Beating Minecraft's Hardest Modpack With Nothing // Episode 26 - Mechanical Menagerie Made Manifest

In the twenty-sixth episode of the series, I resume beating my head against the brick wall that is technological development, and in doing so become the proud new owner of more useless machines than you can shake a wrench at, small planetary bodies composed of charcoal sourced entirely from the remains of my enemies, and crippling case of hemorrhoids brought about by the sheer existence of the appropriately named Assembling line.

GT - New Horizons is an intricately designed and custom-coded kitchen-sink style modpack built on the 1.7.10 version of Minecraft. It integrates hundreds of Minecraft's flagship mods into a Gregtech framework - completely overhauling the mods' traditional progression in the process, and radically rebalances any of the technologies those mods may offer.

Because doing things the normal way is 'too easy', I am following a ruleset based off of the (in)famous Garden Of Grind ruleset that places me in a completely empty superflat dimension. Every single resource I need, including blocks to stand on, has to be created out of nothing by finding clever workarounds and weird mechanics. Unlike in Garden Of Grind, I am not restricted to only my starting dimension - it's just that every other dimension starts out just as empty as my first one.

This pack is available on Technic launcher. You can also get the pack directly from the development GitHub, and run it on Prism or MultiMC.

[avanelletheclockfriend]

That fluid storage really is a humongous hungolomghnonoloughongous

Edit: I got this new anime plot. Basically, there's this challenge run except it’s got huge goose, I mean some serious honker. A real set of reactors. Packin' some dobonblockeros. Massive electric boogaloo. Big ol' item processing lines. 'What happens next?!' The same goose shows up one day with EVEN BIGGER multiblock machinery! Humungous industrial scale goosnonoloughongous

[Zedryx]

I loved it when Goose started describing fluid storage in the most sane normal person way ever

[keplomaniac]

I even set an alarm called "Goosing Time" and so far, it's paid off

[geufotb]

No worries about the hiatus. YouTube videos where the creator hates what they’re doing, quite frankly, are like watching a someone step on a balloon. Have fun.

[anintelligenttalkingcowtha]

"Thank you for your time" ?
My dude, you took 60 hours (of which many were likely GregTortuous and/or GregTedious) to make the video while I took 25 minutes (of pure procrastinating bliss) to watch it, thank YOU for YOUR time.
I don't mind the Greg, I'm in it for the Goose.

[namehere]

Dude, the fact that you were able to keep this series up until now on a consistent schedule is already absurd, needing to take a break is perfectly reasonable, don’t let anyone tell you otherwise

[josegomes]

I really respect your decision to not sacrifice video quality even though it takes many more hours of effort. I'll look forward to the next challenge run.

[tlwoxov]

I love when a technical thaumaturge, having powersof a literal demigod and probably at tier II on Kardashov's scale of energy consumption, falls into a random hole while walking

[hamzamotara]

I can't even perfectly remember how you got to this point. From what I remember, you died a bunch, killed mobs, did villagers, jank and GooseTech, jank and GooseTech, jank and GooseTech, and now you're a Demigod of Microcrafting.

[lourex]

GOOSE! MAKE ANOTHER UNSTABLE MULTI BLOCK AND MY LIFE IS YOURS

[lollipoprem]

Ingesting the goose juice, straight to my veins like an illegal substance

[soup]

while i am a bit sad that there will be no more greg for a good while, it 100% makes sense why that needs to happen. work/life balance for the players doesnt seem to have been a concern to the devs of this modpack

[TheShadowofX]

The Assembly Line is what I like to call the final exam of the early game in GTNH, because it's far bigger than everything before combined (in normal gameplay, at least) resource cost thoroughly stress tests every part of your infrastructure. And if anything is lacking you'll spend somewhere north of 12+ hours waiting on things to get crafted, likely only to realize that actually progressing into LuV goes at roughly the same speed given a quad HSS-S LuV EBF setup takes ~2.5 minutes to smelt just the Ruridit needed for a single LuV motor. To say nothing of what horrible things are happening to your power grid in the meantime. I wouldn't say GTNH has no merit to it insofar as presenting a meaningful automation challenge in terms of putting together an IV tier factory that can gather, refine and process the resources necessary to construct an Assembly Line within a reasonable amount of time...but the tightrope it tries to walk between "fun and engaging challenge" and "mind-numbing busywork" is difficult to stay on when the pack suddenly goes from modded Minecraft to a deranged alloy enthusiast's interpretation of what happened if Gregtech and Factorio ran into each other in a dark alley at around Mach 20. To say nothing of the magic mods.

For what it's worth, especially if the advice comes entirely too late: Using Advanced SMDs cuts the time required to craft the relevant circuits in half, and single block Circuit Assembling Machines can be shoved into a Processing Array (which is not going away anytime soon, despite what it's too early to the later cancelled party tooltip might be hoping for) to easily craft such circuits in bulk without having to craft a two part wireless spaghetti monster in your Cleanroom. If you stick to using regular SMDs it's also advisable to keep them in stock passively, otherwise (especially using the cheaper SMD recipes that don't require the rarer materials like Tantalum) crafting the SMDs could end up taking longer than crafting the circuits. As for the aforementioned EBF smelting time problem, GT++ Volcani (singular Volcanus) will solve that problem as they are both faster and cheaper than regular EBFs by a considerable margin. Of course you will need to source Pyrotheum to keep them running, as well as upgrade your Vacuum Freezer crafting capacity to keep up (likely involving a Mega variant thereof). Alternatively you could set up a Mega EBF, but unless you're creating enough power to be measured on the Kardashev Scale that would just be replacing one problem with another.

All that said, can definitely recommend taking a break if you need to. No sane person could dispute that GTNH is a long term pack, regardless of whether it's interpreted as an AFK simulator or as something else. In the end it's both, anyway: You can spend hundreds of hours building a giant factory with a processing capacity measured in Eye of Harmonies if not outright Stargates per day, or you can take the Kharax82 route and ride the AFK train all the way to Stargate one day at a time. Both are valid options, they're just different playstyles with their own problems, non-problems and solutions. Go with whichever playstyle you prefer, optimize it as much as you want, and stop playing when the pack is no longer fun.

[swedneck]

the actual gameplay itself is frankly just scaffolding for the snarky humor, other series or even different games is absolutely not a problem.

[soylent_brown]

Okay, so, I was right when I first saw the modpack all that time ago. Gregtech is a tedium pack, pretending to be a "challenge" pack with fake earrings made to look like a "skill" pack.

[gold_melody]

Honestly this series has been one of the best parts of my summer, I’ve enjoyed nearly every minute of this series and will be looking forward to its return after the hiatus. I’m looking forward to whatever other series you start, thanks for the great content!!

[timob]

honestly, the fact you were able to maintain a weekly upload schedule for this long is unbelievable anyway. your personality and unique ideas are what makes this series great, certainly not GregTech, so whatever break you need to take from this is more than understandable, and I'm sure any other series you release will be just as entertaining.

[ZedIsNotGaming]

Whatever you will put out, I will enjoy. You're an extremely charismatic goose, with some humongous hongalongagogongas in your storage system.

[pufferfish]

Finally, another episode of the sisyphus modpack

[annotated_]

1:50 It's voice cracks like this that makes goose better than 90% of other youtubers