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In my most recent game I found a bucket in a nearby village, which is where I also filled it with lava, and so had everything I needed to use stone tools to get the stuff for a smeltery. I didn't bother refining anything until that was done, and it was far easier than I imagined it would be.

Here are all the features of FTB: It's a modpack that collects lots of mods in a way that allows them to work together with minimal issues. Each mod has many more features, the scope of which cannot be encompassed by one forum post. You should start like you would start playing Minecraft. Make...

I think your base design depends entirely on your goals. Do you want to build a town with streets in a plains biome, lots of spread-out farms, a train connecting everything, with automation focused on biological processing (seeds, meat, bees, etc)? Or do you want a huge EU setup with a nuke...

Rather than "often" let me say it's simply inadequate. Compare the following: http://wiki.feed-the-beast.com/Tinkers%27_Construct http://ftbwiki.org/Tinkers%27_Construct Which would you use? Hint: You cannot use one of those at all.

I use http://ftbwiki.org, because it's updated more often than http://wiki.feed-the-beast.com and it's not wikia, which is terribad (unless you think people making and using a wiki should be treated like garbage, then it's good and pretty).

If I were to go back and tell my former self how to start in a modpack like this, I'd say "Don't try to do everything all at once. Pick a mod that involves ore processing and go whole-hog on that one mod." You can play the game and ignore some of the bigger mods. For instance you don't need to...

Why wouldn't you set up something that voids the chosen blocks from the ender chest instead?

Also, your string is going to be a big part of most of the bee-related research, so never start with string.

I understood almost 10% of that! Go me!

Oh, I just wanted to play along with the game everyone else seems to be enjoying so much. You know, ignoring substantive topics of discussion to instead lambast people for communicating with a keyboard as if that mattered in some fashion. I thought the whole game was to use hyperbole to mark...

You ended a sentence in a preposition, you immoral prat.

I agree. However, IF the choice is between upgrading to 1.5 without RP2 and sticking with 1.4.7 because RP2 isn't updated, then regardless of how cool it is I'm happy to leave it behind.

I love trains, and the idea that I get to build them is great. But do I get to use them? Because Minecraft seems like a really poor environment for the sort of thing that is made to move things from one place to another in a really expensive and labor-intensive way. No one used a train for small...

I'm surprised you guys think it's hard to run out of nikolite. It's not as though you have many options to make power with RP2, and all of them suck but require lots of nikolite. Getting enough power production and battery backup to have a steady and strong supply takes days of work and chests...

Ignoring the rest of the discussion... I'd either remove Twilight Forest or Redpower 2. TF is awesome, but it's just more variety on the same content that you find in vanilla Minecraft, which is the type of mod the FTB folks said they would not want to add. The only exception are the blocks...

You will lose princesses through breeding if the queen dies, the products fill all available spaces in the aviary, and then the chunk gets unloaded before the princess has space to be deposited. Normally if all the spaces are filled when the queen dies, you can just pick something out and...

BC: 2 cobblestone, 2 wood, and 2 glass. Then a piston, some sticks and wood, and another piece of glass. I'm ready to go within 20 minutes of starting a game. RP: What? I gotta build an alloy furnace just to get started? meh. Call that whatever. I called it "more complicated". Let's call it...

Woah friend, I did NOT say it's a bad mod. I don't have to like it just because it's good, and I can dislike it even if it's not bad. Don't put words in my mouth.

I sometimes feel like I could cut my list down to Thaumcraft, Buildcraft, Forestry, Mystcraft, add-ons for those, and other back-end mods. I really don't take advantage of everything in packs like this and I like the idea of focusing my attention a little more. But still, I'd miss some cool...

I love it when that stuff happens. I just start gutting those things and putting doors on all sides until there are a couple thousand testificates and I can't play in that part of the world any longer. Good times.