Ive been playing modpacks for like 4/5 years now and to be honest This modpack is one of the best if not the best modpacks ive ever played. The progression is very good and motivates you to grind more by unlocking ores by the time and defeating more bosses. i Stronly reccomend this modpack to players who want to fight more bosses and experience the new way of progression. Keep up the good work on this modpack

Playtime – 13 hours. There wasn’t a good representative option between Short (5 hours) and Moderate (20 hours) when making this review.

Frankly speaking, I genuinely do not understand why people were so insistent on this modpack’s quality. The modpack is focused on the combat and progression through combat, but the bosses themselves are poor in quality, and the progression is extraordinarily restrictive. Prodigium attempts to transform Minecraft closer to Terraria, but mostly takes more negatives than positives from Terraria, which is exacerbated by Minecraft being in a 3D space.

For the most part, a large amount of the gripe regarding combat comes solely from the mod Terra Entity, which are required for progression. They are essentially buggy 1 to 1 replicas of Terraria bosses and enemies. This might sound fine on paper, but the bosses only really work and are only fun to fight with Terraria’s relatively high mobility (both vertically and horizontally) 2D platforming. However, with Terra Entity for Minecraft, these bosses instead speedily clip and teleport through walls and floors, while the player lumbers along at a snail’s pace. While the quick movement is fine with Terraria given said bosses will always be within vision regardless, this translates incredibly poorly for Minecraft. Keeping proper line of sight on these bosses is very difficult. Combined with a general lack of tells for when a boss is going to actually attack, it makes fighting them generally very draining. This is also exacerbated by the bosses being incredible health sponges.

Let me detail how awful it is to fight these transplanted Terraria bosses, starting with the literal first one of the pack. The first boss, an incredibly buggy King Slime, has a whopping **700+ HP**, even ignoring the armor it gets. The player, at this time, really has only an iron sword as the highest damaging weapon, which might have some degree of Sharpness on it. King Slime, like in Terraria, teleports in order to approach the player. Unlike in Terraria, *it cares absolutely nothing about distance*, and spams small blue slime minions at a far greater frequency than in Terraria. So what ends up happening is that King Slime will constantly and persistently teleport regardless of distance from the player (during which he is invincible), spawn minions to soak up damage, and then proceed to jump out of the player’s damaging range every 2 or so seconds to do a ground slam attack. So that 700+ HP ends up being a lot more when the enemy cannot be damaged for the vast majority of the time. It took me from dawn to dusk, in Minecraft, to finish the fight. Just under 20 minutes, for a boss that was incapable of hurting me due to low damage, and I was only barely capable of hurting it due to its obscene tankiness and perpetually disappearing hitbox.

I took a looong break from bossing after winning this fight, because it was awful despite the victory. I ended up exploring the various structures for hours, with each structure rewarding me with… maybe 5 iron or gold ingots if I’m lucky and maybe a curio that will do absolutely nothing for me. Though usually it’ll be useless stuff like 50 million wheat seeds, flint, or feathers, and nothing that will actually help with progression. I’m slowly chipping away at the other goals around this time. Setting up and building nice houses for the NPCs, taming whatever I can find for fun and having an easier time with the next boss (BTW, the pack DOES have Domestication Innovation… which it does NOT tell you about! It doesn’t even tell new players what the hell pets can even do, nevermind that they’re immortal if you use pet beds!), and completing tertiary goals. Eye of Cthulhu wasn’t as awful as King Slime, though it did fall into the “too fast to damage or see properly without playing on Quake Pro FoV” category in the 2nd stage. Bellringer and Swampjaw were… okay. Meet Your Fight is kind of a mediocre bossing mod as well, but isn’t particularly offensive like Terra Entity. It more or less just exists. Then, with decent confidence, I went in with my melee build into fighting a **buggy invincible second-phase Brain of Cthulhu, who then proceeded to spawncamp me despite me initiating the fight over 9 chunks away from my spawn point**. This isn’t even Terra Entity, this is a custom boss made for the Prodigium modpack, and it’s impossibly buggy, and what made me stop my playthrough completely. The first phase was excruciating due to the horrible hitboxes on the eye minions, and second phase it took literally no damage from any melee attack (And I mean 0 damage. Sword swings weren’t even registering.) but the 3 or so damage from the Eye of Cthulhu shield bash. It then proceeded to heal to full health and attack me in my house before I could even consider preparing for a rematch, despite having fought it about 9 chunks away.

Now, I might have actually powered through this had I even been given the chance to actually respec early without having to enter creative mode. Because for some reason, **UNLIKE IN TERRARIA**, the armor that you can even equip is **RESTRICTED** based on an intrinsic EXP based skill system, and **SWAPPING IS FURTHER PUNISHED** by draining EXP put into specializations, if the player ever decides to change their mind. It takes away player flexibility to focus on shoehorning in equipment restricted classes, which effectively add nothing except various flavors of “more damage” or “more health”. Don’t get me started on restricting item pickups like the occasional diamond until after the player’s slogged through about 5+ completely unrelated bosses that don’t offer rewards relevant or useful for the player’s class, like an arbitrary checklist. The “progression” is mostly defined by arbitrary rules and artificial restrictions that don’t serve to do anything but pad out game length rather than add actual depth.

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.