Aedifice.org Private Modpack

This is the modpack for my private minecraft server. It tends to favor mods around magic or multibock tech, as well as environmental/quality of life mods.

The current iteration of the modpack focuses on mods for Minecraft 1.16. The following explains a few of the mods included in the pack, and their purpose.

Included Mods (and Notes)

You can see all of the included mods by examining one of the releases (under Files on the web site or by downloading it in the CurseForge app). The descriptions below provides a non-exhaustive explanation of the included mods and customizations.

Known Issues

• The modpack includes Default Options in order to specify some better default keybindings within options.txt without replacing the file every time the modpack updates. However, one of the mods seems to cause options.txt to be created before Default Optioons can set things up itself. To work around this, the modpack includes an initial options-default.txt that you can copy into place before launching the modpack. If you don’t do this, it just means you need to customize the keybindings yourself.
• In particular, you will want to map FTB Chunks’ world map button to something like SHIFT+M, and then remap most of buttons for both of Xaero’s mods. See the Maps section below for suggest keybindings.
• Similarly, Xaero’s Minimap and Xaero’s World Map configs are not handled by the standard Forge mod configuration system, so the modpack is unable to provide a default configuration that can be customized. Any time the modpack updates, these mods’ configs will be replaced by the update. If you want to customize them (setting up waypoints should be fine — the problem is with customizing settings for the minimap itself).

Customizations

See the latest modpack changelog for a list of customizations.

Getting Started

minecraft.aedifice.org is a private Minecraft server that uses a variety of
mods. The server and mods generally have a focus on magic, content, and
complex/multiblock tech and automation. It also strives to add a few RPG
elements to make the world more fantastical and uncanny, as well as mods that
remove some of the monotony of the Minecraft grind.

The server is private, and you cannot join without permission.

The following discussion of mods is far from complete, mainly meant to be a
brief summary and pointers to a few useful things.

UI Mods

Data

The modpack uses Just Enough Items and The One Probe, as well as whatever
supporting mods are available for additional content.

Just Enough Resources is present, but does not yet have a command for
generating ore depth and frequency yet in 1.16 Minecraft.

Neat is used to show enemy health bars.

UI Tweaks

The modpack uses Quark‘s inventory sorting, it but still includes
Inventory Tweaks Renewed still to replace broken items in your hotbar. It
also has Crafting Tweaks and Mouse Tweaks for general crafting
enhancements.

Maps

It currently uses Xaero’s Minimap and Xaero’s World Map since they seem
to work best on 1.16. FTB-Chunks is also present for claiming chunks
(FTB-Chunks provides a minimap, but it lacks keybindings and cannot show cave
maps).

The default keys (if you copy the provided options-default.txt to
options.txt) have been modified for Xaero’s Minimap. You should review the
key bindings to meet your own needs/preferences:

• = zooms in
• - zooms out
• , creates a waypoint
• . manages all waypoints
• m Shows Xaero’s World Map
• shift+m Shows FTB-Chunks world map
• y currently brings up Xaero’s Minimap’s config
• ] currently brings up Xaero’s World Map’s config

Ambiance

• Ambient Sounds 3 adds ambient sounds
• Sound Filters adds depth of sound
• EnhancedVisuals adds visual effects when you take damage, are close to Endermen, etc.

Quality of Life Mods

Probably the most important ones to be ware of:

• Carry On Lets you shift-right-click a tile entity or a mob to pick it up and carry it
• FTB Ultimine Lets you hold down ` (backtick, can be changed) while
  breaking blocks to break a large number of them at the same time
• Rapid Leaf Decay will cause leaves to decay rapidly after a tree is chopped down
• Tree Harvester lets you sneak-chop down a whole tree at once (including
  the leaves). It will also replant a sapling if you chop it down at its base
• Nature’s Compass adds an item to find specific biomes
• FindMe helps you find items in nearby inventories

Additionally:

• Wither Skeleton Tweaks makes wither skeletons easier to find and less of a chore to grind
• KleeSlabs lets you break half of a double-slab
• NetherPortalFix Improves how Nether Portals link together
• Craftable Horse Armour & Saddle adds recipes for crafting horse armor and saddles
• Quark Adds a wide variety of enhancements that can’t all be summarized here.
• Comforts Adds sleeping bags and hammocks to "sleep" and move time forward
  to the next day or night
• Corail Tombstone is a tombstone mod with some extra mystical/necromantic content
• Crafting Station Adds a Tinker’s Construct style crafting table.

