Beating Minecraft's Hardest Modpack With Nothing // Episode 19 - Reaching The (Game)Breaking Point

In this nineteenth episode of the series I dabble in normalcy, clean my room, create the worlds most dangerous dunk tank, begin stockpiling fissile nuclear material because a monkey said so, and begin investing in my personal edification by inserting 79,313,185 kilograms of iron into a pot of boiling water.
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/GTN...

[@MarkusIfquil]

i can't believe ive been pavloved into reacting positively whenever i see that blue void background on my home page every friday night

[@noobforffs]

Same haha

[@soloman5967]

SAME! its so instantly recognizable and makes me very happy every time:)

[@considerthehumbleworm]

It’s funny that at the start of the episode we had “it’s basically just normal gregtech now” and by the halfway point you’re talking about generating several thousand pools of mana by exploiting weird mod interactions to get an enchantment that’s two orders of magnitude more powerful than an ordinary enchantment by exploiting different weird mod interactions.

[@brianolsen5435]

...so he has a good chance of getting a specific mob drop, because he can't explore a bit and punch a cultist, like you would in normal GregTech.

[@kyucumbear]

@@brianolsen5435 But that's exactly what OP means. Exploiting weird mechanics to bypass the fact that it isn't normal Gregtech.

[@BossuJmek2k18]

I am not going to lie, I have stopped understanding what is happening long ago, but your videos are still entertaining. I feel like I am watching my hypothetical engineer dad explain to me what he does at work.

[@mmllmmll22]

He earns slightly above minimal income being worker, but You know he isn't working at cleaning dog poo etc from parks.

[@JessicaMorgani]

What you mean? ​@@mmllmmll22

[@ozirisgcneto]

I have never felt so represented by a youtube comment before. Also, I'm too invested now. I will only stop when the goose stops.

[@ethancharim7321]

Forty seconds in, hearing the base being described as “being held together with unbridled rage”… Yeah, this is gonna be another banger.

[@TheSphero]

I mean, it IS GTNH. Spite and rage are the two fundamental forces of its universe.

[@fredoodle6973]

At this point in the series I have absolutely no clue what’s going on but modded Minecraft automation makes my brain go “ooga booga you will pay attention now” so I will continue watching anyway, keep it up!

[@tGafa]

Yes Ghmm

[@TheShadowofX]

Fun fact, Nine Hells is actually one of the more damaging Foci after enhancing it, since the Bat Bombs upgrade - which does exactly what it says on the tin - spikes their damage output to around 20 full hearts per fire bat. It's just that in a pack where an infinitely repairable ranged weapon doing ten times that amount of damage one tier earlier requires relatively zero infrastructure, material cost or magic investment worth mentioning. Needless to say it leaves the poor focus to only having very limited practical uses. So, there's one quirk with repeated overchanting involving diamond spikes. You can enchant diamond spikes (though only on anvils specifically), and you can Overchant diamond spikes. You can also, in stark contrast to items (Draconic Evolution's keybind notwithstanding), place diamond spikes in the world. And then break them to pick them back up. The latter doesn't save the NBT tag that says "hey, this enchant on this item has already been Overchanted, so don't Overchant it again". Instead the only limitation on excessive Overchants on enchantments that can fit on a diamond spike is time and/or earplugs (you can WA Overchanters if you mind the deafening explosion of noise that creates), experience, Praecantatio Essentia, a sample of the enchant to begin the journey with and of course the other tools needed for Overchanting shenaniganry.

[@athath2010]

Can this be used to strap Looting 180 to a spike without destroying Goose's hands, or is the Overenchanter the machine that needs obscene amounts of mana (and thus void putty)?

[@TheShadowofX]

@@athath2010 I wouldn't say it lets you get a Looting CLXXX enchant without breaking your hands considering the amount of clicks involved, but it does let you stack (diamond spike compatible) enchantments without needing Mana at every single step. You'd still need Mana for the final step if you want that enchant on anything but that singular diamond spike, but only that final step.

[@sea_kerman]

@@athath2010I think it can. The thing that needs the mana is the mana enchanter, but I don’t remember where in the uberenchanting process it is used.

[@BobSmith-cg2ek]

@@sea_kerman Uberenchanting is effectively the process of using the mana enchanter to "launder" overenchanted tools, to make the overenchanter think that the particular item hasn't been overenchanted. The break-replace loop of the spike skips performs the same laundering function, so at first blush this seems correct.

