Exosphere 1

Exosphere 1 or BM Exosphere 1, is a modpack that does almost the exact same with about all other adventure/tech/kitchensink 1.20.1 modpack with exactly one twist, the entire world is an old Minecraft-type sky island type, fall down and it's all void, that's it

Now you might be wondering, why would i rate it this high compared to most other 1.20.1 modpacks when the only most notable difference is the world type? like, i can just play skyblock or whatever, but here's the thing

The whole modpack is actually pretty much designed around this, and as generic as all the mods that were being put into this pack, they all blend surprisingly well for the world type at hand... now let me just get into the points of the pack

The Good

1. This pack's world type adds so much verticality to the game, in a regular Minecraft world, you wouldn't always be changing the height of where you look, not even in the mines, in this pack however, you will not be seen at once or ever be at the same vertical level whenever you are exploring, and although it sounds like something's that can be bad for exploring, the pack gives you a soulbound grappling hook at the start, so you can pretty much explore easily, and it isn't that hard to be repaired either, PLUS it finally gave a good meaning to Elytras as now you have some sort of things to crash into instead of just occasional mountains and then flat lands everywhere else like in Vanilla

2. The pack has quest that does a surprisingly good job for people to read and learn about the pack or even Minecraft in general, like, i can see people actually start out on Exosphere instead of regular Minecraft, but then again that's from me, this pack seems pretty introductory for everyone starting out on modpacks and goes easy on veterans

3. Balance, every mod is still generic in here, but they all work in conjunction to how the world itself looks, ore creepers would be absolutely busted if not for the fact that you're playing on sky islands where finding diamonds = risking void death, and that's just one of many implied interactions that i get from this modpack, it's just so refreshing

The Bad

Genuinely i don't think i can exactly pinpoint the actual bad part as many forge (or even fabric) 1.20.1 modpacks has this same issue with fps/tps stability, there is a very heavy lag when you start out with the Complementary shaders settings until i tone it down (it was at 45 fps, now runs at 90 after i reduce shadowres, runs at 150 fps without the shaders at 8 chunk render dist), lag spikes happens once every few hours and noticably gets worse with more backpacks you get but this is more of a mod fault rather than a pack fault, there are times i see villages without villagers which could either be due to the worldgen made it harder for villagers to survive or other underlying system issue to which i don't know the exact thing is, but overall, none of this is actually that bad compared to other 1.20.1 packs which also has the same problem and doesn't address it's standing point/balance either, so yeah

Overall i want to conclude by saying that this is an actual banger modpack from my personal standpoint, from a more objective one i would say that this pack does have it's own charm and i can see people enjoying it rather than grind endlessly like what an rpg/adventure pack would do, i haven't experienced Exosphere 2 (the 1.21.1 Neoforge version) and as much as i would like to assume that it should put Aeronautics to use and expand on the concepts of this Exosphere 1, still, props to the devs for making such a wonderful pack, i would recommend this to anyone

stunning terrain gen, its like super amplified Minecraft.