About chicken stats: *Growth*: Breeding speed, is *multiplied with stack size*, but only the slower parent stack is used. Example: In slot A are 3 * 1/1/1 chickens, in slot B is a single 10/10/10 chicken. Slot A's speed is 3*1=3, slot B's speed is 1*10=10. The lower of those 2 values is taken, i.e. there are effectively 3 points of progress generated each ticking. The total amount of progress points needed depends on the tier of chicken. *Gain*: Amount of items when producing. Formula: gain >= 10 ? 3 : gain >= 5 ? 2 : 1 *Strength*: "The ability for a chicken to carry its stats over to the children chickens, i.e. the chicken will most likely has stats based on the stronger parent." The formula used to derive chicken the child chicken stats is: (statA * strengthA + statB * strengthB) / (strengthA + strengthB) + mutation, where mutation is 1 or 2 randomly. Means stats go up 1 or 2 each cycle, which is why the best possible child of 1/1/1 parents is 3/3/3, the worst 2/2/2. Nothing super interesting to learn from this, just take the best chickens to breed.
I just bred all my chickens to 10/10/10. mostly by just afking for a while and occasionally switching them out for better ones... The crossbreeding is super quick with two 10/10/10 chickens. Also, yes, stacks of chickens breed quicker than single ones, but they have to be balanced between the two slots. So if you have 3 chickens, it doesn't speed anything up.
They don't have to be balanced between slots. Or at least you can have unbalanced numbers of them in the breeder. Maybe they only breed faster in pairs.
that isn't the case if you have 3 or 4 1/1/1 chickens and a single improved chicken it's a bit quicker than say 2 1/1/1 chickens in each slot... with that in mind the acceleration wand makes all of those considerations meaningless anyway especially if you have wireless charging... which you can apparently get without slogging through all of EnderIO the way I did
This is what I did. The time it takes to get them to 10/10/10 offsets the time it takes to breed 2 1/1/1 chickens together. Plus then I have the 10/10/10s later for resources or further breading.
Just a heads up that you should funnel your chicken output into upgraded compression drawers, gives you basically unlimited blocks, ingots, and nuggets of each type.
Theres also a signalum chicken. Theres only a handful of things u cant make with chickens. And the better part is. Once u get a decent amount of chickens. The later breedings become easier. And not as "far away"
yeah but in the new version they enabled the watch of flowing time.... combine that with some growth crystals and you can insta grow crops i think i farmed like 40k nether stars in about 12 mins.....
I've actually found a few things the chickens won't grow, some are rather remarkable. DIRT for example. rabbit "products" grains of infinity, [though you can get darksteel etc.] not to mention nether stars. But Mystical agriculture supplies. and that's what garden cloches are for.
Quick tip about the chicken breeder, while you are breeding for a new type of chicken and you get a chicken you already have, stack them in the breeder! The more chickens are in the breeder the faster the process of breeding gets
12:42 - Understatement of the decade! Love how it's a token visit to the chickens, complain about the speed, show how it could be faster if you haven't been neglecting them, then right back to the plants.
Dire, why don't you use quantum tank (stupidly easy to craft) in between fractioning still setup and dynamos as a backlog storage? And there is the item from Chickens or Hatchery mod, called nest. It's used to 100% hatch eggs, that you throw ton of on the ground.
why would you jump from the philosophers stone straight to the transmutation tablet? you can probably use the energy condensers (which you need anyway) to help you produce all the resources.
In classic Equivalent Exchange, that was the standard line of progression: philosphers->transmutation table->condensers->collectors(diamonds->dark matter->red matter). It looks like either this modpack or the Project E creators have changed this. I was shook as well when playing this pack.
Dont waste the time with cracking egg,you can use mod hatchery ,and is a item you can put the egg ,something like a nest of birds you can put the egg them and use your wands to accelerate the time .This item is making with hay bale (3 to be exactly if i remember good). I want you to know,if you want to make a quantum quarry ,the biome maker dont working when you want to use on quantum quarry,is prestalized to forest
I made them in groups of 81 so that I basically got 1 block of neutronium per group and i stacked them 9 high so 729 all up. All in the same chunk. Phantom faces and translocators transferred all the neutronium into compacting draws with 7 emerald upgrades (way to much but hey I wasn't going to void an unused portion :P) 8 neutron collectors per phantom face. Makes an interesting setup.
I had 3072 neutron collectors in project ozone 2. It still took about 6-7 real time hours to get enough neutronium ingots for the armor and a couple of tools.
Oh the way to much was about the emerald upgrades 3072 stacks spots available in a drawer. Heh I don't have enough mats yet to make 3000 plus collectors yet :P still in the process of making the armor. Especially given that infinity catalyst is now 9bill+ emc each in version .25 stoneblock. Was just over 7 mill emc in the earlier versions.
There's a mod called Simply Acceleration. It does exactly what it says on the tin; it adds a block where you link it to up to 6 blocks and feed it RF power, and it will accelerate the blocks like the wand. Tick speed multiplier is configurable from 1x to 40x.
