Minecraft Mod & Modpack Reviews

You cannot 100% this modpack.

In the "Hello Family" quest line, there are five quests requiring you to obtain each of the five Minecraft Comes Alive guide books. I've done as much research as possible to see if they're obtainable. Oh, maybe you can craft them! You can get them as gifts! They're dungeon loot! No. They are unobtainable.

That being said, maybe you shouldn't try to 100% this one.
The modpack's goal is "to be as much frickin' fun as possible."
Fun is not what you will have if you try to 100% it, especially if you try to do so as fast as possible by beelining The Erebus' Animation Wand and by abuse of that, ProjectEX's Final Star .
But if you stay true to the goal of the modpack, it is definitely pretty fun.

First off, this is not a true skyblock. It contains Aroma1997's Dimensional World, which allows you to skip Ex Nihilo grinding entirely. And honestly, as much as Ex Nihilo makes sense in a skyblock setting, I kinda liked this. Ex Nihilo's prevalence in skyblock modpacks were what made them boring; this modpack dared to say "screw it, add the mining dimension."

That's kinda the gist of the modpack. It is over 400 mods thrown together to make the skyblock experience as fun as possible. And if you use them correctly, it definitely accomplishes that. Tech? We got Mekanism, Thermal Expansion, Industrial Foregoing Ender IO, etc...hell, we even have NuclearCraft. Magic? Astral Sorcery, Totemic, Botania (gameplay-wise, yes, it's a tech mod, but it's magical in nature and that's what the modpack considers it), Arcane Archives (similar to Botania's case but instead of it being a tech mod it's a storage mod). Resource generation? We have Roost, Hatchery, AND Mystical Agriculture (and Fluid Cows, too, I guess). And of course, all the classic "OP" mods: Draconic Evolution, Avaritia, and the ever-controversial ProjectE and its addon ProjectEX.
It also goes all out on the whole "fun" thing. I mean, you got Cyclic, Stupid Things, Trumpet Skeletons, Smiley Traffic Cones????? There's a bunch of mods no similar modpack would ever really add. Besides Cyclic, maybe. Point is, there's a lot of fun and silly mods, but the silliness doesn't stop there. It REALLY goes all out. There's a bunch of custom sounds for countless things, like opening chests, animal noises, mobs, etc. The soundtrack is completely replaced by various Kevin MacLeod tracks, numerous of which I've never heard of. In fact, they were all catchy enough for me to want to try and identify and then compile them. So I did. https://www.youtube.com/playlistlist=PLnscpPUEja3utd_oRuVM3eUZGKHNM27jq
Tried to get as many as I could but it's very possible I could still be missing a few.
And of course, how could you be a "fun" modpack without the likes of Chance Cubes? Everyone's favorite Lucky Blocks knockoff is present in this one.

So that's what this modpack is. It's a skyblock modpack that's designed around being fun. Which I believe makes it very unique. That's not really something you see many of the major modpacks do nowadays, is focus on fun. It's all about progression and challenges and stuff. This modpack just wants you to have a good time. And for the most part, I did. But that's where my gripes come in.

The sounds and music can get VERY repetitive after playing for extended periods of time. After a certain point, "fun" just becomes "annoying." I guess because of that, the pack may have accidentally been designed to be played in shorter sessions?
Also, this IS a skyblock. So typically you're going to make a mob farm. But Loot Bags and trumpets from Trumpet Skeleton are easily one of the biggest causes for clogging up inventories. Maybe drop rates could've been toned down. Thankfully Ender IO is in the pack so filtering these things out aren't a big issue, but still a bit of a nuisance nonetheless.
Also, the quests lead you to believe that you should be doing Ex Nihilo. But then it also has Aroma1997's. So it's like, what the hell was I doing all that sifting for if I can just go mining? The pack design can be very confusing.
Very well optimized for a 400+ mod modpack, I'll say. I think it comes prepackaged with Optifine, though, and I'm sure it sprinkled in a bunch of performance mods here and there. High frames makes sense in the overworld since it's almost entirely a void aside from the starter island and clouds, but even in other dimensions I wasn't lagging very much. That is honestly the best thing I can say about this pack is how well it runs. Then again, I'm running it on 32GB of RAM with 16 allocated, so your experience may differ.

Overall, don't try to 100% this or speedrun this. Just have fun. Pretty good combination of mods. Has a lot to offer. Design is a bit confusing at times when it comes to its quests, but overall pretty good experience. Probably even more "fun" when you actually go ahead and use quest rewards, unlike me. I mean, come on. The clouds give you water essence and diamonds. Ideally I'd give this a 3.5/5, but this site doesn't allow half-stars, so I'll just give it a four.
Quirky, but fun.

It's KubeJS, Need I say more? Makes modpack development so much easier and more versatile. 5 Star Minecraft mod.

All The Mods 9 is an amazing modpack, it has all the things you would expect in a great pack and then some. Making the ATM Star was a lot of fun and the option to go onto try to make the GregStar is also a fun idea. The main part of this pack that makes it 5 stars are the quests. Most of the quests in this pack are amazing! I myself have contributed to the quests by making the Alchemistry and PneumaticCraft (WIP) Quest Chapters just because I was surprised the didn't already have one. This pack has a LOT of quests. Although the ATM Star is the main goal, you can keep playing for a long time after you make one. You can try to make 2 blocks to farm infinite, then you can try to make the GregStar and even try to make 2 GregStar blocks if you've been hurt. Great modpack, would recommend.

