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== Starting the game ==
Because of the amount of mods included, starting GTNH can take much longer than other modpacks. On lower end PCs, 30 minute start times are normal. On even high end PCs, expect 3-5 minute start times. If Minecraft looks like it has locked up, wait a few more minutes. [[Low_End_PCs|Low End PCs]] has tips and configuration suggestions to help with playing on potato-PCs. The only launcher that does not support GT:NH properly is CurseForge. MultiMC, ATLauncher, Technic and Prism are all viable options, but Curse is known to have issues downloading and installing this modpack. It's also often out of date, and any attempted updates can break existing installs. In short, do yourself a favor and don't use Curse. If you do, don't complain in chat about it, because you'll be told to get a different launcher.
Default Java 8 parameters usually don't work well, so its best to [https://github.com/brucethemoose/Minecraft-Performance-Flags-Benchmarks optimize Java's memory setup] and other configuration options or use a [[Installing and Migrating|Java17+ installation]] with Prism/MultiMC launcher for best performance on modern hardware.
* If experiencing problems installing the modpack, have a look at [[Installing_and_Migrating#Installing|Installing and Migrating]].
"Realistic Alpha" is the default and ''only'' [[World Generation]] setting available for GT:NH, a custom configuration of Biomes o' Plenty and Realistic World Generation. If some other world type is forced, [[Ore Generation]] may not work properly.
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== Tiers ==
Use your [[JourneyMap]] to set waypoints.
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*Stonehenges - These [[Hazard#Stone Circle|Stone Circle]]s can- Can have chests or droppers with good loot. Beware of witch spawners!
*[[Hazard#Obsidian Totem|Obsidian Totems or Obelisks]] - 1x1 spire of obsidian or floating pillars in an obsidian circle - avoid these. May be surrounded by difficult to kill mobs.
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*Clay - Source of Bricks for [[Steam Age]] Machines, [[Grout]] for the [[Smeltery]], and [[Firebrick|Firebricks]] for the [[Bricked Blast Furnace]]. Often found in rivers and lakebeds.
*Vanilla clay - Rivers and lakebeds have clay - gather all/as much as you can. To make mining less frustrating, make a cobblestone wall around the outside of the clay patch, and fill in the water with sand/gravel. Then mine it all out. Otherwise mining underwater can be pretty frustrating since no infinite water means the water drains, pushing you around. Or you can try breeding clay bees.
*Gravel - Source of flint for crafting tables, furnaces, chests, and early GT tools and mortars. Gravel is also used in [[Grout]] for the [[Smeltery]].
*Gravel - Initially you will need gravel for flint tools, but once you start mining you'll have plenty from that. Later you can forge hammer cobblestone into gravel or sand.
*Stained/Hardened Clay - Source of clay dust in higher quantities than regular clay. Mountains and layered mesas have clay; mesas have more but with larger color variety. Initially used for [[Firebrick|Firebricks]], save these locations for a [[MV]] source of [[Alumina]] and [[Silicon Dioxide]].
*Mountains/Mesas - Look for mountains with stained clay - good source for mass quantities of clay dust instead of vanilla clay once you build a macerator. Layered mesas contain more clay, but has different colors.
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*[[Pam's Harvestcraft]] [[Garden]]s - Source of some [[Pam's Harvestcraft]] crops. 8x each are required to be submitted for the [[Healing Axe]] (passive hunger/saturation regeneration axe) quest. Don't break them, gather them instead (rightclickright click). YouNaturally can plant them backspread atover yourtime base andwherever they willare spreadplanted. Once you have 3-4, then you can break excess. For those who hate the Hunger Overhaul/Spice of Life, there is a quest for collecting every Pam's garden that rewards a [[Healing Axe]] that restores food.
* [[Bee]] Hives - mark themSave for later. gathering, as [[Forestry]]'s beealyzer[[Beealyzer]] is gated behind polyethelene[[Polyethylene]] and aluminum[[Aluminium]] ingots.
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*Snow - For smoothies
*Snow - Gather a few stacks if you can find some. Good for smoothies/Delighted meals later.
*[[Lootgames]] dungeons: Minigame single-room dungeons. Provides LV-MV loot.
*[[Lootgames]] dungeons: These are large green cube areas underground with a simon-says minigame inside. A great source of loot for early game, with good chances of really useful stuff.
*[https://thaumcraft-4.fandom.com/wiki/Tainted_Land Tainted Land] - purplePurple, slimey and covered in fibrous taint. Spreads rapidly, only halted by water or air, and hazardous to cross. Avoid building near this biome, and/or turn off taint spread in the [[Thaumcraft]] configs. It's exceedingly hard to clean up early game.
*[https://biomesoplenty.fandom.com/wiki/Mystic_Grove Mystic Grove] - these are an easy sourceSource of glowflowers, which can be grown/processed later into renewable glowstone[[Glowflower|Glowflowers]]. Watch out for poison water pools.
== Food ==
Make paths going the cardinal directions from your base. Smooth them as much as possible, and use stairs to go up/down. Upgrade the paths with Concrete later to go faster.
