User:Xbony2

Hello. I am Xbony2 (he/him). I started playing Minecraft in 1.2.5, so you could say I've been around for a while. In 1.4.2, I got into playing the Feed The Beast Beta Pack A, and later moved to the (Original) MindCrack Pack and then to FTB Ultimate plus a few mods (I moved my world over each time). Yeah, I'm a big modded Minecraft fan. I started coding and modding for the first time in 1.4.7, although my first projects didn't work out so well. I improved with time, and in 1.7.2 I created a working and somewhat decent mod called "Bitm" (Bony's Industrial Technology Mod) although it was never released. I did get into a few other projects; I helped port IC2 Nuclear Control to 1.7.2 and I am currently the unofficial maintainer of it (I've helped port a couple of other mods too, but none are as well-known as that one). When the author of my favorite mod, GregTech, announced he would use this wiki, the Feed The Beast Wiki, as GregTech's official wiki starting with GregTech 5, I decided to make it my official wiki as well for Nuclear Control. The FTB Wiki's IndustrialCraft 2 section was fairly incomplete (and still is >.>), so I decided to work on it and go expand it. I got into documenting a few mods, and in 2015 I ended up focusing more on documentation than modding. I've slowed down recently but am still one of the wiki's biggest editors. I've developed a greater interest in wikis and documentation, and although I still focus on my home wiki (this wiki), I have sometimes contributed to other Gamepedia wikis and to other wikis in general (mostly just fixing stuff). At the time of writing, I have more than 50,000 edits on this wiki, and plenty on other wikis, which is pretty cool. I can't really play modded Minecraft (and sometimes other games) without documenting stuff, which sometimes leads to the creation of very arbitrary pages.

Number of Wiki Articles:

Goal for 2020: Truth be told, I've been neglecting this wiki for a while. In 2019 I didn't make a single new article, and it's not like I did much else productive. A lot of this is because I had 4 college level classes in the spring semester and then 5 actual college classes in the fall semester. But even so, I didn't do anything over summer either. I guess contributing to this wiki for years, at some points almost every day, burned me out. When I did try to get back into an editing swing during 2019 and also late 2018, I just didn't want to do it. Wiki work has never been super exciting but it's still worthwhile, but then I just could not be more apathetic.

But, working on ESAEBSAD2, doing maintenance work, and created some new articles over the holiday break, I've felt less alienated from the work being done. I think I've gotten over my long burnout. I don't feel invigorated to crank out articles like I used to, and I won't have the time to, but I do want to return to contributing to the wiki on an active or at least semi-active basis, enough to at least keep track of Special:RecentChanges and respond accordingly. The work that I have done on this wiki is probably the most significant thing I've done in my life so far (I haven't been alive very long okay lol) and it's always been something that's valuable to me and that I can be proud of, so it's a good thing to return to. I haven't been able to keep up with modded news, and they release new versions of Minecraft so much quicker now, so honestly I might end up focusing more on maintenance stuff than on creating new articles.

My goal for 2020 is to simply help this wiki be the best wiki that it can be. I honestly can't guarantee that this goal won't be abandoned when classes hit. I wanted to become active again in early 2019 and I didn't. But it might be different. As I've grown older, I question more what I want to do with my life and what my purpose is. I don't have the answers but I have a few ideas. I want things I can be proud of, and I also want to contribute to the world, even if it's not in a huge way. This wiki is a part of that. I don't know how much it contributes to the world to be honest. These days people seem to prefer in-game docs or YouTube videos, and a lot of the information can be found elsewhere. Plus plenty of the stuff I personally document isn't that used (like The Mists of RioV lol). And in ten or twenty years, it's possible that the whole modded thing could be over. But, in the very least Special:Analytics does suggest that a lot of people still use the ol' wiki. And one of my values is a belief in information for all. In my opinion, everything should be documented, even if it doesn't get a lot of views.

Failing that it looks good on my resume at least. It's a lot of time committed and I've done so much that I've forgotten most of it. Anyway, if you bothered reading this and got this far, I encourage to consider signing up for the 2019-2020 Editathon (I'll make the page soon, I promise). It only had like two participants last year so yeah. I also encourage you to have a happy New Year and all that, and hope you feel motivated to do wiki work with me and keep me accountable. Being bothered in regards to the MCW import project has probably helped motivate me to do stuff lol. Anyway, hopefully you will see more of me around. I also hope that even though classes take up a lot of time, some will actually help me contribute to the wiki, with COMP classes being useful for technical reasons, and maybe enough SPAN classes will make me good enough to translate for the wiki. idk. I've spent a long time writing this so i'm just going to stop it here. happy holidays/new year ya'll

