The Tech Bandaid of Generic Modpacks before Create came

If you've ever played modded once, you'll just know about this mod. It's literally the one plug of almost any modpack that wants a very little bit of tech to it, without much effort of integrating. With that being said though, it doesn't mean that this mod is bad at all, it's really good, but it sure does gets bland after a while too many times seeing it in kitchen sinks...

Do note that this review by all means, applies to the entire mekanism module, it is not a sole review of just plain mekanism and nothing else, this is simply due to the fact that mekanism without those, does feel a bit lackluster... those modules will get their specific reviews, and this one here will be the general experience review of mekanism

So what's the deal?

The Good

1. It's pretty straightforward in it's progression, mine iron, osmium, redstone, and some other thingies, make machine, make that. And you'll get a way of way of increasing your efficiency at first, like instead of crafting logs, you can sawmill it and get more planks and sawdusts, very convenient. The longer you play, you get more choices and machines, you get pipes, you get generators, you get tanks to hold chemicals and so on and so on. You go from making more efficient methods of processing your items, to automation, to basically a whole working factory for your whole needs, very convenient, atleast until the nuclear spam... yeah

2. It actually integrates very well with a lot of mods, making it pretty compatible with anything, by default it does energy conversion (RF, FE, AE, etc), it automatically sees into the item tags to make it compatible for processing... say, woods from Twilight Forest, Regions Unexplored, etc etc. And if it isn't, you got tons of community addons already because the mod...

3. The mod is mature, it's no longer in big development hell where the devs simply doesn't know what to do, it's tested and thrown into many packs that doesn't sound fitting (RLCraft, etc) and it still kinda works in respect to the pack's progression.

4. It's intuitive... yeah, technically an overlap with point 1 and 3, but pretty much that's exactly what the mod should be, Mekanism just makes sense to be used. It has logistics, energy generation, storage, and the machines itself, which made it pretty much a really intuitive "path of least resistance" way before you experience more of teching your gregs

Now, what's actually wrong with the Mekanism experience?

The Bad

1. Believe it or not, when a mod adds more types of ores than your usual ingots, etc, the amount of bloat just skyrockets... i've never seen someone really enjoyed pure Mekanism, or just any other tech mods that added more types of ores, unless they themselves got a backpack mod or bundles or something. Regardless this is a very common issue that came from design decisions, so, yeah

2. Performance can sometimes drop, i don't need to explain this as i feel like a lot of you would already know of how heavy tech mods usually are, but is it really our fault of making 9000 wind generators cause we don't wanna risk a Nuclear fallout that just nukes your frames faster than anything else

I feel like that's all i can say, uh, Mekanism is honestly good, the bloat did distill fear on people that's gonna play the mod, and there's certainly balancing issues, but Mekanism is still very cool! very very solid mod... would recommend this over Create for new players, especially for those who wanna start on experiencing older Minecraft modpacks, good mod~