User:SirMoogle/Drafts/Getting Started (Awakening)

This guide is written with Awakening version 2.29.4 in mind.

Modpack-specific mechanics
Awakening is a heavily altered modpack which features different recipes. As such, it is strongly recommended to consult both NEI and the Awakening Quest Book. The modpack has its own biome generation scheme and creates tinier biomes; as a consequence of this villages appear less frequently. Awakening also has the mod The Spice of Life, which will remember the last 10 food items the player consumed and decreases the foods' nutritional value (both hunger and saturation restoration).

Ore generation has also been tweaked; for more information, consult this page on ore depths and mining levels.

Starting in a new world
When you enter a new world for the first time, you start off with:
 * 1 Wooden Broadsword
 * 1 Wooden Pickaxe
 * 1 Wooden Hatchet
 * 1 Vial of Mending
 * 1 Awakening Quest Book
 * 64 blocks of Dried Dirt
 * 10 White Candles
 * 4 Floral Fertilizer

No matter where you start off, it is best to find a river close to where you intend to build a base in order to build the Smeltery from Tinkers' Construct quickly. Gathering enough blocks for shelter when night approaches is also important because hostile mobs will attack the player with increased attack strength and defence.

Setting up the Smeltery
To get a decently sized Smeltery, lots of Seared Bricks are needed. With the base being out of a square of 3x3 Seared Bricks, each successive vertical layer requires 12 Seared Bricks encircling the base (3 on each side, corners excluded). Some of the blocks making up the wall need to be replaced with a Smeltery Controller, Seared Tank, Seared Faucets, and Smeltery Drains.

Food diversity
A wide range of food is needed in order to maximise their nutritional benefits. To this end it is recommended to start clearing out a plot for farmland and Agricraft as soon as possible. You should also consider domesticating wild Cows in order to milk them; this requires breeding Cows across three generations, so putting different generation in different pens will help.