Hammerson

Vartila, AFAIK there are some gotchas about the login credentials getting outdated. It used to be the case that if you used the vanilla launcher and another launcher alternately, you would have to retype your password every time, but I believe that's fixed now. If your login token suddenly becomes invalid when you have no net connection, well that sounds annoying! You won't be able to play until you can reconnect to Mojang's servers and get a new valid token. But that is a Minecraft issue, about how they handle login tokens and offline play. Technic Launcher just uses it.

Ooh, but that is good news! Most packs are junk anyway, limiting search to those who have set it up properly is just a feature. Great that this is being worked on also, if disconsented is right.

There is a McDonalds mod. Adds villagers in fast-food sales uniforms, curiously familiar clown zombies, and its own dimension. A must for any over the top silly modpack that isn't worried about legal issues around trademarks and such.

Then Slowpoke's statement that you can use other launchers with it too would make very little sense. There's got to be an API or something. I don't know the WoW EULA, but I think and hope Curse have more sense than certain individual modders when it comes to complying with Minecraft's EULA. Demanding that you watch an ad as condition for downloading, there's no way that's not charging money for it, let alone "making money from it in any way".

Got to agree with that (slowpoke #54). The one thing the FTB launcher has on the Technic Launcher even today is the ease of adding and removing mods to a pack. Technic is better in that 1. it has incremental updates. 2. it doesn't break customizations on updates (as far as I've noticed) 3. it makes it easier to share a customized pack once you've gone to the trouble of making it (at least privately. If you pack is on page 2550, it's as good as private, last time I tried I just got an error page trying to dig that far up/down in the mod listing). I may be in a minority for wanting to customize, but I'm still here. There's still a ton of us, including primary school age kids who've just seen a cool mod spotlight on youtube. There needs to be a place where you can go for quick and automatic install of any mod, and if Curse the BeastForge achieves it I'm all for it. But I don't think they should waste hosting on modders who attempt to restrict use in modpacks - once this distribution mechanism is in place, a modpack will be little more than a list of mods, and you can't refuse people to list your mod.

I think that getting mods hosted by Curseforge is in itself a good thing - not because they're perfect, but because they're a vast improvement over the mediafire and adfly hodgepodge. But there's this, from Slowpoke (via a reddit transcript of a Q&A): Mod developers will be able to assign flags such as only allowing use in certain modpacks, or being completely open. This is bad. The two dubious excuses modders have used to disallow unmodified redistribution (keeping track of # of downloads, and getting ad revenue) are both not an issue for CurseForge-hosted downloads. So in my opinion, this is akin to putting a song on Spotify then demanding that only certain users can make playlists with it.

AFAIK, the Amish have lots of machines that run on hydraulics to circumvent the ban on electricity. So not weird, just Amish. On second thought, still weird.

Evan Miller had an article on wrong ways to sort a couple of years back: http://www.evanmiller.org/how-not-to-sort-by-average-rating.html The platform only has thumbs up, not thumbs down, but it's still fairly clear to me it sorts in a bad way. Those top packs aren't necessarily the best packs ever, they're just very, very entrenched at the top of that list. I'd like to find a pack that uses 1.6, has reasonably good feedback (to avoid those packs that barely sort out id collisions), and maybe which has a few mods I especially like. It's currently very hard to do something like that on the platform. Sorting by new or recently updated is no use either, as you have to dig through pages of test packs to find anything interesting. It would also be nice if packs had a way to declare (other than in the docs) what mods they used and what versions, so that it was searchable. I think the discovery mechanism for new packs is Technic's only real weakness. On all other points - stability, incremental downloads, ease of configuration, not trampling your config files, etc. the Technic launcher is far superior to that other one you know.

Don't be afraid to talk to him, if you want to. Dan200 is a very agreeable guy, he takes this far better than many modders would, especially considering he's quit his day job to work on indie games and mods. I hope (and think!) there's room for you all!

Reynergodoy, I believe this is an example of a bad headline. You aren't drowning, and it's useful for us to see what you need help for without clicking the link. You need permissions if you want to stay on good terms with the mod maker(s). Many mods you don't need to ask permission for. Some would like a notification if you use the mod, others will get angry at you just for asking. You need to look it up for each individual mod, unfortunately there is no register you can easily check.

One tantalizing thing about Hexxit is that the minimap reveals which chunks are generated yet and which aren't. You see stuff like long diagonal lines of chunks being generated before everything else. It could be that one of the mods forces generation of a chunk, which forces generation of another, which forces yet another etc.

As a mcraftpro, don't you ought to know? Just teasing. (For the record: You just download TechnicLauncher.jar and run it. It handles the rest. You stlll need to purchase Minecraft and get a username/password to play)

Looks like the lwjgl folks forgot that OSX uses print-style coordinate systems with the origin in the lower left, not CRT screen-style ones with origin in upper left You could try downgrading to an older version of lwjgl, like the one Minecraft uses by default. On Linux that makes the keys wonky, but maybe it's better on macs?

If Thermal Expansion switches to a new power system, that's going to be a breaking change... will there be a new separate pack for 1.6 as there is for 1.2 (Classic) 1.4 (Lite) and 1.5 (Galactic)?

