Description
This pack is still in a heavy alpha state! Although it is still 100% beatable from start to finish and has proper enough balancing. Expect more updates to the alpha and a release soon!
Start with a single heart and defeat bosses to gain them back.
The Goal.
With a Single Heart (WaSH) is designed to be a shorter meaningful singleplayer experience that won’t be easily forgotten. You’re not starting a forever world. You’re starting a journey that’s lessons will hopefully carry on to whatever you decide to do next. It’s also difficult as fuck (in the beginning).
How is this done?
Let’s start with the first sub-goal: shorter. Now I’m not saying this is going to be shorter than vanilla. There’s a lot of content in the pack! However everything in the pack has a purpose, there’s no furniture mod, only one new dimension (Twilight Forest), and no extra tech mods. Many of the large mods in WaSH have been cut down to fit this goal too. For example Alex’s Mobs is in this pack. If Alex’s Mobs is used just as it is out of the box, it’s a very dominant mod. However, when you take out half the mobs that don’t fit what WaSH is going for, it fits really well! What’s in the pack is meant to be used. All of it. This pack will likely take you 10-15 hours. Additionally, progress isn’t locked behind crazy recipes. The most “techy” mod in this pack is Ars Nouveau. This pack is meant to be fun, not grindy!
The second sub-goal ties into the first: meaningful. I don’t want your hours playing this pack to feel like a waste of time. To solve that problem not only is the pack designed to be shorter (as explained above) but there is also a narrative tied throughout WaSH. To keep it spoiler free here I’ll keep it at this: Your mom is dead and your brother is missing, you need to find him. There are some very big lessons I’d like to teach you, but it’d be no fun to just tell you them! Play the pack and learn them for yourself.
The third sub-goal is singleplayer. This pack has no multiplayer support, and it’s never going to have multiplayer support. Having a pack be multiplayer is great these days, but it limits what the developer can do. Right off the bat I’d have to add 10 mods to the pack that most players won’t use and what you can do with FTB Quests takes a hit. Plus it would completely destroy the theme of the story if you were playing through this with a friend! If a game relies on playing with friends to be fun, it’s probably not great (obviously exceptions not trying to start fights). Anything is fun with friends! To have alone and have fun with something, now that’s special.
Although this wasn’t a goal of WaSH, the whole twist of the pack makes this something that can’t be ignored: This pack is a challenge. The difficulty can be seen most in the beginning. Since you start with one heart you can be killed pretty easy in the early game! But as you gain some weapons and some hearts I can assure you the game gets easier. Here are some tips to help you out in the early game:
- The first thing you should do upon creating a world is make a safe base. You can either find one out of the new structures or build one yourself, but having a safe place to hide during the nights is absolutely essential if you want to progress in WaSH
- There is a whole “Getting Started” questline USE IT. The questline will walk you through your first tools, a few utility blocks you’ll want (especially for memories), and it’ll teach you how to craft your first backpack and paraglider
- For your first two hearts you’re going to need to kill zombies. DO NOT FIGHT ANYTHING ELSE. My god just sit your ass in your house until you hear a zombie outside and take it out real quick then rush back in. If you take on any fights before you have at least three hearts you’re going to lose!
- This is going to sound stupid but I know some of y’all are lazy, read the lore! It’s kind of the reason WaSH exists. Not only will you understand what is going on at the end but you’ll also be more motivated to make it to the end if you’re invested in the story. Be a little nerd, get into it!
- Don’t jump into big caves. It’s far more safe to start a little strip mine in your base and just keep that well lit than to jump into a big cave and pray. There’ll be a time for that, but it’s not yet!
- Mobility is a focus of this pack, invest in it! You don’t have waystones for a reason. If you want a list of fun things you can use to traverse I gotchu: Slimesling, paraglider, boost sword, your roll, Ars Nouveau, Davinci’s Vessels, Artifacts, elytra, hell even boats, horses, and minecarts have been buffed!
If you would like to reach out to me feel free to dm me on discord at fanzcanart, or you could join the official WaSH discord to stay on top of updates! The link is here: https://discord.gg/3ptrZynt86. This pack has been a passion project of mine for a while and I am dumping as much free time as I can into it, I’m happy for how far it’s gotten! On that note I’m sorry but updates may be more rare than most modpacks but I can assure you they are coming! The discord would be the best place to stay on top of development.
Update Roadmap
- Quest Completion
- Custom Main Menu
- Balancing
- Art
Thanks for reading this far, and hope you enjoy your time with WaSH!