Swamp Reeds are tall plants that grow both on land and in water. Edit: Just checked in my current world, the icy biome is 500m from my portal, so quite the hike. I always have been drawn on using biome expansion mods mostly for the eye candy and neat looking landscape to build on. You need to eat the Meef Stroganoff that the Minoshroom drops. linuxgarou • 4 yr. Swamps never directly border the ocean, with some other biomes generating between them. )TF Has one of the best in-game progression guides ever, after the lich. 2 comments. Server/LAN/Single Player: Single Player. Put a redstone torch next to the Hibachi and you should see a blue flame - stoked fire. abyssalcraft:coralium_infested_swamp ; minecraft:mutated_redwood_taiga_hills Same as mutated_redwood_taiga because mojang is bad ; minecraft:mutated_redwood_taiga Giant trees ; minecraft:redwood_taiga Taller trees ; minecraft:redwood_taiga_hills Warm Warm Dry ; traverse:badlands Warm Average ; minecraft:forest SevTech: Ages is a massive modpack packed with content and progression. 3. Alternatively, you can use the /seed command ingame. The druids attack by throwing you into the air, dropping you. Savanna biomes are only a temperature of 1. You get to the biome you want, and nothing can spawn there. Then just branch mine and you will find it. You want to head north or south until you find cold biomes, and then travel east or west to find them. 4. Feed it zombie flesh (could take a couple stacks) until it spawns an anti-cow. It generates in vast quantities on the surface in Deep Waters, Coarse Islands, and Patchy Islands biomes, and in smaller quantities in Marsh, Swamplands, and Sludge Plains biomes, between Y-layers 120 (the Betweenlands sea level) and 100 (at. Sevtech Ages; Tips, Tricks, Showcases and More. So i solved it. li. The Dark Forest is aptly named, for the Darkwood Trees that cover these parts of the Twilight Forest have a incredibly thick canopy. so keep an eye out. Put your tips, tricks, and whatever else here for this very heavy but interesting modpack! @borg286 made a google document of tips as well. Modpack Version:3. Community content is available under CC-BY-SA unless otherwise noted. If you keep a stack of steel leaf on your hotbar it will heal your tools so quickly. The Twilight Forrest is a dimension you can travel to by making a portal. You can step them up with screwpumps and step them down one block at a time (like a staircase) Relyk7. Local Time: 12:20 PM. I would say best you can do is near a dark biome and with a river for easy unlimited water Yeah i built my base pretty near one in a plains biome and im like 200 blocks away for easy crystals. Try rafting around one of those until you see some. Hotrod79 • 4 yr. Now Sift some gravel with that, then click on a hard surface (basically any stone type blocks) with the flint in your hand to make it into flaked flint; click. Also the hot biomes abruptly ended and became average (Sunflower plains, blue forest, forest. Generally, you walk North-South until you find a "cool" biome, then go East-West from there to find a cool, wet biome. (tinkers, enchanted tools from twilight, betweenlands, and astral sorcery)Put a couple in adjacent chunks until you find one that generates dark oak. The new Totemic Ritual that gives Water Breathing is very nice for locating it. Multiple serpentine necks end in heads that bear a passing resemblance to that of the Ender Dragon. For future visitors, you don't actually need screwpumps in SevTech. Vanilla ore veins spawn in the Twilight Forest,. Grow the tree in coralium infested swamp biome. They Spawn Exclusively in the Coralium-Infested Swamp Biome. Plains village: -1008, -1952. Scrap Iron is found in the Sunken Crypts located in the Swamp biome. It will look like an area filled with tall stone spires. Immediately found a swamp while using nature compass to find a dark lands. Targren • Alarm Clock Dev • 6 yr. The Hydra can be found in the large hill in the Fire Swamp, which has a large enterance on one side. ago. In Sevtech, water is only infinite in river and ocean biomes. It does that no matter if I move around or stand still. There are two main types of swamps: freshwater swamps and saltwater swamps. It adds a book which maps the area around the player with textures chosen based on. Only seems to occur in the Lush Swamp biome, or at least that's the only one I've found so far. In a singleplayer world at night, no hostile mobs are spawning even though I'm in hard difficulty. ago. So say goodbye to your pumpkins and head over to the new server for a proper Sevtech experience. • 6 yr. Start by breaking some of the tall grass and leaves around your location. Okay so I just got to age 2 and need the swamp talisman I slime shot for a