Hey dire, just so you know, Awakened Draconium chickens are going to be a thing you want asap to start making nuggets. They're not "terrible" but they're still not the greatest. I would suggest making it a side project for a few episodes and it'll also give you a few other things you might want chickens for along the way. Also fyi you can acceleration wand Mystical agriculture crops.
On chickens, yes, stacking them does make the breeding faster. I worked all the way up to awakened draconium. with 16 of each kind of chicken, breeding takes seconds not minutes. Once you get to 10/10/10 chickens you get resources way faster than you do with seeds, even with seeds in a clouch.
As someone who has beat this pack already, let me give you a few tips. Getting all of the base chickens to 10/10/10 will save you HOURS in the long run. They breed pretty much instantly with the acceleration wand. Draconic chickens and awakened draconium chickens will save your life. Auto crafters! Compact everything you can to save on storage space, and start importing everything into your system. Having all of your resources in the same spot helps A LOT. Even if it's just external storage being able to access them whenever will save you time from walking back and fourth. We beat the entire pack with 2 magma generators up until the end, cobblestone generators into 4 crucibles and into a drum so you have lava backup is super helpful, also get your GP up! Start putting those speed upgrades to use in your generators. Last one, start on massive energy storage NOW. Trust me, these will help!
Chickens won't solve all your resource issues alone. I had to use both, Mystical Agg is good for grains of infinity, and dragon eggs, and one other material you need for a singularity (Avaritia) for end game. Extreme resource collection is recomended for Emeralds, and I cannot understate that! (The .25 update made some mats expensive!)
Yep, after this last update, I went from 32 roosts with 16 emerald chickens each feeding my emc chest, to adding the rftools world with blocks of emeralds and a builder. I still only get 2 of those infinity ingots per hour (Staff of power and trips to the Emerald world helps too.)
If you have any way to macro or rapid click, you can get the acceleration wand to work even faster (warning, it uses energy up VERY fast!) Also EnderIO’s alloy smelter can make Lumium and Signalum without needing to make buckets of Glowstone or Redstone first. Lastly you can actually use the acceleration wand on the nest from hatchery and hatch eggs 100% without throwing them!
hey Dire, pro(read amateur) tip, get some (read, a LOT) of emerald chickens, and feed the outputs into condensers, emeralds are the best of your chicken products for EMC, and you can easily get a couple stacks of 10/10/10 chickens feeding into condensers to make your alchemical coal/aeternalis fuel, and eventually dark/red matter.
The breeder can also hold up to 16 chicken each side. That makes it go a lot faster for the 1/1/1 chickens. The fastest way is to have at least 5 1/1/1s on each side. This makes it a lot faster
Excited to see that Avaritia is the endgame- I've always thought it was a great mod to end packs with. One quick suggestion- you probably already know, but the Energy Condenser can collect EMC and automatically convert it into any item you want, so you don't have to wait until getting the Transmutation Table to start doing things with EMC.
Stacking the chickens in the breeder makes a huge difference when it comes to cross breeding. You won't get anything better than a 1/1/1, but using bigger stacks of chickens in the input slots makes the breeding much faster.
You can get the RFTools shards from the nether as well. Down towards the bottom of the world. Also, why not make 1 cloche to grow wheat in so you can make more Roost breeding boxes & get seeds that you'll need for not only chickens, but Botania, too.
Sooo, tip of the day; get 10/10/10 chickens and bread them together, all in all its faster and you get a ton of resources from it. I went from having no resources to craft with, to having everything. When your sick of doing chickens, you let them be and just supplement a new chicken now and again when you need it:)
I would suggest going through the effort of calculating and assigning an EMC value to the neutron collector. If you want to use them to get neutronium rather than assigning an EMC value to directly, then you're going to need a ton of them... Like stacks upon stacks of them... so crafting them becomes a pain even if you have infinite of each of the resources required because no shifts clicking into the ultimate crafting table.
It's really easy to do tbh, just use a line of roosts with conduits feeding its output into the next roost along (priority 0) and itself (priority 1). You only need 5-6 generations to take your 1/1/1s up to 10/10/10s.
every time i 10/10/10 a chicken, i make 2 stacks of 16. one goes in a roost to make resources, and the other goes into a chest. then when i want to breed for new chickens, i use the ones from the chest. makes getting the new ones waaaaay quicker. i also toss all the extra chickens from breeding/10ing into a furnace for food stuffs.
