Minecraft FTB

[Bonegavel]

Making good progress Finketr!!

I've made my first industrial blast furnance (lowest tier - all I could afford) and I can now smelt Titanium. If anyone needs to use it, feel free to stop by.

[finketr]

yeah, i wandered through your home and was just amazed (and confused).

I can see i need to make a much larger home now to store all the crap needed to make railroads.. like a coke oven...

yikes

[yeah826]

Ive finally got myself settled on the server with a tiny little home I think im next to this giant tower with an O on it. Who does that belong to? I was thinking of "visiting" and "borrowing" some materials.

[Bonegavel]

Originally Posted by finketr

yeah, i wandered through your home and was just amazed (and confused).

I can see i need to make a much larger home now to store all the crap needed to make railroads.. like a coke oven...

yikes

I built it without much of a plan so it is a sprawling mess.

What part confused?

[finketr]

Originally Posted by yeah826

Ive finally got myself settled on the server with a tiny little home I think im next to this giant tower with an O on it. Who does that belong to? I was thinking of "visiting" and "borrowing" some materials.

That's Bobble's home.

Originally Posted by Bonegavel

I built it without much of a plan so it is a sprawling mess.

What part confused?

Well, maybe just the sheer scope of all the stuff that you have to find. are your primary hills completely hollow at this point?

[Bobble]

Originally Posted by yeah826

Ive finally got myself settled on the server with a tiny little home I think im next to this giant tower with an O on it. Who does that belong to? I was thinking of "visiting" and "borrowing" some materials.

That's my place. I'm about ready to start building the third tier on the ol' Lighthouse of Bobble. Not to be unneighborly, but you might want to move on to greener pastures:

A. CoffeeWarlord has also settled here although he only plays intermittently. It's gonna make it harder on all of us if three of us are competing for the same resources.
B. There's a barrow right nearby. The occasional wisp can REALLY ruin your day.
C. I generally rack up my experience levels by mining (and then lose them by dying and then try to rack up some more) so I've put a healthy dent in the mineables in the area.

Did you grab some stuff from the spawn village? I can also offer you some lovely parting gifts. Want a stack of iron? Coal? Bone? Redstone? What else are you looking for?

[finketr]

Originally Posted by Bobble

That's my place. I'm about ready to start building the third tier on the ol' Lighthouse of Bobble. Not to be unneighborly, but you might want to move on to greener pastures:

A. CoffeeWarlord has also settled here although he only plays intermittently. It's gonna make it harder on all of us if three of us are competing for the same resources.
B. There's a barrow right nearby. The occasional wisp can REALLY ruin your day.
C. I generally rack up my experience levels by mining (and then lose them by dying and then try to rack up some more) so I've put a healthy dent in the mineables in the area.

Did you grab some stuff from the spawn village? I can also offer you some lovely parting gifts. Want a stack of iron? Coal? Bone? Redstone? What else are you looking for?

Better to get at least 1024 away from the nearest person/portal as well. This allows for getting your own nether portal and not getting tied to another one.

My question is: Where do you start on the tek/build aspects of the game? what about thaumcraft? Just mine the hell out of the ground and take everything back up, hopefully without going lava swimming... at the moment, this is what i'm doing whilst still being amazed at BG's setup... anyway, any advice as I keep excavating my area?

[Bobble]

Originally Posted by finketr

Better to get at least 1024 away from the nearest person/portal as well. This allows for getting your own nether portal and not getting tied to another one.

My question is: Where do you start on the tek/build aspects of the game? what about thaumcraft? Just mine the hell out of the ground and take everything back up, hopefully without going lava swimming... at the moment, this is what i'm doing whilst still being amazed at BG's setup... anyway, any advice as I keep excavating my area?

I don't know what the BEST way is but the way I've been doing is something like this: I look at the various mods in Mindcrack, pick one that looks interesting, and start getting into it. Thaumcraft is a good one to get started on early, I think. Thaumcraft gives you reasons to use any of the items you find. It's a great one to have in the back of your mind as you're doing other tasks. You may find some more crappy Xychorium and not think there's a reason to mine it but that stuff can be used for Thaumcraft research/crafting. I've only started a down the Industrialcraft/GregTech branch -- just enough to get a Pulverizer to double my mining output -- but that's a good one. The Twilight Forest is probably best left for later as there are a number of tough combats there. Build up some really good weapons/armor first. Those are my thoughts.

