Setup and play a hexxit updated server in minecraft

Hexxit’s New Experience

I was never sold on Minecraft. I gave it a few good tries, single and multiplayer, creative and survival, softcore and hardcore, and it never completely turned my crank. While I could recognize that Minecraft might actually be a perfect video game, the crafting, mining, and combat left me flat. The thing I enjoyed the most was loading up creative mode and flying around the randomly generated maps discovering natural structures and exploring them to their bottom. Unfortunately, there’s only so many abandoned mines and underground rivers you can explore before you get bored.

Then a friend told me about Hexxit, a modpack that promises high fantasy adventure. It’s a collection of mods that all work together to fill up your world with fantasy dungeons, tons of new magical loot, and minimize the resource gathering/grinding. I updated my client, downloaded the slick launcher, and gave it a shot. I was immediately impressed.

Within the first few evenings I was exploring strange fey worlds and castles controlled by liches. I was finding treasure chests brimming with magical swords, wizard’s staves, and magical essences at the top of monster filled towers. Portals to pocket dimensions cleverly played with my perceptions and then shat me out three miles away from my home base. Unique monsters slammed me around, picked me up and carried me away, and popped out of very walls of dungeons. Add to this the fact that you only need to dig about 20 squares down to find diamonds and you have a game that’s nearly 100% about the exploration!

Hexxit focused on exactly what I found fun about Minecraft: exploring a procedurally generated world. Only now there’s very real rewards and very real surprises as you’re zipping around looking under every rock and raiding every ruined fort.

Construction Guide[]

Assembling the smeltery is as easy as following the Mighty Smelting book you are automatically given by the game once you make all of the Smeltery parts. It will tell you the exact quantities of the items needed to complete a working, basic smeltery. The instructions to create the Smeltery parts are located in the copy of Materials and You (volume 1) that you get at the beginning of the game when you spawn. Generally, you want to have several layers for maximum efficiency, as it would be a slow and tedious process of continuously adding nine ore to the smelter, 4 to five is optimum.

Smeltery construction is easy. It’s just a floor and four walls. As an analogy, imagine constructing a building.  You must start with a ground level, then you add a first wall layer, and a second wall layer.  The smeltery is no different, except there are four requirements.

Smeltery Requirements

• There must be a 3×3 area of Seared Bricks acting as the base floor. This space must forever remain open for the Smeltery to function properly. Don’t place nor break any blocks from this 3×3 area.
• There must be a Seared Tank in the wall.
• There must also be a Smeltery Controller in the wall.
• You must have a Smeltery Drain attached (with a Seared Faucet, and something for it to drain into) if you intend to ever extract the molten ore from the Smeltery.

All bricks used in the smeltery. Please note that the Smeltery Drain has its faucet attached, though there’s no casting table or casting basin below the faucet.

Other than the few required bricks, you may use any combination of other bricks to fill out the space. Pictured are the bricks used in Smeltery construction.  On the left, the Seared Bricks (which make up the 3×3 floor of the Smeltery).  Immediately after that are the Seared Glass and Seared Window blocks, the Seared Tank  (required for Smeltery construction), the Casting Basin, a Casting Table, and a Smeltery Drain with Seared Faucet sitting atop another Seared Bricks block.

It is important to note that once you add basins and the outer walls, the footprint of the Smeltery can be as much as 7×7. What’s important is that the core 3×3 space remain open, and the floor of that space is Seared Brick blocks.

If you need a more descriptive guide, looking up smeltery construction videos in YouTube is a decent alternative. 

There are four steps in construction. «Roll up them sleeves» and get started!

Construction Steps

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Step 1. Place the 3×3 ground layer of Seared Bricks. This is the first layer. It’s easiest to just sink this into the ground so that it’s flat with the surface around it. The rest of the Smeltery will be built above this point.

Step 1:The dirt blocks are shown as reference for the size of the 3×3 base of Seared Bricks

Step 2. Place the second layer. Note that the bricks for the outer wall sit OUTSIDE of the 3×3 Seared Bricks floor. Two pictures provided to show progress of the build. Finish the second layer by placing a Smeltery Controller and a Seared Tank . I does not matter where in the outer wall you place these items; they simply must be present. You will know if you have completed this correctly if the Smeltery Controller begins to show a Furnace-fire particle.