To be fair, chicken breeding is supposed to go on in the background. The acceleration wand super speeds it up, but it also forces you to stand there. So maybe chickens would be less painful if it was an afk thing instead. Edit: Or better yet some integrated dynamics automation :)
the advantage of chickens over mystical agriculture is that mystical agriculture requires you to have a few of the resource to make seeds of it. chickens just require you to have the prerequisite chickens and breed them. so you can get to resources you don't have or can't get through chickens. Although i'm sure you have enough tin to make tin seeds. Without Roost mystical agriculture would probably be faster than chickens because you could do like cloches and maybe multiple phytogenic things and whatnot. but with roost i think it makes chickens better
it does increase breeding speed when you stack 1/1/1 chickens. So Having 6 1/1/1 clay and 6 1/1/1 bone white, does increase the Chicken breeding rate so may aswell stack them
use growth accelerators and put them under the mystical agriculture crops. It makes the crops a lot faster (and the more you put under the faster they grow), though its a tad expensive as each accelerator only boosts one crop, and you generally use 3 under each crop.
More chicken breeders help. You will want emerald chickens for the singularities and awakened draconium so you don't have to fight the ender dragon a ton. I had over 429 Neutron collectors going to get the Infinity armor and Sword of the cosmos.
The rule of thumb with neutron collectors is to get 81 of them if you have the resources. That means that every iteration will get you 1 ingot (9 piles per nugget and 9 nuggets per ingot).
if you want my advice i focus mostly on chickens and only MA for the things that chickens dont have also you need to go ahead now and make about three cobble gens and compacting draws and chain them it takes a long time to get the cobble for the deep dark
I think it may be similar to the argacultercraft mod ( the mod where you have to use crop sticks to grow plants) it is probably Growth is the first one. Gain is the second and strength is the bottom one.
May I suggest you get a nature seed and use nature essence to make seeds / wheat? Some of those elemental seeds are handy for producing raw resources, like sand, clay, etc. Also, here's a challenge I'd love to see you tackle: Try to automate chicken breeding using computercraft! I personally tried, but I'm more familiar with opencomputers, and I can't find a way to do it just using computercraft, without any peripheral addons.
The alchemical bags can be put into themselves because all black are connected, all whites are connected etc.. (so if you accidentally do it, just make another one). That said, it's still weird that you can, cause there's no benefit of doing it. (White in black makes sense, black in black does not, even if you don't lose the items)
so two things to help with chicken breeding but your probably already largely done with it. Ender io conduits allow self feeding so it will autostack the chickens for you. you can set up a line of breeders with flat transfer nodes, put in a pair at the start and get 10,/10/10s after about 8 breeders. set it and forget it. :)
Project e energy condenser and emerald chicken, lots and lots of emerald chicken, emc for days. I have 1200 of them. I made one infinity catalyst and I now have 14k of them
I didn't find that out until I had most of my "chicken to singularity" setup done(1 singularity of each type per half an hour I was at.. XD).. I facepalm so hard.. but then I had diamonds for days, and made a few thousands infinity catalyst straight on the spot. (That was with the cost being at 7m)
if you used a flat item transfer node and placed a drawer in front of the roost you could save space and then connect a drawer controller to attach to your RS system that would help to automate some stuff
I just finished watching Etho struggle through Extreme Crafting in Ozone 2 and yes the Neutron Collectors are SUPER slow and he didn't find a good way to automate it so he made a cube of 64 of them. Waited until they got 64 each and Vein Mined the whole chunk so that he could quickly shove it into his AE system.
Just make two energy condensers... And emerald chickens....in the next update u it is enabled the time watch from projectE... After farming some emc and converting them into the energy condensers u will have infinite emc in no time...
You'll need at least 2 stacks of neutron collectors to make a single ingot per machine operation. Also, infinity catalysts, which are a staple item in avaritia recipes, will need singularities of materials, which are made from about 20000 BLOCKS of that material, so make some SERIOUS resouse gen
one thing that could help dire out, when he makes it there. Loot Bags! lots of random/useless items with high EMC, thst can be filtered into the tablet.
I calculated the neutron collector does about 1 per 13-14 minutes or ~4/hour. I ended up with over 300 of them lining my base, but setting them up in a void world (the end?) to reduce lag would have been smarter. Good thing Quantum Storage is fairly cheap in this pack.
There is Dimensional Shard Ore in the Nether. It isn't that rare if you cruise around at lavalevel. Also you can hatch the craftable chickens with the nest thing. You don't just have to throw them against the ground and pray to RNGesus.
If you set up a crazy cursed earth mob spawner to farm loot bags you can get a crazy amount of tier 3 growth crystals. With around 250 even tier 6 plants will grow to full every cycle of the harvester.
Cant see myself using that photogenic thing. I like making large automated fields of plants personally. Think it gets you more passively once set up as well
I suggest take those three extra coal chicks and put them in a roost and a hopper in the wall into the power supply. Never have to manually mess with them again.
One thing abt acc wand is that it has no limit on how fast you can right click, so you can make a macro that presses right click really quick and it will be a lot faster
Idea for your fuel byproduct overflow. Make a drawer system with the two drawers having void upgrades so that they delete any items that could make your system stop due to your machines secondary slot overflowing.
Hey Dire, check out the Feral Flare Lantern from Torchmaster. It works similar to the arcane lamp from thaumcraft and will light up those large areas for you without the floor torches.
