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    In my main Unleashed world it took me well over 1,000 spoils bags (which use the dungeon chest loot table) before I got a division symbol. Another several thousand before I got a portal gun (by which time I had long since made one myself). RNG can seriously suck sometimes. If I recall my old...
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    Fire Extinguisher?

    I believe there are a variety of mod-added liquids that could substitute for the water. For that matter, lava will put out fires albeit at the risk of lighting anything wooden on fire.
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    On #2: how many overclockers are you using? If you've got 10 or fewer it should be able to run just fine on 512 EU/t. IIRC 11 overclockers uses just a bit more than 512EU/t and the last few overclockers needed to get it down to 1 tick/smelt have ridiculously high requirements. I don't have any...
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    I'm a big fan of the Cyclic Assembler from TE. It requires 2 MJ/craft, so you'll need a little power, but just plonking down a filled redstone energy cell will give you 300,000 crafts. That's a lot of plant balls. The ease of automation and the incredible crafting speed more than make up for the...
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    A Smarter Transport Network? (Monster)

    Setup filters on your itemducts to only pull the diamonds. Itemducts also support round-robin mode, so that should also handle your even distribution.
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    A compression dynamo is essentially a combustion engine - give it oil/fuel/etc and either water or gelid cryotheum as a coolant. A reactant dynamo uses a combination of solid fuels and liquid fuels. For solid fuels it'll accept sugar, gunpowder, blaze powder, and nether stars. For liquids...
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    There are a variety of paintbrushes in FTB and I think they all use the same API. If Open Blocks's paintbrush is the same it can color most wood products, wool, railcraft tanks, ME and IC2 cabling, and construction foam (among many others, I'm sure). I don't know that there's a definitive list...
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    Things To Do

    Things I've done at endgame just because I could: 1) Artificially create a void age by completely quarrying The End 2) Collect every piece of armor and make a gallery of them 3) Breed bees such that ultimately I have every single species running concurrently. WARNING: this will kill your...
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    Silk touch has no effect on mob spawners - they're always destroyed when mined.
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    You can rest assured all the mod pack team people are aware of available updates and are working to incorporate them, especially since the packs are still in beta. Since they're already aware of the update, poking them won't change their workflow unless they decide to work on updating KAMI...
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    Efficiency? Turtles win easily. Nothing else even comes close. Lag Friendly? I was gonna say Laser Drill, but the power systems that usually go along with that beast tend to erode the lag advantage the drill has. I'd be tempted to say the Railcraft Tunnelbore wins for overall impact on a...
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    http://forum.feed-the-beast.com/threads/look-ma-no-bees-or-how-to-make-trees-breed-themselves.32611/ Since you mentioned combines, I assume you mean the old 1 block things from Forestry 1.x. They were on life support in Ultimate, but Sengir finally killed them. Now you can use the wonderful...
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    There's a mode on the sorting machine that goes column by column that would allow you to tag the same item with different colors, but as I said it's not terribly practical.
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    If you have your destination inventories all connected to the same block of tube, items should distribute evenly (on average, it's random). You could also use a sorting machine, but that's not really what I'd call a practical early game investment.
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    I actually didn't know you could disable NEI's search bar, so I assume if you restore default settings on NEI it will work.
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    Quick and dirty, but I think it should work. Assumes book receptacle in front of turtle and redstone coming from behind. while true do os.pullEvent(redstone) if rs.getInput("back") then turtle.drop() else turtle.suck() end end edit for fun: I believe you can make...
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    Seems like an odd way to present that info, but okay. The OpenPeripheral thread over at the CC forums has a list of Terminal Glasses methods. My suggestion would be to keep it simple and just do a bunch of bridge.addText(x, y, text, color) calls. i.e. bridge.addText(4, 4, "Welcome to the...
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    Well, you'd probably need an external program that adapts IRC for the HTTP API. If you're okay with downloading something like that off of some forums SockCraftIRC was recommended to me by a friend and a quick google also turns up this, though I've not personally used either yet. edit: no clue...
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    If you just want this put up on a big monitor that's pretty simple. Start by wrapping the monitor i.e. mon = peripheral.wrap("top") if the monitor is on top of the computer. From there you can go one of two ways: 1) Use mon.setCursorPos(1,[line #]) to change lines and mon.write("[text]") to...
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    Make sure they're all pristine stock. You can get ignoble bees from hives. Derp, wasn't thinkin'.