Note to any of you who have more than 8192eu/t going into a GregTech Matter Fabricator, you may want to turn it off before the update.... (at least if you don't like explosions...)
darkinnit wrote: Note to any of you who have more than 8192eu/t going into a GregTech Matter Fabricator, you may want to turn it off before the update.... (at least if you don't like explosions...)
I'm not sure how much eu/t is going into our matter fab, and I'm not sure if joyny will be on in time to check (my FTB launcher is being an arse and I don't have the motivation to fix it). Will you be able to please turn ours off or disconnect it unless it's going to be fine?
darkinnit wrote: Note to any of you who have more than 8192eu/t going into a GregTech Matter Fabricator, you may want to turn it off before the update.... (at least if you don't like explosions...)
I'm not sure how much eu/t is going into our matter fab, and I'm not sure if joyny will be on in time to check (my FTB launcher is being an arse and I don't have the motivation to fix it). Will you be able to please turn ours off or disconnect it unless it's going to be fine?
PM me the (rough) coords or directions and I'll check it as part of my testing.
There's a major bug that crashes the server if you access a ChunkLoader interface. It's a simple fix (update to the latest ChickenChunks for 1.4.7), so I'll wait to see if they update the pack.
However, they had this issue in the testing versions of Utlimate 1.0.2 and 1.1.0 and people were reporting it to them and they seem to have ignored it.
If they continue to ignore it, don't release a "1.1.2" and go on to focus on the Minecraft 1.5 and 1.6 modpacks, we can still update to Ultimate 1.1.1, but everyone will have to download the newer versions of ChickenChunks and add it to their mods folder manually...
I'm sure someone can give you a short, well-written guide on how to do that to put in the OP for those of us that don't like mucking about with mod folders.
Automatically Appended Next Post: What version should I change to to log on? I updated prematurely.
FTB_Team wrote:We're aware of the crash bugs in 1.4.7 and are going to release a patch as soon as we can, you should stay on older versions until the patch
So it looks like there will be an Ultimate 1.1.2...
Well there goes strafing in the air at the speed of sound in a circle for hilariously fast energy production.
multiplayer fix
This is probably that 10kb streaming crap going away too.
Railgun might let me scale down the power in my plasma cannon a bit since it's supposed to have a relatively high energy cost to it. So why not max that out and simply save it for boss fights. I also hope it can punch through blocks.
Mel, if you are interested in this area you can have the marble house i built and the wastelands as i am not really interested in FtB. You would have to talk to martian_jo about the redrock mountains with the villiage.
darkinnit wrote: If anyone has updated prematurely, you can change the version back to 1.0.1 and click "Options" and click "Force Update" to downgrade.
I'll see if I can update the server to Ultimate 1.1.2 this evening (about 12 hours from the time of this post, maybe).
As for the Modular Powersuits constant 10kb data streaming oddness, it's not fixed until the Minecraft 1.5 version of the mod unfortunately.
Odd, so what else did it have wrong for multiplayer that they've apparently fixed?
I'm no Java expert, but the multiplayer fix appears to be something do with the player's position in relation to other blocks (possibly something with the blink drive, if it's raytracing?):
I think the weird tiling effect on the lava is because the lava colour got changed in the new version of Dynmap. So one is the "old" lava and one is the new.
As for why the lava is there in the first place, ask Grundz
darkinnit wrote: I'm no Java expert, but the multiplayer fix appears to be something do with the player's position in relation to other blocks (possibly something with the blink drive, if it's raytracing?):
Automatically Appended Next Post: The FTB Server is now updated to Ultimate 1.1.2.
In the launcher select the "Recommended" release and update.
Maybe it's to do with if you spam it like I did in the mining age you can find yourself in solid stone 100s of blocks away spiralling around down there by continuing to use it until you hit an airpocket so you can dig out.
Also railgun at full power is a fun way to travel. Shame it sounds like throwing an egg, but still fun.
Also is the enderchest combination pink pink pink taken? My farm seems to put out a lot of melon so I was going to hook a chest up to it so people could have free melon.
I mainly made the age because I knew people would want a mob free area when the pack contains so many precious things that take so long to obtain. Precious things that can be very quickly destroyed by a single creeper (...or GregTech, but any GregTech explosions are somewhat self inflicted).
People are free to build whatever they like there as long as they don't step on someone's toes.
