Minecolonies: Guide #1 - THE BEST START LOCATION

[@sjin]

Let me know your top hints and tricks for Minecolonies!

[@storm5936]

Always have 4-5 level 5 builders around so that any builder can take on any job. (Builders are the job that I personally feel should be priority 1 for getting maxed out IMO) Also always make sure you have more guards then you think you'll need

[@michaelgreen9237]

Supply camp and supply ship tokens can also be found in treasure chests found around the world. (unless the modpack disables that feature)

[@michaelgreen9237]

A big change in 1.18 is the addition of ruined colonies to world gen. You can find unclaimed colonies spawned in the world just waiting for someone to claim them and fix them up.

[@projectkabal]

Nice one Sjin, favorite would have to be dark oak, or Incan.... to be honest all of them have such great potential. I would love to see a future pack for hobbit style builds

[@nebuchadnectarthe2nd688]

I honestly didn't know it was updated. I have my own mine colonies in 1.64. on my hard drive archive. I use to keep back- ups of all minecraft releases, and mod packs. Alot of times, I play via, fml, spigot, ftb launcher, depending the naustsalgia felling

[@xSuperiorManx]

When I started my first Minecolonies game, I found an abandoned colony nearby and just took it. :D Saved me the building materials for the buildings that were already there, they just had to be "repaired" and worked fine afterwards.

[@helpmepls7154]

you can find abandoned colonies?

[@officialninya]

@@helpmepls7154 Yes, don't think it's in the 1.16 version which Sjin is playing, but in 1.18 and beyond they have abandoned colonies which can be taken and buildings are worn down and needs reparation more so than building. (missing blocks, cob webs etc.)

[@xSuperiorManx]

@@officialninya I'm not sure which version that was, but those buildings were just fine. No blocks were missing, they just didn't work after claiming them. I tried a few things and then found out that you just had to click on "Repair", wait for less than a minute and when the message about the building being repaired came on screen, it worked just fine.

[@trek6054]

can you share the seed?

[@studiedturtle4139]

I found one of those but it was birch so I just left it because it was ugly.

[@will2777]

Medieval oak is absolutely lovely, Space wars looks like a neat style, but after you described the fortress style, I think that sounds the most interesting.

[@AriinPHD]

i totally agree. id love to try caledonian too at some point but i wish there was a medieval oak small-buildings style. some buildings are just too big :)

[@SkillZgetKillZ]

Protip: every style has different resource count requirements, but the same exploration requirements And, every supply camp/ship has hidden extra resources (typically gold blocks) Fortress style is amazing on the top of a large flat extreme hills biome, keep in mind the builds are sized to chunks and fit like legos Spacewars is just Tatooine from Star Wars Taiga and Snow make for great space for the Nordic style Jungle style stacks over itself and is built up in the trees around 2x2 jungle tree trunks Hive style also stack over itself and all the builds share their walls Dwarven is fully underground and creates its own stalactites and stalagmites as you level up

[@Kahadi]

Some things I want to add to expand upon this: You can place additional camps and ships outside of Creative... But not for free. You only get the supplies for free once. But once you have your colony started and have a builder, you can find the camps and ships listed as decorations and have them build them. Like any other builds, you must supply the materials. So again, not for free, but if you want more purely for decorative purposes, you can still have them. Every single supply camp and supply ship has some hidden treasures like the block of gold shown in the fortress camp. Majority of them are all the same, but some have some bonus ones. Looking at the bonus materials they all have, Fortress is one of the best options, but not the absolute best. Cavern comes with two fully ready autosmelter setups, intended to help with all of the stone you'll need for a Cavern colony. Dark Oak (the one that's in a dark oak tree) has full leather armor, and though hidden, does have one of every vanilla plant, including cactus, bamboo, and all saplings, as well as beehives (gotta find them yourself). Caledonian is my personal favourite, as if you're willing to pull it apart, it has 6 full blocks of iron you can use, and being a flying ship, I find it looks cool and will keep you safe from most mobs, though it can be tedious having to go up and down all of the time. Those are, in my opinion, the most notable ones on top of the Fortress giving full leather, a shield, and a wooden sword (a great start if you make it right away), and most of the available plants. All of the ships and camps will have 16 of each raw meat (from vanilla, fish not included) and a stack of bread, as well as a full set of wooden tools. On top of the Townhall and Structure Wand, this is to help you get started. While the Fortress style does have a general layout to it, you DO NOT need to follow it exactly. The Townhall will show a guideline of suggestions (and some will be variables like "Farm or Miner"), but if you properly understand how they can connect (Citizen Huts are designed for corners while the Barracks are designed as the main gate, for example), you can mix and match however you want. The layout isn't complete, as far as I can find, and is only a suggested guideline. As such, I find the Fortress, following the layout, to be the easiest option for beginners, as it gives you a good sense of the priority for huts and lets you learn about how it all works without having to worry about where to put things for them to be functional and look good, while ignoring the layout is probably the most difficult because you can't just place stuff anywhere, they need to connect in certain ways to properly form a wall, even if they don't need to follow that layout. It also perfectly fits with the "flat surface is easier" part, as the Fortress layout doesn't really work with hills, you would need to terraform them and flatten them anyway.

