The original FTB Ultimate for MC 1.4.7 crashes during startup with new versions of Java. This applies to any 1.4.7 modpack including Forestry or Railcraft. A crash might look like the following:
[SEVERE] [Railcraft] The mod Railcraft is expecting signature a0c255ac501b2749537d5824bb0f0588bf0320fa for source railcraft.jar, however there is no signature matching that description
[SEVERE] [Railcraft] Tampering Detected. Please re-download Railcraft.
- Download this file, name it
java.security
and save it in the instances base folder (the.minecraft
folder) - Add the following Java argument to your game:
-Djava.security.properties=java.security