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The Jaded Amaranthus is a flower added by the Botania mod. Seeds Mystical Purple Petal Mystical Lime Petal Mystical Green Petal.
Picking A Place For Your First Base:. Near an Ocean is a must. The ocean is an easy source of food and usually has clay and red sand deposits around the shore. These easy to get early resources can speed progression quite a bit. Try to be near a Witchery Wicker Man. The wheat you can get from the hay bales that make it up will provide enough bread to meet all of your food needs until you have been able to breed the plants needed for magical food.
Also, these have a spawner under them. If it is a zombie spawner, it makes for a good source of zombie flesh for leather until you can breed cows, and if it is a skelly spawner the early bonemeal is a godsend. Near a surface lava pool. This is actually a pretty important one.
Fairly early on you will need a good amount of lava, and being able to get it without a lot of mining is nice. Near a Witchery Henge (the stone rings) can also be helpful as they often have witch spawners and witches drop all sorts of items that can help progress faster (they also contain treasure in the center of the ring. Thanks Yobur!). If you can find one of the very rare naturally spawning grass blocks this can also be helpful, as it can greatly speed up your collection of the initial seeds and such you get from breaking grass. After getting a few blocks of dirt from digging and a bonemeal, you can expand that grass patch and use the bonemeal to make lots of grass to break. Rinse and repeat until you have what you need.
Make sure there are plenty of dead trees and slate deposits nearby. Having to travel to collect these vital early resources is a real killerThe Very Early Game:. Don't use your hatchet for anything other than making crafting tables. It's a pain to have to repair it every time you need a crafting table. Mining for cobble is no problem, just dig your standard 2-3 wide staircase down.
The dirt on the other hand can be a bit more challenging. I find that digging a 'test hole' on either side of the staircase every few blocks down is a good way to find it.
Just plant your face up against the wall and dig a straight hole as far as your pick will reach. If you hit dirt, go for it. If not, try again. You need LOTS of dirt. Don't stop at the 32 that the quest requires!.
Make sure to get plenty of flint, and all the planks, sticks, and charcoal you can get from the trees. The trees also drop wood ash, which becomes an important resource a bit later. Make a walled base. Living underground is ok, but presents some challenges when trying to breed your plants. The wall is good for keeping most enemies out, but you should also have an overhang at the top on the outside to keep spiders out. Make sure you remember to light up the top of the wall.
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You will need a fair amount of space to start. Get a decent sized patch of grass going in your base as early as possible. You will want to bonemeal this to farm bonemeal, floral fertilizer, and seeds for compost. Make sure you set up a conveniently located infinite water source in your base.
You can cook the dead wood planks to get singed wood planks. Placing these in the world and mining them will get you more wood planks and wood ash. Thanks Shrapnel999The Early Game:When you need more storage, work on the 'What the World Embraces' questline.
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