Beating Minecraft's Hardest Modpack With Nothing // Episode 18 - Sky Falling, Power Rising

In this eighteenth episode of the series I solve the space-trash problem using a neon blue goose-juice powered rotary impeller, automate photosynthetic degeneracy - or possibly fertilization - by feeding an exclusively vegetarian diet to plants, create ever-more-powerful magic boxes, and vomit rainbows all over the floor.
GT - New Horizons is an intricately designed and custom-coded kitchen-sink style modpack built on the 1.7.10 version of Minecraft. It integrates hundreds of Minecraft's flagship mods into a Gregtech framework - completely overhauling the mods' traditional progression in the process, and radically rebalances any of the technologies those mods may offer.
Because doing things the normal way is 'too easy', I am following a ruleset based off of the (in)famous Garden Of Grind ruleset that places me in a completely empty superflat dimension. Every single resource I need, including blocks to stand on, has to be created out of nothing by finding clever workarounds and weird mechanics. Unlike in Garden Of Grind, I am not restricted to only my starting dimension - it's just that every other dimension starts out just as empty as my first one.
This pack is available on both the Curseforge and Technic launchers. You can also get the pack directly from the development GitHub.
github.com/GTNewHorizons/

[@Ultrapwner45]

I spent more than ideal amount of time thinking the video framerate at the beginning was my computer not liking me opening stuff up at the same time I then remembered this is the power of goosetech

[@tenh1]

Truly an ideal moment - Yi Sang (probably)

[@riachuello]

Same

[@vacantvisionary]

LMAO i had the same experience. had to hop down to the comments to double check.

[@ezram.4484]

literally same

[@nershacreave6044]

Hello i am here for the exact same reason, thanks for clarifying that its not just me and its not because i have both chrome and hsr open on a very weak laptop, i was really scared

[@Natibe_]

"Decoration takes forever" -guy who is sequence-breaking gregtech in the void from corpse dirt

[@fractalgem]

I feel him tho, usually my decoration is usually grabbing a chisel and using one type of cobble for pathways and a different type of chiseled cobble for the actual building platform. Though, lately ive been EXTRA fancy and using concrete pathways on chunk borders, then a layer of flint blocks, THEN a stone building platform.

[@eragonawesome]

"Normally this would be totally overkill... Which means it *might* be a decent starting point!" Really sells the whole pack lmao

[@markrobison5199]

"It is against the KZbin terms of service to use dynamism tablets on the engagement buttons down below" That alone earns a like. The sheer level of deadpan sass makes me smile.

[@hacatu]

You can get endoflames, any bee with flowers "flowers" will sometimes make burning blossoms on grass, which then immediately pop off and turn into a drop since they aren't on netherrack

[@fractalgem]

You would need a LOT of endoflames to rival that cluster of gourmarys. Like, probably 5 to 20 CUBES of them. The normal power of the endoflame is that its cheap, spammable, and eats dead simple to source fuel. Thus, if you have to jump through weird hoops to craft it, you may as well spam something else, like gourmarys or entryopynniums, and save fps/tps drain.

[@RealDanteS01]

Not sure if you address this later in the video, but the teru teru bozu sends out a comparator signal when it starts raining. It also turns off the rain if a sunflower is just dropped on it. You can place the bozu > comparator > dropper and surround them with blocks to use WAY fewer sunflowers.

[@idadood2278]

i never thought id hear a sentence like "warded glass blocks nuclear explosions", and yet here we are

[@lancesmith8298]

The evil twin of “jet fuel can’t melt steel beams”

[@diggoran]

@@lancesmith8298 that implies the conspiracy theory that the US government killed thousands of its own citizens, and framed a petrostate to justify killing more civilians over there for oil, is the “good twin” compared to limiting explosions in block game.

[@tGafa]

@@lancesmith8298 may I please be directed to the source of that wonderous quote if you don't mind?