I'm somewhat surprised no-one has done any grass terraforming there yet.
What does he think is going to happen, that he'll be let off Scott free? I hope he isn't let off, ban him! Ban him! jokes aside, I'm pissed, seriously lustis, I thought we weren't enemies, what did I do to you? Also how did you get that much TNT?
Given that n0t_u has been on the Minecraft server since day 1 of the original Dakka server without any previous behaviour like this, I'm calling shenanigans.
It's n0t_u's account, skin and texture pack, but it's a throwaway Youtube account. Also as Dark Apostle points out, they've hardly had any interaction with each other (mainly due to time zone differences).
At the moment I'm hoping this is that someone else has sat down at n0t_u's computer and done this as some deliberate act to cause trouble.
It's very out of character, so I'm waiting before doing anything knee-jerk.
I admit, lusts is a good guy, and it's out of character but my pyramid was far away and it all seems very specific, gexwanted it to be me, he wanted me too see it and other stuff Why can't he say something? Whoever (if it was someone else) it was new alot of stuff about his day-to-day computer life, like his MC password and his DD password.
I can confirm that most of a double chest of gunpowder has been taken from my and Iustis' creeper farm (which I was using for industrial TNT for my implosion compressor...)
Weirdly, none of the actual industrial TNT I've already made was used in this crime. I'm guessing it's not Iustis themself, since they KNEW about the ITNT that I already had prepared for the implosion compressor.
That is rather a dick move, if indeed it happened on the actual pyramid (I half think it's a copy'd version- though that doesn't explain the scenery). Emerald blocks are kinda hard to come by, and the pyramid was/is actually a rather well-put together structure. Looks very nice to me. So yeah. TNTing it was rather out of hand.
In other news- Seriously- what's up with the pagodas!? Who keeps building them everywhere?
I can confirm that when I was last on last week I was told I could take gunpowder from that chest... I logged on yesterday and lifted a load of it as I thought I'd been given permission to. =/
Oh, but given that I didn't read the previous posts, so didn't get the full context of your post Mel, I can say that I've still got the gunpowder. Sorry, but I thought it was alright for me to take it.
Wyrmalla wrote: I can confirm that when I was last on last week I was told I could take gunpowder from that chest... I logged on yesterday and lifted a load of it as I thought I'd been given permission to. =/
Oh, but given that I didn't read the previous posts, so didn't get the full context of your post Mel, I can say that I've still got the gunpowder. Sorry, but I thought it was alright for me to take it.
No that's fine. As I said, I already made a stack and a half of ITNT for my Implosion Compressor.
Ah right, I'll give the gunpowder back if you want. ...I think it was your grinder mind, the one with the turrets? If it was n0t_u that blew up that pyramid I think I may have been the cause due to miscommunication. =/
What version of the mod pack's the server set to btw?
Wyrmalla wrote: I can confirm that when I was last on last week I was told I could take gunpowder from that chest... I logged on yesterday and lifted a load of it as I thought I'd been given permission to. =/
If it's in white-white-white, it's free game, always
I was suggesting I could hook up my infinite supply of gunpowder to it, I still might, but I fear for the rabbits and scenery.
Melissia wrote: I can confirm that most of a double chest of gunpowder has been taken from my and Iustis' creeper farm (which I was using for industrial TNT for my implosion compressor...)
Weirdly, none of the actual industrial TNT I've already made was used in this crime. I'm guessing it's not Iustis themself, since they KNEW about the ITNT that I already had prepared for the implosion compressor.
Well that ITNT was for the implosion compressor. Also the replacing empty stacks with new stacks thing bugged them a bit so a stack of normal appeared later that I left in the project table you were making the ITNT on.
Why even do it in the first place? Something still doesn't add up here - I'm not seeing any motive other than "hurr blow up the emeralds hurr". It also seems a comparatively small way to end a two year time on the servers. There are plenty of better targets.
Dark Apostle has annoyed people, yes, but has barely any interaction with n0t_u at all.
This is what's making me think/hope it's not n0t_u and it's either someone else in the household or someone who's stolen the laptop/computer and the accounts are still logged in.
If I'm wrong and it is n0t_u, then that's just sad and dissappointing.
Hmm... Such is the way of the internet, I suppose- You're hidden, safe behind a wall of annonymity and 'not real world consequences', and so the part of you that says "Wait, stop- this could cause permanent harm!" gets quieter and quieter until one day... SNAP!
