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    Sorting Items into Chests / Storage (1.5.x)

    I'm trying to grok "early game" to simultaneously mean unable to power an AE network but able to power a quarry. Generally speaking I find powering an AE network lower on the scale than powering a quarry. Especially one feeding into an ender chest since an ender chest is after being able to...
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    ExtraBiomesXL vs. Biomes O Plenty vs. ? (for 1.6x+)

    I'd rather blame Canada.
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    Is "discovering" fun?

    Anything which dumps more on villagers also makes me grumpy. But, truth be told, I dumped Mystcraft back when it was still at the "spam blank books to learn pages" stage. So the temples would be neat, but when I saw they were going down the trite villager route I decided to leave it out of my...
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    Ask a simple question, get a simple answer

    I do that now without Power Converters. Does the mod use MJ? No, doesn't get installed, period. I have no use for mods which implement yet another power system instead of using the most widely available and utilized one out there.
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    Is "discovering" fun?

    Me neither. Both are just a grind, pure and simple. And the worst kind of grind at that, one that is completely random. I play Minecraft for fun, not monotonous grinding, and actively cull anything I do not find fun from my worlds. TC3 was dropped from my play 3 worlds back. Mystcraft...
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    New OP Forestry engine .. forget the rest

    Exactly this. People are saying this is an early game engine yet, in comparison to other engines, it is more expensive than Sterling (1 redstone), Steam (3 redstone, 1 silver) and Hobbyist (2 gold, 1 redstone). I mean when looking at just the gold content we're talking the difference between 1...
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    ExtraBiomesXL vs. Biomes O Plenty vs. ? (for 1.6x+)

    After reading this thread, me too. This world I dropped EBXL and honestly haven't missed it. In fact, I was surprised to see how many biomes Vanilla actually has. I also found a great place for a base whereas it has been dozens of spawns since I've been really enthused by anything in EBXL. But...
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    Use lava generators as backup ONLY?

    Yes, it'll take 2 energy storage devices. Have the geos and panels dump into one which then chains into the second. The one the geos/panels are hooked into emits a redstone signal when full. The other one emits a redstone signal when empty. Route them through a *cough*cough* logic gate which...
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    Dumb Modular Powersuit Tricks

    This is, quite literally, the only reason I have EE3 installed. I don't transmute in world blocks, I don't transmute dyes, not even wood to obsidian. 4 iron to 1 pearl, that's it. And it feels cheap but I'll be damned if I'm going to farm a low-spawn rate, annoying as hell mob for his low...
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    Just had an idea...

    I'll check when I get home and let you know. I'm on 1.5.1 right now and have a 12LP running on planks. For science!!!! And a reason to log into Minecraft in the morning. :)
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    Just had an idea...

    Even more if you have TE installed and use the sawmill instead of cooking them up as charcoal. Charcoal provides 1600 heat & cost (in TE) 160MJ to produce 1 out of a log. Planks provide 300 heat & cost 80MJ to produce 6 out of a log. Planks give 1800 heat for 1/2 the MJ. With a bonus of...
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    And so I'm making a Galgadorian Drill...

    Nope, you don't. 1 leather, 1 slime, 4 string = 1 single-use safari net. The ghast tear is needed for the unlimited variant. So use the single-use to snag the first, then once you poke it in the eye and get its tear, get the unlimited variant to get a second. Though I'm not sure how the...
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    Ask a simple question, get a simple answer

    Probably fixed in a later version. I am guessing you're on rv9.f? AE is up to rv10.m but rv10 is 1.5.1 only. Looking through the changelog for AE I see at least 4 instances where he mentions clearing up things in autocrafting. Including better recognition of recipes as well as a fix for...
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    Preferred wall / floor / ceiling thickness...

    Right. You're fulfilling a pattern, not doing something for repetition for repetition's sake. Placing a 3 block buffer in case there is a need isn't doing something repeatedly just to do it. It is completing something in an ordered plan. You went that far, why not look up OCPD as well...
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    Preferred wall / floor / ceiling thickness...

    OCD = Obsessive Compuslive Disorder. This is the one where people feel compelled to do an action repeatedly. Lock a door 15 times, exactly. Wash their hands repeatedly, etc. OCPD = Obsessive Compulsive Personality Disorder. This is the one where people feel compelled to ensure everything...
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    Preferred wall / floor / ceiling thickness...

    I so need to do that sometimes. Getting very tired of having bases with miles of mineshafts running all over the place. Almost as bad as underground ravines. :/ So do I. Because if people who thought they were OCD were, they would know it's OCPD and not OCD. :cool:
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    Ask a simple question, get a simple answer

    Explain to me like I'm 5 what the two new pipes in TE do. I have a vague idea that I should want to use them, but not what they do so why I would want to use the eludes me.
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    Iron chests are "dancing"?

    Yup, as Yushunoha got it, it's Iron Chests + Optifine. Remove one, or the other, and it goes away.
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    Preferred wall / floor / ceiling thickness...

    Quick note up front, "piping" here refers to a catagory of mod blocks which transmit something from one block to another. Tubes, pipes, conduits, ducts, cables, wiring, etc. I'm just picking a term so I don't have to recite the list every time. :D 3, for the time being. Though if Immibis and...
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    RP2 Wires and Signal strength.

    Er... are you talking 1.5.x Redstone strength mechanics? If so, you do realize RP2 is back on 1.4.x so at the moment it is impossible to say how Elo is going to handle the new 1.5.x mechanics.