The best beginner modpack

Break Out is an immaculately designed beginner xblock experience; it's short, it's simple enough that you are never going to get lost while allowing you to get to the goal in your own way, every mod is thoroughly well explained through the quest book. It definitely falls into some modded stereotypes, but that's for the better of the goal of the pack in my opinion, and it successfully balances having a traditional modpack mod flow while still being it's own thing.

If there's anything I noticed on this replay, it's that there's generally not a lot to do sometimes; it's very much pure progression and that progression is relatively simple, which is what helped make it the first modpack I beat all those years ago, but you're likely to get timewalled by Botania or something unless you have full recollection of the progression flow, and if you are not new to modded, it might become a little bit of a bore. I think that's the main reason I didn't put this up at 5 stars; not to make it sound like it was an insufferable replay, since everything bad about the pack is absolutely assuaged by the runtime and the other freedoms it allows to you.

Other notes;

• It's very optimized. The optimization mods are maybe a little bit aggressive by today's standards, but the rock bottom resource utilization here is gonna mulch any newer pack.