I’m very picky about my post-apocalyptic games, so I honestly wasn’t expecting much from this modpack, using Minecraft as a base. I was quite wrong!

This modpack ended up an excellent experience. It made my little loot goblin heart flutter. Each building – each room, in fact – has specific drops appropriate to the location. A restaurant has food loot, a hospital medical stuff, an office building technical stuff. You don’t have to craft much of the basics – there’s often a place you can loot to get what you need.

That being said, the recipes are fairly well changed. A bit more Create was required than I like, but overall a good balance of Create and Immersive Engineering. My biggest complaint is that some items were gated behind rare or end-game only locations – some of the Refined Storage stuff, for instance, and even the Drawers Drawer Controller I didn’t get ’til almost end game.

There are some downsides – for one, I sometimes had bad performance, the FPS dropping quite a lot. Second, some items were a little *too* common in loot (the golden apples for curing infections and the food – I never once cooked anything for myself, there was so much food loot). Third, I really didn’t like that the Spice of Life count reset when you died, without resetting the list of what you’d eaten, so you were limited in how many extra hearts you could get. Fourth, I also started the loooong oil crafting line but ended up not needing it at all. It was a lot of work for what ended up being zero payoff. Finally, there are imo too many guns that are too similar. I really felt like they should have cut the number of guns in half.

However, overall it was a really fun experience. It took me about 80 hours on normal difficulty to get the final cure crafted, and I spent a lot of that time building my base and looting for the fun of it. I didn’t finish every quest, but I finished the majority of them.

If you like fighting in Minecraft, this is an excellent modpack for you. If you hate combat, you’re going to hate this one. If you love looting abandoned but still dangerous buildings, this is again perfect for you.

This modpack was the filled with content unlike other apocalypse modpacks

My boyfriend and I are playing together (we live together so it is local) it seems to be a little laggy but over all it has been a super fun experience!

THIS MODPACK IS THE ONLY THING I BEEN LOOKING FOR IN MINECRAFT SINCE 1.12.2 , I BEEN LOOKING FOR AN MODPACK WHICH GAVE U AN PRE BUILD STRUCTURES LIKE CITIES , VECHICALS , BETTER AI ZOMBIES WHICH ARE CAPABLE TO DO THINGS LIKE BREAKING BLOCKS , ZOMBIES DIFFUCLITY EVERY 10 DAY , BLOOD MOON , DIFFERENT EVENTS , LOOT , SO FAR IS BEST MODPACK SPECIALLY IF UR PLAYING CO OP.

TL:DR. I think too much of the progression can be “skipped” because exploration is overpowered lol.

By “almost” I mean the modpack is actually quite good, it just needs some tweaks to the progression. Right now there are tons of modifications to recipes to make them harder or to integrate them with each other and absolutely no reason to ever touch 90% of them because you’ll just find them during exploration instead.

For example, if you look at the recipe list, refined storage is functionally end-game. It requires you to visit the wasteland and luck out into specialized molds into order to manufactor them which requires BOTH a create and immersive engineering setup. Or, you can just loot an office building and never touch the recipes. It sort of makes all the recipe changes feel pointless. Or at the very least, exploration is incredibly overpowered and you can skip a LOT of progression just by exploring. Not saying to remove it entirely. But maybe instead of just getting an entire refined storage system in one building you get some parts to help you craft one so you need to engage with create/IE to put one together?

Actually, loot abundance, while insanely satisfying, is also kind of my main “gripe”. There’s this awesome food and water system that you think would require you to get into food/drink production, starting a farm, automating it with create and setting up defenses around it to stop the zombies from destroying it. however, what actually happens is you loot a single food building and it literally lasts you until the end-game with food/drinks it provides. So despite having two of the best production mods, create/IE, you actually almost never have to use them. In my playthrough that I beat the story on I only used create and never touched IE at all. And even then create was just used to make a mechanical crafter and an elevator to get around my base since I took over a building and it’s fairly tall.

It could be that the pack is intended to be more kitchen sink than progression but if that’s the case it feels weird to include the modified recipes and tiered weapons/armors at all.

Honestly I can go on forever as I feel liked looting kind of breaks a LOT of the progression possible.

Food variety problem is solved by looting, not farming.

Weapon variety is solved by looting, not crafting.

Bullet automation questline can be ignored by looting, no bullet assembly lines needed.

Storage is solved by looting, not creating factories to assemble the parts

Steel manufacturing questline can be ignored through looting

The advanced materials questline can be entirely ignored in favor of looting

Temperature progression is done pretty well despite the fact that you can eventually just buy the end-game material, it’s still only sold at the master level so there’s a bit of work to get to it and even then you can still overheat/freeze in the right conditions so it’s never forgotten entirely.

Now, despite what is basically a novel in length that looks like I’m complaining, I actually had a TON of fun. The looting is, despite the issues, really fun. The loop I was hoping for was that I would establish a base, need resources, go looting/mining for them, bring them back and make some sort of factory using them to create the thing I wanted or that was needed for the quest. However, in actuality I went looting looking for resources to craft the thing I wanted, and instead, just found the thing I wanted straight up already made and allowed me to skip 5 crafting steps in the process. So all in all, I just think some attention needs to be brought to rebalancing the progression. Because, as it is right now, despite all the love and care into the custom recipes and unique world, the pack is really easy to just play through ignoring 90% of the effort put into it and then drop because you ran out of long-term goals to progress towards.

Added a TL:DR to the top because this ended up becoming quite the wall of text. I just cannot imagine the author would make all these modifications to recipes and targeted questlines focused on progression /automation and then intend for you to skip it all through exploration.

really fun pack though, I loved it I promise!

If you don’t want to play HC but play on hard mode. Be prepared to die… a lot. Digging zombies right away, hordes constantly rushing you no matter if you are *quiet or loud*. Killing them does nothing.

Build away from cities?

– Yeh it doesn’t matter. Youll end up with 30/40 zombies beneath your base anyways.

Can you build a base?

– If you sky base sure. Mining zombies make it not possible.

Health system?

Don’t get me started on this… armor or no armor head hits seem to be the most common thing to happen, next to chest hits.

All n all… it is fun. But definitely not suited for any HC play much less hard play. If you wanna die a lot go for it.