[@rosefeather_]

​@@tGafaoh you don't wanna know

[@lancesmith8298]

@@tGafa It’s probably some place in some 9/11 conspiracy media, or in the comments of it. In any case, the statement is only true on technicality. If you’ve ever seen somebody blacksmithing, you understand that there are heats at which metal is easier to bend, without it melting. Jet fuel absolutely burns at a high enough temperature to start deforming steel, to say absolutely nothing about burning wood or the knock-on effects of an entire airplane hitting a building

[@mrkoicarp9539]

Amazing powerpoint to start out the video :3

[@lancesmith8298]

It was just bad enough that I took a moment to turn on my Wi-Fi

[@archuserbytheway]

:3

[@isaacribeiro6823]

@@lancesmith8298 i had to check if was my pc or not by watching another video the slide show at the start took me of guard

[@kinglouis3002]

@@archuserbytheway :3

[@eragonawesome]

Schrödinger's cat bed, made of both spruce and whatever the f that stuff was until observed, at which point it has to pick a material to be made of

[@Dragonium10190]

Loved the clap at 25:52 lol, I know how long it takes to edit videos, and seeing a little audio cut there was so relatable

[@adrunkenloner]

Started the video with a slideshow, ended with a smokescreen. True gregtech content right here

[@siobhanprime2148]

funny goose friday comes again

[@lordgiacomos2551]

If I had a nickel for every time one of Goose's videos had forge microblocks corrupting to the blood magic altar block variant of the same microblock, I'd have 2 nickels, which isn't a lot but it's weird that it happened twice.

[@blokeperson5683]

Eldrich goose An immortal being was born in the void with profane knowledge and flesh growing endlessly, spreading until they had enough mass to build upon and produce plant life grown from their rotting form. In a cycle of growth and consumption, they used different parts of their body to create new organs and limbs, synthesising new materials and using strange magic to summon beings from far away and consume them.

[@pawepyzinski5598]

The only thing that demons fear is goose xd

[@Name_Pendingg]

i love the line: "if it rains _some time_ before the heat death of the universe, i'm gonna be quite unhappy"

[@hatersheadquarters5264]

4:16 LETS GET DOWN TO BUSINESS! TO DEFEAT THE HUNS! 💯💯💯🔥🔥🔥

[@TheLegendaryHacker]

32:55 I love the visual of using literal magic to apply duct tape to a machine

[@lancesmith8298]

And then there’s the absolutely killer line from a bit earlier in the series: “Asbestos can be sourced from blood ritual meteor summoning, but unfortunately we don’t have access to that yet.”

[@fluffytowels1145]

This is like watching an arch magister weave the fabrics of reality

[@lancesmith8298]

This is exactly what happens when you give an engineer the capacity to become god

[@houseofcrazyman865]

YOOOOO WE'RE AT THE METEOR STAGE LET'S GOOOOOOO My group is doing a normal run, but we've gotten away without making rockets past T1 all the way to UHV with those. We've got a huge array of world accelerated arcane bores, Redstone controlled to only run after a meteor launch, eating a meteor in about 15 seconds. Most fun resource generation mechanic I've seen in a modpack.

[@commander3494]

Why use a lot of arcane bores instead of just one multiblock miner? Are the enchantments more efficient?

[@I_Cant_win_engagements_D2]

Its a good thing minecraft steve can't get every known type of cancer from chronic benzene exposure

[@TheShadowofX]

XP Drains are also able to collect xp orbs and deposit the fluid in a suitable fluid tank below them. Not sure if that would actually help in this situation, though, since the floor space is kinda already accounted for RE: diamond spike. Specifically blocks that have an internal EU buffer with any amount of EU in them will go kaboom if there is fire next to them. Blocks with a completely empty EU buffer will catch fire when exposed to rainfall, but will not explode. I would suggest Blood Magic's own complex spell system to get yourself a mining spell for cleaning up meteors, but if you're not summoning meteors *very* far away from anything and everything you have, do and will ever care about that is perhaps not the smartest choice one could ever make. BM mining spells are amazing, they also don't give much consideration to things like "maximum working distance" or "not uprooting half your AE2 system and sending it tumbling down into the void through a conveniently localized hole in the floor". Placing Potency/Velocity mana spreaders directly below mana pools (or manually configuring them to directly shoot mana pools with the absolute minimum travel time possible) actually makes them transfer mana at surprisingly fast rates. I'm not sure how much mana Gourmaryllis produce - and short of extensive testing and/or code diving I won't, because Botania's ingame documentation is about as mathematically inclined as a caveman is at quantum physics - but a mana spreader set up that way can support 53 endoflames by itself, so I'm going to assume they can support a non-zero amount of Gourmaryllis as well.

