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A table style might be easier for quick reference, as a suggestion:

It doesn't appear to be. I chose the main suspects (the differentials) and created new worlds with each disabled - Extra Bees, PetroGen, Traincraft. None mattered. Tested without Rei's since you mentioned it, doesn't effect the performance either way.

DW's is really there so you can SSP along with his LP (as many do). I'm keeping that pack "clean" from my main world, which will have .. well .. everything :)

I plan on having SSP worlds for each. DW's is missing some critical ones I'd like for main map play, such as Extra Bees, Twilight, GregTech, but his pack will mirror what he LPs with, so you can follow along (as many like to do). For main map, MC's is just missing Mystcraft and the Portal Gun...

Technically, 4 quarries at full input will dig that fast. Of course most of that output wont be ore, but based on distribution percentages and tossing frame quarries into the equation you can calculate where that much speed might be beneficial.

All of the wonderful packs that will be offered are official packs. You not only get to choose which one (or ones) float your boat, but adding/subtracting mods from them is easy. Hard to ask for much more, honestly.

My first 1.4.5 test map had them everywhere. When I found the first one, it was endearingly named Venice in my waypoints. The next, Atlantis. By the time I'd found the fifth, still with no Apiarist, Blacksmith, or bookshelves, I went all Poseidon on them. At least they all learned to swim, and...

The 1.4.2 recipe: 64 lava cells = 40 tin, 4 gold, 32 pyrite dust, 1 wolframium cell. 2500 seconds (42 minutes), 250k EU. The 1.4.6 recipe: 64 lava cells = 40 tin, 6 electrum, 16 copper, and 1 tungsten dust. 2500 seconds (42 minutes), 250k EU. Based on that, Greg doesn't seem too worried about...

The first night in my 1.4.6 test world was rather ominous.

This is true, but now you have to consider the Magma Crucible, as plowing through netherrack manually (with Efficiency) only takes a short trip and you are set for hours. Likewise, running a quarry (assuming no cross-dimension transfer) to drop off the netherrack at the entry, or even bottling...

DW's original spotlight covers the manager's concepts well, although the block has been upgraded since (some nice gui changes, ability to send a cart back from where it came, etc). Here's the vid starting at the manager's highlight.

That takes some getting used to. Sort of like judging that you want to plop down coal coke ovens early on a new map, due to their speed and knowing where you want to end up resource-wise over a familiar period of time. The centrifuges are similar in that aspect - they can be slow (depending on...

4 Sheldonite + 4 Mercury (byproduct of centrifuging redstone) in the Industrial Grinder = 1 Iridium, 12 Platinum Dust, 4 Nickel dust. Replace the Mercury with water and platinum dust drops to 8, still good, considering that 8 platinum dust = 1 iridium in the centrifuge. Also, Wolframium +...

There is something in the water, I can't quite identify it, but the symptoms seem to be "long, angry diatribes about things which the offended party doesn't quite understand". It's not just GT, though that particular hatewagon appears to be overflowing and losing a wheel. The analogy to EVE is...

They make a network out of anything with an adjacent inventory. From this perspective, you can have "stations" of mod-specific barrel clusters, networked with, say, furnaces (under the floor, etc). Quetzi puts this style to use in his streaming world, if you ever catch him on Twitch. As to the...

The image of 24 inefficient electrical engines with a solar backend makes my teeth itch. It would seem the 'fire and forget' quarry is about to be upgraded to 3 bluetricity engines with sufficient wind gen, whatever that turns out to be. Edit: and as much as I like that idea, I think I will...

That would be interesting if true, unless there's something else going on that is unintended (should really test with an engine array). The MJ output of the cell does not increase past 1000MJ/s, regardless, once you reach 50MJ/t. You can clock it watching the energy bar. Anything beyond that (up...

I plopped my trusty redstone energy cell down next to a 1.4.5 quarry to clock the rate. It caps out at 50MJ/t (burning 1000MJ/s). This mines exactly 5 blocks per second. It's a beautiful thing.

In 1.4.5 (in addition to the previously mentioned suggestions), you can also obtain Iridium directly by pulverizing (5%) or rock crushing (10%) sheldonite, which also yields 2 platinum dust. 6 platinum dust in the centrifuge = 1 iridium. Likewise, having a mod like Metallurgy installed (which...

Thanks Cammy. Some random observations playing with the pack the last couple of days: It's worth noting (unless I'm doing something wrong) that you can't get UE out of a Steam Turbine currently. I "carted" my way around the lack of pipes to get water to a boiler (water tank / liquid loaders /...