[@NoName-sv2uz]

Didn't expect to see you here!​@@TheShadowofX

[@livinghuman4476]

At this point, its more beating Minecraft's hardest modpack with everything

[@qcom1008]

you underestimate gregtech

[@megadeth116]

At this point, its more beating Minecraft's hardest modpack with only exploits and patience

[@mmllmmll22]

But that "Everything" is made from Nothing :D

[@CaldeCr4ck]

I always wondered why it doesn’t say “from nothing” instead

[@ripstick45]

genuinely my favorite series on youtube right now. I super appreciate this level of work/effort, and find the roundabout thinking/implementations a lot of fun.

[@celarts5752]

It's always a good day when there's a new Neurotic Goose video

[@chainzz_3366]

Every Friday

[@kittyshippercavegirl]

goosetech new horizons

[@FlatlandsSurvivor]

I think the thing that scares me the most about this series is the amount of it that I actually do understand. My "stupidist ever modded farm" is probably one that farmed platinum by exploiting a mod interaction. One mod made it so shears were craftable with any ingots, minechem lets you break down items into their chemical components. Every time the server restarted it would pick one of the shear recipes, seemingly at random, to be the way it decided which metal to give when decomposing shears. I rigged a system to slowly decompse shears constantly until they happened to return platinum or tungsten, then spin up mass decomposition until it returned something else on next restart. So it makes shears than smashes them until the bits are the right shiny. Then goes ham on them for about 4 hours until scheduled server restart, and then goes back to a trickle of shear smashing.

[@Itual]

Just when you almost convinced me this was going to turn into a “normal” run you come up with a plan to craft a looting 200 sword with amount of mana concerning enough to fuck with the integer limit

[@spyr0guy]

I love how every episode's description sounds like one of those "Tonight on Bottom Gear" memes

[@trollbreeder2534]

i love your episode descriptions. they seem so funny and ridiculous without context, but they're completely true and actually happen in the video

[@TheKd8lvt]

Hey Goose, you may want to install Stackie to help mitigate your XP lag problem. Much like its contemporary, Clumps, it fuses XP orbs to minimize the number of entities involved. It won't permanently solve the problem, as there is a cap on the size of XP orbs, but it'll certainly help prolong the inevitable. Alternatively, you can make an ME disk dedicated to experience, have it auto-export into your xp crafting system, and void any overflow. It's not like you're hurting for XP, but I understand the inner gtnh-hoarding-goblin wanting to keep at least _most_ of it lolol

[@FlatlandsSurvivor]

Do xp orbs interact directly with annihilation planes? Ive never tried, it seems unlikely as entities but dropped items work. Then again with no native support for liquid xp in AE its unlikely.

[@TheKd8lvt]

@@FlatlandsSurvivor Nope, but you can import from the vacuum hopper or a tank :)

[@spaceman7019]

You have created everything from thin air and terror. Well done!

[@smooshymemes]

Can't wait for the next installment of "does it stack"!

[@SupersuMC]

After he discovered a way to get the Crimson Clerics, I'm convinced Goose will find a way to make the Stargate.

[@mememachine5417]

seeing over 30k mana pools being needed and you just going "oh ok, sure"; you absolutely scare me, Mr. Goose. Is there truly no problem you'll not ram your skull into until it works?

[@kgmtstuff]

i love femboys

[@aidangriffith6539]

For the void metal, if you have an OpenComputers robot right click with the thaumcraft book that shares your research, items the robot drops will work on the crucible

[@ERRR0RR]

Are you just guessing or does it actually work like that?

[@calvindang7291]

@@ERRR0RR Most good player simulator tools work like this, so I'd believe it from them saying it alone, but I figure there's no reason to say it unless you've done it before.

[@diablominero]

Angel blocks are one option for getting blocks to build on. Another is jumping into the void to get a piece of corpse dirt and building off of it.

[@nershacreave6044]

But he'd lose all the precious healthbars :c

[@rin_reverie]

Uber enchanting actually being useful in this challenge and not just a bit of goofy ahh hyperjank is frankly incredible and also, perhaps, a big terrifying? Great work as always, this series continues to help satiate my desire for gregging while dealing with a fibromyalgia flare up that keeps me from actually playing the game myself

[@ConductiveFoam]

Damn I hope it subsides soon. Have a good weekend!

