When the Infitech server I was playing on went down, I stopped for a while and played a few other modpacks... you know how it feels when an FTB'er goes back and plays some vanilla minecraft? It's kinda simple and easy and boring? Well, that's how I feel about all of modded Minecraft when compared to a GOOD Gregtech pack (which Infitech most certainly is) - they've all become "vanilla" and boring. I dunno if other people feel the same, but it's reached the point where regular modpacks are ridiculously easy (and hence not even worth the time investment). Two weeks in a Forgecraft world and I was done with it. There was nothing left to do in the world except just build for the sake of building. But in this modpack, it seems I never make ANY progress... but the pace is almost perfect to hold my interest over the long haul. Credit goes to two groups - first of all, Gregorious T, the glorious Gregorious... and second, to Jason McRay and whatever team he has working on this modpack. Well done indeed.
But no matter my words... it does seem fun to make a base in outer space, so I'm excited about it. But now I have to track down some videos and figure out how it all works, what I need, etc. From looking at recipes, I have to make the Implosion Compressor before I do anything else, and that also means I'm gonna need gunpowder. I was contemplating building a vanilla mob farm and just let it run to collect gunpowder, but I also see there's a nice recipe using only redstone dust and coal dust - both of which can be had in very large supply if I can just get my act together with mining/processing.
