ye super expensive recipes only when detect gregtech, because gregtech is mod for people like super hard playing
Just have a config switch and set it on the first run. If GT is detected default to hard, if not then normal. Just make it possible for people to toggle it as they wish no matter what mods they use.
Though obviously if GT is not installed then there should be a third version of the recipes as you won't have GT items 
Machines would work faster and for less energy (to the point it doesn't cause loops).
Add "until netherstar is consumed" to that and I'd be all over that
I can give you beta build to test if you don't care alarm's SMP bug =)
I'm sure he and I wouldn't be the only ones who would like to use it and wouldn't shy away from stumbling on (and reporting) a bug or two
@pollution, the new fluid API in forge allows for negative-density fluids that float up to max height level. It's still kind of buggy but it seems like the guys are working on it to make it function pretty much in the way GT pollution was hinted to be working.
I'm not actually sure if delayed is the right word and if the two systems exist in parallel (again). I've only kept my eye on the discussion and haven't looked at actual code.
You can read about it here: https://github.com/MinecraftForge/MinecraftForge/issues/668
1.6.x bringing us fluids
yeah, too bad forge people actually decided to roll back to the old and previously removed liquid system as they didn't have time/willingness to fix the fluid-eating-fluid bug.
I mean seriously. One doesn't declare a new replacement for something, deprecate the old, release the new, remove the old, wait until several mods have ported to new system and then bring back the old again instead of fixing the new one.
Original series is good if you watch it first so you won't be scared away with the extreme lo-fi "effects" when coming back from the newer ones.
Also, whatever you do, avoid the animated series as plague.
Unless you are like me who decided to watch all the series just so I could say I've done it.
Well, it's corrosion resistant so it might find use in machines where that is occuring. Perhaps it would be a material to use for those big multiblock electrolyzers-centrifuges that were hinted ages ago?
Suggestion 2 :
Increased difficulty : will reduce natural regeneration by 4. [If a server admin wants to disable it just do /gamerule naturalRegeneration off]
http://www.minecraftforum.net/…uanamans-hunger-overhaul/
New mob : Radioactive Creeper (Nukreeper), will blast off with a explosion power of 1/2 nuke.
It spawns at night, but only below Y 55. It is a radioactive mutation of normal creeper. Its spawn rate is rare, and it has 80 hp.
That dude should then have an industrial siren attached to it so you wouldn't blow up your base
If it gets charged (lightning), it will have 4 times the explosion power.
Quick, someone make an underground weather mod!
... bunch of tools ...
invar is rather soft vs steel and iron. Aluminum-magnalium-iridium even more so.
Display MoreAlloy Oven (Copper + Fuel)
Small Bronze Boiler (Bronze + Fuel) with automatic Steam Output & low Water + insert Water = Boom
Bronze Steam Oven (Bronze + Steam)
Alloy Steam Oven (Bronze + Steam)
Sturdy Grinder (Bronze + Steam)
Squeezing Extractor (Bronze + Steam)
Steam Pressure Compressor (Bronze + Steam)
Small Nuclear Boiler (Steel + Radioactive Fuel) low Water = Boom & insert Water on low Water = Boom
Oooh, that looks nifty.
Though I do wonder what sort of ore distribution do you use in your worlds. I used to use TE stuff and turn everything else off and copper was rather rare. Now I tried using IC2 stuff and I have copper coming out of my ears.
Any chance we might see those things in 1.5 or are those for "some time in future" next to pollution and stargates? 
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May I also suggest a new multiblock structure:
high-pressure steam container.
You can pump steam into it through special pumps (at cost of tiny bit of EU, pumps are part of the structure) that further compress it down allowing one to fit (much) more than 32 buckets worth it per-block. Main idea behind it is to have a temporary "buffer" of steam one could fill up when there is extra production and use whenever it's needed. I know I could use any existing liquid tank for it but having steam act as an actual liquid doesn't make too much sense there, also even the biggest tanks contain relatively tiny amount of steam due to being just 16/32 buckets per block. Also having special high-pressure steam might allow for some new machinery. E.g one might use the steam for mining (fracking-like stuff) or processing materials.
Technically NEI is working on 1.6 since quite a while already, just the releases aren't public yet and are only accessible to people who have donated to CB (and to whomever else he has shared the links with downloads). I'm not quite sure why CB hasn't made them public yet, possibly due to all the people asking him to do it.
So NEI in machine form, basically? Could be useful for people that won't use NEI for whatever reason, I guess. Though rather cumbersome compared to actual NEI.
Guess why I introduced maintenance, so that you have something to do while waiting.
Sooo, how often do you see would that bedrock-geogen need maintenance over the suggested 8h waiting period?
SSP players also are hindered to set up a fusion reactor.
There is a huge difference between just spending a ton of resources to get something running and having to wait for ages doing absolutely noting (besides making sure enough energy is fed into the machine). With fusion reactor once a person has it up with appropriate production line they immediately get energy from it.
You need millions of energy to dig over that 8 hours, pipes, drill and constant maintenance (when the drill is working), it will be a pain to set one at maximum depth then you still need to give it some maintenance, not to forget it has to be at bedrock level.
Again, that all won't matter much (for me personally) if it still ends up as energy from nothing.
If you need millions of energy to get it running it'll be even worse for SSP. Most people play <10h per week, if one needs several weeks from initial setup to becoming energy-positive it's as good as useless. One can quite likely drain enough lava even from overworld in that time to get a couple of orders of magnitude more energy, not to mention far lower cost of materials.
Having said that, the idea itself is not something I'd be 100% against. I'm just pointing out that it needs different kind of balancing. Just requiring ages of idling is not adding anything useful to the game.
After 8 hours of core digging it would produce 256 mB/t of steam (1,5x if in "hell" biome) worth 512 EU/t (1,5x ...).
Yeah, well, that'll kind of suck in SSP
Also I don't really like the idea of fully renewable energy source, even if it's expensive as hell. There should be some sort of consumable there besides water or perhaps it should use a whole lot more water than regular steam producers to make ti more balanced.
I copied the API call so I wouldn't have to include your api since you were complaining about that before. It just uses reflection anyway, right?
Wait, why do you need to include the api files when you only need to use them during coding and never need to include them in your own jar file?
So 40.000.000 Eu. I think energy costs for absorbing damage must be increased x10.
Pretty sure quantum armor recipes is considered "fixed" by how iridium plate creation was changed and thus doesn't really need any extra fixing.
The armor and it's abilities are a whole different story, of course.
So NO Hi-Tech equipment!
for breeding/raising them, yes. There could be fancy stuff for processing their output though.
