Recent content by Toraxa

I know it's a little cliche but "if you don't like it, don't use it". Minecraft's what you make of it, especially in such a heavily-modded environment. Chances are it's nothing but an oversight, or some weird bug having to do with the nether. It's possible that the classes for oil just used...

Well, the reason I use them is because I have a setup at home that produces enough power to make it irrelevant to me. It'd take more resources and burn more fuel to set up a whole remote power generation system next to the quarry than it would to just send power via tesseract from my much more...

Tessaracts might be useful to you. They cost you 25% of the power they transfer, but it allows you to connect remote quarry systems to your power grid.

Mobs spawned from soul cages don't have souls. If they did, as soon as you got a soul cage up you could use it to easily farm as many more spawners as you want. They want to force you to go out and work for the eventual convenience of the soul cages.

the stuff on the Forgecraft server is often from beta builds. The mod makers play there, and use it to test their changes out. The machines, power system, tanks, and other stuff from xycraft isn't available yet, unless it's been released in the last few days. As soon as it's released, I'm sure...

Have you tried using buildcraft in game to do it? It has a max size of 64x64x64, but you can copy it in chunks. Just use the architect table to make a blueprint of it, then give the blueprint and the materials to the builder and it will build a copy. I used it to move my base from one...

It's entirely true. 3 diamonds for a pick, or drill to open up access to obsidian, and thus the nether. 4 diamonds for an MFE, 6 more for an MFSU, 11 for a quarry, a couple for an automated tree farm. This is all the real "early game" applications I can think of. Most of the big uses for...

It might not be endermen if it's a sizeable hole. I got a message this morning about a strange aura around me, a message from thaumcraft due to flux. I got poisoned, so I started to back up and fell into a single block wide hole that went down a good twenty or thirty blocks. Wasn't there when I...

That's probably for the best, since it was a bit too easy to just make large quantities of one thing before. Either way, it can help him with his lead shortage, once we finds more of it. :) As for nether lava lag, why are we attacking the symptom, and the trigger? Why hasn't it been fixed...

Gold and diamonds are not valuable. This is one of the biggest issues big, popular packs like these face. People are stuck in vanilla mindsets and think like they're still playing it. I've put a good eighty hours into building my base in our current server using the DW20 pack. In that time I...

Not sure if you've found this out yet, but if you use TE's Induction Smelter to smelt ore with sand, it'll give you rich slag. The rich slag can be smelted in the smelter with two pulverized lead to make three lead ingots. In this way, even if you don't have much lead (or any other type of...

I know I am. Although I've been doing it in my server worlds since 1.2.5 where I was using buckets and deployers to do it. I've got a max size iron tank set up that holds lava, and a set of energy cells in the base that activate a set of 45 magmatic engines whenever they aren't full. That's...

I'm not sure vorpal even works for wither skeletons. I flew around our nether with a sword with looting and vorpal on it. I got heads from most of the pig men, and normal skeletons I killed while using it. I had still only found one wither skeleton skull after killing hundreds of them, so I...

Autarchic gates are really nice if you just want to run the pipes without the engines. Now if only we could run filters and transposers without timers using them.

I don't want to sound ungrateful at all, because I really appreciate everything you guys are doing here. I really love the packs, and I love that they are up to date. However, every single update to the dw20 pack so far has had block ID changes. The first few didn't effect me personally because...