Quest For The Cauldron

Quest For The Cauldron is a tech modpack focused on quests and a money system.

If you like tech modpacks like tekkit then this is for you.

If you like building overly complicated production lines then this is for you.

If you like quests and challenges then once more this is for you.

Quest For The Cauldron has loads of popular tech mods like thermal dynamics, immersive engineering and tech reborn but still manages to squeeze in some lesser known mods like hole filler mod. For the long time players there are some classics like Project Red and Forge microblocks. There are also a handful on QoL mods like waila, armor toughness bar, and journeymap to name a few. To smoothen the playing experience there are mods that increase perfromance like foamfix that reduces RAM usage. For the builders the modpack offers many popular mods like chisel, decocraft and mr crayfishs's furniture mod. And many more mods that can be found in the complete modlist.

Over 800+ quests to guide you and offer rewards
Money system and a in game shop
Custom recipes
Fun challenges that offer many rewards
Little grinding with focus on using mods the way they were intended
All necessary ores can be found in the overworld so no unnecessary dimension hopping
Marketplace that encourages players to build different production lines

There are also totally new custom recipes that are aimed to make players try new ways to produce certain items and fluids.

For example sugar canes can be smelted into syrup and syrup can be crystallized into sugar increasing the yield of sugar. Cactus can be turned into acid. Sulfur and acid can be combined to make sulfuric acid.

Quests

There are over 800+ quests in 14 categories which are

Beginning generic quests to get you started
Marketplace here you can sell your factorys produce to earn coins
Automation all your factorys machines and pipes to allow automation
Power Production Quests for machines and contraptions that produce power for your factorys machines
Rescource foraging Different machines that allow you to get rescouces like quarrys
Nuclear power nuclear craft reactors and machines
Storage quests that direct you into building sophisticated item storage systems
Exploration rewards for finding biomes and other equipment that aid in exploring
Farming farming related quests
Trains directs you on building railcraft rail systems
Space Galacticraft related quests that direct you on how to explore space galacticraft wiki
Military Turret defenses, ICBMs and other TNT related items
Base Building quests about mods like decocraft, chisel, MR crayfish's furniture mod
Challenges various challenges organized into different difficulties more on them later

Many of the quests offer coins that can be spent in the shop as well as random rewards. The random rewards have a pool of over 500 items. Which means almost ever time you collect a reward you get something new. The random rewards are also balanced in a way that you can't get op endgame items at the vert beginning of the game. Instead they offer things that are relevant at any game stage.

Automation Quest Window

Money system and Marketplace

Quest for the Cauldron has a money system thanks to ftb money mod.

Money can be earned by completing quests and selling goods in the marketplace quest tab. The produce can be sold manually on the marketplace but can be set up to automatically sell and collect the money. What kind of production line will you make is left up to your imagination.

The marketplace has many options to choose from. Maybe your factory produces animal produce like meat or eggs. Maybe your factory farms trees or maybe your factory produces microchips and hard drive disks. Maybe your factory produces plastic sheets. Basically the marketplace has many 'professions' to choose from.

What can the money be exchnaged for? There is a shop that sells various materieals, rare items, baubles, equipment and much more.

The shop can be accessed in the left upper corner in the inventory or in the quest menu.

In game shop

Visit biome quest

Oil Refinery

Excavator

Refined Storage system

Challenges

Challenges are endgame goals for players to complete.

Challenges are more difficult than normal quests but they offer much better rewards.

Challenges offer rewards like tons of money, relics only obtainable through challenges or items only attainable in creative mode.

There are challenges like activate 35 waystones, craft a nuke or kill 100 withers.

