The Ultimate GTNH Beginners Guide - Episode 1

[@Garronimo]

Leave your best tips for the start of the game!!! See you next Tuesday for Episode 2, the Stone Age!

[@Alex-ik8pr]

This was brilliant, well made!

[@salsasp5859]

My best early game tip is make sure to use the coin shop as much as possible, there are all sorts of goodies in there that are useful from stone age all the way up to EV!

[@Garronimo]

COIN SHOP OP - i bought sooooooooooo many circuit parts :P

[@qaptain3739]

Great tip! Notably leather, wool (can also macerate into string), clay, sticky resin (I skip tree taps entirely and only use resin from the coin quest or slime from slime tree extraction until I get fish catchers set up for infinite free slimeballs), glass dust, pistons (for drawer upgrades, later you can just use pistons), chad, rubber, crop sticks, vishrooms (to turn into primal shrooms), then wire/cables/diodes/circuit stuff, and of course ae2 glass cables and processors later.

[@mcpkdot]

AE2 shop is really good

[@Garronimo]

@@mcpkdot 100% glass cables ftw

[@radwalt3944]

I think this is the sign I needed to finally play gtnh

[@Garronimo]

100% - simply the best!

[@burninglake_]

There's either GTNH Beginners, or those that have reached Stargate. There's no in between. That said, I'm beginner too, great video! :)

[@Garronimo]

FACTS

[@GRUGorious]

yeah, think of Greg tech like Meth, there arent really "casual meth users" either they dont use it, or are competitive nose candy snorters

[@WorstieZ]

Finally !! Someone explains for us noobs in perfect manner. Thanks Garronimo. This is awesome. I needed it. I never had guidance for GTNH, now I got it.

[@Garronimo]

You're welcome! See you back for the fun in the Stone Age next week!!! :P

[@DaveRibber]

Thank you man. I am also total beginner to GTNH and your tips, especially NEI and chunk claiming ones are so helpful! If i can add one thing from myself is that veggie sandwiches and their variations(bund, baguettes) are very cool for early game since all you need are onions tomatoes cucumbers and wheat to counter diminishing returns

[@Garronimo]

great add! and glad it helped!

[@ascendingrules]

That was an excellent starting guide. Thanks. Small coal blocks drop coal which can make torches before getting coke ovens. Sometimes found at the mouth of caves or sides of mountains near a coal vein. Doors and pressure plates are very annoying to build but you can ahem borrow them from villagers. Rice comes only from the water gardens which are rare and only found in water (forgot which biomes). Repeating the very high value of steel ingots, steel armor and steel molds (which can be melted down later). Avoid red cultists. There are many other fun surprises to discover in the wilds, a few of which are nice. You will want a dozen stacks of sand in the very early game, and as much clay. Make note of where you can get them before settling down. Use journeymap bookmarks (and keybinding) to note biomes, ores, and features/treasures to visit later. And bookmark your base.

[@Garronimo]

great tips! legend!

[@baal8938]

gtnh is everywhere I can’t escape it any longer

[@Garronimo]

Don't! I can't name another game I can play 1175 hours of, become what feels like all powerful multiple different times, and yet still be just at the tip of the iceberg. Truly a masterpiece of modded gaming built on arguably the greatest platform for gameplay customization of all time, Minecraft.

[@TheAganthor]

Excellent video. Love the pace, the montage and your energy. 🤜🤛

[@Garronimo]

Thank you!! Glad you enjoyed. Had a blast making them, and still more to do!

[@mitchellcochran4338]

Saw the link on r/GTNH. Came, saw, liked, and subbed. Can't wait for part 2!

[@Garronimo]

glad to have you! check out the actual playthrough while you wait! :P

[@Ham-Corp]

Oh boy can't wait for the building tips episode

[@Garronimo]

There will be a whole miniseries on this!

[@Cera_01]

Thank you for showing the CTRL + Shift + A method for bookmarking the recipe! It absolutely carried me through the early game. I would definitely explain further how to nest recipes and increase the amounts so you can make your first coke ovens and PBFs. Trust me it is very nice

[@Garronimo]

great idea! adding this to the list of things to summarize!

[@qaptain3739]

@@Garronimo Also right-clicking the 1/1 at the top to toggle scaling the whole page can be useful, especially early since I at least tend to add and remove recipes more often. I would also explain how to search inside the machine/crafting bench recipe page for a particular item, I remember struggling with tool recipes or tinker parts for example before I learned you can search for "manasteel" or whatever inside the recipe page, helps when there are hundreds of recipes for a thing and you're looking for something in particular.

[@tekeagle2136]

Excellent video. I have recently started modded Minecraft back up, with GTNH as one of the modpacks I have been wanting to start playing again.

