B-Team 6/27 update

6/27

MODPACK UPDATE

118 mods included (MC 1.6.4):

CodeChicken Core 0.9.0.9
CoFH Core 2.0.0.2 -> 2.0.0.5
Enhanced Core 1.1.3
Extended Mod Config 1.0
Extended Renderer 1.0
Forge 9.11.1.965
Forge Mode Loader 6.4.49.965
Forge Multipart 1.0.0.250
iChunUtil 2.2.0
ImmibisCore 57.2.0
Inventory Tweaks 1.56
Micdoodle8 Core
Minecraft Coders Pack 8.09
+Minecraft Multipart Plugin 1.0.0.250
NEI Plugins 1.1.0.6
Not Enough Items 1.6.1.9
Not Enough Keys 0.0.4
+OpenEye 0.6 -- some annoying thing that collects usage data and logs crashes, yuck
OpenMods 0.4 -> 0.5.1
OpenModsCore 0.4 -> NO VERSION
PowerCrystals Core 1.1.8

Advanced Genetics 1.4.1 -> 1.4.2
AIBlock 1.0
Archimedes Ships 1.4.5
Artifice 1.1.3-241
AutoBlocks 1.0.0
AutoUtils 1.0.1
BetterStorage 0.8.0.43 -> 0.8.0.47
BiblioCraft 1.5.5
BiblioWoods Biomes O'PLenty 1.3
BiblioWoods Natura 1.1
Biomes O Plenty 1.2.1
Build Mod 1.0
Carpenter's Blocks 2.0.6 -> 2.1.0
Chisel 1.5.0
CoroAI 1.0
Darwin 0.2.3
Dragon Mounts 34
EnhancedPortals2 1.0.9
Flans Mod 4.1.1
Food Plus 2.7-PRE -> 2.8PRE4
Forge Microblocks 1.0.0.250
Fossil/Archaeology:Reported 1.0
Galacticraft Core 2.0.11 -> 2.0.13
Galacticraft Mars 2.0.11 -> 2.0.13
Hamster Mod 0.1
Hamsters Forever 1.0
Hats 2.1.2
LiquidXP 57.1.2
MapWriter 2.0
MineFactory Reloaded 2.7.6 -> 2.7.9
Minions 1.7.9b
Morph 0.7.1
MrCrayfish's Furniture Mod 3.2.9.1 -> 3.3.3
Natura 2.1.14
Necromancy 1.4c -> 1.5
OpenBLocks 1.2.7 -> 1.2.9
ProjectRed 4.3.7.32
qCraft 1.1
Random Things 1.9
Saintspack 0.5
SecretRooms 1.6.4-4.6.2.319
Statues 2.1.1
Sync 2.1.0 -> 2.2.0
Thermal Expansion 3.0.0.2 -> 3.0.0.7
Tinkers Construct 1.6.X_1.5.4dev -> 1.6.X_1.5.5.7
Tinkers Corestruct 0.0.1
Tinkers Mechworks 19.d4bfa0 -> 0.1.6
TrailMix 2.0.0
Tropicraft 5.1
Volleyball 5.1.6 -> 5.1.7
Waila 1.5.1a -> 1.5.2a
Waypoints 1.0.2
Weather and Tornadoes 1.58 -> 1.591
Witchery 0.16.3 -> 0.19.2
World of Dinos 1.0

Got some Forge block ID mismatches, loaded anyway.  Started with a weird gold thing in hand: Creative Tool Modifier (Tinker's Construct).  Huh, stick it in chest.

A few quick visits on a very busy weekend.  Built up my Lavender Base, about 5 stories, with tunnels running out to caves & landmarks, last night was a bit brain dead and dug a tunnel all the way back to my original base (about 500 blocks), even though I always use the map to teleport back & forth.  But tunnels are a fun way to explore ... I ended up crossing through a little dungeon with a single-use safari net and dragons egg in a chest.

I moved all the thermal expansion equipment to the new base.  Already have so much metal, so much of everything.  Not sure about th long-term playability of this modpack.  Galacticraft could take a huge amount of crafting, and some crazy goals.  But everything else is pretty tame and pointless.  I can use Minefactory Reloaded stuff to make endless "stuff".  Don't need it.  I can get stacks of leather, make bookshelves, make an enchanting table.  But I already have about 4 stacks of diamonds, so I don't really need Silk Touch.  I can enchant armor, but I mostly avoid fights or find them tame.  I can easily replace all my diamond gear any time.  Tinker's Construct is so much work to setup, and again I pretty much only use it to make Silk Touch or bonus tools; and in the last modpack I played it was very glitchy and after all that constuction the smeltery pretty much didn't work.  Not interested in the Witchery stuff, which seems more like a multiplayer mischief mod.  Necromancy mod is just grim and absurd.  Darwin mod is cute, but I don't know that any of the hybrids actually server a purpose other than looking weird.  Hats are stupid, I don't use Morph to change into other things though there may be some entertainmen there.  Advanced Genetics has a complex way to extract DNA from mobs, pick specific traits (like eating grass) and inject them into yourself: amusing but I can't see crafting 3 or 4 machines out of 100 ingredients just so I can eat grass or run faster.

I'm surprised I haven't used Archimedes Ships yet.  I did some exploring in a lame little vanilla boat when I could have made a big custom boat.  OTOH, I already have more of the world mapped than I will ever need.  Fun to find new biomes I guess, but underneath it all is the same dozen ores and gems I already have.  It would be a good world to be a tree collector, maybe I'll start an arboretum.  I miss the animals from the Hexxit modpack, they were fun to collect.

Right now, most of my spare time is being spent on music: I have a regular gig on Monday nights, voice lessons with Eve Selis, after 2 decades of non-support and opposition, it feels like people are finally starting to realize I have some skills in those areas.  So, minimal gaming, and I don't lay awake at night planning big factories anymore.  Glad about that, since gaming can really take over a life.

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