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Lets Play :: Minecraft TFCraft - Hardcore
Neyvn:
GREETINGS ALL!!!
This will be an on again off again LP where I will be playing TerraFirmerCraft in Hardcore mode...
What is TFC??? Well its a special mod created by Bioxx to create a new style of gameplay where survival don't start and end with building a wall around yourself, digging down to level 11 and finding enough diamonds to make a full set of gear. In TFC you are limited in your actions from the get go, where you need certain tools to do certain things. No more cutting down trees with your barehands here. No more of the throwing a 64 stack of Iron into a Furnace then coming back to it when its down. Everything has a more Hands on Approach, especially with the Metal Crafting...
To those of us that actually play Dwarf Fortress Fort Mode, alot of things you know from it comes into play, for example, the different layerings of stone containing different metals. Thats right different stone and different metals. In TFCraft there is all manner of stone types such as Granite, Rocksalt, Garbbo and such. Within them you find Cassiterite and Copper and Bismuth and so forth. The world also has been changed in how it generates, certain layers of stone will be near each other, under and beside, trees of all types grow amongst one other making forests seem more breathtaking to look at and the greatest fears are that of landslides and cave ins. Yes Cave ins. Digging deep through unsupported stone will eventually result in a cave in, burying you within the mountain. Landslides form when digging through that of dirt causing a ripple effect as the soil collapses down the side of the hill before finally settling. Now the word Realism is something that alot of people use to describe this mod, but do not take it as its told. The game uses real world things but in the end this mod is about making the Survival part of Minecraft much more then it truly is...
Anyway lets begin...
So time to generate the world, I decide on the name Homeworld for this lets play as its the name I always choose. Following that I thought I would see how the game goes in generating something we all know very well...
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And I am greeted by this, a wonderful looking expanse of area, surrounded by cattle and chickens, to my left it looks to be a small hill of what I can assume is going to be Chalk (you get used to knowing what kind of stone it is by visual clues.)
Spoiler (click to show/hide)The white stone colour and the white dirt colour help identify the stone, areas where the stone is more "Orange" will have a light brown colour and even darker as we get into things such as Basalt and such.
I look to my right and am greeted by a forest behind a small pond with some reeds by it, reeds are important for that of making paper, a needed item for the starting of metalcrafting. - To the marsh I march for the Reeds we Need - Cookie for anyone that can pick that game quote...
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Now, seeing as we said that you can't cut down trees with your fist, we need to make some tools, but where am I getting the materials for that you ask???
Well these...
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Scattered around the world on the surface are these blocks, they are in fact pebbles which relate to that of the stone that exists below it, for example, Chalk Pebbles above a Chalk layer. Handy thing to note if not sure what kinda stone layer your standing on. If you noticed beside its tooltip it reads Medium with a little scales icon and tiny with a different kind of icon, these are the Weight and Size of the item in question, there isn't much going in its effects as far as I know but certain items can be put into a chest while others can't depending on its size and weight...
Now we need a couple of these things...
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Right so with these we will be making our first tools... What? How am I going to do that???
Knapping... Thats right, to make stone tools you need to use one to shape the other into that of the needed tool...
Those are - Axe and Shovel...
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Putting two Pebbles into the crafting square gives us this special GUI, from there we shape the tool head we need, first the Axe Head and the Shovel Head. Now then time to attach these to sticks to make our first tools...
What? How do I get sticks if I can't get wood yet??? Easy we get them from the trees still, but from "Branches". What we do is punch the Leaves of the trees and from them drop sticks and sometimes sapplings. A thing to note is that Saplings drop in a more RARE state then they did before, this was to represent the need for going out further to gather more Sticks and Lumber then just sitting in the same chunk for ever. People scream Realism due to Logging but yeah only if you want to go there...
Anyway time to gather some Sticks...
Right from this White Elm we go 9 Sticks and 2 Saplings, took forever though, if only we had something to cut it down faster...
Lets try Knapping a Knife...
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Yeah that will help. Now lets put these things together, first we take a Tool Head and put it in the top half and under it a single stick...
Spoiler (click to show/hide)BOOM TOOL!!!
Aww Yeah. Time to get us some mats...
Before...
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After...
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Looks like this forest is White Elm, Chestnut and Spruce. To note, each type of Wood burns at a different rate and at different temps, quite a handy thing to note that...
While I was gathering the sticks and saplings I noticed that in the Pond some Squid spawned. Squid are important cause they drop ink, another needed item for Metalworking. Lets kill us some Squids...
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And with that the Sun begins to go down...
