Polka Dot Door

Polka Dot Door

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Summary

This pack pulls together a huge variety of mods with the goal of creating a balanced ecosystem of content, and tries to avoid introducing anything blatantly broken. It also features a unique add-on which introduces a new endgame tier of items (Polkarite), with recipes to craft it that require ingredients from a swathe of the biggest mods in the pack.

Some of the core mods included in this pack:

  • Biomes O' Plenty & Realistic Terrain Generation
  • Pam's Harvestcraft & Cooking for Blockheads
  • The Aether II
  • Galacticraft
  • IndustrialCraft 2
  • Applied Energistics 2
  • ComputerCraft: Tweaked & PeripheralsPlusOne
  • The Erebus
  • Twilight Forest
  • Tropicraft
  • Railcraft

The modpack has been heavily configured to alter or remove the parts of the included mods which would be unbalanced in the pack as a whole, as well as to make a variety of quality of life improvements.

The difficulty of this modpack is quite a bit higher than vanilla due to the food and mob changes among other things, so be aware that its content cannot simply be steamrolled through as with many other modpacks.

We're hosting a server that uses this modpack! If you want to join us, go to our Discord for details.

Starter Tips

  • The J key opens JourneyMap, and the P key opens a menu allowing you to add waypoints to the map.
  • The Del key opens a trash can to get rid of unwanted items.
  • This modpack features an RPG leveling system courtesy of LevelUp! Reloaded - use the black book or press the L key to select a class and to manage your skill levels at any time. Note that in order to add 1 skill point you need to spend 10 Minecraft levels.
  • You can claim land to prevent other players griefing your house! With your inventory open, the My Team button at the top left of the screen allows you to create or join a team. Once you are on a team, the Claimed Chunks button in the same area opens a menu showing you the surrounding area and allowing you to click on chunks to claim them for your team. Shift-clicking a chunk you have already claimed will set it to stay loaded as long as you are logged into the server, even if you aren't in the area.
  • Food values have been nerfed with the addition of Harvestcraft, and The Spice of Life adds a penalty to eating too much of the same food at once (although this is very lenient for low tier foods). However, Harvestcraft also adds a huge variety of foods and farmable ingredients which can be found in abundance by breaking Frost Garden, Arid Garden, Tropical Garden, Swamp Garden and Shaded Garden plants. It is recommended to harvest these whenever you find them early on.
  • Cooking for Blockheads adds recipe books and the Multiblock Kitchen system, which makes crafting food much more manageable if you are finding the food recipes from Harvestcraft difficult to follow.
  • Farms do not need to be broken to collect crops from them. Right-clicking the farm block will yield its resources, resetting the farm block to a freshly planted state.
  • Mobs have updated AI, making them more difficult. Spiders can remain aggressive during the day and will try to drop down onto you from above, skeletons and zombies will try to remain in the shade during the day and zombies attack in hordes. Players may also alert nearby mobs with light and by making sound.
  • Respawning applies a buff/debuff called memento mori, which lowers your maximum health but provides a minor speed boost in exchange. This effect lasts 4 minutes, and gradually weakens as the timer decreases.
  • Dying does not drop your items, but instead leaves behind a Block O' Bones. Breaking this block will drop all the items you had on you when you died.

Mods Used

Known Bugs & Issues

Major

  • In the Aether, dying deletes many types of items (typically ones not from the Aether mod) meaning they cannot be recovered. It is recommended to minimise valuable items taken into the Aether
  • Crafting a Bank from Calemi's Utilities does not preserve the currency in the wallet that is used in the crafting recipe. Empty the wallet before using it to craft a bank.
  • In some niche instances, using hopper carts or hoppers into carts that have inventory space can cause a crash and result in the world being corrupted. (Appears to be a Railcraft issue. If no solution can be found this mod will be removed)

Minor

  • Travelling to/from dimensions sometimes makes players' xp temporarily invisible. The next time they teleport or gain XP typically fixes this issue
  • Certain actions when managing inventory can cause items to turn temporarily invisible (items remain in the inventory slot and reappear when the slot is clicked or the game is reloaded)
  • Leaving an Improved Backpacks backpack as a placed block with items in, then leaving and returning to unload and then load the chunk it is in will turn items in the backpack and the player's inventory temporarily invisible when attempting to open the backpack while it is still placed as a block (as above, these reappear when reloading or clicking the slot)
  • Using the Cooking Table causes lag. This only persists while crafting is being completed, but can cause problems on servers with a lot of players