[@Garronimo]

With the 2.7 update its the perfect time to revisit GTNH - so many cool new additions! like 40 new multiblocks or something insane. What a pack.

[@Owainmclain]

This is amazing! I just recently startd LV and this woul've been amazing to have watched

[@Garronimo]

LV coming soon!!!! glad its helpful and hope the follow up episodes are just as useful!

[@WhiteEagleLive]

This will have a great impact for new players of GTNH. Amazing style to this one. Excited to see more!

[@Garronimo]

Big E! Legend! Thank you kind sir (i might have taken some sound cues from your latest work)

[@Fargus48]

One of the best places to setup a beginning overworld base is a walled village. Villages have a chance to spawn with wall around it and a full tinkers smelter minus the controller. It will save you from the first digging marathon.

[@Garronimo]

village life for the win! useful for so much too

[@popov9651]

Thank you so much. Will be very useful when i decide to give GTNH a shot

[@Garronimo]

I'm glad! It's definitely a commitment, but it's so so good - it took me from ready to give up on gaming to starting this channel because i love it so much

[@DjYale]

Wish I had this when i started playing man it woulda helped so much

[@Garronimo]

You made it work! haha maybe I will catch up to your progression with the guide in time to be useful :P

[@margedion]

Thanks for your work, the guide is really nice 🙂👍 Looking forward to chapter 2 :3

[@Garronimo]

So glad it helped! #2 next week!!!

[@margedion]

@@Garronimo Wow, amazing! 😍 I can't wait to see it 😀

[@ChrisElison]

Great video! I will definitely have to give GTNH a proper go!

[@Garronimo]

YEEEEEEES - exactly what i hoped!!!

[@blacktemplars5026]

Thank you for the screenshot for what comes from gardens going to make my life easier

[@Garronimo]

you bet! glad it helps!

[@HJM9x]

I would recomend increasing the amount of nei history to 4 rows. It rare you find a item low down, but that extra history saves a lot of time

[@Garronimo]

great suggestion! i am going to do this myself

[@Sebastian-bo7vj]

Listing to this, while making my EV Mega void base

[@Garronimo]

LOL well you can fact check me!

[@qaptain3739]

Great Episode 1! You can also do just "/sethome" for your main base, and then you just have to type "/home". I also personally always choose lootbags from Stone -> MV and save all of them to trade up to MV lootbags. Why? There are no repeatable quests for MV lootbags, so they are unobtainable once you complete all the quests that give them, and they can contain up to two creative tinker modifiers (to use on the crossbow bolts), the best crossbow in the game, the best bolts in the game, the best hammer in the game, and a decent sword. You also gain the ability to enchant all the bags with Fortune 3 in MV. Do you need to do this? No, but there is no other way to obtain these items, since the other bag with creative modifiers is limited and to craft items with the same stats you need more levels and XP. It's not worth worrying about if you don't do it since all that stuff doesn't really matter in EV+, but I personally like to do it. HV+ lootbags have repeatable quests you can do to obtain them. For food, I personally never bother with planting any food crops or crafting any food earlygame, I just throw down gardens all around (they spread up to 6 adjacent of the same type) and then live off of the quest rewards and the garden drops until I can craft a healing axe (needs enchanting table from wizard tower level 2 or a lootgame), but if you're a beginner and not rushing, that may not work well, plus the kitchen multiblock is one of the coolest ones and I am guessing it feels good making/using it early on. The biggest early-game tip I can say is that a rule of thumb is that everything you do now will take half the time in the next tier, including exploring, so focusing on completing the tier is almost always mathematically the "best" use of your time for progression, but having fun is the actual best use of your time, so do what you find enjoyable. Bees, ic2 crops, thaumcraft (outside of like the minimum for boots, thirsty tank, thaumic restorer, skullfire sword, and the crops), all of these are almost a complete waste of time before EV or so and are even easier to do even later on (due to world accelerators, opencomputer scripts, research-completing machines, AE2, or in IV for example there is a repeatable quest for a pure tear, which can clear all your warp), but they can be a fun distraction/side quest, so focus on what you think is fun. Building a nice base takes a lot of time too but can feel more rewarding for many than spending the time doing something else.

[@Garronimo]

*__- me when i've been typing extra characters for 10 years

[@britt5355]

Wow this was such a fun watch.. i might have to try gtnh now! 😬

[@Garronimo]

i think you must... it is written

[@AGoodTaco]

I can confirm that it is hard to obtain the healing axe if you accidentally put the world on default when setting up a server. It is painful, but it is possible to obtain the flowers for the rainbow curry by using a bee apiary to spawn random flowers.

