install industrial craft, make a ring of tesla coils.

>>21305
We did not try that out yet but, man, I hope you can combine it with industrialcraft. Or some other mods that give you a much needed buff in the later levels.

A rocket-launcher would definitely be nice.

>>21305
Minecraft tower defence, you say?

>>21308
A game that allows you to build defenses against hordes of enemies and then run around in a first-person perspective assisting them with your own weapons?

Capital idea! Someone should try selling that.

>>21309
It's called Sanctum. It's less fun than it sounds on paper.

>>21310
You must have some pretty exciting paper.

Wow, awesome mod! I can't wait to try this! Thanks so much for putting it up!

>>21316
If you want to we could start something together. The more the merrier ;)

>>21316
>>21318
Flynx X Tenyoken my OTP

Don't have the mod on hand to test this, but I think I just figured out a really simple (if incredibly time-consuming) way to autowin:
>find a nice flat area at ~64 elevation
>mine a 33x33 pit in that area, all the way down to the bedrock if possible (try to save the lava and a few stacks' worth of stone)
>build a 31x31 platform at ~240 elevation, centered over the pit
>place lava all along the platform's borders
>the only exit is a single ladder just outside the lava wall
>the nexus is dangling from the center of the main platform, accessible only by ladder (its own platform also doubles as an emergency maintenance and sniping platform)
At this point literally the only mobs that can get anywhere near you are zombie pigmen and pigmen engineers. Zombies can be killed by just luring or knocking them out of the magma wall (at that height fall damage is instakill), and engineers can be killed by just dropping more lava on them.

Couldn't you just make a flying fortress and use nether portals as the entry to win? Or can the spiders jump /that/ high?

>>21322
Clearly then, what minecraft needs is flying bats that pick up and drop spiders on you. Just like real life!

>>21322
the nexus, the thing that spawns the critters, needs to be close enough to the ground so the enemies have valid spawn points. also pig engineers ca build upward.

>>21319
Argh what did I do! Uh ...

>>21321
>>21322
There are quite a lot of ways to break the game/mod. Most of them consist of building impossible fortresses or traps the AI has no way of getting through. A flying fortress is the most common way of just outwitting the enemy. So you have to give them a fair chance - until new mob-types are added that will eventually even that out. It's more fun that way :)

As dumb as the enemies are (we are still talking about minecraft here), they tend to surprise you at times. The latest fort we built, the one in the OP, had a tiny-little underground room with the nexus inside of it. We built this whole big courtyard around it, plonked a tower on the shaft and set tons of traps (spiderweb, minefields, dispensers, you name it). While most of the earlier waves tried to reach the shaft to jump down to the nexus, there were those that just dug under our defenses and completely ignored the obvious path. We caught them after a while how they tunneled under our walls.

At the end of the round there was this enormous cavern under our base - they tended to ignore our defenses and did something surprisingly smart. Some even began to hole out a mountain that was nearby, as if they tried to secretly build a larger tunnel to our base from a point, where we couldn't see them.

One could argue that it's a no-brainer that they'll stupidly charge towards the nexus and, when its underground, just refuse to scale the walls of your fort, but this was still a pretty cool thing that happened. And even cooler if you have to improvise and make decisions on the spot to foil their plans.

>>21329
indeed, which is why at the top of the Keep is normally the place. so they want to go diagonally up. instead of down where they can tunnel. but yeah, some other mods just break it insanely.

>>21331
I donno, the sheer amount of mobs can really wreck your shit.

>>21339
s solid ring of tesla coils kept full power from a bunch of HV solar arrays. on top of every 5th coil is a DM pedestal with a archangel's smite ring.

>>21341
and then it becomes nighttime

>>21368
MFSUs dude.