I though it would be interesting to get some insights on mods people don't use much, but (In your opinion) probably should, and talk about them.
Please include the name of the mod, and a link to it's sight and/or forum page, along with a discription of what it dose and your review of why you think others should use it.
Please keep things civil, I'll try and come back and put together a list of the suggestions from time to time if I can. I don't know if I'll have time much but i'll do my best.
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This is an amazing mod I see no reason why everyone shouldn't be using it. It is the revival of an old mod that stopped getting updates what WAS almost universally used. This mood allows you to turn red stone into wires that can go hundreds of blocks. These wires can be color codded and the colored wires can take up the same block with up to, I think, 8 separate lines of red stone going through a single block with out crossing signals. To make things better these wires can run along walls, around corners, and on the roof. On top of that the following logic gates are turned into single block panels similar to the red stone repeater, thus between the wires and the logic gates saving MASIVE amounts of space and time building red stone contraptions:
OR Gate, NOR Gate, NOT Gate, AND Gate, NAND Gate, XOR Gate, XNOR Gate, Buffer Gate, Multiplexer, Pulse Former, Repeater (Better version), Randomizer, RS Latch, Toggle Latch, Transparent Latch, Light Sensor, Rain Sensor, Timer, Sequencer, Counter, State Cell, Synchronizer, Bus Transceiver, Null Cell, Invert Cell, Buffer Cell, Comparator, AND Cell, Bus Converter, Bus Randomizer. And if you ask they will make and add a gate for you!
Finally there are a few other addons like various forms of redstone lighting, and stuff like buttons that toggle like switches and can be light up when there on.
I don't see how anyone could NOT want this mod. o.o
This is a remake of the Equivalent Exchange 2 mod, anyone not familiar with this mod it allows the production of a philosophers stone, and then the production of a transmutation table, and finally magical gear.
The philosophers stone allows you to turn metals into higher grade metals and then diamonds, as well as turning coal into alchemical infused fuels that burn much much much longer.
The table allows you to brake items down into energy and doing you 'learn' that item. Any table then can use the energy in it to produce a learned item from that energy. Meaning you could turn dirt into red stone, though not at a very good rate as it don't take much energy to make dirt but it takes a lot more to make red stone. This however takes obsidian, diamonds, and an rediculous amount of coal/charcoal to make so it's a late game item.
However later in the game things can start to get a little cheesy in the ability to make almost anything you want for free, as there are ways to turn sunlight into energy.... this is streamline slow at first but with lots and lots of work can lead to making stacks of diamonds.
This is an fun mod to have and helps with resource problems, particularly on maps with stuff like biomes a plenty and lots of biome specific items needed. This way you only have to find the biome and get the item once to learn it then any other item can be turned into that one.
The main thing I like about it is if people produce the large scale energy production facilities, this can bypass the need for strip mining. Meaning no laggy quarries tarring masive uggly holes in the land.
IF you do use this mod I HIGHLY suggest you play around with it though and give yourself the endgame items and deside if you want them used. There are alchemical implosion devices that are as destructive as nukes. (though all the items are colected and no radiation). The destruction catalyst is just as bad, cutting stuff like 3x3x30 or so holes into things, and minning tools that distroy 5x5x5 chunks. Finally there is a ring that sets EVERYTHING on fire around you when it's on....... Yah some useful tools.... but it's a greefers ideal grabbag too. They may take a long long long long time to get up to the point you can make them, but thats never stooped people from nuking some ones house ether.
So it's an awsome mod but server admins becarefull about what items you let get used, some of the high end ones are not community friendly in the wrong hands.
I aim to please ... and occasionally mentally scar. "Because it's your right as an American to butcher the English language."
This is my baby, please support her and get her into vanilla:
I don't have a specific mod to name, but I'd like to see more magic mods. Thaumcraft and Ars Magica are such comprehensive mods that few people try to compete. Some more diversity would be nice.
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My mods: Base Metals, Power Advantage, Steam Advantage, Electric Advantage, Minecraft Mineralogy, Dr. Cyano's Lootable Bodies, Dr. Cyano's Wonderful Wands & Wizarding Robes
I'm a little to bisy to look for links right now, but there is Botania Natural Magic, and witchery. Botania Natural Magic I have plaied around with a little and is interesting and has quite a lot of stuff you would see in such mods, done by flowers. O.o hehe
So if you like flowers, Botania Natural Magic is the way to go, or if your just looking for something diffrent.
Witchery I haven't poked around with much but I've seen pasive mobs and stuff like little stone henge places, they are just like "you know nothing of the art, be gone" though.
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I aim to please ... and occasionally mentally scar. "Because it's your right as an American to butcher the English language."
This is my baby, please support her and get her into vanilla:
I think every mod gets the popularity it deserves, depending on the quality of the mod. Also, to be honest, I see Project Red and Project E actually pretty often on tech-based modpacks. On the technic launcher, anyway.
If I had to say a mod that I think isn't used a lot, maybe QuiverBow, or Gizmos.
out of like 30 or 40 mod packs I've looked I've only seen Project E in one, and Project red in 3 (mostly the kitchen sink ones)
I personally think Project Red should be as standard as NEI or Forestry is used. It just makes using redstone so simple. I simple NOR gate compressed still takes some space to make it fit where you want it some times, and just one thing out of place or set up wrong and the whole thing is broken. This makes it just one little block, that the only thing you can get wrong is hooking it up.
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I aim to please ... and occasionally mentally scar. "Because it's your right as an American to butcher the English language."
