If Xycraft blocks are Pride, what are the other mods?
Applied Energistics - Sloth
ICBM - Wrath
MineFactory Reloaded - Lust
Natura - Gluttony
Buildcraft - Greed
GregTech - Envy
What is/were the reason's people don't like xycraft?
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If Xycraft blocks are Pride, what are the other mods?
Applied Energistics - Sloth
ICBM - Wrath
MineFactory Reloaded - Lust
Natura - Gluttony
Buildcraft - Greed
GregTech - Envy
THE SEVEN CARDINAL MODS. Damnit, now I can only think of Se7en. That movie was preety great.If Xycraft blocks are Pride, what are the other mods?
Applied Energistics - Sloth
ICBM - Wrath
MineFactory Reloaded - Lust
Natura - Gluttony
Buildcraft - Greed
GregTech - Envy
To those complaining about the quartz crystals destroying items: here's a thought--mine the crystals before you mine the items! It'll save the items, and the crystals actually have some uses!
I, personally, loved the crystals once the new functionality was added--any basic house of mine would soon have crystals lining the outer walls at head height, making a convenient anti-mob defense (i.e. if I see a creeper outside, I just have to lure it a couple blocks over and it'll kill itself on the spikes). I also liked the fact that the xychorium blocks don't spawn mobs--meaning I can build a floor out of them without having to worry about half-slabs or torch placement.
In fact, one of my long-term plans for my 1.4.7 DW20 world is to build an enormous high-speed rail system, with the ground under the track being xychorium and all tunnel entrances being lined with crystals to kill mobs that try to wander onto the track. ;-)
I, personally, loved the crystals once the new functionality was added--any basic house of mine would soon have crystals lining the outer walls at head height, making a convenient anti-mob defense (i.e. if I see a creeper outside, I just have to lure it a couple blocks over and it'll kill itself on the spikes). I also liked the fact that the xychorium blocks don't spawn mobs--meaning I can build a floor out of them without having to worry about half-slabs or torch placement.
In fact, one of my long-term plans for my 1.4.7 DW20 world is to build an enormous high-speed rail system, with the ground under the track being xychorium and all tunnel entrances being lined with crystals to kill mobs that try to wander onto the track. ;-)
I wish the mod designer had made one ore that gave you a colorless crystal, and then let you dye them to the color you wanted. More control, and then you wouldn't need so many crystals/ores generated.
The look of the blocks are ok for accents, but basically they ahve a science fiction feel to them, and it doesn't fit too well with most other mods' look.
Fabricators are awesome though, and multi tanks are great. Using different materials lets you fit the tank more into the look of your base.
The look of the blocks are ok for accents, but basically they ahve a science fiction feel to them, and it doesn't fit too well with most other mods' look.
Fabricators are awesome though, and multi tanks are great. Using different materials lets you fit the tank more into the look of your base.
The crystals can be hidden like any other ore. I have mined ores and a quartz hidden directly below it destroy the drops. Now people are telling us to mine the quartz we can't see first? Lava destroying the items is fine for a couple reasons. For one, lava is mostly found in large pools so you will usually know it's there and can just blame yourself for not taking note. Two, it doesn't destroy the item instantly, you can still pick them up for a short while so you don't get screwed by the random direction of drops fly too much. Quartz doesn't give you that chance.To those complaining about the quartz crystals destroying items: here's a thought--mine the crystals before you mine the items! It'll save the items, and the crystals actually have some uses!
I, personally, loved the crystals once the new functionality was added--any basic house of mine would soon have crystals lining the outer walls at head height, making a convenient anti-mob defense (i.e. if I see a creeper outside, I just have to lure it a couple blocks over and it'll kill itself on the spikes). I also liked the fact that the xychorium blocks don't spawn mobs--meaning I can build a floor out of them without having to worry about half-slabs or torch placement.
In fact, one of my long-term plans for my 1.4.7 DW20 world is to build an enormous high-speed rail system, with the ground under the track being xychorium and all tunnel entrances being lined with crystals to kill mobs that try to wander onto the track. ;-)
Items getting destroyed was the new functionality, the crystals damaged mobs and players before that.
But the quartz destroying items wasn't the original reason people hated Xycraft. It was the fact that each crystal causes additional rendering even if it is surrounded by solid blocks so fps takes a hit because the crystals needed to be all fancy for no reason. The item destroying feature made it even worse, though. And the quartz doesn't even have enough actual use to warrant the rate at which it generates.
I would say, though, that now people have love/hate relationship with the mod as they love the newer functional blocks but the hate for quartz and the superfluous world generation is still a thing.
I wonder how many people remembered that Buildcraft tanks exist and are pretty cheap.
I use them early game, but they're too small unless I recreate the Seattle Space Needle with them.
You know, sometimes my combustion engines aren't sucking ethanol as fast as the stills produce, so I have to store it somewhere. Or the Biomass. Or the fruit juice. You got the point, right? Buffers, so your system doesn't clog.
If any of you ever used Steve's Carts for mining, you would have another reason to hate those crystals.
Also, if my previous post wasn't clear enough: those crystals render ALL the time, apparently in all loaded chunks (or on all visible chunks, at leaast), no matter how deep they're hidden under the ground. That's at least one of the causes for the lag, and the reason I hate them the most.
Also, if my previous post wasn't clear enough: those crystals render ALL the time, apparently in all loaded chunks (or on all visible chunks, at leaast), no matter how deep they're hidden under the ground. That's at least one of the causes for the lag, and the reason I hate them the most.
Producing steam via factorization.
Store the steam you get over the day for the night.
Quartz Crystals, I never used the tons and tons of ores that I got from my quarries, I never even used the blocks as most had the same function as other mods/vanilla (auto crafting table, dirt, Aqceous accumulator, etc.). And the blocks look awful.
Your ethanol production is fairly constant, right? So if you have an excess now, you'll always have an excess unless something goes wrong.
That would be a reasonable use, except redstone energy cells are over 180 times as energy-dense.
There is none. But what reason other than showing off, or being happy while looking around your base does it need? If someone wants to gather umpteenlolmillion of anything, they are free to do so. An easy solution would be to make the bc tanks form yamb (yet another multiblock) when placed down next to each other, but that's whishful thinking here.