Chickens are only super slow if you insist on actively trying to work with them at 1/1/1 levels. 10/10/10 your chickens first, then go for crossbreeds. 10/10/10 chickens will always produce either a 10/10/10 chicken of a parent type OR a 1/1/1 chicken of a child type, so if you were having a bit of unluck and got a handful or two of the parents you can just stack those into the breeder to make the next breed go that much faster. Pro tip: let the parents go a few rounds to produce a handful of results. It generally doesn't take more than a handful of breeds to produce two chickens that both have a significant gain in all 3 aspects. Camping on chickens with an acceleration wand (or not) and then switching out one of the parents with the result generally slows down the progression. This is only a tiny bit less efficient in terms of seeds, but you spend far less time managing chickens by way of taking fewer steps along the improvement chain.
Spen t the last three days doing chickens. found out a few things. Firstly, you can pipe "dud" chickens into a user, placed infront of a mob masher. and get FREE ESSENCE. Nextly, chickens stack to 16. so if you're breeding, always stack them up. they go through iterations faster. Lastly, have about 12 breeders. you can let them idle. do other things, and manage them all at once. getting seeds into them is wierd, sometimes hoppers will work from...two sides not the other two? haven't sorted out the rules, like, empty pens will accept seeds, but active breeding pens disallow seed input. *shrug* "also, if you see a percentile in the negatives, it's a higher tier chikin and...it's just the mod's way of processing a REAAAALLY long breed time. also the breeder collectors appear to reach up to 4 blocks away, [or a nine by nine] but can easily get overrun by productive birds like netherquartz.
I am honestly surprised that you have not set up auto crafting for the base seeds and essences to make specific seeds. Kinda the same with the chickens. If you max them as you get them. The high tier chickens will be a piece of cake to get
getting that 2nd chicken is easier by just using the eggs it lays. you can collect chicks for roostery, so you don't even need to wait for them to grow up, just hatch.
About chicken stats:
*Growth*: Breeding speed, is *multiplied with stack size*, but only the slower parent stack is used. Example: In slot A are 3 * 1/1/1 chickens, in slot B is a single 10/10/10 chicken. Slot A's speed is 3*1=3, slot B's speed is 1*10=10. The lower of those 2 values is taken, i.e. there are effectively 3 points of progress generated each ticking. The total amount of progress points needed depends on the tier of chicken.
*Gain*: Amount of items when producing. Formula: gain >= 10 ? 3 : gain >= 5 ? 2 : 1
*Strength*: "The ability for a chicken to carry its stats over to the children chickens, i.e. the chicken will most likely has stats based on the stronger parent."
The formula used to derive chicken the child chicken stats is: (statA * strengthA + statB * strengthB) / (strengthA + strengthB) + mutation, where mutation is 1 or 2 randomly. Means stats go up 1 or 2 each cycle, which is why the best possible child of 1/1/1 parents is 3/3/3, the worst 2/2/2. Nothing super interesting to learn from this, just take the best chickens to breed.
I just bred all my chickens to 10/10/10. mostly by just afking for a while and occasionally switching them out for better ones... The crossbreeding is super quick with two 10/10/10 chickens.
Also, yes, stacks of chickens breed quicker than single ones, but they have to be balanced between the two slots. So if you have 3 chickens, it doesn't speed anything up.
They don't have to be balanced between slots. Or at least you can have unbalanced numbers of them in the breeder. Maybe they only breed faster in pairs.
I have found out that a balance pair breeds faster.
that isn't the case if you have 3 or 4 1/1/1 chickens and a single improved chicken it's a bit quicker than say 2 1/1/1 chickens in each slot... with that in mind the acceleration wand makes all of those considerations meaningless anyway especially if you have wireless charging... which you can apparently get without slogging through all of EnderIO the way I did
This is what I did. The time it takes to get them to 10/10/10 offsets the time it takes to breed 2 1/1/1 chickens together. Plus then I have the 10/10/10s later for resources or further breading.
Balance is faster, but it's not pointless to go 3-1, etc.
Just a heads up that you should funnel your chicken output into upgraded compression drawers, gives you basically unlimited blocks, ingots, and nuggets of each type.
Theres also a signalum chicken. Theres only a handful of things u cant make with chickens. And the better part is. Once u get a decent amount of chickens. The later breedings become easier. And not as "far away"
yeah but in the new version they enabled the watch of flowing time.... combine that with some growth crystals and you can insta grow crops i think i farmed like 40k nether stars in about 12 mins.....
I've actually found a few things the chickens won't grow, some are rather remarkable. DIRT for example. rabbit "products" grains of infinity, [though you can get darksteel etc.] not to mention nether stars. But Mystical agriculture supplies. and that's what garden cloches are for.
@@TizonaAmanthia that's why I said a handful of things chickens cant
@@goldswiz yeah but dire doesnt typically go that over powered with things. Thats more Soaryn's territory lol
Quick tip about the chicken breeder, while you are breeding for a new type of chicken and you get a chicken you already have, stack them in the breeder! The more chickens are in the breeder the faster the process of breeding gets
Use hatchery to get the colour chickens 100% of the time
You should 10/10/10 all your chickens before breeding. It's much much faster
yup, two different 10x3 chickens do breed faster but only one doesn't :)
@@mika2666 but the new chicken isnt borning with 10x3 right?
