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felinoel

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What is the mod that checks my light level with the f7 key and where can I find the controls for it because an update to a modpack has made me lose the capability to check light levels.
 

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What is the mod that checks my light level with the f7 key and where can I find the controls for it because an update to a modpack has made me lose the capability to check light levels.
That's NEI, and I've no clue if the controls are configurable.

Also, pressing F9 with NEI will show you chunk boundaries.
 

BarbasTheDog

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What is the mod that checks my light level with the f7 key and where can I find the controls for it because an update to a modpack has made me lose the capability to check light levels.
It's NEI and you can change it in the Options menu you have on the bottom left of yout inventory screen.
 

rhn

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What is the mod that checks my light level with the f7 key and where can I find the controls for it because an update to a modpack has made me lose the capability to check light levels.
It is NEI. You can config it in the NEI.cfg I think
EDIT: Ahh yeah easier in the Inventory->Options->Keybindings->World->Mob Spawn Overlay
 

Justin - FTB Lover

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Does anyone know why after every update, NEI goes back into cheat mode (I use recipe mode), and if there's a way to prevent this?
Every time I update, within a few minutes of loading I look up a recipe and unexpectedly end up with a stack of something :p
Go to your config folder in your .minecraft folder and search for the folder named NEI. In this folder, there is a client.cfg file, open it, and search for "cheatmode=0" and change it to "cheatmode=2" for recipe.
 

Deftscythe

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What are some good options to prevent griefing? I'm not looking to kill other players, just keep them out of my base. I'm familiar with the warding focus from thaumcraft, but warding the entire outer layer of your base is pretty tedious, so ideally this would be something that can protect a large area.
 

yotus

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Build your base in a Mystcraft dimension (if your server allows that) and ward the room in which the book is :)

Depending on the modpack, you can use MFFS to create a forcefield that will only allow certain players to get through.
 

ljfa

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What are some good options to prevent griefing? I'm not looking to kill other players, just keep them out of my base. I'm familiar with the warding focus from thaumcraft, but warding the entire outer layer of your base is pretty tedious, so ideally this would be something that can protect a large area.
You can use PneumaticCraft's security station for that, but it's not 100% secure. Other players can hack it.
But I don't really know how it works.
 

jordsta95

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You can use PneumaticCraft's security station for that, but it's not 100% secure. Other players can hack it.
But I don't really know how it works.
I believe you need to be near to the terminal to hack it. So if you encase the terminal, you're safe.
Although I haven't played with it on a server, as I have never needed to
 

hisagishi

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Is there a way to import HQM from one modpack to another with all the quests and rewards still intact even with different item IDs and a couple different mods? Ideally I would like to get one of the mob mods that add random deadly affects to mobs then have then drop reward bags.
 

jordsta95

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Is there a way to import HQM from one modpack to another with all the quests and rewards still intact even with different item IDs and a couple different mods? Ideally I would like to get one of the mob mods that add random deadly affects to mobs then have then drop reward bags.
No, you have to write each quest book individually. You can't transfer books from one back to another, unless all the mods are the same (maybe with a few additions). However, it is just best rewriting it, as a missing item (ID) in the questbook causes a lot of issues.
For example I had to rewrite the entire questbook for Let it End when MFR updated and changed a few of their IDs
 

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What are some good options to prevent griefing? I'm not looking to kill other players, just keep them out of my base. I'm familiar with the warding focus from thaumcraft, but warding the entire outer layer of your base is pretty tedious, so ideally this would be something that can protect a large area.
If you've got a reasonably large energized node, you can upgrade your warding focus. Enlargement will allow it to ward a larger area at once (each level increases the radius by 1), and the Architect upgrade will allow you to select a shape to ward. Pressing shift-G (I think that's the default key, at least) while holding the wand with an Architect focus attached will select the direction (left/right, up/down, in/out, or all three; which axes these correspond to depends on which face of a block you're looking at) to expand/contract the volume to ward, and pressing G without holding shift will increase the size of the volume by one block in the selected direction(s), unless it was already at maximum size, in which case it resets to one block.

Side note: These upgrades also work on the Equal Trade focus. However, it doesn't seem to allow you to change the in/out radius, which means that an Equal Trade focus with an Architect upgrade will never trade any blocks outside the plane it was clicked on. I've been annoyed by the focus swapping blocks behind walls and such in the past, so I consider this a good thing.
 

jordsta95

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Progression-wise? I don't know of any that are more time-consuming than InfiTech2. Be advised that's a GT pack with content minetweaked around GT.

Content-wise, you'd want any kitchen-sink-type pack.
Or something like Agrarian Skies, where you need to get octuple-compressed everything to win
 
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