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[Trapezohedron]

I are confus.

How do I drain Thaumcraft Taint permanently from the atmosphere? It's slowly increasing by the minute, and it doesn't seem to stop.

[The Darkling Wolf]

Very nice.

Oh and we have almost the same user text.

It takes a fair while to place all the blocks down, but if you put a base of wood slabs down, and then use corner blocks for the actual design, you can get a lot of mileage out of very few blocks.

And great minds think alike, I suppose

Sounds nice, I've been experimenting a lot with the microblocks for building lately, now that the issue with lighting's mostly fixed.

The new dark wood would work well as paneling if it retains its color when cut into microblocks. Wish you could change the orientation so it is vertical panels.

I'm pretty sure it does, I don't have a 1.2.5 world with Redpower installed right now so I can't check. And yeah, being able to make vertical wooden blocks would be nice.
I've actually been considering replacing the Jungle and Oak plank textures with vertical versions of the Pine and Birch planks, less colours, but I think it'd give more design options, and Redpower bases the microblock textures on the full block, so it should work fine.


Ninjedit:

I are confus.
 
 How do I drain Thaumcraft Taint permanently from the atmosphere? It's slowly increasing by the minute, and it doesn't seem to stop.
 

Using a crystallizer to make Taint crystals removes it from the atmosphere I think. You can store the taint crystals like nuclear waste or w/e. Taint crystals in the Vis condenser draw taint out of the atmosphere as well I think, but I haven't played with Thaumcraft much.

[Sowelu]

If taint is going up, it's probably flowing in from nearby chunks.  Explore a little, see if there's a whole tainted landscape advancing like an evil tide...and if there is, get ready to move.

[Micro102]

Can you live in a tainted area? What does the taint do actually, besides make everything purple and make monsters tougher?

[Ultimuh]

Can you live in a tainted area? What does the taint do actually, besides make everything purple and make monsters tougher?

It taints animals and makes them aggressive.
Also, you can get damaged by those pods that grow there.

And as far as I know, tainted blocks you destroy cannot be gathered.
So it basically ruins the landscape.

[Sirian]

I are confus.
 
 How do I drain Thaumcraft Taint permanently from the atmosphere? It's slowly increasing by the minute, and it doesn't seem to stop.
 

Using a crystallizer to make Taint crystals removes it from the atmosphere I think. You can store the taint crystals like nuclear waste or w/e. Taint crystals in the Vis condenser draw taint out of the atmosphere as well I think, but I haven't played with Thaumcraft much.

Wrong, if we're talking about Thaumcraft2 (i never played Thaumcraft1), a crystallizer only uses liquid vis, and even if it's upgraded with concentrated evil it doesnt use taint and wouldnt draw it from the atmosphere anyway. The vis condenser CAN be used to draw taint out of the atmosphere, but it requires the "concentrated evil" upgrade (which needs to be researched) and you need to use tainted crystals in it. The best way to deal with taint is to build totems of dawn in your base to increase the positive charge of your aura and store the taint separately from vis, in thaumium tanks. You can also relocate silverwood trees near your base (the leaves can be picked with shears and the trunk re-assembled from logs).

Can you live in a tainted area? What does the taint do actually, besides make everything purple and make monsters tougher?

I guess you could but it would be a pain in the ass, tainted blocks are really hard to break (and are destroyed when you break them), and i don't think tainted wood can be used normally. I think it would also prevent you from doing any kind of farming (which is bad since you need reeds for paper), and it probably prevents wisps from spawning (they are a good source of crystals), and prevent crystals from growing. And since taint spreads, this would eventually be true for all the chunks in your vicinity, forcing you to travel more than you would need otherwise.

So you can, just like you can live in the nether but it's just more practical not to.

[Peewee]

So you can, just like you can live in the nether but it's just more practical not to.

Speaking of which, unless something's changed recently the nether is a perfect place for your lab since taint doesn't seem to affect the atmosphere, and it won't do anything to soul sand or netherrack.

[forsaken1111]

So you can, just like you can live in the nether but it's just more practical not to.

Speaking of which, unless something's changed recently the nether is a perfect place for your lab since taint doesn't seem to affect the atmosphere, and it won't do anything to soul sand or netherrack.