[@qwertyram4598]

Imma be honest. I thought I understood programming, but watching you set up and explain the EMI networks... I am just confused and drooling

[@dnidaz2553]

can't wait for the the tirle to just be "i corrupted my save, on suicide watch"

[@electricnezumi]

no way he doesn't back up his stuff

[@HorkSupreme]

That's why I stopped playing New Horizons, I was just starting IV tier!

[@JessicaMorgani]

​@@HorkSupreme Back up everything important please

[@ronanhartman8942]

I love how you dived straight into uber enchanting as soon as you saw it as a solution!

[@lapisliozuli4861]

Hearing you saying that 17K nuggets are tractable to craft is actually inspiring me to grind some real-life work.

[@mehdilacombe7241]

the goose is loose

[@platannapipidae9621]

You're ruining my plans to go to sleep at a reasonable hour rn.

[@mmllmmll22]

Why? It's 1hr till Your comment and it's 22 (in 24hr format, 10pm for the ppl who can count up to 12 😂) There is still some night up before us!

[@aninternetuser8102]

@@mmllmmll22 Timezones?

[@platannapipidae9621]

@@mmllmmll22 it was 22 at the time. I need an hour or two to fall asleep.

[@kittyshippercavegirl]

we love a bit of goosetech new horizons

[@EyelessJackOfficial]

"Because 17,000 items is entirely durable by hand" Words uttered by a madmen

[@VeryPeeved]

Doable.

[@HorkSupreme]

It's only 10 inventory full worth of crafting, minus the hotbar, if it stacks to 64.

[@PlayfulPiano]

I just made 4096 solar panels by hand, although I also could be defined as insane.

[@EyelessJackOfficial]

@@PlayfulPiano Thankfully I was not the one in the friendgroup back in 2015 playing Industrial Craft 2 and crafting the Ultimate Solar Panel, I think that required 4096 lmao but yea that's insane

[@PlayfulPiano]

@@EyelessJackOfficial I'm eventually gonna need make a specific line for panel crafting for compressed panels. 8x base cost per compression.

[@malistairs]

How hé IS keeping such a regular upload schedule while suffering like this IS beyond me

[@kiru3728]

I think his Adderall helps him drastically to edit and script in time

[@white-bear-san]

God’s weakest gregtech player

[@Catman_CM]

He's not suffering :P When he got bored waiting in this episode, he built a second nuclear reactor, instead of letting the game run AFK while he did something else.

[@FantasmaNaranja]

impressive and entertaining as usual, cant wait for the RLcraft series

[@LinkIsGrim]

Don't think I've seen a new channel make content this consistent and good quality since DoshDoshington. Good shit, you psycho.

[@NoName-sv2uz]

Another dosh fan in the wild?

[@juacjuac9876]

Hey goose, maybe i'm not the first one to mention it but there's a game called "Factorio" which is all about automation and i feel like it'd fit with your channel and you'd have a blast with it. Great videos.

[@ebmusicman84]

For someone with this level of mastery over GTNH playing Factorio would be like playing with baby's letter blocks lol.

[@juacjuac9876]

@@ebmusicman84 yeah right, i'd like to see him TRY space ex

[@sewerentropy5217]

​@@juacjuac9876 i've played both and GTNH is much harder by a large margin. i have yet to find a factorio mod that is even half as complex as GTNH.

[@owenchafer1083]

@@juacjuac9876 Eh, I don't think space ex would give him all that much trouble compared to this nightmare. Space Ex is....what, 250 hours to complete? Bit more with Krastorio. GTNH estimates tend to put the mod over 1000 hours. Granted, a good portion of that time is grinding, but I don't think Space Ex would be all that difficult, aside from maybe some of the unique challenges that mod provides.

[@abadhaiku]

By the way, you can automate your metal duplication crucible shenanigans with an impulse hopper from EnderIO and a level emitter to activate the system EDIT: Or at least you could in later versions. I don't know why it requires a player in this one.

[@calvindang7291]

Pretty sure crucible items only craft if you have the research for it. And the item needs some way to be attributed to you rather than something else.

[@Expysudema]

Unbridled rage vs gravity XD

[@bobroberto95]

as always, i enjoy this journey into the madness that is GTNH with the added challange of starting in the void, i wish you well and hope that you don't ever burn out.

