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[Bronimin]

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[Azated]

Started playing the FTB ultimate pack about a week ago, and I'm loving it as much as I loved the Beta pack a few months ago. I like that many of the really useful items are much, much harder to make now, thanks to the gregtech recipes. I went from using generators to ultimate hybrid panels in about two weeks in the beta pack, and now I've just built my first basic panel. I've been using a complicated system of buildcraft pipes, pumps and liquid transposers to automate a watermill with bucket water. Very reliably provides 1EU/t without the need for any complex machines.

Anyway, I have a few questions for you all.

First, oil seems very rare for some reason. Is it just me, or did some mod make oil geysers less likely to spawn?
Second, does making a railroad using railcraft serve any practical purpose? It feels like It'd be cheaper and easier to just use a jetpack and wait until I can get a portal gun if I want to move long distances.

[frostshotgg]

Oil mostly spawns in oceans and deserts. Like real life.
Railroads are really more for advanced item transportation or the like. That said, high speed rails make for absolutely amazing frequent commutes.

[sluissa]

Hate to break it to you, but oil doesn't just occur in oceans and deserts in real life... in fact, the current state of the surface of an area doesn't really have all that much to do with whether there's oil underground or not. It's what the area was like millions of years ago that determines that, and any given area could be vastly different, the same, or have not existed at all back then.

[frostshotgg]

I said mostly, not only.

[forsaken1111]

Second, does making a railroad using railcraft serve any practical purpose? It feels like It'd be cheaper and easier to just use a jetpack and wait until I can get a portal gun if I want to move long distances.

Well, carts can transfer items and liquids and do other automated tasks with steve's carts mod. Really though its personal preference. The railcraft mod isn't balanced against mods that let you fly and teleport.

[The Darkling Wolf]

I find its also much more fun to build a transcontinental railroad to move stuff than go 'lol, teleport' and warp it to your base.

[forsaken1111]

I find its also much more fun to build a transcontinental railroad to move stuff than go 'lol, teleport' and warp it to your base.

Agreed. I've been using rails for item transport as well recently simply because they look cool.

[frostshotgg]

For those wondering, apparently, 1.5 was an absolute bitch of a rewrite. It will probably be another little while before everybody's favorite mods are updated.

[forsaken1111]

This site is handy for tracking when various mods are updated.

http://www.mmo-champion.com/threads/1210470

He checks at least once a day, or so he says.

[Skyrunner]

Hate to break it to you, but oil doesn't just occur in oceans and deserts in real life... in fact, the current state of the surface of an area doesn't really have all that much to do with whether there's oil underground or not. It's what the area was like millions of years ago that determines that, and any given area could be vastly different, the same, or have not existed at all back then.

It's very possible that it's just coincidence that oceans and deserts have oil. Especially the former, seeing that just by simple uniform distribution, 75% of oil would lie in the seas. XD Of course, oil isn't uniformly distributed.

[Locked]

How do you play: survival or creative mode?

[Sirus]

I find its also much more fun to build a transcontinental railroad to move stuff than go 'lol, teleport' and warp it to your base.

Agreed. I've been using rails for item transport as well recently simply because they look cool.

Does that work over long distances now? I remember there was a problem with some pipe mod because when the items being transported left the current chunk, they simply dropped out of the pipe and eventually despawned.

[Vattic]

If using pipes you'd need to chunk load it all (I think). With railcraft you can connect a world anchor cart to any carts that would otherwise be travelling through unloaded chunks.

[Azated]

I find its also much more fun to build a transcontinental railroad to move stuff than go 'lol, teleport' and warp it to your base.

Agreed. I've been using rails for item transport as well recently simply because they look cool.

Does that work over long distances now? I remember there was a problem with some pipe mod because when the items being transported left the current chunk, they simply dropped out of the pipe and eventually despawned.

That's one of the problems I was worried about, although the chunk loader card seems to fix that problem completely. Looks like my world may be getting a rail system after all.