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[MagmaMcFry]

Yep. A volcano grew on it.

[McDonald]

Do volcanoes just suddenly spring up wherever they want?

[MagmaMcFry]

No, but when they grow in new chunks, they grow over old chunks, and when you use moving chunkloaders, they'll just grow right next to that because the chunkloaders are right next to ungenerated terrain.

[MagmaMcFry]

Haven't decided yet. Still available for suggestions.

[Skyrunner]

It's strange, there is no link to the mod list.

[McDonald]

After a ton of scary looking null pointer exceptions, I'm finally in! That's a lot of cool stuff you have there.

[Meta]

One magic mod I'd like to see on the server would be Witchery.

But actually, we could just keep TDT. Yes, some recipes are completely retarded, but I kinda get used to it.

[Skyrunner]

IMO Infinity is the best option if the server and everyone can handle the stress it puts on your computer. Otherwise, Etho's modpack or DW20 is probably also good. Etho's doesn't have Big Reactors, which is a pretty interesting way to go about things.

Here's a modlist comparison.

Fun facts:
All 4 modpacks (dw20, etho, infinity, dark trilogy) have the mods...
- AE2
- Bibliocraft
- either BoP or ExtraBiomesXL
- Buildcraft
- Carpenter's Blocks, Chisel
- Computercraft
- EnderIO
- Extra utilities
- Forestry
- either Funky Locomotion (3) or Remain In Motion (Dark Trilogy)
- IC2
- Iron Chests
- Journeymap
- Mantle
- Natura
- NEI
- Nuclear Control
- either Project Red or Blue Power, never both
- Thermal Foundation & Expansion
- Railcraft
- Steve's Carts and SFM
- Thaumcraft & tinkerer
- TiC & Mechworks
- Twilight Forest
- Wireless Redstone.

Etho's modpack has the most new/less well known mods, such as Archimedes Ships, Compact Machines, Custom NPCs, Deadly World, Rotarycraft (!), Galacticraft, Hardcore Ender Expansion, Mariculture (of Agrarian Skies fame, basically weaker bees), Mekanism, pistronics, Pneumaticraft, qCraft, spice of life. However, it's lacking a lot of comfort mods like Big Reactors, AOBD2 (which procedurally generatures dusts and fluids for IC2 and TiC), Aroma's backup, morpheus, Opis, BEES, etc. Also, there is no recipe tweaking since MineTweaker is absent.

DW20 also has its share of new mods alongside the familiar faces; it has less than Ethos but more than DT and FTB. It's the only modpack with Factorization. That said, it has basically the same mods as Dark Trilogy; I suspect that the DT modpack maker heavily drew inspiration from DW20. DW20 shares the degree of curation that DT has, with Minetweaked recipes and Dense Ores for fun little lucky strikes. DW20 and DT are both balanced for a relativly longer server life, while Ethos is not. DW20 and Ethos are also the two modpacks with PPneumaticraft and Mystcraft.

Everyone knows what's in DT, but some interesting facts are that it has the most addons--additional pipes, logistics pipes, extra cells, 3 Thaumcraft plugins, and the whole Bee set (magic, extra, and Gendustry).

FTB Infinity actually has a surprisingly few number of mods. I wouldn't recommend it anymore... of all mods to pick, it chooses Springboards. woo! It does have Witchery though, alside with DW20. It also has RFTools and Draconic Evolution, both rising stars in the modding area.


tldr: Ethos has a ton of new mods but the total # of mods is the lowest, and nothing is tweaked/balanced. Also lacks many old faces, making it very not kitchen sinky.
DW20 is DT's less hardcore brother.
DT "balances" stuff by making it harder, but has a solid lineup of mods and also arguably has the most content thanks to its rich addons.
Infinity strives to be something awesome but it's more or less a blend of dt and dw20.

In my opinion, (unless mcfry says that adding mods is too much of a pita) keeping Dark Trilogy with some minor config edits and script changes and some mods might be pretty ok. Candidates for new stuff would be

- rotarycraft and maybe reactorcraft or electricraft
- Witchery
- Archimedes ships!?
- Minechem?
- Mekanism?
Even if you say no to editing the kod list, McFry, these two are serverside only and thus easier to do:
- Add a recipe for laser drills because why not
- Maybe unnerf plastic sheets?


Also, honorable mention to Flaxbeards Steampower. Item  mortar is the best

edit: I personally kinda liked DT's steel progression, where getting your first 8 steel for a pulverizer and an induction smelter was a great achievement. However, I do not agree with plastic sheets needing 3 different metals, capacitors needing half a signalum bar, and IC2 MFEs being shoved into every redstone cell recipe, totally ruining the Leadstone->Hardened->Redstone->Resonant progression they had...
also, the angel ring recipe is genius.


Edit2: Infinity does have Thermal Dynamics! Their itemducts look just like Buildcraft's but function a lot better. However, compared to EnderIO (which sprung up to fill the hiatus between TE3 and Thermal Dynamics) the itemducts are just clunky. Meanwhile, the fluiducts and energy nodes have literally nothing they do better than EnderIO except the infinite energy conduit's capacity. Hmm.

[Aklyon]

Electricraft I never really understood the point of, but Reactorcraft has that massive fusion reactor in it. That could be a nice sort of long-term goal to power a lot of things with if big reactors is missing.

[TwilightWalker]

Skyrunner, have you looked into the ATlauncher's mods? I've mentioned before, bur Resonant Rise looks like a good option, especially the way ATLauncher handles 'additional' mods. Going with the 'lite' version of Resonant Rise and selecting what Fry wants to bring in on the side, such as Gendustry and the like. Though one 'downside' I guess is the inclusion of HQM, which might hand out freebies. Barring that, staying with TDT, but editing it to our needs, would probably be the best bet.

[Ultimuh]

You might want to take a look at this mod.
http://www.minecraftforum.net/forums/mapping-and-modding/minecraft-mods/2076338-1-7-2-1-7-10-forge-malisisdoors-1-7-10-1-4-3-23
It adds customizable doors.
Better than the doors in Carpenter Blocks (Or whatever it's called.) mod in my opinion.

[TwilightWalker]

You might want to take a look at this mod.
http://www.minecraftforum.net/forums/mapping-and-modding/minecraft-mods/2076338-1-7-2-1-7-10-forge-malisisdoors-1-7-10-1-4-3-23
It adds customizable doors.
Better than the doors in Carpenter Blocks (Or whatever it's called.) mod in my opinion.

Oh neat, i saw that in the RR pack, but wasn't sure what it was. Some of those look damn awesome.

Also, for the aesthetic-minded, Ztones.

[bluejello]

man, I am not good at building... several hours spend on the castle, and I am JUST finishing the courtyard wall, to be fair I am distracting myself fairly often...

it is a fairly simple pattern, and not that large even.

[Putnam]

If you're wondering why McFry is so against elemental fire, it's because it's the most devious, horrible thing ever put into a Minecraft mod.

It chunkloads itself.

[miauw62]

Resonant Rise full is incredibly bloated and has an awful huge trees mod which makes EVERY SINGLE TREE huge as shit.

Resonant Rise lite sounds neat, though.