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    Non-renewable Items?

    Blazes can rarely spawn in the space where a nether fortress would be generated, even without a spawner. A spawner is just the most consistent and easily farmable source. Silverfish, however, are finite without a spawner...
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    Gregtech needs to be harder? Hardcore gregtech settings? Wanted <3 :D?

    Remember, GregTech also changes the diamond drill recipe. The new one requires steel, which is either a significant amount of work into the GregTech tech tree, a visit to a nether fortress if you have Railcraft, or perhaps easier methods exist, depending on what mods/modpack you are using.
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    Gregtech needs to be harder? Hardcore gregtech settings? Wanted <3 :D?

    There are Thermal Expansion configs to add diamonds to the pulverizer and smelter recipes, as well as to require steel to create machine frames. With either or both, TE is more balanced, and GT already makes the BC quarry require a diamond drill rather than diamond pick.
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    Better With Forge?

    As far as I can tell, it's someone creating a forge mod that exactly duplicates everything that BTW added, and requires BTW to already be downloaded for the textures. If it succeeds, the fact that people can exactly duplicate all of the items, gameplay balance decisions, recipes, and design of...
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    Compact Solars vs Advanced Solars

    Here's some math: One solar panel (original IC2 recipe) equals 17 + 1639/2520 UU, and generates 1 EU/tick -> 20 EU/second. At one million EU per UU, that is 50 thousand seconds per UU, or slightly less than 14 hours. 14 hours * 17 = a little less than ten days. I hear gregtech only makes things...