Step 2 Part 1: Construction of the second layer halfway complete. Note that the 3×3 Seared Bricks floor is still completely open — it must remain this way.

Step 2 Part 2: The second layer of the Smeltery is completed. Note that the Smeltery Controller is burning and the 3×3 space in the middle remains intact.

Step 3. Build the third layer. You may use any combination of bricks to do this, but you must include a Smeltery Drain (and Seared Faucet and Casting Table or Casting Basin) so you can draw the molten metal out of the Smeltery.

Step 3: A mostly completed Smeltery design using mostly Seared Windows. The Smeltery Drain is missing a Seared Faucet and Casting Table or Casting Basin.

Step 4. Add lava to the Seared Tank by right-clicking the tank with a Lava Bucket. The tank can hold four buckets worth of lava(4000mb).

Step 4: Get ‘er fueled up with lava!

Done! That’s it. Add as many drains as you like, or make the walls entirely out of Seared Window or Seared Glass blocks (making sure that the second layer contains the Seared Tank and the Smeltery Controller!) if it suits your fancy. You can also make the Smeltery as tall as you’d like, and having a taller Smeltery will allow you to smelt more metal at once.  Just don’t fill in that 3×3 space in the middle!

Happy Smelting!

Workbench Backpacks[]

The Small Workbench Backpack is the same as a normal Workbench, but you can right click it while it is in your hand to open it instead of placing it. It does not have any inventory slots and is only used for crafting. The Big Workbench Backpack is the same as the Small Workbench Backpack, but it has eighteen storage slots. These backpacks are crafted the same way as the Big and Normal Backpacks, but a workbench is added to the empty slot in the middle. They cannot be colored. To craft an item using the Big Workbench Backpack the needed materials have to be placed in inventory slots of the backpack first.

All Workbench Backpacks conserve the items and their position in the crafting grid even if you leave the Workbench Backpack Interface, which is very useful for many crafting operations.

Notes[]

• Make sure to empty your Smeltery after every use completely, because small amounts of previously smelted materials can block your casting tables or casting basins. The small quantities of molten material will pour into containers and leave them partially full, unable to be interacted with. To resolve this, either break the casting table/basin or smelt and pour in more of the material you are stuck to top off the material.
• Materials that do not combine to make an alloy can be smelted whilst another previously smelted material is still in the smeltery. The materials will be drained off from the bottom of the smeltery first (i.e. in the order in which they were smelted). For example, if there is liquid iron in the smeltery, melting down aluminium will result in two layers of liquid metal.
• Standing inside the smeltery is not recommended — it will damage 1 point every 5 seconds, and it damages armors, but doing so will cause your tank to fill with blood.
• Seared tanks can each hold up to 4 buckets of lava
• If a Villager falls into a smeltery, it will add a layer of Liquified Emerald in the smeltery; this makes villager farms much more useful in Hexxit.
  • Each tick of damage the Villager takes whilst in the smeltery results in 1 nugget of Liquified Emerald
  • Smelteries can naturally spawn in villages increasing the chance of a Villager falling into it.

Hexxit 1.0.1 Is Now Recommended!

Posted by CanVox 8 years ago in Hexxit

Hexxit 1.0.1 is now marked Recommended in the launcher, and users will be asked to update the next time they attempt to launch Hexxit.  This release contains a number of improvements, including several Treecapitator compatibility fixes, fixes to several Better Dungeons crash and lag bugs, and the inclusion of Artifice and NEI Plugins.

The build includes the following changes:

• Treecapitator support has been improved across the board.  Treecapitator support should now be total.
• Cats from outer space will no longer crash land on the overworld.
• Meteors now only fall at night and fall somewhat less often.
• It is no longer possible to summon meteors into range of another player’s meteor shield.
• A bad entry which had been added to a configurable loot table has been removed- this should fix a client crash which would sometimes occur when opening a chest for the first time inside a Better Dungeons structure.
• A crash which would sometimes occur when decorating a kitchen room inside a Better Dungeon structure has been corrected.
• Better Dungeons has been updated to version 1.08a.  This should correct a crash bug with the turtle boss, as well as some TPS lag that many users were experiencing related to Better Dungeons.
• Artifice version 1.1.1.131 has been added.  Existing chunks will have Artifice worldgen added to them the next time they are loaded.  Flowers have been added to the surface, a layer of basalt has been added near bedrock, and large veins of Marble are now located underground.
• NEI Plugins version 1.0.9.3 has been added.  This should add NEI support for many Tinkers Construct recipes.
• Hexxit Gear has been updated to version 1.0.23.  This should improve the utility of the nightvision buff on some sets, as well as increase the prevalence of Hexbiscus flowers in new chunks.

