FTB Beyond server need suggestions

[Muvanu]

Good evening everyone,

I periodically run a private server for some family/friends and their children to play. Everyone is excited to play FTB Beyond. I have ran a custom variant of FTB Infinity in the past where I added a few mods and balanced some items and recipes as best I could and ended up making some changes after server launch when I found some imbalanced situations.

Now with FTB Beyond, several have asked that the Chickens, Ex Compressum, and Ex Nihilo mods be added. I have added Ex Nihilo to FTB Infinity in the past and made the sieved ores require combining them with hand mined ore to get separate ores that could actually be smelted into more bars than the hand mined ores would have originally provided. This allowed tech to amplify each mining excursion that a player went out on. I could always do the same for FTB Beyond, but does anyone have any ideas on how to attempt to balance the Chickens mod if that is even possible. I've thought about removing certain chickens or looking into making the breeding more difficult if that is even possible (which I don't know). Is there an easily solution or should I just omit Chickens and break the bad news?

 

[Muvanu]

I decided to disable all the hammer and sieve recipes but keep ex nihilo and ex compressum for the crooks and barrels. I am still debating the Chickens mod. Any nerf suggestions other than just increasing lay egg time?

 

[Middleclaw]

I decided to disable all the hammer and sieve recipes but keep ex nihilo and ex compressum for the crooks and barrels. I am still debating the Chickens mod. Any nerf suggestions other than just increasing lay egg time?

Thought about getting them to lay nuggets instead of ingots? No idea on the blocks like glass and sand.

 

[Hambeau]

Thought about getting them to lay nuggets instead of ingots? No idea on the blocks like glass and sand.

Heh... Chicken Nuggets. I see what you did there