Minecraft Mod & Modpack Reviews

Definitely my favorite modpack, very grindy but you get out what you put into the pack

its great. Progression and difficulty are well balanced.

We used this as a base for our server and only added a very small number of server based QOL features such as exposure for cameras, immersive meoldies and a voice chat mod.
Overall we have throughly enjoyed our experience and I would recommend this pack highly for anyone looking for a kitchen sink modpack on the newer versions. I would say it's one of the best kitchen sink modpacks managing to keep the experience fairly cohesive and together which is rare for this type of pack. Thought has been put into the mod selection whilst still including a large number of them though it falls short in it's production quality (as a modpack; in the sense that it doesn't excel further than being a well put together collection of mods).
Good not great performance but that can be expected from a modpack of this size. Comfortably manages to run on my Intel i5 8400 and 1070 8Gb Vram at around 50-60fps using performance based shaders.

I'm a fan of chosen's and loved the modpack he put together. the chunk feature allowed me and my friend to focus more on what gave us the most enjoyment whilst still keeping the versatility of a kitchen sink modpack.

DanTDM introduced me to this modpack, and I gave it a try for myself.

ngl, this modpack is actually fun than I expected because I usually get overwhelmed and tired very fast. But this one is just very well-made, with how cohesive this modpack is, and I won't spoil what's inside the modpack, so I'll just let you play blindly. very blindly. cuz there's so little info about this modpack, whether on Google or YouTube (but not in their discord server though)

At the time I'm writing this, I have beaten the modpack two times now. First playthrough, doing solo gameplay, and the second playthrough, I invited my friends into this modpack, and they're also having fun playing this modpack too! Here are some screenshots of me and my friends, also my base with shaders init

I suggest playing this modpack!

I found this modpack to be a harder and more fun version of ATM. Progression is more balanced forcing you to experience many different mods, but almost anything you want to do has multiple paths through different mods to do it. There have been some performance issues as I played, but the modpack is consistently updated and they were all fixed within a few days. The modpack also has a custom resource pack, however I didn't like it because is only affected a small range of items, leading to discrepancies between how different mods looked.

Curseforge is full of a lot of "modlists", modpacks that don't do much more than providing a bunch of unintegrated mods in a package together - anybody could make one of those packs.

Integrated MC is not one of them

This pack has loads of hours of development by dedicated developers, and fulfils its aims of being an integrated modpack; a massive amount of recipes have been overhauled, everything fits together really nicely, and (nearly) every single structure in the pack has been integrated with modded blocks.

The developers actually listen to and work with community suggestions and ideas, and the community itself is really helpful too.

Gameplay is really fun, often involving dungeon raiding, adventuring, building, or experimenting with the different mods the pack has to offer.

Quests are really well made too, and guide the player through some of the changes made in the pack and the base mods, and also providing helpful charts of bosses available to fight and equipment progression trees.

I probably wouldn't recommend this pack for those who are big fans of automation packs, while IMC does offer Create and other mods for automating, it's not really geared toward that playstyle. It's definitely still fun to tinker around with automation in the pack though!

When I initially played this pack performance wasn't so great, but it's vastly improved and I now get generally 60-70 FPS even when hosting LAN worlds (did I mention the pack has e4mc so you can do WAN multiplayer now?).

Currently, there are a few supposed item duping/voiding bugs mainly relating to Inventorio and Tom's Simple Storage, but the devs are pretty onto it about patching issues, so these will probably be gone in the near future.

The modlist does contain a few notoriously buggy mods (Ice and Fire, Alex's Mobs) as well as a few MCreator mods, but it runs pretty well anyway and I haven't noticed any issues with them.

it looks good and if you have the gigs to load it will be fun to play.

It's been a while since I've actually "beaten" this modpack, so this is more of a retrospective rather than a hot-off-the-press review, but Compact Claustrophobia gave me a similar feeling of nostalgia that playing Minecraft beta as a kid gave me for some reason.
In terms of progression, it is one of the most innovative packs I have ever played and every step of the way to completion felt like an engaging puzzle to solve. It's grindy enough to make you stay a while, but not grindy enough to make you feel like you're doing chores if you play your cards right. Additionally, every time the modpack started to become a bit tedious, there would be a perfectly placed breakthrough tech (e.g. bigger compact machine or better way to make previous compact machines) that allowed you to do previous things in a much easier fashion which helped tremendously to keep me playing. I haven't finished the final completionist chapter yet, but from what I've heard the pack falls off hard after you break the bedrock box (as someone else said, literally a useless DLC) so I'll count my run as complete because that was my goal all along. The pack has a clear end goal and is a good challenge to sink over 100 hours of time into.

This modpack is not for the casual player! Fierce mobs and even fiercer grinding is to await you in this pack!

This modpack features many overhauled recipes using artisan's worktables and extended crafting using 5x5, 7x7, and even 9x9 crafting recipes! Prepare to dive into blood magic and evilcraft, botania and astral sorcery, and tech mods like Mekanism, Thermal Dynamics, Forestry, Nuclearcraft, etc... This modpack requires lots of resources, so chunk loading, ore multiplication, and void miners are required for progression.

Unfortunately, one gripe I have with this pack is how boring the pack becomes once you unlock space with galacticraft. This pack expects you to mine and complete dungeons on numerous planets which are quite empty and boring. The bosses in those dungeons are trivial because of the status of your overpowered weapons. Me and my partner gave up on the pack once we unlocked space travel and explored a few planets, and by that point we had basically beaten the modpack entirely anyways.

Overall, if you want a fun modpack with meaningful recipes, magic and tech focus, a good quest book, and a substantial grind with a linear progression, try this pack!