Recent content by casieg

IC2 construction foam is my material of choice on bunker style builds. It has an interesting building mechanic, is paintable, and blast resistant so it fits the theme.

Check out the third party mod pack section. Unlike the official packs, many of these have the Hardcore Questing Mod, or HQM. This mod adds a quest book that the pack author writes to guide gameplay. It's a great way to learn new mods as most quest lines show you how to start a mod as well as...

Truth is I've been wanting to write a city building mod for a while. The general idea is that most machines need villagers to automate and villagers need a supply of shelter, food, and money to keep working. Buy and sell resources via magic blocks linking to other "cities". So you would start...

Long ago I did a modern city challenge. I was thinking it would be neat to to redo it using HQM and the BC builder and blueprints. Something like a completed HQM quest gives a reward of a blueprint for some random building, say a worker's home. Build so many worker's homes and you get a...

Been a while since I've played IC2, let's see what I can remember... 1. Every solar panel needs a cable connection, they don't transfer power between each other. 2. Copper cable can handle 32 eu/t but has a loss of 1 eu per 8 blocks. Your solar panels will be sending 1 eu packets down the line...

Early game I like to use a dolly to steal blaze spawners from the nether. I stick the spawner in a 9x9x4 room with a couple fans to blow them towards my MFR grinder (grinders have a 5x5 range). From there I pump the mob essence into an auto-spawner for endermen. You get blaze rods and ender...

Nice server. I'm generally not an online player due to lag, but it runs very well.