Well, to be honest, if the mods that are to been put in the Ultimate pack are just chosen from the google spreadsheet, then I wouldn't mind just moving to the Mindcrack pack. Only problem is, I'm waiting for the world converter as well and I don't think we'll see that until Ultimate pack is out. So I might as well just wait for the ultimate pack.It's more work to get the ultimate pack stable and would take much longer. To appease the majority who are impatient it's quicker to let out these packs (which do have a lot of the mods as it is) and work on the ultimate while we wet our appetites with the appetizers
Is there something missing in either direwolf or mindcrack's that you would like to see? I personally like mindcrack's even though it is missing mystcraft. Mystcraft sort of makes life a little too easy anywho I think this pack is really close to what the ultimate pack would be like.
Well, to be honest, if the mods that are to been put in the Ultimate pack are just chosen from the google spreadsheet, then I wouldn't mind just moving to the Mindcrack pack. Only problem is, I'm waiting for the world converter as well and I don't think we'll see that until Ultimate pack is out. So I might as well just wait for the ultimate pack.
It's already been said there will be a world converter. I wish I can give you a link but I didn't save it for reference.World converter? I really don't think you'll see a world converter. Slowpoke has already said he heavily suggests starting a new map. Because beta was just that - beta, why go through the hours of writing something that'll convert a beta world? You have item IDs to worry about, and adding ore to a world that could potentially screw up people's houses that use stone. Volcanos / rp2 rubber trees will only be available in new chunks, there's no way you can get those in the current world.
I forget which version jump it was, believe it was 1.1 > 1.2 where they changed the worldgen engine (to anvil) and you ended up either with corrupted chunks (causing server crashes), ruined biomes, and really really weird new chunk generation. Granted this isn't the case now, but sometimes you have to bite the bullet.
Any news on this? Slowpoked said he hoped it would be released a few days ago, but as far from that I couldn't find any new information.