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I think throwing the wood through a Sawmill will yield more power per log than Charcoal, but I'm not sure if that's still true for Boilers in 1.5. Also, with GT you now have upgrades to run your GT machines on Steam if you want. It's probably not as efficient as using a turbine or some other...

It's not entirely the same, but if you can cheaply produce Water Bottles you can use BC pipes to insert them. Because they get consumed you don't need to worry about taking them out or refilling them, so a long line of Insertion pipes (which are now also in TE I believe) can feed Water Mills...

I agree there is no best method, but I don't hear many people talking about Oil as a first fuel. Combustion engines only require Iron (so no special processing machines needed) and have a very high MJ output for a first engine (you can practically run a Pulverizer at full speed with 1 engine...

What point? That asking for advice is something you shouldn't do because you won't end up with what you want? All I'm saying is that asking for advice/questions about these things can only help you make a decision, it never hurt anyone to ask (at least not about things like food and mod packs)...

So if you eat at a restaurant where they have food you've never eaten before (the first time you eat Sushi for example) you don't ask your friends (who have eaten there before) for advice? That just sounds like you don't thrust your friends to me and asking them what they like or what they're...

That's true, but doesn't that fit with the whole "they're not professional game designers" deal I talked about? :P And tbh there are more modders that don't take much/any design advice from the community (I'm not going to call any names). Quite a few do modding for themselves and only share...

Wasn't that on grinding in MMOs? And I remember the point in that was that you get random stuff and the randomness is what adds (perceived) value, while a smaller more consistent reward is perceived as having little/no value. I think they used a crafting system in an (in dev) MMO to discuss this...

I don't get this comment... Do you like it or not? The first part sounds like you know it has a terrible conversion rate and it isn't viable to build a GT factory using MJ power. While the second part sounds like GT is doing something terribly OP it shouldn't be doing (and in doing so trying to...

Why would water evaporate from it? Afaik it doesn't evaporate from tanks either. At least I used to carry a portable tank with water to the Nether to make obsidian there in an Extruder and I don't think they've changed that. The only way I know that water disappears in the Nether is if you try...

If you're using fertilizer just keep the farm 1x1, I've heard that's more effective than a bigger farm if you're using fertilizer. Because it'll spend less time "looking for trees to harvest" and thanks to the fertilizer they grow instantly anyway (the speed of the harvester is the limiting...

The XyCraft Fabricator pulls from adjacent inventories as well and it has practically 0 crafting time. Assuming XyCraft will make it to 1.5/6 sooner than Logistics Pipes that can replace your auto crafting needs. I agree the nerf is stupid though. I've never been a huge fan of them and these...

For anyone having trouble launching the beta Ultimate pack, try deleting the mods and minecraft folder, so it has to redownload everything. That got it to work for me (once) and then I used MultiMC to make a copy which launches perfectly fine at this point. The only issue I have is that there...

Make an MFR Tree farm, it'll run on any EU you make and produces tons of wood (and thus power). Consider running the Logs through a Sawmill as well, it will give you more Planks per Log to the point they actually give more energy than turning Logs into Charcoal. Then simply burn all that wood in...

Cool style though, I like it ;) Also that slime in the 2nd image :P

I don't think it's a horrible idea, maybe not the most original either, but I would love to see some TE pipes that can go along with their Conduits, Tesseracts and Liquiducts. Somehow it would feel like a sense of completion. I'm not sure molten ender would be good for this though, I think...

Ultimate, but I actually play very little because I'm hoping 1.5 will come soon and I'd hate to spend hours into a world I'm going to toss when 1.5 comes. I did look into making my own pack with MultiMC, but then I decided I have better things to do with my time than building a mod pack that's...

In my last game I started with Redstone and Combustion engines. The Combustion engines were fed Oil manually by me and were later fed with Biofuel. The Redstone engines were mostly to build up a little power in storage while I went out mining/caving, I used the Combustion engines for most of my...

Are we only allowed to have 1 favorite? Because I like both King Lemming and PowerCrystals an equal amount. With MachineMuse very closely after that.

I think I've read somewhere that MFR also works with XySoil in 1.5. I also didn't know MFR worked with IC2 crops, then again I've never messed around with IC2 crops so there probably is a lot I don't know about them.

There is UU-matter which can make pretty much anything I think. Scrap boxes can also get you all sorts of stuff, though that's completely random and I don't know all the stuff you can get out of them. Bees can produce pretty much anything, but for metal bees and stuff you will have to dig (you...