Despite the massive overhauls to Vanilla such as removing or reworking entire portions of the game as well as many great opinionated changes, it doesn’t feel as far away from Vanilla as I would’ve liked?

Even though the pack cuts out the End entirely, it feels more like cutting out a tertiary part of the game rather than a radical overhaul, which is fine, but it feels like the problem that the presence that the End caused has been passed down to the Nether rather than being extracted entirely. A significant portion of content in the pack is specifically Nether Fortress gated; tool progression in the overworld ends quickly where four whole end game tool materials and a significant portion of Create are locked behind the Blaze Burner while the five special weapons are locked behind Wither Bones. Not only is the Nether itself largely untouched save for a new Piglin variant and a tower structure that seems to just be there to mess with your ability to locate the Fortress with Exopearls, if you rush to the Nether, you will pretty much run into the same issue as Vanilla players do with rushing to the End where your motivation to continue playing quickly dries up.

The underground has new mobs, new mob behaviors, but also a pretty severe inventory issue. There’s several new ores, new not ores, new create blocks that can be milled into ores, new mob drops, new rare mob drops, vases that drop random things. To compensate for this, you get early access to Supplementaries sacks which are basically Mini Shulkers, but you get so many things that even that doesnt feel like thats enough, and its not a superior solution to a backpack mod in any way outside of the fact that Sacks feel more vanilla.

The choices of mods to include also feels kind of scattershot; Oreganized’s Lead struggles to justify its inclusion and I still don’t know how to actually use the Silver Mirror. The pack is very reserved in its choice of biome mods and the Nether has none which is a shame because I love collecting weird new building blocks from the Nether in other packs that had mods like Infernal Expansion. There is a surprisingly massive selection of more niche and smaller mods to hone the vanilla homesteading experience most of which I will probably never get to touch because the pack’s main way of communicating their existence to you is having them just sit around in EMI; the presence of Advancements in this regard are not adequate beyond progression.

Performance is kind of middling for a Vanilla+ pack; RAM requirements are on par for a standard modded experience of this scope, framerates are kind of low and the pack has a surprising issue with particle spam such as with the underground unstable rocks simeltaneously exploding and tanking your fps with ten thousand block break particles being spawned in at once (and this is not the only instance of something like this in the pack).

What this pack does in absolute terms is make a variety of highly opinionated changes around the game; you’ll notice stuff like Cooked Fish and Cooked Salmon being merged into Cooked Fish, which is a change I appreciate because I’m a weird nerd, but what the modpack doesn’t do is provide an immediate radical agenda like Musketeer with its choice to remove both the End and the Nether, nor does it carve out a niche like the Beta 1.7.3 mods do. And without a massive content dump to compensate, I’m left with an experience that’s essentially parallel to Vanilla where everything is slightly different but not enough to keep me playing or for me to want to talk other people into playing it with me.

Everything in this pack feels included. There are no duplicates, no random items that don’t fit the theme, no unintentional recipes. The balance changes are sooo good! The devs dear to do what Mojang doesn’t by just flat out removing game breaking or just not fun elements of Minecraft (Villagers, XP, Elytra). The sandbox aspect instead of progression based gameplay is also a big plus for me. Every playstyle from automation min-maxing with create to laid back building is supported, no need to rush nor to does it ever feel tedious or too much of a grind. The one star I’ve deducted is just for Create, it can get very laggy if your machines are set up suboptimal but despite that I’ve never had any issues with my gtx1650.

Also a big plus is the great community on the discord and the public multiplayer servers, honestly the kindest and coolest people I’ve met online 😀

This is the best modpack i have ever played. Everything about it is good. I don’t remember having that much fun in minecraft since 2020. The progression is perfectly balanced. World generation feels very cozy, almost every place is good to build a cute little house to live in. I recommend this modpack to everyone, it is definitely worth a try

Never had so much fun playing Minecraft before.

Of course, some people may turn their noses up at unusual content, such as: no End dimension; reworked enchanting; coordinates tied to items… but it actually makes the game slower and really different from most modded experiences, forcing you to play in a different way.

The pack achieves a HUGE integration between each mod. Everything just connects. New textures, recipes, loads of content made specially for the pack…

It’s a really well-thought vanilla overhaul. It feels more free and like a true sandbox game.

Of course, sometimes there may be some bugs due to the integration of the mods, and even though this happens all the time with many packs, this one is so well made that when something is out of place it sticks out. However, the amazing people developing this pack try their best on polishing the experience.

Raspberry flavored combines every mod into a complete blend that works perfectly with nearly no inconsistencies, it is hands down the most well-made modpack… EVER !!

This is an excellant pack to play completely blind for people who have already played Minecraft for countless hours. It’s like discovering the game for the first time again. Everything is beautifully cohesive and thought out.