[spleen1015]

Does anyone know where there is a desert biome? I need cactus and I haven't been able to find a desert.

[Bonegavel]

Originally Posted by spleen1015

Does anyone know where there is a desert biome? I need cactus and I haven't been able to find a desert.

I can supply you with cactus.

[finketr]

Originally Posted by spleen1015

Does anyone know where there is a desert biome? I need cactus and I haven't been able to find a desert.

BoneGavel has cactus blocks in his home.. Snag some, plant your own?

I'd like to find a desert biome to harvest sand.

[Bonegavel]

Originally Posted by finketr

Better to get at least 1024 away from the nearest person/portal as well. This allows for getting your own nether portal and not getting tied to another one.

My question is: Where do you start on the tek/build aspects of the game? what about thaumcraft? Just mine the hell out of the ground and take everything back up, hopefully without going lava swimming... at the moment, this is what i'm doing whilst still being amazed at BG's setup... anyway, any advice as I keep excavating my area?

The first thing I did was create one biogas engine and a fermenter (Forestry Pack). I made gold conductive pipes (no reason to use any other kind IMHO) and then hooked up another forestry machine to it just to see how everything connected (I may have made a carpenter or a squeezer). Once you figure out how the engines work and how to supply them with fuel, it is easy to mass produce them (I currently have 18 biogas engines running - that's 90 MJs per tick which helps run every Buildcraft thing I have though not all at once).

Some of the machines are frickin' pains in the ass to figure out but between youtube and the wiki I eventually figure it out. Youtube has been my best friend for this game.

After getting Buildcraft MJs going I then added stuff like Pulverizer and smelter to double my ingot production. You can get endless cobble by setting up the thing that turns cobble to lava and then send it to the thing that turns water and lava to cobble. The amount of cobble you get out of the exchange is more than the cobble you use to create the lava. Hope that wasn't too confusing.

Once you have all that cobble rolling in you can use the pulverizer to turn it into sand and then you never need a desert again.

I use barrels to store since it is more compact and larger storage for the space.

The one thing that makes it fun yet frustrating... once you determine the machine you want to build you realize you have to make 3 other machines just to make that one!!! Ugh and Woohoo!

Thaumcraft is great just for the extractor wand so you can save your diamond picks. Eventually I want to make the golems to help me tend to my farms which are expanding and taking forever for me to harvest and replant.

Last night I made a chunkloader that keeps chunks active even when you log out. I run it to keep my farms going. When I log back in all the wheat is ready to harvest.

Performance lately has been really good for me. I still get kicked from time to time but the problems that plagued me the other week seem to be gone.

[finketr]

Originally Posted by Bonegavel

The one thing that makes it fun yet frustrating... once you determine the machine you want to build you realize you have to make 3 other machines just to make that one!!! Ugh and Woohoo!

Oh, I hear ya..

Let's make railroads: I need a rolling machine.. ok.
Oh, look, I need a coke oven to get creosote oil.
Wait, now i need ...

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and thaumcraft: I've started the research on that but still not quite sure what the heck i'm doing there either since it seems you need to sacrifice resources (some very valuable) to do the research.

Oh, Diamond picks: i've taken to using ruby/emerald/sapphire picks for everything but obsidian. They have the speed of diamond but not the durability..

[spleen1015]

BG, post #162 is a really good one.

I was struggling with how to make things work the way you said you had things going. The biggest thing I didn't understand was how the power was transported. I watched a youtube video on Monday night that showed me power transfer pipes. That was the key to the whole thing. I had never used those pipes before and didn't know they existed. When I looked at your setup, I had no idea what they were.

I got a Farm and Combine running yesterday. I am hoping to have an automated wheat farm. I am planning on using the wheat for something that I can't remember right now.

BG, what are your coords again? I'll come over and take a cactus or 3 to make my own farm. My coke oven is full of the oil it produces and I need to make water proof pipes to get it into tanks.

[finketr]

Originally Posted by spleen1015

BG, post #162 is a really good one.

I was struggling with how to make things work the way you said you had things going. The biggest thing I didn't understand was how the power was transported. I watched a youtube video on Monday night that showed me power transfer pipes. That was the key to the whole thing. I had never used those pipes before and didn't know they existed. When I looked at your setup, I had no idea what they were.

I got a Farm and Combine running yesterday. I am hoping to have an automated wheat farm. I am planning on using the wheat for something that I can't remember right now.

