Not Planned [Minecraft] Community Modpack Server

[Kamron]

I think the Minecraft part of the community could benefit from having a community modpack server for EGO. What I mean by this is that you are able to make modpacks on the curse forge app and can push updates directly to people's modpacks to match the servers so you don't have to worry about complicated installations and updates. The Modpack will start with a base of mods that'll add a lot of new features and content like new world gen, new dimensions, items, blocks, mobs, performance boosts, quality of life, etc Then we take the top 3-5 suggested mods for the month and make a vote for one to be added to the modpack. This way people can feel involved in the content being added along with looking forward to the end of each month for the vote. The server will be 1.16.5 or could wait till 1.17 comes out and see what mods come out then.

Another reason the modpack will be nice is that this will give players a lot more to do and to work with being items, blocks to build with, economy, events, and more.

For what mods should be added at the first I think we should stick with nothing too complicated and shouldn't ever add stuff that's OP like draconic evolution, Project E and etc.

Goals / Benefits of the Community Modpack:
Good Client-Side Performance
Good Server-Side Performance
Community driven content so people feel involved
New Content every Month to keep players coming
Tons and tons of new blocks and tools for people who like to build
New Progression so people don't get bored with just economy


Mods that should be at the start of the Modpack:

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World Gen:

Biomes O' Plenty - Tons New Biomes

Mystic’s Biomes - 3 New Biomes

Twilight Forest - New Dimension

The lost cities - Randomly generated abandoned cities around the world

Serene Seasons - Makes biomes go through seasons like IRL

Advanced Mining Dimension - Dimension meant for mining

Extended Caves - To make caves like the new update

Valhelsia Structures Mod - randomly generated

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Quality of Life:

Fast Leaf Decay - Self-explanatory

Corpse Mod - When you die you leave a corpse to get your stuff

Clumps - groups XP orbs together into a single entity to reduce lag

FastWorkbench - Makes CraftingBenches more responsive

Jade - Gives you information of what you are looking at and more

Just Enough Items - shows recipes and items on the side of inventory

Big Brain - Smarter mobs

Ore Excavation - Lets you mine a group of ores at once but takes the same value out of pick

Trash Slot - Slot in inventory to get rid of stuff

Forgiving Void - When you fall in the void in the end you fall in the sky of the end.

Health Bar - Self-explanatory

Back Tools - Showes the last tool you had out on your back

Item Zoom - Lets you see blocks in just enough items closer

Optifine - FPS Booster


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Items:

Sophisticated Backpacks - Adds backpacks for space

Winged Mod - Wings to fly better

Industrial Foregoing - Machines

Integrated Dynamics - Machines

Integrated Tunnels - Machines

Integrated Terminals - Machines

RFTools - Machines

Tinkers Construct - Adds a bunch of new items and tools

AgriCraft - Improves Farming

Nether Plus Mod - More items from the nether

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Blocks:

Chisels and Bits

Mr Crayfish Furniture Mod

Adorn

Inspirtations

Charm

Absent by Desigh

Decorative Blocks

Supplementaries

Smaller Nether portals

Open Blocks Elevator

Marvelous Materials Mod

ITank

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Others:

Mowzie Mobs - Crazy Mobs

Better Animals Plus - More IRL mobs

Alex's Mobs - More IRL mobs

Spiders 2.0 - Spiders get an upgrade and can climb on sides and upside down

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There are more performance boosters but will have to see what works best with modpack​

 

[BUTTERLOVER7683]

Hey Kamron ! Thanks for the very detailed response here, and sorry for the delay. Things got very busy very fast, but I'm slowly catching up.

There's a lot to talk about when the discussion of a modpack is brought up. While it's true modpacks are insanely fun (I played on a Technic pack for probably close to 2 years a while back), based on EGO MC's history with them, they haven't really served to bring in any new players, nor really attract many players from within EGO. We've run several FTB servers in the past, and they've always been our least populated servers to date, and those were with pretty well-known modpacks. Using our own would push out players even more.

Even besides the history of modpacks in EGO MC unfortunately falling flat, and ignoring the interest in other mods like Pixelmon in the community (yeah, yeah, we hear you), currently, this isn't a project our team is able to undertake at this time. Even while modpacks have failed, we keep them in our hearts, and always consider them for a server slot, but at the moment, we're working on an entirely new project (more news on that soon ), looking at possibly getting a 1.17 server going into the future, and maybe even returning to an Events Server if we're lucky.

tl;dr: Modpacks don't have a great history in EGO, and even if they did, our team's got its hands full with several other projects right now. We'll happily consider developing our own modpack in the future if the server does well and shows general interest, but that may not be for a while.

With all that said, is there anything you wanted to add to that?