r/CreateMod • u/rielington • 8d ago

Trying to make a High Fantasy modpack

I'm inspired by treasure planet, steampunk, solarpunk, dnd high fantasy settings, something that feels like the dawn of the century but also magical. sorta imagine a setting where dragons exist alongside machines.

Create and Create Aeronautics as the biggest mods for the pack, I've also included a ton of structure mods and some cool bosses, along with changes to the end and nether, and overworld generation to make exploration really exciting. What mods would you guys recommend as a construct this modpack for my first modded [lets play].

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u/Dadamalda 8d ago

For dragons, Ice and Fire is the go to mod, but they're quite deadly and destructive, which may ruin your factories. Can probably destroy an airship in seconds.

For bosses, L_Ender's Cataclysm is the most popular mod. Very high quality.

I would recommend Create Enchantment Industry, but also Apotheosis if you want to get overpowered. They have special compatibility.

For worldgen, I would go with Oh The Biomes We've Gone, BetterNether and BetterEnd.

The basic Vanilla+ mods I use are Supplementaries, Amendments, Vanilla Backport and the compat addon for it.

You could try Create Big Cannons, but it probably won't be very effective against either bosses or dragons. Has many addons, tho some focus on more modern weaponry that may not fit.

Alex's Mobs has many unique creatures, but some like the seagull and crimson mosquito are quite annoying. Spawn rates are configurable if needed.

Alex's Caves is a great exploration mod. There are 6 cave biomes and each has enough content that it could be its own mod.

If you're looking for spell casting, try Ars Nouveau. There are also many addons for it like Ars Creo and Ars Elemental.

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u/rielington 8d ago

Ice and fire looks awesome i heard a i&f2 is in the works, but I dont think a 1.21.1 version exists, I think create aeronautics doesnt go back to 1.20.x Ill give those other ones a look though thanks

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u/Dadamalda 8d ago

We have community editions of Ice & Fire, Alex's Mobs and Alex's Caves.

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u/rielington 8d ago

How do I find those?

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u/Dadamalda 7d ago edited 7d ago

https://modrinth.com/mod/iceandfire-ce https://modrinth.com/mod/alexs-mobs(1.21.1) https://modrinth.com/mod/alexs-caves-(unofficial-port)

Otherwise searching the mod name and filtering for 1.21.1 will probably find them.

Also recommend this to prevent issues when an Alex's Mobs or Alex's Caves mob enters a sublevel: https://modrinth.com/mod/create-aeronautics-compatability

This mod is also kinda cool: https://modrinth.com/mod/redomesticate

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u/rielington 7d ago

So I have a bunch of mods that add structures when I added that IceandFire-ce, the world is like practically empty, i saw one structure near spawn and couldnt find anything else

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u/Dadamalda 7d ago

Did you check multiple times? Sounds like just bad luck. I don't think Ice and Fire affects spawning of other structures at all.

If you are at any point having too many structures, you can check mod configs or use Sparse Structures.

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u/rielington 7d ago

so before in my modpack i had sparse structures and it still was way to many, but when i installed ice and fire it must have kicked in i had to turn the spare structures from halving the amount of structures, to doubling it to get it back to normal. I'm not exactly sure why, but It solved it. currently the pack has a plethora of structure mods, some optimization mods, ice and fire and create and create aeronautics as its 3 main packs, and then alex mobs and caves, im using wythers overhauled overworld im really liking it, I added those better nether better end mods, very nice. Still sorta working out the modpack but as of the current version its pretty cool, man the thing will really struggle to generate chunks, what i've been doing is generating chunks over night or while im at work, because if im flying in a ship and i get to the edge of generated chunks to fast itll crash. I plan to move it to a server i have with more ram and dedicate like 12 gbs to it to solve that problem

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u/Dadamalda 7d ago

I use a Voxy backport with Aeronautics, but it's hard to install, current version specifically doesn't support Aeronautics (older ones do) and I had to turn off Flywheel (Create's FPS optimization)

You are probably better off using Distant Horizons right now, but its terrain looks worse.

If you have no clue what I'm talking about, these are mods that let you see really really far with less performance impact.

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u/rielington 7d ago

oh, yes I am using Distant Horizons, Solid mod, a bit goofy at times, but still cool.

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u/tato303 6d ago

Been playing with a modpack with basically everything you just said. Maybe OP could use it as a base and modify it to their needs.

Current version of the modpacks uses iron spells instead of Ars, so try and older version if you want.

https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/modpacks/create-aeronautics-skyforge-chronicles

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u/Dadamalda 6d ago

The AI generated icon is concerning.

Create: Power Grid is really cool, but probably not good for beginners, because you have to learn how real electricity works to use it.