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    How can I detect/sort charged versus uncharged items?

    That's actually a great idea, you could even have items just enter the charging station for 15 seconds worth of charge at a time, and if you think they need another 15 seconds worth when they come back you could just send them round again. Sometimes quick and dirty is better than high tech. :)
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    [Engines] Which should I use?

    I usually go with Magmatic engines to start with, running on some lava pumped out of a volcano or other overworld source. Sometimes I even just scoop it up out of surface lava lakes with tin cells. The TE engines and machines scale their power nicely according to need so I reckon they're good to...
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    Rage quit life...

    What's vanilla? There was a guy a while back asking 'How do I breed chickens now? Wheat didn't work, does a mod in FTB change this?'. I don't blame him at all, we're a bunch of vanillaphobes round here. Blame Direwolf. :p Anyway cheers for the info Saice, I'll be making use of that trick.
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    How can I detect/sort charged versus uncharged items?

    I did a few tests because I was interested and as I thought Redpower works a treat. You can use a retriever to a tube on top of your IC2 storage unit, with a full batpack in the retriever's inventory. If you watch a batpack charge with NEI's item IDs on you can see its damage value decreasing...
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    Factorization: Sell me

    Not only do routers make a network out of all touching inventories but out of all inventories touching those inventories in any direction, including other routers. One day (possibly when there's more router upgrades for supplying inventories and things) I'm going to have all my machines and...
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    Hardcore Buckets

    Celestial is right, unfortunately Flowerchild and Forge do not mix whatsoever going on what I've read. I'm only familiar with the earlier political sh*tstorm he was involved in but I'm not surprised he's got into another one over a Forge/BTW crossover. Aside from that I think the problem would...
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    allo, allo, allo

    Allo mukka, welcome to the forums! A real live forestry worker eh? Cool! I'm afraid I cant help you on the server front but have a browse through SMP Server Promotion. You might not find a beginner-focussed one but I'm sure there's a slot for you somewhere. Even if you end up with experienced...
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    Hello People!

    Hey, welcome to the forums! Well said, having an 'officially' modder-supported pack makes a change from the days when the only modpack in existence was considered blasphemy. :p Avatar uploading is apparently somehow broken at the minute (a few people have mentioned having problems in their...
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    very new

    SMP Server Promotion is the place to go for servers, you'll probably be required to do a whitelist application for most of them though. Not every server expects you to be an amazing builder or whatever but having some examples to show will help your chances of getting a place on a good one.
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    Silverwood Trees and Flux in Thaumcraft 3.

    My main node was naturally fairly large at 510 aura and I managed to grow some pure nodes about 12 or 15 blocks away. You'll notice aura flying about between fairly distant nodes though so I don't think it would matter if it was 15 blocks or 50. Also I forgot to mention in my last post that...
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    very new

    Hey Dano, welcome to the forums! It's hard to know where to start with mods especially for a new minecraft player but thankfully there's a lot of knowledgable folk round here willing to help out the newbies. Don't be afraid to ask if you have questions on anything. :) Here is a very good...
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    RP2 release- thoughts after watching DW coverage.

    Yeah bang on Golrith. There's hints at more tools, dyeable windmill sails, more stuff in the compatibility module and high energy consumption machines in the spotlight alone. She's starting to fill out uses for a lot of the world gen stuff, flax has got infinitely more useful in this update and...
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    RP2 release- thoughts after watching DW coverage.

    Looks straight up amazing, I love the new lamps, the sickle, the windmills, the managers. I'm glad she didn't just do a quick port of the old content to 1.4, the new stuff is well worth the wait. Cheers Elo!
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    Silverwood Trees and Flux in Thaumcraft 3.

    It depends on what kind of node you started off with, the nodes around your main node and a lot of other factors. Silverwood trees do help get rid of flux slowly over time but the effects they have on aura nodes can actually bring more flux to an area. From what I've found out so far planting...
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    Red Power 2 News

    Just finished Dire's spotlight videos and I'm blown away, well worth the wait. Those new lamps are straight up sexy. Can't wait 'til tomorrow! :)
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    Factorization router

    Yeah you could do that too if you made a machine filter, I was just using a router as an example. I like having a few routers on my barrel network anyway. One to pull things out of an input chest and eject to the barrel distributing one, and a load more for extracting stuff back out of the barrels.
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    Factorization router

    Also get used to thinking in 'networks' of machines and routers. For example if you have a router with a line of chests to the north of it and another router on the east or west side of the first one both will be able to interact with the chests. This works brilliantly with barrels as b0bst3r...
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    Getting Magma Cream

    You can actually make rail ties in a carpenter now and cut out the buckets/cans/bottles etc altogether, for a bit of Buildcraft power. It costs less creosote too. :)
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    ANyone using the Magic World Pack? How is it?

    Who needs cows when you have deer and Lich castles full of bookcases? :) Twilight forest really goes well with the other magic mods, I'm keeping the overworld's aura more or less flux free and polluting the twilight forest, bwahaha. It's also proving useful for filling up soul shards with all...
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    Combine UE and Magic World

    Unless the FTB team have used completely separate ID ranges for both packs that won't work I'm afraid. You'll get a load of conflicts just pasting one into the other. If you really want to do it you'll have to edit all the block IDs in the config files.