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I haven't played minecraft in a while, but I really enjoyed Industrial Craft, and haven't heard of Gregtech. I looked into it a while ago, and noticed that IC

by gen220 6y ago

I haven't played minecraft in a while, but I really enjoyed Industrial Craft, and haven't heard of Gregtech. I looked into it a while ago, and noticed that IC hasn't been kept up to date with the latest minecraft versions, maybe it's a dying community. Would you say GT is a spiritual successor? Maybe it's time to fire up the servers this weekend :)

Akronymus 6y ago
GT is to minecraft what angelbobs is to factlrio IMO. A good entry point for GT is, I'd say, Gregblock.
- Macha 6y ago
  Honestly I used to hate Gregtech when it was in modpacks I used to play with my friends for making things grindy, but playing Factorio gave me appreciation for what GT was trying to do. More large scale automation, but at the time we were too used to magic box mods that let you upgrade to faster magic boxes to realise.
  - Akronymus 6y ago
    My personal biggest problem was with the conduct of Greg. But honestly, even that is in the past.
    - Macha 6y ago
      My feeling is the modding scene as a whole and the people in it were much less mature in those days. See also fights between mod authors breaking people's worlds for unsupported combinations or attempts to block use in specific modpacks etc. And the ubiquitious overly modular mod so they could put each component behind its own adfly link.
      - Akronymus 6y ago
        Yeah, with greg, neither side did well.
willis936 6y ago
GT was an add-on to IC2 and its development ran alongside IC2 during IC2’s hayday. There have been six official GT versions, but the latest one is on 1.7.10. GT5 had an expansion to it made (GT5U) that was so great that it inspired the creation of GT New Horizons (GTNH). GTNH is the currently the most active GT community, but it goes a little off the grind deep end imo. There has been a large amount of effort to balance every recipe in a huge number of mods and it’s great fun if you’ve already played through GT a few times. GT Community Edition (GTCE) is a fan recreation of GT5 in contemporary versions of MC. The last I saw, the maintainer had bad vision and was not receptive to feedback. It is not worthy of the GT name.
RealStickman_ 6y ago
I just had a look at IC2 today. Their newest supported Minecraft version is 1.12.2. I decided to go with Thermal Expansion/Dynamics/Foundation instead though. Also for 1.12.2.
- Aeolun 6y ago
  Thermal stuff just feels much better designed and integrated than any of the IC based stuff.

by gen220 6y ago

Akronymus 6y ago

GT is to minecraft what angelbobs is to factlrio IMO. A good entry point for GT is, I'd say, Gregblock.

Macha 6y ago
Honestly I used to hate Gregtech when it was in modpacks I used to play with my friends for making things grindy, but playing Factorio gave me appreciation for what GT was trying to do. More large scale automation, but at the time we were too used to magic box mods that let you upgrade to faster magic boxes to realise.
- Akronymus 6y ago
  My personal biggest problem was with the conduct of Greg. But honestly, even that is in the past.
  - Macha 6y ago
    My feeling is the modding scene as a whole and the people in it were much less mature in those days. See also fights between mod authors breaking people's worlds for unsupported combinations or attempts to block use in specific modpacks etc. And the ubiquitious overly modular mod so they could put each component behind its own adfly link.
    - Akronymus 6y ago
      Yeah, with greg, neither side did well.

willis936 6y ago

GT was an add-on to IC2 and its development ran alongside IC2 during IC2’s hayday. There have been six official GT versions, but the latest one is on 1.7.10. GT5 had an expansion to it made (GT5U) that was so great that it inspired the creation of GT New Horizons (GTNH). GTNH is the currently the most active GT community, but it goes a little off the grind deep end imo. There has been a large amount of effort to balance every recipe in a huge number of mods and it’s great fun if you’ve already played through GT a few times. GT Community Edition (GTCE) is a fan recreation of GT5 in contemporary versions of MC. The last I saw, the maintainer had bad vision and was not receptive to feedback. It is not worthy of the GT name.

RealStickman_ 6y ago

I just had a look at IC2 today. Their newest supported Minecraft version is 1.12.2. I decided to go with Thermal Expansion/Dynamics/Foundation instead though. Also for 1.12.2.

Aeolun 6y ago
Thermal stuff just feels much better designed and integrated than any of the IC based stuff.