And you go on a spree of destruction in a voxel game.
I agree with you dark, it just doesn't make sense, it's bot like him/her at all. Of it is a stolen laptop then the person hashood knowledge of alot of stuff, I.e. Recording equipment, minecraft, dakka dakka.
Although I hope it's not not_u it just all seems very specific, specific target and specifically wanting EVERYONE to see.
And just after you say that, n0t_u's account goes offline...
Hmm, since the 3 posts n0t_u made concerning the explosion, only one other post has been made, on Viktor von Domm P&M Blog, "Imperial steampunk...handheld kidsized Z6 rotary blaster"
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n0t_u wrote: I'd have started with white to make those glow, but either way works fine. You got a good green to contrast nicely with it already.
Wow.. Holy cow, I call shenanigans. Not_u and Grundz were two of there very first people who answered me all that time ago when I asked "If Minecraft was worth it" Going to be blindsided if this is true.
hey dark I dc'd my chunk loader in my mob farming area in mining age as the monsters were getting loose and it was too laggie on my work pc to resolve the issue, so if thats causing a chunk issue just kill the mobs and reconnect, or the tesseract is inside the wheat farm.
Sorry, I should clarify. The poster above wasn't made by me, credits are on the picture itself. It's more of a general guideline than something that needs immediate action.
matapata98 wrote: We have public liquid ender up, public biofuel semi up, etc, so if you want to team up to get public resources working, pm me
I'm not sure how you're arranging, the way i'm doing it is having 2 containers, with a link between my self storage and the public storage about half way up so someone publically doesn't overspend and bankrupt me. I'd like to tap into either biomass or fuel though, as I have a biofuel station up but the mass just can't keep up and i'm having trouble keepming mulch and stuff into the fermenters, really haven't given it much thought though.
The Dark Apostle wrote: Wow forgot how much resources it takes to make a power suit. So much iron and wiring, iron and wiring, iron and wiring, and wiring.....
Automatically Appended Next Post: I want to find a safe place to start practicing thaumcraft just tot oy around with it (might as well, so that I can figure out how to avoid flux). Any recommendations?
@Mel: No idea. Best place I can think of is far away somewhere in the overworld, or far away somewhere in the mining age (since at least the mining age is only meant to be temporary and can be easily re-made if something goes really wrong). But that's just my ill-educated, inexperienced, and probably asinine opinion.
Mining world isn't too good as it's a desert biome. Vis is low in deserts. Better option would be a jungle in the overworld, preferable far from spawn.
Come to the Blue Tower. I've got one of the ground-floor workshops set up with full Arcane Alembics and a couple of warded jars- it's got all the needed equipment there (aside from wands- you make those yourself). And the nearest Node is a pure Silverwood one, so it'll naturally dissolve small Flux spills on its own. Plus, I'm going to start filling the library upstairs with volumes of thaumaturgic lore I and others have discovered- maybe not all of it will be practical for you right away, but it should be interesting- and feel free to add your own journals to it as well.
Okay, ground floor of my wasteland fortress is done. A very durable ground floor indeed.
Automatically Appended Next Post: Now clearing out space for the AE stuff. It looked techy enough, so I'd rather try that than fool around with thaumcraft.
Hurrah, there's a server crashing bug. But there's a way to work around it.
If you use Factorisation Mixers, there's now a bug in them that if their output inventory gets full and it tries to output one more thing, they crash the server.
The workaround is to either pump items out of the mixer immediately upon completion (before the next item gets processed) or only use one water bucket at a time.
Corpses, I'm taking a break from your lift for now. Found out that Computercraft rednet range gets reduced to 16 blocks during a thunderstorm, which poses a problem for the height of the lift.
Might need to run some bundled cable all the way up.
I did get the lift moving though (two panels were missing - it's always the panels!). The lift driver computer at the bottom also moves the lift one floor at a time too.
Corpses, gonna bug you about my AE again later. Grundz, no, I'm not setting up an enderchest system, before you spam that suggestion at me yet again. Not techy enough in appearance.