Spoiler (click to show/hide)Time for night and the moment that the monsters all come out to play, eep...
Thats for the next update...
Neyvn:
Ok... Night time... Totally prepared for it....
No wait, I didn't.... SHITtakke mushrooms...
Right, dig into a wall and stay there the... No Wait. We can't dig remember...
Make a sword! That will help, wait can't make that due to it needing metal...
BUT WAIT...
We can make a Javelin..
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A Javelin is the Stone Age's Sword. It can act as both a melee weapon (though personally the Axe is a better weapon) and a ranged weapon, charging like the Bow and firing from you, with a good chance of it being able to be recovered...
At least now we have a way to defend ourselves, sorta. Better grab these logs with our axe while we are here... Chop Chop Chop...
Hello, whats this...
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In TFCraft, when a tree is cut down, all connected logs (naturally grown of course) all break as well and fall to the ground in these Log Form. Whats more they are actually limited in the number that it can be stacked in your inventory, 16 to be exact. Oh dear dear dear...
After a while we have cut down all those trees we had cleared earlier. Coming under attack by a Spider and Skele while at it...
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We need some food and some leather to protect ourselves... Good thing there was all those cattle before huh... ;D ;D
Now in TFCraft livestock are getting an overhaul as well, growth rates of young are different, the creatures are spawned in set genders and these genders can determine the actual size and the amount of mats that they drop, thats right the animals drop more mats then normal. By right clicking on the animal you can discover their gender...
This is a Male cow, or Bull as we should call it...
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He will drop a larger amount of mats then say a female cow would. More if he is actual older due to having had more time to grow bigger. This one dropped 15 leather and 18 Beef. Yes folks you heard me, that's a lot of mats isn't it...
Spoiler (click to show/hide)Well, we would need a bit more for some leather armour so one more cow must fall... Or maybe a bit more, they have been making me jump slightly thinking they were creepers...
Now annoyingly, Chalk proves to be the brittle stone that it is, the Axe broke quite quickly in fact, around 6 trees were cut down and only attacked one Spider and one Skele, thats less then a Vanilla Wooden Weapon would last. Seems like we will be needing to make a few more. Another handy thing to note is that Bones are pretty much useless in making Bone Meal, the thing does nothing with all the changed stuff. But the handy thing that bone can do is substitute itself for a stick. So lets make us a Bone Handled Chalk Stone Axe....... Yeah this sounds like its going to last long...
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ARRRRR!!! SPIDERS!!!! ARRRRRR!!!! CREEPERS!!!! WHAT WAS THAT NOISE!!!!!! ARRRRGGGHHHH!!!!
THE SUN!!!!!!!
Spoiler (click to show/hide)I feel like that Big Fat Monk Jigo near the end of Princess Mononoke as he waited for the sun to rise. Only difference is that I am not a Monk or called Jigo...
Oh dear, I am nearly dead, I am starving and all I have is raw meat. Time to start cooking some breakfast...
Now, cooking, this so far is my only problem with TFCraft, there is no way to cook many food quickly. I mean, you can cook a whole pig over a fire with a spit, but no, you have to do it one slice of pork at a time here. Anyway we need a firepit. To do so, we take our bundle of sticks we have and put two into our crafting slot like so...
Spoiler (click to show/hide)This will give us a firestarter. Next we need to throw three sticks onto the ground separately before using the firestarter on the block beneath it. While the icon looks to have only one stick there, there is in fact three, don't know what its doing that.
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It took seven attempts but we have FIRE!!! BWAHAHAHA!!!! It never lights straight away and it has a high chance of failure, I mean rubbing two sticks together isn't easy is it...
Time to cook us some beef...
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FOOD!!! NOM NOM NOM NOM!!!
Now that my stomach has something in it, I will quickly explain whats going on while the next one is cooking. The Bar on the left is that of the temperature gauge, the higher it is, the brighter the flame and thus more heat there is, next to that is that of the fuel source by throwing a log into these section the fire will consume One log the moment it starts to go down, thus keeping its Temperature. In the middle is that of the item being cooked and finally the 2x2 grid....... I don't really remember what that is for, but we will find out later. The meat (or what ever is being cooked at the time) goes through different stages of well cooking, it starts off cold going onto warming, hot and very hot. Meat cooks at this point and depending on how high the temp gauge is will change the cooking time...
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Anyway, after cooking up a sizeable chunk of beef, damn stuff takes forever to cook, so no sitting and waiting for that to happen else it would take all day its time to turn this raw leather into armour, and we need a crafting bench for that. And for that we need to turn these logs into planks and then those planks into plankblocks (vanilla wooden blocks). Which in the end turns into the crafting bench as normal. To do all this we put a log under an axe in the crafting slots and Bam...
