Overview

FTB Quests has been lucky enough to find itself in a position where nothing else has really ever been able to compete with it, Its never really felt like it fit within the game, Its a spreadsheet? Its never been immersive, its never been pretty. But what it does do is work, and to its credit it works well.

FTB Quests has managed to establish itself as THE questing mod, you'd be hard pressed to find a large pack these days that doesn't use it, and thats for good reason, its the tried and tested method to guide players through your pack, its easy to set up and its easy to use.

I think we are slowly getting to a stage where people are getting tired of seeing FTB Quests in packs. While it works its doesn't really feel like it fits within the game, its ui doesn't look particularly good and has limited customisability, I've never thought "Oh yes ftb Quests I love this mod!", it more "ah ftb Quests again...".

I think its about time other questing methods are given a chance, Mods like QuestLog show a lot of promise as an option for new pack creators.

As solid as this mod is you won't hear any complaints from me if I were to start seeing it less.

Reviewer's PC Specs:
Windows 11
AMD Ryzen™ 9 7900 @ 3.70GHz - RAM: 32 GB
AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT - VRAM: 16 GB

FTB Quests is one of if not the most popular questing mod out there. An essential mod if you are creating a modpack that has quests in mind.

Gameplay.
Lots of useful tools for creating quests. It features a visual editor that lets anyone, even a beginner, create quests and chapters. It's fairly easy to use and learn. It has lots of useful features and tools for quest creators, like chapters, quests (ofc), tasks, rewards for completing tasks and quests, making quests repetitive, useful commands which in my experience help make quests more multiplayer friendly and more advanced especially for the clear progress command, and just the customizability is amazing.

Performance.
I have noticed nothing performance wise related to FTB Quests, and making quests doesn't seem to affect my performance.

Aesthetics.
I love that it has a visual editor, even more so that everything is nicely designed. The UI is easy on the eyes as well. Honestly not much else to say, it's all nicely designed visually.

One thing that affects my overall rating is that it's only available on CurseForge. There isn't anything wrong with that, but being such a huge mod and again one of if not the most popular questing mod (and also just choosing not to support Modrinth), it's unfortunate it's not on Modrinth as lots of packs, especially those that use FTB Quests such as my studios packs, can't have their packs on Modrinth without having to redo lots of things and have to make do without FTB Quests.

I may be biased due to familiarity, but FTB Quests is hands down my favorite quest mod. Easy controls, great UI, lots of customization options, and tons of features (especially considering kubejs integration) make developing with FTBQ a treat. By default, FTBQ is a streamlined questing system with intuitive visuals, but FTBQ can also be a shop, a bounty board, a virtual portal room, an ore processing diagram, a cross-dimensional telecommunication matrix, or even all five at the same time!
As for downsides, all of those examples will necessarily have an FTB Quests look to them. While you can use a resource pack to replace the (admittedly barebones) default textures and add your own images if you so choose, there are still only a few quest shapes and the UI elements will remain the same. There also aren't any per-player "themes" as some other questing mods have - the textures, colors, and quest shapes will always be the same per pack.
To me, the positives greatly outweigh the negatives. (even though it looks like I wrote about the same amount for each... oops) While I'm all for competition, I have yet to see a quest mod that I prefer to FTBQ.
(I might edit this and put some of my favorite implementations; if you want to see them remind me lol)