[@SimplyDoomSlayer]

Botania on quantities: "eh, it's about two thumbfulls more than a large bucket"

[@ebmusicman84]

The legend appears!

[@1e1001]

mayabe spike + that fan thing into the xp drain, dunno if the drain has a speed limit on it that'd prevent it from eating all that xp though

[@jameshammond6919]

This is basically my new favorite series. I can't wait for the next video

[@NickiRusin]

oh boy starting off with the 2 frames per minute gameplay you KNOW it's gonna be a good one

[@lancesmith8298]

The unburnable redwoods he called “raw server TPS destruction”: not a big deal The omega clearcutting from last episode: a good two seconds of CPU CBT Too many experience points: trying to overclock the computer hard enough to fry eggs

[@sea_kerman]

I saw a really interesting way of automating those meteor balls with ae2. Have a massive stack of interleaved spatial IO pylons to successively teleport 2-block-thick slices of the meteorite in between 2 massive arrays of annihilation planes.

[@TheKd8lvt]

25:50 - I'm aware that was a marker clap, but pretending Goose just slapped himself out of frustration is much funnier.

[@flamesorcer4686]

Fun fact, heat pumps are so effective they can have around 400% efficiency compared to space heaters (depending on the temperature gradient between inside and out). So sadly, computers aren't the most efficient way to heat your home (without taking into account respective gregtech computational functionality)

[@MarkusIfquil]

goose is the peak of every friday fr

[@jakeoshay]

God I just finished binge watching all the previous episodes and I have to say the goose has managed to make GregTech both easily consumables and highly entertaining. I just can't get enough of it ❤

[@lancesmith8298]

Granted, about 75% of it by volume is the modded Minecraft equivalent of [Somebody I Used to Know trap remix goes here], but hey, that’s far better than me understanding basically none of GregTech

[@GU-jt5fe]

@lancesmith8298 Am I getting old? I don't understand wtf you said

[@Xanthopathy]

​@@GU-jt5feUnless if you have no idea what the english language even is, you should only be confused by the term "trap" and maaaaaaaaybe "remix".

[@GU-jt5fe]

@@Xanthopathy I know what all the words mean, I just don't know what he's saying

[@sheen4813]

i understand like none of this series but your commentary makes it fun regardless. cheers!

[@FlameOfDestruct]

I may or may not have binged the whole series today, after KZbin randomly recommending this episode to me

[@ThePixelPear]

I don't even like Minecraft, but man I look forward to your videos, your editing & commentary are amazing, and seeing how you solve the problem set before you is inspiring. Keep up the good work, and take care of yourself.

[@NotSterline]

Only the power of the goose could make a terra shatterer genuinely relevant to progression in skyblock...

[@MaterialPlane]

The base is slowly starting to be worse than ground zero

[@user-ey5xw2nx9s]

I hadn't played this mode ever. Can you explain why?

[@camberr]

​@@user-ey5xw2nx9s radiation. Lots of it

[@MaterialPlane]

@@user-ey5xw2nx9spollution from machines

[@MaterialPlane]

Pollution from the machines

[@user-ey5xw2nx9s]

@@MaterialPlane Understandable. Thank you!

[@thesussyfoodcridictofameri2687]

As a fellow gregthusiast, you can just right click on the outside of the maintenance hatches to tape them so you dont have to separate out the tapes each time Also youre able to craft 1x red alloy wire into lossless wallplaceable redstore wire

[@sam_wilds]

As someone with background in Sysadmin, I have seen some monstrous blobs of server rooms. Thank you for actually using different colors to delineate where the cables go / what they are for. You'd think being organized would be a pretty low bar to meet... but no. No it's worse than you may think

[@supremesock2719]

I had to catch up before commenting, but this series is so good! I loved the long form lets play type series and was sad that everything got shorter and youtubers stopped uploading these lets play series, but i gotta say keep it up!

[@revenevan11]

Agreed dude, this series is old-school high quality and I'm loving it!

[@erikm8373]

I love how much inter-compatibility there is in the minecraft modding scene. Sure, you can plug your magical essence into your computer and then automate blood magic. Because why not?