[@NonFunPun]

you said you had experience with Blightfall in one of your earlier videos in the series. Would you ever consider making a series out of that mod pack? I haven't ever seen anyone make any videos on it

[@lukasalbert417]

i stopped playing my normal run at reaching and maintaining EV, so seeing you go for such insane crafts is so fun tbh ! going to love what comes next !

[@Law-and-Disorder]

God I love the commentary. I have 0 idea whats going on at any point but I'm laughing so much it doesn't matter.

[@Dortimus]

This is my favorite series on KZbin right now. And also the best one I've seen in a long time.

[@ShamelessDuck]

New Goose video = weekend good

[@Juixe]

every time one of your videos comes up in my feed it makes my day god bless

[@ЕвгенийБагрянов-н9э]

23:30 And Railcraft can build this road for you. Also, if I'm not mistaken, you could have bought high-speed rails before the steam age. And even the path from vanilla accelerating rails will be faster than any other way of moving for you)

[@Saplingbat]

This is like how OSRS rewrites your brain. "Oh it's just a like twenty hour grind, that's not to bad, if I go hard at it I can get that done in a week".

[@danifaragoi3709]

Would you ever consider live streaming? Your voice is just so soothing I think I'd enjoy even the most incoherent ramblings

[@neptoast5357]

You can use the filler block from BuildCraft to mine the asteroids after you mined them with the IC2 miner.

[@MrFilgueiras.]

I'm wondering what is gonna be the thing that makes beating the modpack this way impossible since you said it is, it just looks like you have everything at this point

[@jillfizzard1018]

Afaik you can't get chaos shards in this ruleset, which are eventually required

[@is1there2tomorrow]

My favorite moment of the week is these episodes. Thanks goose.

[@aerbon]

oh hey the wand focus of nine hells! it was my favorite in creative mode way way back when i started modding

[@adrunkenloner]

Ah, sweet, having to solve a problem in gregtech by throwing 20k items at it, never seen that before /s

[@realtrollface101]

It amazes me how fast you can upload these! Do you need a break or something?

[@iKakProsto4]

you can use data dumps from NEI options > Tools to check enchantments and etc

[@eragonawesome]

So, I have no idea if it'll work in your version, but last time I played with Industrialcraft active reactor cooling, it was perfectly valid to have a single slot in the corner dedicated to Ice and the entire rest filled with maxed out fuel rods. It burns the ice at insane rates, but if you can keep up with how fast it burns through stacks of ice it also generates obscene amounts of power

[@jillfizzard1018]

Yes, this still works, and there are actually optimized setups like that that use a vacuum freezer and coolant cells.

[@ERRR0RR]

25:09 From very easy to craft Botania rods that place either cobble or dirt for negligible mana?

[@HorkSupreme]

Ssshhhh, we like his suffering

[@turner7777]

Since i discovered your channel from the first episode im in love with your content 🔥

[@jacksonhughes8119]

im zooted and i audibly gasped when i saw this vid im so happy theyre all i want in a modded mc series

[@Dirge_of_Swans]

You know what sounds fun? Maybe every 20 episodes or so, you could check your Statistics to see just how wild some of the numbers get

[@tuckertechnolord6126]

I’m so glad I started watching this series, it makes a great breather in between the 3-6 episodes of hermitcraft that come out on Friday from the half the server I’m watching

[@MathewSan_]

Great video 👍

[@CAL2ski]

I'm surprised that there's not a beacon at the base yet with like the faster mining stuff on it with the amounts of block broken

[@atpyro7920]

A lot of the tools he already has have that mining speed built into them

[@CAL2ski]

@@atpyro7920 that’s true, just wondering why not anything on top of that as well

[@atpyro7920]

@@CAL2ski diminishing returns and loss of fine block control (it would be fine on the terra shatterer, but it would be annoying having to constantly patch up holes in the floor you didn't intend on making, plus it could potentially break machines depending on what part of the floor he was mining out)

[@grimstruck5300]

Got to love a they are billions reference

[@NotSterline]

This is maybe the first video where I was completely lost at a certain point. Maybe I just need to play GTNH myself, but the description of... just what the hell was happening with the chemical reactors went over my head entirely. 10/10, wouldn't have it any other way.

[@DatMagicBoii]

The highlight of my Friday evening is back!

[@demidemonym]

Looks like the Rite drop rate is 2.5% + 0.5%/looting level? Which is fascinating since that means it gets half benefit from Looting compared to a vanilla rare drop. Ergo to be absolutely sure, you'd want to uberenchant to looting 195.

