Technic News

Many of you have noticed the teaser page for our new pack: Attack of the B-Team!  This new pack is a large modpack with big ores, and a mad science theme!  It's also a collaboration between us and the incredible B-TEAM!  Youtube superstars Generikb and BDoubleO100 will be leading an all-star team of youtubers in an ongoing Lets Play series of the pack, which kicks off this Friday at 3:00 PM EST with a massive livestream event!  Featured in the team: ChimneySwift11, Keralis, Skyzm, MrWoofless, and Pungence.  There will also be a server build team, led by Glis!

So where does that leave you, our players?  We hope you'll be playing along at home with the Attack of the B-Team modpack!  Attack of the B-Team is Technic's first ever modpack to launch in conjuction with a charity fundraiser, and those who donate get access to the pack at the same time the B-Team does!  100% of all money goes to Child's Play charity, a wonderful cause which delivers toys and games to hospitals, to brighten the days of sick children.  Donate at least $5 to the cause through our teaser page and you'll be playing Attack of the B-Team on Friday afternoon.  Otherwise, you'll get access to the pack during the public release on Monday.

So, here's the schedule:

• From now through Monday, February 3rd at 3:00 PM EST: Donate to Child's Play Charity through our teaser page to bring fun to sick kids!
• Thursday, January 30th at 11:59PM EST: We release the server files to the public, allowing admins to get their servers ready for Early Access players!
• Friday, January 31st at 3:00 PM EST: Everyone who has donated at least $5 receives Early Access to the pack! Anyone who donates at least $5 after this point will receive Early Access within minutes of their donation!
• Also Friday, January 31st at 3:00 PM EST: The kickoff livestream event begins! This awesome live stream event featuring GenerikB and BDoubleO100 will continue for several hours as they introduce you to the finer points of Attack of the B-Team!
• Monday, February 3rd at 3:00 PM EST: Attack of the B-Team is released to the general public and the Child's Play charity event ends!
• Forward, Into The Future: The Attack of the B-Team Let's Play series begins!

This morning, many users noticed an outage where they were unable to download a number of libraries when installing a modpack, resulting in crashes when the modpack tried to launch.  We just rolled out Launcher build Stable #374 to address this issue.  So what happened?

Surprisingly, it wasn't a bug in Stable #373 as many people thought-  this morning, Mojang rolled out a change to move the core Minecraft libraries to a new location, leaving us unable to download them.  The change we rolled out pointed the launcher correctly at the new location.

So how can we prevent this from happening in the future?  We've received a few resources that will help us stay better apprised of what Mojang is up to, ideally allowing us to learn of changes like these BEFORE they go live.  We hope this will allow us to better serve you in the future, with fewer outages like these.  Thanks so much for your patience and support!

Well, we are all home safe from Minecon and let me just start by saying it was incredible. Being able to meet all of ours fans in person was truly an enlightening experience. Every day we know that what we do is something that millions of people enjoy, but to see the direct result of that in person really just focuses and motivates us to continue to produce better content for the players.

To anyone and everyone that thanked us there for what we do, thank YOU for continuing to support us. We will not let you down!

For those of you that may have not known, or maybe missed it, we were on the panel "Bringing Modding to the Masses." You can watch a recording of it here.

We understand that a lot of you were probably hoping for more information about the future of Technic or what is coming next. Sadly we were not given much time pre-Q&A to really get to explain anything beyond what we do and our panel time itself was only 40 minutes. Do not worry though, we will soon be revealing that information anyways.

In the near-future we will start pulling back the covers on some of the systems we have been working day and night to put into place for you guys. Lots of improvements and changes are coming to the Platform and the Launcher and I am super excited to start showing it off.

Again though, thank you to everyone who continues to support us. You make what we do worth it.

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CanVox, Olloth, sct and I, Kakermix, will be at Minecon this coming weekend, November 2nd and 3rd. We will also be on the panel "Bringing Modding to the Masses" at 3:40 PM on Sunday, along with our friends at Feed The Beast. 

If you are going to be at Minecon this weekend be sure to keep a look out for four idiots wearing Technic shirts and come say hi!

We're happy to welcome a new mod to the Technic family: qCraft!  Developed by dan200 in association with minecraft.edu, Google, and other partners, qCraft is a fun, interesting mod that we think you'll really enjoy.  It's currently available in the "Latest" builds of both Tekkit and Hexxit.

To find out more about the mod, check out http://qcraft.org

To learn more about the current beta version of Hexxit, visit http://forums.technicpack.net/threads/lets-test-hexxit-1-0-8.53200/

To learn more about the current beta version of Tekkit, visit http://forums.technicpack.net/threads/lets-test-tekkit-1-1-9.53199/