Minecraft Mod & Modpack Reviews

This modpack has potential but it holds so many baffling decisions where there was otherwise a lot of effort put into the modpack. The UX is pretty awful; there's ore/ingot unification, but they never removed items from JEI or their tags, so you'll still always see them in recipes and its VERY annoying. The devs never disabled other mods' food tooltips, so you'll see Quark and Obscure API's food tooltips on top of Appleskin's. The lack of polish in UX and mod selection left a pretty bad impression.

Fighting bosses with combat dodges and Better Combat feels good, but regular mobs that spawn in the dark are what killed me the most because their attacks aren't telegraphed and many of them practically one-shot if you haven't made Tinkers' armor. Thankfully, enemies actually can't one-shot you in this modpack it has a death-gate mechanic, where your health gets set to half a heart before dying, but you can still die if you get hit with another attack.

The gear pacing on paper is alright, but there's such an insane amount of materials to sort through for Tinkers' that you'll quickly get overwhelmed and sit there for hours pondering what armor/tools you're even able to make at your stage of the game. I would've rather had a much simpler gear progression in the early-midgame. Tinkers' weapons are also insanely outclassed by the cleaver and its not even close. Corail's Tombstone is also extremely powerful for no good reason? It can repair Tinkers' stuff with minimal effort, even for Mithril which is a pretty rare material in this pack (too rare imo).

MC Eternal 2 is bloated to high hell with things you'll never use. You can get infinite food with the Eternal Steak, Infinity Ham, or Sack of Sating, all while the modpack has 15+ Farmers Delight addons. I played this modpack on a server with 7 people and no one has made a farm yet after a collective ~40+ hours in the pack. There's an insane amount of mods that just don't need to be in this modpack at all and wouldn't be missed because people aren't using them:

• Farmers' Delight & Addons
  • I love Farmers Delight but not when you can just get an Infinity Ham on day one.
• Vampirism
  • Who still uses and enjoys this mod?
• Cloud Storage
  • The structures for its progession are so incredibly rare that it may as well not be in the pack
• Chipped
  • Registers way too many blocks for an already ram-starved pack
• Bumblezone
• Create: Power Grid
  • One of the most complex mods, maybe ever? and it's in a modpack designed for casual players. Why??? Not to mention it's very broken
• x For Blockheads
  • No one's cooking or farming anything

I can keep going on honestly. The only reason I haven't given this a lower score is because it's fun with friends and they've put an effort to make it that way. I dont normally like Better Combat, but the boss fights are fun and the "combo" I have to do with the cleaver for big damage made it at least a little bit more thoughtful than vanilla. Most mobs however, are still balanced and animated for sword + shield combat.

I remember seeing a meme a while ago, "What mod adds ____? Its Quark its ******* Quark" I couldnt find it but that should show how large of a mod quark is.

Quark is the epitome of a bloated "QoL" mod that people who dont know better install, then have to spend 5-10 hours troubleshooting, debugging, and configuring the completely random additions of quark, with the additions themselves being very poorly communicated in game.

Quark also doesn't describe the features it adds on its mod page, again leading to people jumping to reddit to ask questions about the mod of mods.

I also also talk about Zeta, the library for Quark 1.21.1 and 1.20.1 only. Zeta has 12.3 Million downloads, despite being pretty new. Zeta adds nothing to Quark or otherwise. Its many undocumented files and mearly wrappers for the existing vanilla files. Ex: ZetaFenceBlock extends FenceBlock, and ZetaFenceBlock is 5 lines of new content. Those downloads give them a nice chunk of change for basically nothing. But dont worry! They also proudly advertise their patreon and ******* tshirts on every mod page.

I suggest installing Quark as way to discover a specific feature, then to uninstall the bloated trash and find a single mod that does that feature you want.

The mod was the driving force of the first modded server Id ever played on. Its pretty easy to modify Origins and customize how they work with datapacks, though i feel many of the Origins addon mods end up being pretty samey. Origins, for better or worse is a classic of modern mc.

Good addon for having trading options when doing a create playthrough

Great addition for trains & other building. The blocks are useful

Useful addition to create for better looking contraptions

Gameplay

• most blocks are decorative only

It's in their description as well ~ fair enough, still wish for actual usages

Performance

• runs smoothly

Aesthetics

• Not vanilla friendly at all

Models & Textures would fit in Hytale or Skysaga (if someone remembers that ^^)

I would only ever use it if i build a heavily fantasy modpack with mods or packs that destroy the vanilla blocky feal of minecraft.

Gameplay

• 4 animals (+minor unique drops)
• guide book (mostly for story & location)

Performance

• runs smoothly

Aesthetics

• Beautiful models & textures
• Vanilla friendly

The gameplay side is a bit lacking for my taste. I hope they integrate these animals or drops more into the vanilla progression or even create their own progression (maybe compat with other mods).
For now it's a cute small animal mod.

Gameplay

• Variety of different spartan weapons
• various materials

Performance

• runs smoothly

Aesthetics

• Animations with BetterCombat
• some items exceed 16² pixel and may look a bit off in the inventory
• vanilla friendly textures

Perfect for someone who wants to spice up their weaponry with spartan weapons.

Gameplay

• When client disconnects from server -> player sit position -> player still attackable

This prevents you from backing away from difficult szenarios like pvp or jumping in lava.

• Conquer jump and runs (in sit position only) ~ quite fun!

Performance

• runs smoothly

Aesthetics

• Beautiful sit position
• Smooth rejoin visuals

This one is a perfect combination of server balance, aesthetics & fun.