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@dizzysoul
preserveBlock is what you want. See the current included underground gruins (such as ArrowTrapTomb or AlchemistsDungeon), they merge into existing landscapes and biomes fine.

Quote from Auric245524

I agree with you there, but this is instant death. By the time you realize what it is it's too late. The thaumnomicon doesn't even say anything about them. Players with no knowledge of hungry nodes who run across one are likely going to die.

I was nearly killed by one myself but because I knew what it was, and had the tools, I was able to safely escape. Hungry nodes are pretty much a wrong place, wrong time situation. See those surface lava lakes? Easy enough to avoid. Walking across newly generated land without goggles or a method of flight? Say goodbye to all your stuff.

Mostly it's the lack of information in the thaumnomicon I dislike more then the hungry nodes themselves. The thaumnomicon is meant to be an ingame wiki but yet it says nothing of this death trap that generates naturally on the surface and can be difficult to spot when freshly generated.

Lots of stuff is instant death in minecraft.

As an amusing sidenote my one and only run-in with a hungry node ingame went pretty much as anyone elses. I was mining underground in Forgecrafts digger age and came upon a large spherical cave. I was very impressed by how it looked and wondered if it was a vanilla anomaly or some other mod that added it. However I was instantly distracted by the HUGE node roughly in the middle of the chamber and walked in to go scan it. You know the rest...

In the case of this node it had been chunkloaded so long it had eaten all the blocks within range and wasn't generating particles anymore (they currently only generate off stuff within range). In short - I agree they should be a little more obvious and I will see what I can do about that.

Quote from flamedance58

What is it that Optifine does that makes the Nodes in Silvertrees go invisible? I know their there cause my Goggles and Scanner show the text that says "Pure" and the Aspects inside but their invisible still.

Anyone have an idea whether it's just how Optifine handles lighting,etc? Would I raise this issue with the coder of Opti?

I suspect optifine does optimizations on its side like not drawing things that are completely inside other objects. Usually this is a good thing, but in the case of nodes it will make them invisible.

Quote from Nekowulf

May I please get a clarification of this clarification of your clarification of a clarification?

Are modders allowed to:
1: Dictate where users are allowed to obtain their mod from, including force an adfly download?
Yes
2: Dictate who can and cannot use their mod via various forms of digital rights management (DRM) code?
No
3: Collect information on users by having their mods check in with a certral server, ranging from a simple "check this file online for an updated list" that by default will log IP addresses to recording MC user names?
Check for updates and such? I'm thinking yes, but the rest of the question - no
4: Dictate which mods can and cannot be used in an install alongside their mod?
No
5: Interfere with the function of minecraft and/or the users computer based on install directory or logged in user?
No
6: Dictate who can and cannot re-implement features present in their existing mod in a new mod?
If it breaks their IP and copyright, then of course yes.

Apart from point 1 and 6, this is all just my opinion.

Forestry and Railcraft add their recipes themselves (and Forestry currently uses the wrong metadata ID for the machines, so some of them display the wrong machine, and others don't display a proper machine at all).

Included in CraftGuide itself: Vanilla crafting; OreDictionary crafting; IC2 crafting; IC2 machines (macerator, compressor, extractor); IC2 scrapbox drops; Vanilla smelting; Forge metadata-sensitive smelting; GregTech machines (too many to count, including generators. Currently missing the plasma generator for the new fusion reactor output); BTW machines (not as many as GregTech, but still quite a few. Not tested in 1.5. At some point, needs an update to better reflect an old API change that allows BTW add-ons to add their own recipes for certain more unusual machines); BWR (a BTW server add-on) recipes; Vanilla furnace burn value tooltips; IC2 generator burn value tooltips (usually based on vanilla furnace value, though there are a few exceptions).

Not included in CraftGuide, from mods partially included: IC2 massfab amplifier tooltips; GregTech plasma generator outputs; probably a few other things.

Some mods which do not have any recipes included in CraftGuide (though it is possible that someone wrote a mod to add them): Railcraft and Forestry add recipes themselves; Buildcraft; Factorization; Thermal expansion; RP2 (alloy funace recipes were included in CraftGuide until Minecraft 1.4, disabled because I was unable to test whether they still worked, and haven't been re-added yet); Applied Energistics; Any of the Universal Electricity-based mods; Thaumcraft; TerraFirmaCraft; Metallurgy; and countless other mods that I have not used recently enough to remember or find in a folder full of old mods.