Enhancements - mod suggestions

[Zarepheth]

Mods I find important enough to add to modpacks that don't have them:

• Polymorph - Necessary to resolve recipe conflicts between mods.
• Precise Block Placing - for more accurate and consistent placement of blocks. Instead of placing a new block every few ticks, it doesn't place a new block until cursor focus moves to another block.
• LambDynamicLights - so the held torch lights the surrounding area. Likewise for other light sources (like burning mobs, thrown torches, broken torches, etc...)
• Crawl - to get through small openings.
• Surrogate - this is more for mod pack developers, but also for people like me who modify the modpacks they are using. Provides replacement blocks and items with the original block/items data so removing a mod doesn't destroy a world and the blocks/items have a good chance of returning when the mod is returned. This mod may require manual download and editing of the mod's *.jar file to update the Minecraft version.

Additional mods I find useful:

• Compressed Blocks (or similar mod) - for early game storage of things that quickly overflow one's chests.
• Boat Hud - Just an info panel for boat speed, direction, forward/backward.
• Boat Item View - To view maps (like buried treasure maps) while sitting in a boat.
• Durability 101 - to have better idea of how long items will last.
• Enchanted ToolTips - To know the enchantments on items.
  • Related mods:
  • WMITAF - to know the mod an Enchantment comes from when looking at the tooltip for an enchanted book.
  • Enchantment Descriptions - Enchantment descriptions in the tool tips for enchanted books.
• Grind Enchantments - for moving enchantments from one item to a book or one book to another. Available early game, configurable cost. This mod may require manual download and editing of the mod's *.jar file to update the Minecraft version.
• Hwyla Addon Horse Info - To see a horse's attributes before attempting to tame it.
• Map Tooltip - To know what is on the map when hovering over it while it is in the inventory. Much easier to decide which map to hang on wall, toss in trash, or move to another inventory.
• Tax Free Levels - So anvil work isn't quite so expensive when one is doing simple things while at a high level of experience.
• Third Person Crosshair - to know where one is aiming while in 3rd person view.
• Third Person Maps - to see held maps when riding Mythic Mounts in 3rd person.

I generally play solo, and if I were playing with others, it would be my own family. Chunk claiming isn't so important to us, like it would be on a public server with people who do not know each other. So I disable FTB Chunks and use Xaero's World and Mini map mods instead.

Again, as I generally play solo, the balance aspect of these mods was not one of my concerns.

[Chuunkyz]

thanks for spending time to make this ^^ so here's my answer for each mod :

[Polymorph] will not be added, i'll fix the recipes manually when people will report them, polymorph causes lag, breaks unifications, and conflicts should just not exist [Precise Block Placing] i'll test this one [LambDynamicLights] will never be added, causes critical performance issues [Crawl] i'll see [Surrogate] i'll see but i'm a little bit afraid of this tbh [Compressed Blocks] was in the pack but removed because way too much useless blocks, i'll find a better mod for this however [Boat Hud] nah [Boat Item View] i'll see for this one [Durability 101] i'll see for this one [Enchanted ToolTips] ths feature is already a thing in the pack, unneeded [Grind Enchantments] there's the infusion table already, will not be added [Hwyla Addon Horse Info] there's already a mod for horse stats, will not be added [Map Tooltip] i'll see for this one [Tax Free Levels] already a feature like this in the pack [Third Person Crosshair] meh [Third Person Maps] meh too

also plz consider that i don't want to add too much qol/client-side/non-content mods, i don't make a pack with 400 mods but 50 content mods, this is not a vanilla+ modpack ! also even if these are small mods, they can still cause conflicts/issues ! so most of the "i'll see for this one" mean that they'll probably not going to be added

[Zarepheth]

Thanks for taking the time to read it and respond!

[Surrogate] is more of a tool for you, not for the typical person using the mod. It might be helpful, in conjunction with scripts, to migrate blocks and items during a modpack upgrade when one mod is removed or replaced by another. The migration script might be able to read the content of the blocks and items preserved by Surrogate to replace them with other blocks or items.

As someone who messes with the modpacks I play, when an error causes me to drop a mod (for instance, a while ago I had to disable Dank due to an error) Surrogate keeps the blocks around until the mod is replaced (a few weeks later, Dank was fixed - and Surrogate allowed me to recover my stuff).

[Zarepheth]

By the way, I appreciate that you are working the issues with conflicts! That's a major reason why I'm using your modpack instead of creating my own from scratch. You are also doing a lot of work for the quests, I currently lack the motivation to create and maintain my own list of quests.

So far, I've not seen specific conflict/performance issues directly related to the above mods - but it's possible they contribute to overall performance problems or introduce instabilities that show up as other mods conflicting with each other.

[GrokDuckFarmer]

Crafting recipe conflicts are a pain, but Polymorph may help with that, even if you don't add it to the pack.

If you spin up a test instance of the modpack, you can add the Polymorph mod and run the "/polymorph conflicts" command to get a list of conflicting recipes.

[GrokDuckFarmer]

And since this ticket already exists for enhancement suggestions, I suggest the following for often requested modded functionality:

QuickHomes -- /sethome and /home commands QuickSpawns -- /spawn command QuickTeleports -- /tpa, /tpahere, and /tpaccept commands

[Chuunkyz]

this is good for large public servers, but if you're using singleplayer or just playing with a friend, you don't need that at all. will not be added