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I was waiting for any further news on the next Direwolf modpack, but I'm happy to hear other suggestions of packs that people may prefer instead.

As for Waila, as people have mentioned, it's a client side mod, so you're free to add/remove it without any effect on the server. I believe it can also be configured, to hide or show as much or as little info as you want, i.e. not taking up half the screen with energy values.

After playing with it a bit, I'm pretty happy with Hermitcraft. It shouldn't be long before we have the Direwolf pack out, but we could put a switch to a vote? If people want Hermitcraft, then there's no reason to wait.

 Inquisitor Lord Bane wrote:
After playing with it a bit, I'm pretty happy with Hermitcraft. It shouldn't be long before we have the Direwolf pack out, but we could put a switch to a vote? If people want Hermitcraft, then there's no reason to wait.

I still think we should wait for hermit craft, then vote.

I'm still hoping the new direwolf finds a way to keep thaumcraft

sirlynchmob wrote:

 Inquisitor Lord Bane wrote:
After playing with it a bit, I'm pretty happy with Hermitcraft. It shouldn't be long before we have the Direwolf pack out, but we could put a switch to a vote? If people want Hermitcraft, then there's no reason to wait.

I still think we should wait for hermit craft, then vote.

I'm still hoping the new direwolf finds a way to keep thaumcraft

I do love me my Thaumcraft...

Mmm... Thaumcraft...

I wonder what all addons they'll have with TC, then? I'm loving the Automagy addon- just that and Thaumcraft base have given me just about all the functionality of even the crazier tech mods by themselves. Autocrafting, inventory measurement, and of course, Golems are a lot more powerful than people give them credit for.

Unfortunately the latest public version for Thaumcraft is for Minecraft 1.8.9, as are its addons.

Azanor is working on a 1.10.2 version of Thaumcraft, it's just that the only versions released so far aren't available to the general public (there are some alpha and beta versions, but they've only been made available to his patreon backers).

 Matt.Kingsley wrote:
Unfortunately the latest public version for Thaumcraft is for Minecraft 1.8.9, as are its addons.

Azanor is working on a 1.10.2 version of Thaumcraft, it's just that the only versions released so far aren't available to the general public (there are some alpha and beta versions, but they've only been made available to his patreon backers).

so I have room to hope then I'm sure direwolf knows that as well, and it might be way he's waiting to release his pack.

 darkinnit wrote:
I was waiting for any further news on the next Direwolf modpack, but I'm happy to hear other suggestions of packs that people may prefer instead.

As for Waila, as people have mentioned, it's a client side mod, so you're free to add/remove it without any effect on the server. I believe it can also be configured, to hide or show as much or as little info as you want, i.e. not taking up half the screen with energy values.

As long as it has some tech mods I should be happy. I'd prefer IC2 or GregTech (preferably IC2 obviously) if possible, granted, but other ones aren't so bad.

I'm more concerned with basic resources we can maybe carry over. Like iron, gold, redstone, etc, vanilla stuff.

IC2 is in both 1.10.2 modpacks that are already out, so there's no reason it wont be. EnderIO as well, but I know you don't like that one as much.

The main thing I use from EnderIO is its solar panels, which are a good way to generate RF in the automated mining realm.

 Melissia wrote:
I'm more concerned with basic resources we can maybe carry over. Like iron, gold, redstone, etc, vanilla stuff.

It's a bit too early to make any calls on that, but if I did any option for not starting from scratch it would probably be using some starter inventory, i.e. everyone gets the same.

 darkinnit wrote:

 Melissia wrote:
I'm more concerned with basic resources we can maybe carry over. Like iron, gold, redstone, etc, vanilla stuff.

It's a bit too early to make any calls on that, but if I did any option for not starting from scratch it would probably be using some starter inventory, i.e. everyone gets the same.

well no starting inventory is complete without 27 stacks of red hardend clay

the feed the beast launcher now has "infinity lite 1.10" Should make for a fun vote once direwolfs pack is out. giving us 6 choices.

Dire is still waiting on a mod or two still, according to his Twittah. AE2 is definitely in though, so yay for that.

Part of me hopes one of the mods he's waiting on is Thaumcraft, however the other part of me doesn't as it might be a while until we get a full release for that.

He submitted the pack to the FtB team for testing, hes saying a week, maybe two if there's significant issues. Whoo!

Yays! I hope only a week then.

I would suggest though, after direwolf comes out, we take a week to try out all the versions, then we can use a rating/voting method.

We rank the 6 choices, 7 if we want to include sticking with the current version, from 1-7. 1 being your first choice, 7th being your last pick. Give a week to make sure everyone has a chance to vote.

Then the 3 with the lowest scores we just do a straight up vote for them. giving it another week or until everyone who rated has voted.

I'm ok with putting it to a vote, but if Thaumcraft is in the Direwolf pack, its pretty much game over. Downloading Infinity Lite now, it does look like a bit of fun

These days ore and structures can be retro-genned into worlds (usually). So even if Thaumcraft isn't ready, it could still be added later. There's also the option of some dimension mod like Mystcraft/RFDimensions/etc if we need some new terrain later.