Amusingly, the mod author has stated that this will be changed soon and that nethertaint will be bad.

[Sowelu]

Yeah my girlfriend winced at the very notion of 'taint in the nether'.  I would too.

[0x517A5D]

Redpower Microblocks, they are awesome

Question: am I correct in my belief that these "Redpower Microblocks" are just the 1/2, 3/8, 1/4, 1/8 blocks you can get by using the Redpower handsaw on blocks?  They're not a replacement for the Little Blocks mod I asked about a few pages back?

[Baijiu]

If taint is going up, it's probably flowing in from nearby chunks.  Explore a little, see if there's a whole tainted landscape advancing like an evil tide...and if there is, get ready to move.

Taint got nerfed with the last patch, so you don't really see taint spreading like this anymore. Taint only seems to show up if taint in the chunk is over 4000, and it doesn't seem to spread to neighbouring chunks unless it has the required taint level.

Makes me sad, because my main base was in the middle of a huge, beautifully tainted jungle, stretching for as far as the eye can see. After upgrading to the latest patch, the taint retreated to a mere two chunks, and didn't spread.

[forsaken1111]

If taint is going up, it's probably flowing in from nearby chunks.  Explore a little, see if there's a whole tainted landscape advancing like an evil tide...and if there is, get ready to move.

Taint got nerfed with the last patch, so you don't really see taint spreading like this anymore. Taint only seems to show up if taint in the chunk is over 4000, and it doesn't seem to spread to neighbouring chunks unless it has the required taint level.

Makes me sad, because my main base was in the middle of a huge, beautifully tainted jungle, stretching for as far as the eye can see. After upgrading to the latest patch, the taint retreated to a mere two chunks, and didn't spread.

Taint and Vis still flow from chunk to chunk, from higher concentrations to lower, and taint does still spread once over a certain % which spawns the tainted spore pods. Its less pronounced but not removed.

[Akhier the Dragon hearted]

   The problem with taint right now is that there was a big problem, it spread to aggressively. The mod author fixed this by taking some numbers or what have you that deal with its spread and slashed them and released a new version. Now there is a problem, taint doesn't really spread much. Now if I had to come up with an answer for this I would take whatever changed and slide it right between the two extremes and release again and see what happens. Eventually by doing this you would come up with good enough and probably a good idea of how much you can shift numbers to make a difference without making too big of a difference.

[Akhier the Dragon hearted]

I have to say that is probably going to be the best answer if taint ever gets bad again.

[Peewee]

Haha, after two days of headaches, I finally got a ton of 1.2.5 mods working together. Now to do something about that 10fps. Heh.

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Modloader
AudioMod
ModLoaderMP
Forge 3.1.2.94 (3.1.2.99 doesn't work with 4096IDs)
4096IDs V1.0.1 plus a few patches
Optifine MT_AA_A7 (Enabled: texture glitches, Disabled: no mipmapping )
InvTweaks 1.41b
Rei's Minimap 3.0_06
Somnia v24
Not Enough Items 1.2.2 (sort of, doesn't play nice with 4096IDs)
BetterDungeons
ComputerCraft
Crafting Table IIv1
Equivalent Exchange 2 1.4.4.0
EnderStorage 1.1.1
HangableMaps 1.1.1
ExtraBiomesXL (classic) 1.15 (kept spawning on glaciers, disabled out of frustration)
MoCreatures
WirelessRedstone ChickenBones Edition 1.2.0 (Never mind, I'd rather play MystCraft)
RailCraft 5.1.0
RedPower2 pr5b1
ThaumCraft 2.1.3b (because nerfed taint didn't sound fun)
Treecapitator 1.2.5e
Wireless Redstone
Buildcraft 3.1.5
Additional Buildcraft Objects
Logistics Pipes 0.2.4A
Additional Pipes 3.0.10
IndustrialCraft 2 1.95b
Forestry 1.4.4.2
Compactsolars 2.2.0.5
Millenaire 2.5.9 (Never mind, I want to explore Mystcraft more.)
Zeppelin 1.2.5.0.31
Tomes
Xp Book
Mystcraft 1.2.5-0.8.1
IDResolver

Edit: Removed Millenaire, WR:CBE, and ExtraBiomes