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Out of curiosity, has anybody compiled a list of all death messages in FTB added by mods? If not, this project must be tackled :)

Hey guys, I've got a few questions about the tier-3 ExtraBees machines. What's the most efficient way to get your bees innoculated power-wise? From what I've tried so far, it seems that after you get the serum you want, it seems more efficient to charge your serum all the way in the...

It does. But since this post, a much simpler option has become available: Tesseracts from thermal expansion. They function as ender chests, but for liquids.

There are of course the fundamental mods at the center of everything (Buildcraft, IC2, Redpower, and I add Thaumcraft to those). But IMO, if you really want to enjoy your world, play the game for a long time, and be proud of what you have accomplished, Gregtech is a must for balancing IC2. I...

All soul shards behave like vanilla spawners in terms of where mobs can spawn. Technically, the size is 8x8x3. Make a 7x7 box around it, and then determine corner in which both x and z decrease when you walk toward it. Extend the box to 8x8 in that direction. The feet of the mobs can spawn at...

Whoops, just had another today...guess what happens when you start collecting four cave spider spawners in your base using a portal gun to prepare for a soul shard, and then take away the torches?

Thanks! I did not realize that TE added an MJ reader!

Don't put the soul shards in your hand until you're ABSOLUTELY ready to kill the first mob. Now I have soul shards for firebats, normal bats, and pigmen (whoops...it was an accident, guys!)

Is there a place where I can find information on how much energy forestry machines use per output, as well as their maximum inputs per tick? The forestry wiki has no information about this. I'm particularly interested in some of the smaller basic machines (carpenter, squeezer, thermionic...

Thanks all!

My understanding of liquiducts is that when connecting it to a liquid inventory, you must 1) wrench it into output mode and 2) apply a redstone signal to pump out liquid. In practice, I find this to almost always be true. Twice, however, I've had oddly different behavior. I use the Mindcrack...

You actually don't need very much storage in a tree farm cart unless you want one cart to cover a huge area. I just have 2 internal storage cells in my old one, and it never fills up, but the farm is pretty large. I'd go with compact solar engine, coal engine, cleaning machine (sometimes the...

Thanks everyone for the great advice! Yeah, I actually was playing around with those managers in a creative world. It seems like they are only for really complicated tube circuits. It also works as a blutricity-powered filter + timer that gets rid of everything, but it looks like the...

After my long months of being to lazy to learn redpower piping, I finally see how much better pneumatic tubes are than transport pipes. So far, however, I'm finding the amount of machines that can move things around slightly overwhelming. Would someone mind posting a summary of what each of the...

To go back to the OP's original question... Trust the other posters, and go with redstone energy conduits. You don't need the energy cells for now, because you are just starting the power grid, but energy conduits are superior to buildcraft pipes in almost all ways. The only thing that the BC...

Thermal Expansion has some fantastic machines to get you started, and you can just slap stirling engines on top of them (pulverizer, sawmill, powered furnace, induction smelter). Soon after, you will want to start advancing up the tech tree in IndustrialCraft 2. If you're new to FTB, and using...

The cobble generator upgrade is also pretty hand sometimes while caving.

I like myself a nice, balanced game. Therefore, Essential: Buildcraft, Industrialcraft, Redpower Thermal expansion Extra Bees Gregtech Iron Chests Steve's Carts Railcraft ExtraBiomesXL Thaumcraft Forestry Twilight Forest Could do without: MFFS Factorization (except for the barrels!)...

Don't have time to make a comprehensive list right now, but I'll post real quick some of my knowledge. Hopefully this is accurate; please correct if it isn't! For redpower, the only two ways I know of to produce energy are thermopiles and solar panels (there are probably more?). You can...

Favorite machine: Magma Crucible (Infinite lava? Oh yeah.) Least favorite machine: Rock Crusher (Does nothing but make a lot of noise and use a lot of power, and the ore processing functionality is made obsolete by other mods)