12:42 - Understatement of the decade! Love how it's a token visit to the chickens, complain about the speed, show how it could be faster if you haven't been neglecting them, then right back to the plants.
The use drawer void upgrade to fix the waste from the still
Dire, why don't you use quantum tank (stupidly easy to craft) in between fractioning still setup and dynamos as a backlog storage? And there is the item from Chickens or Hatchery mod, called nest. It's used to 100% hatch eggs, that you throw ton of on the ground.
You only need 2 energy condensers, you can use one and have the other as the target and just load it up with emc (diamond chickens or something).
Nether Stars would be better, and he has withers automated.
@@felipevasconcelos6736 Emerald chickens are faster than Wither killing, and don't require wither skulls or any kind of passive maintenance cost.
why would you jump from the philosophers stone straight to the transmutation tablet? you can probably use the energy condensers (which you need anyway) to help you produce all the resources.
In classic Equivalent Exchange, that was the standard line of progression: philosphers->transmutation table->condensers->collectors(diamonds->dark matter->red matter). It looks like either this modpack or the Project E creators have changed this. I was shook as well when playing this pack.
The transmutation table is a lot more convenient for what he wants to do with it from what I understand. But yeah, you're right.
Condensers being easier than tables, is because Project Ozone did it, and packs that are basically the same thing, copy that as well.
Dont waste the time with cracking egg,you can use mod hatchery ,and is a item you can put the egg ,something like a nest of birds you can put the egg them and use your wands to accelerate the time .This item is making with hay bale (3 to be exactly if i remember good).
I want you to know,if you want to make a quantum quarry ,the biome maker dont working when you want to use on quantum quarry,is prestalized to forest
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what what?:)))
I believe he's suggesting you might have left a few words, or punctuation, out. Or maybe even just characters.
Uhm, so Neutron Collectors, if you are making them, make 128 at least, 256 is optimal and 512 if you really don't want to wait for the piles to come.
Adriano Šefanovsko that’s what I’m doing wrong! 😝
Made one stuck a item conduit into a drawer and playing the waiting game
I made them in groups of 81 so that I basically got 1 block of neutronium per group and i stacked them 9 high so 729 all up. All in the same chunk. Phantom faces and translocators transferred all the neutronium into compacting draws with 7 emerald upgrades (way to much but hey I wasn't going to void an unused portion :P) 8 neutron collectors per phantom face. Makes an interesting setup.
I had 3072 neutron collectors in project ozone 2. It still took about 6-7 real time hours to get enough neutronium ingots for the armor and a couple of tools.
Oh the way to much was about the emerald upgrades 3072 stacks spots available in a drawer. Heh I don't have enough mats yet to make 3000 plus collectors yet :P still in the process of making the armor. Especially given that infinity catalyst is now 9bill+ emc each in version .25 stoneblock. Was just over 7 mill emc in the earlier versions.
There's a mod called Simply Acceleration. It does exactly what it says on the tin; it adds a block where you link it to up to 6 blocks and feed it RF power, and it will accelerate the blocks like the wand. Tick speed multiplier is configurable from 1x to 40x.
Hey dire, just so you know, Awakened Draconium chickens are going to be a thing you want asap to start making nuggets. They're not "terrible" but they're still not the greatest. I would suggest making it a side project for a few episodes and it'll also give you a few other things you might want chickens for along the way. Also fyi you can acceleration wand Mystical agriculture crops.
You can also get slime saplings from loot bags. I have them growing in bonsai pots.
On chickens, yes, stacking them does make the breeding faster. I worked all the way up to awakened draconium. with 16 of each kind of chicken, breeding takes seconds not minutes. Once you get
to 10/10/10 chickens you get resources way faster than you do with seeds, even with seeds in a clouch.
As someone who has beat this pack already, let me give you a few tips. Getting all of the base chickens to 10/10/10 will save you HOURS in the long run. They breed pretty much instantly with the acceleration wand. Draconic chickens and awakened draconium chickens will save your life. Auto crafters! Compact everything you can to save on storage space, and start importing everything into your system. Having all of your resources in the same spot helps A LOT. Even if it's just external storage being able to access them whenever will save you time from walking back and fourth. We beat the entire pack with 2 magma generators up until the end, cobblestone generators into 4 crucibles and into a drum so you have lava backup is super helpful, also get your GP up! Start putting those speed upgrades to use in your generators. Last one, start on massive energy storage NOW. Trust me, these will help!
Oh also, look into the flux system. Wireless rf to everywhere including yourself. No need for that power bank!
