[Rubberwood (the big one) interrupted on chunk borders]

nothing technic crew can do about that as its been a known issue with how eloraam does the generation of those trees, so you'd have to talk to her about it.

thanks for the hint.

Ok, the FAQ lists this problem (http://www.eloraam.com/?page_id=170)

“Volcanoes and trees…”

Are not quite finished. I intend to pattern the placement code, and improve the volcano. 1.8?s chunk handling broke both pretty seriously, causing sharp slices which are especially noticeable in volcanoes. And no, I will not provide options to disable them.

[Rubberwood (the big one) interrupted on chunk borders]

[img width=800]http://img220.imageshack.us/img220/3200/20120305195640.png

(the red grid shows two adjacent chunks displayed via WorldEditCUI) I think the problem is some randomness in the modification of the world generator - using WorldEdit's //regen makes rubberwood sometimes vanish and sometimes appear so if I were OCD enough I'd have to tear down the trees and replant them...

[Is it possible to have the launcher directly start tekkit...]

wait what do you mean? Once you log in once and check the remember button, your character's skin and username/password gets saved. As to directly starting Tekkit, once you select it once, it stays tekkit until otherwise selected. Please clarify your question.

What I mean is setting up a shortcut to the techniclauncher so that it directly runs tekkit without having to click my username first (unless an update is available), i.e. I click the shortcut once, wait a few seconds, and without further interaction the tekkit client is running.

[Is it possible to have the launcher directly start tekkit...]

...with my last login?

[Bukkit plugins to replace Creative Mode?]

You can use permissions to be ignored by hostile mobs, and invulnerability. I recommend PermissionsEx.

Thanks a lot, this (https://github.com/PEXPlugins/PermissionsEx/wiki/Modifyworld#wiki-Entities) looks just like what I was looking for. And I see Swiftwolf's Rending Gale (http://equivalentexchange.wikispaces.com/Swiftwolf's+Rending+Gale) provides Creative Mode-like flying. Great!

edit In fact, since I'm using WorldGuard (http://wiki.sk89q.com/wiki/WorldGuard/Configuration/Bukkit) anyway, that has the auto-invincible-permission setting which makes PermiossionsEx superfluous for my purposes.

[Bukkit plugins to replace Creative Mode?]

NEI handles invulnerability and flying. Have you not explored the NEI options when you open your inventory? There's all sorts of things there to play with.

Sorry, but which option do you mean? I can delete items, switch between survival and creative mode (which is bad idea when standing next to a creeper, I should say...), toggle rain/magnetic mode, change the time of the day and heal myself plus the item spawning list, but nothing that I can relate to flying are invulnerability...

[Bukkit plugins to replace Creative Mode?]

With Creative Mode being rather unusable (http://forums.technicpack.net/index.php/topic,1827.0.html), which plugins can I use (preferably server-side) to get as Creative Mode-ish as possible? Features I'm asking for:

-Item spawning -> Achieved via NEI (actually even better than the Creative Mode inventory)

-Being ignored by hostile mobs (which I'd like to be in my zoo, so please don't suggest just setting the difficulty to easy)

-Invulnerability (/god does the trick, but can this somehow be automated so players don't have to remember typing it?)

-Flying, preferably de/activated via double-jumping

It would be great if you have some suggestions here, and even greater if they work with Multiverse as a per-world setting.

[IC2 causes crash]

I had the same problem. Remove the %APPDATA%\.techniclauncher\tekkit folder (or move it somewhere else if you did some important modifications) and have the launcher redownload the tekkit client. That should do the trick

[Changing the installation directory?]

This might be possible by making %APPDATA%\.techniclauncher a symbolic link to your SSD drive, see e.g. http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/windows-vista/using-symlinks-in-windows-vista/:

So basically, just move the directory to your SSD (let's assume it's F:\techniclauncher\now), open a command prompt and enter

mklink /d %APPDATA%\.techniclauncher F:\techniclauncher