Don't know if it's been answered, but why is Metallurgy considered unbalanced? It just adds a lot of ores that can be used for weapons and armor but they aren't necessarily overpowered.
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well looking thru the Mods section over on the minecraft forums and having had fun with it on 1.2.5 *shifty eyes about a modpack that shall not be mentioned* and teh music it added was rather nice, however i did read "unfinished mods will have a hard road getting in here" this mod is Unfinished (as in updating past 1.2.5)
http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic...-v12-july-11-albums-and-portable-disc-player/
the mod maker is stuped at making it work in 1.3.2 he mentions most of it worked except SMP, and the GUI, that a PM about it and he'd hand over the source code to it,could be used in actual FTB Maps for background music for say finishing a difficult challange etc, or a means to finally ad custom music for various maps or stages, could turn out to be a litteral diamond in the rough for FTB,
http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic...-v12-july-11-albums-and-portable-disc-player/
the mod maker is stuped at making it work in 1.3.2 he mentions most of it worked except SMP, and the GUI, that a PM about it and he'd hand over the source code to it,could be used in actual FTB Maps for background music for say finishing a difficult challange etc, or a means to finally ad custom music for various maps or stages, could turn out to be a litteral diamond in the rough for FTB,
It's not that Metallurgy is itself unbalanced - it isn't. It's more that the balance of all the other mods hinge on the availability/rarity of various ores. Metallurgy 2 by default overwrites the default spawn behaviour of vanilla ores. For one thing, it removes the height restrictions so you are just as likely to find diamonds on the surface as down on the bottom of the map. Also, the spawn rate of vanilla ores such as iron are reduced by default, which is designed to get the player to rely on the new ores instead.
So, instead of causing a problem with causing the player to be overpowered, the problem with Metallurgy 2, particularly at default settings, is that it makes players underpowered. They'll dig and dig and have a hard time finding enough iron to get started on industrialcraft, and of course railcraft needs even more iron. Gold and diamond is harder to find as well. One approach to this problem, which is what Shadowclaimer, the developer of Metallurgy recommends is to adjust the Metallurgy config files to increase the spawn rate of vanilla ores so that other mods that need those ores can have access to a sufficient quantity. The problem is that this moves the burden of game balancing onto Slowpoke and his team, and they would rather trust the game developers to work on providing game balance.
These concerns will be greatly alleviated in the future, however. Shadowclaimer and his team are hard at work on Metallurgy 3, and they are promising to rework and rebalance the ore spawning system. I am hopeful these changes will make it easier to integrate Metallurgy with Feed the Beast without needing to tweak configs. Other changes that are coming make me think that Metallurgy will become even more desirable for the Feed The Beast team. For example, Metallurgy crushers will get a new mechanic and will no longer duplicate ores, which is good because that is a feature which right now has too much overlap with other mods in FTB.
Wait and see what comes of Metallurgy 3, and hopefully the FTB team will give it another chance to be considered for inclusion at that point.
Thanks for the great response. That makes a lot of sense. Hopefully they can get it all worked out because I'd love to have some other stuff to play with, even though I've only just started FTB this past week. There's so much to do with it all.
What about Braintech Agricultures?
http://forum.industrial-craft.net/index.php?page=Thread&threadID=7490&pageNo=1
It adds some very cool and, in my opinion, much needed variety to IC2's default crops, as well as adding some very cool possibilities, without being OP, as you might think with a cursory glance. (I can personally attest that most, if not all of the mob plants grow slowly, and considering how long it would take you to breed them to grow faster, you're probably putting just as much effort into that as you would simply finding the mobs in the world, or setting up a mob farm in a void age.)
http://forum.industrial-craft.net/index.php?page=Thread&threadID=7490&pageNo=1
It adds some very cool and, in my opinion, much needed variety to IC2's default crops, as well as adding some very cool possibilities, without being OP, as you might think with a cursory glance. (I can personally attest that most, if not all of the mob plants grow slowly, and considering how long it would take you to breed them to grow faster, you're probably putting just as much effort into that as you would simply finding the mobs in the world, or setting up a mob farm in a void age.)
Was too lazy to look back at previous posts, has Treecapitator been suggested yet? I checked and I swore it was made for Minecraft Forge, and I for one particularly liked how it alleviated the tediousness of chopping down lots o' trees in Technic. But then again, I guess that would make Forestry kinda redundant. Still, just wondering if you guys are considering re-implementing it.
