Trying to find a new Quest-based Modpack to play, frustrated finding a good one other than Cuboid Outpost
Maybe I’m picky, but I don’t have all the time in the world to keep trying modpacks that I just end up dropping immediately or spending hours troubleshooting to make it “worth playing”.
I don’t have hours and hours to grind a modpack every day, so I’d like it to feel like I’ve accomplished even just a bit of something in the couple hours I’ll play each week.
I’ve played lightly modded for years now with things like appleskin and zoom mods, QoL sorts of things. But the second it comes to these heavier modpacks I feel lost.
The only mod pack I’ve spent a significant amount of time in that I really enjoy is Cuboid Outpost Luxury Edition. It’s basically the perfect modpack to me. But I also want to find another modpack I’d enjoy as well.
Things I like in modpacks:
Quest based (I hate modpacks that give zero information or the quest book tells you like 10 different things total. I’m not joining a discord or searching an incomprehensible wiki for a Minecraft modpack.)
Start with nothing, progress from there. (Not necessary, but I really liked this with Cuboid. I’ve tried skyfactory as well, can’t play any skyfactory anymore due to soured memories of an old friend)
I do like tech-based things and automation, but sometimes I feel in over my head, so I’d like the quest book to be good at explaining it.
Immediately dropping the pack if:
Whole pack relies on Create mod. Some create aspects are fine imo, but if create is the point of the pack or if there is no way to do something without create, I don’t want to play it.
Any changes to vanilla combat like dodging, rolling, sliding, etc. I still want to play Minecraft, not a souls game. New weapons and armor is fine, just keep the combat/movement itself vanilla. This also means no do a barrel roll.
All the Mods. I don’t want to play these packs.
Heavy Magic. A spell scroll or something like that is fine, but I don’t want to play Wizard simulator, I’d just play BG3 at that point
Thirst bar. I do not want to be purifying water forever. I will not play a modpack with this. Temperature is fine though.
“Immersion” mods that give similar effects like view bobbing, I turn that shit off because it makes me nauseous and I get motion-sickness. I do not care about your shitty “wow! Look at this slight blur and minimal tilt that makes you feel like you’re in the game!” I will throw up.
Changes to changing perspective. Seeing my character in 1st person: just let me know if the mod is there and I’ll delete it. No 2nd person: don’t even suggest it. Smoothing the cut between perspectives: It’s annoying and takes so much time.
Smoothing or other animations in moving stuff in my inventory. It’s annoying and dumb. I speedrun the base game and enjoy things like bingo, I do not want some stupid mod changing base game like that.
Most of my major complaints are everything to do with the “Aged” modpack. I hate its dumb and uninformative Quest book, I hate its thirst system, I hate the bs mods I spent hours trying to find that make disabling view bobbing do nothing, I hate how bad the audio balancing is, I hate the shitty walking animation, I hate the way it changed perspective switching, that modpack is the epitome of combining everything I hate in modpacks.
Other notes:
I really like Applied Energistics 2 if the pack doesn’t have this, it needs another storage system that is like it
I like Mekanism in Cuboid
Sifting is cool
I would really prefer 1.14+ packs because I find it annoying when I can’t crouch under a slab
There should be compatibility mods that allow me to use an ingredient of the same name in another mod’s recipe
I like new food and crop mods, but not a dealbreaker without it
Preferably a pack that won’t take me years to “beat”, but as long as I feel like I’m doing something and progressing through the quest book, this isn’t too hard of a requirement