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it the quest is no longer requiring you to goto that location then there is no reason to go back to the beta quest location you can just collect the reward. and once you click on the floating blue star there you can teleport back then when you want to.

I have had this problem before as well, it is caused by a lot of lag. if you can allocate another gb of Ram or close any other program running on your comp that you don't need. basically your lagging so much that the program isn't able to accept any changes to blocks or item and puts you effectively into observer mode while your comp tries to catch up

There is a guide to pickaxe crafting and progressing the levels of mining hardness. It explains the multiple methods available to do so. http://wiki.technicpack.net/Hardness_levels

if you literally have mined 128 peices of Copper ore, and have not found a single piece of tin then I would say that you probably have a ore spawn problem. If every thing is work as it basically should then Tin should be roughly about as rare as copper, there are other methods of getting tin besides mining. MFR laser drill setup will generate ores when supplied with RF power, (white focus should make tin more frequent) (also the only way to get ruby ore) once you get one piece of tin then it unlocks the request tin from the supplier. Thaumcraft has a metal transmutation method built into the mod (I've never used this myself) Cheat yourself in some tin. (yes it technically cheating but I've had games where certain things didn't spawn and its infuriating to have to restart a map for such a reason.

if you must have the dynamos and won't touch the big reactor they give you for reaching 120 rep, you could use commands to give yourself some.

1 you do thaumcraft research and you will get access to bloom crafting as well as the more advanced methods of cleaning taint 2 tainted creatures have very high damage, but aren't smart, if you are committed to going melee with them then you will just need better equipment and a full suit of iron won't cut it. Really melee isn't the method I would recommend to fight tainted creatures, personally I don't bother with meele untill mid- late game when I have a full suit of enchanted armor and a weapon with several modifiers. you could resort to a range weapon, or lava/fire, or even luring them into some kind of trap. there is no (RIGHT) way to kill tainted creatures.

you have iron in the smelter, its combining with the gold to make a alloy empty the smelter of Iron and then smelt the gold

this is not a treasure site, this is a mini biome where ores spawn more regularly. I suggest bringing your dopiest Pick axe, and Tcon Hammer with Redstone buffs and strip mine the area. You still have to mine for the ores, there's just more of them in this area.

you can also smelt down rotten flesh into blood, 5mb per piece so if you have 200 rotten flesh you can convert it to a bucket.

so I finally got a 2nd blood altar made, and now I want to make a farming altar specialized in farming and exporting Blood into my big altar, I've successfully found ways to pump life essence out of a blood altar and into a Barrel, but now I'm having trouble find a way to pump Life essence back into the Altar. Anyone have any advice?

you should check out the wiki, its has alot of helpful information for beginners,3 http://wiki.technicpack.net/Your_First_Day also read your quest book, read all of it

the Safari net was not actually not intended to work, its kinda cheaty, but currently a working option.

use a ranged weapon, and you could nerd pole up to the top of the tower from the ground, yea he does deal a ton of damage but he is slow.

that slot is for the knap sack item from tinkers constructs

you can get a wider variety of beans from trading with a (untainted) thaumcraft Villager. you would need a MFR spawner and a untainted villager to spawn a Thaumcraft villager.(i've done this meathod before) this is the only available route for expanding your mana bean selection that I know of

yup you can't craft a nether star, you have to fight the wither, kill it and it will drop the nether star, and hopefully a division sigil if your lucky

on the general topic of how to crank up your hammers mining speed and overall mining effectivness check out the blightfall mining wiki: http://wiki.technicpack.net/Mining_in_Blightfall take note of the use of Travelers gloves, you can slap red stone on those puppies and it add a haste effect to all your mining/digging/block breaking actions for a tinkers hammer used for mining the only modifiers which are worth much of anything in the modpack are the redstone modifier and the silky modifier, the luck and auto smelt modifiers don't work as expected all the time, you can add them if you really really want them but they are not the best modifiers for the purpose of increasing your material gains from mining.

I've never seen that happen with tools. with 1 exception you should double check to see if your tools have stone bound, that causes the damage and mining speed to increase/decrease as the tool losses durability. but even with stone bound the tool still has a max speed and a min speed that is based off the material stats and red stone modifiers.

correct you can't craft the vanilla tools, you can request iron and gold vanilla tools via the supplier, they are unlocked after you do some of the paranormalist quest line (sharing a thaumometer I think)

yes withers still should drop division sigils, drop rate should be the standard rate the only way to get wither skulls is a infusion recipe that you have to do thaumcraft research to unlock, or wither skeletons which can only be spawned by the gaia guardian (you'll have to look up botania mod for that one) I've tested cursed earth and it does work, is the area have lighting or do you have any chandeliers or magnum torches around, those prevent mod spawning in a wide area vanilla tools are purposefully disabled

I've tried a dozen or so ways of getting a wither skeleton to spawn and I'm 99% sure that the gaia guardian is the only way available,

make some of the cooking items (cutting board, frying pan, bake ware, juicer. there are probably a number of new food combinations that you can make from the food items which you have exhausted already. there is a actual reason for having a huge variety of food types in this mod pack, the unforgiving hunger gives people a reason to collect the various food types.

Hint: there are 3 skystone meteors, they are all on the southern half of the map, they are clearly visible if you open up the full screen map.

the red wood city is a fine place to make a giant tree house, its what I did. also check at the top of the tree....

its listed in the NEI list, if you type hard metal, it will include all the tools with a Hard metal mining level, same thing with Diamond, Supra Diamond, alien and extreme