Also I must have missed an episode, ignore what's already been brought up. However I suppose its okay for someone else who may be starting the pack
I’m loving this series because dire has some goals but he’s not goal driven like he was in sevtech or his skyblock series
Chickens won't solve all your resource issues alone. I had to use both, Mystical Agg is good for grains of infinity, and dragon eggs, and one other material you need for a singularity (Avaritia) for end game. Extreme resource collection is recomended for Emeralds, and I cannot understate that! (The .25 update made some mats expensive!)
rf tools emerald mining dimension is best way for emeralds. takes a while to get there though xD
Yep, after this last update, I went from 32 roosts with 16 emerald chickens each feeding my emc chest, to adding the rftools world with blocks of emeralds and a builder. I still only get 2 of those infinity ingots per hour (Staff of power and trips to the Emerald world helps too.)
Yeah, emc for the infinity cat was 7mill in .22r now is 7 bill emc in .25
The only thing I REALLY needed Mystical Agriculture for is the Fluxed Electrum, once I made a stack of every chicken with max stats.
Thank You! I'm at work and I couldn't remember what that was called.
If you have any way to macro or rapid click, you can get the acceleration wand to work even faster (warning, it uses energy up VERY fast!) Also EnderIO’s alloy smelter can make Lumium and Signalum without needing to make buckets of Glowstone or Redstone first. Lastly you can actually use the acceleration wand on the nest from hatchery and hatch eggs 100% without throwing them!
hey Dire, pro(read amateur) tip, get some (read, a LOT) of emerald chickens, and feed the outputs into condensers, emeralds are the best of your chicken products for EMC, and you can easily get a couple stacks of 10/10/10 chickens feeding into condensers to make your alchemical coal/aeternalis fuel, and eventually dark/red matter.
Also take another look at the growth crystals, You get a ton from loot bags. They stack like crazy
The breeder can also hold up to 16 chicken each side. That makes it go a lot faster for the 1/1/1 chickens. The fastest way is to have at least 5 1/1/1s on each side. This makes it a lot faster
I'd make sure you store the fuel your making in a quantum tank
DW, you can stack chickens in the breeder. It speeds up chicken production.
Excited to see that Avaritia is the endgame- I've always thought it was a great mod to end packs with. One quick suggestion- you probably already know, but the Energy Condenser can collect EMC and automatically convert it into any item you want, so you don't have to wait until getting the Transmutation Table to start doing things with EMC.
Stacking the chickens in the breeder makes a huge difference when it comes to cross breeding. You won't get anything better than a 1/1/1, but using bigger stacks of chickens in the input slots makes the breeding much faster.
"Oh, it's all fine"
Dire, those fusion crafting recipes were *Draconic* Tier. And millions of RF each.
You can get the RFTools shards from the nether as well. Down towards the bottom of the world. Also, why not make 1 cloche to grow wheat in so you can make more Roost breeding boxes & get seeds that you'll need for not only chickens, but Botania, too.
Sooo, tip of the day; get 10/10/10 chickens and bread them together, all in all its faster and you get a ton of resources from it.
I went from having no resources to craft with, to having everything.
When your sick of doing chickens, you let them be and just supplement a new chicken now and again when you need it:)
in order to save on a bit of resorces, you can use the egg nest from Hatchery to hatch the eggs instead of throwing them on the ground
I would suggest going through the effort of calculating and assigning an EMC value to the neutron collector. If you want to use them to get neutronium rather than assigning an EMC value to directly, then you're going to need a ton of them... Like stacks upon stacks of them... so crafting them becomes a pain even if you have infinite of each of the resources required because no shifts clicking into the ultimate crafting table.
10/10/10 your quartz chickens while you're at it. its obvious you're going to need them
Try to automate the chickens
It's really easy to do tbh, just use a line of roosts with conduits feeding its output into the next roost along (priority 0) and itself (priority 1). You only need 5-6 generations to take your 1/1/1s up to 10/10/10s.
every time i 10/10/10 a chicken, i make 2 stacks of 16. one goes in a roost to make resources, and the other goes into a chest. then when i want to breed for new chickens, i use the ones from the chest. makes getting the new ones waaaaay quicker.
i also toss all the extra chickens from breeding/10ing into a furnace for food stuffs.
With all the chicken breeding Direwolf needs to add the KFC mod to the pack... (finger lickin good!)
Pam's has a bucket of chicken actually, it's kind of humorous how much food he's wasting by throwing them away
To be fair, chicken breeding is supposed to go on in the background. The acceleration wand super speeds it up, but it also forces you to stand there. So maybe chickens would be less painful if it was an afk thing instead.
Edit: Or better yet some integrated dynamics automation :)
the advantage of chickens over mystical agriculture is that mystical agriculture requires you to have a few of the resource to make seeds of it. chickens just require you to have the prerequisite chickens and breed them. so you can get to resources you don't have or can't get through chickens. Although i'm sure you have enough tin to make tin seeds.
