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BuildCraft didn't really change. The change was the addition of an alternative that a lot of players found more intuitive and easier to use. We don't really mind that players run off to Thermal Expansion. The players that switch to Thermal Expansion never really used BuildCraft power anyway...

SpaceToad is new and there is a limit to how much information it's possible to absorb in a few days. No one is keeping any secrets from anyone else. The buildcraft development channel on irc is buzzing with life and ideas are being discussed constantly. Just now cpw payed us a visit to discuss...

I made the Filtered Buffer and the core logic of the Emzuli pipe.

I think SpaceToad will get all the help he needs from CovertJaguar, Player, Sengir and Krapth. I'd also like to point out that BuildCraft still is open source and anyone with a good idea can submit suggestions. You, King Lemming, even me (twice). If your suggestion is solid and fit with the rest...

The loss is a lot lower now than it was before the latest changes. The old MJ based Thermal Expansion Conduits had a 5% loss and the Conductive pipes had a massive loss up to 20% because of bugs. The new system is mostly loss less, but machines that are idle will still use a tiny bit of power...

The BuildCraft API is an API to interface with BuildCraft. This implies a few game play design elements that are enforced in the API in order to prevent other mods from warping that design. This is inflexible only if you for some reason don't want to follow the BuildCraft design. I don't think...

King Lemming actually had a very strong influence on the new BuildCraft API. He got almost everything he asked for. The fact that he changed his mind and decided to make a new system for Thermal Expansion came as a surprise to everyone involved.

BuildCraft power generation is obsolete only because you choose to make it so. ;)

The Forestry machines already have one type of control options with the help of gates. The machines can tell a gate whether or not it has any work and that in turn can trigger a redstone signal that turns on the supply of power.

Why are you making that a problem? Mods are optional, players and mod pack creators can mix and match as they like. Mod authors can try to please everyone, or they can make a more interesting experience for the players that prefer that specific design. I am, for example, currently playing in a...

There are mod authors that disagree with how the BuildCraft power is designed and that's fine, but there are no technical problems that would prevent anyone from using it. The difference between now and before is that the design is harder to avoid. Thermal Expansion "broke" the design and...

The BuildCraft power improved a lot under CovertJaguar. A tiny amount of power loss in idle machines instead of in the pipes does not equate to disastrous change.

BuildCraft has an interesting alternative in the Advanced Crafting Table and Thermal Expansion has one in the Cyclic Assembler.

The question about compatibility between BuildCraft and Millenaire is fairly common because default configurations in both mods use IDs in the same range. Changing IDs of one of the mods should be all you need to do.

The Pump speed was nerfed when the pump was rewritten.

Emerald only spawning in Extreme Hills is a vanilla Minecraft feature, but I there is a good chance that some mod changes that. In Vanilla, Lapis is generated differently from other ores. Lapis prefers one layer with a chance to be spawned above or below. Spawn chance decrease more and more as...

If you are going to use only 2 mods it might be easier to create a pack manually in the normal minecraft launcher.

It sounds like you are talking about Forestry backpacks, but it could be that DartCraft has gotten something similar now.

You can increase the number of items the wooden pipe extracts from an inventory by giving the wooden pipe more power. Any engine would work. You can also power wooden pipes with the help of Autarchic gates and if you enable more "Energy Pulser" actions you also get more power to the wooden pipe...

You can use BuildCraft with some ingenuity. Once in a while extract everything in the chest including the sword. Send the sword to a second chest. When the loot chest is completely empty, pump the sword back in. Do this once every 5 minutes or so. The hard part is making the timer...