This is my baby, please support her and get her into vanilla:
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I aim to please ... and occasionally mentally scar. "Because it's your right as an American to butcher the English language."
This is my baby, please support her and get her into vanilla:
I aim to please ... and occasionally mentally scar. "Because it's your right as an American to butcher the English language."
This is my baby, please support her and get her into vanilla:
Please include the name of the mod, and a link to it's sight and/or forum page, along with a discription of what it dose and your review of why you think others should use it.
Please keep things civil, I'll try and come back and put together a list of the suggestions from time to time if I can. I don't know if I'll have time much but i'll do my best.
"Because it's your right as an American to butcher the English language."
This is my baby, please support her and get her into vanilla:
Project Red
Forum page
Website
This is an amazing mod I see no reason why everyone shouldn't be using it. It is the revival of an old mod that stopped getting updates what WAS almost universally used. This mood allows you to turn red stone into wires that can go hundreds of blocks. These wires can be color codded and the colored wires can take up the same block with up to, I think, 8 separate lines of red stone going through a single block with out crossing signals. To make things better these wires can run along walls, around corners, and on the roof. On top of that the following logic gates are turned into single block panels similar to the red stone repeater, thus between the wires and the logic gates saving MASIVE amounts of space and time building red stone contraptions:
OR Gate, NOR Gate, NOT Gate, AND Gate, NAND Gate, XOR Gate, XNOR Gate, Buffer Gate, Multiplexer, Pulse Former, Repeater (Better version), Randomizer, RS Latch, Toggle Latch, Transparent Latch, Light Sensor, Rain Sensor, Timer, Sequencer, Counter, State Cell, Synchronizer, Bus Transceiver, Null Cell, Invert Cell, Buffer Cell, Comparator, AND Cell, Bus Converter, Bus Randomizer. And if you ask they will make and add a gate for you!
Finally there are a few other addons like various forms of redstone lighting, and stuff like buttons that toggle like switches and can be light up when there on.
I don't see how anyone could NOT want this mod. o.o
Project Exchange (Project E)
Forum page
This is a remake of the Equivalent Exchange 2 mod, anyone not familiar with this mod it allows the production of a philosophers stone, and then the production of a transmutation table, and finally magical gear.
The philosophers stone allows you to turn metals into higher grade metals and then diamonds, as well as turning coal into alchemical infused fuels that burn much much much longer.
The table allows you to brake items down into energy and doing you 'learn' that item. Any table then can use the energy in it to produce a learned item from that energy. Meaning you could turn dirt into red stone, though not at a very good rate as it don't take much energy to make dirt but it takes a lot more to make red stone. This however takes obsidian, diamonds, and an rediculous amount of coal/charcoal to make so it's a late game item.
However later in the game things can start to get a little cheesy in the ability to make almost anything you want for free, as there are ways to turn sunlight into energy.... this is streamline slow at first but with lots and lots of work can lead to making stacks of diamonds.
This is an fun mod to have and helps with resource problems, particularly on maps with stuff like biomes a plenty and lots of biome specific items needed. This way you only have to find the biome and get the item once to learn it then any other item can be turned into that one.
The main thing I like about it is if people produce the large scale energy production facilities, this can bypass the need for strip mining. Meaning no laggy quarries tarring masive uggly holes in the land.
IF you do use this mod I HIGHLY suggest you play around with it though and give yourself the endgame items and deside if you want them used. There are alchemical implosion devices that are as destructive as nukes. (though all the items are colected and no radiation). The destruction catalyst is just as bad, cutting stuff like 3x3x30 or so holes into things, and minning tools that distroy 5x5x5 chunks. Finally there is a ring that sets EVERYTHING on fire around you when it's on....... Yah some useful tools.... but it's a greefers ideal grabbag too. They may take a long long long long time to get up to the point you can make them, but thats never stooped people from nuking some ones house ether.
So it's an awsome mod but server admins becarefull about what items you let get used, some of the high end ones are not community friendly in the wrong hands.
"Because it's your right as an American to butcher the English language."
This is my baby, please support her and get her into vanilla:
My mods:
Base Metals, Power Advantage, Steam Advantage, Electric Advantage, Minecraft Mineralogy, Dr. Cyano's Lootable Bodies, Dr. Cyano's Wonderful Wands & Wizarding Robes
So if you like flowers, Botania Natural Magic is the way to go, or if your just looking for something diffrent.
Witchery I haven't poked around with much but I've seen pasive mobs and stuff like little stone henge places, they are just like "you know nothing of the art, be gone" though.
"Because it's your right as an American to butcher the English language."
This is my baby, please support her and get her into vanilla:
If I had to say a mod that I think isn't used a lot, maybe QuiverBow, or Gizmos.
I personally think Project Red should be as standard as NEI or Forestry is used. It just makes using redstone so simple. I simple NOR gate compressed still takes some space to make it fit where you want it some times, and just one thing out of place or set up wrong and the whole thing is broken. This makes it just one little block, that the only thing you can get wrong is hooking it up.
"Because it's your right as an American to butcher the English language."
This is my baby, please support her and get her into vanilla:
Click on this spoiler to see mods and ideas that I support!
"Because it's your right as an American to butcher the English language."
This is my baby, please support her and get her into vanilla:
It adds the simple function to turn gravel into flint instantly.
Download 1.7.10
"Because it's your right as an American to butcher the English language."
This is my baby, please support her and get her into vanilla: