Review Reclamation (1.20.1)
My wife and I just got done with Reclamation and enjoyed it. So I thought I'd review it for you.
Some of us played Regrowth, about 8 years ago. Fantastic pack, just the memories bring tears to our eyes! 1.7 but you might want to try it anyway. So... Reclamation is a retake of that idea. You start out with a barren and desolate world (no life, no ores!) and need to bring back life, bit by bit. It took us almost 2 days to make our first Dirt.
Weakling pack authors might have made us do Ex Nihilo in the overworld, but this pack features an original and interesting sequence of mods to take you to a workable environment. There's an alchemy mod, Theurgy, that I'd never heard of, and a slew of magic mods: Enchanted (inspired by Witchery), Nature's Aura, Botania. Later, there's Ars Nouveau and Blood Magic. You might think this ends up being a mostly-magic pack, but the magic stuff gets cleverly integrated with techie stuff like Embers, Create, and Mekanism. There's also Iron Chests, Storage Drawers and (eventually) Applied Energistics for your item management needs. You want Inscribers? You need a ritual to call down a meteorite. Watch your head!
What, you've never heard of Embers? It's an oldie and you don't see much of it, but it's a pretty unique, clunky and funky tech mod. It's what Mekanism would be if it were invented by medieval Dwarves. Some of the recipes are random (per world seed) and you need to win a Mastermind-esque mini-game to learn the correct order of ingredients. Annoying or fun, depending on your preferences.
Speaking of annoying or fun, it so happens the author of the pack is also the author of Complicated Bees, so naturally it's one of the means of resource generation in the pack. Complicated Bees are... complicated. My wife moaned and whined for about 2 days, then she figured things out and then she started madly breeding bees for more and more resources. Still, your main resource mods will likely be AgriCraft and Mystical Agriculture.
The pack is to be commended for how strongly the various mods are interlinked. It's not like doing 1 or 2 items in some magic mod and then never seeing it again. I ended up doing Enchanted rituals and alchemy on the 2nd last day. Mystical Agriculture and Create were essential to making Uranium for our Mekanism Fission Reactor(s). And some of the end-game creative crafts call for items from Blood Magic.
Reclamation is... well, it's best if you're at least a bit "expert" but it's not particularly hard and not really grindy, except for the final, optional "bragging rights" creative crafts. The quest book is very well thought out, with texts that give you necessary hints without being verbose or boring. As a couple of slowpoke retirees, we spent about 2 weeks getting through the pack, and consider ourselves well challenged and entertained the whole time. Recommended, obviously.
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My wife and I just got done with Reclamation and enjoyed it. So I thought I'd review it for you.
Some of us played Regrowth, about 8 years ago. Fantastic pack, just the memories bring tears to our eyes! 1.7 but you might want to try it anyway. So... Reclamation is a retake of that idea. You start out with a barren and desolate world (no life, no ores!) and need to bring back life, bit by bit. It took us almost 2 days to make our first Dirt.
Weakling pack authors might have made us do Ex Nihilo in the overworld, but this pack features an original and interesting sequence of mods to take you to a workable environment. There's an alchemy mod, Theurgy, that I'd never heard of, and a slew of magic mods: Enchanted (inspired by Witchery), Nature's Aura, Botania. Later, there's Ars Nouveau and Blood Magic. You might think this ends up being a mostly-magic pack, but the magic stuff gets cleverly integrated with techie stuff like Embers, Create, and Mekanism. There's also Iron Chests, Storage Drawers and (eventually) Applied Energistics for your item management needs. You want Inscribers? You need a ritual to call down a meteorite. Watch your head!
What, you've never heard of Embers? It's an oldie and you don't see much of it, but it's a pretty unique, clunky and funky tech mod. It's what Mekanism would be if it were invented by medieval Dwarves. Some of the recipes are random (per world seed) and you need to win a Mastermind-esque mini-game to learn the correct order of ingredients. Annoying or fun, depending on your preferences.