[@marhola100]

No idea what you're talking about as the most complex mod I've ever played is probably a tool belt mod but this is so much fun. No idea what and how you're crafting stuff, but you can feel the progression, the drama and, marginally, what does what. Looking forward to the next episode.

[@kelabshearer5045]

never add comments for engagement but im watching through this and it has all the hallmarks of "relatively niche youtuber who is about to blow up" and as I think it is deserved here I am

[@bubzer]

I just learned about this challenge a few minutes ago and youtube kindly showed me this video. I can hear pure insanity dripping from every sentence you say. Please, seek help... Great video, tho!

[@WhoLeb7]

I started watching at ep 7. It was fun, I kept watching and it kept going from a fun Minecraft run to debilitatingly confusing tech stuff. I only ever played magic mods in techno-magic packs

[@CyreneDuVent]

Unlike this sorta pack, playing RLCraft will never be my kinda thing, but I really enjoy your video style so I look forward to watching you do it!

[@freekbertens4729]

This playthrough has actually been the most interesting so far, from the comments to the gameplay and tricks used Could you also make a video when ur done about how you could have used exploits to speed stuff up when your done ? Like, what if the ruleset was none besides no creative and no spawning stuff in

[@JoseVillalobos-n2i]

Up to episode 19!!!! I’ll like and comment but I haven’t started the series yet it looks like a banger though

[@Blue-Maned_Hawk]

With as many quests as the pack has, i'm honestly kinda surprised that you've only stumbled across _one_ so far that's broken.

[@TheM8]

I believe 255 is max enchantment so 180 should not overflow things.

[@Raidho_Sketch]

It would perhaps be prudent to say that you should test the void putty a bit more before going on such a journey - for us, the durability goes back to zero once the ring goes into a pool.

[@Ultrapwner45]

My girlfriend refers to you as Erotic Goose. I .. I think she might be right.

[@NekoDae]

I've been enjoying this series so much, and it is a good day when the goose posts so i'm sure i'll be enjoying the rlcraft series just as much

[@strong541]

Just binged this series. Can't wait to see the new one. Goodluck gregging and rl crafting

[@PlayfulPiano]

sincerely your have such a great comedic tone and vocabulary it's great

[@markdombrovan8849]

Only took like 20-30 hours to get started. GT new horizons.

[@theexpanse1371]

A base held together by UNBRIDLED RAGE-

[@yellowJayt]

for some reaon, I expected him to make a '*normal*' base like 3 or 4 episodes ago 🤣

[@kitakin10]

thank you for another excellent video, i look forward to your RLCraft

[@diablominero]

I'm glad you found a use for uber enchanting.

[@AnInternaut]

I cant wait for episode 2000 and the stargate being built

[@djaydeved]

as allways great video from the goose.

[@SkyeEnno]

You cant tell me what to do!! *jumps into the ore washing pool*

[@FizzbanTheFabulous]

I've been looking forward to this all day ngl

[@theguch4151]

Let us not forget this all came from literally nothing

[@redwoodclimber]

Wake up babe, new Neurotic Goose video dropped

[@kittyshippercavegirl]

time to watch this while I try to figure out how to re-order my nomi ceu base

[@kittyshippercavegirl]

if I can even comprehend doing so, no idea how you learn this stuff

[@kittyshippercavegirl]

i guess really i need to multiblockify everything im commenting too much sorry goose love the videos

[@sopwithcamel5519]

This overenchanting arc is the most exciting thing 😯

[@SkyeEnno]

mm yes i definitely understand the LCR things

[@P0P218]

oh, seems like i watched all of them videos now i must go back and do it again i guess

[@imaplaygames633]

Good video, algorithm bless you.

[@sangoforto3589]

I really think you should add lamps to mob farm to light up when overflowed, unless fps drop already became your favorite reocuring joke

[@spok_real]

mob farm isn't even passive spawns anymore, it's a weird bee that spawns mobs from their drops

[@GLUTENFREEbeelzebub]

i love watching fix it felix play minecraft

[@gamingpotatobr8327]

13:30 IIRC it's called wallsharing

[@ThePixelPear]

When you finish this series you should try out that weird KZbin things and shove all the videos together and call it a movie/supercut, and see what happens. 😂 Anyways enjoy the series

[@SupersuMC]

YESS

[@NickiRusin]

father fed us once again we remain grateful