-Xbony2, December 26th, late at night

Things I have done on this wiki:
 * Documented IC2 Nuclear Control, IndustrialCraft 2, AFSU Mod, The Mists of RioV 2/The Mists of RioV, Falling Meteors Mod, GregTech 4, Immersive Engineering, Immersive Integration, Engineer's Toolbox, Thaumcraft 4, Thaumcraft 5, Steel Sheep, Pam's HarvestCraft, Simply Jetpacks, Ztones, Aether II, Ender IO, Charset, Inventory Pets, Actually Additions, Quark, EnderZoo, The One Probe, Roots, Hexxit Gear, Bullseye, PowerCraft, Exchangers, Rustic, Thermal Foundation, Thaumcraft 6... (some completely or near completely, some in smaller fragments)
 * Did a bunch of maintenance work (I'd say 50% of my edits are maintenance-ish, and 50% is new documentation). Including translation stuff (I'm the translation administrator and the person to talk to about translation of content here).
 * Called SatanicSanta a "meany-face".
 * Created the IP award (Santa is the first staff to receive it, btw) (Choco made it into a template, but I created it first. The picture is still named "Bony_Joke_Please_Ignore.png").
 * Used terrible or no summaries. 0% of them include good grammar. Many include lyrics, but I have issues picking out lyrics so they're often short or nonsensical.
 * Welcomed a couple editors to the wiki (none of them stayed, of course).
 * Found myself (I guess).
 * Made many weird jokes.
 * Mega achievement? Mega achievement (easy peasy, if I could collect repeat mega achievements I'd have like 20).
 * I got Editor of the month! (the actual trophy came in fairly late, but still)
 * Got more more wikipoints/edits than EVERYONE ELSE! (I hope they don't catch up)

Current focuses

 * Not updating this list mostly. I'm kinda sort on break. Maybe I'll be more active one day...
 * Updating/finishing off current mods-
 * Immersive Engineering (stuff missing but current pages updated except for one update).
 * Quark (need to from update 106+).
 * Charset (needs some update).
 * Actually Additions (I should check).
 * Document Roots (maybe not).
 * Documents Roots 2 (maybe).
 * Document Extra Utilities 2 (maybe).
 * Document Tech Reborn (maybe not)
 * Document Industrial Foregoing.
 * Document Thermal Foundation (new stuff).
 * Document Thaumcraft 6 (hopefully).
 * Misc maintenance and improvements.
 * Eat newcomers.

Mods that I kinda wanna document
This could be seen by some as a TODO list, but it's not all stuff that I'll necessarily get around to, but would like to. These aren't "reserved" by me or anything; if you ask me "hey bony what mods need documentation?" I might point you to this list (or say "all of them", which is more accurate ¯\_(ツ)_/¯). These aren't in any order.
 * GregTech 5/GregTech 5 Unofficial changes
 * GT++
 * GregTech 6
 * Biomes O' Plenty
 * RFTools (and McJty's other mods)
 * Storage Drawers
 * Better With Mods
 * Literal Ascension
 * Tech Reborn
 * OpenComputers
 * TIS-3D
 * Totemic
 * Thermal Expansion 5
 * Tough As Nails
 * Rustic
 * Thaumic Potatoes 2
 * Embers
 * Better With Mods (and Better Than Wolves while we're at it, but people don't need that as much).
 * Astral Sorcery (most requested from survey)
 * Gadgetry (Gadgetry: Core, Gadgetry: Machines and Gadgetry: Transmission)
 * Stuff on the current focuses that I haven't been focusing on at all (like most of them).

Contact

 * If you have a long message (longer than ten characters), the best place to put is on my talk page. I don't check it super often because wiki notifications are messy, so maybe ping me on discord that there's an update to the talk page. If you want me to do something or remember something later, than the talk page is better than the Discord.
 * And yeah, I'm on the FTB Wiki Discord. You should totally join it. I'm also on the Gamepedia/FANDOM Discord as well as a ton of various modded Minecraft Discords.

Languages

 * English: I'm a native speaker of English.
 * Dialect: American English. I have a mostly "neutral" American accent, but a very good listener/linguist might be able to pick out a bit of Southernness in it.
 * Spanish: I was learning Spanish in high school. Tenía la clase de español tres, pero I stopped after that. I will be retaking it this semester though (yay). I have been doing a decent amount of Duolingo also.
 * Dialect: I never really got into Spanish enough to have a sense of its dialects. I use "tú" and "ustedes," and I guess I'd try to use "usted" but I'm less used to that. It's reasonable to assume I speak with an American accent. I often pronounce the Spanish "b"/"v" like an English "v," and "y"/"ll" like an English "y" (like in "you" or "yeah"). I like the word "bacán".
 * Lojban: coi .i I've studied Lojban from reading the reference manual and contributing to Wiktionary, as well as doing a tiny bit of translation (Minecraft, here, Lojban Wikipedia). I lost the interest a while back though. "jbo-1" is a massive exaggeration.
 * Latin: I took Latin I online. I can translate some stuff with a dictionary and charts.
 * Dialect: Classical Latin. My pronunciation probably sounds like Spanish but a bit flatter (Latin isn't usually spoken though so it doesn't matter much). I've been trying to remind myself that "v" is pronounced like an English "w" but to little luck. I prefer SOV.
 * Esperanto: I studied some Esperanto on Duolingo, but I dislike the language and have stopped learning it. I'm kind of disappointed that it's the face of constructed languages (cough). I'm probably not going to return to it unless I get a written note that it impresses babes.
 * Ukrainian: I don't really know any Ukrainian, but I intend to learn at least a little bit someday. Maybe I'll study Russian off of that.

