User:Astralfields

Hi, I'm astralfields (he/him), formerly (and sometimes still) known as suchtie. I am German but pretty good at English too.

I have been playing Minecraft since 2009, joining in on the fun right about when Survival Test was created. I largely ignored survival mode through Indev and Infdev, but never went back to Classic once Alpha released. So I've been around since basically forever.

Though I played vanilla survival at first, I was interested in modding since its early days, dabbling with Risugami's mod loader and mods. I played the original Technic Pack and Tekkit when they came out (and somehow managed to miss the original FTB pyramid map). Modpacks quickly became my go-to gaming experience once they started to become a thing, and I never stopped playing them.

A large part of my time in modded Minecraft was spent in a successful private server community and its high-quality private modpacks. Sadly, that community is currently dying off, although I still play together with some of their members. (I even made a terrible kitchen sink modpack to play with them once. It did not work out very well.) I do play solo too, although it's never quite as fun as playing on a small community server.

I am a tech mod nerd and generally not particularly interested in magic, with the exception of Astral Sorcery, which is currently my favorite mod. Automation and compartmentalization is my forte - I strive to be able to do pretty much anything in AE2/RS/LP and love making different tech mods work together to create something larger than the sum of its parts. As an avid Linux user, I even employ the Unix Philosophy in modded Minecraft: "do one thing, and do it well".

However, while I do have a faible for good aesthetic design, I am not a very original or creative person, so you'll often see me take inspiration from other players' builds, modifying and combining their designs with my own ideas.

Wiki work
Stuff I've written:
 * Getting Started (Logistics Pipes)
 * Redstone Flux
 * Ender IO

Trivia

 * Has way too much time but rarely enough motivation to actually document stuff.
 * I use Arch btw
 * GUI nerd/ricer.
 * Wannabe audiophile and headphone aficionado.
 * I listen to all kinds of music. Recently I've listened to oldschool Goa trance and various subgenres of drum&bass a lot.
 * Tends to overshare.

Other games I play currently

 * World of Warcraft Classic
 * Factorio
 * Slay the Spire
 * The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth (all DLC)
 * Hades
 * No Man's Sky