[@CatLegoDiver]

I would love, love love to see you try Fortress. I've almost finished a complete Fortress colony in 1.18.2, including a moat. Fortress has some fascinating buildings that i think you would really enjoy, like an underground railway with a whole whack of different options, 3 different fully operational kelp farms, and fully-operational gates and drawbridges towers! Woo hoo! It offers two styles of guard towers, one of which is a corner exterior wall piece. I really love the way all of the exterior walls come together and the train system that runs along the inside will make your couriers very happy. I'd love to see you put your unique Sjin-ish spin on this kind of a build.

[@aaronevans7759]

I’m so happy your back

[@SargeWolf010]

Ngl 15:22 out all of these on this particular list... Fortress is definitely going to be my 1st 😂 🤔 or Dwarven idk yet😂

[@jsaysyay]

honestly i love the very medieval styles, like the oak ones, the fortress would seem cool to develop though

[@misterhaan]

just started a new world with minimal other mods using the shire building style. so far just have my builder's hut and town hall built and it took a lot of dirt to build the hill the builder's hut is tucked into!

[@leecooper1992]

Great way to end a long day ❤❤time to relax

[@thefallenonelucifer6]

I still would love to see a series of mine colonies with the Viking Lord jarl sjin

[@Dinhjason]

So this is how I start watching Sjin again... not bad

[@guidojacobs2002]

As you've said, Fortress is a good one for those who have already gone through Minecolonies, and you have gone through a playthrough. If you do start a second series of it, I feel like there should be some sort of handicap or twist to keep it from being just a repeat, in addition to a new build style. Maybe Fortress, maybe limit yourself to what Minecolonies provides and see how far you can go on that.

[@bluefinMarga]

You rule Sjin; thanks for this! Looking forward to enjoying it.

[@Agent_Zeta]

If only my laptop could handle any modpack. It can barely run tekkit. But this is very nice to have in the background.

[@justhannah4998]

oh hell yea!!! tha k you I've been looking for a video like this for ages!

[@Mabra51]

The dwarven style boat is a barge.

[@Zireal85]

Yes! Thank you 😊

[@simsationelle]

Playing this with 293 other mods on my steam deck amd it runs soooo well

[@starfrost276]

Sjintech back again party on party people now lets begin!

[@EveOnlineRanger002]

fortress looks epic

[@gangrel321]

The one you use in your series is pretty cool

[@bmxdude1337]

Nice chill video, this'll be a cool tutorial

[@JonTopping]

Also, I don't see a "guide #2" video on your channel. Did you not continue this series?

[@innocentqwa4630]

A nice first tutorial Sjin. :)

[@randomnerd5502]

Don't build a colony in a dark oak forest! Pillagers or whatever they are called swarm the forests and its so annoying getting constantly attacked. If you do, use mega torches dear god 😭😭 I had to build a dirt wall around my entire colony

[@knarftahw]

Nice.

[@imshortnlow4u]

I started mine next to a village and tore it down to make my colony, plus side is it came with 3 golems to protect my denizens.