Without Roost mystical agriculture would probably be faster than chickens because you could do like cloches and maybe multiple phytogenic things and whatnot. but with roost i think it makes chickens better
it does increase breeding speed when you stack 1/1/1 chickens. So Having 6 1/1/1 clay and 6 1/1/1 bone white, does increase the Chicken breeding rate so may aswell stack them
"I have plans, and I have ideas." -- Direwolf, 2018
Loots bags give you Spectre Coils which will give you free energy! You can put them on a power cell and have lots of free power. Very very Easy!
use growth accelerators and put them under the mystical agriculture crops. It makes the crops a lot faster (and the more you put under the faster they grow), though its a tad expensive as each accelerator only boosts one crop, and you generally use 3 under each crop.
More chicken breeders help. You will want emerald chickens for the singularities and awakened draconium so you don't have to fight the ender dragon a ton. I had over 429 Neutron collectors going to get the Infinity armor and Sword of the cosmos.
The rule of thumb with neutron collectors is to get 81 of them if you have the resources. That means that every iteration will get you 1 ingot (9 piles per nugget and 9 nuggets per ingot).
I feel like thermal foundation steam turbines and boilers (augments) might have been easier to set up with coal chickens
if you want my advice i focus mostly on chickens and only MA for the things that chickens dont have also you need to go ahead now and make about three cobble gens and compacting draws and chain them it takes a long time to get the cobble for the deep dark
I think it may be similar to the argacultercraft mod ( the mod where you have to use crop sticks to grow plants) it is probably Growth is the first one. Gain is the second and strength is the bottom one.
May I suggest you get a nature seed and use nature essence to make seeds / wheat? Some of those elemental seeds are handy for producing raw resources, like sand, clay, etc.
Also, here's a challenge I'd love to see you tackle: Try to automate chicken breeding using computercraft!
I personally tried, but I'm more familiar with opencomputers, and I can't find a way to do it just using computercraft, without any peripheral addons.
The alchemical bags can be put into themselves because all black are connected, all whites are connected etc.. (so if you accidentally do it, just make another one).
That said, it's still weird that you can, cause there's no benefit of doing it. (White in black makes sense, black in black does not, even if you don't lose the items)
so two things to help with chicken breeding but your probably already largely done with it. Ender io conduits allow self feeding so it will autostack the chickens for you. you can set up a line of breeders with flat transfer nodes, put in a pair at the start and get 10,/10/10s after about 8 breeders. set it and forget it. :)
Project e energy condenser and emerald chicken, lots and lots of emerald chicken, emc for days.
I have 1200 of them. I made one infinity catalyst and I now have 14k of them
The first infinity catalyst was a pain :)
Thus the term "one is all and all is one."
@@SanMan7 yeah you have to use project e and avaritia together
I didn't find that out until I had most of my "chicken to singularity" setup done(1 singularity of each type per half an hour I was at.. XD).. I facepalm so hard.. but then I had diamonds for days, and made a few thousands infinity catalyst straight on the spot. (That was with the cost being at 7m)
if you used a flat item transfer node and placed a drawer in front of the roost you could save space and then connect a drawer controller to attach to your RS system that would help to automate some stuff
I just finished watching Etho struggle through Extreme Crafting in Ozone 2 and yes the Neutron Collectors are SUPER slow and he didn't find a good way to automate it so he made a cube of 64 of them. Waited until they got 64 each and Vein Mined the whole chunk so that he could quickly shove it into his AE system.
I'm so happy that there's a Thermal drill because the Actually Additions one that Dire used all the time suuuuuxxx
Just make two energy condensers... And emerald chickens....in the next update u it is enabled the time watch from projectE... After farming some emc and converting them into the energy condensers u will have infinite emc in no time...
Dire there are nests you can put the eggs in for a chicken from every egg just takes a little time to hatch
You'll need at least 2 stacks of neutron collectors to make a single ingot per machine operation. Also, infinity catalysts, which are a staple item in avaritia recipes, will need singularities of materials, which are made from about 20000 BLOCKS of that material, so make some SERIOUS resouse gen
one thing that could help dire out, when he makes it there. Loot Bags! lots of random/useless items with high EMC, thst can be filtered into the tablet.
Quick tip, since I'm using chickens in stoneblock as well. You're honestly better off getting 10/10/10 chickens to breed because it's much faster
I calculated the neutron collector does about 1 per 13-14 minutes or ~4/hour. I ended up with over 300 of them lining my base, but setting them up in a void world (the end?) to reduce lag would have been smarter. Good thing Quantum Storage is fairly cheap in this pack.
There is Dimensional Shard Ore in the Nether. It isn't that rare if you cruise around at lavalevel.
Also you can hatch the craftable chickens with the nest thing. You don't just have to throw them against the ground and pray to RNGesus.
If you set up a crazy cursed earth mob spawner to farm loot bags you can get a crazy amount of tier 3 growth crystals. With around 250 even tier 6 plants will grow to full every cycle of the harvester.
Easiest way to get dye's is the automic reconstructor and a lense :)
33:12 he's still calling it a Phytogenic Isolator please kill me
(I'm kidding Dire you're great
Check out the supremium armor, strong and super fast creative level flight. Can even be augmented a bit.