Modlist

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Actually Additions Ellpeck

Additional strucures XxRexRaptorxX

Akashic Tome Vazkii

AmbientSounds CreativeMD

AppleSkin squeek

Applied Energistics 2 AlgorithmX2

Athenaeum codetaylor

AutoRegLib Vazkii

B.A.S.E SkySom, Lanse505, Jared, EwyBoy

Baubles Azanor

Better Advancements way2muchnoise

Better Builder's Wands Portablejim

BetterStorageToo TehStoneMan, copygirl, Vic Nightfall

BiblioCraft Joseph 'Nuchaz' Sinclair

Biomes O' Plenty Adubbz, Amnet, Cheeserolls, Forstride, ted80

Bountiful Ejektaflex

Bountiful Baubles CursedFlames

Bruh Sound Effect TheGamer37, MCreator

BuildCraft SpaceToad, BuildCraft Team

Building Gadgets Direwolf20

Calm Down Zombie Guy Blargerist

Chameleon jaquadro

Charm svenhjol, SokyranTheDragon

Chest Transporter cubex2

Chisel tterrag, Drullkus, minecreatr

Chisels & Bits AlgorithmX2

Click Machine Shadows_of_Fire

Clipboard Shadowfacts

Clumps Jaredlll08

CoFH Core Team CoFH

CoFH World Team CoFH

CodeChicken Lib ChickenBones, covers1624

Comforts TheIllusiveC4

Construct's Armory TheIllusiveC4

ConnectedTexturesMod tterrag1098

ContentTweaker SkySom

Controlling Jaredlll08

Corail Tombstone Corail31

CraftTweaker2 StanHebben, Jaredlll08

CreativeCore CreativeMD, N247S

Custom Main Menu lumien

Cyclic Lothrazar

Decocraft RazzleberryFox

Ding ohaiiChun

Doomlike Dungeons Jared Blackburn (JaredBGreat)