Corpsesarefun wrote: Wait, you need aluminium? I have a stupid amount of both gregtech and xycraft versions.
centrifuges need aluminium plates and stuff now IIRC was what I was trying to make, so yeah I need a bunch in order to get infinite copper and tin production up
GregTech often creates aluminium as a byproduct of processing many materials (e.g. bauxite), but also allows for aluminium to be used as a alternative (not replacement) to refined iron in most GT crafting recipes. So it's a good way to save on the iron when building an array of machines, but it's not required.
Xycraft Aluminium is useful for making glass viewers and "tin" cans. But there's still far too much of it in the ground, maybe make aluminium blocks to build factories with?
darkinnit wrote:GregTech often creates aluminium as a byproduct of processing many materials (e.g. bauxite), but also allows for aluminium to be used as a alternative (not replacement) to refined iron in most GT crafting recipes. So it's a good way to save on the iron when building an array of machines, but it's not required.
Xycraft Aluminium is useful for making glass viewers and "tin" cans. But there's still far too much of it in the ground, maybe make aluminium blocks to build factories with?
I also have far too much iron, both are essentially useless to me in the volumes I have.
Grundz wrote:
Corpsesarefun wrote: Wait, you need aluminium? I have a stupid amount of both gregtech and xycraft versions.
centrifuges need aluminium plates and stuff now IIRC was what I was trying to make, so yeah I need a bunch in order to get infinite copper and tin production up
Would you be interested in purchasing some aluminium plates? I need iridium (or UU) and uranium as per usual.
The Dark Apostle wrote: people should come together to make a very good power generating system to power a few fabricatres and work together to get more UU
do people really need UU? if I could figure out how to get only excess power into it I'm sure I could be cranking that out too.
If UU is a concern for people, my current system makes scrapboxes faster than I can use them. I have no qualms with shipping them out via enderchest. The UU-matter generation I have is chunkloaded, so you'll get a steady supply. I can even supply enderchests if that's a problem- had a mishap with a project table and made at least two stacks.
yes, maintaining power is the issue I have been having, after some advice from dark I am using excess mj using an energy link, as well as my reactor, and am producing 1 uu every 50 minutes, which really isn't that fast.
Darkinnit is using five industrial steam engines to power his (converting it to EU), it produces several UU a day.
My plans involve using solar power to produce the EU needed, since using UUM I can occasionally upgrade the solar panels to produce it faster anyway, and that way it's always on. With it being always on, I just need to wait and go do something else.
Redirecting my massive cobble reserves to my AE now that it's set up. Will probably take up a few disks, but it'll be worth it to concentrate the entire stores, never mind the technological look.
People will probably hate me when I say this but I'm pretty sure if we work together we could scrape out a fusion reactor, it's be like a community project witch would benefits as we could hook it up to a matter fabricator.
Assuming he didn't clear up his issue with Dark concerning his long lost evil twin/alternate reality self/clone/mind controlled self...
I'm assuming that's probably what happened... possibly all of them at once. Maybe they ganged up on him.
Who can tell?
Dark can. By looking at logs.
However, that doesn't set a precedent that you can all go and blow up someone's place and then say it was your friend/brother/dog. You are each responsible for your account.
A lot of what went toward's n0t_u's pardon was the two years without incident. Not many of you have that. ;-)
Mel this is the rebellious tree I was talking about before.
I kind of got in the mood to explore the ocean for the right type of trench. Found a couple so far I'm thinking of.
Also -10k,-10k was boring. Now it's slightly less boring.
Edit: Just found that place the mega-build age made completely redundant. At -10446, -12534 It's as a set of a couple large sized islands and a couple of small ones.
Edit: Found a new volcano I'm happy with out at -11347, -15631. I'll be building underwater with basalt, so shouldn't run out anytime soon.
Automatically Appended Next Post: Also, in case you didn't get my message on Steam...
I set up an automated wheat farm, a bit small but for now it works. Because the materials used to make it are so cheap (the only thing that's 'expensive' is the golden axe), we can probably figure out a way to make a much larger farm through using the Planter, the Fertilizer, and the Harvester from MineFactory. We have a ton of rubber after all, so might as well make some plastic stuff, and we can power it through either MJ or EU, so we have options on how to power it.
Only suggesting we try this since your golems are only competent enough to harvest melons, and I'd prefer wheat because it's much more versatile.
