At the risk of overstating it, and thereby venturing firmly into the realm of cheese and sentimentality, in many ways, Minecraft and its community helps me celebrate the beauty of humanity when other parts of my life make perfectly happy never to see another living soul ever again. I love seeing other people do amazing things, funny things, creative things. I just love the game of Minecraft, and I love the vibrant modding community that it fosters. There are lots of people with far better ideas than I have, and most of them are making videos, which is generally a better medium for communicating How-To ideas, anyway. I didn’t start this blog exclusively to write How-To posts.

I am, in fact, breaking a string of How-To posts. Nevertheless, I am not writing about Thermal Expansion or Factorization or Project Red. Itemducts don’t lend themselves to such autocrafting systems naturally, but with a little imagination and some help from Project Red’s Redstone logic chips it is possible and satisfying to build. Not only are more Factorization posts coming up, but I’m also working on some ideas for using Thermal Expansion’s Itemducts in an on-demand autocrafting system (akin to what you get with Logistics Pipes, Applied Energistics, and Project Red’s pipes). But this change combined with the fact that I celebrated my birthday this weekend got me a little behind on my blogging commitments. Honestly, I don’t think it’s going to be as much of a problem as the wheat farm, but I need to check it out and make some updates before posting the design. The 0.8.30+ update to Factorization not only made a mess of my wheat farm, but it creates a slight problem with my Servo tree farm, as well. We’re taking a break from How-To posts to let you admire me standing in my survival workshop, wearing Traincraft Engineer’s overalls and hat.

Traincraft mod review