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Here's a list of mods for those interested:

Carpenter's Blocks: Lets you build structures with more than just cubes, add slopes, angles, etc, and texture them with any block texture you like

Ancient Warfare: Awesome mod. Through research you can create your own armies of NPCs to work and fight alongside you. Also adds hostile camps of NPCs to the map, sort of mini-dungeons on the surface.

Thaumcraft 4/Automagy/Forbidden Magic: Mainstay magic mod. Research new spells and tools, but beware your sanity! Researching darker arts may be hazardous to your health.

BiomesOPlenty: Adds in a slew of new biomes to the default Minecraft list. Arctic tundra, bamboo forests, cherry blossom groves, jade cliffs, dark forests, etc.

Chisel 2/Decocraft/Ye Gamol Chattels/Bibliocraft: Decorative mods, let you add some flavor and variety to your creations. Wardrobes, tables, weapon racks, banners, etc. Huge fan of YGC in particular, it lets you cut planks from wood, sand and varnish them, and make some really neat furniture.

Growthcraft: Brew your own beer/wine/potions!

Immersive Engineering: Tech mod, has a steampunk feel to it. Build windmills, waterwheels and other generators, uses actual wire (think old school telegraph wires) to transfer power around. Has some fun tools and pistols associated with it.

Malisis Doors: Adds several new, cool looking door types, with their own custom animations.

Pam's Harvestcraft: Adds a lot of different food types and cooking recipes to the game.

Witchery: Another magic mod for those with a taste for the classic "witch" motif. Brew potions, make voodoo dolls, bind familliars, summon demons, walk in other planes. Rumor has it you can even dabble in vampirism and lycanthropy.

Just bumping. I'm on.

Well done, Trug. :)

J

I'll start playing if it gets active. Atm I'm selective as to what I download, computer is getting slower

At the moment we've got 6 players, with around 2-3 people on most of the time. 4 factions have formed, but things are still more or less peaceful.

The more the merrier of course, so if anyone is looking for something to while away the hours, give modded Minecraft a shot!

Nice, will check it out. Do I need to download those mods?

NVM I see what I need to do! Great idea!

Hello folks,

There's a few of us on every night. Not enough to make things interesting between factions (I mean, it'd largely be 1v1 affairs), but the plugins added by this modpack are amazing. They had a lot of pre-generated structures to the world (real castles, bandit and cultist camps, outposts, witches huts to name but a few) along with NPCs to fight. They add magic, engineering, crafting but just enough so we don't fall into the classic "spaceship" problem.

There's tons to discover and explore. Server is brand new and has a lot of potential should we get more players.

Edit:

Also, if you are unable to allocate more than 1gb of RAM in the launcher, it's because you're running Java 32 bits. Download Java 64 bits there: http://www.java.com/en/download/manual.jsp

Although things have been peaceful so far, rumor has it that a sinister crew was seen coming ashore in the dead of night. Warfare between factions might not be as far off as we thought.

Faction Update:

Currently the Factions mod isn't charging upkeep properly. I've got a ticket in with the mod developer to get it fixed, but in the meantime upkeep on your territory is free. You still need to have at least 1 point in your vault in order for protection to work, but it will never withdraw funds.

Don't go crazy though, upkeep WILL be back sooner rather than later, and you don't want to end up losing your turf because your account gets nailed with a 50+ charge every 12 hours.

I have the Mojang splash page and it keeps says "not responding" at Loading- Initializing mods phase I 2/7.

I had the same problem after I updated Java. For some reason it updated to 32-bit version from 64-bit. The 32-bit has 1 gb memory limit and it got stuck to Phase I 2/7 part.

I reinstalled 64-bit Java, changed Technic Launcher settings to use 4 gb and after that everything worked fine.

AHHH, got it and am in. Thanks much