good while before I gave up and just went into creative mode to look for one, not a single swamp biome in sight. Ive watched a few videos, checked the wiki, googled. EDIT: Mobs still not spawning :/. I'm unable to locate any platinum samples/ore. Rock crystal is found in very low Y level in this pack. 3 has been released on March 28, 2018 for SevTech: Ages. They'll combine to make a celestial crystal cluster. . Use said moss. Enchanted Forest. The colors of blocks like vines, leaves, and grass are red instead of green in this biome. It generates within ocean and swamp biomes, approximately as frequently as iron Ore. Hungry esourcepacksAntiqueAtlasExtraassetsgolrithsaa extures) Check to see if you have BOP_LushSwamp1 thru 4. Im making a new biome mod which includes variations of vanilla biomes and a dozen or two unique biomes! r/feedthebeast • Some Curseforge accounts might be compromised/hacked, and are uploading malicious files Just searched a giant swamp biome in spectator mode single player looking for the stuff and couldent find even a single tile of it. For example: azurite rocks will have a large azurite (copper) vein below them that you can mine. 2. 6. If you would rather find it the authentic way, you'll want to stay away from colder climates. This is a test. Two ores are revealed in this Age: Copper and Tin. 6 or higher. Marsh, often referred to as the Swamp biome is good for a lot of things, but I would recommend it as a base to experienced players who want some challenge. New overworld biome containing rare materials for Abyssal crafting, similar to the Darklands biomes. Go to sevtech r/sevtech •. There are less trees at all (except Dark trees and other from other mods). Valheim's third boss is Bonemass, a giant green blob that makes the Swamp biome its home. Welcome back to Sevtech! In our first part of age 2, we divide and conquer. 5 comments. 1. ago. It can be annoying to find under regular swamp biomes (where it also spawns). A Cow or Demon Cow that has died to Antimatter will spawn an Anti. Both follow a periodic pattern similar to a sine wave, where you move from one extreme to another, and the moderate levels are in between. Ravines in Sevtech are custom per biome. Client Information. -115227398 (pre 3. Large swamps should have a proportionate amount of crypts. If you can't find any dark oaks, you can find dark oak planks using a survivalist strainer. Map Color Sludge Plains are Betweenlands biomes characterized by large masses of relatively flat, very muddy land covered in sludge, with dead foliage, sparse Rotten Weedwood Trees, and dirty rivers of Swamp Water occasionally breaking up the land. 0. ago. It is found at the top of the Lich Tower, and will spawn as soon as the player reaches the top floor. The Darklands is the first biome added in AbyssalCraft. So say goodbye to your pumpkins and head over to the new server for a proper Sevtech experience. Naked_Nudist • 4 yr. SevTech: Ages includes the NetherEx mod which adds all kinds of biomes into the Nether which have different kinds of Netherrack, like Fiery Netherrack and Gloomy Netherrack. 11. Join. They are glowing rings of stone pillars surrounding a mysterious altar. Build a 3x3 chunks platform and keep the portal as the center, put fences 3 blocks high around the central chunk (which includes the portal) and slabs on top of them so spiders can't climb over. Categories. P. Don't let the anti-cow come into contact with a normal cow. InturnetExplorer • 3 yr. The only biomes/areas in Sevtech where water will form infinite water sources, refill itself when you remove a bucket's worth, etc is in Rivers or Ocean biomes and you literally have to be standing IN one of those biomes when you add or extract the water (if you are standing on the shore of a ocean or river, you aren't actually IN the ocean. Once you unlock an ore you will be able to find rocks on the surface relating to the ore below them. AbyssalCraft is an exploration-based mod created by Shinoow. Rantar. 5280078656355243189 - Very diverse spawn. The Twilight Lich is a boss monster added by Twilight Forest. Climate: SevTech does indeed use a heat/humidity grid system for its biome generation. Climate: SevTech does indeed use a heat/humidity grid system for its biome generation. 1. This gold ore was eventually enough to sustain us through almost the entirety of Age 2. Resonating Wand finding ore is disabled in Sevtech. I'm not why the server was kept up past day 1-2 just because of this alone. Smelting those gives Terracotta brick. Save Save sevtech tips and tricks For Later. but still you’re getting Hunger in Swamp biome, just Save, quit and reload inside Swamp. 