Worse MC Skyblock

WORSE MINECRAFT SKYBLOCK!! (Don't Play This, Play Vanilla!)

A truly terrible modpack, for the entire world to throw away!

To be serious, during a recent challenge a close friend of mine and I partook in, we set out to complete every entry in a series of packs. One of these packs happened to be a skyblock pack, and also the worst pack ever made. To combat this, I have set out to make a pack that is worse (not).

When I thought of engaging skyblock experiences that I have had, it always came back to Garden of Glass and Botania. Such a popular mod, but it always seems to get the short end of the stick because it is stuck where it doesnt belong. Botania always falls flat in heavily modded environments, because so many of its core features and gameplay loops rely on its clunky vanilla like automation and its interactions with less than conventional mechanics. This makes Botania a very puzzly tech mod, which I love! But many pack devs carelessly throw it in, and suddenly 95% of the mod is worthless and it becomes a boring slog for anyone new to it.

So, I have decided to try to make a true to form Garden of Glass pack, doing my best not to step on the toes of Botania's core design principles while also providing new visual and building content that brings it up to speed with my flavor of modern pack design.

Of note, Botania does not currently have an official release here on Curseforge or Modrinth for 1.21.1. The solution to this is a neat little opt in automation on startup made with FancyMenu that allows the pack to download github builds of the mod from official sources with one click. If this doesnt suit your fancy, or you are suspicious, there are further instructions in game to download them manually, or you can look through the FancyMenu script for yourself if you are so inclined!

I've spent no effort (a good bit of effort over a week or so) to get the beta for this pack out, so I hope anyone playing enjoys! Please report any issues/suggestions to the github.