Server owners can obtain the new server file from the following link: http://mirror.technicpack.net/Technic/servers/hexxit/Hexxit_Server_v1.0.1.zip

Namely, server owners should be sure to copy over the Chocolate/ChestConfig, config, and mods folders (but not necessarily the mods/resources folder, which has not changed).  The file Chocolate/config.prop should also be copied over.

Armor[]

For the full article, see Fire Protection.

Take less damage from fire. Not to be confused with the «fire resistance» buff, which gives you full immunity. Cannot be used with protection, blast protection, or projectile protection, except through randomly enchanted armor found off of Better Dungeons «boss» mobs.

For the full article, see Blast Protection.

Take less damage from explosions. Cannot be used with Protection, Fire Protection, or Projectile Protection except through randomly enchanted armor found off of Better Dungeons «boss» mobs.

For the full article, see Projectile Protection.

Take less damage from projectiles, such as arrows, fireball, etc. Cannot be used with protection, fire protection, or blast protection, except through randomly enchanted armor found off of Better Dungeons «boss» mobs.

For the full article, see Thorns.

When attacked with physical damage, the attacker takes some damage back.

Unbreaking

Having a chance to not take durability when being used. The chance is 1/2 for level 1, 2/3 for level 2 and 3/4 for level 3. This means a tool, weapon or armour piece enchanted with Unbreaking III will last four times as long.

Cold Touch

For the full article, see Cold Touch.

Freezes still and flowing water, allowing the player to walk on water. Note that it only works on Frezarite Armor.

For the full article, see Fiery Aura.

Causes any mob that deals physical damage to you (like a zombie) to be set on fire.

For the full article, see Exude.

Causes the withering effect to cause damage to the player at a slower rate.

For the full article, see Vitality.

4 Ranks: 5%/10%/15%/20% chance to apply damage to hunger bar instead of life.

Reading

For the full article, see Reading.

Can be put on Helmets. Allows you to «read» various Bibliocraft storage blocks. See Reading Glasses or Tinted Glasses for a better understanding.

Hexxit 1.0.5 Is Now Recommended!

Posted by CanVox 8 years ago in Hexxit

Hexxit 1.0.5 is now marked Recommended in the launcher, and users will be asked to update the next time they attempt to launch Hexxit. This release contains fixes to several Treecapitator issues (particularly big trees taking longer to chop down), as well as a fix to an issue which caused Shears to become some kind of crazy ultra-tool.

The build includes the following changes:

• A number of fixes were made to the Treecapitator config file.
• OffLawn! was updated to version 1.5.1.r02.

Server owners can obtain the new server file from the following link: http://mirror.technicpack.net/Technic/servers/hexxit/Hexxit_Server_v1.0.5.zip

Server owners will want to copy over the Treecapitator.cfg file as well as the OffLawn mod.

Notes[]

• You can wear backpacks. They take the place of your chest piece, and they will render on your character’s back as whatever color backpack you select. This will, of course, remove your ability to wear a chest piece. Alternatively, you can carry the backpack in your «second inventory», but this will not render on your character.
• It isn’t possible to nest backpacks (you can’t put a backpack into a backpack). This includes Ender Backpacks. However, it is possible to get a backpack into an Ender Backpack by putting it in an Ender Chest. These backpacks can then be retrieved from the Ender Backpack, but cannot be put back inside. You can also put a backpack into a bag, which can hold backbacks. The backpacks inside the bag can hold bags, which hold backpacks, therefore giving infinite inventory space. 
• On very rare occasions, you may find a passive Enderman with 60 health (Frienderman) wearing an Ender Backpack. This backpack comes from the Better Storage mod and can only be obtained by placing an Ender Chest next to the Frienderman, who will drop their backpack to pick up the chest.
• You may have as many backpacks as you want in your inventory.
• Backpacks are commonly found in dungeons and large pirate ship chests.
• Do not move the Backpack while in use, or you will drop it. You can alternatively push the number of the toolbar slot your pack is in while mousing over another item. The GUI will close, and the item you quick keyed to your hotbar will be in your hand.

