Help choosing mods

[Sam Faria]

Hi,

I have designed a modpack but need some ideas of which mods to add, I currently have:

Ars Magica 2
AnimationAPI
AE2
Archimedes Ships
Better Title Screen
Bibliocraft
Biomes o' plenty
Buildcraft
Carpenter's blocks
Chicken Chunks
Chisel 2
CodeChickenCore
CoFH Core
ComputerCraft
Dense Ores
EnderIO
EnderStorage
ExtraTiC
Extra Utilities
Forestry
Growthcraft
Hats
Hat Stand
Headcrumbs
IChunUtil
IC2
Infernal Mobs
Inventory Tweaks
Iron Chests
JABBA
Malisis Core
Malisis Doors
Mantle
Minefactory reloaded
Mobius Core
Morph
Mystcraft
Natura
NEI
Nether Ores
Open Blocks
OpenModsLib
Project Red
QuarryPlus
Random Things
Redstone Arsenal
Rougelike Dungeons
Ruins
Secret Rooms
Simply Jetpacks
Special Mobs
Soul Shards Reborn
Tinkers Construct
Thermal Foundation
Thermal Expansion
TiCTooltips
Tinkers Mechworks
Torch Levers
Twilight Forest
Universal Electricity
Voxelmap
WAILA
WAWLA
Wireless Redstone (CBE)

Please could you post any fun/game enhancing mods, thanks!

 

[gold49]

Any idea of what you are looking for specifically? Like do you want more magic/adventure/tech mods or another type? Or do you just want us to list mods we would recommend to someone to play with?

 

[Sam Faria]

I am more looking for adventure and tech mods.

Are you the person from the other thread where we were talking about school computers?

 

[gold49]

Yes I am from the other thread, nice to see you

For tech there is rotorycraft and its addons, which are known for having a great tech tree and for having very "realistic" behavior in machines(relative for minecraft). Although if you are not one who likes having to think a bit ahead of yourself when doing things and/or hate doing math for powering machines it may(heavy emphasis on the may) not be your thing.

While you have computercraft, there is also opencomputers which is basically computercraft with more emphasis on the building of computers and the like. You assemble the different computer components together(harddrive, cpu, gpu, etc) to build your computer. It still uses lua, is compatible with features other mods add for cc (like big reactors computer port), you can build a server ingame, although all of opencomputers blocks require power by default.

These are what I would look at, although you may differ of course and that's fine

 

[Sam Faria]

Ok, great. Thanks gold49, I'll have a look at them in more depth.

 

[rhn]

If you say IC2 you HAVE to say Nuclear Control... And you SHOULD add GraviSuite!

 

[Sam Faria]

Ok, I'll add nuclear control and look into GraviSuite.

 

[Tepig4321]

Thermal Dynamics
Thaumic Energistics
Thaumcraft
Botania
Iguana Tinker Tweaks

 

[Sam Faria]

Thermal dynamics I am guessing adds onto thermal foundation?

 

[malicious_bloke]

Thermal dynamics I am guessing adds onto thermal foundation?

iirc it's the separate mod they moved the fluiducts and itemducts into in the 1.7 versions of TE

 

[Sam Faria]

So if I install thermal dynamics it will add the fluiducts that are in te3?

 

[mattp_12]

So if I install thermal dynamics it will add the fluiducts that are in te3?

Pretty much. It has some addition however. I would watch direwolf20's review of it here.

 

[epidemia78]

You should just download FTB infinity because you are 75% there already. Then just add Mekanism.

 

[Sam Faria]

Pretty much. It has some addition however. I would watch direwolf20's review of it here.

Great, I'll go and add it.

 

[Sam Faria]

You should just download FTB infinity because you are 75% there already. Then just add Mekanism.

I could but as I am planning to do a server with friends they need to download it with as little hassle as possible, so no adding or removing mods.

 

[Sam Faria]

@Tepig4321 I am trying to stay away from magic mods apart from Ars Magica 2 as I don't emjoy them much

 

[McJty]

Just a little commercial for my own mod but maybe consider RFTools. It is a tech mod that adds various things (spawner, teleportation system, shield system, auto crafter) but more importantly it has a technological based dimension building system.

 

[Sam Faria]

ok, sounds cool. Are there any reviews you could link me to?

 

[McJty]

Reviews not really but here are a few links:

Main forum: http://www.minecraftforum.net/forum...tools-dimension-builder-teleportation-crafter
Mod guide from Vaygrim:

Mod tutorial specifically for dimension building:

RFTools in also included in the FTB Infinity modpack and is the main driving force behind the FTB 3rd Party Pathfinder modpack.

 

[GreenZombie]

Grimoire of Gaia adds some of the most well modeled and challenging mobs to the game.

The default ruins that come with ruins I have found to be rather plain. Unless you've found a good source of extra ruins? Theres alwyas @AtomicStrykers battle towers, but - like doom like dungeons (or better dungeons) - they pale insignificance to the epic crawl that is a roguelike dungeon.

Roguelike - unfortunately, just amps the difficulty by hiding (well configured) spawners in walls - which provides a challenge - but really there is no way to deal with a room full of creepers short of tunneling through the walls to destroy the spawners. Which trivializes the challenge.

Thaumcrafts dungeon realm is at least a challenge. Again however, even in quite end tier TC gear the bosses can kill you in a couple of shots so you simply cannot afford to engage them at melee range. They move towards you, so you cannot engage them at ranged range. So you have to cheeze the fight and build a protective enclosure to hack at their feet in safety. The only challenge then is getting them TO the enclosure as you can't build in their chamber directly.

Dimension Doors I don't think was ever ported to 1.7.10 but had potential to present innovative challenges.

So, to add to the original question - anyone know of mods that add dungeons to explore that are actually ... challenging but possible to do properly?