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, prompting me to finally buy the game. So yeah, I've been around since basically forever.

I played vanilla survival at first, but 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 Feed the Beast 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 shit tier 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 very interested in magic, with the sole 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.

My GOAT mod is probably Logistics Pipes in its 1.7.10 iteration. However, if the Terminals and Crafting add-ons to Integrated Dynamics get worked on to be more fleshed out and less weird and glitchy, ID might eventually take that spot.

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

Todo list (read: things I want to do, but I won't guarantee I'll ever actually get around to doing them):
 * fully document Ender IO due to the currently abysmal state of the official "wiki" (subpar GitHub page)

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.
 * Will never discuss politics or religion.
 * Seriously, don't even try, you'll probably get blocked.
 * Tends to overshare.
 * Hail hydrate.

Other games I play currently

 * World of Warcraft Classic
 * Rocket League
 * Slay the Spire
 * The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth (all DLC)