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So it's now the weekend and the vote is exactly 50:50. Yeay.

Even adding Anvildude's Direwolf20 vote and sirlynchmob's wife's Infinity Lite vote doesn't change that (unless either of you managed to use the poll in the end).

Has everyone voted? Last time we had about 20 votes in the end too. Ramos Asura, have pixel_redfox and mackintosh45 cast their vote yet?

I haven't voted yet.

Anvildude wrote:
Ooh, Psi has enchanting?

I should've been more specific when i wrote "spells can be attached to some worn armor or tools" . Psi has tools and armor that have a spell slot where you can insert one of your self-created spells. AFAIK it gets triggered by different events, e.g. the chest armor reacts to the wearer getting damaged whereas the spotlight showed different available sensors for your helmet (or perhaps other armor parts as well; i haven't tested that bit of the mod yet), like a light, heat or water sensor.

Anvildude wrote:
I'd love to have something that would encase an attacker in a stone coffin.

Your idea should work and a stone coffin spell could be attached to the chest armor. Sounds fun

 darkinnit wrote:
So it's now the weekend and the vote is exactly 50:50. Yeay.

Even adding Anvildude's Direwolf20 vote and sirlynchmob's wife's Infinity Lite vote doesn't change that (unless either of you managed to use the poll in the end).

Has everyone voted? Last time we had about 20 votes in the end too. Ramos Asura, have pixel_redfox and mackintosh45 cast their vote yet?

my wife didn't vote in the poll.

my kids haven't voted

Pixel votes direwolf,
Mack votes infinity


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Damn it theyre not being helpful

I vote Direwolf

Yeah, looks like the poll has pulled ahead for the Direwolf20 pack again.

I think I'll call it here. Each time I checked the poll and it was not an even match it was in favour of the Direwolf20 pack and I don't think it ever got ahead in favour of Infinity at any point, so although it was a close call, I think the Direwolf20 pack wins on time ahead too.

I'll finish putting a server together, but as it will involve some terrain pre-gen and some (hopefully minimal) config tweaking, I'm not giving any eta's just yet.

There's no Dynmap for 1.10.2 yet, so we will have to rely on the in-game Journeymap mod and FTB Utils for now.

When will the server be live?

Also, thanks Darkinnit, for running this!

I'm actually kind of surprised it ended up being close given most the talk before the poll was about the DW20 pack.

Hope you don't run into any problems during set up Dark

Also Dire has the 1st part of his Actually Additions for those of you who (like me) want to get more familiar with the mod:

JNAProductions wrote:When will the server be live?

Ha ha! See:

darkinnit wrote:I'm not giving any eta's just yet.

Cool beans. n0t_u and I tested out Infinity earlier and didn't really see anything she liked, and honestly I probably will prefer DW20 just for AE, so I'm fine with that.

 darkinnit wrote:
Yeah, looks like the poll has pulled ahead for the Direwolf20 pack again.

I think I'll call it here. Each time I checked the poll and it was not an even match it was in favour of the Direwolf20 pack and I don't think it ever got ahead in favour of Infinity at any point, so although it was a close call, I think the Direwolf20 pack wins on time ahead too.

I'll finish putting a server together, but as it will involve some terrain pre-gen and some (hopefully minimal) config tweaking, I'm not giving any eta's just yet.

There's no Dynmap for 1.10.2 yet, so we will have to rely on the in-game Journeymap mod and FTB Utils for now.

Wait a second, it won the popular vote, so doesn't that mean we should be playing infinity?

Well after trying out infinity I was going to pick dire wolf anyway. Not sure how the magic is in that but it was kind of boring in infinity.

There's 1 more magic mod in DW20 than Infinity.

Unfortunately most of the standard big magic mods (witchery, Thaumcraft + its addons, Twilight Forest) haven't been updated to 1.10 yet. It's pretty much just Blood Magic and Botania (and Psi, in the case of DW20's pack).

I based it on "can I accidentally blow up a mountain if I don't know what I'm doing" / usefulness of magic in combat beyond "look at these fancy swords". Like the one time I was messing with blood magic off the server with meli and accidentally blew a hole through a mountain.

Psi does look neat, with being able to program your own magic. Hopefully there's a lot you can do with that.

That's what I was really hoping for in Ars Magicka, and what I think it should have evolved into if it had continued, but yeah, I'm looking forwards to the block-placing stuff.

I'm just annoyed by the tech theming of the programming table, and the fact that the casting device is a f'in gun. And not even a fancy, bundle-of-wands looking gun! Like, a Sig Saur!

I'd be much, much happier if I could change it to be a bit more runic or using Alchemic symbols instead of programming language.

