Started my IC2 Let's Play (Industrialcraft 2, Buildcraft, Redpower)

I just watched your LP and I gotta say I was lmao in your first video. Especially when the skeleton archer shot you into the lava. I also have a couple of tips for you that you might find helpful.

A) A lot things can be burned in a furnace and later in a generator. In fact I try and not to burn coal or even use it for torches since IC2 requires so much of it to make carbon plate and coal dust out of. I also use timber on my version which really means there is no excuse not to use wood as the heat source as it is very easy to harvest now. As you realized you can burn sticks but as you found out they burn pretty fast. Which means you have to stand there and keep feeding the fire. You can also burn a whole list of things as you can see from this page. However to sum it up that list basically says that it is good to burn wooden blanks in the early stages of you game as they quadruple the amount of burnable material you have while still having the same burn rate as unprocessed wood. Later on moving to charcoal once you are all setup will be an even better solution.

B) Resin can be put into the furnace to give you 1 rubber for each resin. Once you build an extractor 1 resin will give you 3 rubber in there and you can even put rubber wood in there and get back one rubber. So I would suggest you save your rubber wood and resin and only use as much as you need to before you get an extractor. Also it is a good idea whenever you go out to harvest wood to always take a tree tap with you so you can build up a stock pile of resin for later use.

C) I notice it was taking minecraft a little while to load after your death(s). This was probably because you were both playing minecraft and saving the video recording to the same hard drive. If you have a second hard drive in your machine I would suggest that you save the video to that other hard drive while you are playing and that will help with the loading times and it may even help with chunk loading while you are exploring in the game. If you have 8GB of RAM, want to get the absolute best performance possible out of minecraft, and have 5 minutes to set it up I would be willing to make a tutorial for you on how to set up a ram disk drive. This will mean near instant loading as long as the rest of you system can keep up. This is what I use on my system and while it may only help while loading the word and to some extent the chunks while exploring it is a notable improvement even over my 128GB SSD.

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I actually have a 2TB secondary hard drive but it's having non responsive issues. (it's not even a year old) I need to trade out the sata cables to see if it fixes it. When I was recording dead island, it would randomly freeze up my game for a bit, then be fine. I have 12 GB ram.

Far as the furnace, yeah, people have been spamming it up on the comments telling me not to use sticks.

Thanks for the tips so far though.

So would you be interested in me making a tutorial for you to use minecraft on a ram drive to help you speed up hard drive loading especially when you are recording videos?

Entertaining to watch, too bad you TMI every now and then(ep8 @4:03).

in ep 3 you talk about timber mod and the chainsaw
what about if you are using axes the higher the wood is in any given tree the faster the axe wood cut it down with the bottom-most logs taking a very long time and maybe even requires a diamond axe, if you manage to break the bottom-most log the entire tree would fall as it does in timber
By using the Chainsaw you would be able to quickly chop down entire trees

this way i think it would make it more balanced XD

I've been watching your Let's Plays for quite awhile and ended up stumbling upon this thread you made I love the vids, keep them going!