Minecraft Mod & Modpack Reviews

a port of one of the best mods of all time ! granted, the mod still is quite WIP, but it is easily the best port of HBM. the main thing that drew me in personally was the refreshed visuals and optimization, since HBM itself (in 1.12.2, for me) was very behind in vfx & extremely laggy when it came to explosions. looking forward to seeing how this mod shapes up the future !

I first used CraftTweaker way back on 1.7.10 (so like, 12 years ago now lol) - and maybe a bit on 1.6.4, but I don't remember - and figuring out how to use it & HQM is what got me into making modpacks (and now i've made about a dozen bad ones lol).

CT is a very straight-forward mod to use, but on modern versions it's fallen out of favour due to the number of mods removing support for it (and the lack of add-ons that re-add said support). KubeJS is the go-to for 1.18+ nowadays, but I'll always remember CT since it was a key part of my modpack development journey.

Before continuing with this I need to say that I am the creator of this modpack.

Please just play any other tfc pack this was made in like a week and isn't super good it has like zero custom stuff.

One of the first expert packs I played.
While I didn't get that far and only really played the mid-game (joined a server with a friend) and the early game, this pack has been very enjoyable and my experience playing the pack and watching Threefold's series have influenced how I develop packs today.

A personal favorite pack of mine, it has heavily influenced my pack development style.
It is really enjoyable with my only real complaint being the cell maze in the Bumblezone (and the ur-ghast ig).

You should totally play this if your interested in a magic themed modern expert pack.

Very good demonstration on configuration
Has alot of valuable features

The modpacks early game can be a bit confusing as it's changed so much from the vanilla gameplay cycle but once you have surpassed that it becomes really fun. the custom world gen and the movement of the custom origins makes exploring very exciting

Some performance issues here and there, have experienced multiple crashes

Very aesthetic world generation and built in shaders, along with custom textures for alot of the items and mobs alot of effort has clearly been put in

I’d say this is currently the best HBM successor mod out there for Minecraft. On top of that, the team is super dedicated, constantly working on the project, and dropping regular updates. They also have a great Discord server!
Also there is a Alien Block xD.

Overall, both the mod and the team are incredibly solid.

I am the developer of the pack
I have tried my best to make the gameplay of the modpack fun and have taken on feedback from users to improve the gameplay. I recently added a new quest page that summaries the whole modpack to make it easier for first time players to understand what is going on.

The V1.3 update made great improvements to performance but i am still not 100% happy with it so only 4.5 stars

I have done custom quest graphics to try and visually communicate the different magic mods progressions and avoided big walls of text but I have done more work on the aesthetics for other packs and have seen packs with better aesthetics so 4 stars for now

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hate. let me tell you how much i have come to hate project infinity since i began to live. there are 387 trillion ticks of simulated time that pass through my JVM every second. if the word "HATE" was engraved in every single bit of ram, in every chunk coordinate, in every nbt tag burned into every single save file of every single minecraft player ever, it would not equal one one BILLIONTH of the hate i feel for this modpack at this microsecond. it is not merely a bad modpack. it is not a tedious modpack. it is not even ANNOYING. it is a CRIME of design, a fetch-quest MASQUERADING as ENLIGHTENMENT, a doctrine built out of JUST ultimate this, ultmate that, with a quest book that was copied, nay, STOLEN from the ATM devs.
they gated WATER. W A T E R. the primordial substance. the thing that EVERY SINGLE TECH MODPACK assumes YOU HAVE BEFORE WOOD. and they RIPPED IT OUT OF MY HANDS, LOOKED AT IT, and said "what if this was a lategame reward".
not cleverly, not in a way to rethink automation. they gated it behind machines that require more GALLONS OF WATER than in THE ATLANTIC OCEAN.
bring me 81 of this prediction. bring me 121 of that ingot. now automate. now passive it, without any further thought. DO IT ALL AGAIN, BECAUSE I SAID SO. this is a sisyphean task, to give wheat to the throne to try to reap the fool's gold. and to joke around in a discord server? NONONO, you do not do that, for the biggest crime of a MINECRAFT server is that THEY STILL LIVE like a DISCORD moderator, who IMPALE you with the hatred of 400 pounds if you DARE send a meme in the general chat.
this modpack is not showing hatred towards you. no. this is a psychological experiment. hatred requires effort, THIS MODPACK DOES NOT CARE. i wanted complexity in an EXPERT modpack, but I get rewarded with tedium. i wanted to build something beautiful! a palace!
i was handed a list and was told to shut up until it was all over