BYSS Community Pack
This modpack is for the Build Your Spaceship and Explore the Universe Discord server.
The BYSS Community Pack is a medium-sized modpack with a focus on technical mods, as the game it is based on is science fiction. It's intended for an upcoming multiplayer server.
The pack features a variety of content mods, but the majority of mods are either performance, tweak, or quality of life mods. There are only a few large mods.
The pack is being developed for use by members of a certain Discord server, so if you want to give feedback, join us at this link.
Tech Mods
Most of the content mods in the pack are tech mods:
- Building Gadgets & Mining Gadgets: FE-powered tools to assist in building, from placing to swapping blocks, and a FE-powered laser drill with various upgrades for a sci-fi mining experience
- Create, with Create Stuff & Additions, and Create Crafts & Additions: Create is probably the best, most vanilla-esque tech mod in existence. Two companion mods are included.
- Extreme Reactors: Nuclear reactors, done easy and modular! Although, not as safe as some other reactors.
- Refined Storage, with various companion mods: A simpler alternative to Applied Energistics 2, RS allows you to create FE-powered storage and autocrafting networks based on matter-energy equivalence tech.
- Immersive Engineering, with Immersive Petroleum & other companion mods: Immersive Engineering is a more old-fashioned tech mod with a heavy focus on multiblock structures and realism.
- Industrial Foregoing: Many powerful blocks designed to make your Minecraft tech experience easier, from animal farming to stone generation to automated enchanting.
- Mekanism & addons: A huge tech mod containing everything from simple ore doubling to nuclear fusion reactors, ore pentuplication, and antimatter - Mekanism cannot be summed up in one sentence.
- RFTools & all addons (no Dimensions): A large redstone-focused tech mod which allows you much finer control over the redstone components of your Minecraft world, with addons for things like power and storage.
- Scannable, Large Ore Deposits: Scannable allows you to create scanners for finding things, and when paired with Large Ore Deposits, you'll soon be hunting down an ever-elusive Large Diamond Vein.
- Simply Jetpacks 2: I think the title says it all. Supports tech tiers from most mods in this list.
- Space-Bosstools: A continuation of GalactiCraft for 1.16.5, this mod allows you to visit the Moon, Mars, and create your own space stations! A must-have for this modpack!
- Thermal Series: The classic tech mod returns for 1.16.5. Thermal Foundation, Expansion, etc. are the OG ore processing and power generation mods. Note that Dynamics is not updated, so no pipes yet.
- And more!
Magic Mods
A few magic mods are included for those of you who aren't so into technology.
- Astral Sorcery: Claim the power of the stars to do your bidding, building elaborate shrines to harness the power of starlight.
- Botania, with Mythic Botany: Flower power! There's some debate if this is even a magic mod. I will call it a "magitech" mod.
- Eidolon: Cast dark rituals, harvest souls, and wear fancy robes. Pray to dark gods and throw books at witches!
- Waystones: Create survival-friendly teleport waypoints, that even work between dimensions!
Content/Exploration Mods
There are many mods which add content that don't fit into the two categories above...
- Absent By Design: A builder's companion mod which adds a variety of vanilla-based building blocks, such as stairs and slabs for things that needed them.
- Akashic Tome & Morph-o-Tool: The book to contain all of your books, and the wrench to contain all of your other wrenches from other mods.
- Alex's Mobs: A huge variety of creepy, cute, and weird mobs to populate your world! Pet monkeys, orca whales, weird fungus people, and more! Comes with a book.
- Artifacts: Rare loot treasures inspired by other games, which can be worn as Curios. Provides various buffs, from scaring away creepers with kitty shoes to double-jumping with a cloud in a bottle.
- Backpacked & Backpacker: Backpacks. Slightly buffed in this modpack.
- Bedspreads: Put banner patterns on your beds! Why isn't this in vanilla?
- Builders Crafts & Additions: Similar to Absent By Design. Adds more decorative blocks.
- Carry On: Pick up mobs, tile entities, and more.
- Farmer's Delight, Cooking For Blockheads, Simply Farming: I love farming mods. I had to include some of them, especially my favorite, Farmer's Delight.
- Decorative Blocks & compat: What it says on the tin. Things like torch sconces. Fancify your houses!
- Extended Lights: Even more lighting options, mostly focused on bulbs and such.
- Extreme Sound Muffler: Ever get tired of hearing your 32 cows mooing constantly? Shut them up with a simple gui.
- FerriteCore: A wonderful performance mod which slashes the amount of RAM Minecraft consumes in half. The pack should be able to run on 2-4GB!
- GraveStone: Don't lose your items ever again! Well, you will lose them, but only until you go dig up your grave.
- Hats: Of course. ohaiiChun happened to update Hats recently, so I had to add it. A must-have for servers.
- Oh, The Biomes You'll Go: A wonderful biome mod which adds a hundred new biomes to the Overworld, Nether, and End. My favorite biome mod.
- Quark: A mod which adds a variety of content, which can't be summed up in any Neat manner (which is a mod by Vazkii).
- spark: A performance improvement mod focused on CPU usage.
- Tinker's Construct: The third most popular Minecraft mod of all time, and for good reason. Join their Discord!
- Travel Anchors: A more technological alternative to Waystones, importing the travel anchors and wand of travelling from Ender IO.
- Valhelsia Structures: Find various ruined buildings out in the wilderness. Don't forget to look for hidden loot!
- Xaero's Minimap/World Map: Your mapping needs, fulfilled.
- YUNG's Better Caves: More realistic cave generation, configured to work on the Moon and Mars too.