[@GhostKnightTech]

In the Mine Colonies modpacks runs that I am doing I prefer to start with Supply ships because some of the ships have Dispensers on the ships that you can turn into cannons by adding buttons/ redstone items to the cannons and fill the cannons with fire charges / rockets to help with defending the colony from raiders (i.e. Pirates and their ships) and/or take the Dispensers from the ship and mount them on Walls around the colony to defend from the land based raiders (i.e. the other types of Raiders) In my Main MineColonies run, Knight's Cove the supply ship has help fight off 14 raids so far ( i.e. 8 Pirate Raids with ships, 6 land base raids) The Pirate raids included taking down the Pirate ships with fire (fire charges, TNT, & rockets ).

[@oluftheexplorer9476]

I would not recommend the boats because unless you can find a deep enough spot near shore, you will be digging a lot of stuff under water to be able to use it.

[@MrDigitalCypher]

well done Sir

[@buddyhoward8963]

Caledonia is my personal favorite though I need to sit down and do a survival run

[@EightMinotaur56]

Fortress seems interesting

[@lordphoenixmh]

Just gonna keep teasing us with the "Sjin" pack 🤣

[@chroniclesoflaura]

In my experience, you don’t need to be near water. My fisher hut had it’s own water that the builder supplied. Same with the sifter and concrete mixer. So I’m pretty sure you don’t need to be near any water, I wasn’t!

[@aev6075]

Sjin be back!

[@wookiebush7449]

I really like Asian style. I think it's unique while maintaining a village feel

[@JanosPusnik]

How did you add the better minecraft modpack to the minecolonies modpack? I don't know how to get it to work. Thanks for the help.

[@siebertjeeeeeeeeeeeh]

Hello Sjin do you have some links to the modpack(s) it looks great but I'm honestly not sure how to get started installing it.

[@Daren_PNW]

hey Sjin! any future collabs in the works with old friends or you stickin' it out solo for long run?

[@HazzronIV]

Fun-Fact Concrete ships do exist and they do float. Nightmare after four or so years because after that you're playing Russian Roulette with the hull cracks.

[@andrewn5349]

Anyway we can get your shader files?

[@phixidelta]

I have to add to watch later, only on episode like 40 and first 2 mins I'm like whaat 😳, that's a cool monorail but also spoilers lol 😆 I back soon ty for vid tho 😀

[@tobylowrey5767]

Is it better to play with a mod pack or just with shaders ? I want a really immersive experience to play with my friends

[@tomking1718]

if amazons attack when you build near a jungle doesnt that mean you should have a jungle close by you? and didnt you fly like 10,000 blocks to find a jungle at some point? or am i mistaken?

[@sjin]

nah we had to find a desert and a savannah, we do actually have a jungle biome on the corner of the colony, near where the foundry dungeon spawners are

[@mlt6322]

​@@sjinjust watched this video, note for future vids if not already mentioned. If you have the ability to edit configuration files you can change the number of supply camps allowed in the game.

[@BtolHiko]

Will I have to create a new world when I add this mod? Cuz I already have a survival world with other mods but I wanna add this, would I have to make a whole new world?

[@heskti]

what mod pack are you playing on

[@DP-hf7co]

what map mod are you using?

[@Semirotta]

I miss shaderpacks, but my PC is such a potato it barely runs anything these days so shaders are off the limit :D

[@Deaththe1]

So I’m playing craft to exile 2 and I’m trying to build my town and it keeps saying “trade routes to far away” and it has me traveling like 2500 blocks away into a volcano does anyone know how to fix this

[@MarkOleksander]

What are good seeds for flat areas

[@Yeloster]

What mods did u use for this

[@matthewjohnson4328]

Sigrun poutine😂

[@ВалерийИванов-х1ч]

Can someone help in this regard please? When I put up a building, I don’t have a construction fence around it, I can’t understand why

[@mcmarcoreal]

Click the building then building options and click build

[@TheSteveMeister]

Hashtag not sponsored

[@SkillZgetKillZ]

Didn't even mention the beehive over the bell

[@rcraft6594]

anybody knows where the ofc download for curseforge minecolonies is?