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**IHateNids**

is anyone else having trouble with the FTB launcher? mine refuses to launch...

**4oursword**

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mine's fine, nids

**Dr. What**

Well, Shrike, plan A (use a creeper on top of everything) failed.

Then I tried plan B, which also failed.

**Matt.Kingsley**

yeah, it seems camo stop 'pearls as well...

**shrike**

mwahahahah

though I have had someone else break in using a method I haven't fixed yet...

**Matt.Kingsley**

I will find away...

...if I don't spend all my time playing FtB

**Dr. What**

I found a way.

Also, would the owners of the Black Rock Foundation be willing to sell their lands/property to me?

Here's another way:

Through an accidental click, I destroyed Shrike's shields!

It was literally a 1m wide gap in the hull that I shot, causing the thing to collapse! The irony!

**darkinnit**

I've added the FTB test server address to the OP

Posting here again just for the lazy:
ftb.darkinnit.com:25585

**Xeriapt**

Dr. What wrote:
I found a way.

Also, would the owners of the Black Rock Foundation be willing to sell their lands/property to me?

Here's another way:

Through an accidental click, I destroyed Shrike's shields!

It was literally a 1m wide gap in the hull that I shot, causing the thing to collapse! The irony!

If you just want to build near the buildings already there thats fine, pretty much the only area Im using has basalt bricks laid out so anything not on those go nuts.

**Dr. What**

Xeriapt wrote:
Dr. What wrote:

Also, would the owners of the Black Rock Foundation be willing to sell their lands/property to me?

If you just want to build near the buildings already there thats fine, pretty much the only area Im using has basalt bricks laid out so anything not on those go nuts.

Well, the plan was to buy up all of that land, so as to have a ready to go base to express industrial might against Shrike.

**Xeriapt**

You can use the 2 tower buildings plus the basement area but the main larger building with all my machines in it Id like left as is.

Both the towers have access tunnels underneath to the basement, one tower is empty as is the basement. They just have some lighting installed.

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Im having a rather hard time finding iron on the new server.

**matapata98**

in the mining age, it seems to be lower down but then quite abundant.

**The Dark Apostle**

Should we not rename this thread to tekkit/FTB? It seems only fitting.
Also is there a map for this new world?

**shrike**

Dr. What wrote:
Xeriapt wrote:
Dr. What wrote:

Also, would the owners of the Black Rock Foundation be willing to sell their lands/property to me?

If you just want to build near the buildings already there thats fine, pretty much the only area Im using has basalt bricks laid out so anything not on those go nuts.

Well, the plan was to buy up all of that land, so as to have a ready to go base to express industrial might against Shrike.

Dark can check the logs for when you said "I won't blow up your base, shrike"

also, you didn't destroy the forcefield, just cut the power cable feeding it and managed to blow a hole in the wall at the same time... and oddly blow another hole 10 blocks further down the line...

**darkinnit**

Xeriapt wrote:Im having a rather hard time finding iron on the new server.

If you're strip mining by hand in the mining age, because it's solid rock, it can be quite tiring to just keep mining through all the cobble, only ever able to see the 6 blocks around you. Compare this to caving in the overworld, where you can just walk right on by all the stone, looking for exposed iron over a much larger surface area.

The mining age is more suited to turtles, quarries and other automated means of mining. While it will have more ores than the overworld (as there's no caves), it also has a lot more stone to get through

. You also won't find any marble in the mining world, as the terrain gen setting for marble is for it to replace air, and there are no caves, so no air, so no marble.

I think it's perfectly fine to cave mine for exposed ores in the overworld, but strip mining, and any automated mining, especially quarries, should be in the mining world.

The Dark Apostle wrote:Should we not rename this thread to tekkit/FTB? It seems only fitting.
Also is there a map for this new world?

I'll probably branch off a separate FTB thread at some point, but not yet while it's just a test server at the moment. Unless others think it should be separated?

There's no map at present, maybe later. Like I said, I'll be testing a lot of stuff on the server and at the moment I want to get a baseline of how things go without any additions so it's easier to see how extra addons (such as the live map generation) affect it.

**Xeriapt**

Yeah I ended up mining caves in the overworld, I also changed my texture pack so I found out I did indeed have some iron.

