Minecolonies: 10 THINGS I WISH I KNEW EARLIER 

In terms of the activation range, there is an option under mod options to enable chunk loading of villages

the way you built your colony is amazing, not only on 1 big flat place, well spaced but not too much, fit perfectly with the decoration and im sure that i missed many stuff this is the hardest part for me, trying to make an efficient colony without doing it on a big flat place i'm still really amazed by the cave

An addition to Tip Number 2: I believe Chunk Loaders will also cause Minecolony NPCs to keep working as well. So if you have a mod with a chunk loader, you could also look into that. There are vanilla ways to make Chunk Loaders as well.

You can also use the books that drop from raids to "undo" the research, like the railways. They are quite useful if you want to take another branch of research like knight/archer upgrades or quicker learning/faster growing up. Using stock minimums on the buildings like smeltery is super good. Even lv1 building can keep few of them so you can set your stone smeltery at a stack or two of stone or bricks. This way even when you upgrade your colony you should still be able to keep up with the demands (unless you go like 4 builders, then you should get another smeltery). Best thing is that they will work on those stocks without request from the citizens which minimizes time wasted for waiting for resources. Same thing for restaurant and hospital, especially at late game. Stacking buildings works for research too. Most of the research are blocked by "have XXX levels of the YYY building". That means that you can go for 2 x lv2 building instead of one lv4 (very expensive at the start). You can also pre-plan your colony as you can craft the building blocks and place them, you just can't start building it till you research it. That way you can quite easily plan your industrial or farm districts. And placing a guard towers between 2-3 buildings helps keep up citizens happiness. They also increase the area of your colony, just like barracks. And they can be easily incorporated into most of the walls when using minecolonies walls. You can also go around the colony and smelt things in the furnaces. Each furnace works like the normal one but colonist do not get XP from them. So after a while if you use them you will get accumulated XP and that can amount to quite a lot in the bigger colonies.

LOVE these tutorials. I normally write down 'learning moments' while watching a stream but this is so much more organised and fun to review!

Ah yeah, sometimes it's a real grind to jump into a mod pack without knowing what you're in for but learning is key in all things. Great tips and thoughts about how you would've done things a little different. Well played.

honestly really love these informational type videos, also given that they partly function a little bit like a behind-the-scenes

Awesome video as always Sjin, definitely so many more tips you could share with us though!! Looking forward to learning more from you

This was so helpful 😭 wish I knew some of this before the server 🤣 Slay another day Sjin 💃💃

Would love to see Sjin do another run of this mod, but with a vastly different build style as there are now many themes. Maybe underwater? 😊

this was very helpful thank you you have saved me a lot of future headaches in my streams!

in my current colony i haven't recruited anyone from the tavern and just built it because it looks cool and gets me housing for my original 4 colonists. i'm hoping that keeping a school going and leaving children on will help me get higher skilled colonists. they seem pretty fast at making new babies as soon as i build or upgrade a residence!

I really want to playthrough Minecolonies, it's a super cool mod and it would be satisfying to have a full city with level 5 buildings like this, but it's also one of the more tedious mods. It can be fixed easily by having a "simpler" modes where you don't need to give the builder literally every single exact block, just the overall resources and they can craft it themselves.

love the tips

Sjin I would like to put an idea forward that may be interesting, why don't you combine all of the episodes of the mineColonies series into one massive video so that people can just put on the entire series on all at once rather than in small bits as a way to make an asmr or background video content for people to be able to rewatch the series all In one place, kind of like what yog cinema does but in video format and you could even put it to be live for the first couple of days of it running.

One thing on number 2, do you happen to have a distance from that player to the end of the range? May be good to know so that people can map that out as a “max range” to plan to. Basically, how far from Strawfingers cage to your walls? (Seems like a good enough range to at least plan to)

Good info Sjin 😀!!!

Great video, thanks!! I'm playing Valhelsia 5 and found a config option for enabled loading of the entire colony as long as a part of it as loaded. It's off by default so I recommend enabling that. I'm not sure it actually keeps the NPCs running or simply loads the chunks though. Maybe someone can confirm this?

Woah. Thanks bud:)

Smelters can actually smelt very fast as the smelter blding level and the stats improve. When blding and stats are maxed out, it actually smelts very very fast.

The 11th thing is that you should always include a XXX Casino.

