I love this modpack, it's the little things, adding up to a whole greater than I would expect.

The term vanilla+ feels off when trying to describe it since it feels more cohesive than any other modpack I've played so far and it carves it's own little niche inside my head. I think of it as a completely separate object than minecraft, and the way it integrates everything, down to the UI of JEI to the coordinates, to the minimap, makes it incredibly immersive

The use of advancements to guide player progression is particularly genius since it gives, at least for me, a distinction from how it would work if it used quests. Quests are something to be done, advancements are not, and that means that it's easy to just play the game how I want it without a given goal looming over my head. But I'm also never really lost since if I feel like I want to progress, or there's an item that I need, I can simply open up the advancements.

The various notes and informational bits scattered around the JEI is also really nice, making it completely playable without ever looking at a wiki and feels immersive enough that it feels natural.

Basically every single mod that's in raspberry flavoured was put in, not to enhance minecraft, but to make raspberry flavoured as envisioned by the creator and you can really feel that when playing.

overall

Given that it's a kitchen sink pack with a very large amount of mods, you can expect it to have anything you'd like

The pack itself clearly has had significant effort put into it. Many items are cross compatible between mods, I don't think I've seen a single overlapping recipe, the quests are fairly well structured, and overall it's very fun, especially if you're looking for a "minecraft but with lots of mods" sort of experience

exploration

I can't say much for the RPG and exploration side of things, but I was able to get close to invincible fairly quickly and most of the bosses tended to be quite easy

tech

In terms of tech and magic, which is what me and my friend focused on, there were significant balance issues but overall it was still quite fun if you accept that certain things will be redundant. And because of how the pack and it's quests are structured, it's fairly easy to skip certain mods anyway

It has that specific kitchen sink tech mod vibe, where each mod tended to be used separately and with little configuration, specifically removing machines, from them. A lot of Create, for example, is completely overshadowed by mekanism and modern industrialization, and even theurgy in some cases.

I won't dock too many points for it though since being able to access a lot of tech mods "vanilla" is the point of a kitchen sink, and it's still easy to enjoy them as standalone experiences

performance

In terms of performance, we found that in client side, there tended to be hitches in frames, and some missing textures here and there.

Server side was also an issue, but I can't say if it was purely a hardware issue on my part or the mod. Though I do run the modpack on 8gbs and we found that the server was consistently struggling a bit