BG, what are your coords again? I'll come over and take a cactus or 3 to make my own farm. My coke oven is full of the oil it produces and I need to make water proof pipes to get it into tanks.

Hop through your portal and go out the door to the right... There's a sign pointing to BG's portal and mine.

[finketr]

Originally Posted by Bonegavel

Last night I made a chunkloader that keeps chunks active even when you log out. I run it to keep my farms going. When I log back in all the wheat is ready to harvest.

struggling to find a chunkloader detail via google beyond a forum..

got a URL /youtube?

[spleen1015]

Take a look at the World Anchor on the FTB wiki.

[Bonegavel]

Originally Posted by finketr

struggling to find a chunkloader detail via google beyond a forum..

got a URL /youtube?

ChickenChunks - FTB Wiki

It is very basic. You tell it the radius in chunks you want to keep active and you can configure the shape of the chunks to keep loaded (circle, square, etc).

I am very careful not to make it load the chunks with the engines in it because I accidentally did that and ALL the biofuel I had in the pipes was gone. That was a BUTT-LOAD of fuel.

[Bonegavel]

Originally Posted by spleen1015

Take a look at the World Anchor on the FTB wiki.

My understanding is that it is a little different than the world anchor in that the chickenchunk loader stays running without the need to use enderpearls.

[Bonegavel]

Originally Posted by spleen1015

BG, post #162 is a really good one.

I was struggling with how to make things work the way you said you had things going. The biggest thing I didn't understand was how the power was transported. I watched a youtube video on Monday night that showed me power transfer pipes. That was the key to the whole thing. I had never used those pipes before and didn't know they existed. When I looked at your setup, I had no idea what they were.

I got a Farm and Combine running yesterday. I am hoping to have an automated wheat farm. I am planning on using the wheat for something that I can't remember right now.

BG, what are your coords again? I'll come over and take a cactus or 3 to make my own farm. My coke oven is full of the oil it produces and I need to make water proof pipes to get it into tanks.

Thanks

I really want to record some content on the server and post it to youtube but that is more work. I have some stuff out there already... feel free to check it out.

Bone Gavel - YouTube

I like recording but it is a lot of work.

[finketr]

Spleen,

I connected a portal in the nether to your portal in the overworld.

Safety tip in the transport system: if it's got cobblestone, there's typically nothing underneath it.

[spleen1015]

Thank you sir! I hate to say it, but I am thinking about moving to a more convenient location. I don't have a lot of flat terrain around me and I think I need some.

BG, I passed a place I wanted to move to on my way back home from your place last night. I was thinking about moving there, but I don't want to get in your way. So, how close is too close to you? I think the spot I was looking at was 500-800 blocks away from you.

[finketr]

Not a problem. I almost got blown off the platform by a damn ghast that popped up from below....

If your portal is 1024 blocks away from any other portal, it'll create a new one in the nether.

[Bonegavel]

Originally Posted by spleen1015

Thank you sir! I hate to say it, but I am thinking about moving to a more convenient location. I don't have a lot of flat terrain around me and I think I need some.

BG, I passed a place I wanted to move to on my way back home from your place last night. I was thinking about moving there, but I don't want to get in your way. So, how close is too close to you? I think the spot I was looking at was 500-800 blocks away from you.

I'll leave it up to you... I'm torn between liking the isolation (and the freedom that allows) and wishing there were others around to share projects.

[Bobble]

So, in my early-game ignorance, I hung out in the village fairly close to me throughout an evening or two. As you might expect, Zombies and whatnot have decimated the place. It was down to one last villager in a house who's door was about 7 blocks up from the ground so he never came out and no zombie sieges could get to him.

I've gotten some cool stuff trading with villagers so rather than travel thousands of blocks to trade away stacks of wheat, my project for the last couple of days has been to try to repopulate the village. If you don't know, there's a way to convert one of those Zombified Villagers (the zombies with the long nose) back into a regular villager by using a splash potion of weakness, a golden apple, and a lot of time. A village needs two living members to respawn villagers so I needed to do some conversions to get "my" village back up and running.

Luckily, the village I let get trashed has a nice flat plain nearby so you can see various mobs spawn. Twice now, I've been able to locate a Zombified Villager, isolate him from "the herd", coax him into a cave (so he doesn't burn up when the sun comes out), hit him with "the cure", and then lock him in until he finally converts.

