So far so kinda good

from what i can see the modpack is still in development, there's so much more to get to and to achieve in it still, from the player side and the Modder side as well.

an almost perfectly balanced Expert questing Modpack, that actually has custom recipes, and fairly good challenges, and a vast enjoyable world PLUS so much satisfying progression that gives a self-fulfillment sense when you actually do or achieve something without it being ridiculously hard .

1- Questing
Quest are actually well made, rewards are balanced, the progression is satisfying
Explanations on the quests is thoughtful, well written, Actually Helpful

**2- Is it actually "Expert?", and "Custom Made?" **
Yes!!, and no?.....
The modpack is a genuine Expert modpack with a lot of really good custom stuff from recipes to items to even world progression.

Wait world progression?
Yes mobs get stronger as you progress! .
Items/Tools actually make a difference as you go to different tiers!.
Materials have STATS? and PERKS? so everything is highly customizable? Definitely!.
Loot is actually appropriate to dimension and structure!

So...is it hard? not the RLCRAFT hard, nope,
even better difficulty balancing than DDSS?, Almost.

DDSS? is it a copy of DDSS?, NOPE, even tho it's heavily inspired, it still has it's unique picture and feel to it, is it better than it? not yet but it really has a huge potential to be! it's still in dev i assume.

to clarify the modpack is a Medium-Sized Expert pack not an Extra Large one so keep in mind!.

3- World gen/Exploration
honestly my review would be longer than it already is if im gonna dive into details but just to give a fair general idea

World gen/Exploration is really cool and full of stuff, bioms are nice and mobs/entities are everywhere each biome/dimension has it's kinda own mobs/entities AND THERE'S a lot of hidden stuff like Mythcal creatures! and Realms!!

to make it short you will never get bored exploring the world!.

4- Mods....
it has a whopping 288 almost finely tuned and optimized mods
SO A LOT THEN.
there's some pretty good quality of life mods in it and as always Quality of life mods are always a huge deference.
are these mods Better?
EXACTLY !, Better Mods!
Better animations! Better brightness! Better FPS Better Treasure maps!
better Combat! Better Smithing tables! Better advancments!
AND BETTER LILY PADS! ?
aside from word play yep there's much more quality of life mods other than the better mods like FTB, JE mods/ Just enough items/professions/recources clomps and the easy mods, curios ect.

So then optimization?.... ummm

5-Optimization
not much to talk about, so there isn't? No there IS but that's how modpacks work they're always under optimization/bug fixing

but overall it's fairly optimized and fully playable with a bug every dimension or so?
yes there's bugs and stuff to fix but that's expected since it's not done yet why?
because mods are constantly updating and there's a lot of work for the modder to do behind the scene!

ALSO IT'S ON THE LATEST RELEASE?
umm YEP almost? it's on 1.20.1! so yeah

**so in conclusion? LOVED IT! **
there's a lot to work on but i'm satisfied with it my only regret which i'm hoping to see in the future is shaders support as integrated in-modpack shaders .

you can just manually do it btw it's really easy
but it would be really cool if it's there automatically.