So guys, we're going to be starting a new world on the Minecraft server within the next few days. As stated before, there will be a download for the current world that I will link around the time we restart. That being said, I want some opinions from those who want mods, mod suggestions from said people, and I also want the opinions of those who want to play vanilla (no mods). Don't make this a troll/bash thread, I want some god damn opinions.

-Dead

I say mods. Although I likely won't play that much at first (due to the D3 release), I think things like IC2/BC/Redpower add to the game and help keep it interesting. The matter generation aspect of IC2 is such a F*CKING nightmare that it's not really worth doing (in most cases) so I don't see that as a drawback.

And the best part is, if you like vanilla, you can still play the game as if it were vanilla. The extra ores and shit don't have to be picked up... or you could pick them up and use them as currency with the IC2/BC/Redpower players.

My $0.02

Neither for nor against mods. I'm just going to play. lol

Anxious to get in on this from the beginning :) I'll admit to being a bit bored with vanilla. . so I'd be down with those mods listed above. This could happen tomorrow as far as I'm concerned :P get to work DMR :P

I think the mods would be awesome for people who want to explore. And to be honest I probably wouldn't use them. But like you said, I can choose not to and it would not affect my game play at all.

Im all for mods, playing both vanilla in single player, and in the server. Would be nice to have a little change with it all.

I guess i'll be the lone vote for no mods.

I say mods. Give it a shot for this go-round. If people think it detracts, then drop it for the next spin. The way acid showed me for the latest test server makes the process SOOO much easier on the client side.

The thing is, we need to settle on which mods (and the ones G stated are good by me) because adding new mods mid-deploy would be a nightmare for everyone plus an extra hassle in the case the mod adds minerals / tree types / biomes (Red Power adds biomes) / etc.

I say full RP and BC -- IC2 if people want it. Those 3 work fairly well together and aren't all that crazy. Also, Rei's minimap is boss if you haven't tried it.

Also, Buildcraft has a "Trade-o-mat" item that you can setup to securely trade any resource for any other resource. You can define exchange ratios and "customers" can trade for as much material as the "owner" supplied.

I know this has been an issue people have been interested in.

If i get a vote on mods I'd say IC2, BC and full RP also.

Well i don't really care either way, but i would give them a shot dmr, if we [as a whole] dont like them then i suppose we will find out. Are we going to keep white list?

Yes whitelist is going to stay. Keeps MOST of the assholes out. BC, IC2 and RP are probably going to be the only mods for the time being unless something else sparks anyone's interest and it works well with those.

I vote in favor of mods.

IC is dependent on the forestry mod IIRC -- you need it to get rubber trees to make insulated wire to make circuits and shit, so we'll need that.

I'm also a huge fan of the minimap plugin as well. There's really no reason to not have it.

I think the rubber tree is separate from Forestry. At least thats what I got when I read the wiki. (PS studying that image is so helpful as all of the rubber trees have that same shape with the little spoke on top)

The full redpower also has rubber trees when it generates biomes (we don't see them in the test server cause acid imported a world durdurr acid durrr), but I'm not sure whether those rubber trees are compatible with IC2.

Anyway, if thats the only reason you want forestry then I think we can drop it but if you just want it in general that should be fine. I know it gets tricky when you have "too many" mods since they use up the available block-id space since they're not written real well (RP2 is an exception, it uses subblock IDs primarily).

Whatever, we'll figure it out.