Quickstart Guide - Thyriel/Garden-of-Sky GitHub Wiki

Starting

Worldtype: "Garden of Glass" if you want to live in a void world ! "Void?world" to live in an acid ocean world (default worldtype) => acid ocean is recommended as you will have no typical void-lag issues but be aware that water flowing into the ocean causes a lot of lag so avoid that

Starting TIP: Rain is toxic (wither effect) Avoid rain at all costs until you can protect yourself from rain (Antidote potion for temporary protection / Antidote ring for permanent protection).

If you absolutely don't want that: delete toxicrain & potionfingers in mod folder, as well as "/scripts/potionfingers" folder

Early progression

Roughly follow the Garden of Glass Walkthrough: https://ftbwiki.org/Garden_of_Glass#Walkthrough

Differences:

  • Once you have harvested your first tree (=have a crafting table) you can craft a Bonsai Pot to quickly grow more trees
  • Bonsai Oak Trees have a small chance to drop bonemeal and bark (used later to make books for Soulus mod)
  • Mana Age: Daybloom / Nightshade have recently been removed from Botania. Use Endoflame with charcoal instead.
  • You can make bigger amounts of charcoal with a charcoal pit multiblock structure once you have your first iron (flint&steel to fire it). Craft "Log Pile" as you like, surround with fire resistant blocks (e.g. cobblestone), fire one up and quickly close it. Each charcoal pit takes half a minecraft day to complete.
    More Info => https://minecraft.curseforge.com/projects/charcoal-pit
  • Gravel & Sand can be made with a Pure Daisy. This can be used to multiply dirt blocks (make coarse dirt and use a hoe on it)
  • Mobs do not spawn naturally ! You will need to build Summoners from Soulus mod. To get fossils look at the mana pool recipes for the fossil type you need. (TIPP: Start with a mob from glowing fossils = ender chunks to be able to upgrade speed of the summoners as soon as possible) More Info => https://github.com/Yuudaari/soulus#sledgehammer-

Nether

Once you reached the nether you will have a lot more things on your todo list:

  • Soulus mod has a pretty unique multiblock crafting table called the composer. There are some recipes (like Niobium ingot) that can only be crafted with this multiblock. But you need mobs and/or animals close to it so does work at all.
  • The Soul Totem (multiblock again) acts as a player and a chunkloader. With the current configuration in the modpack it's running with one Soul Catalyst (128 Essences) for a full minecraft day (20 minutes). With max upgrades this extends to a little bit over 6 real hours. So basically you can also use it as a chunkloader (9 chunks) for your mobfarms, machines, whatever up to 6 hours after you logged off. Additionally you can switch it off with a redstone signal while you're online.
  • Ores for mods (Copper, Tin, Ardite, Cobalt etc.) can only be generated in the Nether with an Orechid Ignem flower.
  • To start with Mekanism, Galacticraft or other technical mods (except Xnet) you need nether access and the composer (as well as an Elven trade)
  • To craft a Mekanism generator you will first need to convert mana to RF with a fluxfield to power your first machines.
  • Higher tier Mekanism ore processing requires resources from other planets
  • With access to the nether you will be able to require the materials needed to build a TiC smeltery

Storage, Item Transportation, Cables

There's various mods for your storage and item transportation needs available:

Other tips

  • A Hopper combined with a Bonsai pot makes an excellent automated tree farm
  • Twilight Forest needs a Niobium ingot to be thrown into the pool for the portal to work !
  • A well automated mana production, an Orchid-smoothstone-ore-generator and a semiautomatic soulus-mobfarm are your key to success ;)
  • Galacticraft Planets only spawn their special ore but not the default ores like copper, tin, alu, etc.
  • Oil for galacticraft fuel can be made with creosote oil in Thermal Evaporation Tower (Mekanism multiblock). Creosote Oil comes from charcoal pits. (see https://minecraft.curseforge.com/projects/charcoal-pit )
  • Multiplayer: Players can be revived ! => https://minecraft.curseforge.com/projects/playerrevive?gameCategorySlug=mc-mods&projectID=266890
  • Not every quark feature has been enabled (hit the small "q" button in main menu to see what features have been disabled)
  • Currently there is no map mod installed. I haven't decided yet which to use
  • As usual in sky/void worlds: Water / Lava flowing into the void causes lag ! Light shining from the bottom void through your constructions cause a lot of lag when that light gets obstructed. So don't have gaps under automatic ore/stone farms or hoppers/pistons as lower level somewhere or play in acid ocean world.
  • Compass in the nether (and some other dimensions) points to the portal you first entered it (quark mod)
  • Returning to the overworld with a rocket may have catastrophic consequences if you don't plan wisely where you start the rocket ;)