🌌 Overview

Custom modpack for Tyler & Jacob’s modded server, designed to play a long-term modded survival with friends, mixing heavy tech, automation, dimension exploration, dangerous mobs, and decorative building.

The pack is built to stay stable and smooth thanks to many performance mods, even with lots of machines and loaded dimensions.

Minecraft version: 1.21.1
Loader: NeoForge
Focus: Private multiplayer server (but perfectly playable in singleplayer).

🧱 Core pillars of the modpack

1️⃣ Advanced Tech & Automation

Applied Energistics 2
(with addons: appliedenergistics2, AE2 Things, Applied Mekanistics, AppliedFlux, AE2 Import/Export Card, AE2 JEI Integration, AE2 WTLib, Applied Experienced, Applied Sorting, Bigger AE2)

Provides an ultra-complete networked storage system with massive autocrafting, direct JEI integration, advanced XP handling, Mekanism compatibility, multi-network handling, and more.

Mekanism

Adds industrial machines, advanced power generation, factories, gas processing, ore refinement, and powerful modular armor.

Create

Brings “steampunk” style automation using gears, belts, trains, and fully mechanical factories and contraptions.

Iron Furnaces

Introduces tiered upgraded furnaces (iron, gold, diamond, netherite, etc.) with higher speed and efficiency than vanilla.

Additional Enchanted Miner

Adds highly configurable quarry-style automation to mine huge areas without digging everything by hand.

Golden Hopper

Provides improved hoppers with better control over filtering and item routing.

2️⃣ Exploration & Dimensions

The Aether (aether-1.21.1)

A sky dimension with floating islands, dungeons, new mobs, blocks, and unique gear.

The Twilight Forest (twilightforest)

A large forest dimension with labyrinths, progressive bosses, varied dungeons, and unique loot.

Stellarity

A complete End overhaul with new biomes, structures, atmosphere, and better late-game progression.

Born In Chaos

Adds a large variety of hostile mobs, often far stronger than vanilla enemies, making nights and certain biomes truly dangerous.

Mowzie’s Mobs

Introduces beautifully animated bosses and creatures with unique attack patterns and challenging fights.

Explorer’s Compass

Provides a special compass used to search and locate structures in the world, such as dungeons, villages, and mansions.

3️⃣ Building & Decoration

Rechiseled, Rechiseled AE2, Rechiseled Create

Offer decorative variants for many vanilla, AE2, and Create blocks, perfect for making factories and bases look great.

Refurbished Furniture

Adds a big set of modern furniture and decor (kitchens, living rooms, etc.) to bring player houses to life.

Potted Farms

Lets you grow crops and plants in decorative pots, combining compact farming with aesthetics.

Auto Harvest

Helps automate crop harvesting to make farms more convenient to use.

4️⃣ Inventory, Logistics & Storage

Sophisticated Backpacks and Sophisticated Core

Introduce upgradeable backpacks with filters, auto-pickup, feeding, crafting, and more to carry everything you need.

DimStorage

Adds dimensional storage and chests that can be shared between distant locations.

Carry On

Allows players to pick up and move certain blocks and entities such as chests, furnaces, and animals by hand.

Corpse and Corpse Curios Compat

Spawn a corpse containing a player’s inventory on death, making it easy to find and recover items, including Curios slots.

Curios API

Provides extra equipment slots (rings, amulets, relics, etc.) used as a backend by other mods.

5️⃣ Quality of Life (QoL)

Just Enough Items (JEI)

Shows all crafting recipes and item uses, heavily integrated by the AE2 and FTB addons.

Jade

Displays an in-game HUD with detailed information about the block or entity you are looking at (contents, fluids, etc.).

AppleSkin

Adds clearer food and saturation information to the HUD.

Mouse Tweaks

Improves inventory management with drag features and scroll-to-move-stacks.

GuideMe

Provides an in-game guidance and help system for players, giving access to tips or guides depending on configuration.

Recipe Essentials

Includes backend tools used to manage and tweak recipes, supporting admin/server-side changes.

FTB Essentials, FTB Library, FTB JEI Extras

Form an FTB utility suite with useful commands (home, tpa, etc. depending on config), extra JEI integration, and shared core code for several FTB mods.

