Astral Engineering - Expert Tech, Magic, and Exploration Modpack [1.16.5]

This is Astral Engineering, a medium-core expert modpack, intended to be played by casual and hardcore players alike! Not quite a FTB Kitchen Sink, but not quite Gregtech. This pack focuses upon being accessible, and due to this most recipes stay in the 3x3 grid. Only for late-game and creative items does this change. I made this pack to serve as a bridge between the hardcore and casual communities, in order to provide something for everyone! In this pack, you can expect to:

Explore numerous dungeons across the overworld, a reworked End dimension, and even space!
Progress technology through the Immersive mod suite in tandem with Create, later progressing into Mekanism!
Progress magic through classics such as Botania, Astral Sorcery, and Mana and Artifice!
As mentioned, this modpack is focused upon accessibility: although it does not begin at an expert level, it scales into that level of difficulty as you reach closer to end game, and creative items.

Modpack features:

With over 250 mods, this pack offers something for everyone!
Hand-made quests with rewards, full descriptions, links to Wiki pages, and even secret rewards!
Meticulously tested to provide the best performance possible, with adjustments and patches made as needed!
Many early recipes keep their vanilla form, in order to ease players into progression rather than making it difficult just to get started.
Popular tech mods such as Thermal, Mekanism, Create, and the Immersive suite all make an appearance!
Immersive Railroading, complete with its own questline!
Custom collectables with their own quests!
Minecolonies is included, along with its own quest tree - make the industrial cityscape of your dreams!
Make custom tools via Tinker's construct!
Building blocks galore through Chisel, Chipped, 'Dustrial Decor, Engineer's Decor, and more! Decorative blocks are deliberately left cheap to make to encourage building.
TONS of unique dungeons in the world through YUNG's mods and Dungeons Arise!
Oh the Biomes You'll Go ensures a beautiful and diverse world!
Mobs across the dimensions have been tweaked via In Control, to ensure that monsters remain challenging into the late game!
Custom multiblock machinery made through Masterful Machinery, designed to match the aesthetic of the rest of the pack!
Much more - this modpack has been made with great love and care, and I am always looking to improve it as well. Expect regular updates to come as I develop the pack and incorporate new additions!

Special thanks to:

Freebi Peers, the developer of Explorico along with Dungeons, Dragons, and Space Shuttles, for his assistance with development, and inspiring me to try pack creation!

Simibubi, the lead developer of Create, and it's corresponding modpack, for inspiring the trading system, and the creation of custom Pipez models! Thank you for your assistance and kindness!

This pack is proud to include the following Texture Packs:

Updated Engineering by tdstress

Small Gauge Goodies by Glayn

Feywild Redux by Nanoattack and saphienyako

Warning - Known Incompatibilities:

This modpack is not compatible with Optifine, in any way, and has no plans to add compatibility.

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