Hi apotheosis dev, I'm having issue with the Patchouli mod, it has 70% chance of making my game freeze when loading the game, I tried removing it and everything works smoothly, could you please change the Patchouli to be optional dependency for apotheosis mod ? Because it just adds a book

I can see the patchouli has tag required dependencies from here:
https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/apotheosis/relations/dependencies

That make curseforge automatically remove apotheosis when I remove patchouli mod, I tried manually removing the patchouli, it really works

Patchouli will remain a mandatory dependency on CF, but as you've noted is not a hard dependency in-code.

If you have a bug with patchouli, you should report it to them.

Patchouli is an optional dependency already, you can remove it. Report the freezing issue to Patchouli.