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As knowledge equals power, why not have a generator fuelled by written books? To extend it, perhaps the efficiency increases based on nearby bookshelves, in the style of enchanting tables. And there could be a further bonus if there is a librarian villager nearby. And to continue the idea past...

That BC's power system was designed with the assumption that there isn't one? That adding one makes BC's power system less unique, as people then treat it as just another line of cables to attach to each machine and then completely ignore? As it currently is, BC power has an interesting...

In real life (from what I understand, at least), you can't efficiently store large amounts of electricity, either. A rechargeable battery converts electricity to potential chemical energy (plus a little bit of loss as heat), which constantly but slowly loses its charge, and when power is needed...

To go along with IC² crops, GregTech has a machine that can harvest them automatically (equivalent to right-clicking them once they are fully grown and collecting the items), and adds a crop for an oredict-compatible blue dye.

IIRC, if you read the log, that greggy_... thing is added to the ore dictionary right after Factorization adds other ores and items. GregTech complains about the naming of each one, as they do not match the most common ore dictionary naming conventions (and because GregTech parses the names to...

I only know of two MCP versions for 1.7.2 so far: An older one which couldn't even recompile, and a beta from a few days ago.

Most of Minecraft (especially the parts by Notch) seems to be taking something from reality, and then simplifying it until it is very unrealistic but fun/interesting. The example I think about most is the sapling: give it dirt and light, and it eventually becomes a tree. Unlike reality, this...

In my opinion, one of the things that made RP2 so great was the overall design of it. The various components fit together well, and there was clearly a lot of thought put into each addition. If a new version ever comes out with even a single new machine, I think that most people will return to...

Bag of holding: Stores 3 + n columns of inventory, when ` is pressed cycles any inventory columns to the right of the bag in and out of storage. It has some really neat uses, such as quickly swapping out part of your hotbar between sets of tools, or making the pocket crafting table more useful...

GregTech is, as far as I am aware, only ever briefly incompatible with IC² experimental, usually from the time IC² changes something until the next GregTech version (which can often be less than a day). It'll probably continue that way until IC² is stable. I think that what Slowpoke was...

I found Projectile-Dig to be absurdly good for gaining levels, and endlessly useful (stand under a tree and spam it upwards, reach distant ores, never have to craft an iron-or-lower-level pickaxe ever again). I gained an entire level each use (at least for the first 3-5 levels), and when...

If Morph's flight is OP, why not disable it entirely, so that players need to get flight from Ars Magica (if it's an option on that modpack/server)? Ars Magica's flight requires first unlocking the effect, then getting the spell materials, and finally re-casting it periodically to maintain the...

As far as I am aware, GregTech changes - A lot of IC², and as an indirect result, anything that uses IC² - BuildCraft quarry recipe - Forestry bronze output - Log -> planks and planks -> sticks recipes, if and only if they use oredict logs/planks with a specific naming convention - At one...

If that happened, Greg would start nerfing IC² directly, rather than bugfixing IC² and only putting the balance changes in GT...

There is no Forge-mandated standard for ore dictionary names, but there ARE common conventions used by most large mods. For example, in the commit where the ore dictionary was first implemented: This strongly establishes the shapeMaterial naming style which GregTech promotes (and most other...

Dwarf Fortress (obviously): A fortress building/management game that literally starts by generating a vast world, and simulating hundreds if not thousands of years of history, for all of the civilizations. Unfortunately, very hard to learn WITH access to the wiki, and almost impossible without...

*This* forum's? You really haven't seen the lower sections of the Dwarf Fortress forum, then. 0 to off topic in 10 posts or less! Also, on the subject of gates, consider the case where you disconnect a set of always-on machines when they are not in use. You can have the engines adapt...

Forge addition idea (too lazy to try coding it myself): A power dictionary. Register your mod's power type, how much energy there is in one unit of that power, plus a default conversion efficiency. So, I could say that "MinecraftJoules" are each worth 1000 units of power, and any conversion from...

Houses in real life are often made of at least two intersecting boxes, frequently topped with a non-box roof, and most buildings have stuff sticking out of them, or at least an occasional window. For some simple variety, try putting one 9x9 on top of four connected 9x9s, or using a simple...

40 seconds (800 ticks; 20 ticks/second; 1 EU/t) And there are also overclocker upgrades for machines now (right click machine with it, machine is permanently upgraded) which double the speed of the machine, and quadruple the EU cost. So... 0 overclockers -> 1 EU/t; 800 EU total; 40 seconds...