More seriously, I do like the other mods you included though that seed you provided dropped me into a forest nowhere near an oil-filled desert. I saw the forest mod in action as pine trees were dying and dropping saplings around my house. Takes some work to keep them back now. I got rid of the texture pack, not really my style. The minimap is fun and the double doors are very useful. Does Somnia interact with buildcraft/industrialcraft? Will I go to sleep and wake up to find my machines completed their work?
The deserts to the LEFT of the minimap screen.
The Texturepack was personal fave at the moment, matters little matters not.
Somnia keeps the WORLD GOING while you sleep, hence why it comes up with Simulating World. Anything that is under an action, such as a Quarry or Furnance will Continue no matter what.
Like I also said, you don't need to worry 100% about creeps appearing from no where and interrupting your sleep. For example you left an opening somewhere in your building that could fit a mob, there is a Percent Chance of one appearing next to your bed hitting you. They now have to actually path to you. So for example you go to bed during the night when your surrounded by Mobs, if there is a direct path to you and they can reach you, they will attack...
Actually the best example is.
Without Somnia, build your bed then surround it with Fenceposts. Sleep, there will be a chance that a mob will attack you...
WITH Somnia, you do the same, but when you sleep, unless they could spawn inside your fence, they will be standing outside it trying to get at you...
Check my Livestream for where the Oil Field is...
http://www.livestream.com/neyvnslivestream