[@SuperMarioOddity]

Goose's subscription calls are always the best, 10/10 for this one

[@ronanhartman8942]

Love how you getting into bontania gets you a lot of infrastructure for some of the other gregtech cheese

[@rareram]

I am not gonna lie, I lost track of everything about five episodes ago. But it's so good to listen to him explain it all

[@kitakin10]

i've watched every single video of this series as back to back as it possible given meatspace time constraints. Please consider me throughly entertained. Your videos scratch an itch for engineering and micromanagement I do not have the energy at present to fulfil myself.

[@seanh2785]

This series has become one of my favorites! Great stuff!

[@IIxIxIv]

This series is so good, if I had more free time I'd be totally inspired to do a Greg tech NH run (the normal, corpse dirt free version)

[@lakefish7743]

goose, the passive botania flowers can be automated; placed based on the block under what the "placer" plant in base Botania, or via many different block placers. You don't need to be told how to auto-craft the flowers, i think. Petals are easy enough to mass produce; place a petal, bonemeal, (shear in some versions) break the tall and then craft it into petals. Repeat until full ME. Infinite Hydroangeas (around a 3x3 water pool) will, as a water reactor stack, are worth it eventually. Gourmarylies' are better. But, passives ARE automatable.

[@ebmusicman84]

Passives die after an hour, and water is not infinite in GTNH.

[@lakefish7743]

Again, autocraft and auto place. Non-infinite water can be solved by machine generated water, but that does limit things a bit. The lava eating plant with a timed placer would do then, though

[@jkep6643]

Loving the series man

[@wilczyca2678]

so you finally managed to murder the framerate so proud of you!

[@jkst4268]

Part of your problem with benzene production is that the turbine will consume all fluid in the input hatch every cycle so you need to limit it

[@risingbirds]

this came out just at the right time, i finished the series only a few days ago and was craving more

[@myceliation]

the first editing error, you're finally a true youtuber

[@thecoolgooddoer8893]

I have no idea what you're saying at any given moment, and I love it

[@CyreneDuVent]

Just finished binging the series yesterday, so this is wonderful timing! (currently working on a rewatch but that's now on pause for this new one). Also, I've never really put i the thought for automation before, so thank you for inspiring me to do that in the modpack I'm currently playing!

[@iansysoev9462]

I watched entire series twice and still don't understand what is going on, keep up the good work lmao

[@eliasmorgensol8743]

You are one of my favorite youtubers atm, really loving the consistency, and your quirky humor :) hope you keep it going! I for one am looking forward to seeing the next episode, and what hurdles lie ahead.

[@Permarin1]

Honestly more exited for each of your "Nothing" series getting a new episode than I am about any other media releases. Be it movie/shows or anime/manga. I know I can never truly appreciate your efforts to their full extent. But know that I appreciate it to my personal maximum capabilities.

[@diablominero]

I really appreciate your work, Goose.

[@Blue-Maned_Hawk]

The fact that players only drop 7+½ levels of experience when they die in vanilla Minecraft is an antilag measure to stop the otherwise potentially extreme amount of XP balls from lagging out a server.

[@djaydeved]

i was just waitin for a new episode! yay!

[@Notme103.5]

Yayyyy, content I enjoy from a great content creator I love

[@chakra6666]

I'm not sure I fully appreciate the amount of effort it takes to create a single one of these videos, but I sure do fully appreciate watching them.

[@typical_camper]

these videos are some of the highlights of my weeks, looking forward to the rlcraft hardcore mode mr goose 😄

[@88nerdlinger]

I love your content! Please keep it up

[@Sharkspartan6548]

I saw that Mulan reference. And now you got me singing the damn song xD

[@KerbalRocketry]

Friday brings two things; Goose and Dr Who and I honestly look forward to the Goose more

[@Amalikada]

Gregtech is tempting me, but watching gameplay at this mid-late level is so overwhelming 😅

[@mememachine5417]

As a victim of GregTech in the past, watching your vids almost makes me want to get back into the pack lol. Love the content as always!

[@HandilyHandled]

Ah... So nice, coming home from work to one of your videos.

[@PlayfulPiano]

I'm surprised you didn't just use equal trade to mine out the meteor after it was converted to basalt.

[@evanvandeneinde7095]

I was wondering what was going on with the video at the beginning. What a way to introduce a new problem.

[@theoneandonlyflexo]

34:30 This was the best version of "Smash that like button" I've ever heard.

