MeatballCraft’s Dimensional Ascension is one wild ride of a modpack, blending the intricate machinery of Enigmatica with the bold spirit of Hexxit. And I found it only after stumbling upon some shitposts on Reddit by the mod’s creator, Sainagh.

Premise

The game starts with you, a scientist, getting sucked into the Overworld right in the middle of a turf war between two monstrous factions. Your mission: explore other dimensions, take down the leaders of these warring factions, and become a god-like master of the universe. The 250-hour-long progression is packed with surprises, but I won’t spoil the details for you. Suffice it to say that the mid-game planet, Sedna, is like the holy grail that every player wants but few can attain.

Early Game

The early game is not your typical Minecraft fare, with hostile mobs lurking in broad daylight and intricate crafting chains to manage. But with a little grit and a lot of help from a well-written questbook, you can get your hands on some serious power within hours of starting.

Exploration

And speaking of power, exploration is where MeatballCraft truly shines. You’ll soar through a wide array of biomes, taking down evil wizards and shoggoths with shurikens, and looting one battle tower after another. But the true joys lie in the custom structures and cool dimensions that the mod’s creator has peppered throughout the game. And with the Slimesling and Player Launcher tools, even covering thousands of blocks in search of the next ruined fortress is a breeze.

Technology

Of course, tech is a central focus of MeatballCraft. It’s marketed as “dimensional GregTech,” and it lives up to that claim with gusto. The crafting recipes quickly get complicated and interdependent, requiring you to master Thaumcraft, Astral Sorcery, EnderIO, and Thermal Expansion just to make it to the mid-game.

Visual Style

Visually, the modpack is a bit of a mishmash, drawing heavily on DivineRPG and Advent of Ascension. The cartoonish look of many of the enemies and items can clash with the aesthetics of grittier-looking mods like EnderIO, but it’s a minor quibble.

Performance

Be warned: you’ll need to assign at least 8 GB of RAM to the game, and exploring too far from spawn can cause lag and freezes. But with over 250 mods in the mix, including magic, tech, addons, and performance enhancers, it’s a small price to pay for such a sprawling and engaging experience.

Conclusion

Overall, MeatballCraft is a labor of love by its creator, and it shows. Despite the performance issues, I found myself hooked on this modpack, and eagerly await each new update to see what new wonders await.

This modpack is just fantastic. I’ve been playing it for a month or so now, dropped a hundred or so hours into it already. Everything about it just shows effort by the creator. Every part of this modpack is so fun, and so very thorough. Its also super hard. Should be called Oh my lord craft for every time i look up how to craft smth.

but still fun

I have been playing MeatballCraft for a while and so far its been great fun, it provides a great mix between magic mods such as Thaumcraft, Blood magic, Astral sorcery. Or tech mods like the Thermal series, tech reborn etc. while also having alot of exploration with Advent of Ascension.

The Aesthetics of the pack are a bit mixed because it has so many mods but the custom content usually has nice textures.

The community is great and helpfull and the developer regularly interacts with the community.

The performance of the pack is mixed because of how big it is but generally its pretty optimized

I have been playing the pack since version 0.11.2. Love how the pack tells a unique story instead of just generic quests to guide the player. More than a dozen of cool multiblocks. Properly gated progression (ProjectE done right).

Forces the player to be creative in automating production. Tons of custom structures that fill all the dimensions.

Amazing discord community that helps a lot. The author constantly adds new custom stuff and fixes the bugs asap. The performance has greatly improved compared to the earlier days but not recommended for potato PCs.

Would 10/10 recommend this if you like a long term modpack with tech, magic, quests and custom content.

Well balanced progression base pack, with a sort of guided kitchen sknk feel. It gives you goals to strive towards yet the wat there is multifaceted and yoj cab move at your own pace.

The community is amazing, extremely helpful to both beginners and more experienced people. Sainagh is a active member of saud community, and takes feedback and ideas from it.

The pack is in constant development and while bigger updates containing additions, rebalancing and optimisations, seem to be happening every two months, Sainagh is great at making hotfixes quickly if they break!

All in all this is honestly one of my favourite packs of all time, and I cant wait to play more.