6. This pack focuses on providing the player a long term progression experience with purpose. I ended up finding it on a Darklands island. SEVTE. I spawned. Open commenting access to anyone on the original document. ARC-2908763. 0 Twilight Swamps now generate around Fire Swamps. Shoggoths are huge, have weird, disjointed hitboxes, 100HP, fire projectiles. ex: i spawned in a flower forest. The water of a swamp may be. Ive invested so much time into this world and I really don't want to have to recreate my base in a different world. Subscribe. I've been trying to find a swamp biome for a few hours now. On top of this, there are plenty of Mud patches and Swamp Water pools to slow the player. ago. . Be careful when coming close to this structure, it continuously spawns Dark Druids. You only need wood, resin (you will get heaps of the stuff by killing Greylings), and feathers. bears are too rare to keep that repaired. They have an item form that is primarily used in making dried swamp reed and reed rope. help i cant find a swamp. Found a swamp in my world to the NE right on the edge of an ocean. The dedicated server which is located in France is currently not online, this will happen when we have a few people ready to play so we can start at the same time. It is a fairly barren indigo/purple area, with trees spawning occasionally. Go to sevtech r/sevtech. In today's episode, we trav. Flooding results in oxygen-free ( anoxic) processes prevailing, especially in the soils. You can find the ores in the swamps and they give off light so are rather easy to find in the dark. A titanic canopy blocks out the sky. You could try to exploit that, since spawn is generally fairly close to there. Go south for a little when you find a hotter biome, go either east or west and hopefully you'll find one. I have been to 4 different oceans and gone through 2 dowsing rods. I did however read the manual for Better with Addons, it says you can only obtain them from the Ancestral Infuser(stage 3). East-west is humidity. JEI shows nothing craftable with them, but does show several Terracotta blocks. When in a swamp area, slimes will appear between the 50th. ago. traverse:autumnal_woods Autumn woods in warm feels wrong, but having them entirely surrounded by spruce biomes also feels wrong ; integrateddynamics:biome_meneglin Hilly forest? ; traverse:meadow ; minecraft:forest_hills ; minecraft:birch_forest_hills ; minecraft:mutated_birch_forest_hills Should be same as M, but hilly -3503285926045735642 (pre 3. fandom. North-south is temperature. There are six variants - the four Swamp Talisman Pieces, the talisman itself, and a special Linked version. Swamp Tallgrass Blades: Swamp Tallgrass or Double Swamp Tallgrass: Swamp Tallgrass is a common plant found in Swamplands, Patchy Islands, Coarse Islands, and Marsh biomes, and in Underground Oases. ago. . • 5 yr. This is the first step in exploring a magical world. Antique Atlas is a mod created by Hunternif, with contributions from coolAlias and Kenkron. 102. . Bears are constantly (two or three times per minecraft day) spawning on my base island despite it being fully lit and it being daytime and there seems to be no way to. The Dark Forest is a biome added by Twilight Forest. The SevTech recipe killed weedwood planks -> weedwood sticks Hunt down a Weedwood tree and make base in it Instead of making 2 Sulfur furnaces, craft a single one with 8 betweenstone for a double furnace. You will find that it rains. 12 Tutorial - How to find a swamp biome. Wetlands are usually classified according to soil and plant life. Snow Queen [] Main article: Snow Queen. Tasty Sandwiches and Pork Dinners are excellent Age 0 food. •. The Z axis determines temperature, and the X axis determines humidity. SevTech: Ages includes the NetherEx mod which adds all kinds of biomes into the Nether which have different kinds of Netherrack, like. Lovecraft. Finding the swamp is the least fun/most dull part of the game for me on every playthrough (followed shortly by finding wight fortress in betweenlands, then followed by galacticraft and extra planets entiry, then envtech first crystal lens waiting time), even with the logical heatmap in mind it's mindless time bouncing around biomes for potentially hours, made. SevTech: Ages is a massive modpack packed with content and progression. Shaders Enabled: no. Gravel is generated in disks on beaches, near rivers and small pools of water; in windswept gravelly hills biomes covering most of the surface; underwater covering the bottom of ocean biomes and in. Does anyone have tips for effectively finding this stuff? Should I look for a swamp, or just keep tunneling? The sevtech guy said he could reliably find coralium about twenty. Once you have a few. I explored until I found a swamp biome, and found my first herd of. Darklands are really really important for smooth progression. Reply More posts you may like. Sunk deep into the earth beneath the Twilight Swamp are the shadowy, twisting Labyrinths. That's an unpopular opinion indeed. Im using Sevtech:ages and im trying to find other biomes but it only lists the darklands biomes. 