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Meatballcraft is my second modpack which I played for a good bit, and first proper expert modpack.
after ATM10 which I dropped after it got too boring halfway through.

I am very early into the pack (chapter 2, but still just short of 200hr), so this review wont touch the later parts but I still though I should recommend this.

An amazing modpack that dips (very deeply) into all parts of modpacks, adventures/combat, tech and magic. The modpack starts out simple (and well, a dozen or two books falling on you), and gradually increasing in complexity. It starts out as a kitchensink pack (with this being the definition of overwhelming with how many mods unlock at once). Fortunately AE2 and void world is super early, so you shouldn't need to bother with more than a few chests (I had about 5 drawers and 7 double chests before getting ae2) for organization.

You get Project E fairly early, and while I don't have any experience with it, lot of people seem to do. It is quite well balanced here, not just get item throw in project e and never have to worry about it. It's mostly for QoL items for decoration, and basic resources which you will have to work on afterwards. This along with the countless resource generation methods reduces the grind by a lot. Most grindy thing so far was getting my first pickaxe in the beginning, and if I wasnt too scared of mobs I would have been faster with caves instead of strip mining.

The quests may not be for everyone, as they don't hold your hand all the way through and tell you which item to exactly craft everytime, instead, it lets you explore and figure it out your own. Personally, I hated it at first too I need my hand holding!, but soon enough I learned to like it, it gives a much greater sense of accomplishment imo.

Even though it starts out as a kitchensink, it doesn't lose it's expert part. 5x5, 7x7 and bigger recipes, recipes made of many mods and requiring many dimensions, gated recipes that are satisfying to complete, massive automation lines to make with the tech and magic mods and countless multiblocks (I personally love them so that's a plus point for me).

The mod has bunch of lore bits if you are interested in that, and many puzzles (with solutions given, if you didn't want to think bout them).

Overall, if you like automation and large expert packs, I definitely recommend giving a try.