Feature Idea

[SkitsofRandom]

I hope I'm posting this on the correct forum. As an addition to the pack, I was thinking you could change the item inventory display (the Technic addon which shows you recipes) to also tell what each item does. As someone who is new to the mods like Redpower, IndustrialCraft 2, and Buildcraft, I feel very lost.

[Torezu]

That's NEI, a separate mod. So, nope. If you'd like help with specific items, visiting the available wiki for the mod that contains those items, or asking in here or on local mod sites, is the best way to familiarize yourself with the mod pack. There are getting started guides for at least IndustrialCraft and Equivalent Exchange on the forums here or the mod wikis.

[Cheap Shot]

That's not what we do. You could ask the developer of NEI to include a feature like that but I can safely say that is probably months of thankless work if not impossible. Leaning toward impossible because it would mean that he'd have to write information for every block in the game and in every mod that exists.

[jakj]

Crafting table II (clevercraft) already supports this, but you have to mouseover the item in your inventory or in its interface with the crafting talbe open; It doesn't support mousing over from NEI.

There is a database of item descriptions already in the Technic Pack, and any mod can include new descriptions for items all on its own without editing that database at all: They just implement the ICraftingDescription interface (one function, that returns a String based on an item's ID and metadata) in their Item classes.

Best thing to do is spread the knowledge of this feature to other modmakers, and get them to start using ICraftingDescription. Making Clevercraft work with NEI is another ball of wax.