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Yeah Big Reactors can't blow *yet*... so something must have exploded near it.

There was no creeper hole near it, I'm assuming someone else had a hand to it. I tried to pick up the big reactors stuff, but coolant dropped it into the quarry pit

It doesn't look exploded to me. More like "dismantled" and the owner didn't want the blocks that were left behind. It's mostly just the function blocks that are missing (e.g. controller, power port, input port, control rod, etc). I'm mainly thinking dismantled because there's nothing left nearby that it would have been powering. Looks like the owner just took it apart and didn't care about what was left or the flowing water.

 darkinnit wrote:
It doesn't look exploded to me. More like "dismantled" and the owner didn't want the blocks that were left behind. It's mostly just the function blocks that are missing (e.g. controller, power port, input port, control rod, etc). I'm mainly thinking dismantled because there's nothing left nearby that it would have been powering. Looks like the owner just took it apart and didn't care about what was left or the flowing water.

Spoiler:

This sign is probably unrelated as I've passed this sign many times before the reactor was there.

................... Guilty as charged. I was dismantling it, fell in, got trapped, and promptly drowned. Embarrassing I know. And then...my lovely Turkish provided interwebs crashed. Forgot about the reactor in the process. I'll go clean it up tomorrow when I login, it being 10:30pm here and PT early in the am. Sorry bout that guys.

Lol foto.....thats hilarious

Sooooo.... A bit dusty around here...
Where ya guys been?

I go and get a dayjob, and suddenly the server's gone!

Whats the latest news?

Server's still there - I was playing just last night! A lot of people seem to have lost interest though.

Some 1.7 packs are on the way, but not sure which one to go for. Looks like the Direwolf20 pack will be the only "general mix" pack, with there still being separate Tech and Magic packs.

I don't blame them for losing interest in maintaining Monster (or similar "huge" packs). It was a huge amount of mods to try to maintain working together.

There's also going to be various questing packs which could be interesting depending on how they turn out.

I'll probably not run an Agrarian Skies server though as the main focus of that pack seems to be "build a lag machine to make 50,000 lettuce/8 octuple compressed cobble". While that is a good challenge in single player or with one other friend, I don't want to spend my entire time troubleshooting lag issues.

Weird, I was trying last night and couldnt connect! Musta been on my end thoug. Prolly get back home tonight and try again.

Definitely understand whatcha mean- Monster was wickedly huge (part of the reason I like it!), but the hugeness also gives people a huge amount of lag.
And yeah. No agrarian should be needed xD I cant imagine more than a few people playing that. On mine, I get bursts of massive lag linked to Tinkers Construct. I cant even imagine haveing multiple people doin that!!


I do really like the mix of magic and tech. Lets people choose their playstyle or do things differently when they max out one particular mod.

I am rather sad at being unable to finish the Ziggurat. Oh well, I'll just have to do that in a singleplayer world somewhere.

Making some good progress on the increasingly unfittingly-named Mesa.

If we do a transfer, a single chest/strongbox?

I'll probably come back sometime, just need an incentive.

I won't do a transfer to a 1.7 pack. Too much will have changed.

I only did transfers from the Direwolf20 1.4 pack to Ultimate and from Monster 1.0.9 to Monster 1.1.1 because there were such minor mod changes.

Something Tikka suggested has had me thinking. I was saying how Minecraft mostly only makes use of one CPU core on the server, while the other seven CPU cores mostly sit idle. Tikka half-jokingly suggested having the Mystcraft ages in a separate server with Qcraft portals to transfer items between them. I thought this was an interesting idea, but probably too late to start doing it for the Monster server now.

However, with the FTB Team's split into smaller, more focused packs, I have thought about running multiple server packs, running two or three of the more popular packs, spreading the load and overall making more efficient use of server resources. However, as the packs are different, Qcraft portals wouldn't be available and this approach would also fragment the already rather small Dakka FTB player base quite a bit. But then again, many of you do all just fly off and build somewhere on your own anyway and there are mods that will show chat across multiple servers...

It might not be sustainable to have a live map for each server pack if this approach was taken. But it might also be a bit more interesting to have an "unknown" world to explore.

We could also trial the multiple server packs approach for a while, see if it's working out and if not, choose the most popular one and stick with that.

I'm open to discussion and other people's opinions, this is all mostly just me pondering things at this stage, especially as none of the FTB 1.7 packs are final yet.

Direwolfs pack is always good, I agree that monster was too good to last, and it'll be good to start again afresh, though I know some people will cease at another restart. Any links to the new pack/thoughts.

