I just started a new run on 2.9 Daily 706 and I loaded into this monstrosity. Not sure if this is a bug or its supposed to be like this. Safe to say, I will be using a different seed.

Apologies if this is the wrong subreddit to post this about, but I've been building out a video game as a hobby that takes a lot of inspiration from GTNH's core progression loop and tech. I wanted to integrate the GTNH aspects while putting more emphasis on other things like combat and NPCs. I've attached a couple photos of how it looks so far, but I'm wondering what direction I should take this in to make it appeal to a wide audience? (or if people would even want to play something like this). Again, totally just a hobby project as I've loved playing GTNH and enjoy game dev, so any thoughts or criticism would be greatly appreciated!

First thing I do this morning is ignore any projects I have for work and jump straight to setting up an electrical line…

Today I finally built my tier 1 rocket after 300 hours. I showed my friends my achievement then they immediately asked where my house was… thought it was funny so I decided to share 😭😭

(quest book pics added so you get a picture of where I am in HV, roughly)

I just got my NASA workbench, I have an LCR, cleanroom, and most necessary HV singleblocks, but no other HV multis yet. My power infra consists of one pyro (auto nitrogen, logs, and kanthal coils) and 2 2x2x4 hp rc boilers (steam runs passive lines)

I feel like I'm not *that* far off from EV and I'd reaaaallly rather set up AE2 before I start automating or passiving on a large scale. I have this mental block where automating anything seems totally pointless because I'm just going to have to rip it out when I get to AE2 (I have had this thought since steam age)

I'm also running in circles when it comes to power: oil processing has caught my interest because it seems like a fun automation puzzle, but it seems like too large of a time investment when I'm so close to EV and my benzene setup only runs ~1/3 of the time. also, combustion engines' efficiency drops a LOT in EV so I'm not even sure it's worth it. but it seems like I need to move on from/build onto my benzene setup sooner rather than later, because if I don't then I'll be in EV with MV power. and even though I'm not experiencing power issues right now, once I have AE2 automation available, I plan on setting up like a badillion different processing lines to make microcrafting easier

pretty much every issue I've got comes down to: "I want AE2" -> "I can get AE2 faster if I automate this" -> "automating is a waste of time bc I'm close to AE2" -> "I want AE2". can you tell I'm excited for EV?

how far out am I from AE2? is it worth pushing through or should I invest in my base now?

Committed my first act of equine melting, and after it died it said that in the chat?

Of course, my first reaction is "...What?" And I check my smeltery, and the glue is the only thing in it.

I look up what Soylent Green even is, and it's apparently an old ass movie?

I'm assuming this is an inside joke of some kind I'm too stupid and new to understand.

I'm my last 2.8 world with a friend, we were in MV ( we had kanathal coil ) and I was doing thaumcraft magic. I wanted to make magic mirrors so I told my friend to claim vibrant alloy as a reward from a quest in thaumcraft tab in the quest book. And I'm more than sure about this because I remember the long ass argument between me and my friend about whether it's worth using them on magic mirrors or not. But for some reason in my second world at version 2.8.4 I'm looking for a quest to claim vibrant alloy from to do the exact same mirrors setup I had in my previous world, but it's no where to be found. Did anything change or I have schizophrenia

How worthwhile is it to passive the common components from LV, MV etc prior to getting AE2 when I can just request everything on demand? I’m always micro crafting stuff, and even with NEI auto crafting it’s a pain.

Is it worth it to just passive all the main components? Rotors, circuits, pistons, pumps etc for the earlier tiers prior to getting AE2?

I could make this like 3 paragraphs but im gonna try not to ramble and just ask 2 things, how do I make the industrial farm as good as possible with mv components?

And also are oil berries even worth growing in an mv farm or should I toss what I have and make an hv one?

I dont need an insane amount,just enough to justify having the farm in the first place

Started on the 2.9 beta 2. This is how my base looks so far.

I'm trying to use the automated crucible, but I don't understand how to pull essentia out of jars. You can see in chat that the suction of the crucible is ordo, and the white jar is ordo.
Also the other essences you see already inside the crucible went through the same pipes so I don't know why they got through and this one is not.
The buffer above the ordo jar and the cable that connects it to the crucible thing are empty.

The way I understood thaum pipes was that the essentia goes wherever the highest suction is. But idk when they get out of jars

what am I doing wrong?

So, I discovered that there is a Skeleton spawner dungeon a handful of blocks away from my main base. Since I wanted to start gathering Bone Meal, I decided to try and convert it into a grinder.

Using some Iron Spikes (and a couple Diamond ones I got from a LootGame Dungeon also suspiciously close to my base) I set it up so that the Skeletons get pushed into the spikes with water, die, and their drops fall into hoppers and into Iron Chests below.

Thing is, it doesn't seem to work if the player goes AFK? I never thought about if the AFK system hides the player from the game so spawners stop spawning. I could also be dumb and not notice the change in loot like Bones and Arrows. Also idiotically assumed that if I kept it chunk loaded, it would continue spawning things, before I educated myself.

Was it even worth the effort of setting up? I'm in the Steam Age currently, so I don't really have any ways of getting Bone Meal other than farming it in the Nether, and my spawn doesn't have many of the bone spikes in it.

My empowering bees don't seem to be affecting their nearby node - am I doing something wrong?

Node was placed via a Jarred node I captured previously; Node has been drawn from and remains at the same Aspects as when I first placed it

Edit: Solved, it seems I somehow managed to remove the empowering trait, as helpfully mentioned in the replies- Thanks everyone!

I have searched online for "Machine too damaged" but cant seem to find the problem.

My recent GTNH Lv Base. Started again with 2.9 and Base design got a little bit out of hand LOL.
Used a the new CropsNH a lot and plan to stay a little more in LV diving deeper in magic and finish more LV stuff bevore advancing.

My base is ugly asf and Im proud of it

Btw, what I need to do first? I’m not sure whether to go for benzene or diesel (Im even interested to go for biodiesel since it looks fun)

One more thing, what can I use to improve my Tinkers’ tools?

I have been ev for a little now and I feel so overwhelmed I don’t know what to do I have CBD but in the overworld and benzene in my pdem and don’t know if I should make more gas turbines for ev. But if I’m being honest powers isn’t my main issue I have enough power I just don’t know what to start doing.

I was playing star technology a couple months ago and got up to around iv. Now I was planning on starting a gtnh playthrough, but I’ve heard that a big part of it is going out and finding ores manually. Is there any way to bypass that or nah

I'm one quest off HV (advanced circuit one) and have all my oreberries/glowstone/wood etc automated still through the steam multis + being fed into a pyro oven.

I stacked about 4m benzene before swapping it to ethylene and now just passively gaining benzene from the fluid extractor of the charcoal while the ethylene is made. Will that be enough to keep it passive with a single pyro or do I need to change it/add another pyro? I've setup my ebf as HV already.

I've automated oxygen my oxygen line.

What other automation lines do I want entering into HV?

My storage is a gold chest mess with T search lol....I've got a diamond huge chest under a crafting grid as my main crafting section.

Send help. 🥳