I played a total of 15 hours on Craftoria, for me, someone with not a lot of time, is quite good meaning I really enjoyed the modpack. My opinion on this pack is it was extremely fun for someone who likes boss fights, dungeon crawling, and magic. The modpack balanced these all quite well even if you become really powerful some bosses still take some effort and require skill. One of the down sides is that the skill tree is quite basic and hard to level up and gain skill points. Otherwise amazing RPG modpack, definitely playing again.

overall

Given that it's a kitchen sink pack with a very large amount of mods, you can expect it to have anything you'd like

The pack itself clearly has had significant effort put into it. Many items are cross compatible between mods, I don't think I've seen a single overlapping recipe, the quests are fairly well structured, and overall it's very fun, especially if you're looking for a "minecraft but with lots of mods" sort of experience

exploration

I can't say much for the RPG and exploration side of things, but I was able to get close to invincible fairly quickly and most of the bosses tended to be quite easy

tech

In terms of tech and magic, which is what me and my friend focused on, there were significant balance issues but overall it was still quite fun if you accept that certain things will be redundant. And because of how the pack and it's quests are structured, it's fairly easy to skip certain mods anyway

It has that specific kitchen sink tech mod vibe, where each mod tended to be used separately and with little configuration, specifically removing machines, from them. A lot of Create, for example, is completely overshadowed by mekanism and modern industrialization, and even theurgy in some cases.

I won't dock too many points for it though since being able to access a lot of tech mods "vanilla" is the point of a kitchen sink, and it's still easy to enjoy them as standalone experiences

performance

In terms of performance, we found that in client side, there tended to be hitches in frames, and some missing textures here and there.

Server side was also an issue, but I can't say if it was purely a hardware issue on my part or the mod. Though I do run the modpack on 8gbs and we found that the server was consistently struggling a bit

This modpack has almost everything you are looking for.

Tech:

I like the selection of Tech Mods implemented in this pack. You have Create, Mekanism, Modern Industrialisation and a lot more. I also appreciate the nerf to Mekanism ore processing. This modpack also features alternative ways of obtaining an item. For example: You can either make Brass in the Create Mod Mixer, or you go for an Electric Alloy Smelter from Modern Industrialisation. The Osmium Compressor from Mekanism also got some more usage by adding recipes for making plates. I think the 2 Tech Mods with the most content in this pack are Modern Industrialisation and Mekanism. In this modpack you have the possibility to make far better Mekanism machines than I used to know. Modern Industrialisation is inspired by GregTech and requires a good amount of time to finish the last quest of this mod. The balance with Modern Industrialisation in the early game (until LV) is a bit broken, because you can cheese most items from it by trading cheaply with villagers. Every major Tech Mod has its own progress-based questline which guides you really well through all the mod’s content.

Magic

Magic Mods are also present but not as many as in the Tech section. A quick overview shows Occultism, Iron's Spells 'n Spellbooks and Ars Nouveau. I’m not as experienced with Magic Mods as I am with Tech Mods, but the questbook helps me understand how I progress with some Magic Mods. I can't say if there are any changed recipes in the Magic content.

Exploration

Exploration is a bigger aspect of the game than I expected. First of all, we have beautiful world generation which makes your choice of choosing your base far more difficult than usual. Also, there are a lot of structures which want to be explored. From small houses with chests, to small towers with traps or an underground dungeon, to giant structures which you can use to say that you have built a megabase. Exploration is also made far more appealing by adding Immersive Aircraft, a mod which is used to craft configurable planes and airships to travel or explore the world. You can also use /rtp to teleport to a random location to seek more structures. Exploring feels really rewarding thanks to the mods "Relics" and "Artifacts". Both mods add a lot of bauble slot equipment. From doing more damage every 5 seconds, to jumping much higher, to reducing villager trading prices. I want to address that some of these bauble equipments are a bit unbalanced, but it doesn't break the pack, as in my opinion the modpack wants you to become really strong. With all Apotheosis mods and world tiers you can get far better loot than you can imagine. There also exists a small skill tree.

Building

The building aspects are also well implemented. Rechiseled and Chipped add a lot of variety to building blocks. With Framed Blocks you can fit every full block into a shape you want. With Mech Trowel it's very easy to randomize block placing patterns. With Construction Sticks you can construct large areas in a short time.

Quests/Quest Progression

The questbook introduces you well into this modpack by showing what this modpack offers. Some core mods also got their own questline. Additionally, there are quests based on storage, late game items, completionist goals and spawner modifiers. Overall, a good questbook for a kitchen sink modpack.

Texture Packs/ Shaders

I’m impressed by how many texture packs and shaders are present. A lot of textures are activated by default and offer you a much more immersive gameplay. You can also add some non-activated texture packs which change the looks of certain blocks. For shaders you have 3 options: low-end, normal and high-end shaders.

Additional Infos that don’t fit in the topics above

• The modpack creators have 3 own hosted Craftoria servers which you can play on
• The pack is in active development
• The modpack has its own guide on the web, but it’s a bit outdated as some mods aren’t updated from 1.20 to 1.21
• Quantum Armor is gated behind the Meka-Suit
• Processing Replica Ore was made more difficult
• Some structures use mechanics from the vanilla Trial Chambers. The problem is that the Trial Spawner in these structures doesn't seem to spawn keys, so you really can't open vaults in there.
• Cave generation is sometimes awesome
• You see A LOT of ores in caves
• Modpack with 500+ mods currently
• Runs fine and without issues on a 12GB hosted server
• Modern Industrialisation is very pricey in the beginning compared to other Tech Mods
• Some quests that needed a description explaining how to use a certain item are missing

Review will be updated soon (pictures incoming)

TLDR

Excellent modpack if you like immersive exploration, advanced tech and strong magic, and you want to do whatever you want. I also think it’s very beginner friendly for people who want a truly modded experience with no big changes in terms of recipes or progress stages.