Posts by Pyrolusite

Quote from Nexey_

But you should disable the IC2 iridium loot in these dungeons. Raiding 5 dungeons gets you enough iridium to get the qsuit.

I never looted iridium in these, you must be lucky. Special Mobs will prevent you from rushing 5 dungeons though :p

Quote from SpwnX

I'd like to see BC, obviously nerfed to the point its transport item pipes become "obsolete" if compared to GT's (theres a big difference between them, but BC's is much cheaper for what it does). Fluid pipes can be effectively disabled with no harm to gameplay. Energy transport pipes will help us alot with forestry stuff.

Don't nerf BC stuff too hard. Don't forget that BC pipes are not "magic routing pipes" and require thought and almost always more pipes than their GT counterpart to do something.

Quote from Airam

Roguelike Dungeons/Chocolate Quest - dungeons are fun (they are even more fun, when you are doing them with your mates). Mods are adjustable - you can edit dungeon loot (perhaps, to add precious GT stuff). It also fits TC. One of the downsides could be some OP stuff, but as I said, both mods should be adjustable.
Special mobs/Dungeon mobs - are kind of poor version of thoose dungeon mods, but also could be an option if Roguelike Dungeons/Chocolate quest will be incompatible/unstable/unbalanced.

Roguelike dungeons is balanced by itself, and is harder with Special Mobs, almost requiring you to go with a group for some floors (the nether one in particular).

Quote from Airam

Twillight Forest - very well-made magic adventure mod, but it does have a lot of unbalanced stuff (again, compared to GT balance). It should be minetweaked very hardly somehow before being installed on Kirara.

Agreed, but it's PvE content, and it's awesome PvE content. So yeah, I'd only suggest removing the uncrafting table, the rest is fair imo.

Quote from Airam

EnviroMine - innovative mod, brings realism for sure, but I belive not everyone will like it at least for the first time.
Hunger Overhaul + Pam's HarvestCraft - the same, as EnviroMine. Brings more "pain in the ass" into food aspect.

These three are intended for a "hardcore survival Kirara" which means I don't want them to be implemented everywhere by default, just where the survival aspect will be the focus.

Quote from Airam

Custom NPCs - this one is just not fits Kirara, in my opinion.

It depends what you do with it, ultimately. Its tools must be restricted to operators though, because NPC creation is an insanely powerful tool (especially mercenaries and timed rewards).

Also, I'm not very fond of the idea of having 100+ mods for a "hardcore survival Kirara", seems way too much in my opinion.
The server must be able to keep up with all what will happen, especially if you put Zombie Awareness in the equation.

Quote from Chocohead

IHL needs to stay, it is a lot more complicated and feature complete than GT6

Forgot about IHL ! Added it to my mod list.

Here's a mod-list I'd like to suggest in case a "hardcore survival Kirara" opens :

Tech :
- IC2 + GT6 + GT Extras + Nuclear Control 2 + IHL
- AE2 + ExtraCells
- Forestry, Railcraft, (Buildcraft ? since we don't have pipes)

Redstone :
- OpenComputers
- immibiscore + redlogic

Worldgen :
- Biomes O' Plenty (removal of the gem generation may be necessary) or Highlands if it works.
- Roguelike Dungeons
- Twillight Forest

Survival :
- EnviroMine (gas and earthquakes removed, maybe physics too, also minetweaking for the "elevator" recipe)
- Special mobs (mob variations, with deadlier mobs)
- AppleCore + Hunger Overhaul + Pam's HarvestCraft (salt worldgen removal)

The pretty :
- Chisel 2
- Carpenter's Blocks
- BiblioCraft + Bibliowoods

Bonus :
- Custom NPCs, so that quests, shops and that kind of cool stuff can be made.
- LevelUp mod, since the exp is useless, allows to pick classes with bonuses like movement speed, etc. Needs to be tweaked however, "gaining exp from crafts" can and will be abused.

RIP, Grooveshark. http://grooveshark.com/

Here we go, Minimalist Technology is now available.

As mentionned in the original post, this is a fusion of PGTAT and PICAT. Still a work in progress, especially on IC2's side.
Added a new imgur album in the screenshots section.

What's new :
- GT "raw tool parts"
- GT "monkey wrench"
- GT chisel
- GT machines (except crucible)
- GT stone-type materials
- Ore changes ("powder" type improvement)
- IC2 generators
- IC2 machine casings
- Other changes I might have forgotten

Here's a preview for PGT6AT, for those who don't follow me on Twitter. (Ugh, the more I type this acronym, the more I want to rename my resource pack.)

So, folks, I just noticed GT6 is taking another direction in terms of machinery and stuff, which will require a rework of my resource pack somehow.

So, the download link for PGTAT v1.24 is now back up, as the last version for GT5.
And I'll clean v1.25 and add the missing stuff (Chisel, chests, burning boxes) for v2.

If you need texturing to be done, at least for the GUIs, I'm in.
However I noticed you use 32x32 files for your armor icons, so, are you planning on using the 32x32 resolution or 16x16 one for them ?

PGTAT v1.25 is now available in the original post, now fully compatible with GT6 (and still compatible with GT5) !

The only thing new is an attempted improvement of my ore textures, and crate overlay changes in inventory.
I wanted to do a tweak on crates so that a little frame on them displayed a small icon representing the material inside, but since the overlay is disabled by default, I gave up on the idea.

Aaand the update is here !

v1.24 :
- Buzzsaw fix (pixels were coming out of the tool overlay, and not round enough for my taste)
- Ugly multiplates fix (because yup they were ugly)
- Wine and Cider fix (they didn't look like wine and cider, blame Greg for using numbers instead of names in his texture files)
- Solar panel block textures
- New dense plates
- GT credits

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2We5sLDVrw

I laughed way too hard at this.

So, I will probably update this resource pack for GT6.

I didn't have much time and motivation to do much lately, but I will ensure that every tweak I wanted to make is done, so that I can release a final version for GT5.

Quote from SpwnX

I thought it was that, but a "x9" would be more consistent, no?

Well, even if you use 9 ingots to make it, it's still a "dense plate" and not a numbered amount of plates assembled together like the double plates or triple plates suggests. That's why I kept the idea of a "big plate" instead of a "x9".

Quote from SpwnX

Yep.

That's the bigger plate, next to the x5 one, with variation depending on the material.

Quote from Drawfox

Hi Pyro,

I'm kinda new to texture packs, does this cover vanilla blocks, as well?
If no, can you recommend one that would fit well with your pack?

Great work, btw, thanks for sharing with us.

It only covers GT stuff, and works pretty well with vanilla textures.
My MC resource packs are covering GUI stuff mostly, and I have a WIP resource pack that changes some vanilla items, not yet released.
I also have a resource pack for IC2 stuff but there's lots of content missing for now.

Quote from cosmodruid

Hello, is this possible to enable only non-ore thingys (machines, parts, plates, gems, tools but not ore blocks!) from you texture pack?

Sure. In the resource pack, go to assets/textures/blocks/materialicons, and for each folder remove the ore.png and oreSmall.png files. That should be enough.

Quote from SpwnX

I don't see the x9 one

The dense plate, you mean ?

No, the resource pack is not dead. Still working on stuff.

Also, another minor suggestion : GT Fishing rods. Because why not ?