As long as we have IC2 and TiC, I'll be fine iwth starting over.\


I'll look over the list of modpacks when I get home, but IIRC Direwolf's packs are pretty good.

I dunno.... Im fine with losing IC2. At least this most recent version. Its just too useless compared to every other mod, especially Thermal Expansion. Everything is weighted towards the extreme late game with no measurable benefit.

Thermal Expansion is boring. It doesn't look industrial enough. It's more pseudo-magical than tech-based.

very true, but I still maintain that IC2 in its current form simply isnt worth pursuing. Alternatives exist that do the same job but -better-. All IC2 does now is take up space.

All imho, of course

Without anything industrial to replace it, I wouldn't want to play on that modpack. Sadly, I tried rotarycraft, it sucks and it's not really all that useful compared to IC2.

I want an industrial-style mod which allows for solar power, not some steampunk pseudo-magic nonsense like TE.

I get what ya mean. I really would like to see another mod that was how IC2 used to be. Solar power is invaluable for just about everything that needs power.

As much as I really like the concept of the mod, RotaryCraft is really rough starting out. Power transfer makes sense, but is difficult to pull off... Even when you have near unlimited resources and can build anything from the mod, its often really resource intensive to the point of being unusable.

Rotarycraft requires a ton of busywork, to me, that just... it looks neat. Has potential.

Doesn't deliver for how much busywork it requires...

 Doctadeth wrote:
Any links to the new pack/thoughts.

I don't have any more information than what's available on the FTB Forums - the launcher news tab is usually where they announce final confirmed details:
http://forum.feed-the-beast.com/threads/more-1-7-10-updates.50647/

Twitter gets a few more details every now and again, but it's just little things like the new Tech pack will be called inFlux. The FTB Team had previously mentioned that official packs will be focusing on Redstone Flux power and the name of the pack seems to suggest this is the case.

The 1.7 Direwolf20 pack will most likely have IC2, as Direwolf20 is a fan of the mod. In fact the IC2 hammer can be seen here at about 38:26 http://www.twitch.tv/wyld/b/578154202

The only hesitation I have with the Direwolf20 pack is it's "the same thing we do every time". Which is fine, and isn't really that big of a deal to me. However, the new questing packs do add an interesting element and provide motivation for those who normally "get bored" or are overwhelmed with unknown mods.

Thought I'd point this out to people a Equivalent Exchange 2 remake for 1.7.10
https://github.com/MozeIntel/ProjectE

Sadly, to me at least, redstone flux is boring and not really very techy, to me. When I look at a tech-mod, I want electricity, not some mystical magical dust-energy

That's neat in some settings (the FF settings have done some good work with this, for example), but it doooooesn't feel like it works in minecraft, to me. Never was that in to redstone to begin with except as a simplistic stand-in for electricity

To be fair, Minecraft is, at its core, a Fantasy game. It has undead, and dragons, and enchanting and potions and portals to hell and everburning torches and all that good stuff. I think the only reason that the techy mods even exist is because people realized that Redstone mechanics let them build computers, and went "That's technology, right?"

Don't be too sure; even without any mods, Minecraft has a sunlight detector that's basically a low-tech solar panel.

IC2 feels like a much more natural progression in Minecraft than mods like Thaumcraft.

I'd say go the Direwolf20 pack, and also have either the tech pack or something like that.

 Melissia wrote:
Don't be too sure; even without any mods, Minecraft has a sunlight detector that's basically a low-tech solar panel.

IC2 feels like a much more natural progression in Minecraft than mods like Thaumcraft.

Sundials are basically low-tech clocks, but you see those in plenty of fantasy.

Then again, arguing against my position, you could always assume that the potion brewing is actually mixing up chemical serums and the enchanting system is actually imbuing your items with nanotechnology.

And Creepers could go either way, honestly.

Anvildude wrote:
Sundials are basically low-tech clocks, but you see those in plenty of fantasy.

A sunlight detector that sends out a signal is... not equivalent to a sundial

Another update on coming FTB modpacks. There's apparently now apparently one more "new FTB Pack. Codenamed Resurrection. A modpack based on the old FTB Ultimate modpack"

Modlist here: http://pastebin.com/gSf1BBvF

It has Gregtech and Bluepower, thus giving the feel Ultimate had with Gregtech and Redpower.

No ETAs yet, it's still in early beta.

Sounds like it could be interesting. I got this news from FireBall1725's Twitch stream here (if he's still live when you read this):
http://www.twitch.tv/fireball1725dev

Well DireWolf 20 for 1.7 is now out guys

Urgh, I've NEVER liked gregtech, just cranks the difficulty up too much, and with a new game, I'd not touch that with a 50 yard pole.