for the 1.7.10 update: hope u will release it and i hope u have a nice version of cauldron on your pc (they disable the downloads and i think the dmca-drama takes longer)
and mod-wishes: mystcraft(yes, no free use.. but insane for long fun with exploration), waila harvestbility (better tooltip), carpenters-blocks(slopes > all, and every block to every form) and noVoidFog(optifine have the same, no one needs these darkness) (all work with 1.6.4 and 1.7.10, no incompatibility to other mods in the pack)
Thanks for your suggestions
Mystcraft is not going to happen since we run our own server and mystcraft just doesn't work well there.
Waila harvestcraft tooltips is already included in the current version of AMP.
Carpenters blocks adds a lot of decorative blocks. We already have Chisel for this but I'll keep Carpenters blocks in mind.
NoVoidFog won't be included but you can always install it yourself if you like to have it.
You should mention in the OP that Gregtech is set to easy mode. I downloaded the pack to save myself the effort of doing a bunch of configs, but I wanted hard mode.
I'll include it in the opening post.
Can we get some update about state of work?
The current dev build of AMP for Minecraft 1.7.10 takes about 10 minutes to load on my PC. To give you an indication, that's running on an Intel Core i7 @4GHz, 16GB RAM and a Samsung 840 EVO SSD. It's kind of ridiculous and it's not something I'm looking forward to releasing if we can't figure out a way to get it down to a more normal startup time. Also RAM usage has gone up considerably. You can run the current AMP with 2GB RAM allocated to Minecraft. WIth the 1.7.10 version you need at least 3GB.
Going to Minecraft 1.7.10 overall feels like a huge step backwards from Minecraft 1.6.4. In the current version of AMP most of the stuff just works and it performs quite well given that it's a huge mod pack. But with Minecraft 1.7.10 bugs in Minecraft itself prevent it from performing well, most notably chunk generation. Mojang has fixed those bugs in Minecraft 1.8 and called them performance improvements. But they'll never go back now to do a 1.7.11 to help out the modding community. There's a mod called Fastcraft which does help with some of the performance issues but it's not perfect and we're not allowed to distribute it in mod packs (yet).
At this point I'm not really sure what to do. Updates for 1.6.4 mods are seriously slowing down right now with all the mods moving on to 1.7.10. But 1.7.10 performs so poorly that large mod packs become increasingly difficult to run.
On the up side there is a ton of new content for Minecraft 1.7.10 mods that's worthwhile and makes starting a new world something to really look forward to. And as mods develop further performance should increase. It was the same for the Minecraft 1.5.2 and 1.6.4 versions of AMP so maybe all we have to do is be patient and wait for a couple of updates to come along and make everything better.