A Few Examples

If “exploration heavy high adventure” doesn’t convince you, here are some of the mods that are included within Hexxit:

• Tinker’s Construct: Craft tools and weapons out of component parts to create your dream shovel. Socket in diamonds to increase tool durability, cover it in magic slime to make it tools repair themselves over time, and even craft a pick axe made out of flaming gems to instantly smelt ore! It’s complicated but a hell of a lot of fun.
• Asgard Shields: I just adore shields in fantasy games. Asgard Shield adds in a variety of shields that replace your sword’s normal parry as long as they’re in your Action Bar. In addition to each shield giving you unique passive bonuses (stone shields reduce fire damage, wooden shields allow you to “catch” arrows as they stick in them) the shields give you a chance to reduce incoming damage completely instead of simply reducing it. The depth of the mod is a lot of fun, especially for sword’n’board nuts like myself.
• Better Dungeons: This mod fills your world with awesome locations like volcanoes and jungle temples, but the real draw to Better Dungeons is its tweaks to enemies. Human enemies will be equipped with real gear with very real powers, so now your enemies may have their own healer, their own grappling-hook to pull you in, or even a grenadier to blast you and your buildings to bits from a distance. This mod also includes awesome staves for players, allowing them to fly like the wind and trap opponents in bubbles.
• Battletowers: Hope you like spawner and treasure filled towers with highly unstable golem bosses at the top of them.
• Dimensional Doors: Find moon-portals in the world that teleport you to Xen-like hallucinatory worlds. You can even build your own for people to discover!
• Chococraft: Chocobos. Chocobo breeding. Riding chocobos. How are you still reading this, go download this mod for Christ’s sake.
• Legend Gear: Inspired by Zelda, this mod provides you with a ton of awesome toys to play with, including magic medallions that charge as you take damage, boomerangs, and even special grass that provide you emeralds shards, arrows, and hearts. (The hearts do heal you!)

If you enjoy the excitement and exploration of Minecraft, or simply want to build your own castle in a world filled liches and giant mushrooms, you should download immediately. It made me a believer in the magic of Minecraft.

Minecrafty High Adventure

The most impressive part about Hexxit is that it focuses the player’s experience without betraying the core spirit of Minecraft. It is not an RPG, there are no stats. It is not a story game, there are no pre-made structures. It is Minecraft in every single way.

I like to think of Minecraft like a generic set of Lego blocks: you can do most anything with them as long as you provide enough elbow grease and imagination. But Hexxit is the Castle set of Legos that provide a granularity and specificity that aids imagination without restricting it. The mods provide you with new pieces and tweaks that promote a very new exploration-heavy experience, but ultimately you’re still finding your own fun by combining the bricks at your leisure.

Normal Backpacks[]

The Normal Backpacks add the equivalent of a small portable chest (27 slots) to your inventory. Although you can make it equal to the big backpacks in the config file by changing the number of rows up to six (the amount can be decreased also). To open it, right-click it when it is in your hand or put it in the chest piece slot and press B. You can color them with dye by putting any type of dye next to them in a crafting table. You can also rename them by sneaking and right-clicking the backpack while it is in your hand. It is crafted by putting eight leather in the outer slots of your crafting table as shown below.

How To Set Up a Hexxit Server

Server-Side Installation

1. Head to the Apex Server Panel, then scroll down to the section.

2. Click the menu dropdown, then scroll or search for .

3. Select then press .
4. It is recommended to create a new world when prompted, to prevent any issues.
5. Restart the server to load the modpack.

(Optional) Use Biomes O’ Plenty

1. Navigate to the Apex Server Panel, then press on the left.
2. Locate and open the section.
3. Scroll down to the section.