Once you have your first Bricked Blast Furnace, you can make a [[Hang Glider]] which helps with exploring and travelingtravelling long distances, especially when paired with [[Piston Boots]]/[[Slime Boots]] and a [[Slimesling]]. Setup a tall launch tower at yourhome base. YouLater canthe useJetpack the(ProjectRed), electrotine[[Copter andPack]] coalor powered[[Coal jetpacksJetpack]] can be used to launch[[flight|fly]] youhigh into the air andbefore switchswitching to the glider to go long distances. If you holdHold down theSneak jump(default andShift) crouchto keys,glide the pack will lift youfaster and the glider will launch you forwards at high speeds. Don't exceed the speed of your chunk loading! Hearing a weird noise whenever you use your glider? Vario is enabledJump (default VSpace), whichfor changesaltitude pitchwhenever as you encounter thermalsneeded. Change the keybind under Controls > OpenBlocks > Vario on/off.
Hearing a weird noise whenever you use your glider? Vario is enabled (default V), which changes pitch as you encounter thermals. Change the keybind under <code>ESC > Options > Controls > OpenBlocks > Vario on/off</code>.
== Storage and Hauling ==
Like all large modpacks, there are a multitude of items you'll want to bring home - more than can easily fit in your inventory. Early game options for extra portable storage include the [[Backpack (Forestry)|Forestry backpacks]], Backpack’sand [[Backpack_(Editted_for_ModdedNetwork)|ModdedNetwork’s Backpack]] if you luck into a single steel ingot from looting,. Lunch Bag/Lunch Box is for food items only, and [https://ftbwiki.org/Seared_Tank Seared Tanks] for liquids. Players are strongly advised to organize early and stay organized, because the automatic search/sort/craft technologies are many hours distant. Rushing an AE2 system in this pack is not feasible.
Forestry’s backpacks[[Backpack (Forestry)|Backpacks]] have set lists of themed items they can each accept. The most useful for early game are Digger’s (dirt, gravel, cobblestone, etc.), Miner’s (ore blocks, dusts, and crushed ores) Forester’s (plants and tree products), and Hunter’s (mob drops). Each can hold 15 stacks of items, and be upgraded later on for more space. If you use your Forestry backpacks, they cannot be upgraded later in the Carpenter without putting the empty backpack in your crafting grid and clearing the metadata. Note that they have different modes and you may want to put them in a chest when working in base as they take items you pickup by default.
TheEdittedforModdedNetwork's [[Backpack_(Editted_for_ModdedNetwork)|Backpack]]s item from the Backpack mod is theare first store anything option available, gated behind a steel ring. Steel ingots or blocks can sometimes be found in loot chests, otherwise this option isn’t available until you build a Bricked Blast Furnace. Remove any keybind conflict, then hold down Shift + (default B) to open the Backpack GUI. A backpack can be placed in the top slot in order to access it with the assigned key. Specific pickup items can be added to the bottom row. You can only carry up to four backpacks from this mod at once.
One of the early quests gives you a Lunch Bag (3 food slots), and access to iron will unlock the Lunch Box (6 food slots), both from Spice of Life. The Tinker’s Construct Seared Tank holds four buckets of most liquids and will retain its inventory when broken. Identical empty or full tanks stack, making carrying a large quantity of lava feasible. The quests hint at it but lava carried in a backpack won’t burn you.
For at-base storage[[Item Storage]], the [[Quest Book]] will point you at the Iron Chest mod, JABBA barrels and Storage Drawers.
JABBA Barrels or Storage Drawers? Barrels can be locked without any special items, shift-right-click. Drawers are more flexible in configurations per block and can be chiseled into many colours or made framed for maximum customization. Barrel upgrades require both structural items and the actual upgrades, but have more options than drawers. Neither is strictly better than the other, and both are worth using. Note: The Drawer Controller is limited to a 4 block radius and 50 connected drawer blocks in GT:NH.
* Bibliocraft's Shelf can hold any four items, useful for stashing backpacks between mining trips or other items like drawer keys you want easy access to. It cannot easily hold the dolly or wrenches as they will interact with the block.
Two hoppers, two chests and fluid containers are all that is required to make a [[Coke Oven]] self-sufficient for a long time. While not completely automated as it must be fed logs and have the Creosote emptied occasionally, a simple setup similar to the picture on the left will make charcoal easier. Note that only one input chest is needed - any side or the top will feed the Coke Oven, while a hopper anywhere on the bottom pointing into a chest will remove filled fluid containers and charcoal. The Coke Oven will stop working if it becomes full of [[Coke Oven#Creosote|Creosote]]. A small stack of Seared Tanks will keep it running longer until proper fluid handling is available.
Later one or more Coke Ovens can be connected to automated wood production such as the Crop Manager, and fluid can be pumped into Super Tanks or voided with Void Fluid Pipe / [[Trash Can]] (Fluids) for truly automatic charcoal.
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| This pair of footgear will let you jump higher, fall further without damage, sprint faster and walk up one block inclines without jumping.
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| The JABBA Dolly can move inventory blocks without breaking them. Great for rearranging your storage room, relocating BC Factory Tanks or hauling chests to processing machines. Gives Slowness II and SiningMining fatigueFatigue II while full. Cannot be placed in backpacks.
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|Once you get to LV, you can build these to keep monsters from spawning - they can still walk/teleport into your base. Without power, they work a reduced distance, and higher [[tier]]s also work better. Only works on single player. On servers, claim chunks instead.
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!''Golden Lasso''
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