Mod Overview

Mod Overview

The pack's 455 mods (as of 2026-10-18), sorted by function and by the tier at which each becomes available.

Core Tech (Tiered)

Mod	Tier	Notes
Create	1	Kinetic automation, 1.5x ore processing
Pretty Pipes	1	Early logistics
Thermal Series	2	RF power, 2x ore processing, Phytogenic automation
Industrial Foregoing (basic)	2	Basic mob interaction, simple automation
Industrial Foregoing (advanced)	3	Laser Drill, Mob Crusher, auto-mining
Mekanism (basic)	3	Up to 5x ore processing, basic machines (2x RF costs, generator nerfs)
Refined Storage	3	Digital storage (dual-path recipes: tech or magic)
Mekanism (advanced)	4	Digital Miner (recipe changed), Fusion Reactor, MekaTool, Mekasuit, QIO. Tool/armor recipes removed. Fusion/fission output buffed (ERA 4) so reactors carry the late-game power load.
RFTools Dimensions	4	Dimension creation

Core Magic (Tiered)

Mod	Tier	Notes
Botania	1	Mana generation, runic crafting, Orechid
Iron's Spells 'n Spellbooks	1	Combat magic from the start
Ars Nouveau	2	Source generation, spell crafting
Occultism	3	Spirit automation, ritual crafting
Forbidden & Arcanus	3	Dark magic
Mahou Tsukai	4	Ultimate magic combat

Core Player Systems (Tiered)

Mod	Tier	Notes
Heracles	1	Quest system
JustLevelingFork	All	Stat/skill progression via XP leveling

Combat & Scaling

Apotheosis, iridescent_difficulty (bespoke time-based scaling; it replaced ScalingMobs / Improved Mobs / Azukaar's), Majrusz's Progressive Difficulty (elite mobs; it replaced Champions Unofficial), Progressive Bosses, Cataclysmic Combat, Better Combat, Simply Swords, Too Many Bows, Iron's Spells, JustLevelingFork, the Tetra stack (Tetra + art_of_forging + adtetra: the crafted-weapon/tool system formerly documented as "Truly Modular", which is not in the pack) with the Iridescent Reforging armor extension (bundled in iridescent_tetra_expansion), Soul Fire'd

Player Systems

Origins (Forge), Iridescent Origins, Pufferfish's Skills (+AStages), JustLevelingFork, Heracles (quest system), Relics, Artifacts, More Artifacts, Celestial Artifacts, Epic RPG: Class Artifacts (+XP: Attribute Core dep)

Dimensions

Twilight Forest, Blue Skies, The Aether, The Undergarden, Deeper and Darker, Deep Aether, The Abyss, Ad Astra

Dimension	Tier	Notes
Twilight Forest	2	AStages-gated (Tier 2). The portal is lit with a Codex Token I or a diamond; anyone can light it, only a Tier 2 player can step through.
Blue Skies	2	AStages-gated. Dusk Arc removed, Shadow Armor removed, Runic Arc boss-drop only.
The Aether	4	AStages-gated (Tier 2 until 2026-10-16). Dimension mechanics: faster mobs, thin air, vertigo, updrafts.
Deep Aether	4	No dimension of its own: its biomes, bosses and materials are part of the Aether.
The Undergarden	3	AStages-gated. 4 metals integrated into Tetra.
Deeper and Darker	3	AStages-gated
The Abyss	3	Dimension mechanics: oppressive darkness, corruption, fear aura. 30 ring recipes removed, 8 custom rings, 7 armor set bonuses, boss drop gating.
Ad Astra (Moon, Mars, Mercury, Venus, Glacio, and their six orbits)	4	Each planet and orbit has its own Tier 4 gate; the rocket workbench is a Tier 4 recipe. Tier 4 difficulty curve. Loot and space enchantments still in progress.
Iron's Spellbooks pocket dimension, Mahou Tsukai Reality Marble	4	The Pocket Dimension spell is refused before Tier 4.

Boss Mods

Cataclysm, Meet Your Fight, Mutant Monsters, Ultimate Bosses, Ultris: Boss Expansion, Brutal Bosses, Majestic Menaces, Cardinal Sins (the 7 sins → Lucifer → Drakara ladder; Lucifer is the T3→T4 combat capstone; the seven sins' and Drakara's arenas are in the Abyss, Lucifer's in the Nether). (NovaBosses and LuMoreBossesAndMobs are NOT in the pack. The "Cataclysm Apotheosis addon" is unverified, as there is no such jar; see #47.)

