This is the modpack for my private minecraft server. It tends to favor mods around magic or multibock tech, as well as environmental/quality of life mods.

The current iteration of the modpack focuses on mods for Minecraft 1.16. The following explains a few of the mods included in the pack, and their purpose.

Included Mods (and Notes)

You can see all of the included mods by examining one of the releases (under Files on the web site or by downloading it in the CurseForge app). The descriptions below provides a non-exhaustive explanation of the included mods and customizations.

Known Issues

The modpack includes Default Options in order to specify some better default keybindings within options.txt without replacing the file every time the modpack updates. However, one of the mods seems to cause options.txt to be created before Default Optioons can set things up itself. To work around this, the modpack includes an initial options-default.txt that you can copy into place before launching the modpack. If you don't do this, it just means you need to customize the keybindings yourself.
In particular, you will want to map FTB Chunks' world map button to something like SHIFT+M, and then remap most of buttons for both of Xaero's mods. See the Maps section below for suggest keybindings.
Similarly, Xaero's Minimap and Xaero's World Map configs are not handled by the standard Forge mod configuration system, so the modpack is unable to provide a default configuration that can be customized. Any time the modpack updates, these mods' configs will be replaced by the update. If you want to customize them (setting up waypoints should be fine -- the problem is with customizing settings for the minimap itself).

Customizations

See the latest modpack changelog for a list of customizations.

Getting Started

minecraft.aedifice.org is a private Minecraft server that uses a variety of mods. The server and mods generally have a focus on magic, content, and complex/multiblock tech and automation. It also strives to add a few RPG elements to make the world more fantastical and uncanny, as well as mods that remove some of the monotony of the Minecraft grind.

The server is private, and you cannot join without permission.

The following discussion of mods is far from complete, mainly meant to be a brief summary and pointers to a few useful things.

UI Mods

Data

The modpack uses Just Enough Items and The One Probe, as well as whatever supporting mods are available for additional content.

Just Enough Resources is present, but does not yet have a command for generating ore depth and frequency yet in 1.16 Minecraft.

Neat is used to show enemy health bars.

UI Tweaks

The modpack uses Quark's inventory sorting, it but still includes Inventory Tweaks Renewed still to replace broken items in your hotbar. It also has Crafting Tweaks and Mouse Tweaks for general crafting enhancements.

Maps

It currently uses Xaero's Minimap and Xaero's World Map since they seem to work best on 1.16. FTB-Chunks is also present for claiming chunks (FTB-Chunks provides a minimap, but it lacks keybindings and cannot show cave maps).

The default keys (if you copy the provided options-default.txt to options.txt) have been modified for Xaero's Minimap. You should review the key bindings to meet your own needs/preferences:

= zooms in
- zooms out
, creates a waypoint
. manages all waypoints
m Shows Xaero's World Map
shift+m Shows FTB-Chunks world map
y currently brings up Xaero's Minimap's config
] currently brings up Xaero's World Map's config

Ambiance

Ambient Sounds 3 adds ambient sounds
Sound Filters adds depth of sound
EnhancedVisuals adds visual effects when you take damage, are close to Endermen, etc.

Quality of Life Mods

Probably the most important ones to be ware of:

Carry On Lets you shift-right-click a tile entity or a mob to pick it up and carry it
FTB Ultimine Lets you hold down ` (backtick, can be changed) while breaking blocks to break a large number of them at the same time
Rapid Leaf Decay will cause leaves to decay rapidly after a tree is chopped down
Tree Harvester lets you sneak-chop down a whole tree at once (including the leaves). It will also replant a sapling if you chop it down at its base
Nature's Compass adds an item to find specific biomes
FindMe helps you find items in nearby inventories

Additionally:

Wither Skeleton Tweaks makes wither skeletons easier to find and less of a chore to grind
KleeSlabs lets you break half of a double-slab
NetherPortalFix Improves how Nether Portals link together
Craftable Horse Armour & Saddle adds recipes for crafting horse armor and saddles
Quark Adds a wide variety of enhancements that can't all be summarized here.
Comforts Adds sleeping bags and hammocks to "sleep" and move time forward to the next day or night
Corail Tombstone is a tombstone mod with some extra mystical/necromantic content
Crafting Station Adds a Tinker's Construct style crafting table.

