Magiculture 2

Very balanced and overall good modpack, i've totally have not played this modpack for... 3ish years?
also, embers still is still unfinished. do not bother with it

Hey! Like adventure? Playing with machines that shock you because OSHA doesn't exist in minecraft? Enjoy all the sorts of magic ranging from inter-dimensional, natural magics, cult-like? Got some friends that you may or may not enjoy bullying with the most random piece of wingdings in a book somewhere? Solo and want to do it all? This modpack has it all, something for everyone, detailed and many details that are both fun to discover or great to observe from a distance, be lazy, power-play, build up a tower with stuff from multiple mods and watch it all mesh together or simply be a farmhand taking care of your animals in a quiet place, the choice is yours, the fun will remain!

I'm going to keep this short and sweet, I generally don't enjoy modpacks with multiple different magic systems because they tend to be somewhat confusing/unintuitive, but this modpack has some really good quest progression, and the way it segments different kinds of magic into different "classes" if you could call it that-was fun and cool. I'm not doing it justice, read some other reviews, but really I think this was a cool creation I would recommend others try out.

Magiculture 2 is a magic focused, tech-light modpack with the technology balanced around Immersive Engineering and schools of magic divided into three gamestages, each with a selection of mods that fit together thematically. The world still “feels” vanilla, but there is distinct impression that there is more hidden under the surface. The gamestage system reinforces this feeling, locking certain mobs and ores until you start venturing into the different magic schools.
The pack uses custom world generation through a heavily modified OTG preset to create a beautiful array of terrain. From dead forests and badlands to floating islands filled with lush vegetation, everything blends together well and provides some impressive visuals. Ruins and structures dot the landscape without being too overbearing, and the treasure chests within can be lucrative, with rewards ranging moderately useful to extremely powerful. Finding a specific artifact or treasure early-game can actually influence your choices later.
The dungeon crawling experience feels rewarding. The first few floors are not very difficult and you can find torches, foodstuffs, potions and basic armors. Rarely, you will discover an artifact or health increasing item, which can be a godsend in the early stages of the pack. As you delve deeper, the difficulty increases but so do the rewards. It’s not uncommon to clear an entire dungeon and return the surface fully equipped.
Magiculture 2 boasts a massive quest book consisting of more than 1,200 quests, many of which had detailed explanations of item and mod interactions. The quests are designed to provide a fairly linear “prestige” path with a large number of branching paths detailing otherwise unused tools and items. Information in the quests is useful for both new and expert players as it ranges from the simple topics such as how to use JEI, to advanced interactions such as AE2 subnetworking and Botania Corporea.
Early game can be extremely challenging as many mobs can one-shot you, maintaining hunger levels is a constant struggle, and most tools and armor cannot be equipped or used. However, when you are at your weakest, nothing is more satisfying than opening a treasure chest and finding an extremely powerful item. Mid-game is where the pack truly shines. You have enough skill levels to use most tools and delving into the different magic mods feels like you are exploring the unknown. While treasure may not be as lucrative at this point, there is satisfaction in overcoming challenges that you previously would not have attempted. The end-game is probably where the pack is the weakest. After you have progressed through a couple of the main quest lines, there is nothing that really challenges you. Quest progression becomes completion for completion’s sake.

its a good modpack especially if you want to escape the repeatitive them of tech mods its does need more poleshing especially for recipes and quests but in the near future its will one of the best modpack out there

I've launched a personal server for this modpack for my friends three times now, and we play it for months at a time. I've even gone and played it single player as well. Our group has tried other modpacks but this is by far my favorite. I love the integration of the questline for the magic and profession roles. The magic mods are really fun and are linked in a really creative way. I really like having the professions as well, no other modpack incorporates them as well as Magiculture. For the sheer number of mods it's surprisingly not too terribly buggy. The Blood Magic seems to have the biggest issues, but nothing too game-breaking. The graphics are great as well, and the difficulty system makes it a challenge. I'm dying to see this expand and continue to grow, but until then I'll keep playing it as my number one modpack of choice.

Amazingly designed modpack. All chest loottables in structures are customized to have interesting relics and spells and other loot while not being overpowered, tons of quests are written well and serve as good tutorials for either learning mods for the first time or learning niche mechanics in already known mods, recipes are only slightly changed to make things fit better or add more recipes for items, lots of base-building and decoration options, plenty of fun mods like Thaumcraft and Embers have content addons like Thaumic Wonders and Aetherworks so there's more content than just base mods people may be used to, world generation is well done with Open Terrain Generator and has beautiful landscapes and islands in the sky, caving is fun with crates and urns and more, custom gamestage system lets you choose 2 categories of mods out of 6 to focus on with others being unlockable later which lowers world clutter and prevents being overwhelmed by too many mods at once while encouraging trading, custom reskillable perks are added to some of the categories with neat effects like small immunities to some effects or extra healing, custom villager currency and trading system makes trading fun and rewarding, and performance is way better than most packs of this size.

Some minor gripes are Animania existing, not very many dimensions in the pack(could really use Betweenlands which would fit in pack really well), and stealing hundreds of hours of your time by being way too much fun to play.