ARPG in minecraft is quite refreshing to be honest. Crafting your skill tree in PoE style is something I really like. Still, they need a bit more experience with this in minecraft and their weapon skill set through. Many support gem are not even useful than PoE itself.

The downside is the tedious grind 1000 gear for single useful piece is also fit perfectly into C2E. It’s fun when you can keep progressing, even by a little. But it drop to dead once you stuck for hour and hour. Author also put a lot of effort to penalty mob grind and automate as much as they can.

After recent change that gate spawn every where every time, result in clutter mob / item management a lot – make it a totally mass. I try new save after update for better experience…. and I spend 2 in-game day just to deal with them one after another while my base have a single bed, chest here and there on the half dig dirt hill… because killing a zombie or two result in chaos. While I’m being penalty for killing them around my base all the time because they spawn non stop?

Remove of create into botania for power generation shut me down. I not a create person, but botania is a big no for me. It also look mass up in general compare to any tech, magic or create when you try to integrate into base…. at least for non-builder like me.

Force change vanilla villager to a new one? ….. no, a choice would be best.

Overall, if you like unique experience, sure C2E can give you that. One way or another. Just like PoE, you’ll love it or hate it. Sadly, recent update make me the later.

No one is gonna read this fucking review, but first, CTE2 is not a bad pack. It’s actually balanced pretty nicely and honestly I’m probably not the right demographic to be playing this pack. That being said, I was very disappointed to see Create being removed since it was the only mod what allowed some sort of automation in this pack. I honestly don’t know why it was removed? Either way it was replaced by Botania and its an ok mod I guess. But the issue is that the author banned certain items; (Bore, force, damage, entropy, weight, kindle, pantslinger lens, corporea, dice of fate) Dice of fate I get, but removing bore lens (the lens that allows breaking blocks) just removes most of botania automation. I mean there’s absolutely no reason to really ban it and the reason (from discord) is that it doesn’t work with their chunk claim mod. (Also who uses Flan?) Like no one cares, yeah they can ban it on their server, but most people play modpacks on private servers and if someone does steal or grief they just get banned! Either way I don’t really get why they use flan or why they ban it.

I don’t like Minecraft Comes Alive. It’s like Minecolonies but forced on to the player. Minecolonies is fine, I can avoid if I need to. But MCA just replaces all vanilla villagers and I hate it. Made a villager breeder, only to find out they need cakes? what? So instead I just started abducting them but they’re so annoying. (Shut up Ester stop fucking crying and hand over those books). Please bring back normal villagers.

I couldn’t build a Create iron farm so I made a vanilla iron farm, even fixing the boat/minecart issue only to find out that there’s an anti mob farm mod. Like I get wanting to prevent players from leveling up from farms but removing all mob drops is kinda dumb. I felt like I wasted my time playing this pack, if you like automating stuff don’t play it, its purely just a boss killing rpg pack.

Small nitpick, but Joy of painting should be replaced with immersive painting. They do the same thing but you can upload images(memes). Also the MIMI mod kinda sucks, Immersive Melodies does the same thing but already has songs in it and is way better imo.

(No hate to the author, it’s good to see packs with a lot of effort out into it. Just hoping something other than botania gets added tbh. Add back create? It goes well with botania)