So, my village is up to 3 peeps. I've also thrown in a few extra (poorly constructed) houses in the village to help things along. I can't wait until the people I've saved honor me by demanding 3 emeralds for some crappy item I could more easily make myself.

[spleen1015]

I think I am just going to stay. I have a lot of crap and I'm not sure I want to start over now. I've found another place to build that is closer to where I was.

[spleen1015]

I'm starting to have lots of fun now. I have a few of the forestry machines going. My issue right now is a copper shortage if you can believe that.

[Bonegavel]

Yikes! I logged in. Sat myself next to my Skele spawner and went AFK (Finketr, I was AFK and not ignoring you ) to watch the walking dead. Totally forgot about being logged in and went to bed. Got back from the gym this morning and walked by the PC and saw that I was still on.

I am amazed I didn't crash the server. There were between 700-800 skeletons waiting for me (it's hard to see exactly because the Entity number you see on F3 counts even the stuff not right in front of you). I was getting 3 FPS and it took me over 20 mins to punch them all dead (I made a gravity grinder where they fall 24 blocks and can be easily punched to death) .

I was a level 25 at the start and was, I think, 62 by the time i was done. My main goal was to collect bones and that was accomplished and then some.

[Bonegavel]

I made the biggest tank (from the railcraft mod, I think) you can make and it holds something like 10+ million units of fluid and I finally filled it last night. That took me a looooong time to fill.

I have a lever hooked up to it so that I can fill my biogas engines with fuel and easily switch it off to run my general equipment. I have scaled back my number of engines because I kept getting a buildup of power in a section the gold conductive pipes and it would explode.

I have a pretty good production of sugar cane and wheat inside the mountain I hollowed out. When I'm low on Saplings for the fermenter I use sugar cane which is far inferior but easy to get. I was growing everything (Hennequin, flax, corn, carrots, and potatoes) but I've switched to only wheat. I have a patch dedicated for pumpkins and melons so I can get seeds for the squeezer so I can make impregnated frames for the apiarys.

Speaking of apiarys, I have 7 of them going right now and I am inadvertently discovering new species and I want to get more into the bees but haven't yet.

Still chugging my way through Thaumcraft tech tree. There is so much. My latest discovery are the boots of the traveler. Meh.

I've started building a wall on my property that was going to be for a tower of some sort but now it has grown and I'm not entirely sure what it will be but I'm curious to see where I go with it. I really want to build a sprawling building that I just keep adding to (like the Winchester house) and this may be the start of that.

[Bonegavel]

Problems last night again with the Chicago area network. Sigh. If you guys ever run into problems with the server let me know and if a restart of the server doesn't help I'll put in a ticket.

[Bonegavel]

finketr, I'm going to start adding rails to your wonderful nether tunnel (loved walking molestation free to the Nether Fortress!).

[finketr]

awesome.. Also, we appear to need some updates to the server.

[finketr]

Originally Posted by Bonegavel

finketr, I'm going to start adding rails to your wonderful nether tunnel (loved walking molestation free to the Nether Fortress!).

Oh, so you're the one who "vandalized" my pathway. :-)


You realize there's a much closer one to you? As you leave your portal area, look for the three torches on the left. There's a door there that can lead to another fortress if you'll build the bridge to it.

Oh, so I was watching the Tekkit with Duncan series on the airplane and while these may be the funniest two videos:

http://youtu.be/_-_pKwz2I0U
http://youtu.be/WcLY3iJiAPg

I realized that they use equivalent exchange in transmutation table and/or energy condensor which creates untold number diamonds, etc (anything but uranium, apparently) which has to make tekkit easier.

--tim

[spleen1015]

The last version of Tekkit was really overpowered if you know what you are doing. In about 8-10 hours of play you can have everything in the mod pack. Once you get your energy condenser going, it is all over from there. You're just waiting for them to generate diamonds for you.

[finketr]

Originally Posted by finketr

You realize there's a much closer one to you? As you leave your portal area, look for the three torches on the left. There's a door there that can lead to another fortress if you'll build the bridge to it.

so i had a little time... there's now a sign in the hallway pointing to the fortress and a little bridge. It takes you to the top of the fortress.

Enjoy!

[finketr]

Originally Posted by Bonegavel

I'll leave it up to you... I'm torn between liking the isolation (and the freedom that allows) and wishing there were others around to share projects.

