Nuts, I was working all day today. Maybe next time.

If you ever decide to go to the modded side of minecraft, let me know. I used to do pack development and can tailor a pack to suit your entertainment.

I am playing modded. I stream from FTB Infinity and on Youtube I'm on FTB Monster. <3 I believe awhile back you had me test out one of your mod pack bundles. I'm always happy to oblige :) Let me know if you ever want on the whitelist to my server : )

I tend to do less... cluttered packs. No offense to FTB, they do good kitchen sink packs. But I'm not a big fan of kitchen sink mod packs, and I really don't like several of the mods they throw in. So I tend to play on stuff I make myself, less 'all the mods' and more focused. My motto in building mod packs is, and has always been, 'Less Is More!'. As a result, it tends to be far easier on the computational cycles and RAM requirements.

I had a pack on ATLauncher for a while, but I kinda stopped public development when Minecraft purchased Mojang. Still, I maintain a private pack for a couple of friends of mine who do a LP found here that updates Mondays and Thursdays (although they have some content up on a daily basis).

Awesome - thank you for sharing! I agree less is more, but when on a multi server you don't always get to pick what is played. Luckily I'm in 2 groups of fun peoples to play all the things. I could really use a tutorial on some of these mod packs though. I'm not very good with the tech stuff.

About half the guides on the FTB wiki were written by yours truly. Which mods do you want a tutorial for?

I only know how to do a little forestry and I know how to build barrels. No clue how do the power stuff or other storage stuff. Really want to do the bees, trees, and butterflies... but it all needs the powers.

Ahh, yea. You're looking at Forestry, Extra Bees, and Gendustry there. When you get into the higher-tech bee-stuff, you need absolutely insane amounts of power. It all runs off of RF in Infinity, although on Monster it still runs on MJ.

Some ideas for power generation:

* Easy mode power is to set up an Ender-Thermic Pump in the Nether, using a Magmatic Dynamo to run it. You set up an Ender Tank to move it to your base, and run a line of Magmatic Dynamos off of it. Pretty Invar intensive for the engines, though. Also doesn't interface well with MJ in Monster. I don't remember if 1.6.4 Gendustry can run off of RF or if it still needed MJ.

* Ethanol can be a power-positive green energy source. You will need a Fermenter, which requires power, water, and something like saplings to ferment. You end up with Biogas. You will also need Mulch or Fertilizer to run the thing. However, Biogas can run in Biogas Engines which produce a decent amount of power. 5 MJ/t per biogas engine.

* Distill Biomass into Ethanol in a Still. This also requires power. However, you can run a liquid fuel Boiler from Railcraft on this stuff, which can produce stupid amounts of power.

* Alternatively, use a solid-fueled boiler with a tree farm. You can use a steam oven to cook nine wood into charcoal at a time and throw it all into the boiler. It produces crazy amounts of steam that can be piped into steam engines. One 36 HP boiler can produce enough steam to produce like 144 MJ/t. This is probably easier than the liquid boiler. It does require copious quantities of steel, however. Since Mekanism isn't in the pack, you may need to either use a Blast Furnace from Railcraft or something else that can be used as steel to make your boiler.

Most of what you wrote is Greek to me >.>

You don't need power to do basic bee breeding, you just need some Forest bees and some Plains bees. Cross-breed them until you get Common bees. Then crossbreed either the forest or the plains into the common to get Cultivated bees. Try to get a purebred Cultivated queen. Then go from there.

Power basics: There's generators, there's things that run on power, and there's things that transmit that power. In 1.6.4, there are three power systems to deal with. Buildcraft, Forestry, and Railcraft all run on Minecraft Joules (MJ). Some of their dependent mods also run on MJ. IndustrialCraft2 runs on Electric Units (EUs). It is a completely different mechanic and is incompatible with MJ (although there's a couple of ways to convert). Then there's Thermal Expansion's power system: Redstone Flux (RF). In effect, ten RF = 1 MJ, however not everything can run on RF that runs on MJ.

This is why in my mod pack you playtested, there was only a single power system, Redstone Flux. In 1.7, MJ retired, so you only have two power systems to work with: EU and RF, so that's all you have to deal with in Infinity.

Your basic engines tend to run off of things that burn, like charcoal. They tend to not produce a lot of power, but tend to be pretty inexpensive to make. For example, the Steam Dynamo from Thermal Expansion (you can look up the recipe in NEI) runs on things that burn as fuel and water that you can pipe in to produce 80 RF/t. I would look up 'engine' and 'dynamo' to look up the various ways and means of producing power. You might also look up 'generator', but anything from IndustrialCraft2 produces EU which won't help you get your bees going.

Once you get some power and some machines up and running, and you get into the Nether to plunder resources found there, you can make yourself a Blast Furnace from Railcraft. It is a large multiblock structure, the details of which can be found here. This is used to make Steel, which is necessary to make a High Pressure Boiler that produces enough power to run your energy hog machines from the mod used to help your bee breeding.