Cant see myself using that photogenic thing. I like making large automated fields of plants personally. Think it gets you more passively once set up as well
I feel like setting up autocrafting for the Mystical Agriculture -iums and crafting seeds would be a nice QoL improvement here.
I suggest take those three extra coal chicks and put them in a roost and a hopper in the wall into the power supply. Never have to manually mess with them again.
One thing abt acc wand is that it has no limit on how fast you can right click, so you can make a macro that presses right click really quick and it will be a lot faster
Chickens stack in the breeder as well dire. You can have 2 stacks of 16 in the breeder to replicate and breed fast
BTW - if you stack chickens in the breeder it works a LOT faster.
You know that the chickens stack in the Chicken Breeder? More chickens = faster speed. And then acceleration wand. Max stack is 16.
It finally sunk in! Chickens are how you reach your endgame in this pack!
Dire, wasting time with thermals method of making signalum and other alloys when both tinkers and enderio have easier ways in this pack!
You definitely want a good amount of the neutron collectors, as they are incredibly slow and you need a lot of neutrons for avirita recipes.
I also saw that they added building gadgets to this modpack
Idea for your fuel byproduct overflow. Make a drawer system with the two drawers having void upgrades so that they delete any items that could make your system stop due to your machines secondary slot overflowing.
If you get 2 energy condensers, you can duplicate 2 of them to save you some time. You just need a lot of EMC.
You can speed up breeding chickens by putting up to 16 each for the two slots in the breeder dire.
Hey Dire, check out the Feral Flare Lantern from Torchmaster. It works similar to the arcane lamp from thaumcraft and will light up those large areas for you without the floor torches.
Chickens are only super slow if you insist on actively trying to work with them at 1/1/1 levels. 10/10/10 your chickens first, then go for crossbreeds. 10/10/10 chickens will always produce either a 10/10/10 chicken of a parent type OR a 1/1/1 chicken of a child type, so if you were having a bit of unluck and got a handful or two of the parents you can just stack those into the breeder to make the next breed go that much faster.
Pro tip: let the parents go a few rounds to produce a handful of results. It generally doesn't take more than a handful of breeds to produce two chickens that both have a significant gain in all 3 aspects. Camping on chickens with an acceleration wand (or not) and then switching out one of the parents with the result generally slows down the progression. This is only a tiny bit less efficient in terms of seeds, but you spend far less time managing chickens by way of taking fewer steps along the improvement chain.
you can stack the chickens in the breeder to make it go faster they will stack up to 16 it makes it go so much quicker
Dire first time on your channel, just subscribed I'm looking forward to the completion of project E, simply a whole quest.
you need to start compressing cobble by 6 so 2 compacting drawers.
Iirc, you can use the energy condenser for each level of compressed cobble, so it's not as bad to do that way... Octuple is only 43m EMC lol
You're going to need 100s of neutron collectors and also for the resource production you'll need to take the help of the energy condensers
You only need two Energy condenser because you can then make them with the condenser they have emc.
Can use any seed to breed chickens, wheat seeds beatroot seeds, etc. (Vanilla seeds)
I liked the part where be goes to the nether for chickens, the only gets one of the two varieties that can only be found there.
I know right
I always breed my chickens up to 10/10/10 when i get them and keep 16 handy. pays off in the long run when you need to breed new ones.
The more chickens you have in a stack the faster it goes
Dire! you must automate chicken breeding! You just must to do it! This is a challenge right for your game knowledge.
Spen t the last three days doing chickens. found out a few things. Firstly, you can pipe "dud" chickens into a user, placed infront of a mob masher. and get FREE ESSENCE. Nextly, chickens stack to 16. so if you're breeding, always stack them up. they go through iterations faster. Lastly, have about 12 breeders. you can let them idle. do other things, and manage them all at once. getting seeds into them is wierd, sometimes hoppers will work from...two sides not the other two? haven't sorted out the rules, like, empty pens will accept seeds, but active breeding pens disallow seed input. *shrug* "also, if you see a percentile in the negatives, it's a higher tier chikin and...it's just the mod's way of processing a REAAAALLY long breed time. also the breeder collectors appear to reach up to 4 blocks away, [or a nine by nine] but can easily get overrun by productive birds like netherquartz.
Well Dire, I will look forward to you playing Avaritia, have not seen that mod since the Yogscast were playing Project Ozone 2.
I am honestly surprised that you have not set up auto crafting for the base seeds and essences to make specific seeds. Kinda the same with the chickens. If you max them as you get them. The high tier chickens will be a piece of cake to get
Also the quantum battery is nice and cheap for huge energy storage
getting that 2nd chicken is easier by just using the eggs it lays. you can collect chicks for roostery, so you don't even need to wait for them to grow up, just hatch.
you can stack chickens in the breeder, dire. it speeds up the process significantly.
Get 10/10/10 Sand, wood and flint chickens. It'll make getting other types of chickens that depend on those faster.