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So, I've been thinking about doing a lets play of my favorite past time this summer, Feed The Beast modded minecraft. Probably gonna do a picture through, but if my FPS is good enough, I might do videos and throw them up on the youtubes. I will post my complete modlist once I've done all my tweaks and additions. I will be taking requests for builds. If I get enough interest, I'll build this "little" gem from Reactorcraft near the end.

Mod List

DAY 1



Apatite can be used to make fertilizer, which is needed in a Forestry multifarm.

These crystals each have a special ability. The white one will neutralize all buffs and debuffs on you when you come near it. The other one seemingly does nothing. BTW: You can make these crystals into pendants, which when in your inventory will apply their effects to you! Neat huh?

MFR Rubber trees are super useful. They give you raw rubber when chopped down, which smelts into rubber bars, which is used in almost all Minefactory Reloaded recipes and can even be used in industrial craft recipes! We'll be getting into both later...

This is a crafting station from Tinkers Construct, which acts like a vanilla crafting table, except for two things.
1. It has an inventory, so when you put items in it and leave the GUI, the items stay inside.
2. When you put a vanilla chest/double chest adjacent to it, you can access the chest from within the crafting station!
Super cheap too! Just put a vanilla crafting table in your 2x2 crafting grid to get this useful block. And, you can make it into a half slab if you put it into your grid again.

No, just cadmium...:(

This stuff is used to fuel Big Reactors and reactors from reactorcraft. Unlimited power!


Once we get redstone, we can make our first machines!

Awesome, really makes me miss playing FTB.

And yes, one could never get enough Rubber. Fuck the sheer amount of resources needed to make all those machines.

Update #2
I added two mods: Buildcraft and Iron Chests. Both was because I forgot them when I first set up the pack. Derp.

Note: Does not carry over its effect when made into a pendant.

Barrels can hold 64 stacks of a single item, and can be upgraded to hold tons more! You can even make them share an inventory with another barrel!

This little contraption from Applied Energistics is an early game method of doubling your ores. It is super cheap, but has a couple drawbacks. One: See that crank on the top? You have to hold down right click on it to turn it, which grinds the ores. It is a slow process and can not be done via turtle or autonomous activator/any auto clicker. Two: Turn the crank when there is no ores inside and it'll break. It only costs 5 sticks, but is still slightly inconvenient.

This will double your ores at the cost of some power, which is provided by the furnace generator next to it. I used a furnace generator for two reasons. One is it doesn't need water. Two is that in my testing, it provided slightly more power per piece of coal.

This furnace is way more faster then a vanilla furnace. It just needs some RF, again provided by the furnace generator. It's also way more efficient!
Lastly, it cooks food uber fast.

You seem to be a lot more lucky then I was when I played some of these...

HollywoodMole said
You seem to be a lot more lucky then I was when I played some of these...

How so?

This is an iron chest. The iron chest mod allows you to make your chests bigger and bigger, even allowing you to upgrade them in place!

This is a Blast Furnace from Rotary Craft. It is needed for a couple of things in RotaryCraft, including making HSLA Steel, a needed component in many machines.

These useful items from Tinkers Construct allows you to turn things like rotten flesh into an edible food source. Just right click the rack with the flesh in your hand and wait for it to turn into Monster jerky.

Yum!

A super cheap and useful item, it will void any item you put into it. So be careful shift clicking into it!
P.S. It can be piped into!

IC2's version of the rubber tree is slightly different from MFR's. Using a tree tap, you right click on the orange spots to get sticky resin, which can be smelted into a piece of rubber, or turned into three rubber with a extractor from IC2.

You get these from breaking tall grass. You can plant them and, when broken, will give you more canola seeds. When put into a grinder, it'll give you lubricant, which is used for a couple engines and almost all the gearboxes in Rotarycraft. Having a farm of these isn't a bad idea!

Thermal Expansion's lowest tier form of energy storage, it can be shift right clicked and moved around, while keeping it's energy! It can also be upgraded without you losing any energy.

Remember that fusion reactor? You'll need about 10k of this stuff to make it. Better start stockpiling it early!

This is used to craft all of Rotary Craft's machines and engines.

You'll want to make this as it'll be your best friend in rotary craft. It tells you everything you need to know about rotarycraft and it's equipment/machines/engines.

This machine can be used to make lubricant and to triple your ores. It's not too hard to power, just need to apply a little bit of brain power!

This block from Thermal Expansion will passively gain water over time. If you put a block of water on two sides of it, it'll gain water way faster. You can pipe out of it using any liquid pipe.

I have a steam engine from rotary craft at the back, with a fluiduct piping water into it from the aqueous accumulator. Underneath the engine is a piece of lit netherrack. Connected to the engine is a diamond 4:1 gearbox set to torque, which is then connected to the grinder. This allows the grinder to run, albeit slowly. But you can pipe in and out of the grinder. :p
Notes:
1. YOU NEED WATER PIPING INTO THE STEAM ENGINE, OTHERWISE IT WILL EXPLODE
2. You CAN use lava under the steam engine, but you will need a cooling fin on the steam engine, otherwise, well, boom.
3. I could have used a lower tier gearbox(like steel or stone), but diamond ones only need one bucket of lubricant and doesn't use it up.
4. All rotary craft machines can be sped up by putting in more RAD/s.
5. One steam engine can power 4 grinders, but you'll need shaft junctions and a 16:1 gearbox set to torque. I also imagine they'll be quite slow.
6. I am on purpose not explaining a lot of tinkers construct as it is difficult to explain via text. I highly recommend finding tutorials on it on youtube.

