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There's a toggle on the left side of the ME Interface for "blocking mode". Make sure you set this to "blocking", and the interface will not push a second recipe for crafting until the first has completed. It's perfect for induction smelters; you don't need to do anything else special, just...

Better to use an ender-thermic pump and endertanks, I think. Much easier to produce than tesseracts, and less laggy than pumps. And it auto chunkloads. Just need to add a magmatic dynamo and it's self-supporting.

When I was running desperately low on gold while trying to get a quarry set up earlier, I got some good results from Thaumcraft. I had a ton of silver ingots so I just threw a bunch into the cauldron along with a gold nugget to get a bunch more gold nuggets. It's a bit slow and you go through...

I guess that makes sense, since each block is its own entity. Never noticed any issues with it myself though; I have far more trouble with TE and TC than with that. Steel RC tanks make more sense for large tanks. So far my biggest OB tank is 3x3x3. But I'm not really trying to make huge stores.

I'm trying to make a mob farm with MFR grinders (DW20 v21). I have a tesseract set to receive energy and send items and fluid right behind the grinder. Items are coming through the tesseract on the other side but the mob essence isn't. If I disable fluid in the tesseract then it builds up in...

Just out of curiosity, what do you have against OpenBlocks tanks? By default they store as much as Railcraft iron tanks (and can be configed even higher, although that's kinda cheating), they keep their liquid and they support arbitrary shapes, which make them easy to move and to arrange...

I have to say, I'm a fan of the new music. I hope we get to keep it.

FWIW, it's not false. I had an MFR planter/harvester setup going with rubber tree saplings from a few upgrades ago. Just upgraded today and looked in on it and it had collected about ten stacks of regular saplings and half a stack of sacred saplings. Fortunately I have a filter on it so it...

I have this issue too. The problem is that it's running out of memory and hitting the swap file. I have the Java memory limit set to 3 GB but sometimes I have a lot of memory in use by other processes too and I don't have that much physical memory free. Also I noticed that with a world loaded...

Depends what sort of things you're doing. If you just want mobility, a jetpack or advanced jetpack, or basic MPS is perfectly sufficient for pretty much the whole game. If you're planning on doing a lot of building in midair (eg. void ages) then you might want something better. I've actually...

Use interfaces. If you attach an interface to some kind of furnace (I prefer IC2's induction furnace because it's nearly instantaneous on single items) you can teach it crafting patterns just like with the MAC. So you can tell it how to craft silicon from dust, and then just leave the dust in...

I have a steam tank (Xycraft max size) in my current (1.4) base. It's not for backup though, it's for buffering. I'm powering both IC2 and RECs from the same steam network, and they don't draw evenly because my output on each energy network is not uniform. Most of the time I have one type going...

I totally agree. To quote the great Douglas Adams: "anyone who is capable of getting themselves made President should on no account be allowed to do the job." You're missing an important part of human nature then. For whatever reason, people are willing to give more money in the name of...

Tinker's Construct introduces all sorts of alternate tools and tool materials, including (I think) something specifically for harvesting leaves. Not sure about crops, though, and I do miss the seed bag and don't know of a replacement. Rednet cable from MFR is a decent replacement for red alloy...

take one out and throw it around, 22,000 cells of tin in the chest.... wait. Don't forget to disable any autocrafting. :)

You might be surprised what people will decide is "destructive or compatibility breaking". After all, just changing the recipe for an existing item will break compatibility with any auto-crafting or machine processing setups that rely on the old recipe. No matter how much the recipe change...

I can't answer that particular question, but: why are you using chunkloaders at all? Buildcraft quarries automatically chunkload themselves and their mining area. You just need to make sure that any support (power, item transport etc) is in the same chunk as the quarry block. F9 is your friend.

Biofuel is ethanol. (It's called biofuel in 1.4 and ethanol in 1.5, that's all.)

Sure, and that's fine when mod Y is a separate mod whose only purpose is to modify mod X. (Even so, the creator of mod X should be allowed to say "fine, you can write mod Y and use it yourself, but you're not allowed to distribute it" -- although only if there is some significant code...

Sweet. Back when I first started my 1.4 world I had made a Felling Turtle specifically designed for redwoods (only semi-automatic -- I had to manually place it at each tree). I stopped using it because the amount of logs I was getting was just silly. (I shudder to think of the result if I ran...