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The recent archiving of the forums is very unfortunate. I have only recently created an account and have asked some questions, but it has been a home to me for many years. The minecraft forum has saved me an incredible amount of time from reading questions. For this reason, I am using my years of experience with web development to program a Minecraft Forum. I am currently more than half way done with this, and will continue to keep working on it. Feel free to ask me questions about this. I will keep you all updated as to my progress!

I wouldn't bother unless you understand personally identifiable information and the general data protection regulation. I still bet $50 this is the real reason they are closing the forums.

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I sometime disagree with the modded community internally not outward (until now) when it comes to what the players want, if you want tech and magic, that's great, but if you want that complexity or content then go for it (I love tech of course and tweaks to the game mostly but Magic has it's good points I just suck at them sometimes), but I find the base game adding something new/similar I might use or use once and normalise to mods is more my problem with playing mods sometimes. Like I'm glad we have hoppers, I'm glad we have the new Smoker and Blast Furnace, I'm glad we have a lot of things I'm familiar with that aren't 'too' out there but I can commonly use instead of installing a mod for it unless a mod specifically needs it sometimes. I enjoy both Vanilla and Mods but my creativity is average at best due to being a more 'progression' or gameplay focused player rather than a player that plays sandboxes, city builders, strategy or otherwise, they are good I just don't jump into them as much. So I make concepts for puzzle maps instead where the questions work for me and I make the rooms very colourful or towards the questions to hint to players. It's not much but I've found it works for me as a creator even if not as effective compared building a city I guess since I don't have the patience or ability to go for ideas like that but I think they are amazing builds still like everyone else, they are really something.

I have considered making a video on the features of each update of Minecraft and this thread has made me want to do that again rather than just 'considering' it.

It is amazing how 1 game can bring so many different people, with so many different preferred play styles, so much enjoyment. I am probably in the minority when it comes to preferred play style. I LOVE analyzing situations and building systems to improve complex problems, which is why Gregtech and Rekia's mods are some of my favorites... but they are also much hated by many, for the very same reason.

It's probably considered advertising even though I have nothing to gain from it. You can google chaotic shiny.

Try using the random name generator at chaotic shiny for ideas. That's what I do when I get stuck.

First and foremost, make a file somewhere to keep all of your internet passwords in. If you do this, you will not need to worry about not having a physical disc to install your software. Example, you buy MC Java but 5 years from now you want to reinstall it after a 4 year break. You don't have a physical disc to install with, but you do have your log in and password sheet that you created. Simply refer to the sheet, go to the web address and redownload it.

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in the words of a racist man

"tall black guys"

This is why I run my own private server and vet people before inviting them rather than sending any Tom, ****, or Sally to my server.

I don't know about anyone else, but I have spent hours sifting through the mods on curse.com 1 at a time. Sounds like a lot of work, but if it gets me the results I want, its worth it.

I also encourage you to think about how you have fun in Minecraft and then advertise to THAT TYPE of player. For example, the best MC world I ever played was FTB Infinity with 1 other guy. We started a brand new world, logged in at the same time, lived cooperatively, shared resources and projects, It was so much fun. The neatest part about it was we that even though we are both long time modded players, we both taught each other something. He had no idea you could make such badass weapons in tinkers construct and I had no idea you could make fantastic armor so early in the game (I think it's called flux plated? Yellow colored armor with red on it)

Right now, I am personally super excited about the Advent of Ascension pack. If I could find someone who would play FTB Infinity + AoA or Resonant Rise + AOA with me under the above conditions, I would probably buy a server tonight lol.

I recently downloaded the Advent of Ascension mod pack and read the "getting started". One of the very first things it says is do not walk to a monster you are not familiar with. I loaded in, hey what is that.... loading, please wait.

I completely agree it is subjective, but I was curious to see what anybody's choices would be besides the options I stated or the lengths anyone would go. So any answer is not wrong or right in this situation.

Mekanism I agree is the great for x3, I was thinking a bit overboard as you could tell when mentioning other options but I did type this up later in the day so I messed up a bit of things there.

I'd never expected Reika's but for the effort you have to understand already/work out however you can due to the 'learning' curve without such knowledge of that is very true.

Immersive & Ender IO are very appealing for those reasons though I'll agree with that, I haven't thought about it that way since I don't use them anymore and they had fallen out of my mind since.

You do make a good point there that I hadn't considered.

Note:

Sorry for the mess of wording to include the original point of the thread as well as broadening the scope a bit. I wasn't sure how to put it into words very well since it was just a recently considered thought.

I was thinking about my experiences of ore processing and was wondering what the best options for ore processing are, from effort to upgrade tiers, to even early game access and better results for that of less effort. Or other considerations of speed & energy upgrades or other factors of mods like Mekanism's gases or Thermal Expansion's fluids compared to say simpler or less management means to access results of output. This was my original reason for creating this thread since it was the original thought I had.

I was curious what is best for many people based on the mods they use or just in general depending on 'their' factors they focus on (broadening the scope basically is what I'm saying here).

From my experiences tech mods are the reason to get tiers and ingot return compared to automation efforts since I am terrible at doing such things with farms or otherwise sometimes or I never consider them too often, but I know many do and people make some amazing stuff. But this is what I focus on, what do many people focus on the most out of the things they do with tech mods, current, in the past, anything?

To stick to the main topic though of ingot output and lengths to get them of course, I thought I'd put mods I'm familiar with doing the x3 or more offering and to get answers based on what people know of that do more than x2 or 3 that I might not know about.

For my consideration of the main reason I put this thread together though being first ingot output and considering what is the best for effort to create and return I came across these few mods as examples:

-Mekanism is x5 max, but requires a lot of effort and gas maintenance/resource resupply consistency.

-Thermal Expansion is x4 max with resource & fluid resupplying consistency, requires a fair amount of effort but not as much as Mekanism tier and maintenance wise compared to it's higher gas usage and resources.

-Industrial Craft 2 Experimental, 'ore washing' or whatever it's called (I don't remember) with x2 or 3 with left over tiny dusts. I've not used IC2E in a while so forgive me on messing up things here.

Now for some niche mods:

-Omega Craft x3 with 'Ore Refiner' modification to a Crusher and 'Ore Washing' modification with a Hydrator to get not only x3 dirty dust but also x3 ore washing to possibly get x6 dusts. Or it's maybe just x3 and cleaning them to get maybe even x4 or x5. I'm not sure, I wouldn't be surprised if I'm overthinking it so I wanted to be sure. Requires Bronze & Steel/tier 2 level of effort.

-Planttech, x4 ores with basic resources to grow ores, unknown the length of growth time but does take a few days of a Minecraft half a week or a full week I think? I'd have to check the book again.

-Tesla Powered Thingies x3 with ore lumps and x4 with Tesla Seeds/Tesla Fluid and mostly just basic/tier 2 level stuff for what the mod offers.

I know many mods add x2 or require different lengths to go for this stuff. I was curious what people consider when they use tech mods for ingot output or automation or otherwise to broaden the scope of course. But otherwise what mods do around x3 or more that I didn't list that are mainstream or niche that I could dive into out of curiosity.

I don't play with any mods, apart from Optifine.
I do have a mishmash of several resource packs. They're vanilla, for the most part, but change a few things, one of which being to make everything resemble different seasons (currently using a pack to make everything look like Spring). Also have a higher resolution font, some alternate armor/tools retextures (I believe they're from "Tweaked Chocolate"? Can't remember the exact name), and various sounds replaced (from Naturus, I think).