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So can someone explain the appeal of blood magic to me? It seems to show up in all of the 'magic' packs, and cutting myself while playing a video game seems needlessly aggravating as a gimmick even if I ignore the dubiousness of 'cutting myself in a video game' as a premise. What unique thing does it do?
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It's one of the few mods that actually integrates building into its progression and function, as opposed to the usual "advancement" of crafting a series of increasingly expensive blocks and tossing them into a room.
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Jul 17, 2015 20:18
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Cutting yourself is just the introduction, you should be cutting others (especially innocents like villagers!) and then building a ritual to auto-bleed hapless minions for their tasty blood. Named witches blocked in glass tubes are probably best since they'll automatically toss regen potions when they get low and naming them keeps them from despawning. Anyway, check this for a good run-down of what you can do with Blood.
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Jul 17, 2015 20:22
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Mzbundifund posted:It's one of the few mods that actually integrates building into its progression and function, as opposed to the usual "advancement" of crafting a series of increasingly expensive blocks and tossing them into a room. This is exactly why I chose it over Thaumcraft or Botania.
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Jul 18, 2015 00:21
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mechaet posted:I'd like to announce Modderation: FYAD Edition as an addition to the Modderation series of modpacks. Awesome. Can't wait. Is the server going to be a fresh map? The only thing keeping me from playing Modderation right now is that my computer can only juuuuust play it. EDIT: SGCraft and ChickenBones wireless redstone are redundant with RFtools. And Forestry?  I'd rather have buildcraft if I had to pick one of the lovely 3.
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Jul 18, 2015 01:08
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bigperm posted:Awesome. Can't wait. Honestly I would just have parts of forestry and railcraft like the farms, boilers, and giant tanks and the related parts.
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Jul 18, 2015 05:43
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I kinda like the rail parts of Railcraft if only I didn't have to deal with actually making them
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Jul 18, 2015 06:54
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mechaet posted:I'd like to announce Modderation: FYAD Edition as an addition to the Modderation series of modpacks. It doesn't have bloody loving TiCon 
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Jul 18, 2015 07:33
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bigperm posted:Awesome. Can't wait. "Latest" branch instead of the default "Recommended" branch contains fastcraft which makes it run fairly well on a laptop. quote:EDIT: quote:And Forestry? Buildcraft introduces very terribly-coded pipe systems into the pack, something I didn't even tolerate in Permabanned which had Mek pipes in it. Also, mass-mining is the debbil.
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Jul 18, 2015 07:48
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Ciaphas posted:It doesn't have bloody loving TiCon The selection process was prioritized in this order: Least laggy Most inclusive Least redundant Slower progression by default
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Jul 18, 2015 07:51
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Hey, mechaet - why does that pack have Baubles? Except for, maybe, the Forge Lexicon from Thermal Expansion, I don't really see anything else in the mod list that uses it?
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Jul 18, 2015 12:17
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Ciaphas posted:It doesn't have bloody loving TiCon what's wrong with tinker's construct 
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Jul 18, 2015 14:03
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Glory of Arioch posted:what's wrong with tinker's construct Not a fan of bubblegum pink tools I guess.
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Jul 18, 2015 14:48
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mechaet posted:The selection process was prioritized in this order: ProjectE
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Jul 18, 2015 17:25
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StealthArcher posted:ProjectE woah i had no idea this existed who dafuq would want to use EE2 in tyool 2015, this was the worst mod in existence and ruined everything
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Jul 18, 2015 17:38
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Black Pants posted:Not a fan of bubblegum pink tools I guess. They're so fashionable with the purple accents and a strong red rod to bring it all together.
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Jul 18, 2015 17:41
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actually mandatory volcanos were good, and cool, and my friend
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Jul 18, 2015 17:41
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Also giant unburnable trees that break to sticks. And turning one blaze rod into infinite everything. It was pretty useful in the original FTB, but broken as gently caress otherwise.
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Jul 18, 2015 17:42
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i think we are conflating redpower and ee2 here but yeah those mods had some pretty awful features
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Jul 18, 2015 18:08
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on that note it looks like the redpower 2 dev is making a whole new game instead of trying to keep up with minecraft http://www.eloraam.com/
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Jul 18, 2015 18:09
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StealthArcher posted:ProjectE It's the only mod that does what it does, and doesn't duplicate a bunch of stuff in the process. Automatic win for this round of selection.
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Jul 18, 2015 18:22
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Glory of Arioch posted:on that note it looks like the redpower 2 dev is making a whole new game instead of trying to keep up with minecraft Someone find the patreon that has been giving this person a lot of money with no result.
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Jul 18, 2015 18:24
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Serifina posted:Hey, mechaet - why does that pack have Baubles? Except for, maybe, the Forge Lexicon from Thermal Expansion, I don't really see anything else in the mod list that uses it? Mostly for the extra inventory slots.
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Jul 18, 2015 18:25
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mechaet posted:It's the only mod that does what it does, and doesn't duplicate a bunch of stuff in the process. Automatic win for this round of selection. But duplicating a bunch of stuff is all the mod does! 
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Jul 18, 2015 18:47
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I have TFC questions. What are some quality-of-life mods that improve it? I think I saw some stuff with carpenter's blocks and realized that would be nice. Is there a quick tweak to get stairs back in? I just do not understand why they have to be made in-place with a chisel. Is there anything I should focus on during the winter? Are there winter-specific things I should get? I am in my first one now and want to know what to look out for. Finally, is there any way to set up crop irrigation? I see I can't drop blocks of water from buckets. I was hoping to do something better than carving plots out of river banks. Will water fill in if I dig out from a body of water? I know a 1-block-wide hole will not, but IIRC one can propagate water by tactfully digging 2-wide.
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Rocko Bonaparte posted:I have TFC questions. There's a bunch of stuff in their forums: http://terrafirmacraft.com/f/forum/29-addons-applications/ . I actually kinda want to try that scales mod as one of the things I hate most in TFC is trying to cut very specific amounts of a food item to put into a barrel or clay vessel. There's also https://github.com/whelmaze/tfc-waila-plugin/releases which I have not tried. I don't think there's a way to make stair blocks. Maybe with carpenter's blocks? In winter, the main thing to make sure to do is to hoard water in barrels. If water around your area starts to freeze, you won't be able to get drinkable water easily. I think you MIGHT be able to break ice and get water source blocks for a little while, but it's better to be safe and get all the fresh (+salt) water you need. Most of the time it's too cold to farm, so just live off of your food stocks and explore. Crop irrigation is something you can only really do with Red Steel buckets, which are at the end of the "tech tree." They let you move water source blocks around. Otherwise, you're stuck with what you can dig a channel with. This is why I usually set up near a flat area with fresh water, so I have lots of room for growing stuff.
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Rocko Bonaparte posted:I have TFC questions. I generally just use a map mod and maybe smartmoving. There isn't a lot that fits TFC. I would love to see a tech mod for TFC, though, with brass tubes, copper and lead pipes, wiring, steam hammers, etc. Right now once you start climbing the metal tech tiers, it is very repetitive. I would also like to make stairs in the crafting matrix. Maybe wood ones, with a saw, and keep stone ones made in place with the chisel. I know of no solution. For winter, make sure you have enough food stored: crops will die, water will freeze. When you get up to red steel, you can make buckets that move water source blocks. Until then, carving out river banks and lake beaches is all you can do.
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Jul 18, 2015 19:12
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mechaet posted:It's the only mod that does what it does, and doesn't duplicate a bunch of stuff in the process. Automatic win for this round of selection. Neither of those is actually true. EE3 is out and mostly functional and Reliquary duplicates a lot of the projecte stuff.