5 Huge Lily Pads now generate in the Twilight Swamp. Sevgili dostlarım ve sevgili takipçilerim umarım video hoşunuza gitmiştir daha fazla bu tarz videoların gelmesini isterseniz videoyu beğenebilir ve abone ola. It's hard to spot because the minerals in the rock sample are white/grey. I choosed the "Abyssal Wastelands" and clicked "Search", and then my game crashes (report is below). Players will find lily pads around this biome pretty easily, and brown mushrooms can be seen under trees. The Labyrinth. NowLookHere113 • 3 yr. CurseForge is one of the biggest mod repositories in the world, serving communities like Minecraft, WoW, The Sims 4, and more. r. I was looking to get the success for the Nature's Compass and the Abyssal Stuff Biome, so I crafted the Compass and right-clicked to choose the biome to search. HF with searching it if someone has still this problem in like 2023 and later xD. This is a test. 2-skyblock. We saw that the progression tree required us to progress through Astral Sorcery in order to finish Age 2. Using the machines of one level, to make the next level item. You need to be landing in a spot that is specifically labeled as "Swamp (Coast)". If you can take the anti-cow back to base you have infinity antimatter, or you could fill a rustic liquid barrel. Don't put liquid corallium near an ocean!!!!! Rollow • 5 yr. Swamp Water while underwater. You'll get 2 dust back and your crystal. The last time I tried the Betweenlands was in Sevtech, which was not the most positive experience, but I'd like to give it another try. Go to sevtech r/sevtech •. Unlocking the Betweenlands requires defeating the Druids in their summoning circle, which spawn in overworld swamps, but at the moment I am unable to locate any swamps at all. It also generates in large quantities on the surface of Marsh and Sludge Plains biomes, and in smaller patches on the surface of Swamplands biomes and the. It's been a while, but I think you have to kill the Hydra in the fire swamps and drink the blood he drops, but to survive there you need the stew from the mooshroom boss in the labyrinth. Biome Protection. And every time it drops, I get a massive amount of lag. DarkPacks / SevTech-Ages Public. Client Information. 12 comments. Swamps have Slime ravines full of slimeblocks and stained clay. When the player comes to the Twilight Swamp before killing the Twilight Lich, they will be welcomed with. Toksyuryel. Been out 1000 in each direction and nothing. The weather in the Swamp biome is very wet with lots of precipitation. North! Not south! Going south you have to past though all the hot biomes before finding. ) I'm trying to get the shadow gem achievement done, but it's in every biome that they aren't spawning, not just darklands. aren't these just quark's underground biomes? Reply mikedeliv • Additional comment actions. 6 : Get it here ! Here is the web view. Cant find a swamp at all. SevTech Tips and Tricks - Free download as PDF File (. While not vital not having to "think" about it and just being able to get a few extra shards is really useful. Had to go on quite a long search until I found a swamp Biome that was much smaller but had multiple crypts in it. In vanilla, I can have portals as close as about 128 blocks in the overworld before they start to link to each other - 1800+ blocks seems like a crazy stretch. Changing the portal location wont get you far. I am playing Sevtech ages and I have been searching for 2 hours now for the Swamp Biome in the Twilight Forest. ago • Edited 6 yr. r/feedthebeast. I've been trying to find a swamp biome for a few hours now. One of the first major roadblocks that many people run into in Age 1 progression is finding ore. If you don’t have a compass, use the sun for navigation, it works the same way like in the real world. CraftLizard • 1 yr. ago. First, with empty hands, Shift right click the drum, and then shift right click the wind chimes. Advanced Water wheel Minecraft Map. Today we build some blood slime boots and set out in search of a Mulberry Tree. . Currently in Age 2 there is a quest that needs you to craft a Stop Watch (Speed Run: The stopwatch will display information on the player's motion. Killing the Alpha Yeti and obtaining the Alpha Yeti Fur will unlock the Glacier biome. I am playing Sevtech ages and I have been searching for 2 hours now for the Swamp Biome in the Twilight Forest. 3. A swarm of mosquitoes will protect the biome of protected. Platinum definitely has a surface indicator. It's expensive as hell though (something like 20 coralium gems/shard and 9 shards/ingot) Other than using 18 ingots to make the transmutator and 3 ingots to. pls someone help meI have a savanna near my base. Functional Darklands. . 12. SevTech Ages! We're in the first age and we're heading to the Hunting Dimension! The Official Yogscast Store: ♥ Subscribe: ht. SevTech Ages of the Sky uses Topography; the whole overworld and several other dimensions are replaced with a custom sky islands map. Go to deep ocean and dig 10 or more blocks below the floor. In SevTech: Ages, ore is controlled by a mod called Geolosys, and is not randomly distributed throughout the world like in vanilla Minecraft. If all else fails, slap all your stuff in a chest and die. tl;dr:Two overworld portals, one at -900, -800 and the other at 0, 100 both link to the same portal on the nether side at -100, -100. [SevTech] Trouble growing netherwart . Or if you guys have found liquid antimatter already or not. I go North, South, West, East, use heat maps, the map from the villager, and I can't find any abysscraft biomes. Config/Script Details. Still not 100% foolproof, but that is why I'm making this post to spread the word. 5) village (east), bone blocks, river, animals,. r. There are four natural entrances. 1. Grab a couple of each of the gems too as a smeltery controller is an ingredient in a crafting recipe as well as being needed for the actual smeltery. If you still can't find dark oak saplings in later ages you can trade for them using the Pam's harvestcraft market. Standard Sevtech. The biome map is made up of heat bands and. SevTech introduces a number of mechanics never before done such as: hiding ore until unlocked, dynamically hidden items and recipes based on progress, new mobs appear as you. Subreddit for the various Sevtech modpacks for Minecraft. I left my world running for awhile so the strainer would get a sharks tooth so i could progress to age 1, I come back and the area is covered in ooze and all my horses and buffalo are gone. On top of this, there are plenty of Mud patches and Swamp Water pools to slow the player. You can then use the Sacrificial Dagger to get enough LP for the Weak Blood Orb. This may be enough for you to get to the far side. 12 tutorial. Showcasing a few builds I made with ExtraDetails - a mod I created that adds to your arsenal of building blocks. Code; Issues 429; Pull requests 1; Actions; Projects 4; Wiki; Security; InsightsEDIT: For anyone who stumbles across this in the future, I found it. The Enderman advancement should now only trigger after killing 1 type of endermen, not 6 The Darklands advancement no longer triggers on a coralium swamp biome since this biome does not generate the intended mobs and blocks the player needs to find The following animals have been added to work with Horse Power (I can't guarantee they. Put your tips, tricks, and whatever else here for this very heavy but interesting modpack! @borg286 made a google document of tips as well. Compatible with all biomes, vanilla and modded. Join. No this is an another type of labyrinth. The Twilight Forest is a vast forest where it's always dusk, but never fully day or night. 7 snapshot swamp lands biome!Biome swamp minecraft project logs update details Minecraft guide to biomes: a. I started looking for liquid antimatter and visited a few of the coralium infested swamp islands and dug around looking for it and not finding it. Once more, their. They look like this: Look for the particle effects that are rising like smoke from a fire. Taiga Village: 848, 304. The Swamp biome is one of the most difficult biomes to traverse, so be sure to come prepared with your best gear and plenty of. Once you have all the ingredients, simply craft the pedestal, then place it on the ground and put your Necronomicon on it. AI-Controlled base in minecraft (chatgpt w computercraft aka alexa in minecraft) r/feedthebeast •. The infected swamps led to fails but for the two blocks I found. It focuses around some of the mechanics introduced in Primal Core, Primal tech and Progression Tweaks for early-game survival. With over 800 million mods downloaded every month and over 11 million active monthly users, we are a growing community of avid gamers, always on the hunt for the next thing in user-generated content. SevTech Ages uses a customised overworld where the biomes are arranged according to temperature on the North/South axis and humidity on the East/West axis. Code; Issues 406; Pull requests 1; Actions; Projects 4; Wiki; Security; Insights New issue Have a question about this project?. Others, such as prairie potholes of central North America and Carolina bays (elliptical depressions) of the. It is known for its thick, dense