Nice tips Sjin

Awesome stuff. I just started a pack called FTB Inferno that has a custom Nether themed version of MineColonies and this is going to help a lot I think.😁I do have a question. Can you add things like racks to builder’s huts or furnaces to the stone smelter to improve them without building the next tier of the building, or should I not mess with the buildings like that? Thanks.😁😁

for the stone smelter couldnt you setup minimums to keep the more important building materials in stock since they will be needed in bulk for a building but then not for awhile till you start your next project? then the stone smelter can work between projects to refill that supply?

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For them not being loaded, if you're in a modpack with chunk loading, you can just have the colony loaded

I think there's actually an way to keep the chuncks loaded whitout an need to have an player in there. But it only works in 1.12.2. All you have to do is to download an mod called ancient warfare and there's an block that keeps the chuncks loaded. I don't know if it works but it may work and it's an awesome trick for single player

MY GOD SJIN. *sniff* sjin.... I want you to know, that I have missed you, and your voice dearly. I am so happy youve been brave enough to starting releasing content again. I am STOKED for you!!! Cheers my dude! *sub*

"YOU CANNOT CONTAIN THE QUADS!" "How do we stop Aristotle!?" "It can't be stopped..."

Nice tips

Have you made and used the toolbox yet @sjin? Really useful..

Sjin, you should Talk about the supply Camp /ship next and how those buildings can help with starting and growing your colony.

Would using a nether portal chunk loader keep them working, or does it rely on a player entity being nearby?

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I recently got a steam deck and i was finally able to actually play modded Minecraft. I am playing a mod pack called all the forge 9 + i added mine colonies and it's dependencies

Good vídeo

about the slow smelteries i would have suggested having some minimum stocks in the warehouse instead..

I´m a total noob. But isn´t chunk loading a thing anymore in regards to the NPC activation range? I remember that chunk loading helped keep things (machines) running when I was away e.g. in other dimensions or exploring.

I had the setting to force load the colony turned on but how can I keep them loaded while I'm out of the colony?

Don't forget that colonists are DUMB. The last time I had a village near a desert, I had to clear out all the cactus in the region to stop the death spam from colonists ramming into cactus, then having the stupid undertaker also die to the same cactus...

I saw the chapters and the one titled red help button. I thought it was gonna be the subscribe button lol.

Gosh darn I’d love to be able to build tap colony like that. Mind if I copy the creative aspect of your brain to learn how. Best I can do is make things look stiff and in-line with each other

What resource pack are you using? It's so pretty!

All useful info on the mod. A shame console editions won't get mods.

On multiplayer (own server) how can i make the npc activation range work?

You forgot the link in the description

This mod reminds me of settlers

So my gf and I are running a local server on my home Pc I’m trying to figure out how to extend my entity render distance on the server for the colonists. Any tips?

Can we get a vanilla let’s play next

Could chickenchunks help with the range?

Holy c a r p. I haven't used youtube for-realz for like a decade. I'm loving my fav yter is still making videos. I searched for yogscast sjin. Just watch ed some yogsquest. Good times dnd bro.

sadly the cave/true dwarven style is very different in the latest version and at least the houses that i really needed to stack are not stackable

What modpack die u use with minecolonies

What modpack do you use?

how did you run minecolonies with shaders? i have a rtx 3090 and i cant run it with seus shader i will have below 15fps

Looking to use this mod would they interact with the output of a super smelter?

how come i cant find a texture pack that affects the citizens? :(

1:36 just use chunk loader

Cave style doesn't exist in later version

How can you build underground? My builder keeps clearing out all space above the build and ruining the building that is above it.

If only my game didn't hang on terrain loading every time I tried to use optifine, I could have those sweet connected grass textures. .... tried everything I could find online for optifine/minecolonies compatibility it just won't go. No idea why.

If you're using Optifine, I've found if you go into Video Settings>>>Performance>>>> and set Smooth World to OFF. It will help with the lazy colonist issue, as I called it. They will work properly after that and not require you to be around them.

un consejo que estructuras construir primero te agradecería mucho saludos y entretenido el video

Well im early to this party

Tip number 3 is applicable to USA urban planning, really

If I was in a multiplayer server with this mod installed can I wage wars on other people’s colonies using guards?

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Not trying to kill anyones buzz or anything but bro... What happened to your lets builds?