What cool little thing have you discovered today?

[malicious_bloke]

Get normal node
Put perfectly normal jar round it
Put in room of warded blocks
Dothisnew.thing to it
Now has captive hungry node in base.

Grow vis shards with magical crops, feed into node via *complicated thingumajig*

Self-perpetuating wand recharge system.

Great success!

 

[Pyure]

Get normal node
Put perfectly normal jar round it
Put in room of warded blocks
Dothisnew.thing to it
Now has captive hungry node in base.

Grow vis shards with magical crops, feed into node via *complicated thingumajig*

Self-perpetuating wand recharge system.

Great success!

I hope I was supposed to hear Borat at the end there.

 

[Veggetossj]

Also that Obelisk is awesome, no more ugly bed in my house XD

 

[triblades]

Advanced computers have syntax highlighting!

Also, Uranium and Yellorium are the 'same' in the oreDictionary.

Last, but not least, Monster is awesome. But it misses Morph. Flying was fun, but crawling through 1x1 spaces I really miss.

 

[rhn]

That "Night Vision" + Zan's minimap cave´mode = incredible underground navigational aid!

The night vision "lights" up every cave/tunnel/mineshaft/etc. on the map, allowing you to see everything and easily navigate towards something underground.

 

[GreenZombie]

That "Night Vision" + Zan's minimap cave´mode = incredible underground navigational aid!

The night vision "lights" up every cave/tunnel/mineshaft/etc. on the map, allowing you to see everything and easily navigate towards something underground.

I don't understand why anyone uses the "other" minimaps. reis, mapwriter etc. all offer interesting "features", but Zan's underground mode is, even without night vision, the clincher.

 

[ljfa]

I also think that Zan's mob radar is the best as it gives you an idea of the Y level. But IMHO a mob radar is kinda cheating anyway.

 

[PierceSG]

I also think that Zan's mob radar is the best as it gives you an idea of the Y level. But IMHO a mob radar is kinda cheating anyway.

If my Steve could build nuclear reactors, skyscrapers, computer controlled quarries, jet packs, portals to other worlds/dimensions, even planets and pew pew laser guns, I bet he can make a Google glass with mob radar.

 

[ljfa]

If my Steve could build nuclear reactors, skyscrapers, computer controlled quarries, jet packs, portals to other worlds/dimensions, even planets and pew pew laser guns, I bet he can make a Google glass with mob radar.

But not early game
You can get ender pearls far easier when you can spot endermen from the distance

 

[netmc]

I found out that you can automate jerky production.

Spoiler

The output item duct on the drying rack has fish blacklisted, and the output on the chest has fish whitelisted. It's still rather slow, but you don't have to babysit it either.

 

[Nisteth]

EnderIO is the most convenient thing that has ever graced minecrafters.

 

[asb3pe]

I don't understand why anyone uses the "other" minimaps. reis, mapwriter etc. all offer interesting "features", but Zan's underground mode is, even without night vision, the clincher.

The Opis/Mapwriter is by far my favorite just for the overworld map (it's huge) and I like the waypointing system in that one compared to Zan's.

Zan's overworld map is tiny. I don't mean the radar minimaps, I mean when you press a key to bring up a fullscreen map (I think it's M key in Mapwriter and X key in Zan's?).

If I have a choice (SSP), I use Opis. I just tried to play on a SMP public server and Zan's just doesn't cut it for me, even if the mob radar certainly is a big asset to have.

 

[rhn]

The Opis/Mapwrited is by far my favorite just for the overworld map (it's huge) and I like the waypointing system in that one compared to Zan's.

Zan's overworld map is tiny. I don't mean the radar minimaps, I mean when you press a key to bring up a fullscreen map (I think it's M key in Mapwriter and X key in Zan's?).

That is why you use JourneyMap along with Zan's. Journeymaps world Dynmaps beats mapwriter IMO, Zan's minimap is unbeaten by any.
Best of both camps

Sometimes when out exploring I even use both mods "minimaps"(Journeymap minimap can be brought up by ctrl+J, you can change its position in the options):

 

[asb3pe]

That is why you use JourneyMap along with Zan's. Best of both camps

Yay! Off to try it out. Thx bud.

 

[Nisteth]

I learned a second thing today: you can right click the Rain Muffler from Extra Utilities to 'put some magic cotton wool in your ears', which will nullify the sound of rain anywhere.

How fun. In the worst possible, most greggy greg way. I need to go flip a table or something now.

 

[rhn]

I learned a second thing today: you can right click the Rain Muffler from Extra Utilities to 'put some magic cotton wool in your ears', which will nullify the sound of rain anywhere.

How fun. In the worst possible, most greggy greg way. I need to go flip a table or something now.

What I really wish, was that there was some way to make the Sound Muffler only muffle certain sounds, or atleast customize its range. The complete lack of sounds(well 20% sounds) anywhere near something otherwise noisy is a bit eerie.

 

[Strikingwolf]

PhoenixConfigs
/shamelessselfplug

 

[rhn]

http://forum.feed-the-beast.com/threads/phoenixconfig-modular-configs-for-1-7-10.49511/
/shamelessselfplug for ones ability to mess up links

FTFY

Think what you meant to do was:
phoenixconfigs

 

[Strikingwolf]

FTFY

Think what you meant to do was:
phoenixconfigs

What are you talkin bout

 

[asb3pe]

Today I found that the Blood 'n Bones modpack description says

"Because Hardcore just isn't Hardcore enough. This pack is not for the casual player. Warning! This pack does not support adding/removing mods. Adding mods will break progression, removing mods will break recipe changes. Recommended JVM Arguments: -XX:+UseParNewGC -XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC -XX:+CICompilerCountPerCPU -XX:+TieredCompilation"​

so I've added that to my FTB launcher java arguments list as well... even tho I have absolutely no idea what they do or if they'll help outside of the BnB environment.