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The important difference is that bees won't die if you leave them on their own. With crops, I don't have the option to walk away and do something else for an hour, because weeds will have destroyed everything in range by the time I come back. This might not be too much of a problem if you're...

Industrialcraft crops are a major pain, due to requiring babysitting to avoid having them destroy themselves, and there being no way to automate them. That said, I wouldn't go for rubber trees either for sticky resin, except in the early game. Centrifuging propolis is an excellent option once...

A previous version of forestry saved number of generations in captivity on drones, but in the current version it's only saved for princesses. If your bees are identical, they should stack. I have noticed some strange behavior on occasion where two identical bees won't stack, but after...

Episode 45: Water mills and nuclear power

I've found that turtle attacks have an extremely short range. Even if a mob is standing in the block directly in front of a turtle, it might be too far away. They really have to be pressed right up against the turtle for it to be able to hit them.

There's no such thing as cheating. You can play however is most enjoyable for you. I've never used creative mode, commands, or NEI to give myself items (except by accident once when NEI started in cheat mode - trying to look at the recipe for a macerator, and suddenly there are 64 of them in my...

They can be pretty elusive. I usually look for big, open lava lakes so that they're easier to spot, but sometimes I've had to travel thousands of blocks just to find one. You could create a new world with the same seed and fly around in creative mode, but I don't know of any other ways to find...

Episode 44: Drowning in withered things

Does the 1 vis always go to the nearest node? I've had my node surrounded with crystals for a while now and not been able to observe it being charged by them at all, although I have seen another node a short distance away become overcharged by a bit. There's no special layout or mixture of the...

Other options for sticky resin: IC2 crop breeding for stickreed (wouldn't personally recommend it; not much fun, not very high yield, can't automate as far as I know), bees for propolis which turns into sticky resin in a centrifuge (takes some work to get a high yield system going, but bees are...

I want to say that I tried it and it didn't work, but now I can't remember for sure... Let me know what you find out if you do!

Definitely the thermionic fabricator. It's a constant drain on MJ, along with the rolling machine, and...rock crusher, I think? Might be one or two others. Episode 43: TV shows

Nah dude, it's fine! Sounds like you might have it in you to start your own LP, though - all it takes is a decent microphone, some speaking ability, and a little bit of software. Worth a try! I know it's been a bit since the last one. New episode hopefully going up tonight or tomorrow morning.

Dunno yet. I'm hoping Railcraft provides something that could do it (or maybe Steve's Carts? BTC gave Beef a cage cart for moving animals around his zoo in a recent video, so maybe that would be an option). If not, there's a way to break minecarts automatically using a cactus. Going to be really...

I haven't yet run into the need for more than one. At the moment, it just sits there doing nothing. What have you been building that requires so much steel? (Not criticizing or anything, just curious!)

No problem, I like reading your rambling posts. Sounds like you have a lot of interesting stuff going on! The reason I don't use linking books much is essentially the same reason I don't use solar panels. Just as I get a lot of interesting gameplay from exploring different power systems, I also...

If I'm not mistaken, silverwood trees require 100 vis from a nearby node to grow. Since there's no aura in the twilight forest, it's impossible to grow one there.

Episode 42: Unprepared

Yeah. For example, after you've filled up some serum in a synthesizer, its tooltip will look something like this, for example: High Fertility Serum 16 Charges Awful Quality While it's in the purifier, Awful Quality will slowly change to Excellent Quality. Unless you have a severe shortage of...

Yep! The replicator isn't super useful, really; you'll put your serum vial into a synthesizer first to fill it up to 16 charges, then into a purifier to increase its quality, then into the inoculator to apply it to a bee. After you've used some of its charges, you can put it back into the...