True. I haven't really looked into AE2 at this point so I can't say there. I removed MeteorCraft from my world though and if it weren't absolutely necessary I'd turn off AM2's meteors. Clutter bugs me and I hate having to build a shield, especially since it kind of precludes a lot of Forestry stuff.
Hoping it adds less ores, some of them *cough* mithiril *cough* are cool but others are just annoying and seem pointless *cough*that one that poisons you *cough*
If they still follow the modular system, I usually just take out whatever modules I don't feel like playing with and enjoy the others. When the mod is really centered around weapons, there is no hard to disabling some/most of the ores.
Never thought about that, but atm I don't have metallurgy in the pack I'm playing, will remember that for the future though
Metallurgy definitely overdoes it a skosh. I really do like the concepts in the mod, but at least half the ores it adds are utterly pointless - non-linear progression and insane rarity of some ores means you just end up skipping half of them, their "mineability" table makes almost no sense and by the time you can mine a bunch there's no point to it.
Even with RR's buffed versions of Metallurgy stuff, only four ores even matter: Celendil (or whatever it's called because it can get 100% protection theoretically), Adamanine/Atlarus (Tartarite is amazing) and Manganese (steel).
And Manganese, at least, can be bloody well impossible to find.
That sounds really interesting, where did CJ say this? I am a big fan of Railcraft, and I love the idea of a long-haul distribution system with purpose. The homogenous nature of ore distribution means that in spite of a handful of biome dictionary ores, there is very little difference in setting up a mining operation in almost any 2 locations. If Railcraft did something to force ore deposits to clump together in clouds or veins in high concentration, while the rest of map had low density ores, I would love that so much. That should probably be a config option, because servers that don't want to encourage pvp over resources may prefer homongenous distribution, assuming that is what CJ has planned.Some discussion:
In his post, CJ mentioned that he is intending on adding an ore-gen system that will make using rails and carts for mining worthwhile - any ideas what this may be?
I know personally, I really enjoy world-gen additionsI found my first meteor from AE2 today and it was awesome!
There are already the geode things in ocean biomes that have a higher than normal distribution of lapis, emerald, and diamond that RC implemented.
I have that one somewhere too. I just have way too many pictures to find anything when I need it.
Can't FMP do that? Can't you just craft a handsaw and saw a block into half and place the half-block (slab) vertically?
Sorry, I was giving an example and gave the worst example possible by accident, sue me. (Please don't)
He has just made the vannila Ender chest useless and made a much better concept of it
In vanilla, yes, good for keeping one in the nether/end to get useful stuff without traveling home i.e. books for enchanting
They're blast resistant, fireproof, and if you have one nearby you have access to whatever's inside. Most players eventually put one in each of their bases, and on servers you'll often find them in shops (labelled as an ATM, because it's a good way to store resources and and goods for trade). But because the vanilla ender chest shows each player only their own private inventory, it can't be automated, and it requires silk touch to pick up intact or you only get the obsidian back. Those are its downsides, but they seem to be pretty big -- I rarely see anywhere with a vanilla ender chest on modded servers.
