Minecraft Mod & Modpack Reviews

The difficulty with developing a mod like this is accomplishing the goal of limiting grind in a way that doesn't make the game too boring or easy. There's a balance that needs to be struck where an anti-grinding system can't be cheesed to remove all challenge. Gadgets Against Grind does this fantastically! I love using this mod and all of its tools to ensure I'm not spending countless hours wasting time! It's the perfect mod for anyone who enjoys modded Minecraft, but has respect for their own time! The gadgets make sense, aren't too hard to handle, and look good!

This mod looks good, plays good, and has a unique twist on traditional tech mods that usually have industrial themes! Ars Nouveau covers a lot of ground, but is most commonly known as the mod that lets you create your own spells! You can unlock a variety of different types of spells and methods of casting said spells. My favorite spell that I was able to make launches me into the air, enables elytra flight, and casts a firework spell that propels me forward!

There's other functionalities of the mod, such as automation and enchantment book creation, along with providing unique multi-block setups for creating resources used by the mod. I'm a huge Applied Energistics 2 head, and while automation was difficult for some of the recipes, it was still a fun challenge! The half point I took off is just due to the difficulty to integrate Ars Nouveau automation into other mods. Love this mod either way!

Incredible to see this mod getting updates again after playing with it so much back in the day! This mod is such a classic example of freedom of expression in Minecraft modding! Being able to craft all the different parts of a weapon or tools in order to make it do exactly what you'd like! The mod has so much customizable depth and is still receiving new features! Absolutely incredible and lovely to see. I never liked Silent Gear that much because it didn't have the multiblock setup that Tinkers Construct has by default.

Mod does what it says: You can store multiple of the same item in a drawer, which allows for bulk storage of a single item. Incredible for resources that players are generating gigantic amounts of. The ability to upgrade the storage is also incredible and adds a lot of depth to a simple mod!

While at a glance, this mod seems to provide a very basic palette, it was quickly clear that colors could be mixed and matched and I was given the creative tools to paint a gorgeous picture of what I see. It reminded me of the days when I used to be more creative and my imagination was greater. I've had so much fun!

I'm playing this pack because I have friends who started an MC Eternal 2 server. As a common player of MC modpacks, I was excited to play a pack that was so jam-packed with mods and custom content! My initial impression was amazing! The pack was beautiful in regards to its questbook and art showcased in the main menu, and the quest book was unique in its premise. I loved the rats being a core part of the modpack and the Lawyer rat was a funny idea!

Unfortunately, the paint started to peel the more that I played. There's something to be said about biting off more than you can chew. and I think that the sheer amount of mods in this pack have limited the amount of things the developers can adjust at once without breaking things. Add that to the massive amount of things that are disabled or locked behind progression and difficulty changes, and you have developers trying to do too much to balance a modpack that is arguably unbalance-able.

Most kitchen-sink packs will err on the side of giving players early access to overpowered equipment. MC Eternal 2 tries the approach of making sure players are not able to progress too quickly past where they are supposed to be. This means that there are very strict paths for progression and available equipment. For anyone who is used to playing a certain mod, it is surprising when the recipes that you've learned have been changed so much and gated behind difficulty-gated progression. This, in my opinion, eliminates a lot of the fun that comes from playing modded Minecraft. I don't feel like I get to be fully creative because there are so many limitations that increase the grind required to get to the fun.

I've noticed that a lot of the combat is balanced around utilizing EVERYTHING available to you in your arsenal, which is great if you know the pack like the back of your hand and know what equipment to bring, but is terrible practice for anyone else. The questbook is not clear on the best weapons or armor, which becomes frustrating when you're trying to fight bosses and die without understanding what you did wrong. Same with automation as well! The intended power generation to use for specific difficulties of the pack are not clear, so I ended up spending 80 hours playing before I finally got power fully automated!

Overall, the pack is not good for anyone who wants to stretch their creative tech bones, or just wants to have a generally fun time. It feels that it caters to the same audience as Prominence II does, which is focusing over balance and difficulty over general substantial fun. Not for me.

An awesome mod that integrates Pokemon into Minecraft perfectly. The models, animations and particles are all extraordinary and don't look at all out of place in the world. It runs pretty much just as well as vanilla Minecraft, and the battles are super smooth. The basic Pokemon gameplay is very well implemented, although some features are still missing (such as more connections between catching and levelling up Pokemon and the main gameplay of Minecraft). Still, it's a ton of fun and the devs plan to expand on these things in future updates. Disclaimer: I have helped work on this mod in the past, so I have some bias towards the mod)

Its been my main mod for the past 3 years, I dont play a modpack without it these days. Every update it gets better. Been part of the community for a 3 years and the community is great.

Easy to understand, easy to play, and pretty much just a really fun modpack with your friends, i would 100% recommend this, its not one of those 1000 hour modpacks that have a billion quests, its a one time play modpack that takes around 4-6 hours to beat, its really fun and even the owner is an extremely nice person. would recommend trying it with your friends 10/10

This Cobblemon modpack is excellent and lightweight. It receives frequent updates and feels quite similar to the actual Pokémon games. The downside is that it keeps me playing non-stop during my free time.