So a lot of you may know with the new FTB update which hasn't come out yet its a very high chance that we will have to reset. We have no idea if we will have to but it's a high possibility.
The next update will hold for 6 months, and Erik is going to hold a vote for if we should reset or not. It has been put forward that we update the server every other major update, this will give developers time to release conversion tools (which I know for a fact are currently being worked on)
What is this post... -_- Of course it may possibly get reset. It's only a matter of whether someone codes an item ID conversion since the mod-makers have heavily switched around all the IDs.
Why would we reset? We don't have to reset, slowpoke101 is making a converter which should do about 95% of the work. The rest is apparently manual cleanup, which will pretty much be the rotation of objects (eg. fix wiring, machines) and maybe machine's contents. This is has been mention heaps and heaps in feedthebeast's subreddit Edit: I think this is probably talking about it (3:00) What gets covered in the video
We don't know for sure yet. Ezeiger92 and I thought the best course of action would be to wait till it is out, see what is available, and then if needed hold a vote. From my research I have discovered that FTB is planning to have the option for servers to make their own custom mod packs for their servers. They would receive something like a hash code that players would put in to download the correct mod pack. This means that we could potentially control what we receive for mods, but I am unsure how the item id's will fare during this. There should be something to switch over the item id's and save our world if that is what we decide, but IF there is no way to save our world we will have no choice but to reset. Bottom line: We are not sure yet, but we currently plan on holding a vote. Look what happens the one time I decide to go to sleep. The map gets reset.
Not sure what is going on, but I just logged in to see the reset and hopped on here to correct my post lol. Edit: looks like the map was corrupt and we could not save it. We are currently using mindcrack from the FTB launcher. No portal guns or mystcraft but looks like everything else is there, with more additions .
I wouldn't mind seeing those come back. Primarily the latter, so we can go dig up temporary ages for resources instead of leaving hundreds of quarries all over the original map. Since we were facing the possibility of a reset anyway, might as well run with what we're stuck with now and hope we can keep it for the long term. I'm sure nobody's happy about having to start over, but all we can do now is make the most of it.
Yep, I don't mind starting over let's just say it was a test run. However, I agree with Liasha that quarries are ugly as anything. Maybe we should have a rule that you either have to cover the quarry and plant trees/terraform the area after a quarry is done or you can only start them underground. Also, it would be nice to be able to get mystcraft back, is there another way of transporting items around?
Mystcraft is in the ultimate pack. The mindcrack pack is supposed to be a harder version of ftb I think, so things like gregtech is tweaked to be harder, and other mods left out. Ultimate pack will solve all the quarry problems hopefully
Let's hope not, I had my town's age going pretty well before the reset, I mean, losing it is one thing, not being able to recreate it is another. I mean, I probably won't rage quit the server, but I'll just be really annoyed
To give a quick recap, the map corrupted last night and investigation led us to believe that it was as a result of the portal gun mod. As a result, we decided to move on with tentative plans to Mindcrack. Though I would love to wait for the ultimate pack, slowpoke of FTB posted today that the ETA on the Ultimate pack is still unknown and that they are waiting for quite a few updates and testing to occur. So, we are with Mindcrack now. The major differences with the pack we have now and Mindcrack is that Mindcrack is updated to 1.4.6, however, it lacks both mystcraft and portal gun. I hate to lose these plugins, but considering they are the largest cause of lag/problems on the server, I'm hoping that it will benefit in the long run. Here are the plugins associated with Mindcrack. I'll try and update them with wiki links when I get the chance. Advanced Machines Advanced Solar Panels Buildcraft 3 ChickenChunks ComputerCraft EnderStorage Extra Bees Extrabiomes XL Factorization Forestry Gravitation Suite Gregtech (Hard recipies) Industrial Craft 2 Iron Chests MiscPeripherals Modular ForceField System Not Enough Items Nuclear Control Obsidian Pressure Plates OmniTools Petroleum Generator Railcraft Red Power 2 Rei's Minimap Soul Shards Steve's Carts 2 Thaumcraft 3 The Twilight Forest Thermal Expansion Traincraft Wireless Redstone-CBE XyCraft Thanks for understanding. I sorry this hard to happen, but the situation got taken out of our hands with the map corruption. As far as I'm concerned, we won't be changing modpacks for quite a while (if ever). This is stable, and though absent with a few cool mods, it should be best in the long term. I'm no expert, but i'll answer questions as they arise.
Also, to play on the server, you are going to need to download the "Mindcrack" pack. The process is very easy. Just open up the FTB launcher, look on the left hand side for the mindcrack pack, and then hit launch. It will do everything else for you.