This review is for the modern version of Alchemistry
Hi, I'm Toblerone (the guy who made the Alchemistry quests for ATM9 and 9sky), first up, I've had a lot of fun with this mod. I've had almost no problems with the currently implemented features throughout the most part of my play time, I think it's a great mod. Unfortunately I can't give this mod 5 stars because when I play (especially with other mods) it just feels incomplete. I've started adding custom compatibility recipes in All The Mods 9 and 9sky using KubeJS to make the mod feel more complete. Having these recipes apart of the base mod would easily make this rating 5 stars. Overall, great mod, could do with some more compat. Keep up the amazing work! :)

i love this modpack SO much and the resource packs are just great, so are the mods but im just a teeny upset that it doesnt have cooking for blockheads, let's do bakery or any of the lets do stuff but thats fine :3 im just really happy cause it has farmers delight, domestication innovation & hexerei !! great modpack, i play it with my friend and they love it too !!

I love this modpack. It's clever, it rewards exploration (despite being a fairly small custom map), it uses spatial cells really well, and it's a lot of fun. There are many items to collect (several trophies) that are hidden around the entire map. It's also good at explaining the various mods it uses through quests. This was first modpack with a storyline questline I played, and it remains my absolute favorite.

That being said, there are some issues. While it has Tinker's, you can't make any smelter and can only get metal tool parts from random chests. I found this very frustrating. If you go with the grave mod instead of KeepInventory, it's hard to get your corpse back - and given there are unique items, it's more important than usual to get those items back. Finally, there are optional achievements - and a couple of them are just a huge grindfest. (Or, more accurately, an afk fest.) There's not really a good place to build or decorate - you live in a precreated structure.

Even with those small issues, this remains a fantastic modpack. I think it's also pretty stylish - a lot of thought and care went into the map as a while as well as each spatial cell location. I highly recommend it if you like questing packs. Skip if you prefer kitchen sink packs, building packs, or packs with a lot of freedom.

To get the full features of the gameplay, put the ring of seven curses on from Enigmatic Legacy. This is a must for this pack, and you will have the time of your life. The recipes are challenging, the mobs are truly difficult, and the quests are great. This is a play-at-your-own-speed pack. If you want an additional challenge, play this pack in Hardcore mode. The loot table is fair and not overpowered. The dev invested a lot of time in this pack, which is not finished yet. I have played multiple packs by the same dev and I enjoyed all of them and the progression.

I'm very picky about my post-apocalyptic games, so I honestly wasn't expecting much from this modpack, using Minecraft as a base. I was quite wrong!

This modpack ended up an excellent experience. It made my little loot goblin heart flutter. Each building - each room, in fact - has specific drops appropriate to the location. A restaurant has food loot, a hospital medical stuff, an office building technical stuff. You don't have to craft much of the basics - there's often a place you can loot to get what you need.

That being said, the recipes are fairly well changed. A bit more Create was required than I like, but overall a good balance of Create and Immersive Engineering. My biggest complaint is that some items were gated behind rare or end-game only locations - some of the Refined Storage stuff, for instance, and even the Drawers Drawer Controller I didn't get 'til almost end game.

There are some downsides - for one, I sometimes had bad performance, the FPS dropping quite a lot. Second, some items were a little too common in loot (the golden apples for curing infections and the food - I never once cooked anything for myself, there was so much food loot). Third, I really didn't like that the Spice of Life count reset when you died, without resetting the list of what you'd eaten, so you were limited in how many extra hearts you could get. Fourth, I also started the loooong oil crafting line but ended up not needing it at all. It was a lot of work for what ended up being zero payoff. Finally, there are imo too many guns that are too similar. I really felt like they should have cut the number of guns in half.

However, overall it was a really fun experience. It took me about 80 hours on normal difficulty to get the final cure crafted, and I spent a lot of that time building my base and looting for the fun of it. I didn't finish every quest, but I finished the majority of them.

If you like fighting in Minecraft, this is an excellent modpack for you. If you hate combat, you're going to hate this one. If you love looting abandoned but still dangerous buildings, this is again perfect for you.

While I've only played a bit of this pack so far I'm loving it! Roguecraft successfully changes the genre of Minecraft by giving it roguelite elements in a way I think few other mods do. Earning my personal seal of a true roguelite experience alongside Vault Hunters 3 and Trepidation.

What makes this different from those projects is it doesn't necessarily change the core gameplay loop of Minecraft either, Trepidation and Vault Hunters completely overhaul the way you do everything making the game almost entirely combat-focused.
Here, you're still doing the normal Minecraft things each run, punch tree, find village, mine ores, etc.
It's reminiscent of Minecraft Bingo or "... but" speedrun challenges morphing the game of Minecraft into a rouge-lite's fight die upgrade repeat gameplay cycle instead of introducing a new one and putting it inside of Minecraft.

The actual game design of the rogue-lite isn't bad either, while I've not had much time to experience it yet the infinite garden mechanic offering the ability to reclaim your last runs lost loot is novel and the meta-progression scheme is compelling enough I want to do more runs so I can unlock new upgrades.

este es de los mejores modpack que jugue muy recomendable para quienes le gusta una experiencaia de juego larga y le guste la parte tecnica de los mods 100% recomendable vale cada maldito segundo y