4601

I have bad luck with Optifine and mods sometimes. Multi-core loading reduced my framerates with TFC.

4602

I’d trying disabling OptiFine first and see if your FPS improves. It can run worse than Vanilla if you’re using the wrong match for your system. I’ve got a nearly identical setup to your system and I run the 1.4.6_HD_U_B3 Multi-core version on the same video card with a 32x32 texture pack and I get fantastic framerame. Did you change the video settings as recommended by Optifine for multi-core systems? (disable Threaded Optimization / OpenGL Threading in ATI control panel).

4603

Even more, you can hit ‘R’ when hovering over an item icon just about anywhere (such as your inventory) and get the recipe. Hit ‘U’ and find out everything it’s used for. There will be arrows at the top of the pop-up window to show how it interacts with the various mod machines.

With NEI in cheat mode, you can turn creative mode on and off at will. ‘Utility’ mode is just like recipe mode, except it adds a ‘magnet’ toggle to suck items nearby into your inventory and allows you delete junk in your inventory.

4604

Direwolf’s videos are easily the best way to learn how these mods interact with each other if you’re new to the technical mods. He’s also peripherally involved with the FtB authors and most of the authors of the mods themselves. Not least, he has a good broadcast voice and edits out the tedious/boring parts. His mod spotlights are also good introductions to the capabilities of any given mod.

4605

Note that one of the configurations within FtB is a modpack which uses mods explicity covered by the direwolf20 videos as well.

4606

I’m using direwolf’s pack, and so far it is pretty interesting. One question I have is when I hit shift and hover over a resource, 2-5 icons appear above the name of the resource, apparently describing what the resource can be used in. Does anyone know which mod puts these icons up there, so I can read up on what they all mean?

4607

That’s Thaumcraft, here is a link to Direwolf explaining what the mod adds, without spoiling too much of the good stuff. To directly answer your question though, those icons are ‘elements’ of a sort in that they correlate to aspects of the item what it’s made of, what it’s used for.

4608

Ok, sorry weird question. Running Minecrack, but Ive watched a fair bit of Direwolfs videos. I see how his recipe tab works, it actually shows the recipe. Now when I look at my recipe tab, with it on the recipe setting (or on the utility setting).

This is what I see.

Almost all my complex recipes are like that - they don`t seem to be actual recipes. More like putting the item in a furnace and smelting stuff…

I`m also getting alot of crashes. Maybe I should just give up my progress and give up on minecrack as glitchy.

4609

Some items just aren’t fully registered with NEI or are created in a way that NEI isn’t aware of, so you see incomplete information. In the case of the Uncrafting Table above, I think it’s a special loot drop from Twilight Forest and can’t be crafted on its own, so there is no recipe for it. You just see it there since as a wooden item, it can be used as fuel in a furnace (but you’d be crazy to).

The MindCrack pack has been pretty stable for me. Make sure you’re using 64-bit Java, if you can, and maybe give it a bit more memory in the launcher options, as mods make it pretty memory-hungry.

4610

I do have 64bit java, and I do have the Ram set to something ridiculous like 6gb. But it crashes at 1, or 2 just as often. Maybe it`s not using the 64bit java though?

The crashing is my biggest problem.

4611

Perhaps you need to activate java using its 64bit mode with using the -d64 command line option?

4612

The mindcrack pack was always a problem for me. I switched to Direwolf20’s, and it’s a lot more stable with better framerate.

Plus twilight forest bugs the crap out of me.

4613

This is almost like an entirely new game, simply amazing.

Ive just played somewhere around 12 hours today and no crashes, which is just amazing considering before it was 5 crashed in 2 hours. - and I think I know what was up with my crashing. I found that I couldnt install Direwolfs pack, it would just install vanilla with no mods. Did some googling and everyone said it was because of my firewall… turn off the firewall and nada. So I randomly get rid of it all and instead of the exe I try the .jar - I had downloaded the exe again several times. Suddenly FTB doesn`t ask to update and refuse to update all the time, I see more mods, everything just works. So moving to the .jar seems to have solved all my issues.

4614

oh, this is crazy…Eurogamerruns an article about someone who is recreating Westeros (Game of Thrones) in freakin’ minecraft! And it looks simply stunning!

4615

My husband actually logged into the server last night. It took forever to load chunks as he walked around because it’s so huge and detailed, but it does look pretty amazing. The server has commands that will let you warp to the most interesting locations to look at them (“warp thewall” or “warp theironthrone” and things like that), and also has flying enabled to get a better look at things.

The server load was so high, he was unable to get the custom textures for it though, which was disappointing.

4616

I’ve not been much into minecraft despite both kids having a copy, but found a fun way to take part. Turns out the Bukkit API is pretty easy to use, so I’ve been writing goofy little plugins (basically just to taunt the kids while they play). I could see plugin writing becoming a hobby of its own, without even ‘playing’ the game itself… (not that my ADHD will let me get far enough to do anything worthwhile).

4617

According to the twitters, Minecraft is about to sell its 10 millionth copy this very day.

4618

Minecraft: The Story of Mojang, the 2Player documentary which was originally funded on Kickstarter is now available for free to watch on Youtube:

I watched it way back when it first came out and enjoyed it. After spending so many hours playing Minecraft (in fact, I still have a server running right now, which I log onto and play with my kids), it was nice to get a peek behind the scenes 2PP style.

Wendelius

4619

My wife picked up the Minecraft Beginner’s Handbook at a book fair last week. It’s a present for my daughter who is getting old enough to fall in love with the game like we did a few years ago.

It was a nice surprise to see someone we all know quoted in several places in the book:

Funny to think back on how this “little game” took us by surprise in 2010 and got that PaulSoaresJr guy to start making game videos on how to survive. Look where that got him. :)

Wendelius

4620

Just wondering if Minecraft will run on my nephews Samsung Chromebook? Model xe303c12.

Can’t seem to find the system reqs for the game (or the chromebook for that matter).