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    Open 2.3.3: 2.4.2 Forestry backpacks not accepting whitelisted items

    Version: 2.3.3 What is the bug: Version 2.4.2 (ignore dropdown version, max at 2.3.3) Hi, Updated to 2.4.2 from a 2.3.* version today. Forestry backpacks are accepting very few white-listed items. For example, after an hour caving: Miners backpack was empty (all the typical ores were...
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    Wrath Lamp - your experience or alternatives?

    Building a massive structure in my Monster SSP world out of marble and I'm experimenting again with wrath lamps. Last used them in 1.4 but had to rip them out due to the massive lag it caused around my base. Here's a few pics: Looking up at the mezzanine and the dome overhead, views across the...
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    FTB Privacy Policy - what personal information will be disclosed to Curse

    How will the FTB handle our private information when they migrate the forums to Curse? Given their history and my first-hand experience with misuse of my email address, I DO NOT want my personal information transferred to Curse. If necessary, I will update my personal details and change...
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    Merry Xmas everyone ... what did you ask Santa for?

    Firstly, wishing you a Happy Xmas and a wonderful New Year!! Big thanks to everyone in these forums and the FTB team for making this such a wonderful community. Now I'm off to open presents - one of the benefits of living in Australia. I asked Santa for .... a replacement for Unleashed and a...
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    FTB Monster mod pack listed - What do you think?

    Now that the Monster mod pack listing has been publically posted which mods are you most looking forward to playing? which ones will you disable? will you add any to the pack? Are there any surprise inclusions?
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    Direwolf20 - Ore density and worldgen stats

    Following on from the mining stats for Horizons, discussed here just completed a new set for Direwolf20, mining 100 chunks of a plains biome to bedrock (BoP disabled) with silk touch. DW20 results for all ores, grouped by mod are here: http://i.imgur.com/rlC4CLu.jpg Compared to Horizons, the...
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    Horizons - new ores and world generation stats

    Given the number of new (to FTB) mods in Horizons and associated world gen, I thought it would be worth taking a large mining sample to see what lies beneath the surface. Here are the mining results from silk-touching 100 chunks of a plains biome to bedrock (BoP disabled) Results for all ores...
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    Wyld leaves FTB Modpack Team to become professional streamer

    We should show him some support on Twitch - does anyone have the link? While we're waiting on FTB 1.6, might try out his UHS2 pack on the ATLauncher ... heard it was beastly. Good luck Wyld !
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    Which texture pack (1.6.x) are you using?

    have stuck with Faithful 32 packs for quite a while, but now I'm wondering: what is everyone using (or plan to) for 1.6?
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    PluginsForForestry (1.6.4) crashing on 21-Nov

    Mods, feel free to (re-)move -- Just a heads up for those testing out 1.6 mods. Appears some "holiday content" may be crashing startup PluginsForForestry v1.6.4-3.2.28 Workaround: It runs fine if you set your system date back to the 20th or forward a few days ... ---- Minecraft Crash...
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    Thaumic mound as an XP Farm?

    Has anyone seen any cool designs for convering those thaumcraft mounds into a multi purpose XP grinders? Any links or tips appreciated :)
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    Railcraft Steam Locomotive / train setup

    Does anyone know a a good tutorial or care to share their setup and lessons learned please? Having setup my base with liquid tesseracts throughout, I would like to try a "back to basics" setup to fetch oil from a local well. I thought the new steam locomotive coupled with liquid carts would be...
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    Auto-crafting tiny piles of dust

    Havent really needed to use the autocrafting table ... until now. With my Industrial Grinder in place, the tiny piles of dust are building up in my overflow chest. But I'm struggling to come up with an elegant solution for sorting and automating. Cant find much online, so how is everyone else...
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    Monitoring Boilers ... the wayward Enderman

    Is there a way to monitor the temperature/state of your Railcraft Boiler? Why? Well, what happened just now is quite bizarre: I was in my basement/boiler room, building a solid-fuel (SC farm) to complement my existing Oil->Fuel setup, when I happened to notice the temperature of my current...
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    BC Quarry vs IC Miner ...

    Started my new world (MindCrack edition) and was fortunate enough to stumble over a good quantity of diamonds in my first deep exploration. My first thought was to create a BC Quarry, but given its early in the world is there any point - when a Miner will quickly pull all the valuable ores I...
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    IC2 Miner. Valuable Ores list ... needs updating

    No update for the Mindcrack edition. With all the new ores in worldgen, would anyone care to share their custom list please. IC2.cfg entry still reads: # List of valuable ores the miner should look for. Comma separated, format is id-metadata:value where value should be at least 1 to be...