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Golems can make a decent alternative to MFR for farms or grinding, although it's seldom the best use of resources in a Skyblock world. You can also duplicate gunpowder through Crucibles if you really wanted a crazy power generation technique. I've found myself swimming in the stuff from mob...

I'd recommend making sure you're using a 64-bit version of Java if on a 64-bit OS, and looking at your Java settings. The XX:MaxPermSize=256m -XX:PermSize=128m commands in particular can often help with that sort of performance issue.

On a related topic, the MFR Leaves can't be composted, either. Just to save you the iron (or invar) and inventory space. Most of my derps have been the classical sort -- is the mob grinder filling? How quickly can I get rid of this spare scaffold? What's that hissing sound? -- but then...

There are some reasons that's likely to be complicated, as a subset of the general issues with how Block IDs are handled and some of the parts of worldgen. Each mod handles its own WorldGenerator interface, for example, so Forge generally lets them do their own thing. It's historically been...

You can apply Labels to the alembic, which will allow only matching essentia into the Alembic. This requires some extra infrastructure investment, since you can't use the alembic stack for much else after setting it up like this, but it's useful if you're doing a lot of automation. This can...

If you need to code applications for your own system, it'd be vastly faster and easier and you'll be able to make a user interface much sooner. The libraries in C# are also more robust by default, and are somewhat easier for the mildly tech-aware to expand (example : it's about three...

I've not tested it, but do you have Advanced Node Tapping and Node Preserver on the Basic Information tab?

I've not been able to get it to work, with either Fans or the Item Vacuum.

Note that C++ (and C, and other lower-level languages) has some very strict format, memory allocation, and order issues that aren't as common in more user-friendly languages. It's something you can and should learn to deal with eventually, but it's tricky if you're also learning how assignment...

Basically, only one type of essentia can flow through a pipe at a time, and the order that the flow occurs happens based on certain suction values determined by the type of piping and jars. The Essentia Resonantor (which should be unlocked for free as part of the Essentia Tubes research) can...

You can create hundreds of MultiMC or ATLauncher instances before running into problems, and probably much more than that. Even private packs on the FTB Launcher require a pretty serious level of time commitment to have recognized, though. And while there are a few smaller public modpacks on...

At least all the ones I've made so far drop if hit with a stone mining pick, although you have to be somewhat careful with the ones that run over lava.

Lava Smeltery is more for bulk processing, once you're doing a lot of quarrying or something similar. It consumes both power and lava (especially while warming up) but does the most parallel cooking you'll see outside Mekanism. Note that the rock melter provides lava without taking too much...

... I didn't have Minecraft booted up, and I thought that was roughly what the AC engine puts out? EDIT: for clarity, you'd want the Magnetostatic + Magnetized Coil to put out significantly more energy than an AC Engine, or it'd make more sense to just build AC Engines. But it'd be a rough...

The Blast Furnace, the Work Table, a DC Engine (before the Pump), a Gasoline Engine (between fertilizer and jet fuel), the Grinder (between Making Steel and the Extractor chain), so on. I'll try to draw something up in a Mindmap software when I have more opportunity. Would it be possible to...

Is there any interest in expanding the Achievements? The current achievement tree jumps from manufacturing Steel to the endgame fairly quickly, and doesn't provide much guidance regarding the intended tech progression, or even stuff like creating the worktable. I'd skipped over the Friction...

With Thaumcraft 4.1.0g, Copper caps are similar to Iron, but with a discount for Perdito and Ordo vis usage, while Silver caps are similar to gold, but with a discount for the four elemental essences. These discounts aren't enough to push them up a whole rung -- Silver can't beat Thamium, even...

It'd take thousands of Lapis Lazuli per hour. Any sort of lag in your automation system will also turn the local environment into a radioactive crater, and that runs through lapis fast enough even AE's delays could be deadly. It might be theoretically doable in a Creative environment, but even...

I meant in terms of the connections between twenty-plus engines and a conductive pipe system. The per-second cost isn't very severe when considered in terms of a single engine, but BuildCraft power assumes dozens of engines. Apologies. That said, that's not the behavior I'm seeing. In...

Eh... I'm not so sure, especially in the modern BuildCraft+Forestry+RailCraft environment. Building a biofuel loop and a lot of on-demand engines isn't trivial, but the trickiest part of it involves getting redstone to behave properly. Of course the Big Dumb Boiler object really only sees this...