Welcome to Musta's Mod Menagerie!
This forge based modpack is designed around 1.16.4 originally and has now been updated to 1.18.2! The main goal of the pack is to give players the most feature full version of minecraft with the almost critical additions mods make, while still maintaining playability on most people's systems (min 16gb ram). This pack started as a way to test out the new versions of the Create mod with some core additions, but has since grown to a more flushed out full experience, including many cross mod interactions!
Some core additions in this pack:
Alex's Mobs
Ars Nouveau
Aquaculture 2
Better Animals Plus
Biomes O' Plenty
Blood Magic
Botania
CC: Tweaked
Cinderscapes
Compact Machines
Cooking For Blockheads
Create
Croptopia
Cyclic
Enlightened End
Ensorcellation
EvilCraft
Farmer's Delight
Infernium
Mystical Agriculture
Pam's HavestCraft 2 (All)
Plus The End
PneumaticCraft: Represurized
Project MMO (No Requirments Enabled, Only Benefits Enabled)
Quark
Refined Storage
Simple Tools/Ores
Thermal Expansion and Locomotion
Traveler's Backpack
Unusual End
Unusual Fish
Various integration mods to make them all play nice!
And Many More!
Some notable missing ones (on purpose):
Applied Energistics: Overlap with Mystical Agg.
BetterEnd/BetterNether: Would like to add both, but the BetterNether forge port has not been finished and the BetterEnd port currently has issues with Biomes O' Plenty.
Chisels & Bits: Caused massive, sometimes infinite game startup times and various crashes on lower end systems.
Industrial Foregoing: Redundant with Thermal and Create/Pnuematicraft.
Mekanism: Redundant with Thermal and Create/Pnuematicraft.
Some custom configs!:
ProjectMMO config included that removes requirements so mod is purely beneficial.
Custom UI arrangement with mod screens for easier starting.
Cyclic overworld ore gen in nether and end off by default (including config file found from GItHub).
Copper Ore Spawn decreased to one type, which you can convert easily (free) with polymorph.
Durability Notifier sound off by default.
Traveller's backpack inventory excluded from quark sorting (stops buttons being misplaced in middle of crafting grid),
Starter Kit provides basic Traveler's Backpack!
Just to name a few!
Suggestions For beginning:
Simple Tools is a good place to start with this pack. You spawn in with a free pack of basic blueprints to begin, and will give you some good customization to jumpstart your early game! If you're more tech-inclined, try making a basic auto farm in create with harvesters!
Create is the main focus of this pack, now with trains!
Suggestions For Servers:
Currently running server with 24gb ram, seems to only be using around 15 so far.
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