World content

• Mystic World adds a few plans and animals to make the world more fanciful
• Oh the Biomes You’ll Go adds a ton of new biomes

Content/Decorative Mods

• Advanced Chimneys adds chimney blocks that produce various smoke particle effects
• Botania includes a variety of decorative blocks
• Decorative Blocks adds a variety of decorative blocks
• Fairy Lights Adds strings of lights and banners you can customize and hang up
• Engineer’s Decor Adds Immersive Engineering-themed decorations
• Quark adds a lot of decorative content
• MultiBeds lets you build larger and customizable beds
• Structurize adds roofing tiles, wood-reinforced blocks, etc.
• Supplementaries adds many animated and functional decorations
• Inspirations Adds bookshelves, carpets that go down stairs, and a variety of other Vanilla+ changes

Food and Farming Focused Mods

• AppleSkin shows more hunger mechanics in the UI
• Spice of Life: Carrot Edition gives you boons if you eat a variety of
  food and incentivizes making and eating all food
• Cooking for Blockheads adds an incredibly useful cookbook and a
  multi-block kitchen that makes it easier to craft most food recipes
• Farming for Blockheads adds a Market block for buying seeds
• Simple Farming adds a vareity of extra crops and food recipes
• **Simply Tea ** adds tea and other hot beverages
• Ashenwheat Adds crops that can be grown to produce food, charcoal,
  bonemeal, gunpowder, and glowstone.
• Ender Tendrils Adds an ender tendril to loot chests that grows downwards
  and drops tendril pearls which can be used in place of ender pearls in most
  recipes. (It’s the closest thing to Ender Crops for 1.16)

Magic Mods

• Ars Nouveau is a spell-crafting mod that also adds cute spirits that you
  can teach spells to
• Astral Sorcery uses marble and crystals to harness the power of the stars
  for powerful magic
• Botania is all about cultivating colorful flowers to channel mana to
  create powerful magic items and to create complex multiblock contraptions for
  automation
• Nature’s Aura is a magic themed mod based around using and replenishing a
  given region’s aura. A strong aura boosts plant growth and other magical
  effects, but using the aura allows you to construct devices and enchantments.
• Psi is a magical tech spell programming mod inspired by
  Mahouka.
  Don’t worry if that doesn’t make any sense.

Tech Mods

• Create is a tech mod all about combining simpler blocks together to make some really cool contraptions/factories. It initially centers around rotational power, but has tools to help build as well.
• Crossroads MC is another tech/magic mod that is all about building
  complex multiblock contraptions for automation
• Essentials is a companion mod to Crossroads that adds some extra
  automation on top of vanilla Minecraft
• Environmental Tech adds powerful multi-block machines that can generate
  resources, produce power, provide beacon effects. Warning: a new version of
  this mod is now on 1.16, but it lacks an in-game manual
• Immersive Engineering, Immersive Petroleum, etc. provide a
  diesel-punk tech esthetic
• Powah! is a tech mod that adds a variety of ways to generate, store, and
  transmit energy

Storage Mods

• Applied Energistics 2 is a tech/energy/content mod that is still centered
  around mass storage of items/blocks
• EnderChests adds multi-channel ender chests (similar to the old
  chickenbones mod)
• Iron Chests adds larger storage inventories
• Storage Drawers adds drawers that can be used to store items

Tools

• Angel Ring adds the angel ring from Extra Utilities. It is just a ring
  that allows for creative-mode-style flight, from a fairly expensive recipe
• Engineer’s Tools adds a variety of tools themed around Immersive
  Engineering, including the Ariadne Coal, which lets you draw arrows (the
  arrow will point in the direction you right-clicked closest to on a given
  block. Eg, if you click near the top-right of a block, then the arrow points
  up and to the right)
• Miner’s Helmet can be worn to have dynamic lighting while in darkness
• Scuba Gear adds equipment for breathing underwater
• Silent Gear lets you build customizable tools from blueprints. It is
  derived from Silent’s Gems, which can be used to build parts for tools.
• Simply Jetpacks 2 lets you fly around using energy-based jetpacks.
• Structurize adds wands for creating structure templates, and then making
  new ones elsewhere.
• Vanilla Excavators adds giant shovels that can dig a 3×3 area
• Vanilla Hammers adds giant hammers that can mine a 3×3 area

Misc

• Ice and Fire: Dragons adds a variety of mythical creatures such as
  dragons, hippogryphs, gorgons, ghosts, liches, etc. to the game, along with
  related items and other content to be a dragon hunter and dragon tamer.
• MiniCoal Adds smaller versions of coal and charcoal that can cook a
  single item, instead of 8
• Rats adds rat mobs. They can be tamed and used for automation, can spread
  the plague, etc. Plague Doctor Illagers love to circle your house, letting
  their pet rats eat holes in your walls and drink painful sounding potions of
  invisibility.
• Waystones adds waystones that players can teleport to using XP.