This modpack is still in work! It is at about 50% done. THIS MOD IS NOT AVAILABLE AT THE MOMENT! YOU CAN'T DOWNLOAD IT; NEITHER WITH THE FTB LAUNCHER NOR ANYWHERE ELSE!!! Don't hope every mod will be included because I still need some mod permissions for the modpack! Don't expect this to become an public Third Party Pack in the FTB launcher, because I don't have any contacts with the FTB team! I'm apologizing for any mistakes I did in my text, because English is not my mother tongue.
Welcome to Project: Progress!
This is a one-man-project by me (NeoBlyzX) and I hope it will be added to the official Third Party Packs as soon as it is done. Project: Progress is the first modpack I ever made, so please don't be too harsh to me ^^
COMING SOON!
But Neo, I don't care about your heartbreaking story, what is this for a modpack?
Project: Progress (By the way still a working title, it could be changed in future) is about progress. It's is about surviving in a hostile environment, fighting many different mob and slowly getting into the world of war, botanics, technology and magic. In this modpack you have to fight to survive and you need to take care of you and your possessions.
I don't understand. I played other 'hard' modpacks and you get technology and magic so early and the enemies are way too easy for me and my overpowered cheater skill.
With this modpack I hope to change the meaning of 'hardcore modpacks'. All modpacks I ever played (a few FTB modpacks, Agrarian Skies, Regrowth, Epiccraft...) were waaaay to easy for me. You just need to know a few things about the tech-mods and POW! You are nearly invincible.
This modpack shall change this!
And what is this dammit easy modpack about?
The modpack is about fighting, surviving, farming, leveling, progressing, and performing magic.
New weapons will be added, various skills, new mobs, new plants, more food, machines, and magical stuff to make your life harder and easier.
There is no direct 'main focus' on a specific topic, because there are about as much magic themed mods as technic themed ones. But technology and magic shall be the last things you achieve in this modpack. This means no early auto farms, no overpowered-one-hit-kill-lazor-berzerk-of-death-destroying-the-creepers magics and you have to do much of the things by yourself (or let your friends do it
)I would say the modpack is much about role-playing and survival.
I KNOW EVERYTHING ABOUT TC4/AE2/MFR/AM2/Blablabla! HOW ARE YOU FOOL SUPPOSED TO MAKE A CHALLENGE FOR ME?!
First of all: Stop screaming.
I'm using a few recipe-changing mods like minetweaker, quadrum, etc. to make the recipes more challenging and harder to get the materials. You need a vanilla minecraft item for an overpowered TC4 item? No problem, get some nether stars. Oh? Machines? Get a few dragon eggs (You are allowed to get more than one dragon egg) and some emeralds. Emeralds in exchange for 4 potatoes which grow 10 blocks away? YOU SHALL NOT TRADE!
So cruel master Neo, are going to torture me to make the most simple things? Are you stupid?
Yes, I do. And yes, maybe I am.How am I supposed to head into this useless modpack? I can't even break f*cking wood!
Simple Answer: Questing!
You will not be allowed to break any wood, stone, ores, and anything that doesn't come to my mind now with your hand. The only things you can break with your hands are dirt, grass, sand, gravel and leaves.
Just follow the quests from the quest book you get at the beginning and you will get more into this kind of 'realism'. Vanilla tools seemed to overpowered for me, so I disabled them. You need to use Tinker's Construct tools in the early game and later you can use more advanced tools from other mods or just level your TC tool!
I am terrified by your modpack. After I read all this, it seems to hard for me!
If you are thinking this, I reached my goal!
I told my badass friends from this atrocity and we want to play together! Are there any laggy server out there where we can slay our enemies together?
At the moment not, but I really hope this modpack will reach someone who is interested in setting up a server for this modpack! Because the modpack itself is set to a role-play setting, mcMMO would be a really nice plugin for the server, just like Factions (or similar plugin).
You spent so much of your valuable time here in the forum, writing this article and creating the modpack. Is there any way to help to god of cruelty?
There actually are some ways to help me ^^
- I have absolutely no idea how to get error reports/crash reports to fix the problems.
- I also have limited knowlegde to Java (scripting language of most of the mods and of Minecraft itself) and I don't know how to give some permanent fixes when a mod is not working and the author is not raechable / not willing to help me. So the only solution at the moment are hotfixes.
- Send me your crash reports (somehow)!
- I'm not quite sure if it's allowed to post something like this here, but a donation would be nice, because then I could upgrade my PC, better internet connection (got a crappy one here), get more into Java and maybe even host a server someday (I'm not posting my donation account here, because I'm not sure if it is allowed! Please inform me, if it is allowed or not!)
- When the modpack is released, you could take some beautiful screenshots or even make some videos and upload them to Youtube!
- Tell me what you absolutely don't like/ absolutely LOVE in this modpack!
- Tell me, what is still too easy to craft (in case I forgot to change some recipes) or which items or blocks are simply too hard to craft!
- You can help me to make this post better readable. Tell me my mistakes and say how I should change the formatting!
This modpack will be NOT lightweight. I have a pretty good middle class PC (~600€ at the time of purchase) for an European (4 Cores á 3,5 GHz, 8 Gb Ram, GTX 550Ti (hopefully soon updated)) and it runs with 30-60 FPS on highest settings (clouds off, because Minecafts clouds are annyoing). It actually contains about 150 Mods and runs Minecraft 1.7.10 and Forge.
If you are interested in helping me, just contact me somehow (please in English or German; I don't speak French! Latin may also work, but forgive me my translation fails)
Screenshots and maybe some videos will be added as soon as I collected the permission to use the mods of my modpack! As soon as I start to collect the permissions, the mods will be added in the modlist!
You want to contact me personal? I don't know if there is something like a PM service here, but if not:
here is my email address: [email protected]
You are invited to search for any mistakes and flame me for them. Actually I'm not even sorry for any of them, because I'm a German student (18) and I still don't speak/write perfect English.
But I got good grades in my English advanced course in school, which is nice.
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