I'm happy to run a vote once things are settling.

Grrr, does this mean I have to do some work? :-P

 darkinnit wrote:
These days ore and structures can be retro-genned into worlds (usually). So even if Thaumcraft isn't ready, it could still be added later. There's also the option of some dimension mod like Mystcraft/RFDimensions/etc if we need some new terrain later.

I'm happy to run a vote once things are settling.

Grrr, does this mean I have to do some work? :-P

I can help you with the voting, that should go quick enough as there's at most 10 of us that play on the server. So I could do the two threads for the votes, then you can demand recounts til you have the time to update the server

Hey y'all. Just posted on the thread for being whitelisted, and hope to join you all soon!

Is there anything I should know going in, other than basic stuff like don't be a dingus, no griefing, etc. etc.?

 JNAProductions wrote:
Hey y'all. Just posted on the thread for being whitelisted, and hope to join you all soon!

Is there anything I should know going in, other than basic stuff like don't be a dingus, no griefing, etc. etc.?

that's the gist of it, and there's plenty of room so try not to encroach near others.

I actually kinda stink at building pretty things (I'm good at the nitty-gritty, not the pretty) so I wouldn't mind working with someone else on a good base. But if no one wants to shack up with me, Ill understand.

 JNAProductions wrote:
I actually kinda stink at building pretty things (I'm good at the nitty-gritty, not the pretty) so I wouldn't mind working with someone else on a good base. But if no one wants to shack up with me, Ill understand.

I'm just now getting out of my hobbit hole, I can help get you set up with materials you need, but my base is more a labor of love than a proper base.

https://www.darkinnit.com/direwolf2014map/

sirlynchmob wrote:

 JNAProductions wrote:
I actually kinda stink at building pretty things (I'm good at the nitty-gritty, not the pretty) so I wouldn't mind working with someone else on a good base. But if no one wants to shack up with me, Ill understand.

I'm just now getting out of my hobbit hole, I can help get you set up with materials you need, but my base is more a labor of love than a proper base.

https://www.darkinnit.com/direwolf2014map/

Alright. Well, I gotta get whitelisted first.

So Direwolf20 has now announced that his new pack will be released tomorrow:



He's stated that the modlist won't be released until tomorrow when the pack is available.

I'm going to have a play around with the available packs in the meantime. So far the mods that are present in all three packs are:
Baubles, BDlib, Better Builder's Wands, Blood Magic, Botania, Chameleon, Chest Transporter, Chisel 2, Chisels and Bits, Cooking for Blockheads, Custom Main Menu, Deep Resonance, EJML Core, ElecCore | Dimension API, EnderTanks, EnderCore, EnderIO, Extra Utilities, Flat Coloured Blocks, Forestry, FTB Utilities, FTBLib, Gendustry, Gravestone Mod, Guide API, Harvestcraft, IndustrialCraft 2, Inventory Tweaks, Iron Chests, JourneyMap, Just Enough Items, Just Enough Resources, Mantle, MCMultiPart, Morpheus, MouseTweaks, OpenComputers, RefinedStorage, Reliquary, Resouce Loader, RFTools, Roots, Shetiphian Core, Storage Drawers, The One Probe, Tinker's Construct.

Biggest difference in the packs at first glance is that Infinity has Draconic Evolution and Railcraft. Unstable has Waila, but that can be added to the other packs without any server changes needed.

Note this list does not guarantee that any of these will be in the DW20 pack, but it's a good indication of what we may expect.

sirlynchmob wrote:We rank the 6 choices

Six? I only count four packs (if we include the upcoming Direwolf pack). Are there two I haven't heard about?

sirlynchmob wrote:So I could do the two threads for the votes

It's nice of you to offer, but I don't think a separate thread for votes is necessary, let alone two. There are sites like strawpoll and surveymonkey etc, etc for that (other survey providers are available).

At about 8:20 minutes in Dire starts listing off the mods in the new DirePack.

List of mods mentioned by Dire as being in the pack (not including Libraries):


That's all that there is for now, but he mentions there will almost definitely be more in the future.
He mentions Thaumcraft (apparently it's the most-asked about mod in relation to the pack). Still not done yet, but Azanor hopes to release a public version by the end of the year. When it's out it should be added to the pack.

I for one am excited. The lack of Gendustry is a tad disappointing to me, but then again I've probably mucked about with Gendustry on multiple iterations of the sever enough times.

I'm sold just based off the mod list. If thaumcraft is added later, I don't even need to play the others. Ill play with it when I get home from work, but AE2 and thaumcraft sway my opinion.

I haven't tried any of the newer mods or mod packs for quite some time but most of my older favourites are in. On top of that RFTools seems to have an interesting RF generator setup with the endergenic generator.
Draconic Evolution might be fun as well. Can't wait

Edit: Just noticed ComputerCraft isn't part of Direwolf20 but Open Computers is. Are there significant differences (pastebin-support, lua-code, turtles)?
Edit2: It seems to offer about the same as CC (plus some more ways to interact with the world) but will use more in-game resources and some kind of energy, e.g. RF.