Recent content by SlickSplit

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    GDD|Craft [Direwolf] [Whitelist] [No Lag] [24/7] [12+]

    Username: SlickSplit Age: 39 Years playing Minecraft? 1 Have you been banned? never Will you like to grief?(And therefore make it on our global banlist) never Other information: Enjoy learning about the different mods and their utility. Also curious how others solve design problems both in...
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    Mining Turtles

    Write your own script, or fuel with a stack of lava/lithium cells. :)
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    Official FTB seed thread.

    1973009005 http://imgur.com/a/sB80r#0 Seed has high plateaus to build houses on, and some of the largest villages I've ever seen. Digging straight down next to the chest at the blacksmith, within the wasteland village close to spawn, will land safely in a large cave system near bedrock (many...
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    A new Feed The Beast youtube channel

    http://www.youtube.com/user/TheThreeArsonists Clicky no worky on your linky.
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    Penultimate Rubber Tree Harvesting Serious Debate Thread for Serious

    They seem faster to cut down than other trees. So, I just fell the lot and replant. Forget the whole tap business - seems a waste of time for me. Once I have a centrifuge and extractor the rubber forest has grown beyond my ability to use all the rubber.
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    Does anyone else see Minecraft's potential in...

    Content creation happens at many levels. Usage patterns themselves are a type of meta-content generated by consumers. Form and function meld into the ambiguous middle ground. Complexity can always be escalated by the user. What kind of language can scale in that manner? The complexity needs to...
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    Does anyone else see Minecraft's potential in...

    Friend here has played on Second Life from the early beta. Totally agree, but it's interesting to ponder what direction the technology will take where it cascades into a viable environment. Does it require a direct brain interface? How sensitive would such an interface need to be? What if eye...
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    Does anyone else see Minecraft's potential in...

    The language of the body seems to be a 3D programming language at some level, but the operating environment is very different from typical software. I've entertained the notion that virtual worlds might lead to better intuitive understanding of our inherent language. Also, there is the idea of...
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    Grumpy's Straight To The Point FTB Video Tutorials

    I'm new to FTB and these have to be the most concise set of tutorial videos yet seen. I like the way you focus on a specific topic - answering all the non-obvious questions one would have along the way. Much respect for a gamer which respects his audience. Thank you.
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    steam boilers and mysterious explosions

    What about the steam turbine blade? They are only suppose to last about two days. The design you have described is only using a fraction of the steam generated and without the turbine would certainly be a bomb.