My plans for an episode about village-building were thrown into disarray by the arrival of a baby elephant on the borders on my home. I couldn’t pass up this opportunity to make a mighty new friend!
Mods Encountered
Mo Creatures 5.2.3 by Dr Zhark and Bloodshot42 : Mo creatures pretty much managed to grab my full attention for this episode. I’ve run into various elephants and mammoths previously, but this was the first baby one I’ve spotted near to my base.
I’m not in a brilliant spot to make good use of ground mounts, with trees and hills everywhere. When I have secondary bases in less lumpy and verdant places, they’ll get a lot more use. I am in the process of making a tree-free path along the western edge of the river, so I can at least get up to the desert without bouncing off 3 dozen trees on the way.
For details on making the sugar lumps,renaming medallion, and animal pens check out episode 24 when I set about gathering my horses.
Primitive Mobs by DaveyX : This has finally come out for 1.5.2, and I thoroughly recommend it. As well as adding quite a number of extra foes, it adds three new sorts of Testificate (the villager types) who can spawn out in the wilderness. As they appear to count as full villagers, I am theorising that they will spontaneously make my base count as a village if they happen to come upon its wooden doors, and then begin to multiply. Time will tell if that is correct.
The elephant has small ears, so it is an Indian Elephant. Actually quite friendlier than the African version :)
something completely different: what are you doing with all the excess drones? It would be a bummer to just throw them away …
At the moment they’re all in storage. There are a number of things I’ll be able to do with poor quality drones eventually. The most likely is getting turned into Thaumcraft essence, or thrown into an Ars Magica power generator.
There’s also the more obvious option of turning them into liquid DNA, as part opf Extra Bees genetic manipulation system. But I’m not sure if that wouldn’t take the fun out of breeding. We shall see.