What do you want to know? I've played enough with AE and Extra Cells that I might be able to answer a few questions, though I'm no modder and for knowledge of internal workings you'll have to go to the mod creators.
Learn GregTech HQM Pack (In Progress) 1.6.4.
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I meant, what *about* those mods do you want to know? If you need basic knowledge, the Applied Energistics wiki does a better job than I could do in a post. Extra Cells adds bigger storage modules and a fluid system. For more, I'd need specifics.
Generally, AE is more of a mid-to-late game mod with the kind of resources and power it requires. If GregTech makes it more difficult to generate power (which I don't know), AE will also arrive later. But I think finally being able to build an ME network will be very satisfying for players with GregTech, since much of the tediousness in crafting can be circumvented with the right setup.
(If you already know all this, consider why I asked what you want to know about those mods)
While I don't have much opinion for or against that statement, I think more critically, its going to add little of note to learning gregtech. I can't envision any scenario where food scarcity will encourage you to improve your GT tech (food's never THAT scarce
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On my first playthrough, I was down to 1 chicken nugget multiple times. This was befor HQM was implemented so I spent the first 8 hours of play trying to get apples to not starve. Then I found that getting string quickly for a fishing rod and supplimenting food with bait made things easier, but that was after playthroughs started to come out on youtube.
Chisel and Carpenter's are for the "toads in toad hall" (*) types. The moles, the rats and the badgers (*) won't find too much use for those mods. Add bibliocraft to that combination, and it becomes a different mini game in architectureal aesthetics. And I am pretty sure they "can" complement GT in this case -- all that coloured granite from GT will look pretty grand on structures and ramps. With PFAA also adding its own stones, these two can be a good addition - provided you make it part of the HQM as incentive for the moles and the rats....
So, I am okay whether they remain or go away.
Hunger overhaul adds another dimension of challenge to survival play, but it would be distracting for the theme you've adopted here. Having one eye on the hunger bar constantly, and planning the next menu variety is going to get old pretty soon. And on top of it, if you start designing quests around it, pretty soon lynch mobs will start forming outside your cave
My view? Leave this one out of this pack if you can.
(*) If you did not get those references, I suggest getting a copy of "The Wind in the Willows". Mighty fine book, if I might add.
If someone is really trying to learn and trying to like GT, they don't need HO confusing things, especially early game. GT is not about food production, but about machines, ores, processing, power, etc.,.
My advice: leave the HO, take the GT
My advice: leave the HO, take the GT
hmmmm
everyone: if you're not familiar with north american slang, you didn't chuckle at this as much as I did.
Agree with your first comment on hunger overhaul vis-a-vis GT. I have also requested that he shouldn't add it in this pack.
Your second question: I have died because of hunger in AgS and have been kicked out of our servers consequently. There is a chance that apples won't fall as often as you would like it to
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Good point; you can't fight a snippy RNG sometimes.
It was a silly and pointless comment on my part anyway.
I don't need to know about the mods, I know plenty of them. I just need to know if people want chisel or carpenter's blocks. I am a practical expert on all of them though.
Shrug, I vote no, again, because its a needless distraction from the stated goal of the pack. (And I suck at anything aesthetic)
But I'd play the pack regardless, so there you go.
Ya, I think I will add chisel and carpenter's and take away overhual.[DOUBLEPOST=1404932103][/DOUBLEPOST]Chisel and Carpenter's are for the "toads in toad hall" (*) types. The moles, the rats and the badgers (*) won't find too much use for those mods. Add bibliocraft to that combination, and it becomes a different mini game in architectureal aesthetics. And I am pretty sure they "can" complement GT in this case -- all that coloured granite from GT will look pretty grand on structures and ramps. With PFAA also adding its own stones, these two can be a good addition - provided you make it part of the HQM as incentive for the moles and the rats....
So, I am okay whether they remain or go away.
Hunger overhaul adds another dimension of challenge to survival play, but it would be distracting for the theme you've adopted here. Having one eye on the hunger bar constantly, and planning the next menu variety is going to get old pretty soon. And on top of it, if you start designing quests around it, pretty soon lynch mobs will start forming outside your cave
My view? Leave this one out of this pack if you can.
(*) If you did not get those references, I suggest getting a copy of "The Wind in the Willows". Mighty fine book, if I might add.
The aesthetics are just for people who want them, they should not affect you. I am like you, I suck at asthetics.
I reccomend adding the other mod @AlCapella recommend end as well - Bibliocraft.
Mods I recommend:
AE - GTech is hard and at time tedious, this will certainly help ease the pain in the later stages of the game
Bibliocraft - It's all about the looks
Project-Red - Just disable Rubies and Sapphires and have all the benefits of RP2
Galacticraft - It'd be nice to have a nice end goal to the GTech tree, just remove all of the duplicate machines and easy power generation
Mekanism - Take it or leave it. TBH I think it may not be fitting with the theme, but with the rebalancing of the recipes it could really have a place in the pack.
TiC - Just to annoy all of those stuck-in-their-ways GTech players
These are my ideas (the last one is not quite serious). If you do add these mods I recommend rebalancing the recipes with MineTweaker and remove duplicate power generators and machines (just keep factories, I love those things).
My limited knowledge of Mekanism suggests that it will allow players to skim or skip parts of the traditional GT tiering. Judicious minetweaker use could mitigate the issues though, and you've already alluded to this.
AE - I am adding
BiblioCraft - I will add
Project Red - A little GT progressive line abusive EX. get abilities before you should
Galacticraft - I will add (It was on a Hardmode GT server I played on and was good)
Mekanism - @Pyure covered it
TiC - [stares in disappointment]
Oh gods. Long time since I've seen that scene, let alone heard a joke involving it. You get a Gold Star! And if you do the job right, I'll teach you my families pasta sauce recipes. One sauce per hit done to standards.
For P-R and Mekanism could be added if many blocks not only had their recipe changed, but removed. Serious MineTweaking would be require (especially with Mekanism). Any exploits could just be removed. TBH I think Mekanism could fit perfectly with just a recipe change. I would suggest the removal of duplicate items still.AE - I am adding
BiblioCraft - I will add
Project Red - A little GT progressive line abusive EX. get abilities before you should
Galacticraft - I will add (It was on a Hardmode GT server I played on and was good)
Mekanism - @Pyure covered it
TiC - [stares in disappointment]
I probably should have also suggested ExtraCells and ExtraTiC (one of those suggestions was serious).
Extracells I already decided to implement. I played on it with a Hard-mode GT server with GregoriousT.