Post Start 1/3/25
As you can tell by the Post start date, this was supposed to come out months ago, well long story short college started, I met some new friends and bla bla bla 3 months later I need a break from people and to get back into my own head. So I took a weekend off and I kind of feel like journaling again. So here we are.
I like modded minecraft, I like modded minecraft a lot, it's safe to say without a doubt I like it more than any other game I own by head and shoulders. Why I like it so much is a very complicated question to answer, including nostalgia, what I value in a game, how I have fun while playing games, and my own personality. Safe to say there are a lot of moving parts that make modded minecraft in my eyes the perfect game.
A few months back I had just got burned out from playing GTNH, I had gotten pretty far even getting a basic ME system up which in any other modpack would be a first week task but in GTNH was a half year long affair because the game hates you. While I was proud of getting as far as I had, and while I’ll probably return to that world some day, I can’t say it was very fun. The most fun I had was making a magical pocket dimension portal hub, and then using a busted thaumcraft focus to bust out of the borders of said magical pocket dimension. So Shitty 40k webway aside, I wouldn't call it fun and after playing for 6 months I needed a break. So I bounced around a few packs, played BTA 1.7.3, had a blast with building an underwater forest, tried to make my own modpack, realizing what I wanted would require a few custom mods minimum and would be outrageously unstable so that went on the backburner for… pretty much ever unless I get inspired and really want to learn minecraft modding, which isn't out of the question for me but I wouldn't hold your breath.
So what to do…
My first time playing blightfall was 9 years ago loading up the technic launcher and seeing it as a new official pack. As I was too young to know the power of adding ram to the launcher option and therefore could not play the captain sparklez pack, I was excited to actually play something that looked fun, and I did. Let's just say I was not very good at the game. My first few tries always ended up with me cheating to not have a low reputation or giving up after not really accomplishing much.
That was 9 years ago, I think I can do a bit better now, and as it turns out, I can (and did). The following is a play for play of the playthrough, if you’ve never played modded minecraft this is going to sound like absolute gibberish; Starting out in bio dome omega I established a small varied farm for food and a massive wheat field to farm reputation. Using this reputation I bought more seeds for the varied farm, Darkwood, Fusewood and Bloodwood saplings for high mining level tools, rubber saplings so I don't have to go quarrying in the swamp for bitumen(?) and villagers and enderman spawn eggs for blood magic and ender pearl ball melting respectively. I got a lucky pull from a machine bag and got a mining laser, so I built a big reactors reactor to power the laser and slowly scaled up power as i mined more and more yellorium (an equivalent to uranium) During the week of reactor scaling up slowly worked through a majority of non warping thaumcraft, I wanted to avoid warping research because this mod does not have any method of permanent warp removal. ( I don't know how common that is for mod packs, but I’ve played new horizons and it has 2* methods of permanent warp removal ) after that I played through botania, really just to absolve my younger self of very shitty attempted botania playthroughs, ultimately settling on a cake factory to feed a kekamaru mana generator. To beat blightfall you get a magical totem that's powered by a thaumcraft essentia, essentially distilled magic, so I made a large magic distillery to power said totem. After a day long afk session the taint was cleared and I had won the game.
So what did I think? I loved it, I loved every moment of it. It feels like I can finally close that part of my life, getting the chance to go back and finish something from a long time ago with more experience is a unique feeling that we don't often get to experience. I don't really have anything profound to say on the matter, thanks for reading and have a great rest of your day.
Post End : 4/10/2025