No Mine's Sky aims to recreate the exploration and discovery gameplay loop of No Man's Sky by using the Field Guide mod.
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The Field Guide mod allows you to use a spyglass to scan the local wildlife in return for rewards. Currently, each scan simply gives 1 diamond and some xp, but future updates will implement a more robust reward system.
In order to attempt to recreate a small fraction of No Man's Sky procedurally generated Flora and Fauna, this modpack contains many different mob based mods:
Alex's Mobs
Nautiluses
Aquaculture 2
the Aether
Twilight Forest
Vanimals
Pale Garden Backport
Mutant Monsters
Happy Ghast
More Mobs
Special Mobs
It also contains several Flora based mods:
Biomes o' Plenty
Oh the Biomes We've Gone
Pale Garden Backport
It contains several structure and exploration based mods as well