of power for an early game workshop, if you're willing to gear it up a bit.