[@Garronimo]

this is how i got lavender before finally finding the tiny lavender field biome that was hiding in a very small unexplored area between two thousands of blocks long exploration lines less than 1000 blocks from my base after finally making the biome compass lol

[@dashinking]

Now I can finally start playing this pack

[@Garronimo]

just.... DO IT (shia labeouf meme)

[@Fargus48]

Make a tool belt as soon as you can. It gives you an extra hotbar that you can switch to with a keybind.

[@Garronimo]

YES i missed out on a few convenience items for too long

[@Fargus48]

@Garronimo i got all the way to ev before thinking to make one. I have a bad habit of ignoring QoL items/mods if I don't immediately recognize the usefulness.

[@Aesir336]

Amazing tips! Would love if some of the future episodes include aspects related to base building: early bases, size, layout, chest organization, early tools for leveling terrain, wood adquisition... that sort of things. Not long ago I tried to get into the pack but I absolutely suck at making bases and organizing chest, and made an awful underground base that made me quit at the late stone age/early steam age because every room expansion took ages. Also spent a lot of time flattening the terrain around my house just with Tinkers' iron tools, which weren't so slow but still took a bunch of time. Maybe there are better options at early game for doing these tasks? And if I got overwhelmed just with early base progression, I don't even want to know how I would solve the situation about all the machinery, energy generation, pipes, etc., you need some stages later xD. Thanks a lot for this guide and waiting for the next chapters!!

[@Garronimo]

I do touch on this a bit as part of this guide - BUT I'm planning a whole world/base building miniseries and you just inspired a video specifically on modded bases!

[@Aesir336]

@@Garronimo Nice to hear that!! I know I would absolutely enjoy this modpack to the fullest because I love all the grind and microcrafting needed to progress, but the building and organizing aspect just keep getting in the way for me so I'm so glad you'll be doing some sort of series around that, can't wait!

[@Alex-ik8pr]

Tip i just learned today: make sure your LV basic steam turbine has STEAM going in, not WATER - god knows how it happened but took me like 10 minutes to notice 😂

[@Garronimo]

LOL i have so many of these little quirky problems - the joys of large scale automation! :P

[@luthrin]

Couple more food tips, get a decent farm for beef wellington (with tofu or cows whichever) as early as you can, its really inexpensive but gives a full bar of hunger and saturation, for a steady food source you can eat mostly that and berries in between to reset the counter and it'll work well enough if you don't care about raising max health at the moment. Also, when he says eat everything, that means eat EVERYTHING once, including rotten flesh and raw meat, they count for the extra hearts too

[@Garronimo]

@@luthrin haha yup! EVERYTHING

[@Battlefieldfan146]

my tip is that you have to turn on the /home command and chunk claiming/loading in the ServerUtils config lol

[@Garronimo]

lol indeed

[@FenriXHolzkiste]

now this is just wonderful

[@Garronimo]

[@GeeNeeUss]

Yes! Next stop, megabuild :P

[@Garronimo]

Best pack to do it!

[@risingtideedits2714]

Best pack ever just got even better

[@Garronimo]

[@MrAntiKnowledge]

Finally they fixed toasters!!!

[@Garronimo]

@ THE TOOOOOOOOAAAAAASTEEEEEEERRRRRR

[@The_Watcher_Official-1]

You should make a guide all the way up to the stargate. 😂

[@Garronimo]

hah - we'll see how much I can do!

[@NRC_ST]

Hello sire, thanks for the video, can I know what shader you where using in this video ?

[@Garronimo]

hello! I am using complimentary neon by sampsa - you can find them in his discord, linked from his twitch channel. I also have a video on my channel where you can find the link to his twitch

[@NRC_ST]

@@Garronimo Thanks you for your reply :)

[@cocco997]

very good video for begineer. keep going

[@Garronimo]

Thank you! I will!

[@sy_0101]

Nice vid :)

[@Garronimo]

tysm!

[@autopiloot]

Do you use shaders and/or a texturepack?

[@Garronimo]

I use sampsa's complimentary neon shaders, no texture packs. You can find them in his discord, linked from his twitch, linked from my video on shaders!

[@alexmiller5293]

🔥🔥🔥

[@Garronimo]

Legend!

[@numiriot]

What shaders do you use?

[@Garronimo]

sampsa's compliementary neon - there's a video on my channel that explains installing it (in 2.6 - in 2.7 just don't unzip) and has the download locations, etc - you can find them in sampa's discord linked from his twitch - the settings have changed a little bit in 2.7 so i might do another video

[@numiriot]

@@Garronimo Thanks. Video with an explanation how to do the settings for 2.7 would be nice.

[@vile403]

my tip is there is no shame in playing this game on peaceful :) though you will want to toggle it on and off most likely

[@Garronimo]

100% facts - there is no shame in making any change you want to make. Teleport using waypoints, or turn off mob griefing, or turn off pollution, or do all of the above. whatever it takes, especially on a first run. do challenge runs later if you want some extra delight!

