astralgarden

Vault Hunters is an absolutely amazing pack! The Progression being different from Vanilla Minecraft at first makes it start out very fresh and unique compared to other modpacks which have very "Vanilla" progressions right at the start. Unlike many other Modpacks, Vault Hunters actually excels in how well it compliments Vanilla Minecraft. All the Limitations of Vanilla have been thrown out the window. Now there's a rewarding and satisfying way to progress and reasons to push above and beyond where Vanilla players never need to go. You're able to unlock other mods through the progression of this pack. At the start, you can only have Vanilla Items + Vault Items (maybe a few more here and there, but its Vanilla+ if you disregard the Vaults). But through clearing Vaults, you can get the ability to unlock mods like Create, Mekanism, Thermal, Botania, and others! The progression is where I think it really shines.

The Vaults themselves are randomly generated dungeons that you go through and complete objectives and loot for treasure. This treasure can often be incredibly lucrative (It's technically possible to get enough netherite for full gear after just running a few vaults, although the vault gear massively outclasses netherite so theres not much of a reason to). The Vaults themselves are fun, and you can break up simple or repetitive tasks by running a vault in the middle, or you can run a bunch in sequence.

I have pretty severe ADHD and although I deeply love modded minecraft, I often struggle to play through minecraft modpacks all the way through due to losing interest or there being an uninteresting "grindy" section. Vault Hunters isn't without grind, but the grind is done through running through dungeons instead of waiting for something or strip mining and that has been able to keep my focus. I'm about 200 hours into a single player world and I'm showing no signs of stopping so far. I can only imagine its more fun on multiplayer!

This modpack is also updating, and there's a surprising amount of complexity to the core gameplay mechanics of The Vault mod. All in All, this is a solid 5/5 stars modpack. It's still in Alpha, so expect changes to be added that may affect gameplay, but at least currently, I love the pack and am very excited to see how this changes in the future.

I also have not experienced any issues with performance. The Game takes awhile to load, but that's pretty typical for large modpacks so I can't fault this pack for that. I play with shaders and get a pretty consistent 60fps. I could see performance issues on other computers though.