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I played this pack at the request of a friendgroup - on a purely objective level, I do think the aesthetics of the pack are high-effort, with almost wholesale retexturing of a lot of base game stuff (I personally didn't care for it)

Everything else about the pack felt very low effort. Tons of duplicate content between mods, Cobblemon just randomly dropped in, lots of attempts at the Stardew Valley theme with little to no substance behind them, the list goes on. Some of these things are inherent in a kitchen sink pack, and I have no real issue with the concept of a kitchen sink pack, but the whole thing just feels like it was tailored to have every buzzword possible to get people to download it - no matter how much they end up not enjoying the pack.

Nomifactory is the updated version of my favorite pack of all time (Omnifactory), which means it's also my favorite pack of all time. Completely tech-focused, tons of custom content, forks of mods to optimize the game and fix longstanding issues, progression tiering and a questbook that are intuitive and provide a clear guide as to what you should be working on next.

Additionally, building tools and blocks are given to the player essentially free, which is a design choice more packs should make! Especially grindy 'expert' packs; building is the way I avoid burnout when I'm playing packs like these, and having a chisel with durability or needing to find rare materials just to build with just makes me burn out on packs faster.

KubeJS is the mod for modpack authors - it lets you customize basically everything about mods and even lets you add completely custom content, to a startling degree.

However, the documentation is in absolutely dire state and the only real way to learn how to use the more powerful tools available is ask for help in a discord channel.

This was an okay pack that I ended up dropping because of Abyssalcraft - it just wasn't very fun for me and shoggoths were incredibly annoying.

Aside from that, the pack integrated mods into progression very well and was fun up to that point!

Overall a very good and customizable recipe viewer - you can add subpanels to each side, customize as much as you want, and more.

As a mod/pack developer, I had a couple gripes with it based on edge cases; EMI's keybinds are separated from the normal keybind menu, meaning players who are used to JEI will change JEI's keybinds (as EMI layers on top of JEI for addon compatibility!) instead of EMI and get confused. EMI also does a strange thing with tag coercion (recipes with inputs that can accept multiple items get automatically combined into a tag, even if the underlying data is not a tag) which although VERY edge casey does end up being annoying for me specifically.

Overall though a very good mod, especially for lookup and crafting history which I use FREQUENTLY.