6️⃣ Map, Navigation & Waypoints

Xaero’s Minimap and Xaero’s World Map

Add a minimap and a full world map with waypoints, death markers, and multi-dimension support, making it much easier to navigate a large modded world.

Explorer’s Compass

As mentioned earlier, helps players track down specific structures quickly.

7️⃣ Performance, Stability & Monitoring

This modpack includes a large performance stack so it remains playable even with a big world, several dimensions, and many machines.

Sodium (NeoForge), Sodium Extras, Sodium Dynamic Lights, Sodium Options API, Reese’s Sodium Options

Provide a rewritten renderer with higher FPS, dynamic lighting, and a clean advanced options menu to tweak graphics settings.

Iris (NeoForge)

Adds shader support on top of Sodium for players who want better visuals, as long as their hardware can handle it.

FerriteCore

Applies massive memory optimizations for block models and data.

Glodium

Framework, Architectury, BaguetteLib, EdivadLib, Owo Lib, SuperMartijn642 Core/Config

Serve as libraries used by various mods, often bringing internal optimizations as well.

SmoothChunk (Server Performance – Smooth Chunk Save)

Spreads chunk saving over time to reduce major server lag spikes during world saves.

ChunkSending

Optimizes how chunks are sent to players.

MemorySettings

Provides tools to help tune certain memory-related parameters on both client and server.

SimpleBackups

Adds an automatic world backup system, with configurable frequency and rotation.

Spark

Offers a powerful profiler (TPS, CPU, memory) to diagnose lag and identify heavy mods or tasks on the server.

ScalableCatsForce

Handles internal resource-loading utilities and is often used as a dependency.

8️⃣ Mobs, Combat & Difficulty

Born In Chaos

Adds a huge variety of hostile mobs that are often much stronger than vanilla, making the world significantly more dangerous.

Mowzie’s Mobs

Introduces unique bosses and monsters with complex animations and attack patterns, along with interesting rewards.

InControl

Provides admin-side control over spawn rules (what, where, and when mobs spawn), used to balance difficulty or create special zones.

🔧 Utility & Backend Mods

Most of the remaining .jar files in the pack are required libraries (such as Architectury, Owo, Framework, and others), loot integration mods (like lootintegrations and lootintegrations_stellarity, which merge loot tables between mods including Stellarity), and shared libraries (such as BaguetteLib and the SuperMartijn libraries) needed by various content mods.

These do not necessarily add visible content on their own, but they are essential for stability and compatibility.

📝 Expected Playstyle

This modpack is designed for a fully featured modded survival experience.

You start in something close to vanilla with a few quality-of-life improvements, then progress into Applied Energistics 2, Mekanism, and Create to fully automate your base.

There are many biomes and dimensions, with several different “end games”:

defeating bosses from Mowzie’s Mobs, Twilight Forest, Aether, and Stellarity;
optimizing a massive AE2 storage and autocrafting network;
building a crazy decorated base using Rechiseled, Refurbished Furniture, and other building mods.

Overall difficulty is higher than vanilla thanks to new mobs and configurable spawns via InControl, while performance and profiling mods keep the pack playable on a server with friends.

💻 Recommended Setup

Client

A good experience is recommended with 6–8 GB of RAM allocated, a modern 4-core CPU or better, and a decent GPU. Sodium provides a big FPS boost, but shaders via Iris will still require more powerful hardware.

Server

A server with around 6 GB of RAM or more is recommended depending on player count. It is also recommended to configure SimpleBackups for regular backups, enable SmoothChunk to smooth out chunk saving, and use Spark if you need to diagnose lag.

✅ Tips for Players

✅ Use Xaero’s Minimap and World Map to set waypoints in each dimension (bases, Aether/Twilight portals, bosses, etc.).

✅ Quickly centralize your items with Applied Energistics 2 or Sophisticated Backpacks so you do not drown in loot.

✅ Remember that certain mobs, especially from Born In Chaos and Mowzie’s Mobs, are much more dangerous than vanilla, so do not rush them unprepared.

✅ If you experience heavy FPS drops, lower some options in the Sodium settings (via Reese’s Sodium Options), disable shaders if you are using Iris, and avoid loading too many dimensions at once.

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