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    What's a good starter modpack, for someone who's never played?

    I have a friend who won't play Minecraft because it looks boring. He's right, of course. He would love modded Minecraft, however, so I convinced him to join me in a game. I'm trying to select the right modpack for the introduction. Keep in mind, he's never used NEI or anything like it, he...
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    Magic Farm 2 crash report

    The launcher didn't tell me how to report a bug so I came here. With a mattock made entirely of copper parts, I attempted to combine it with a blue slime tool rod to change the handle. With the mattock already in my 2x2, Minecraft crashed as soon as I attempted to place the tool rod next to it...
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    Tree Breeding information?

    I decided to explore the tree breeding excitement of Forestry recently. I'm trying to be at least somewhat scientific about it, so I looked up some info online. I found this flowchart and set everything up. I happened to gather a spruce pollen. Hoping for a bull pine, I used the pollen on a...
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    Automating buckets in Factorization's mixer

    I recently built me a good old Factorization setup, but after processing 30 or so dirty gravel I realized I'm never again touching mixers until I find a way to automatically place filled buckets in the grid. But I don't know how. Most of the research I've done has turned up setups that use...
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    The simplest item distribution

    When I was getting started with FTB one of the things totally new to me and difficult to comprehend was item distribution and moving things from one container to another. Buildcraft pipes were where I started, but they are fairly simple when compared to Redpower (I seriously still cannot...
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    Automatic MJ production adjustments?

    I am trying to build a setup where I have 1 steam boiler running all the time for my various machines, but then I have a multiple large banks of other engines set up to be used on demand if I start to draw a larger amount of MJ and the steam boiler can't keep up (lasers, bee processing, quarry...
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    Did I break my uu-matter?

    I got my setup all running smooth and went to make use of my uu-matter. I have the quantum gear, so I don't need iridium, but I do need lots and lots of emeralds. Only, uu-matter doesn't seem to make emeralds anymore... or many other things I expected it to make (rubies, leather, ender pearls...