It's been suggested repeatedly. The common answer about it so far has been that it undermines a later game axe from Thaumcraft. That's assuming the axe will be added to Thaumcraft 3 in the future.
Oh yes, I remember that reading about that axe. I suppose that would only make sense; at least it makes the game harder, and the end-game much more enjoyable (with that sense of ABSOLUTE POWA), and I'm actually kinda okay with that. Not a real big fan of chopping all those trees down though. Ah well, I guess the personal value of the reward increases with the amount of work done.
AltriaCraft... custom swords. Very nice. And the creator is willing to involved.
http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/1550513-145forge-altriacraft-100a1-wip/
ALSO, Zap Apples Mod... Not a fan of Ponies, but the apples are awesome, especially if you make them into jam.
http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/1568351-145smpzap-apple-modv14/
http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/1550513-145forge-altriacraft-100a1-wip/
ALSO, Zap Apples Mod... Not a fan of Ponies, but the apples are awesome, especially if you make them into jam.
http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/1568351-145smpzap-apple-modv14/
Having looked at these, I agree the custom swords one looks awesome/suggest
Wow, I agree. The cool thing for me is that this sword system would complement Balkon's Weapons.
Has anyone recommended the new Crafting table 3 mod called Easy Crafting?
Link: http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/1558714-142145-smp-easy-crafting-automatic-crafting-table-one-click-craft/
This would be great to have, The creator seems happy to give permission. The thread also seems to suggest that people have already been using it alongside FTB with success
Its superior to its predecessor as you can configure the "depth" of the recipes, plus its ready for 1.4.5/1.4.2
Having access to this mod again would be so great, makes crafting so much easier/quicker/enjoyable.
Would love to see this.
Well 1.4.6 is coming out around then, and then the redstone overhaul update a month later. I honestly don't know if its gonna ever get updated. I will however say that there is a pretty much bug free perfectly working version on the forgecraft server.
Tried it out myself before with buildcraft, and it got really glitchy.
Firstly, the pipes were invisible until placed down.
Secondly, the facades got their textures changed to the fuel texture.
Thirdly, the blocks in pipes became huge, bulged out, and were constantly flickering.
But it's still good on its own.
Mods that I majorly recommend:
Too Many Plants - Adds 15 more plants and 17 items.
Chococraft - Low impact. Adds a passive mob and occasional plants. Tested and compatible with mystcraft and twilight forest.
Optifine - Improves fps for most.
Extended Workbench - adds recipes for improved versions of vanilla tools and armor, which are more expensive accordingly.
In Game NBT Edit - Would allow ops to create player heads without editing the world save, as well as other things. Like adding armor to mobs.
Ropes+ - Ziplines, Grapling Hooks, and Hook Shot
Here are some mods I sorta recommend:
Thormod - Adds more biomes (some from alpha, when biomes were cool), colored planks (I SO WANT THIS), Wool Carpets (THIS TOO), Better Glass Pane, Cracked Planks, Checkers Planks, Gravelstone, Metal Rods, More Ores and Ore Storage Blocks, Armor and Tools of different materials including obsidian tools, Nether Ores, Ender Ores, Obsidian Pressure Plates, Portable Structures, More Plants, more trees, more food (including diamond apples and burgers and pizza), some new passive mobs, more recipies for vanilla items (including slimeballs)
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Too Many Plants - Adds 15 more plants and 17 items.
Chococraft - Low impact. Adds a passive mob and occasional plants. Tested and compatible with mystcraft and twilight forest.
Optifine - Improves fps for most.
Extended Workbench - adds recipes for improved versions of vanilla tools and armor, which are more expensive accordingly.
In Game NBT Edit - Would allow ops to create player heads without editing the world save, as well as other things. Like adding armor to mobs.
Ropes+ - Ziplines, Grapling Hooks, and Hook Shot
Here are some mods I sorta recommend:
Thormod - Adds more biomes (some from alpha, when biomes were cool
), colored planks (I SO WANT THIS), Wool Carpets (THIS TOO), Better Glass Pane, Cracked Planks, Checkers Planks, Gravelstone, Metal Rods, More Ores and Ore Storage Blocks, Armor and Tools of different materials including obsidian tools, Nether Ores, Ender Ores, Obsidian Pressure Plates, Portable Structures, More Plants, more trees, more food (including diamond apples and burgers and pizza), some new passive mobs, more recipies for vanilla items (including slimeballs)Smart Moving
Millenaire
The post claimed it would be delayed until AFTER December 21st, not ON the 21st, and this was a jest referring to the end of the world hullabaloo.
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