Sorry about the delay. Had some technical difficulties.


Found these as dungeon loot! Growable enderpearls! (The Ender Cores were not fun to make btw. Took forever to get the enderpearls for them)
Growing Ender Lilies on Ender Cores makes them grow faster and respond better to growth accelerators. (Still can't use bonemeal though).

This is a chunkloader. It will keep the chunks it is in loaded even when you aren't there, allowing any machines in those chunks to keep working, crops keep growing, etc etc.

This is the next step up from a steam engine. It runs off of ethanol crystals and will make our Grinder take half as much time to do it's job.

Storage for all the Geostrata stone we've been getting. I'll be wanting to use it later...

The battery of Thermal Expansion, it can also charge any items in your inventory that uses RF. You can charge it in a capacitor bank from Ender IO or a Energetic Infuser from Thermal Expansion.

Whoo boy this sucker was annoying to craft, and expensive! It is much like a quarry, except for a few key differences.
1. Will only load the chunk it is in and the chunk it is currently mining out
2. Uses RF, not MJ.
3. You set it's mining area with fences.
4. Has a near infinite limit as far as it's mining boundary, unlike the quarry's 64x64.
5. Instead of leaving a chasm, it replaces everything it mines with dirt.
6. Mines like a mining well, doing a column at a time. So you'll get diamonds a lot quicker!

I will begin massive power gen within the next day or so.

I present to you...

Big Reactors are highly reliant on the placing of the rods and the "coolants" inside. In this one, I have cryotheum in between the rods and resonant ender everywhere else. It can produce 17k Rf/t. It can produce more if I turned it into a Active cooled reactor, but I don't have the resources for that just yet.

Here's another update!

This is the highest tier jetpack from Simply Jetpacks. The higher tier jetpacks can allow for near creative flight when in hover mode.

This is a programmable rednet controller from MFR. Quite a complicated block, but what I'm using it for is super simple. (P.S. Props to PurpleMentat for showing how to do this in a video.) This thing is basically raising/lowering the control rods of the reactor depending on how much power I'm using, thus decreasing the amount of fuel I'm using. (Note: The PRC has to be below the port, with a cable connecting it to the port. Otherwise, it will not work properly.)



This is an essential part of any AE network. This block is pretty much the brain of the network, and you can also supply the network power through it(You can also use a power relay)using Rotary Craft shaft power, RF, MJ, EU, or Universal Electricity. Your choice! (Note: You CAN NOT have more then one controller per network, otherwise the network will not work)

This block is where you put your storage drives. Each one can hold 10 drives. Each drive can store up to 63 types, but the amount of each item depends on the tier of the drive(A 16k is bigger then a 4k for example).

This block allows you to access your network as well as providing a handy crafting grid that will pull straight out of the network the items for whatever you are crafting.

(Ignore the Fluid Storage text)

This block allows you to craft up carts from Steves Carts. (Note: The carts can take hours of IRL time to assemble)
It can be given upgrades to increase fuel efficiency, decrease assembly time, etc etc.

This is Extra utilities's pump. You place it right above the lava and supply it power and it'll suck up the lava, replacing source blocks with stone.

I had just finished activating this when this was taken. (To learn how to activate it, shift right click on an enchantment table)

This is how you get to the deep dark. You'll want to be very prepared for it, as in good armor and lots of torches. It's the equivalent to a dense ores age, but very dark and the mobs are twice as powerful as in the overworld. Also, stay in the dark for too long and you'll start taking damage that ignores armor.

I needed diamonds, so I made this! Using IC2 and a stack of coal, you can make diamonds.

How I'll be powering my Extractor(No it's not how you thing I'm going to do it).

This needed 2 stacks of diamonds, but can hold a whopping amount of power. I'll be using this to actually power my extractor. The microturbine is just feeding into it.

You need this to fill super conductor wire from electricraft with coolant.

This is how you make the coolant for the super conductor wires. You need ice and at the very least a gasoline engine with a 16:1 gearbox on it.

I've also moved my world onto a server to take a big load off of my computer. Modded MC can get quite heavy, so this was just in preparation.

I have decided that, instead of putting the info in the post itself, to take questions from anybody who wants to know more about what I'm doing. That way I can at the same time save myself time and better satisfy those with questions. It's easier to answer questions then it is to try to think of what people will ask. :p

Wait.. is this an AAR?

Rare said
Wait.. is this an AAR?

Well if giving a small explanation of what I'm doing is an AAR then sure, but I'm rather doubtful it qualifies.

AAR stands for after action report, if that was what you meant

HollywoodMole said
AAR stands for after action report, if that was what you meant

Yes, I know. :p

Aragorn said
Yes, I know. :p

You sounded confused...

HollywoodMole said
You sounded confused...

I was confused by Rare's usage of AAR, since my commentary wasn't exactly all encompassing.

Alright, I am now in 1.7.10. Also, for convenience's sake I am keeping all my posts in a single thread on where I originally started this, the FTB Forums.
http://forum.feed-the-beast.com/threads/lets-play-ftb-tutorial-style.47429/
But first, a little teaser on what I'm doing next.
Bloood magic!

Note: You do NOT need a account to see my thread, and if you wish to give feedback but don't want to register on the forum, shoot me a message on here or post in this thread.

New update has been posted!