Speaking of annoying or fun, it so happens the author of the pack is also the author of Complicated Bees, so naturally it's one of the means of resource generation in the pack. Complicated Bees are... complicated. My wife moaned and whined for about 2 days, then she figured things out and then she started madly breeding bees for more and more resources. Still, your main resource mods will likely be AgriCraft and Mystical Agriculture.
The pack is to be commended for how strongly the various mods are interlinked. It's not like doing 1 or 2 items in some magic mod and then never seeing it again. I ended up doing Enchanted rituals and alchemy on the 2nd last day. Mystical Agriculture and Create were essential to making Uranium for our Mekanism Fission Reactor(s). And some of the end-game creative crafts call for items from Blood Magic.
Reclamation is... well, it's best if you're at least a bit "expert" but it's not particularly hard and not really grindy, except for the final, optional "bragging rights" creative crafts. The quest book is very well thought out, with texts that give you necessary hints without being verbose or boring. As a couple of slowpoke retirees, we spent about 2 weeks getting through the pack, and consider ourselves well challenged and entertained the whole time. Recommended, obviously.
https://redd.it/1p3cmgc
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Reclamation - Reclaim the World!
Reclaim the world! A semi-expert modpack about bringing life back to a barren world.
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Official Trailer for Cobblemon 1.7 - Set Course! Update
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What are the discontinued mods that you wan to bring to the new versions
For me it has to be galacticraft. Such a lost gem
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What are the discontinued mods that you wan to bring to the new versions
For me it has to be galacticraft. Such a lost gem
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Is there a world gen mod that makes the world feel like an abandoned (griefed?) multiplayer server?
Seeing some of the Broken Script's (and similar 'meta-horror' mods) structure generation made me think that having fake abandoned multiplayer builds spawn in a singleplayer world could be cool.
Are there any mods that could facilitate something like that, or will I have to either use the horror mod(s) or go either find an actual abandoned server or download a map/world file from the web?
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Seeing some of the Broken Script's (and similar 'meta-horror' mods) structure generation made me think that having fake abandoned multiplayer builds spawn in a singleplayer world could be cool.
Are there any mods that could facilitate something like that, or will I have to either use the horror mod(s) or go either find an actual abandoned server or download a map/world file from the web?
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Why should i avoid MCreator When creating a mod as a beginner?
So here’s the deal, I’m thinking about learning how to make Minecraft mods for a couple of reasons:
1. It’s cool.
2. I want to add some goofy stuff.
I started looking into some tools i can use to make mods, and one of them was MCreator. I installed it, and honestly, it felt too basic. Don’t get me wrong, it had everything I needed like I could add tools and a few crafting recipes but something about it just didn’t feel right.
Plus, everyone seems to hate on it, and I’m not really sure why.
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So here’s the deal, I’m thinking about learning how to make Minecraft mods for a couple of reasons:
1. It’s cool.
2. I want to add some goofy stuff.
I started looking into some tools i can use to make mods, and one of them was MCreator. I installed it, and honestly, it felt too basic. Don’t get me wrong, it had everything I needed like I could add tools and a few crafting recipes but something about it just didn’t feel right.
Plus, everyone seems to hate on it, and I’m not really sure why.
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I made this clear, high-contrast HUD in my own home-cooked style to provide a breath of fresh air in my day-to-day gaming sessions!
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mod for wireless redstone signal transmission
hello, so there are many mods for wireless (also across dimensions) transportation of items, but is there some equivalent for wireless redstone signal transmission? there are obvious ways to just use those item transporting mods and then work with placed blocks to transmit a redstone signal but this will be tedious after a while, so i may need something better.
thanks in advance for answering :)
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hello, so there are many mods for wireless (also across dimensions) transportation of items, but is there some equivalent for wireless redstone signal transmission? there are obvious ways to just use those item transporting mods and then work with placed blocks to transmit a redstone signal but this will be tedious after a while, so i may need something better.
thanks in advance for answering :)
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