Prodigium Reforged is an RPG modpack. It has many of the prototypical follies of RPG modpacks such as pretty abysmal performance and random enemies spawning directly on top of you that instakill you, but the rest of the pack is so surprisingly refined that none of that really ended up getting to me? The pack has strong cross mod integration with its custom content, a surprisingly coherent aesthetic and a very clean progression line that only really falters at the points where the pack is notably and explicitly unfinished. It’s a pretty high effort project from a solo developer that’s definitely not Terraria, but does inject some of the better ideas that game had into making this project a reality.

The pack is more liberal in its use of gamestages to sequester resource progression than Terraria is (or at least, relative to its length) and I think that’s important to the appeal of the pack as it helps to balance and space out mining sessions especially where Terraria has additional things that Minecraft doesn’t to space out its content in other ways like seperate underground biomes. Once dimensions are introduced into the mix, they are introduced in very small number; the only additional dimension here is the Aether, and certain pieces of content have been moved from the Overworld to the Aether to bulk it up. The pack is very focused in its execution, and the main quest line is linear; just a straight shot of bosses. Due to the mods themselves, not all of these bosses are winners, although the worst ones are definitely the Ender Dragon (due to the additions being kind of buggy) and the Elder Guardian (due to YUNG’s Better Ocean Monuments both not having a good layout for the fight and whatever mod disables all surrounding mining when the Elder Guardians are alive going poorly when the structure spawns inside the floor). They don’t all have to be winners though; the ones that are nice make up for the weaker fights.

I can only really dot down issues respective to the modpack and not the mods in bullet point format, so in no particular order; I wish there was some way to get recall potions outside of doing quests, I wish the custom town NPCs took more precedence, I wish SOL Carrot wasn’t configured to have low thresholds with on death loss so if you die and don’t change that config setting you have to spend ten minutes sprint jumping around so you can get your hearts back (a high threshold would encourage actually engaging with the food mods), and I wish the End wasn’t so anemic although that will hopefully be remedied in future versions.

I noted the performance earlier; you’re not going to run into any weird server tick issues, but your framerate will absolutely shit itself sometimes; most frequently in the overworld where you can dip from a stable 220 to a stuttery 40-50 in nighttime combat, structures dipping into the twenties with the lowest number I saw being 9 fps during Nether traversal. From the sounds of it, this is better than the other modern RPG modpacks though, which would just straight up get a 1/5 from me, but I’m comparing the modpack to all other modpacks. In terms of bugs, I also had to use commands sometimes to compensate for stuff like the Ender Dragon fucking off to Narnia (yeah that fight is really broken). For ram usage, I would recommend allocating a minimum of 4.5GB in singleplayer if you’re using Java 25 and UseCompactObjectHeaders.

Funny note as I’m typing this part of the review; I just realized I had installed the modpack basically right before a major update came out and didnt update it when I started playing, so I’m a little behind, but I doubt it would’ve changed my rating or anything I said in the review after quickly going through the changelogs and default config files (i.e the issue I have with SOL Carrot on death loss is unchanged although there’s now a 4 hunger minimum for any food item to count which wouldn’t be my first choice for an adjustment here). Just know, it seems to be a big rework of existing systems, and the modpack might have more cool things in it now. If you have any interest in trying an RPG modpack for your next playthrough, you should play it.

Literally the best modpack Curseforge has been blessed with. The amount of content as kitchen-sink packs, without any of the bloat. No unnecessary tech mods or dozens of useless features.

Smooth, Terraria-inspired progression, lots of pack content + custom content and additions to other mods, with more updates being developed.

The FTB questline is just perfect. No individual chapters for each mod, but related features and game-stages are grouped together, making progression not a pain.

Review After 100+ hours and trying 3 different styles of gameplay.

Laptop i5 rtx3050 16gb ram (Avg 50fps) with complementary reimagined shaders on medium settings.

Primary and Best things I found:

1. No bullshit mods which are irrelevant to the mods main intensions. For eg. Create or Botania etc, which are like 90% of the current generation of modpacks.

2. Easy to maneuver through the quests and ACTUALLY feels like a cohesive playthrough.

3. The ore-locking/spawning mechanism is pretty nice and creates early-mid-late game balance.

Secondary good features which are common with other rpg mods:

Good class and role system.

Good quest and npc system

Bosses and weapons are well balanced.

Negatives:

Main issue is the modpack is still not perfectly fixed. There are issues here and there. Mostly minor, but few major bugs. I visited their discord and realised it is run by only on devoloper, so maybe thats why. But updates happen and it gets better and better.

Been looking for a modpack like this forever. It really shows how much care went into it, everything feels super balanced. You don’t get overpowered too fast like in other packs, where mobs stop being scary after an hour or two.

Every aspect of the modpack is balanced to keep that sense of joy in every minute of the run. Every class has its own strengths and weaknesses.

Maybe the only thing I missed was more variety in melee or ranger class weapons and armor.

The modpack introduces mechanics that feel really innovative to me, like new ores appearing throughout the world as you progress, or the different stages of world difficulty.

I also really like that items you haven’t unlocked yet are unavailable to pick up, so you can’t just stack loot for later. This forces you to constantly grind for new items as you unlock them, which keeps progression engaging.

Overall, if you’re into adventure and RPG modpacks with a touch of difficulty and solid balance, where you’re constantly hunting for new gear and resources, with clear progression and quests that guide you through it, this is the modpack for you.

I have played Minecraft for over 6 years now.

And in those 6 years, every modpack I have tried, I either get overwhelmed or bored in the first two hours.

But this modpack got me hooked for over a week now.

Good stuff and keep going man.

This modpack is amazing. If you like adventure then this is for you, plus its terraria themedish. Solid quest progression, it’s a bit buggy though at times…