Food & Farming

Farmer's Delight (+Alex's/Nether's/Cultural/Delightful/Brewin'), Pam's HarvestCraft 2 (Crops/Trees/Food Core/Extended), Cooking for Blockheads, Simple Farming, Hunger Overhaul, Spice of Life: Carrot Edition, Serene Seasons

Storage & Logistics

Refined Storage (+addons), Sophisticated Backpacks/Storage, Storage Drawers, Pretty Pipes, EnderChests (Tier 4), EnderStorage (Tier 4)

Scripting

KubeJS (+addons), CraftTweaker, JeiTweaker, LootJS, AStages

Ungated Mods

Building: Chipped, Macaw's suite, Decorative Blocks, ConnectedTexturesMod, Structurize

QoL: JourneyMap, Jade, Jade Addons, AppleSkin, Mouse Tweaks, LiteMiner (veinmining), Simple Voice Chat, Equipment Compare, Light Overlay, JEED, Transmog

Multiplayer: Open Parties and Claims (chunk claiming), Simple Voice Chat

Libraries/Dependencies: Majrusz Library, Amber

Performance: ImmediatelyFast, Oculus, LazyDFU [UNOFFICIAL PORT], Alternate Current, Ksyxis

Other: CC: Tweaked, Quark, Disenchanting (T1-gated recipe), Enchantment Transfer (ungated; the XP cost is the gate), Flux Networks, Iron Jetpacks (tiered by materials, single dynamic item ID with NBT), Table of Experience (T2-gated recipe), DarkOrb Orb of Origin (T2-gated recipe)

Config Changes Made

Mod	Config File	Change
Ars Nouveau	ars_nouveau-common.toml	spawnBook = false
The Abyss	theabyss.toml	"Spawn Book" = false
TA The Other Side	ta_theotherside.toml	GuideBook = false
Celestial Artifacts	celestial_artifacts-common.toml	giveItemsOnStart = false
Azukaar's Fair Difficulty	none	REMOVED 2026-05-03 (with ScalingMobs / Improved Mobs); replaced by the bespoke iridescent_difficulty mod.
Icarus	recipes	All default wing recipes removed. 5 new T3 recipes (diamond + phantom membrane).
Disenchanting Table	recipe	T1-gated (same pattern as the enchanting table: 1 book + 2 gold ingots + 2 Apotheosis gems + 4 deepslate; 2026-05-16)
Table of Experience	recipe	T2-gated (requires 4x thermal:steel_ingot)
DarkOrb Orb of Origin	recipe	T2-gated (4x steel + 4x amethyst + heart of the sea)
Aethersteel	datapack/config	T4 endgame. Worldgen disabled, 17 items AStages-restricted, ore replacement.
Terramity	recipes	22 gun recipes removed, 64 armor pieces removed, gunsmith station removed.
Tetra	datapack (icraft_tetra_materials)	27 modded metal material definitions including Blue Skies, Undergarden, F&A, and theabyss (TATOS) metals (4 live theabyss entries: garnite/knight/phantom/unorithe). Diamond hammer tier.
Ad Astra	recipes/config	Tier 4 space dimensions: rocket workbench locked to Tier 4, a Tier 4 gate on every planet and orbit, the Tier 4 difficulty curve, death penalty 22-30 %. Loot and space enchantments in progress.
Mekanism	config/recipes	Generator nerfs, 2x RF costs, Digital Miner recipe change, tool/armor removal. ERA 4 (2026-06-06): fusion output buffed (energyPerFusionFuel 15M, x1.5) and fission output buffed (energyPerFissionFuel 1.5M, x1.25) so big reactors keep up with the higher machine costs; radiation and meltdowns disabled (an over-damaged fission reactor force-shuts-down instead of exploding, which is dangerous but recoverable); new T4 stage pins on the fusion chain, SPS/antimatter, the Digital Miner and ultimate-tier facilities (intermediate machines left open).
Blue Skies	recipes/loot	Dusk Arc removed, Shadow Armor removed, Runic Arc boss-drop only. Diopside/Charoite/Horizonite nerfed to T2.
Custom Abyss-themed rings	scripts	8 kubejs:ring_* curios form a curated T3 chain that replaces the 30 stock rings of theabyss (TATOS) (the stock rings and the arcane workbench are stripped in recipe_audit.js §K); they drop from TATOS chests and Abyss bosses (abyss_boss_loot.js). The Abyss darkness/corruption/fear/void-whispers effects fire in theabyss:the_abyss.
Twilight Forest	tags	Portal activator: the Codex Token I (icraft:progression_token_t1) added to the mod's own diamond (since 17 October 2026; from April to October 2026 the only activator was a legacy token nothing gave). Entry to the dimension is gated at Tier 2.
End (vanilla + mods)	datapacks/scripts	Dragon Exploration Gate, Eyes of Ender staged at T4 (an End Compass → End Bastion unlock is planned to replace them), 9 advancement overrides, 5 End Apotheosis affixes, entity ID fixes, Moog's End Structure loot.
Mob equipment (mob_equipment.js)	scripts	3-day grace, equipment/damage caps, diamond→iron mob breaking tools. (This was an Improved Mobs config; that mod was removed 2026-05-03, and the handler now holds these targets.)
Tectonic	config	Lower, flatter terrain: vertical_scale 0.38 (down from 1.155), ultrasmooth on, flat_terrain_skew 0.65, ridge_scale reduced. Mountains still present but much less extreme (worldgen rebalance 2026-06-06).
TerraBlender	config	vanilla_overworld_region_weight 9→16, which raises vanilla's share of the overworld so plains and other vanilla biomes are more common (worldgen rebalance 2026-06-06).
Biomes O' Plenty	biome_toggles	Lush Desert, Volcano, and Volcanic Plains turned off (desert/volcanic biome presence reduced); Dryland and Wasteland kept (worldgen rebalance 2026-06-06).
Towers of the Wild	config	Tower frequency reduced (36/25 → 28/20) so overworld towers are a little rarer (worldgen rebalance 2026-06-06).
Apotheosis (tome towers)	config	Tome-tower generation reduced to 24/14-16 (worldgen rebalance 2026-06-06).
LootJS	scripts	Clutter removal (horse armor, spider eyes), food reduction 70%→90%.
Apotheosis	config	Dimension key prefixes fixed, Overworld Affix Item generation 50%→25%.
Iron's Spells	loot tables	Scrolls + copper spell book added to Overworld chest loot for early magic access.
Walkable Cables	coremod	v1.0.1: makes Mekanism cables walkable; LocalVariableTable fix.
Mekanism (HDPE)	recipes	HDPE Circuit Board recipe, alternative machine recipes using HDPE components.
Industrial Foregoing	recipes	Latex/rubber pipeline rework: logs→latex via Create/Thermal, HDPE→dry rubber.
Origins	power JSONs	All 9 vanilla origins rebalanced (no lethal effects; food preferences instead of restrictions). 4 custom origins added (Witch of Ink, Artificial Construct, Witherborn, Slimebodied). No Mundane, no Human.

