Basically, for me, building a modpack is the same as building an intricate pipe system ingame. It's an engineering challenge and a minigame in itself By the time the other players log onto my server, I've already had quite a bit of fun myself.
Takes a special kind of insanity I suppose
haha, I'm very bad with crash logs, so whenever my instance crashes I just start randomly taking out mods till it works again and find out which mod is the cause. I then either completely remove the mod or install an older/newer version of it to fix it