[@Se7en7upp]

I am playing gregtech new horizons too and my questbook seem different than yours, like the quest "bio for the masses" , do i have the wrong version ? am i missing something ?

[@Garronimo]

do you know which version you are playing? this video is based on version 2.7 of the modpack, if your questbook looks different you might still be on 2.6 or 2.5

[@lucasdalfovo72]

Goated

[@Garronimo]

The snowball really starts rolling in episode 2! Had so much fun with animating I might just make a whole animated series :P joking but only kinda....

[@lucasdalfovo72]

@Garronimo I love this! Please keep UP the good work. Im playing GTNH seriously for the First time, going tô craft my First BBF today and I love the Guide. Hopefully I can progress and commit through the year since I can only play só much due to work and studies XD

[@Garronimo]

@ just get it in when you can, no rush! I've been playing my world for a whole year :D plus, that leaves time for me to make more guides before you get too far! :P

[@lucasdalfovo72]

@@Garronimo yeahhh, I wanna grind my commitment longterm lmao. Currently being playing atm10 with friends and having a Lot of Fun. But the Greg calls me.

[@GregtechEnthusiast]

Greg

[@Garronimo]

-orious

[@glacialvitality]

is there a world seed?

[@Garronimo]

it is -5234624573211279869 created in GTNH v 2.7.0

[@caedis_]

Time to make everything you said incorrect jk :P - pack dev

[@Garronimo]

lol well then i reckon more guides to make! "YOU WON'T BELIEVE THIS GTNH 3.6 UPDATE!" future title 100%

[@zuzoscorner]

Watching this despite never going to play it. i'll play some modern GT pack instead. modern AE2 addons are just too good ot pass up

[@Garronimo]

Looking foward to trying out some modern sometime soon myself! Though it must be said - theres a ton of crazy stuff going on with AE in GTNH too! Might cover some in the future!

[@Henny8D]

Buy the rocky hives. They are the same price as the others but are always pristine Oh and dont wait so long to start thaumcraft. The qol is really good but gets trivial later game

[@Garronimo]

nano boots of the traveler my darlings!

[@qaptain3739]

Thirsty Tank is super nice since you can get it as soon as you step into twilight forest and start thaumcraft. The crops are great too. Other stuff that requires infusion is gated behind MV laser engraver, unless you get lucky opening novice lootbags for the 8 arcane bricks drop. The eye of ender needed can be traded for from a priest, so you can get it at any point once you have emeralds and find a villager with a priest (pink robe), although some of the trades may require diamond gear depending on how lucky you get.

[@Garronimo]

@@qaptain3739 dang next time i am going to go for the thirsty tank asap for drinking hives dry of all their honey!

[@xxseesxx9234]

i moved 3 times already and i not even reached mv yet, can definetly not recomend, also deleting garbage is the most important thing in the early game, there is nothing more depressing than having chests upon chests of useless items you can only start processing in 7 days and by then you will have 1000x the supply for those

[@xxseesxx9234]

we definetly need a lootfilter

[@Garronimo]

LOL trash can is king

[@chronocepter]

You think GTNH is the best because you didn't tried Gravitas²? hehe.

[@Garronimo]

haha I'll add it to the list and let you know!

[@chronocepter]

@@Garronimo If you do, I suggest experimenting the earlygame without fancy map mods. disable the minimap and don't use worldmap. use only vanilla maps and banners to mark places and nifty ships navigation tools until you enable higher tech, for immersion purposes. glhf

[@pavlehdgamer8004]

I believe that FTB mods are not to be used for chunk loading as there is an intended way to chunkload also the sethome could be abused to fast travel to the moon or other dims. I would enjoy you saying how to remove the JEI similar items collaps (I personally hate it) and the new raw ore (pls also show how to remove it).

[@Garronimo]

noted on the item collapse and additional NEI/JEI information! maybe I will do a video specifically about all the capabilities, there are tons!

[@qaptain3739]

I mean it's your game, you can play how you want. The "official" stargate rules allow chunkloading and /home. The "intended" chunkloaders can also be laggy and maintaining them is trivial after HV, so I don't think it's encouraged to be used unless on servers that don't allow you to chunkload via FTB but let you use the chunkloaders. I think the official servers might have even disabled them because of lag. I personally love the new raw ore, it's so much easier to differentiate than the old ore blocks themselves.

[@Garronimo]

@ I am getting everything from bees so i actually have yet to even see a raw ore which is kinda crazy :P soon though! naq hunting begins in earnest

[@pavlehdgamer8004]

@@qaptain3739 yeah you do you