THIS POST IS OUTDATED AND REFLECTS A PREVIOUS VERSION OF THE MODPACK. ALL ISSUES IN THIS POST HAVE BEEN RESOLVED OR CHANGED. I WILL BE MAKING A VIDEO ON THE REVIEW OF THIS MOD FOR LATER USE.



I am keeping this post here as a legacy post, since it was also quoted by others in discussion of the pack. This pack is pretty good and has an author that jumped right onto the issues that I had, which says a lot.



~Damien Darkside



This mod-pack has amazing potential. Really it does. The land generation is completely unique and Metallurgy 4 isn't in a ton of other packs. I especially love how there are "islands" where you are more drawn to the massive lands they can provide, and of course the ores that are inside.



There are a number of issues holding it back which is why I have held off on making a video review of the modpack.



My main criticisms of the pack are as follows:



1) [MOST IMPORTANT] Ore generation needs to be tweaked, along the "more" side. Unless the ore generation in NEI is lying, vanilla ores (gold, diamond) are not tweaked to a world that has most of it's stone at 70-40. Making sure you can actually get gold for Agmallen (Alloyer) or Diamonds for the TiC Tools. Using the Ore Finder from Metallurgy detects all ores and with a long time I couldn't get any gold/diamonds.



2) [Secondary] Extra TiC is not covering Metallurgy metals. Either find a way for the tool parts to be used, or go the completely other route and take TiC out. This way there are reasons to go to the "islands" that have



3) HQM - Sure your book teases that we don't have HQM, but I think this would be fantastic here. I don't personally know or use RFTools, especially on the dimension-building side. Maybe there is another way to get diamonds or gold, that would be good for HQM. There is the easily paths to take like TiC or Metallurgy for collection quests etc. The multiple steps required for the RFT end-goal would especially benefit from this.



4) Professionalism - This is only is you really want this to take off (and I assume you want it to since you messaged my thread). It isn't a huge thing, but removing "lol" and other minor changes within the book you have released. A tips section would definitely be helpful and a more organized end-goal. The last page about Obsidian is completely off-mark and should be changed completely. Also look for more alternatives to getting obsidian, which you can reward with in a HQM book as a last resort.



5) Ex Nhilo - This would probably help with issues regarding the lack of not only clay, but also lava generation as well. This way you don't have to resort to nasty little tricks and whatnot to get lava. There is also the benefit of Skyblock players getting other seeds and such that you can add in! Pam's HC seeds mixed in would be a good use of time and resources.



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As I have said your pack has loads of potential, but at the moment has some flaws that need to be addressed. I will add to the top of my post if these are tweaked, so people don't get the wrong impression from this post a month from now when this is changed.