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Oh wow. Horizons uses metallurgy for vanilla ore spawn? Welp, enjoy +30-50% more ores than you expected. :) We're actually considering moving METALLURGY spawns to cofh world custom gen to avoid the bugs we hit.

In general, Engineer's Toolbox is a very fun but decidedly hardmode mod. People don't go to the husher because they're like, "Oh man a quarry would be too difficult."

Not really. I know a lot about it because we tuned Resonant Rise with ExtraTiC in mind. AFAIK we're one of the first to ship that combo after the tool-metal updates. Yes, but steel availability varies by modpack. Damascus steel is really, really easy to make in a smeltery and substantially...

Damascus steel is fairly easy to make and very strong for what it is. Most people don't use it because they don't know about the 2-step alloys.

SC2 can do Silk touch, and it mines easily as fast at that (though it's arguably more costly). What's so stunning about it is how incredibly fuel efficient it is. It can also suck ores right out of the walls so it actually covers a substantially wider range! That's a bug you should report. It...

Yeah. I actually worry my SC2 strip miner is OP. Even with just a basic t2 drill, it is a FEARSOME thing. And with mystcraft of blood magic, you can have it operate out of a central station with incredible variety. I'm going to experiment with mob farms next.

SC2 is still cheap an easy and the weird nerfs were rolled back so that it's much more viable, early game.

It happens over and over throughout your blood magic career. Don't worry.

I had to defer on the black reactor for this week's episode. But I delved into EnderIO. Holy moly, is that mod good at managing power.

This is PROFOUNDLY unwise. Way does not smile on villager sacrifice.

I logged on the other day to max nausea in the middle of the Deep Dark. I proceeded to type "welp, that's what I get for using LP without passive LP generation" over and over.

That's the deep irony. He does things the hard way and eschews mods that might help. Look at the end of his most recent (at the time of this writing) SMP episode where he decides to set up ethanol to power a quarry. Set aside that he is using Railcraft (that's for the sport of it) and notice...

Sure, but the complaint that his modpack is exceptionally conservative and only incrementally different from his 1.5 modpack is definitely a valid observation. In fact, it's VERY much like his season 4 modpack, as well. qCraft is abut the most exciting thing. I suppose I should be happy...

What I'm about to do is pure blood magic. Poppycocks and I devised the optimal execution, but he considers it excessive effort. I, on the other hand, thrive on it. By the way, my lava generation method can scale up pretty easily. You can up to 5x the output (and of course, the LP draw) by...

I cannot wait to show off how I evade low tier altar design limitations. :) I haven't seen anyone else do it yet and it's very obvious once you see it. I'm seriously considering expanding the technique to item transportation. I think I finally have a use for iron and gold pressure plates!

When I'm running a remote base or small outputs. I actually have 2 of these max loaded in my SSP world, it powers a small factory station I use at a bee outpost. It also replaces some generators used elsewhere on trickle charge mode because, um, moving 2keu/t is expensive and almost never...

TE3 is agnostic to this call. Buildcraft certainly doesn't. Mekanism doesn't. EnderIO sort of does, I guess? It has giant batteries. I don't feel that way. That said, it's certainly a harder experience than Mekanism. Setting up TE ore tripling that is smart and adaptive and programmible is...

If you're running a UU station, the MOX is the right call. Most other things, the Radio Isotope fuel is right. MOX fuel makes reactors very efficient if used correctly. You can do that. It's cheaper once you have the fuel to use that to power your factory and other things as opposed to...

Blood magic, if available, can power a variety of things in awesome ways. I've just published an episode where I use the blood magic Serenade of the Nether with an ExtraCells Fluid Transition Plane to rapidly produce and then disseminate lava to a field of Magmatic Engines. As for how I'll...

Yes. So this is a major change and one of the key reasons IC2 nuclear is not broken and useless anymore. Any and every mod proposing powergen faces this fundamental problem, "How do I incentivize using the bigger, more complex/higher-risk power plant over just spamming lots of introductory...