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Cryotic Expanse - N&B is a followup of the old Cryotic Expanse pack pulling new inspiration from FTB Beyond and Nuts & Bolts: Torqued.

To Cover the key points of the pack:

This pack has a many mods, attempting to avoid redundancy when able while focusing on getting the best play experience and the most varied options for your game play.

Cryotic Expanse utilizes much of the progression in Nuts and Bolts: Torqued. Along the same lines, this pack is is progression oriented with the goal of utilizing all mods in the pack. This means that you will need to hop back and forth between tech and magic mods to progress in both. This creates a comprehensive infrastructure and needs a good comprehension of all mod interaction to proceed.

As per the "Nuts and Bolts: Torqued" page:

Although much of the progress will involve both magic and technology to some degree, we have gone great lengths to streamline the experience and not detract to heavily from those wishing to specialize by allowing magic to primarily gate magic and tech primarily gate tech until you reach near endgame when it all comes together.

We understand just how subjective balance can be so we approach it from a more philosophical angle. We tweak our configs and recipes to be somewhat more difficult, but we do so in a gradual, multistep way. Instead of needing large amounts of a rare resource or hard to obtain resources you will instead find that all recipes leading up to that are just a little more effort than you were used to. The machines take more power than normal to run, steel may be required where iron once was, but the end result is a gradual increase in difficulty to extend the life and interest of the game without the sometimes frustrating hard gating you find in some packs.

Many of the recipes in this pack are "nerfed" by default, but by utilizing cross-mod interactions you can match, or perhaps even beat, the efficiency of stock recipes.

As a final note, this pack contains a HQM book meant for a general guide for progression. It's not meant to be a do this, then this format but rather a loose guideline.

Mod list:

Cryotic Expanse - Nuts & Bolts Edition