My subpages
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Other Xbony2 pages

 * THE PROPER BACKUP INDEX IS HERE.
 * Xbony2
 * User:Xbony2 (um that's this page)
 * UserProfile:Xbony2
 * Special:Contributions/Xbony2
 * User talk:Xbony2
 * Special:Editcount/Xbony2

Navboxes I've made
See User:Xbony2/DPL/Navboxes made by me Plus re-created navboxes:
 * Extra Utilities
 * Factorization
 * GrowthCraft
 * Ender IO
 * Draconic Evolution
 * EnderZoo

Random random pages

 * Special:Random
 * Special:Random/Template
 * Special:Random/Translations
 * Special:RandomRedirect

Other things that go places

 * Special:SupportedLanguages
 * Special:TranslationStats
 * Special:Translate/!recent
 * Butts
 * 10k EDITS BIEACH
 * last G edit
 * Fixing of a minor typo
 * bdew
 * Adding important missing info
 * Reintroduced screamer
 * FTB Wiki official theme-song
 * Update tilesheet official theme-song
 * Eliminate G official theme-song
 * Mass-translation markup official theme-song
 * Official theme-song theme-song
 * My favorite vandalism- a (sort of) translation to Romanian
 * PRPRPRORPPRPRO TIP! you can look at "newbie" edits here
 * First page!

Wikis I sometimes poke around at for structural ideas

 * The Official Minecraft Wiki
 * Wiktionary
 * Wowpedia
 * The unofficial Feed The Beast Wiki
 * mcmod.cn

List of articles translated with the older format

 * Xeno's Reliquary/nl
 * FTB Lite/ru
 * YogCraft Modpack/ru


 * Conductive Pipe/nl
 * Waterproof Pipe/nl


 * Module (Steve's Carts)/fr
 * Getting Started (IndustrialCraft 2)/fr
 * Addon (Steve's Carts)/zh
 * Extra Bees/ru
 * Monitor/fr
 * Minecraft Joules/nl
 * Charcoal Pit/zh-cn
 * Teleporter (GregTech 5 Unofficial)/zh-cn
 * Crops (GregTech)/zh-cn
 * Feed The Beast Wiki:Community portal/pt-br
 * Feed The Beast Wiki:Community bulletin board/pt-br
 * Feed The Beast Wiki:Community portal/Open tasks/pt-br
 * Feed The Beast Wiki:Current news/pt-br
 * Fusion (GregTech 5 Unofficial)/fr
 * Activity Detector/ru
 * Computer Monitor (GregTech 5)/ru
 * Feed The Beast Wiki:Community portal/Open tasks/Task/pt-br
 * Community/pl
 * 3D-Furnace/pl
 * 4-Space/pl
 * Mods/pl
 * How to install Minecraft mods/pl
 * Fusion reactor/fr
 * List of modded acronyms/ja
 * Template:Navbox AE2 Tech Addon/ru


 * Thaumcraft 3/nl
 * Liquid/nl
 * Actually Additions/es
 * Solar Panel (Actually Additions)/es
 * Dissolution/zh-cn
 * Template:Navbox IndustrialCraft 2/ru
 * Quark/de

Wikis

 * Minecraft Wiki
 * Wikipedia
 * Lojban Wikipedia
 * Wiktionary
 * Lojban Wiktionary
 * RationalWiki
 * Habbo Wiki
 * Wowpedia
 * Terraria Wiki
 * TMOLE wiki
 * Savage Land Wiki
 * Hello Neighbor Wiki
 * Don't Starve Wiki
 * The unofficial Feed The Beast Wiki

Other websites

 * Twitter
 * GitHub
 * Reddit
 * CurseForge
 * The Minecraft Forums
 * IC2 Forums
 * FTB Forums
 * Planet Minecraft
 * Technic Forums
 * Better Than Wolves Forum
 * Minecraft Forge Forums
 * Medium
 * YouTube
 * Twitch
 * Codecademy
 * Imgur
 * BitBucket
 * Klei Forums



FTB Wiki skins
The FTB Wiki has gone through a lot of different skins. This is a list of them.
 * "Early default"
 * "Early default" with logo
 * "Black and orange"- first custom skin
 * early "FTB Skin"
 * fixing the damn red links in "FTB Skin"
 * final "FTB Skin"
 * Current default- "Hydra"
 * Current- "Hydra Dark"

Sturf
Old archives.

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