#Initial Thoughts (before gameplay)

The description is really lacking, it mostly consists of the modlist of the pack (in paragraph form, the devs may as well just have written it in bullet points) and some java args, this tells me nothing special about the pack.

The changelogs for the versions are just “mod updates” which are not promising in the slightest, where’s the custom content??

I downloaded the pack and it took maybe 15 minutes to load up, which is ridiculous considering it has less mods than my 1.21.1 Vanilla+ pack

From there, I was greeted with the standard 1.12.2 screen, with some ugly debug messages in the corners

Supposedly this modpack is sponsored by Bisect Hosting, why is there still a realms button lmao

Bisect literally offers free logo design yet the devs of this pack still went with an AI logo and a sloppy standard main screen

#Gameplay

(This is more of just a gameplay journal than an actual review, but it’ll give you a good idea of what the gameplay was like)

When I opened the new world screen it says “New Chronos” rather than “New World”, this is the extent of custom content present in this pack

After waiting exactly 5 minutes 30 sec on the world loading screen (I timed this with a stopwatch starting from when I clicked create world) I left my computer to eat lunch

Came back the stopwatch said 7:27, world still on that screen

At exactly 8 minutes 20 seconds the world finally loaded the terrain and I am presented with all sorts of visual clutter in the form of tutorial toasts and chat popups

There was some weird visual bug (screenshot attached) that only went away after like 3 more minutes of trying to orient myself, in about 15 FPS

Finally the pack fixed its own visual errors, and I ended up getting a pretty solid 59-60 FPS for a bit, ignoring some lag spikes

Feeling that this pack was actually running quite well, I broke some dirt blocks (which did not drop anything due to server lag) and was rubber-banded back 10 seconds, repeated this and the block finally broke after doing that ghost-block thing where the block breaks after a delay

Got stuck in a timeloop when trying to climb a vine

Suffered my way through many lag spikes to a dungeon tower thing that had no loot, there was an iron door with a stone pressure plate in front of it but for some reason the pressure plate was having a day off and did not open the door

Found some dead chicken drops in a pond??

There seemed to be random structures pretty much everywhere that followed no cohesive theme – why is there a ruined medieval tower here, a dead dinosaur skeleton there (I assume that’s what the inverted bowl shape of bone blocks is) and 2 radio towers over there

While walking to said radio towers my game kept stuttering, it’s like trying to watch a youtube video while spamming spacebar to pause/unpause it

Found some weird-as tree that seemed to have given up growing past its trunk and just stopped

When I arrived at the radio tower it was literally just made of iron bars, there was nothing of interest there

Some how ended up suffocating in some leave block i got teleported into (screenshot attached)

mined the same leaves block 5 times in a row before it decided to break

Some more structures I found included some piles of polished granite/andesite with nothing of value in them (apart from some quartz ore) and also 2 gravestones on some podzol

Saw some grass that had generated underneath a tree, replacing its bottomost log block

Found a sheep, I decided to punch it to death (for wool for a bed) but it started levitating due to TPS lag, I couldn’t punch it again while it just floated there invulnerably

Found some dude called “Green Archer” from Medieval Craft just hanging out under a tree not really doing anything, also found his friends “Green Knight” and “Green Soldier” standing by 4 lumps of Birch Planks in the forest

It’s worth noting every single entity I had seen was completely still due to TPS lag

Uhh then one guy decided to come alive and shoot me, so I ran away from these hostile musical statues (one guy with a sword also ran really fast at me and took out half my health)

I wandered through the biome of floating reed items (idk why there were floating reed items, probably a worldgen bug)

I was going to make my way up a hill but then I realised I couldn’t break blocks, but too late as I was now stuck in another time loop of being half-stuck in a block and trying to move away

At this point I thought i should probably try make some basic tools, but no apparently you can’t craft oak logs into oak planks (I put it on my crafting grid and no output showed up, despite JEI saying i could do that

After falling off a hill, and taking damage when the game registered it (about 5 seconds after) I thought i might eat some of that raw chicken i had found earlier, given it was an emergency as i couldn’t kill animals

However I couldn’t do this either, as the tps lag prevented me from eating

Found some mixel flowers that i could see even when they were in ungenerated chunks (yeah did i mention the chunks loaded so slowly it’s ridiculous)

Came across some random pile of grey concrete, grey concrete powder, and iron bars, and somehow took half a heart of damage from some unknown source (probably sunburn or something)

There was also this waterfall that had broken loads of the foliage in the surrounding area and all those items had collected at the bottom of the waterfall

In the waterfall there was a group of 9 ravens (they only moved a little bit every 20 seconds or so, so i could easily count them)

At this point i decided to just fly around in spectator mode to observe the world generation as it was clear survival gameplay was not an option under the ridiculous TPS lag