Originally Posted by finketr

I realized that they use equivalent exchange in transmutation table and/or energy condensor which creates untold number diamonds, etc (anything but uranium, apparently) which has to make tekkit easier.

Originally Posted by spleen1015

The last version of Tekkit was really overpowered if you know what you are doing. In about 8-10 hours of play you can have everything in the mod pack. Once you get your energy condenser going, it is all over from there. You're just waiting for them to generate diamonds for you.

BG, I'm starting to feel that way, too. However, within the Tekkit videos where duncan and company are so close together, the transmutation stuff doesn't make resource collection as contentious since you just convert all the crap from the quarry into whatever useful item you need..

Anywho.. back to filling in some ocean before heading to BG's to make some silicon.

[Bonegavel]

Still having a ton of fun on the server. I need to automate a bunch of stuff (harvesting crops is my main job these days) and there is a new jetpack that holds 1,000,000 EUs of power

I would really like a comprehensive update page for all the changes and additions to the mods in FTB. I watch Youtube videos and catch occasional changes but it's hard to find all the stuff. I'm guessing the 1.5 updates to everything are coming soon. Hopefully it doesn't break the map. I've put in a lot of hours on this map

Finketr, you have inspired me to finally build and use a quarry even though I don't like what it does to the landscape. Maybe I'll run it in the ocean. I know they have fillers that could fill in the holes but I can't imagine having enough material to get that done. Hmmm, maybe I just put a skin of dirt over the holes and use them as giant underground rooms. I need diamonds!!

Speaking of updates, I know there is a bunch of new Thaumcraft stuff to get through and I haven't even gotten through the current stuff. I really like that I can use all the seeds in the squeezer now. I have planted a ton of flax and am getting more seeds than I was getting from wheat, plus I am getting string which I make into wool (since I don't have any sheep near me).

I added even more bees to my property and that is almost a full time job too. I re-added 6 more biogas engines to my setup since I discovered my problem which was causing the conductive pipes to explode.

I've built an extensive addition that contains the bee stuff that was outside but there are many openings since I'm unsure of what to do about doors. I really don't like metal doors because of the short window you have to get in them when hooked to a button and I don't really want to do too much redstone madness just to get outside. I've been relying on my jetpack to get in through the open ceiling but I imagine a time I don't have it on me or it has run out of gas.

[finketr]

Originally Posted by Bonegavel

Still having a ton of fun on the server. I need to automate a bunch of stuff (harvesting crops is my main job these days) and there is a new jetpack that holds 1,000,000 EUs of power

I would really like a comprehensive update page for all the changes and additions to the mods in FTB. I watch Youtube videos and catch occasional changes but it's hard to find all the stuff. I'm guessing the 1.5 updates to everything are coming soon. Hopefully it doesn't break the map. I've put in a lot of hours on this map

Finketr, you have inspired me to finally build and use a quarry even though I don't like what it does to the landscape. Maybe I'll run it in the ocean. I know they have fillers that could fill in the holes but I can't imagine having enough material to get that done. Hmmm, maybe I just put a skin of dirt over the holes and use them as giant underground rooms. I need diamonds!!

Speaking of updates, I know there is a bunch of new Thaumcraft stuff to get through and I haven't even gotten through the current stuff. I really like that I can use all the seeds in the squeezer now. I have planted a ton of flax and am getting more seeds than I was getting from wheat, plus I am getting string which I make into wool (since I don't have any sheep near me).

I added even more bees to my property and that is almost a full time job too. I re-added 6 more biogas engines to my setup since I discovered my problem which was causing the conductive pipes to explode.

I've built an extensive addition that contains the bee stuff that was outside but there are many openings since I'm unsure of what to do about doors. I really don't like metal doors because of the short window you have to get in them when hooked to a button and I don't really want to do too much redstone madness just to get outside. I've been relying on my jetpack to get in through the open ceiling but I imagine a time I don't have it on me or it has run out of gas.

On the quarry, you could build/start it underground and preserve the topside landscape. For example, you could start it ~6 levels under your farming level. If you're looking for diamonds specifically, you could build/setup the quarry down in the lower levels and pipe everything back up to your stock level. Incidentally, the quarry is a chunkloader. It keeps running whether someone's in the area or not.

I've learned from my experience, depending on the water level in the giant holes to put in/leave a wall between quarries to avoid having everything flooded at level ##. One hole is flooded at 50, the other at 23.

