Project Epsilon 1.16.4

Project Epsilon is a 1.16.4 pack that aims to achieve, above all else, balance in progression and end game.

The pack is secondly an adventure/MMO pack, with skill-based progression centered around exploring and adventuring, with genuinely difficult gameplay as you progress, although not unfair. This pack is also extremely configurable.

Project Epsilon is balanced around the lack of machines or energy, with the most efficient means of obtaining resources being either by hand or through Minecolonies, which by default you are required to progress in order to unlock some of the dimensions. Various different tweaks have been made to improve the user experience, with a beautiful new worldgen, Biomes O' Plenty, and optifine/shaders compatibility if you so desire.

GAMEPLAY

You'll notice as you spawn in, aside from the beautiful scenery, that you cannot use certain tools. You need to level up skills in order to use tools, with higher levels required for better tools. When you enter the Nether, and eventually the End, the difficulty of the game will increase dramatically, so you need to obtain some higher level gear in order to survive.

When you do eventually make it to the end (which is an entirely new feat, with an all new castle which replaces the stronghold, with several different eyes needed to complete the portal), you'll find that upon defeating the ender dragon and entering the outer end, that everything is different. A whole new end with ores, biomes, mobs, and much more awaits!

Building a thriving Minecolony is a part of the End game, as creating a fully functioning, resource producing colony is required to reach one of the 3 dimensions this modpack adds, which is rare for a balanced 1.16.4 pack.

Watch out for incredibly dangerous creatures in the overworld, such as deathworms, sea serpents, and dragons, which have all been adjusted to fit the balance of this pack. There is no one specific item/weapon/tool that is hands-down the best, which extends the end game as the player experiments with different sets and different enchantments.

Overall, this pack is meant to be an extension of the vanilla experience, not a replacement.

Mod List

Advanced Tools
Aetherite
Alex's Mobs
Ambient Environment
Apple Skin
Aquatic Additions
Architectury
AutoRegLib
Basic Nether Ores
Better End
Yung's Better Mineshafts
Biomes O' Plenty
Buzzier Bees
Caelus
Camera
Chicken Chunks
Citadel
Code Chicken Lib
Comforts
Compactores
Compressium
Cosmetic Armor Reworked
Construction Wand
Controlling
Crafting Station
Curious Elytra
Cycle Paintings
Dynamic Surroundings
Elevator
Emojiful
Enchant With Mob
End Remastered
Enhanced Mushrooms
Enhanced Snowman
Extra Armor
FTB GUI Library
Gaia Dimension
Gravestone
Herd Mentality
HWYLA
Ice Ice Baby
Ice and Fire
Immersive Portals
Infernal Expansion
Inventory Hotswap
Iron Age Furniture
Item Physic
Just Enough Items
Just Enough Resources
Kiwi
Limited Spawners
Looot
Magic Mirror
Majrusz Library
Majrusz Difficulty
Masonry Blocks
Macaw's Bridges
Macaw's Paintings
MGUI
Minecolonies
Morpheus
Nether Portal Fix
Not Enough Breeding
Off Hand Combat
Ores Above Diamonds
Overloaded Armor Bar
Perspective Mod Redux
Placebo
Polymorph
Progressive Bosses
Project MMO
Quark O' Plenty
Quark
Repurposed Structures
Restricted Portals
Sapience
SecurityCraft
Serene Seasons
Shulker Enchantments
Shut up Experimental Settings
Simple Farming
Snow Real Magic
Spice of Life: Potato Edition
Spartan Shields
Spartan Weaponry
Spiders Produce Webs
Stay Gold
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Supplementaries
Swing through Grass
TerraForged
Tetra
The Bumblezone
The Undergarden
Torch Slab Mod
Traveler's Index
Undergarden Tetra Patch
Upgrade Aquatic
Upgraded Netherite
Upsizer
Valhesia Structures
Waila Harvestability
Wither Skeleton Tweaks
Workshops of doom
Xaeros Minimap
Xaeros Worldmap
Yung's API

Other

To used Terraforged worldgen on a server, put leveltype=terraforged

The UI of the MMO system and the Minimap can be changed in order to not overlap

The requirements to enter The Undergarden, Gaia Dimension, and The Bumblezone is Obtaining a Chorus Fruit bread, Double Compressed Diamond block, and Block of Tektite respectively. Can be changed in config.