Oh hey, I finally got OptiFine to work with the modpack.
Turn out I had an old version of the mod, a newer version was released just over a week ago and seems to have fixed the crash.

Quick update on the state of the new server.

Config changes: Done
So far just keeping the same changes as the current server, disabled IC2 nukes and with RFTools you can only create up to two void dimensions per player. Also reduced the frequency of slime islands as they tend to adversely affect the mob cap when chunk loaded.

Behind the scenes admin stuff (backups, scheduled reboots etc): Done

Mining Dimension: Done

Terrain pre-generation: Started, but still a lot todo
This helps to prevent a lot of lag the first few hours/days when everyone is out looking for a place to set up their base and generating new terrain.

Unfortunately I'm quite busy this week and won't have much time to work on the server, so it's looking like it will be Friday at the very earliest before it is ready, but could be pushed back to the weekend depending on how things go.

I will probably skip building a nice spawn before the server is launched, to save time on getting the server up and running (especially as most people just head off and do their own thing anyway). Spawn can be built up/improved once the server is running (feel free to contribute!). The current seed I'm using spawns directly in a village, so there's at least some shelter and food to begin with.

Nice, village start is great.

We'll need a wall or a moat.

Actually, a moat would be cooler than a wall. A nice deep, wide trench dug around the whole thing would be cool. I'm sure there's some sort of Player-only blocks we could use for magical bridges or something.


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Oh! Also, since it's been ages since I've used FtB- how do I get on, again? Just download the most up-to-date FtB launcher?

Is there somewhere I can just download the modpack to run from the vanilla launcher, or would that be prohibitive?

FTB is all done through the Curse Client now.

That said, occasionally it may have issues. I've had it try to use the wrong Minecraft launcher version in the past (not too hard to fix as you just need to change the setting, but still).

The original FTB Launcher still works too and has the new packs listed (I'm on linux, so can't use the Curse Client). However, after a brief search I can't find where they're hiding the download link these days if you need to download it again.

I'll have a more thorough search later, unless someone else finds it first. (Just avoid any dodgy third party sites!)


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Ah, duh, it's on the homepage, but doesn't show up if you browse from mobile:
https://www.feed-the-beast.com

Choose one of the Linux, "Legacy Mac", "Legacy Windows" options if you don't want Curse.

Anvildude wrote:
We'll need a wall or a moat.

Actually, a moat would be cooler than a wall. A nice deep, wide trench dug around the whole thing would be cool. I'm sure there's some sort of Player-only blocks we could use for magical bridges or something.


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Oh! Also, since it's been ages since I've used FtB- how do I get on, again? Just download the most up-to-date FtB launcher?

Is there somewhere I can just download the modpack to run from the vanilla launcher, or would that be prohibitive?

Doesn't this pack have the interdiction torches?

 n0t_u wrote:

Anvildude wrote:
We'll need a wall or a moat.

Actually, a moat would be cooler than a wall. A nice deep, wide trench dug around the whole thing would be cool. I'm sure there's some sort of Player-only blocks we could use for magical bridges or something.


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Oh! Also, since it's been ages since I've used FtB- how do I get on, again? Just download the most up-to-date FtB launcher?

Is there somewhere I can just download the modpack to run from the vanilla launcher, or would that be prohibitive?

Doesn't this pack have the interdiction torches?

nope, they have a stone torch, and a tiny torch.

Use ineffable glass.

Okay, yeah, for whatever reason I can't do anything with Curse- I don't have the cookies blocked or anything, but I literally can't navigate to any screen that is on the "Curse" site.


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And unfortunately, it looks like that includes the page to download the FtB client.

 n0t_u wrote:
Doesn't this pack have the interdiction torches?

Immersive Engineering has a powered lantern that prevents spawning in a 32x32 area.


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Anvildude wrote:
Okay, yeah, for whatever reason I can't do anything with Curse- I don't have the cookies blocked or anything, but I literally can't navigate to any screen that is on the "Curse" site.


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And unfortunately, it looks like that includes the page to download the FtB client.

The curse client can be downloaded from https://mods.curse.com/client. You might want to try a different browser or a newer browser version if that site doesn't display properly.
Otherwise, this might be helpful: The download link for the windows curse client on that page is the following url https://clientupdate-v6.cursecdn.com/CurseClientSetup.exe.

Edit: The legacy curse client is here: http://clientupdate-v5.curse.com/setup.exe

I kinda want to make an Anor Londo replica at one point in MC, and FtB would be much easier to do that on than vanilla. Though that's a bit of a megaproject...

Yeah, it doesn't work with any of my browsers- Chrome or Firefox. Firefox has a "Sharesession" thing that just displays a 1x1 pixel image, and Chrome had a white page with an image title.

The download link worked fine, though. Thanks.