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Chocorate

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A needlessly overengineered Rube Goldberg Machine is always nice, and can keep you busy for days, if not weeks.
I vote for this. In FTB, you can always add on to things. Like you could have a machine that farms reeds then cows then makes books, and once the book is detected, it sends a signal to x, which makes y happen, etc. it's fun and can be very cheap, limited only by your imagination.
 

sir_schwick

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Set up battle re-enactments involving Soul Shard Spawners, Mining Laser Turtles, and helpless civilians(i.e. villagers you breed for the purpose). Even set up battlefields with observation posts.
 

nardavin

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I don't know, a project that I found fun and took a while was a huge U-U Matter factory. Another would be a huge Applied Energistics setup that can pretty much make anything in the game. You sound like you are far enough to do those.
 

Mash

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Then build a MFFS security system for your base. Or a frame-powered mining airship. Or a computer to monitor your power system. Or a Factorization system to optimize your ore processing. There are many things you can build that have some purpose. Have you done anything with Thaumcraft? Lots of useful stuff there. Or Bees? Bees could easily consume a few weeks of your time, and produce a lot of useful (and often quite rare) resources.

I've done most of Thaumcraft. The only thing I haven't done with it are the ancient shard things, but I'm getting to that.

Bees I haven't touched yet. I'm building the section of my biome where I'm going to have the majority of my bee breeding, so it's not quite finished. Aside from that... I honestly don't know where or how to start. The last time I just went gung-ho into bee breeding I ended up with half a dozen gold chests filled to the brim with random drones.
 

Jess887cp

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Create an elaborate self destruct button in a room in your base, with alarms and flashing lights everywhere when you set it off, and have nukes placed throughout your base as well. Then paint red skulls through the whole thing, do some evil roleplay, roleplay a hero sent do destroy the place, and blow it all to kingdom come.

Or build a new base in the desert with a different style, with different...everything. And then you can STILL remote detonate your base, but have a refugee backup camp.

:D
 

Zjarek_S

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I have a mental defect in that I cannot build purposeless structures or machines.

Purpose is the motivation I derive to actually build the damn thing.
I seem to have the same problem and I just restrict what I use from mods.
Don't use solar power or nether lava. If you don't use GT don't make mass fab (too much gain from one system), cut down on quarries (maybe be requirement that all output must be transferred by carts). EE3/alkhestry is out of the question. But the most important thing, build things differently then you are used to and don't make systems that give too good output, this way there is purpose to build another one.
 

Heliomance

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(except for TC3 items, which have to be done by hand)
Challenge accepted.

No, seriously. My next project is completely automated bee breeding (ideally, I'd like to be able to give it a supply of each of the base bees and have it automagically produce all the rest, but I think I'll have to have a bit more input than that). My project after that is automated Thaumcraft.
 
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YX33A

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Challenge accepted.

No, seriously. My next project is completely automated bee breeding (ideally, I'd like to be able to give it a supply of each of the base bees and have it automagically produce all the rest, but I think I'll have to have a bit more input than that). My project after that is automated Thaumcraft.
I wish you good luck with your quest, and pray that when you return you have found a way to automate the infusion altar.
 

Heliomance

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I wish you good luck with your quest, and pray that when you return you have found a way to automate the infusion altar.
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natnif36

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They can do the infusion alter now too?
I thought TE crucible was the limit...
Or is it the other way around?
I presume this is RichardG's wand turtles, and not a turtle.place() while holding a wand, correct?
 

PhilHibbs

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I just made my Fusion Reactor and it works like charm! But now...
What should I do next?
I have Finnish gaming channel, where I have FTB Let's Play and now I have to come up something new...
Please post your ideas to comments and I might try and do those! :)
Lots of suggestions "Do ALL of X", but is that really what your viewers want to see? Do something new, come up with a neat use for something obscure like the Arcane Ear.

Oh, and re. bands there are no bands in the world that even deserve to be in the top 5 withThe Pink Floyd.
 

natnif36

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I presume Lambert already was here with his beloved Queen. And if not, then its here now.
I have been listening to a lot of Nickleback lately personally... Canadian if i'm not misinformed.

My suggestion would be to do something that you haven't seen before, try to make something unique, and as Phil mentioned using onscure items may be the way to do that. Things like the ear, some of the tubestuff things and maybe even using bibliocraft and its wierd ability to pump items into a bookshelf as a rather huge storage. Some secret rooms may be cool.
 

GPuzzle

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Pink Floyd is great, in 6th though in my list. Followed by Yes, Rush, Lynyrd Skynyrd and Tears for Fears.
 

Heliomance

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They can do the infusion alter now too?
I thought TE crucible was the limit...
Or is it the other way around?
I presume this is RichardG's wand turtles, and not a turtle.place() while holding a wand, correct?
I'm planning on using three turtles - a wand turtle, a goggles turtle, and an inventory turtle. I figure between the three of them I should be able to do everything I need to. Still need to test it though - I might be wrong.
 

KirinDave

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Build something awesome.

Seriously, I'm starting to get a bit depressed by how many people feel bored after making all the machines that they can from a mod. Like that was ever the point!
 
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