My plan for the big holes are to use them as giant underground caverns, maybe with a top of the viewglass to let in the sunlight. Maybe build the levels like we've discussed previously. 3 level floor, 6 level room, rinse repeat. Farm it somewhat? Maybe the top level might be tree farm, if i can figure out everything needed to get it running.

While EE2 completely unbalanced the game, i can see that's how you build closer to each other if you wanted to share resources and building... now, what the hell do I do with 1000 stacks of cobblestone?

edit: Oh yeah.. I hate you guys. I don't think I'll ever be able to go back to vanilla now. :/

[finketr]

Just for fun:

Before the quarry got started.. The blue lines are from the landmarks.



quarry from one corner


quarry from the opposite corner. the wall of water is from the first quarry.

[Bonegavel]

Nice. Yep, I built the quarry last night and dug 3 holes already all underground. Loving it. I'm making the shafts into work space. My turn for extra cobble

If you set it up without the blue markers it builds a 9x9 area which is perfect for my square farm.

Looks like we lost xBobble and Spleen????

[finketr]

and, yes, i filled in the ocean in that far corner. that took a few hours (days)..

[spleen1015]

I've just gotten really busy with RL stuff the last 2-3 weeks. I've had lots going on at work, my daughter has been playing lots of basketball and softball, and I am the tournament director for the softball league. There's just been a lot going on.

I will be back as soon as I can.

[Bonegavel]

I use 1 biogas engine and that does a very decent job powering the quarry. Once it gets to the lower layers I jump in and wait for diamonds to appear and I use my fortune axe on them to get the most of my investment. So far I've netted 17 diamonds in the first 2 holes. The 3rd hole I started this morning before work and I don't know how it turned out yet. I may do this every day so when I get home from work I have a surprise waiting for me Opening the chests is like Christmas.

On the downside, I died several times as I explored caves that became exposed because of my quarrying. All I was wearing was my goggles of revealing and jetpack. Not much protection from an Angry Zombie.

[Bobble]

I was having some real stability issues. I could go for more than 5 minutes without it freezing up and booting me off. How's the stability these days?

[Bobble]

So, is the quarry reusable? If you invest 11 diamonds and whatever else into building one, do you get to keep using the quarry or are you gambling your 11 diamonds on finding more diamonds at the bottom of the pit?

[spleen1015]

You can use the quarry multiple times.

[Bonegavel]

Originally Posted by Bobble

I was having some real stability issues. I could go for more than 5 minutes without it freezing up and booting me off. How's the stability these days?

I've been having good luck lately... Have you upgraded to latest Java version? maybe reinstall the entire mindcrack mod pack?

[Bonegavel]

Originally Posted by Bobble

So, is the quarry reusable? If you invest 11 diamonds and whatever else into building one, do you get to keep using the quarry or are you gambling your 11 diamonds on finding more diamonds at the bottom of the pit?

What spleen said

1. I setup 4 markers and right click one to get the red box.
2. Place the quarry on the block next to one of the makers (key!! - otherwise it builds a 9x9).
3. Plop down my biogas engine connected to the quarry.
4. Fill engine with a bucket of lava and then fill it up with the green goodness
5. place a lever next to the engine and switch it on
6. Put transport pipes from quarry to a bunch of double chests.
7. By this time the frame is usually built and it starts pumping out goodies.

I tend to hover as it gets near the bottom so I can spot the diamond deposits and use my fortune axe on them (as I've stated above).


I started to decimate an Icy Wasteland biome near my base and I'm thinking about taking the entire area down to bedrock. Could be interesting.

Oh, and when the quarry is done you simply use a pick on the quarry and it will let you pick it up. The machines that force you to use a wrench to pick them up are annoying.

[Bonegavel]

It took me a loooong time but I made an advanced jetpack and the extra battery life is very worthwhile.

Started making parts for advanced solar panels and I realized half way into it that there are ingredients that I won't be able to make for a long time. UU-matter seems almost impossible at least with my current setup. GregTech is both wonderful and painful. I'm glad it is much harder to make items but DAMN!

I don't think I will ever get through all these mods have to offer and I love it.

[finketr]

You can reuse the quarry.. i'm working on the third hole in the ground (see pictures above). I've had better connectivity recently than during that horrible stretch with you bobble...

what to do with 115k cobblestones...