In some cave there was some stone type that was literally just stone recoloured red lmao

I also found this village that was a mixture of ridiculously large modded houses and normal 1.12 small houses, all of which had generated on a hill and overlapped with each other significantly

Oh and in JEI there was an item called “Valleyman beans Australia definitive edition” [sic] with a texture that makes me ashamed to be a texture artist

27 of the 297 JEI pages were taken up by content from Chisel, and 66 pages from TConstruct and addons

We don’t talk about the 3 different copper ingots, or the 3 different silver ingots, or the 2 steel ingots, or the 2 “aluminum” ingots and the 1 “aluminium” ingot

There was also some backport mod called “Future MC” that couldn’t decide whether they were backporting textures from JAPPA or making ones that fit programmer art

My game also just randomly froze and the screen turned white but thankfully (?) it didn’t crash

I did find this structure made of sandstone that lined up suspiciously with chunk borders, but I couldn’t really see any of its details because the visual bug from earlier had returned and everything looked awful

Eventually, I decided to just put the poor frozen mobs out of their misery and close the modpack, having experienced enough of this awful pile of slop

My game froze when i clicked save and quit to title, and considering I didn’t care one bit about my world at all i decided to just force-crash the game and then delete the modpack

my biggest regret about the chronos is that it exists, and i feel like my playtesting of it was an hour of my life i’ll never get back.

# Computer specs

Dell Precision 3470 laptop

12th Gen Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-1270P (2.20 GHz)

16 GB RAM total, 8 allocated

# Feedback

I honestly don’t really know where to start, it seems like the devs haven’t even played their own pack, and if they have, do they own a nasa pc or something??

* Firstly, this modpack needs a vision, if it’s meant to be about prehistoria or integrating 2 prehistoric mods together, then you need to focus on that

* A visual overhaul would be really important, you also need to actually tie the modpack name “Chronos” into the gameplay – are you bringing back things from earlier in time or what

* You need to have a custom menu, better description, custom logo as the minimum

* the performance was AWFUL please add some performance mods and really focus on optimisation

* Cut down on bloat, consider every mod – why do you actually need what this adds? For example, you have enough flowers everywhere as it is – do you really need a mod that just adds even more flowers?? and why tf do you have valleymans beans in this modpack??

* Even within mods you need to cut down on bloat and just integrate things – all those duplicate ingots that exist, plus that one mod that just adds a bunch of random ingots with no uses

* Integrate the mods in this pack together, this separates a pile of mods from a proper high-quality modpack

I saw this was one of the highest rated packs on the site, so thought I’d give it an honest try to see what it’s all about. To preface, I am running this with an Intel i9-10900k, an RTX 3080, and 8gb of RAM assigned (which seems more than reasonable for a pack with 137 mods).

I was greeted with a very long load time, the default vanilla menu, and an even longer world load time (nearly 15 minutes total). As I spawn in I run around for a couple minutes and notice the TPS is abysmal, everything is a slideshow. Doing any action takes 2-4 seconds, with frequent FPS freezes. I really wanted to play more and see what it really had to offer, but I could not stand the performance.

Of the gameplay, I noticed nothing good. Chat spammed as soon as I spawned in, no quest line, no advancements, nothing directing me what to do. I noticed very few mobs as well. The structures were neat, but I could tell most of this was just mods thrown in with little configuration.

This pack was likely made for a couple of friends, and was not intended to grow beyond that. Further more, the logo of the pack is clearly AI generated, so that goes to show how much effort they care to put in.

It’s fine to have a pack like this for friends, but I don’t see any reason this pack should be anywhere close to the highest rated packs, along the greats like MeatballCraft and Divine Journey 2.

Spawn is so safe also the half naked anime girls are the best and def ain’t the worst thing that happened to the server. We even have lore for the server that someone did with ai wow ik

Dying in Chronos is like sleeping. spawn is the most dangerous place on the server you will die 100x more than any were else in the server. We have dinosaurs. Anime girls they are very annoying and do send help to us simps. If you go to the end say good bye to everything you love why? The end in Chronos is so powerful it kicks you out the server. Valleyman’s beans are beans. The Nether is so hard that we do not go to it if you do say good bye to everything you love again why? The mobs in the Nether are very nice to us that why we get mad at them. Field horsetail just run away from the field horsetail dont look back they may take your family.

If you thought Minecraft with dinosaurs AND furries was bad – you’re wrong. And this modpack is an example of that. It’s also quite awesome how a modpack with more than 100+ mods plays at more than 50fps on my potato laptop. Overall it’s great

Modded Minecraft innit? Funny mods and way too complex crafting. It’s standard modding experience (with dinosaurs)