My advice is just letting Greg keep his toys. The less attention, the better. He's like the Larry McVoy of Minecraft.

http://www.minecraftforum.net/topic/1593704-16x15x147-underground-biomes-forge-smp-compatible/page__st__80#entry20330911

Haha, I recently read through the discussion of the Underground Biomes mod, saw an example of this. It's an interesting mod, it adds more varied and realistic stone, with hardness grades, layers, igneous and sedimentary, etc. A bit like Dwarf Fortress. Great mod, friendly designer and open source. Then the maintainer of Terrafirmacraft (which explicitly copied Dwarf Fortress' geology scheme) turns up, and states that he'll generously allow this mod to proceed, as long as it doesn't steal any more features from Terrafimacraft... and doesn't understand why people suddenly seem so hostile.

OK, TheByteMaster (For coherence I'm not editing the top post): "I don't like adf.ly. It's several times offered me up ads pretending to be the end-goal download, with the goal of getting me to install some dubious executable. Even when it doesn't, it serves ads directed at kids, and for stuff I really disapprove of getting kids hooked on (e.g. gambling and exploitative gaming). Since kids are a significant part of Minecraft's audience, this is especially serious. I hate how popular it has become in the minecraft modding community. I don't mind supporting the mod makers, and I'm a firm believer in paying to see more of what I want. But I don't think letting them have pennies scammed from kids is the way to do it. I'm putting some money where my mouth is, too. So here's the deal: I've put an amount in my flattr account. Not a crazy amount, but enough that you would probably say "wow, that's pretty nice" if you got all of it all at once. If you are working on a mod that I enjoy or at least respect the craftsmanship of (all in all the official FtB and Technic Launcher packs qualify at the very least, also most serious mods outside them, e.g. Emasher's), and you don't use adf.ly, post your flattr number, and I'll flattr you. Public button on download site or forum would be nice. Flattr works the way that over the next few months, the sum will be distributed among everyone I've flattered. It's supposed to free us from the cognitive burden of deciding who deserves how much, personally I'm lowering that burden further by flattr-ing any mod maker who uses flattr and not adf.ly. If it looks a little too much like asking for money in public and you're uncomfortable with it, PM me instead, as long as I can verify you're you, it's the same. I'm Hammerson on the Technic forums, and vintermann on reddit. Please, let us stand up for an alternative to adf.ly for showing our approval." Four non-adf.ly mod makers have so far supported this initiative publicly and posted flattr links: dan200 of ComputerCraft, Minalien of MFFS (the GPL branch of it), MysteriousAges of Magic Bees and Impiaa of MyWorldGen. In addition, I see 5 other people have flattr'ed dan200/ComputerCraft, so we're apparently gaining some traction with supporters as well. You're great, folks. (Two people have flattered me. This is a bit silly I think, and I rather they didn't since I don't want people to think I'm in this for myself - but I'm not going to take money out of flattr anyway, so it's not a big deal. It'll end up with the people I've flattred, mostly modders)

I had some limited success with the same appeal (really, a somewhat longer and more eloquent appeal) over at reddit, in r/feedthebeast and /r/tekkit. Feel free to join in, both on my side as supporters or as mod authors.

jakj: As I recall, there was a time you suggested the FtB team were a little too eager to fall over themselves to please a certain modder. I believe you said something about sucking someone's dick and they tilted on it. (I'm not trying to be smarmy here, I'm saying "I believe" because I can't find a link ATM).

I put money into my flattr account again recently, but as usual not a lot of the things I would like to support have flattr buttons. Well, there's one guy who dreams of becoming an indie game developer, but he's already had his. If you make a mod that I've ever used (or would like to use) and don't use adf.ly, post your flattr ID here and I'll give you some money. Possibly not a lot, but hopefully more than most people could earn from participating in adf.ly's by "push malware on kids" scheme.

Do what you would like to see yourself. You probably shouldn't make one if you don't see the appeal of watching one. Here's my likes and dislikes: * Like: Fast forward through repetitive work like mining, sorting inventory or building walls. * OK: skipping it. * Dislike: showing it in real time. * Like: showing mod features, espc. new ones, in practical ways. * Like: Aesthetic builds. I haven't really seen any LPs with architecture much beyond Direwolf20s N by N cobble rooms * Like: Talk about why you do things the way you do, especially wrt. to aesthetics. * Dislike: Too much chaotic silliness in multiplayer. In Dire's latest forgecraft, for instance, the morphs were fun - for a short while. At least they're not randomly murdering each other. * Dislike: asking for suggestions about what to do or show during the show.

There should be an option in falling meteors to have decay in the probability of meteors, so that after a couple have fallen in an area, no more will fall. Hmm, I see it's open source, but the github repo hasn't been touched in three months. Is there another place with more recent code?

Do you get a white screen as you click on hexxit and try to launch it, or is it the launcher itself which whites out on you?

Sounds like a graphics card issue. What graphics card do you have, and have you done the stuff to get the official drivers? (they don't come by default for NVidia as I recall).