Spoiler (click to show/hide)3 Planks..... But it costs 4 Planks to make a block, so we need a bit more. If you can't tell its quite expensive to make wooden blocks from logs in this style of game, meaning no easy housing. Well there is but I am not going to do it, makes the game a bit too easy. Anyway lets make us some leather armour...
Cue Crafting Montage... \\Plays 'Eye of the Tiger'\\
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Well that was short... Didn't even get past the intro beats...
BUT WHAT IS THIS!!! ITS NIGHT TIME!!!
At least we have our armour... No wait, Damn 2 short for boots...
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Well we do look spiffing in the gear. That's another day gone though, and not much to show for it except for a full belly and 3/4 of an armour set. Damn you time, why do you not wait for this man...
Eepp... WHAT WAS THAT NOISE!!! ...... To be Continued next update...
Burnt Pies:
Reeds quote is from Pharoah/Cleopatra.
Enjoying it so far!
Neyvn:
Another day gone...
And to think, if I was playing Vanilla I would be rocking around with a Diamond gear or even Iron by now. Playing on Hardcore makes the night even more frighting let alone the fact that it takes a lot more work to be prepared...
I would love to get pics of me fighting the mobs but, yeah, you know, fighting for my life here...
Anyway. Gonna use this time of night to start moving away from this area. Chalk isn't a good source of stone type for stone weapons seeing as its so brittle, did I mention that, each stone type has a different durability. Clever huh...
Anyway, I decide to head Notch North, which is in case you didn't actually know, the Direction that the Sun Rises, Notch said that the North was spos to be where the sun rises from in Minecraft. North is water, so I hug the land, bashing at the grass for seeds. Three seconds after leaving my little camp on the beach and I am attacked by 3 Spiders, after taking them down 2 Zombies and a Creeper come over the hill from no where. I actually had to take that risky move of dropping to the bottom of the ocean to craft some more Spears to fight them, nearly started drowning too...
I successfully defeat/escape them and continue hugging the ocean. Soon I come across this little chap...
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Now Pigs have been changed a little, like I said before all mobs drop more mats but Pigs have also been given the ability to drop Leather too. Seeing as I am needing it for more armour... DIE LITTLE PIGGY DIE!!!
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Well 12 leather from 2 Pigs is around as much as 1 Bull gave me, so Cows still remain the best source. I also started hearing the sound of Bleating, now considering that there are no such thing as Shears at the moment...
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Ah the sun starts to rise as I am forced to the water to escape the swarm of mobs. I was crossing a hill and there was like 4 Skeles and 6 Zeds waiting for me, WTF Game WTF!!!
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Ah this day is very vantages...
Spoiler (click to show/hide)That is Bismuth, it is one of the three starting metals that a player can easily find on the surface located in the Stone Pebbles scattered around the world. The other two are Zinc and Tin...
That and we have reached the rock type of Gabbro...
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Also whats that in the distance... A Chasm???
Spoiler (click to show/hide)Thats a good thing sometimes, that can give access to an open vein of ore if lucky. Lets go see...
Oh here is something interesting. See the grass here...
Spoiler (click to show/hide)This is Mountain Terrain, nothing really grows on Mountain Terrain, no trees no crops its quite cleaver. You see Bioxx added in the fact of Soil Nutrient Values making soil types have different growth rates then others. Another thing to note is all that Spruce over there, sometimes you get a straight kind of Forest making things look interesting...
We also have.... CLAY!!!
Spoiler (click to show/hide)Clay is needed to make a Mold for Smelting, its quite clever really. Knowing where this is will be of great advantage in the future...
Giving my computer a moment to shit itself as I put the view distance up to Extreme, I thought a good shot of the Mountains in the distance might be nice, as we will be exploring over that way later on...
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Sadly it wasn't a chasm. It was just a way the rock formed...
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Oh well continue exploring...
Well now, this is a handy thing to note. When your collecting stones from the ground and find some small nuggets in large quantities over an area, that actually pertains towards their being a Vein of it not far underground. At this local I found 5 Bismuth, so marking that for later...
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Oh dear, night has fallen once again. I feel safer then before but I am in the open, at least there is no hills to hide the mobs this time. I will continue the next day later...
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\\ NOTE \\
Until I reach the Early Metal Age, I will be doing it in day by day accounts, this is just easier to get through all the different things that can come around. After that I may be skipping a couple of days just to speed up gameplay a bit...
NRDL:
PTW
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