Dropt codetaylor

Dynamic Trees FerreusVeritas

Dynamic Trees BOP mangoose

Dynamic Trees PHC ferreusveritas, Max Hyper

Dynamic Trees for Tech Reborn Max Hyper

Dynamic Trees for Tinkers' Construct Max Hyper

Ender IO CrazyPants, tterrag, HenryLoenwind, MatthiasM, CyanideX, EpicSquid

EnderCore tterrag, CrazyPants, HenryLoenwind

Extra Cells 2 M3gaFr3ak, DrummerMC

Extra Utilities 2 RWTema

FTB Library LatvianModder

FTB Money LatvianModder

FTB Quests LatvianModder

FTB Utilities LatvianModder

Fairy Lights pau101

Farseek delvr

Faster Ladder Climbing JaSpr

FoamFix asiekierka

FoamFixCore asie

Forge Microblocks

Future MC TheDarkColour

Galacticraft Core Micdoodle8

Galacticraft Planets Micdoodle8

Ghost's Explosives Mod GhostGaming_HD

GottschCore gottsch

Grappling hook mod yyon

Hole Filler Mod DannyBoyThomas

ICBM-Classic QueenOfMissiles

Immersive Engineering BluSunrize, Damien A.W. Hazard

Immersive Petroleum Flaxbeard

Industrial Foregoing Buuz135

InitialInventory Jaredlll08

Inventory Pets Purplicious_Cow

Inventory Tweaks JimeoWan

Item Filters LatvianModder

JourneyMap techbrew, mysticdrew

Just Another Rotten Flesh to Leather Mod ExampleDude

Just Enough Items mezz

Just Enough Resources way2muchnoise

JustEnoughIDs Runemoro, ZombieHDGaming

Lods of Emone BordListian

MTLib Jaredlll08

Macaw's Bridges Macaw's Mods

MalisisCore Ordinastie, PaleoCrafter, AlmuraDev

MalisisDoors Ordinastie

Mantle boni, progWML6, Alexbegt

McJtyLib McJty

Mekanism aidancbrady, thommy101, thiakil, pupnewfster, dizzyd

Mekanism: Generators aidancbrady, thommy101, thiakil, pupnewfster, dizzyd

Mekanism: Tools aidancbrady, thommy101, thiakil, pupnewfster, dizzyd

Mob Grinding Utils vadis365

Micdoodle8 Core micdoodle8, radfast

Minecraft Forge LexManos, cpw, fry

Mod Name Tooltip mezz

Mod Tweaker Jaredlll08

More Cauldrons Mrbysco

MoreOverlays feldim2425

Morpheus Quetz

Mouse Tweaks YaLTeR

MrCrayfish's Furniture Mod MrCrayfish

MrTJPCore MrTJP

Multi Mob Core Daveyx0

Mystical World Noobanidus, EpicSquid, Martacus, Davoleo, Kalaxi, Vulpie

Mystical Lib EpicSquid, Elucent

Nature's Compass ChaosTheDude

NuclearCraft tomdodd4598

Open Modular Turrets Keridos

OpenBlocks Mikee, NeverCast, boq, Lyqyd

OpenComputers Sangar, Vexatos, payonel, magik6k, Lord Joda, Github Contributors

OpenModsLib Mikee, NeverCast, boq, Lyqyd

OreExcavation Funwayguy, Darkosto

Pam's HarvestCraft Pamela Collins

Patchouli Vazkii

Placebo Shadows_of_Fire

Pogo Sticks _Socol_

Primitive Mobs Daveyx0

ProjectRed Core MrTJP, ChickenBones, covers1624

Quark Vazkii, wiiv

RFTools McJty

Railcraft CovertJaguar

Random Things Lumien

RandomTweaks TheRandomLabs

ReAuth TechnicianLP

Realistic Item Drops Funwayguy

Reap Mod Max Henkel

Reborn Core modmuss50, Gigabit101, Prospector

Redstone Flux Team CoFH

Refined Storage raoulvdberge

Reliquary x3n0ph0b3, TheMike, P3pp3rF1y

Resource Loader lumien

Roguelike Dungeons Greymerk

Sandbag i_jad

Scannable Sangar_

ShadowMC Shadowfacts

Simply Jetpacks 2 Tomson124, StormedPanda

Storage Drawers jaquadro

Streams delvr

Stupid Things Furgl

SwingThroughGrass Exidex

Tech Reborn modmuss50, Gigabit101, Prospector

Tesla Core Lib Face_of_Cat

Thermal Dynamics Team CoFH

Tinkers Tool Leveling boni

Tinkers' Construct boni, KnightMiner

Tiny Progressions Kashdeya, Darkosto, GenDeathrow, ArclightTW

Toughness bar Tfarecnim

Treasure2! gottsch

Trumpet Skeleton JamiesWhiteShirt

UniDict WanionCane, ElektroKill

Vampirism maxanier, Cheaterpaul

Waila ProfMobius, TehNut

WanionLib WanionCane

Waystones BlayTheNinth

Dynamic trees in BOP orchard

Planned features

server pack
more quests
expanded shop
more custom recipes

If you notice that something is weirdly balanced or just broken or you just have a good idea. Please post it in the issues or comments section!

Most importantly: have fun and build those overly compilcated production lines

Suggested minimun specs

While this modpack is relatively lightweight (one part thanks to foamfix) I would suggest minimum of

5 GB of allocated RAM (If the modpack crashes then put around 6-7GB but no more than 8GB)

Here are some JVM arguments that I have been using. They are not necessary but if you are getting stutters these will propably help with them

-XX:+UseG1GC -Xmx6G -Xms6G -Dsun.rmi.dgc.server.gcInterval=2147483646 -XX:+UnlockExperimentalVMOptions -XX:G1NewSizePercent=20 -XX:G1ReservePercent=20 -XX:MaxGCPauseMillis=50 -XX:G1HeapRegionSize=32M
-client -d64 -Xms6G -Xmx6G -Xmn128m -XX:+UseG1GC -XX:+AlwaysPreTouch -XX:+UnlockExperimentalVMOptions -XX:MaxGCPauseMillis=100 -XX:+DisableExplicitGC -XX:TargetSurvivorRatio=90 -XX:G1NewSizePercent=50 -XX:G1MaxNewSizePercent=80 -XX:InitiatingHeapOccupancyPercent=10 -XX:G1MixedGCLiveThresholdPercent=50 -XX:+AggressiveOpts