**4oursword**

I've managed to turn on a little option in NEI where a purple box appears in the top-right of my minecraft window identifying which item my mouse is over. It's very annoying, how do I turn it off?

**darkinnit**

That would be a great feature if it wasn't in the top right. It flickers because it clashes with the map.

I know the map can be moved and then it's fine, but I like the map in the top right. Any other corner and it feels wrong or obtrusive. The NEI tooltip on the other hand could go anywhere because it's small, but I couldn't find any setting other than the one to turn it on and off.

I can't remember where that setting is right now, but bring up your inventory, click "Options" in the bottom left corner, and browse around NEI's menus.

**4oursword**

For whoever owns the village around 326, 352, I must apologise for a small creeper hole on the outskirts. I have left all of the dirt and gravel I picked up in the chest in the nearby blacksmiths'

**Optio**

On the having no creeper block damage discussion, having had part of my little house blown up for the second time im all for it!

**4oursword**

Been having some atrocious lag recently... I get to the place where I died, the server puts me back at my bed, I get back down there, a skeletone shoots me, I get stuck in the floor. Rinse and repeat. Very annoyed. I've lost a ton of stuff through no fault of my own...

**Optio**

The beds dont seem to be working properly, it wont reset the world to morning when I sleep as the only person on the server.
And I've also had several lethal run ins with invisible skeletons in the Skylands :/

**IHateNids**

I would also like to say Villagers dont appear to spawn, having found an empty village which shouldnt happen AFAIK

**4oursword**

Well, I did lose a lot. 2 Diamonds inclusive. It really sucks. Seeing as it was mostly down to lag, could I be reimbursed of any of it?
I've had atrocious luck on the FTB server though, as matapata will tell you...

**darkinnit**

4oursword wrote:Been having some atrocious lag recently... I get to the place where I died, the server puts me back at my bed, I get back down there, a skeletone shoots me, I get stuck in the floor. Rinse and repeat. Very annoyed. I've lost a ton of stuff through no fault of my own...

The lag you're describing sounds like internet lag. I had it when my former ISP decided to start limiting my bandwidth to 256K after 5 years of perfectly fine service. (Note the former). Check you're not also being limited or if someone else in your household isn't hogging the internet

Optio wrote:The beds dont seem to be working properly, it wont reset the world to morning when I sleep as the only person on the server.
And I've also had several lethal run ins with invisible skeletons in the Skylands :/

If you're trying to use beds in a Mystcraft age like the Skylands, you may be out of luck. Overworld should be fine.

IHateNids wrote:I would also like to say Villagers dont appear to spawn, having found an empty village which shouldnt happen AFAIK

The two villages I saw both had villagers in them, so you may just be unlucky.

**Grundz**

aw man I need to finish my projects before I lose flight >.>

**4oursword**

darkinnit wrote:
4oursword wrote:Been having some atrocious lag recently... I get to the place where I died, the server puts me back at my bed, I get back down there, a skeletone shoots me, I get stuck in the floor. Rinse and repeat. Very annoyed. I've lost a ton of stuff through no fault of my own...

The lag you're describing sounds like internet lag. I had it when my former ISP decided to start limiting my bandwidth to 256K after 5 years of perfectly fine service. (Note the former). Check you're not also being limited or if someone else in your household isn't hogging the internet

Certainly no-one else was using the internet at the time, but it sometimes does play up here.

**IHateNids**

well, having a look through the Portal Guns available, there is quite a few variations. And, none of them seem to be that demanding. The hardest item(s) would be Nether Stars.

Dark, if we as a community decide to develop our own version of the [annoying robot voice on]Apature Science Computer-Aided Enrichment Center[annoying robot voice off] would it be possible to get the Nether Stars obtainable through 'tests' in vast quantities, as opposed to just going and getting them (which is an option if people want to)

**darkinnit**

You can also obtain portal guns from dungeons and from Thaumcraft Pigman Totem thingies. Maybe even the Thaumcraft dungeons too?

Happy exploring!

**Xeriapt**

The village right near spawn did have villagers in it but they appeared to die off or become zombies over about an hour of me playing.
Was annoyed, I wanted to trade them for a diamond pick.

So, far as I can see villagers are indeed not spawning.