Enigmatica 2 Expert Guide - Tips, Tricks and Warnings.

The pack requires you to use almost every mod. For thaumcraft purposes, it would be smart to choose a base close to or inside a magical forest biome. It would also save you from the above "Beware the goats" warning because they don't spawn in the magical forest biome.

Be also aware that using the thaumcraft smeltery to make essentia causes small amounts of flux. so if you use it a lot, you will still cause rifts to form. Go easy on it or get an auxiliary slurry pump and an exhaust valve to reduce all that nasty flux.

 

Also get into Immersive Engineering as soon as you can as it's the gate to Mekanism which allows for some pretty overpowered machines, ore processing and Power Generation. You can also craft the Prosperity Shard blocks

 

And hunt for Tier 4 and 5 Dragon caves. Loot generally contains Empowered items from Actually Additions and Californium and Plutonium (which can be used to craft RTG's that give free ever-lasting power).
[doublepost=1546018068,1546015970][/doublepost]I have some additions to your points.

 

Just a note, Steel can also be made using alloy furnace from Nuclear Craft which in turn can then be automated as well.
you could in theory automate a setup just using nuclear craft machine to automate nearly every ingot that needs alloying or something, IE if u want signalum, you can do that through Nuclear craft too.

 

You can automate them with logistical pipes from mekanism

 

starlight works in the smeltery as fuel, as is easier to refill than lava

it gets 100 rf/t with lava on a thermoelectric (2 sides)

Astral has an easy sand generator

Nuclearcraft has a cobblestone generator

Sieving is crazy fast, although 240 rf/t. try to prioritise for a sieve then you will be swimming in resources

Dont put spawners in cardboard boxes in your AE system

If you make weapons with restonia part, you get a damage modifier based on the number of hearts you have

Integrated tunnels can be used to grab all of the armour of mobs (every single piece)

Integrated tunnels can transport energy/items/fluid at an infinite transfer rate, its cheap aswell and has wireless capabilities

Practice your IC2 setup in SP, if you get it wrong then the explosion will take out a lot

The magma and powered anvil is a good way to repair tools (excl sharpening kits), you will need to get into IC2 before you can make reinforcement modifiers

The prudentium excavator (quest option/reward) can get prosperity ore with a low chance as mentioned above) can be used in a mechanical user but you need to think about it breaking

if you are going for ethylene production, melon are your best crops to grow. you can put them into a compacting draw and it will let you pull out slices without needing any other crafter

If you want to find dragon lairs and other spawners, make a scanner from the scannables mod; put a block reader in (and range upgrade) and have it look for a vanilla chest. it will find all the dragon ones, and dungeon loot spawners and any other chests in the world

 

no problem from me, boss

 

*ie ore deposits is worth it

*early iridium and titanium

*platinum deposit and bauxite

 

Cross-posting this for future readers:

Tinker's Construct Materials Table [Enigmatic 2 Expert: Skyblock]
I've compiled/confirmed all of the material types' data in "Materials and You" in a single, filterable Google Sheets Doc.

 

Quick tip, you can pick up spawners with your hand.. it's shift right click I believe

 

on about upper tier dragon lairs containing plutonium: if it is IC2 plutonium, DONT PICK IT UP WITH BARE HANDS... you will certainly die, even regen II and good mid-game armor is no match for the decrease in health, it lasts 2 minutes and that is well enough time to kill you even if you eat or stay saturated. Endgame armor may be able to combat it, but I would not try messing with that. Make a hazmat suit and safe yourself the grief. As for getting it back home, cardboard box the chests and hazmat when unpacking or if possible have armor that shields radiation like quantum armor, etc. One thing I know is that IC2 radiation can be brutal compared to NuclearCraft in this pack, at least in my experience.

 

Had a similar problem when I played the pack -- but I always just dumped it into my AE2 system with an import bus and chest. Does the trick every time.

 

I too have been searching for these. Glad to know its not just me feeling dumb/blind

 

You can craft IC2 MOX Nuclear Fuel using Blutonium from Extreme Reactors thus having to skip farming uranium fuel rods to get tiny piles of plutonium