The Briar Patch

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  When you live among the wilds you know what you truly want -  a pack focusing on mods which bring order from the brambles and disorder.  A pack teeming with lots of quality of life enhancing features! 

  Tame the world and make it your own with mods focusing mainly on tech, nature/farming, and game utilities.  Did we mention bees mods?  How about champion mobs to fight for extra spice, a custom mining dimension - "The Underworld", and toolbelts?  Did we mention also Minecolonies allowing your own personal town/city?



This pack will continue to add newly developed 1.16.5 mods which contribute to a hang-out world environment.  I.e. open world sandbox style minecraft!  Start off with humble beginnings and shape the wild world as you see fit.


Current and future mods to be added are mindful of keeping easy world/server loading.  Occasionally new things will be tried in the pack - if it bogs down the game it goes!  If it's fun and loading is kept low it stays!

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*** Notable feature mods below! ***



NEW - In-game mod guidebook / wiki directory: "Briar Patch Field Guide"!

Tech

-- Thermal Expansion - "Expanding Minecraft Thermally! A server-friendly and content-rich blend of magic and technology!"

-- Applied Energistics 2 - a slick advanced storage and automation mod

-- Immersive Engineering - An extensive tech mod adding many types of multiblock structure processing machines, as well as having power generation and distribution with retro-futuristic flare!

-- Mekanism - High quality tech mod with additional power generation, an awesome pipe system, a craft-able robot friend, powered teleporters - too many features to list!

-- Bigger Reactors - A successor to the Big Reactors mod - fun large multiblock power reactors and steam turbines!

Nature/Farming

--Realistic Horse Genetics - tamed horses can stay in place and not wander, lots of genetically inherited/mutating colors, and stats!

Bee Mods! - The latest available bee mods for 1.16.4 such as:

•     --Productive Bees - Breed bee types to obtain bees that provide resources! 
•     --Buzzier Bees - More bee related items and features!
•     --The Bumble Zone - A simultaneously wonderful and terrible dimension to visit inhabited by guess who!

--Cooking for Blockheads - Kitchen blocks and items to produce new foods

-- Industrial Foregoing - 'Techie' type modpack providing machinery for farm automation!

-- Mystical Agriculture - Is it really farming?  Is it really magic?  Is it really just too OP?  Try it out and judge for yourself!

-- Pam's Harvestcraft 2 - many additional food crops, items, recipes, cookware, trees, etc.

Utilities / Tools

-- Tinkers Construct 3 - Construct modular tools and weapons, create large smelteries, visit slime islands in the overworld, nether, and end!
-- Biomes 'O Plenty - More biomes!

-- Building Gadgets - Is all of that mouse clicking getting in the way of your design vision?  Don't think that industrializing the process is cutting corners?  Building Gadgets to the rescue!

-- Comforts - Sleeping bags to bring daylight - Hammocks to *gasp* bring night?

-- Ender Mail - Ever think that Endermen would make the perfect postmen?  They thought you'd never ask... but deep down inside they were hoping really hard.

-- FTB Chunks - Claim world chunks to become permanently loaded and protected via ownership systems.

-- Iron Jetpacks - What, the Mekanism jetpack wasn't enough?

-- Xaero's Worldmap & Minimap - very  slick and configurable!

-- Mining Gadgets - It mines enough!

-- Quark - Many many additional features, blocks, animal mobs.

-- FTB Utilities - Chat commands for setting a home and/or warp points that can be teleported to also via commands.

-- Simply Backpacks - Life is too short to make multiple trips, don't forget some backpacks out there in the brush!

-- Tetra - Upgrade-able tools and weaponry!

-- Area of effect utilities!

• No Mo Wanderer - use totems and signs to banish wandering traders
• No Hostiles Around Campfires - exactly as described - around campfires light level based mobs don't spawn
• Torchmaster - special torches to prevent mob spawns nearby,  both hostile or passive versions
• Rain Be Gone Ritual - place 4 cauldrons around a log and set ablaze to banish rain

Extra

-- Minecolonies!  - Create your own personal town via this large intricate mod.  Manage it obsessively or get to the point where colonists mostly run it on autopilot - it's up to you!

 
-- Doggy Talents - Spawn your own new best friend!  Good dog.

-- The Magic Mirror - a little bit of magic in a mainly tech/nature/farming modpack.  Also, it's magic.

-- The Magic Doorknob - even more bits of magic.  It's a doorknob... that doesn't need a door.  It takes you places!  Utility served.

-- Corail Tombstone - craftable graves!  Scrolls!  Teleportation!  Knowledge of death!

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New crops to grow from several mods!
Immersive Engineering!
Choose your Minecolonies building styles from dozens of choices!
Go way overboard building Applied Energistics 2 systems!
Genetic horses!  (pic- horse : genetics inside)
Custom mining dimension "The Underworld"
Many modded options for automation of all kinds!

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