I got a little sick of playing in Age 2 and wanted to upgrade to Age 3. Unfortunately, I discovered that the progression tree was actually quite long. I needed a few things.
The crafting recipe for a simple Coal Engine. I'm not very sure why it needs to be infused with starlight.
A Coal Engine, which required Fiery Gears, Steeleaf Rods, Ghast Tears, and a Carminite Reactor from the Twilight Forest, whose portal required a Starmetal Ingot, which required a Starmetal Ore made in a Starlight Crafting Altar using Stardust. I couldn't find any more Stardust since I couldn't find any more Rock Crystal Samples despite travelling great distances so I had to craft it. The Stardust had to be made in a Hellfire Forge which uses Demonic Will as catalyst. Unfortunately, the catalyst required a Tartaric Gem to store which I still did not have. I progressed through the Tartaric Gem upgrade tree and finally upgraded my Luminous Crafting Table to a Starlight Crafting Altar and then a Celestial Altar.
CONSOLATION Prize
Some nice scenery I found whilst searching for some Rock Crystal samples, unfortunately eventually to no avail.
Costly Portal
The Twilight Forest portal in this modpack is one of the most annoying ones I have made. When I threw the Starmetal Ingot into my puddle of water, I was momentarily jolted when I saw that no portal was created. Fortunately, it was just a lag spike.
I didn't take a lot of screenshots since it wasn't something very new to me. I did enjoy the huge FPS spikes from my shaders though. Provided a little extra challenge compared to normal. The Ur-Ghast tower looked really cool with shaders, though.
We didn't have a trophy room so we used our storage as a makeshift one. I've always felt that the Hydra Trophy doesn't look as good as the others.
Flex That Gear
I smeared some armor stands around the base to showcase the nice textures of Twilight Forest armor and tools.
After painstakingly stealing anvils from the Knight Dungeon, looting sticky pistons from the Ur-Ghast Tower, harvesting the Fiery Tears from the Ur-Ghast and Fiery Blood from the Hydra to make Fiery Ingots to make Molten Fiery to make Fiery Gears, and casting the Steeleaf Rods, I had finally prepared the materials for the Coal Engine! Perfect!
But when I placed the items into the dang altar, I couldn't craft it. Didn't have enough starlight. Dang it.
I had to come up with some Spectral Relays which needed Glass Lens which needed Aquamarine and Glass Panes which take a really long time to cast. Oh, and the Aquamarine is found in the Beneath, a strange dark place included in this modpack just to provide a place to get Black Quartz and Aquamarine.
I set up the Spectral Relays and ta-da - my Coal Engine was crafted!