Braggart

I didn't think of that. The alchemical tome is one of the things I took a look at in a regular survival game and decided was an expensive waste of time I think it's a pity you can't make uranium from UU-matter any more. I quite like the idea of having to make your first UU-matter without nuclear power before getting a reactor. I suppose chopping a tree would be faster. The fishing idea came from me wondering what I was going to eat. The only alternative at the start is apples, and you start with a piece of string, so I gave it a try. It's worth lighting your portal with a flint and steel because it's much faster than messing around with lava and you can burn it in your transmutation table afterward. By the way, there are a lot of items you could either leave out or move to the Nether to make the map harder. You can get string from spiders and leather from cows once you get them. The gravel, sugar cane, clay and cactus can be moved to the Nether. The Nether chest can contain no mob eggs and just a single ordinary egg. Throw eggs to get chickens and use your philosopher's stone to transmute chickens into other mobs.

Very nice. I've reached the End in my game, and I found it entertaining figuring out how to achieve various goals. I did find a couple of tricks that aren't in your hints though. Don't use a cobble generator. Fish in your infinite water pool. A fish is worth a stack of cobble, so it's a lot faster. You can light your Nether portal with a flint and steel by melting down your bucket in the alloy furnace. But I can't figure out how to get uranium for a reactor. There used to be a uu-matter recipe for it, but that's the only thing I can think of.

Thank you, but Googling for "Java 1.7 Mac" suggests that it's unreleased for OSX and not going to be released any time soon. The search results point to a developer preview which makes Minecraft stop working, and to something called "open jdk 1.7". Would the latter work? Is it a community response to the stalling of development of Java 7 for OSX?

Thanks for replying confirming that. Hopefully someone will know what the issue is. I have tried to provide as much information as possible here, as requested in the stickies. The message I get when I try to run the Technic Launcher JAR (downloaded today) reads: "The Java JAR file 'Technic-launcher-latest.jar' could not be launched. Please check the console for possible error messages." My system information follows: Guides on the internet say that there should be a line saying "64 bit Kernel and extensions yes/no" telling me if the operating system is running 32 or 64 bit. That line is not present on my system. My processor is an Intel Core 2 Duo, which I have read is capable of 64 bit. Minecraft displays a warning on far rendering distance, so I believe my Java is 32 bit. However, in Activity Monitor, "Jar Launcher" is the only process with (64 bit) next to it. Everything else is blank in that field (does that mean everything else is 32 bit?). JavaForMacOSX10.5Update4 and JavaForMacOSX10.5Update10 are the files I installed to update Java. I don't think I have an antivirus program (not actually sure - I didn't set up this laptop). I scanned the applications folder and nothing stood out. The following is pasted from the console immediately after attempting to run the latest Technic JAR for OSX: Thank you.

Yes, is this possible? This thread is the only information I can find about this issue. Minecraft runs fine on my laptop (OSX 10.5.8 Leopard) but the Technic JAR doesn't work at all ("...could not be launched. Please check the console for possible error messages"). When I installed the developer preview of Java 7, Minecraft would no longer run. When I downgraded back to JavaForMacOSX10.5Update4 and JavaForMacOSX10.5Update10 Minecraft would run again. Is it possible to run the Technic Launcher on Snow Leopard? I would really prefer not to switch to Lion. Thank you.