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Malum is a mod I should've tried long ago and for some reason I've only just gotten around to it. The ability to collect different materials from every enemy with a scythe is amazing to add more reason to explore and do things that may have once been monotonous annoyances.

This mod has a really good grasp of trade-offs, use the scythe and get extra resources to do magic or use conventional weapons and get bonus damage and the ability to use ranged weapons. Use totems to replenish your hunger or keep food on you to make sure you're protected wherever you go. Sure, you could do both but then you're wasting inventory, which in Minecraft is often very limited.

I'm not normally a huge proponent of magic mods, I often find them very disconnected from the main gameplay loop of Minecraft or many packs, but Malum does a great job at making its systems feel interconnected with the Minecraft world.

This may now be my favourite magic mod, we'll have to see. I would highly recommend to people who like magic mods and want a fresh new experience, or to those who are trying a magic mod for the first time!

This mod helps prevent so much unneeded frustration caused by losing items to cacti or lava happening to be nearby, or because someone else just happened to load the chunks you died in for too long before you got back yourself. Furthermore, because this doesn't place a block like most other similar mods it is more robust and can generate a corpse in almost every death situation.

The only weirdness with corpses is because they can be pushed around by fluids etc, it is possible to lose the corpse and struggle to find your items on some occasions, but this is only a minor issue. Corpses also often cause some issues with mods that affect player rendering, but this isn't really this mod's fault.

I'd highly recommend this mod and it is my go-to gravestone-esque mod!

Iris used to be incredibly dependable in my experience, it was always significantly better than any alternative and had far less weird quirks. As a shader mod iris helped allow people to get the performance of sodium but the shading ability of optifine and similar mods.

Unfortunately, recently I've had so many issues with Iris even optifine looks tempting. On some game versions I've had it crash on launch with no others mods, especially on neoforge. This is not really acceptable for what is supposed to be the gold standard of shading mods and while I might have given this mod 4.5 stars a few months ago I have had to give this scathing review instead.

Part of my issue with this mod may be that it was originally designed for fabric, so I never played it much except in packs where it had already been tested, instead often using oculus. Now Iris is on neoforge I've been using it instead, often with significantly more issues and with worse performance.

TLDR, Iris on neoforge doesn't work that well in my experience. I don't really have any alternative to recommend other than just missing out on shaders for a bit or trying to use the limited vanilla shader options.

When creating modpacks, there's undoubtedly going to be at least one mod with broken tags due to expecting an older version of a dependency or just because it was lazily made. This mod helps fix that.

While I wouldn't advise just installing this mod and praying it fixes stuff correctly (this can lead to empty tags or recipes not properly working) it is incredibly useful for understanding what is broken and allowing uou to work on other areas of the pack without all the recipes being broken.

This mod probably isn't useful for end users, but I'd highly advise it for anyone trying to make larger packs!

This mod seems like a small change but because you always see the item you're holding throughout basically the entire game, this mod makes quite a large difference.

Patching the small holes in model seams for items is definitely noticeable more on certain items than others, but it is an improvement to almost every item making this incredibly worthwhile to add to a pack.

There's no reason not to use this, its been included into vanilla now anyway, use this mod!

BetterF3 may help some people navigate the F3 menu through colouring different items but I find the colouring just reduces contrast on many backgrounds and makes it harder on the eyes.

By far the worst part about BetterF3 is the performance, text rendering in Minecraft is already unoptimised but pulling this menu up can genuinely reduce you from playable FPS to an unplayable slideshow, especially on older machines. This is made even worse by the fact it animates sliding in and out which gets really choppy and slow at low frame rates which means it can be even harder to diagnose why your frames have dropped because it takes ages to even open the F3 menu.

One advantage of this mod is the ability to customise the F3 menu on versions before that was possible, and I have seen packs such as Raspberry Flavoured make use of it to lock coordinates behind items. This is a niche use case however.

If you really struggle to read the normal F3 screen, maybe get this, I wouldn't recommend it to the average person though.

Cherished worlds adds a feature you don't realise was missing until you need it. Being able to star worlds to make sure you can easily find them and not accidentally delete them is really useful in long term packs.

When I'm playing a long term survival world, I often find myself creating lots of testing worlds in superflat and creative to test builds or mod mechanics. When you have a lot of worlds it can be annoying to scroll down to find the one you want so being able to pin worlds is really useful here. Also, more than once I've accidentally deleted the world I want to keep when deleting all the testing worlds, which can be incredibly frustrating and it's nice this mod solves it (even if it's probably my fault that happened in the first place).

Highly recommend this mod, it's just a nice quality of life addition.

This mod is just nice, it isn't essential, I don't find myself missing it, but it is just nice. This mod can be really useful on servers to help differentiate who is speaking at a glance however.

This is a small mod that I see no reason not to use if you're playing multiplayer. Everyone should try it.

Entity culling is a mod that can significantly improve client performance in almost any scenario, but excels in built up areas with mob farms or pastures. When combined with other optimisation mods like Sodium and Ferrite Core, there is less of an effect but it is still a noticeable bump.

The only time I've ever had issues with this mod is in combination with other mods that do strange stuff with the camera, resulting in incorrect culling (e.g. Reign of Nether). The issues I have had with this mod are minor however and aren't much a problem with this mod as they are the other mods that change the camera so significantly.

Overall, great mod that should be in almost any pack.

Reign of Nether plays more like a highly polished RTS game than a Minecraft mod and offers a really unique experience I haven't seen any other mod pull off.

This mod has all the features you'd expect from an RTS mod, a resource system, multiple teams, a new management interface. The top down camera works incredibly well for the game and it is clean and somewhat easy to learn. The resource system makes sense and Minecraft has been adapted well for this mod.

It isn't all perfect though and this mod does work poorly with any culling mods due to it's orthographic camera, if you do choose a mod like embeddium you should disable block face culling to prevent rendering issues. Furthermore there is some issues with items dropping which just get left to despawn.

I would recommend this mod to anyone who likes RTS games!