Removed Mods

These mods were in earlier builds and have since been dropped. Where a mod was replaced, the note names the replacement.

Mod	Note
Rechiseled	Removed: library incompatibility
SuperMartijn642's Core Lib	Removed: incompatibility
SuperMartijn642's Config Lib	Removed: incompatibility
Connected Glass	Removed: dependency removed
Trash Cans	Removed: dependency removed
Pretty Rain	Removed: incompatibility
Cherry Village	Removed: worldgen crash
Gods & Heroes RPG Classes	Removed: conflicted with the class system
Tetra Attribute Rebalancing	Removed: incompatibility
Champions Unofficial	Removed: replaced by Majrusz's Progressive Difficulty
FTB Backups	Removed: replaced by FastBack (itself removed later)
FastBack	Removed: it needs git on the host and never ran on the dedicated server; the server launcher backs the world up instead
FTB Chunks	Removed: replaced by Open Parties and Claims
FTB Essentials / Library / Ranks / Teams	Removed: FTB suite cleanup
FTB Quests	Removed: replaced by Heracles
FTB Ultimine	Removed: replaced by LiteMiner + Amber
Truly Modular family (Armory / Arsenal / Archery / modular-item-api / Create-compat)	Removed: superseded by the Tetra stack + Iridescent Reforging
ScalingMobs · Improved Mobs · Azukaar's Fair Difficulty	Removed: replaced by the bespoke iridescent_difficulty mod

Custom Mods

The pack ships custom-bundled jars (in-house source builds, bytecode-patched jars and utilities). They are listed, each with its checksum, in the pack's custom-jar manifest, so the stale-jar cleanup keeps them and replaces a copy that does not match. Highlights:

• iridescent_tetra_expansion-1.0.0.jar: bundles two [[mods]], Iridescent Modular Spells (15 modular spell books, 12 ISS + 3 Ars, full Tetra workbench integration, BookKind intrinsic overlay, 4-slot model with lining improvements; blaze/evoker/necronomicon are first-kill drops from ISS bosses) and Iridescent Reforging (Tetra-armor extension). Item IDs keep their iridescent_modular_spells: / iridescent_reforging: namespaces; the full ID merge into a single iridescent_tetra_expansion namespace is deferred to the alpha→beta step. Built via iridescent-tetra-expansion-mod/wsl-build.sh.
• iridescent_origins-1.0.0.jar: Origins/races/classes (3-prompt selection on first join).
• iridescent_biomes-1.0.0.jar: TerraBlender region for cherry_river_valley + cherry_mountains.
• iridescent_codex_data.jar: Patchouli Codex book (modId icraft).
• iridescent_difficulty-0.1.0.jar: bespoke time-based per-dimension mob scaling (it replaced ScalingMobs / Improved Mobs / Azukaar's). See Systems.
• Patchouli + ars_nouveau: bytecode-patched (they need the -noverify JVM flag).

Custom Mods has the full list, build instructions and architecture notes.

Related Pages

• Master Design Document: design intent and tier assignments (its appendix holds the mod roster by tier)
• Progression: how tiers gate mod access
• Custom Mods: in-house and bytecode-patched mod reference