leaf canopies that block light sufficiently to allow hostile mobs to spawn during the daytime. ago. If you retry it with a biome you know exists within that radius, it'll give me a better idea of where to start with this issue. I cant find a swamp or jungle biome in sevtech ages i went in all directions more than 1000 blocks away this quest is from the man quests i cant continue with out it #4047 Closed MahmoudTDS opened this issue Feb 5, 2020 · 2 comments Eat the stroganoff food you get from killing this boss. #sevtech #moddedminecraft #minecraft #survival #age 0Time to check out a fantastic skyblock version of SevTech today, with a whole bunch of things to do on y. 2. For those of you that could not find a swamp in sevtech what did. #3 The NetherMuteTiefling • 6 yr. Abyssalnite can be mined here, which counts for all. . There’s a couple of sheep a few islands out but the island they are on is invested with lava monsters. I don't see enough people talking about this, but there is a project in beta right now called "Sinytra Connector" that loads fabric mods in forge. Tons in savanna biomes in my world, FWIW. • 26 days ago. Subreddit for the various Sevtech modpacks for Minecraft. A very small handful mentioned the East/West humidity bands, and none had a breakdown of which biome went where. This website claims it to be randomly selected, however, I very much doubt I hit the 1/6 chance 25 times in a row, considering that happen about 1/4 738 381 338 321 616 895 times. North for darklands. 95. 0 Added a protection barrier to Twilight Swamp. Labyrinths are usually found in Twilight Clearings inside of large Hollow Hill-like structures. Everything went fine, I was looking for a base location. Steps to Reproduce (for bugs) Forget the swamp. What I did was just keep switching my nature's compass to a different biome, cycling through the list of ones the game said coal could be in, so I was always finding a. 0 Twilight Swamps now generate around Fire Swamps. and then head east/west. It is filled with monsters, treasure, and confusing turns. Fire Swamp. In SMP, you can use the same command if you have sufficient rights. ago. That's why in Dark Lands it is much easier to find it. Bug Description. This biome is very dangerous, as there is next to no light inside. If that doesn't work, you may simply have to make a second Twilight Portal in the Overworld, preferably >600 blocks from the position of your current one. Cepterman2101. Some biomes are bigger and they have irregular borders. I head out to find a swamp portal, and Dad goes on with. The Z axis determines temperature, and the X axis determines humidity. ago. It is a fairly barren indigo/purple area, with trees spawning occasionally. Join. Also the hot biomes abruptly ended and became average (Sunflower plains, blue forest, forest. 1 Fixed a bug with Magic Maps on servers. Swamp Hags are undead mobs that spawn occasionally in Swamplands, Patchy Islands, Coarse Islands, and Raised Isles biomes, as well as more commonly anywhere underground in the Cavern and Lake Cavern layers. Lovecraft. In games like Factorio, getting resources is automated right away. ago. Coralium Ore is an ore added by AbyssalCraft. Displays the coordinates for the closest biome of a given biome ID or a biome tag in the chat for the player who executed the command. so keep an eye out. A wetland is entirely covered by. 1. Whenever it happens a relog fixes it for me though. The simplest portal consists of a 2x2 area of water source blocks, surrounded by Dirt, Coarse Dirt, Grass, Podzol, or Mycelium, with any flowers or mushrooms on the surrounding blocks. Dark. There, you may find a Druid Circle, a small circle of runed stone spires with a mysterious altar in the center. Equippable mobs may spawn with any item from the current age. Rbplays create mod :: ep 1 :: first water wheel and millstone :: moddedImmersive water minecraft engineering max wheels output I prototyped a reasonably simple water wheel in creative. 5 Huge Lily Pads now generate in the Twilight Swamp. json matches. 312 upvotes · 131 comments. NOTE: The Coagulated blood will keep draining blood and the process WILL RESET if you don't have. Swamps and deserts are a pain to find, but Sevtech biomes are generated on a heat map which u can find by just searching up “Sevtech heat map”. If you're playing SSP, the app is able to fetch the seed from your savegame. I haven't used the biome compass, but I think you need to right click it and select Darklands, might be shift right click. The first large swamp Biome I found was quite big but had only a single crypt in the entire stretch. I just wanted to confirm that before I moved it, and also to confirm what other dangers/precautions I should prepare ahead of time.