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Jul 18, 2015 19:25
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bigperm posted:Neither of those is actually true. EE3 is out and mostly functional and Reliquary duplicates a lot of the projecte stuff. EE3 is mostly functional now? Do tell. All I can find on it is a changelog for 1.5.2, which is rather obviously not up to date.
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Serifina posted:Hey, mechaet - why does that pack have Baubles? Except for, maybe, the Forge Lexicon from Thermal Expansion, I don't really see anything else in the mod list that uses it? Fair enough! I'll whip up some more. 
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McFrugal posted:EE3 is mostly functional now? Do tell. All I can find on it is a changelog for 1.5.2, which is rather obviously not up to date. Download: http://minecraft.curseforge.com/mc-mods/65509-ee3 http://ee3.pahimar.com/ Source: https://github.com/pahimar/Equivalent-Exchange-3 Reasons why development has paused for now (because holy poo poo): http://www.pahimar.com/ tl;dr - the guy's daughter was born premature with some fairly serious issues. I would imagine Minecraft is pretty low on his priority list right now.
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Glory of Arioch posted:on that note it looks like the redpower 2 dev is making a whole new game instead of trying to keep up with minecraft
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Nevermind~
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Vib Rib posted:Whoa, loving the mid-90s ugly as gently caress warehouse game, can't wait to play it, totally looks fun, looking at a dingy poo poo warehouse with bad lighting makes me think wow that must be a fun game to play, I love it and can't wait. Hoping it has mandatory volcanoes. It's ok, it's not going to be released anyway.
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Wolfsbane posted:tl;dr - the guy's daughter was born premature with some fairly serious issues. I would imagine Minecraft is pretty low on his priority list right now.
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Jul 18, 2015 20:54
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Carados posted:He's still making videos with Direwolf20 every three days, so not that low I guess. Videos pay the bills. It turns out that paying the bills goes up in importance when you have kids, not down.
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Jul 18, 2015 21:36
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Anias posted:Videos pay the bills. It turns out that paying the bills goes up in importance when you have kids, not down. So does a real job
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Wolfsbane posted:tl;dr - the guy's daughter was born premature with some fairly serious issues. I would imagine Minecraft is pretty low on his priority list right now. So instead of a version that has active development and is full-featured, you'd rather I choose the lesser one that isn't being updated. I appreciate your thoughts on this matter and will consider them accordingly.
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I don't believe I expressed a preference. In fact I'm not even sure which modpack you're in charge of, if any. Someone asked for a more up to date version of EE3 than 1.5, and I happened to know where to find one. I do appreciate the work you're putting into being a snarky rear end in a top hat though, so good job there at least.
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Dunno-Lars posted:Someone find the patreon that has been giving this person a lot of money with no result. No, see, it is all good because after collecting money for over a year she changed the wording of her Patreon page around November 2014. She actually lost a lot of patrons (rightly so) but is still making $300 a month on the stupid thing.  I mean, the thing that made RP2 nice about being a MC mod was that it was a mod for minecraft so it did have a base game and many many other mods you can mix into it to make things more interesting all the time, I can't imagine a game built around her game design philosophy because she claims that it isn't going to resemble minecraft and is just based around her ideas for RP2. Also, she needs to fire her "paid full time artist" because poo poo looks like stock public textures or something you grab off the Unity store yo. There are generally very few mods I feel that could stand up as a stand alone game because they would have to redesign the proverbial minecraft wheel and the only mod dev that I've seen come close to that is the TFC crew and even then TFC is definitely not for everyone. I mean, could you imagine if Greg decided to make his own minecraft-like to better see the vision of his mod made? The game would be an insufferable mess. Like the idea has been kicked around in the past, but while I think that there are plenty of great modders in the community and some truly great mods, I don't think many of them, not even a collaboration, could make a full fledged game that would be able to stand against modded minecraft. Hell, nearly every company that has set out to make a better version of vanilla minecraft has failed. /rant
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