One thing all you'z with tons of Scrap could do, is make it into scrapboxes and cycle it through a, what is it that right-clicks? Dispenser? Placer? That Redpower thing that does a 'right click' on anything inside it- Scrap Boxes have a chance of providing all sorts of neat stuff- just have it dump into a hungry chest, obsidian pipe or what have you- if it's a Wooden Hoe or something else useless, just cycle it back into your recycling system. But you'd probably be able to get a few diamonds and some other stuff out of it...
Anvildude wrote: One thing all you'z with tons of Scrap could do, is make it into scrapboxes and cycle it through a, what is it that right-clicks? Dispenser? Placer? That Redpower thing that does a 'right click' on anything inside it- Scrap Boxes have a chance of providing all sorts of neat stuff- just have it dump into a hungry chest, obsidian pipe or what have you- if it's a Wooden Hoe or something else useless, just cycle it back into your recycling system. But you'd probably be able to get a few diamonds and some other stuff out of it...
this sounds like a good idea until you try it, it's a huge pain in the butt, impossible unless you use pipes and a lot of filters
my system first uses scrap to make fertilizer, if scrap levers exceed the 8, it scrap boxes it, which gets filtered to a distro system, which opens the scrapbox and only takes out the "good stuff"
Automatically Appended Next Post: Also, in case you didn't get my message on Steam...
I set up an automated wheat farm, a bit small but for now it works. Because the materials used to make it are so cheap (the only thing that's 'expensive' is the golden axe), we can probably figure out a way to make a much larger farm through using the Planter, the Fertilizer, and the Harvester from MineFactory. We have a ton of rubber after all, so might as well make some plastic stuff, and we can power it through either MJ or EU, so we have options on how to power it.
Only suggesting we try this since your golems are only competent enough to harvest melons, and I'd prefer wheat because it's much more versatile.
Got some tests for the new underwater place I'm building, what are people's thoughts? Each wall is to be 3 blocks thick or so to fit in the wires. I could just change them to slabs with microblocks, but thinking about it. Cause with slabs for walls I'll have to get more creative with putting furniture up against the wall or stuff like paintings. Hmm...
Can't decide between the two window types here.
The door is made of inverted orange lights, because why not. I wanted something clearish but couldn't get over the sticky piston texture showing through as well.
Also messed around with the sculpting tool and made this creepy statue. Though this was all in single player so sadly he's not on the server.
Not sure if it can be coloured, I'm hoping it can cause if so this would be like a more advanced form of micro blocks.
As for lighting the whole thing, I'd probably put a wrath lamp or two in the ceiling. One in the center was enough to cover that entire room.
Oh and does anyone have any diamond shards or wrath igniters for trade?
The actual cheapest way is to manually grow and harvest the trees yourself.
I have already had a conversation with you regarding this but alternatives that are automated include:
Steve's Carts tree farm (self sustaining for the most part, though requires topping up on coal fuel every few days real time)
Forestry Multiblock farm (runs on minimal buildcraft power and apatite)
Minefactory reloaded harvester/fertiliser/planter combination (runs on minimal buildcraft power, and can be configured to plant multiple tree species in a small area)
As n0t_u said, turtles with deployers would most likely be the easiest in terms of resource cost, but might be difficult to implement depending on your knowledge of lua.
I do tree blocks. You can plant oak saplings right next to each other, and they'll grown into a solid mass of wood, that can then be harvested pretty quickly with a simple axe. The Wand of Excavation can also be used to 'excavate' trees really quickly, too.
And what's this "Sculpting" tool you used there Not_u?
Part of factorisation I think. You make a sculpting tool and clay slabs to sculpt. The tool can move, resize and rotate the selected parts of the sculpture. Right clicking it with a piece of clay will add a new bit to it as well.
Here's a vid of it. From the wiki... Not very helpful like the wiki usually though...
Those are made by placing several sculptures together by the way.
Basically you can make these multiblock objects and they'll just take the space of one physical block where the base is. And wiki link since this thing's article is actually half decent. It's a very cheap thing to get into as well which is nice. To start you just need some clay, a stick and a wood slab. Actually thats all you ever need with it.
Edit: Also have a bunch of diamond drones for trade.
I don't think you can duplicate them and yes that's how they work. I've no idea what the limit is per sculpture, but they all take up the space of one block together. There's a limit to how far away from the main block they can go, but that seems like 1 block = a 3x3x3 space.
Made a new golem farm just for wheat. I'm thinking maybe instead of barrels I should just have them place what they pick up into chests then filter the excess seeds from the wheat and store all that in either barrels or start messing with AE.
