Hey folks! Feed the Beast is now on Monster pack 1.1.1 after being on 1.1.0 for the past few weeks. Getting on the server is now much easier than before. ultimate.shadecrest.com 1. Download the FTB client from http://feed-the-beast.com/. The .exe version is the easiest form to get started with. 2. Once you have your client downloaded go ahead and open it up. On the left hand side there should be a list of mod packs you can download and play. You'll want to select the Monster mod pack from the list. After selecting that, you'll see a drop down menu of the different Monster mod pack versions. You will want to select version 1.1.1. Once you've done this, go ahead and launch! 3. The IP to the FTB server is ultimate.shadecrest.com. If you try and connect to it now, you might see that you are missing some mods. Don't worry, it is super simple to fix this. Close out of your launcher and re-open it. 4. After re-opening the launcher, go ahead and click on the Edit Mod Pack button near the top of the launcher. The Monster pack gives you a choice of three different mini-maps: Journey, Zen's, or Rei's. You will want to enable one of those and leave the other two disabled. You'll also want to make sure that all mods are enabled except MeteorCraft and DynamicTanks. After you're done moving stuff around, your screen should look something like this. 5. Hit the launch button and you should be good to go! If you have any questions, feel free to ask here.
Tried this on my old iMac. It wasn't happy lol. Took about 10 minutes just to load and then it was really struggling. Might be time to upgrade .
Hm... I am never good with that advanced engineering stuff. When I have to go through more than 10 recipes for one block that does something so utterly simple, that's when my brain starts hurting.
It's not too bad after a while. There's a mod for looking up recipes (NEI), and eventually you get bored and so just make a factory that pumps out a million circuits a minute. and then still get shown up by other players setups.
Taking the time to remind people of two things: FTB is a modpack. This means that you're running several dozen mods at once. This is why you're lagging like heck. You can actually allocate more RAM to the program. I can't quite remember how, but it does help considerably.
Isn't monster still in beta? I would suspect the lag will vet better if it is in beta. Even if its not its was always a very resource intensive mod pack. Biomes o plenty,myst craft and twilight will most likely drain most resources.
We'll be updating our pack to 1.1.0 this evening. This is considered an out-of-beta version. Worlds we have will stay intact. I'll update this thread when everything completes.