[@MathewSan_]

Great video 👍

[@MaterialPlane]

Let’s go! Love this series

[@RubberCrowy]

Why is the audio so quiet? I need to turn my KZbin volume to 100% and my headphone volume to 80% to hear things well.

[@josiahsimmons9866]

That Mulan reference made me happy.

[@JessicaMorgani]

I love this channel

[@creeptv7514]

It pains every single node of my AE network to see you use multiple Import/Export Busses on a single machine that could be solved with routing an interface. Also, since you‘re EV-ish, you can afford direct ME I/O Hatches (output for fluid and item, auto-pulling for items), which can store a factually infinite amount of stuff as long as there‘s no place to go. I automated HOG with clever routing (filtered storage busses). The latest version of GTNH (or from 2.6.x onwards) has a drone dock multiblock that can automatically send out drones to repair multis with a specific hatch replacing the maintenance. If you want to minmaxx, placing four MK1 Ore Drilling Rigs in range of the meteors yields an insane 6x on each single ore, but is slow. Use (centi-vis boosted) Arcane Bores from Thaumcraft to carve out meteors in less than a minute.

[@peptron5007]

that meteor area looks quite nice!

[@atv7916]

highlight of my week!

[@CoolKatAsh]

Yay just what I needed to recharge my brain after animating for an hour

[@iTrapa]

Mana tools only drain mana when using durability, so Unbreaking does help.

[@huseyinsahin4106]

The only series I watch slowly

[@mariohdmw]

Great serie

[@mr.cauliflower3536]

The "please like" memes are lovely, as Mario (the man) once said "keep it up, baby"

[@halorocks697]

Wow becoming the equivalent of a dynamism tablet feels great LOL

[@ebmusicman84]

Engagement for the engagement gods! HJÖNK!

[@revenevan11]

You inspired me to pick up gregtech because I started watching this series like 2 weeks ago, so thanks! I just got into early LV for the first time in terms of making covers and stuff to use with my HP steam machines, but tbf i took a break from progression to scout a base location and build a long building that looks semi decent i can use for my first real factory in gregtech instead of just a machine shop style where i craft everything myself lol. I am just barely starting to hit the point where I can see the growing need to automate crafting but it's quite an initial resource and crafting barrier to entry for that first automation beyond hoppers 😅. I've played a ton of tekkit classic, voltz, etc when I was younger, and more recently games like Dyson Sphere Program... but there really is nothing else quite like GTNH.

[@samuelwilliams2266]

Yay, new funny goose man video

[@ERRR0RR]

20:10 Gaia II drops Loki's ring, which can not only break and place multiple blocks relative to the position of the block you're looking at, but imitate RMB click on a certain spot of blocks. You can, for example, paste conduit settings on east conduit connectors on multiple blocks, and things it doesn't work with are only special cases, so I think it's worth getting.

[@KingMe-qz2hr]

Is there a reason you went with the terra shatterer over the bound pickaxe for clearing meteors? Maybe it can’t be obtained but I can’t immediately think of a reason otherwise

[@terrydavis5924]

Ah Botania, the mod that's big enough to make it into every kitchen sink pack yet is terrible enough to do almost nothing with. The real icing on the cake is how much time and effort the mod developer put in to making sure there was absolutely no way to automate the use of his flowers, because it was like those mods were stealing 'his effort', when he in turn stole 200 assets from Terraria and acted like he did original work that needs to be protected. It would be an absolutely incredible not-machine mod if someone were to rip out all the stupid, spiteful restrictions put in by a developer that hates other modders....

[@shinrakishitani1079]

I always thought things like the IC2 reactor explosions used custom implementations to cause such huge explosions. I wonder if warded glass will also block a Draconic Evolution reactor explosion, that does seem more scripted for a lack of a better word.

[@DatMagicBoii]

Let the Greg continue !

[@magnum-lr3xf]

Brother, you have both magic uranium and science uranium, you BETTER make a damn good tool.

[@kiprasking8581]

Wow lucky, just caught up too ♫

[@arahmarborealis4425]

I highly recommend investing in the multiblock miners for your meteor rituals. It's so much better.

[@fxshlein]

oh crap I arrived in present time, no more binge watching

[@spok_real]

i love schrödinger being nonbinary

[@ramentaryramblings]

babe wake up new goode upload

[@akwinem]

Woo woo!

[@loody9977]

good video

my beloved... how can you upload so consistently...