There were three stacks of them in your wheat farm, I took two to start this off. I think there was about 20 or so left. Oh and the good thing is there's 0 need to actually go into it since you can easily reach chests from the fence. It had a gate, but they can open it and run off somewhere.
Yes, I know my wheat farm produces too many seeds. I need to figure out a way to automate replacing some of the seeds (all that are necessary to replace) while putting the rest in my AE...
The trampling for my other farm was them jumping up and off the barrels, before it probably just how they interact with the microblock floor it had. Still they're hardly as reliable as a good pipe system, just more compact.
ro·bot /ˈrōˌbät/ Noun A machine capable of carrying out a complex series of actions automatically. (esp. in science fiction) A machine resembling a human being and able to replicate certain human movements and functions.
Derived from the Czech word robota, meaning "forced labour".
Close enough though Anvildude- I'd say that by the common definitions, Golems are Robots.
Sources: Google and my own, aspiring Roboticist mind.
Ninja'd! Dammit Meli! Curse you and your swift copy and paste skills!
Once the bunnies got away some bats fluttered by and he killed them. That fight was like a Disney movie... I'm just completely ignored while the forest critters "fight".
No, you see, what he does is pump it out onto the Overworld's Oceans. Thereby coating the vast majority of the map in a layer of Obsidian, with Lava above it and water below.
Yeah it's set to the same level as the lava pump, in the future i'm going to have that top level output to an entire tank which is then public, so that when people like mata just hook up their tanks to my supply for no reason they dont drain me out again :(
I have a bunch of public channels up though, if I can figure out how to get steam out of a boiler faster I may be able to offer steam power too. Ender tanks are a no-go at ~100mb/s output, they are crap, my current plan is a massive array of output tesseracts, so far i'm at ~2000mb/s with those, wish there was a high power liquiduct or something =(
Darkinnit, can I have an industrial grinder, I had built one and had it set up with the machine casings and MV power but when deconstructing it too add a MFE directly beneath it with my electric lossless wrench it turned to machine casings.
Hey Dark, Iustis was wanting to go to some volcano in the ass-end of nowhere and quarry it down the massive amount of basalt we'll soon need. I'm not sure how much you're okay or not okay with this, so I figured I'd ask for them.
Automatically Appended Next Post: Also, whose is this?
Melissia wrote: Hey Dark, Iustis was wanting to go to some volcano in the ass-end of nowhere and quarry it down the massive amount of basalt we'll soon need. I'm not sure how much you're okay or not okay with this, so I figured I'd ask for them.
I'm generally against quarrying in the overworld*, however, as volcanoes seem to refuse to spawn in the mining age I will allow it on the condition that you stop the quarry once it hits a majority of normal stone. The volcano shaft does go deep into the ground, but is very narrow, so quarrying that will return little basalt.
You can see on this one how the basalt stops after a few layers. I disapprove that this quarry was continued after they got the basalt, but it's too late to undo it now.
* I don't mind Corpses' quarrying of the ocean as he cleared the space with intention to use it. My main objection to quarrying the overworld is the large empty holes left behind. That's why we have the mining age, you can litter that with holes without annoying any neighbours.
Okay, thanks for clarification. Okay Iustis, you have your answer.
Also, we converted almost all our diamond dust in to regular diamonds now. Yay.
The process, for those that have too much diamond dust like we did, is such:
4 Diamond Dust + 32 Industrial TNT (in an Implosion Compressor) -> 3 Industrial Diamond + 16(?) Dark Ash 9 Industrial Diamond (in a Compressor) -> 1 Block of Diamond 1 Block of Diamond (shapeless crafting) -> 9 Diamonds
This allows for diamond bees to be far more useful across all mods, although it does require you to use gregtech, which many people dislike (including myself to some extent). Although really, with the exception of magical mods, all mods should accept industrial diamonds in place of regular ones. That they don't is a serious failure of the modpack.
Probably best if you watch/read some tutorials, mostly about surviving. Try single player out for a bit first, to avoid damaging anything that belongs to someone else (creepers gonna creep). In single player you have the ability to pause the game and it's easier to sleep and skip the night.
The plain Dakka Minecraft server may be a better place to start before moving into FTB, as it adds lots more complexity.