World content

Mystic World adds a few plans and animals to make the world more fanciful
Oh the Biomes You'll Go adds a ton of new biomes

Content/Decorative Mods

Advanced Chimneys adds chimney blocks that produce various smoke particle effects
Botania includes a variety of decorative blocks
Decorative Blocks adds a variety of decorative blocks
Fairy Lights Adds strings of lights and banners you can customize and hang up
Engineer's Decor Adds Immersive Engineering-themed decorations
Quark adds a lot of decorative content
MultiBeds lets you build larger and customizable beds
Structurize adds roofing tiles, wood-reinforced blocks, etc.
Supplementaries adds many animated and functional decorations
Inspirations Adds bookshelves, carpets that go down stairs, and a variety of other Vanilla+ changes

Food and Farming Focused Mods

AppleSkin shows more hunger mechanics in the UI
Spice of Life: Carrot Edition gives you boons if you eat a variety of food and incentivizes making and eating all food
Cooking for Blockheads adds an incredibly useful cookbook and a multi-block kitchen that makes it easier to craft most food recipes
Farming for Blockheads adds a Market block for buying seeds
Simple Farming adds a vareity of extra crops and food recipes
**Simply Tea ** adds tea and other hot beverages
Ashenwheat Adds crops that can be grown to produce food, charcoal, bonemeal, gunpowder, and glowstone.
Ender Tendrils Adds an ender tendril to loot chests that grows downwards and drops tendril pearls which can be used in place of ender pearls in most recipes. (It's the closest thing to Ender Crops for 1.16)

Magic Mods

Ars Nouveau is a spell-crafting mod that also adds cute spirits that you can teach spells to
Astral Sorcery uses marble and crystals to harness the power of the stars for powerful magic
Botania is all about cultivating colorful flowers to channel mana to create powerful magic items and to create complex multiblock contraptions for automation
Nature's Aura is a magic themed mod based around using and replenishing a given region's aura. A strong aura boosts plant growth and other magical effects, but using the aura allows you to construct devices and enchantments.
Psi is a magical tech spell programming mod inspired by Mahouka. Don't worry if that doesn't make any sense.

Tech Mods

Create is a tech mod all about combining simpler blocks together to make some really cool contraptions/factories. It initially centers around rotational power, but has tools to help build as well.
Crossroads MC is another tech/magic mod that is all about building complex multiblock contraptions for automation
Essentials is a companion mod to Crossroads that adds some extra automation on top of vanilla Minecraft
Environmental Tech adds powerful multi-block machines that can generate resources, produce power, provide beacon effects. Warning: a new version of this mod is now on 1.16, but it lacks an in-game manual
Immersive Engineering, Immersive Petroleum, etc. provide a diesel-punk tech esthetic
Powah! is a tech mod that adds a variety of ways to generate, store, and transmit energy

Storage Mods

Applied Energistics 2 is a tech/energy/content mod that is still centered around mass storage of items/blocks
EnderChests adds multi-channel ender chests (similar to the old chickenbones mod)
Iron Chests adds larger storage inventories
Storage Drawers adds drawers that can be used to store items

Tools

Angel Ring adds the angel ring from Extra Utilities. It is just a ring that allows for creative-mode-style flight, from a fairly expensive recipe
Engineer's Tools adds a variety of tools themed around Immersive Engineering, including the Ariadne Coal, which lets you draw arrows (the arrow will point in the direction you right-clicked closest to on a given block. Eg, if you click near the top-right of a block, then the arrow points up and to the right)
Miner's Helmet can be worn to have dynamic lighting while in darkness
Scuba Gear adds equipment for breathing underwater
Silent Gear lets you build customizable tools from blueprints. It is derived from Silent's Gems, which can be used to build parts for tools.
Simply Jetpacks 2 lets you fly around using energy-based jetpacks.
Structurize adds wands for creating structure templates, and then making new ones elsewhere.
Vanilla Excavators adds giant shovels that can dig a 3x3 area
Vanilla Hammers adds giant hammers that can mine a 3x3 area

Misc

Ice and Fire: Dragons adds a variety of mythical creatures such as dragons, hippogryphs, gorgons, ghosts, liches, etc. to the game, along with related items and other content to be a dragon hunter and dragon tamer.
MiniCoal Adds smaller versions of coal and charcoal that can cook a single item, instead of 8
Rats adds rat mobs. They can be tamed and used for automation, can spread the plague, etc. Plague Doctor Illagers love to circle your house, letting their pet rats eat holes in your walls and drink painful sounding potions of invisibility.
Waystones adds waystones that players can teleport to using XP.

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