4. Replace the level-type with .

5. Press Save and the bottom, create a new world, then restart.

1. Download and install the CurseForge launcher from their site here.
2. When the app is opened, go to , then search for .
3. Click the one named , then press Install.

4. Once it is done, you can return to the section to find the installed pack.

5. Press Play to start the game with the modpack.

Gameplay

How to Get Started

Upon first spawning into the world, it is not much different from normal Minecraft, however there are immediate changes to the world that you may see:
 Biomes O’ Plenty

With Biomes O’ Plenty, it adds a whole selection of new biomes to the world. From the tallest trees, to colorful landscapes, this mod will change how you see biomes forever.
 Dimensional Doors

As you explore, you may notice a stone structure with a small portal. Careful, these are from the Dimensional Doors mod. The inside is often confusing and full of traps, so the chances of dying are quite high.
 Battle Towers

Finally, the most notable changes are the Battle Towers that spread throughout the word. These tall structures are full of loot and difficult enemies. You can receive some great early loot, but beware the flood of enemies that may follow!
 

Possible Mobs

As you travel, there are a number of mobs that you may encounter from a variety of different mods. Some of the ones you may find are:
 

Chocobo:

Chocobo are added into the world, based upon the Final Fantasy series. These creatures can be tamed and ridden.

Crab:

Crabs can be found throughout the world, primarily on beaches. They can inflict some damage if too close to them, but do not attack the player directly, even when hit.

Blue Slime:

Blue slimes are added to the world, although they can almost always be found on the floating colored islands in the sky. Their slime balls can be used to create slime weapons.

Warclops:

The Warclops mob spawns in the overworld. They are aggressive to any player nearby and can deal knockback and slowness when hit by it.

Battletower Golem:

A dangerous being that resides at the top of battle towers. They will appear when approaching the tower and will agro once near or when the top chest is opened. They are quite dangerous, so luring them off of the tower is the best option before they can damage any loot.

Infernal Mobs:

These boss-like creatures can spawn at any time and can be seen through their rainbow-like particle effects. The infernal mobs can have a wide array of powers, from summoning lightning to causing you to drown on land. They can be extremely dangerous, so if you aren’t prepared, try to run the other direction.

Notable Dimensions

 Atum:

The Atum is a sand world filled with animals, enemies, and dungeons. Whether you are taming a camel or facing assassins, you should be prepared before entering this dimension. If that wasn’t enough, there are always several dungeons, ruins, and much more to face. You can even face up against the powerful pharaoh boss battle!

To access the Atum, you will need to build a sandstone structure, fill it with water, then toss in a scarab from the mod’s items.
 The Aether

A classic mod, the Aether is a sky world full of wonders and sights to behold. As long as the sun spirit is living, it is always daytime, allowing you to traverse this beautiful world. If you want more of a challenge, the dimension features bronze, silver, and rare gold dungeons to test your strength!

To access the Aether, build a glowstone portal similar to the Nether, then use a water bucket to light it.
 The Erebus

The Erebus dimension is a close-knit bug world, filled with creatures that would love to snack on you. This dimension has all the materials you would need to survive, so you can theoretically stay as long as you like. But even the passive mods can be harmful, so watch your back!

To access this dimension, you will need an outline of stone bricks filled with leaves, then use a keystone and Staff of Gaea to access the portal.
 Twilight Forest

Another classic mod, the Twilight Forest is trees as far as the eye can see. That’s not all, there are also several structures such as hedge mazes, and even dungeons with strong bosses to face. One of the most well-known and beautiful dimensions, there is plenty to do here.

To access the portal, create a square of 12 flowers or mushrooms, add water in the middle, then toss in a diamond.
 

Other[]

Soul Attuned (Also known as «Soul» in both Enchantment Tables

For the full article, see Soul Attuned.

When an Amulet or Talisman from Harken Scythe is soul attuned the cost of souls is doubled while the cost of blood is removed for each use.

Blood Attuned (also known as «Blood» in both Enchantment Tables)

For the full article, see Blood Attuned.

When an Amulet or Talisman from Harken Scythe is blood attuned the cost of blood is doubled while the cost of souls is removed for each use.

Soul Tether

For the full article, see Soul Tether.

If the player dies, any items enchanted with soul tether will return to the inventory after the player respawns.