Of course there may also be someone who'd love to show you the ropes.
If you want Kim a bit lonely and have taken up some new guys to work with like raptor, what's your IGN and if you want you can meet me and I'll help get you started. What mods you like?
Melissia wrote: Okay, thanks for clarification. Okay Iustis, you have your answer.
Also, we converted almost all our diamond dust in to regular diamonds now. Yay.
The process, for those that have too much diamond dust like we did, is such:
4 Diamond Dust + 32 Industrial TNT (in an Implosion Compressor) -> 3 Industrial Diamond + 16(?) Dark Ash
9 Industrial Diamond (in a Compressor) -> 1 Block of Diamond
1 Block of Diamond (shapeless crafting) -> 9 Diamonds
This allows for diamond bees to be far more useful across all mods, although it does require you to use gregtech, which many people dislike (including myself to some extent). Although really, with the exception of magical mods, all mods should accept industrial diamonds in place of regular ones. That they don't is a serious failure of the modpack.
sorry my main idea when I have excess materials is converting them to something useful and putting them in the public chest, not converting them to something easily obtainable
FtB add a lot of content to the vanilla game. Basic minecraft can be confusing at first to get into as it is... But I suppose you could just do what I do and play FtB like the base game, and integrate the modded items/concepts in as you go along. At its most basic the game doesn't really go much past "find shelter, don't die, turn shelter in to silly castle/moon base/ giant crater in the ground".
Oh, don't mind him. He just wants to build a monopoly of "Free" materials, supplies and energy so that people come to depend on what he gives out. That way, when he shuts it all down, and the people look up at him with pleading eyes and scream "Provide for us!", he'll be able to look down and say,
Anvildude wrote: Oh, don't mind him. He just wants to build a monopoly of "Free" materials, supplies and energy so that people come to depend on what he gives out. That way, when he shuts it all down, and the people look up at him with pleading eyes and scream "Provide for us!", he'll be able to look down and say,
"No."
shockingly accurate
However you'll all drown in lava far before that time comes
Anvildude wrote: Hehe. This is why I build everything out of Warded Stone.
My structure's made of reinforced stone at the moment. Iustis' place might be vulnerable at t he moment ,but that'd be easy to fix, most of the important stuff is underground surrounded by double layers of stonebrick anyway (which proved a wise decision when my first industrial grinder blew up from providing it too much power, and destroyed both of those layers but didn't touch the other machines)..
Avatar 720 wrote: I fear Grundz may have become too powerful, even for dark.
Anvildude wrote: I'll love you forever if you find a Ravine in the Cave Age and fill it to the brim with lava.
Don't tell anyone where it is, either. Just let them start tunneling, then suddenly come across this wall of magma.
Please do not do this.
I have yet to see a single cave or ravine in the cave age that is not connected to the large caverns. The main reason I had Grundz stop pouring lava into the world was just because he wasn't directing it anywhere, just letting it spread everywhere.
The way redpower pumps work is they calculate where the next source block needs to be placed to keep the surface level. Running this calculation over such a large distance "just for the hell of it" was just getting stupid.
I have no problem with people using the pumps if you have a set reasonable area you want to fill. If you use pumps to just make a big mess just because you can, I will ban them.
I have yet to see a single cave or ravine in the cave age that is not connected to the large caverns. The main reason I had Grundz stop pouring lava into the world was just because he wasn't directing it anywhere, just letting it spread everywhere.
I think there's a misconception that I was just pumping willy nilly, every day I would fly around the perimeter of the lava and see where its going next, like when It started encroaching towards mata's land, I touched base with him and built a natural looking hill to make sure it doesn't go in that direction anymore, long before it hit his sightline, since lava just ran off of excess energy I'm thinking of sending that excess power to oil production next and pump it into a quarry hole or series of tanks for public use
I wouldn't use pumps in the cave age unless someone needs something filled, the restrictive area would mean I could fill like, the entire age in an afternoon if I went full bore.
Please use tanks for liquid storage. They're much saner and you can store 16 buckets in the space of a single block, rather than 1 bucket per block of dumping it into the world.
As for Xycraft tanks (and Thaumcraft, Forestry Alvearies and lots of other multiblock structures that don't currently show up correctly), you'll just have to wait till the Dynmap dev guy gets around to it. There's so many mods and they're constantly changing, it's a hard game of catchup that he has to play.
