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Eggs in a Blanket

A modpack for anyone.

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Опубликован 20 февраля 2023 г.

A modpack for anyone.

Eggs in a Blanket (EGGS for short) is the premium version of "a pack for me and my friends," a classy kitchen sink pack for Quilt that combines simple and accessible mod settings with server support for a smooth and comforting experience like a poached egg on toast. EGGS is tested on a GTX 1070 and a terrible out-of-date processor to ensure your performance is good on even the most mediocre of computers, and default keybinds are provided to ensure that you get the best experience out of the box.

The design philosophy for EGGS is...

  • ...to create a comfortable mid-sized modpack that runs on a wide range of hardware.
  • ...to emphasize compatibility and ease of use for a wide variety of playstyles.
  • ...to expand on the unique movement options Minecraft has to offer.
  • ...to provide natural mod interactions without forcing them on players.
  • ...to reward players for experimenting with mechanics instead of punishing them.
  • ...to allow players to express themselves thoroughly and completely.

EGGS is designed to be used with "soft" gamerules enabled like "keepInventory": true and "fallDamage": false to keep the experience casual and comfortable. This is a pack designed for smaller servers and mid-line computers, so anti-griefing tools aren't included on the client level and graphical improvements such as shaders are supported but not built-in. An official public server was maintained, but has since shut down.

Frequently Asked Questions:

Do you have a recommended server host for EGGS?

I do not recommend server hosts at all. EGGS Official is personally hosted on a little computer that sits on my desk. I got it for free because it was being thrown away. Remember that the best server host is you and no privately-owned server host can compare to the convenience and stability of your own computer.

What do you mean by "simple and accessible mod settings"?

EGGS is primarily designed to present mods as they are, without very many changes. Modern modpack design often revolves around tweaking and editing mods to create a seamless "mod soup" sort of vibe. EGGS does not do this. Most mods run with the default settings, or some approximation of those settings, in order for players to better understand the mods themselves and how they interact with each other instead of, say, forcing players to memorize unique recipes and progression that can't be replicated in any other modpack.

What do you mean by "reward[ing] players for experimenting with mechanics instead of punishing them"?

Mods are a bit of a fickle business when it comes to cross-mod compatibility. Certain mechanics (such as Uncrafting Tables) are infamous for creating exploits between modded recipes and are usually forcefully removed from modpacks as a result. I'm of the opinion that the modern modding scene for Minecraft is actually pretty watertight when it comes to this stuff, and that we shouldn't put mod developers under quite that much scrutiny when it comes to balance. Obviously I can't stop developers from patching bugs, but I'm not going to manually patch exploits that exist in the interactions between different mods. If you can use some wacky combination of Malum, Lil' Wings, and Modern Industrialization to generate infinite resources, then to be honest I think you've earned that reward.

I'm having trouble getting a stable framerate, despite all the optimization mods.

EGGS features Sodium, which has extensive options for improving performance. However, the nature of default options means that you will have to configure Sodium yourself for the best results. I recommend unlocking the framerate, playing in windowed mode, and reducing particles as much as possible without removing them entirely. With those settings on a GTX 1070 I get framerates between 150 and 250 fps during normal gameplay, which I believe is more than adequate for the amount of mods featured in EGGS.

Why choose Quilt?

After years of playing Forge modpacks made by other people, I wanted a change. Fabric was tempting but I felt that there was a brewing "us versus them" mentality surrounding it and I was tired of that sort of community. Ultimately I chose Quilt because as a queer person the Quilt community was giving me good vibes, and the extensive Fabric mod support sealed the deal.

Why choose Modrinth?

I have a vendetta against CurseForge and its subsidiaries/parent companies for treating mods and modders like little sponsored exclusivity deals. I think their API is terrible, especially when it comes to community support, and I think that their corporate policies are extremely destructive to the community as a whole. Modrinth is an excellent alternative that takes community support and licensing seriously without trying to hoard mods on an increasingly exclusive platform.

Sometimes EGGS updates seem a little wishy-washy about which mods they add and remove. Some updates even remove mods that were included in the previous update. Why is that?

The nature of playtesting on a server with a very small team of players is that any mod that I add to EGGS can only be tested for compatibility by adding that mod to the modlist, publishing an update, and then testing it. This means that early versions had a lot of "here's a cool mod! oops, it's broken!" incidents that needed to be sorted out in a messier fashion than I desired. As I've worked on this modpack, I've developed methods for screening mods as a form of pre-testing, and so newer versions are much more strict about which mods get added and which need to be removed.

Why are there no chunkloaders?

I believe that mod-based chunkloaders are "overhyped" by a lot of users in the sense that they think they need a chunkloader in order for their builds to be optimal or even usable. This often goes hand-in-hand with mods that allow for sending resources across long distances, even across dimensions. I've done my best with designing EGGS in a way where players don't need to rely on elaborate long-distance resource grinds in order to succeed. For players that absolutely need chunkloading functionality, Fabrication has options for loading chunks using furnace minecarts, and vanilla mechanics can be used to achieve similar effects.

Why is there no way to claim chunks or form teams in multiplayer?

This is a licensing issue. EGGS features MapFrontiers, which relies on Journeymap. Journeymap does have support for FTB Chunks and FTB Teams, but those mods are hosted exclusively on CurseForge without a license (all rights reserved). I've tried including Open Chunks & Claims before, but that mod only hooks into Xaero's Minimap, which is... also all rights reserved on CurseForge. The reality is that there just isn't a good way to include that functionality. You, as a player, are welcome to download FTB Chunks and use it in your own instance of the modpack; I just can't provide it for you without, you know, breaking the law.

A full list of gamerules used on the official server:

/gamerule keepInventory true

/gamerule disableElytraMovementCheck true

/gamerule fallDamage false

/gamerule doFireTick false

/gamerule commandBlockOutput false

/gamerule playersSleepingPercentage 50

/gamerule spawnRadius 0

/gamerule chargedCreeperDestructionType DAMAGE_ONLY

/gamerule creeperDestructionType DAMAGE_ONLY

/gamerule ghastFireballDestructionType DAMAGE_ONLY

/gamerule witherSkullDestructionType DAMAGE_ONLY

/gamerule witherSpawnDestructionType DAMAGE_ONLY

Instructions for setting up a server of your own:

  1. Install EGGS through a supported launcher (Prism Launcher is recommended) and create a fresh instance if you already have one installed. Do not run the instance.
  2. Open the instance's .minecraft folder. There should be a config folder, a mods folder, and nothing else. Copy these folders for later.
  3. Download the QuiltMC installer (https://quiltmc.org/en/install/server/).
  4. In the installer, select the server tab. Choose Minecraft Version 1.19.2. Choose the place you want your server folder to be. Click "Install."
  5. Paste the config folder and mods folder from earlier into the server folder.
  6. Create a .txt file with the text "java -jar quilt-server-launch.jar nogui". Convert that .txt file into a .bat file; you will need file extensions enabled on Windows to do this.
  7. Launch the server by running the .bat file.
  8. The server will close (this is normal). Open the new eula.txt file and change "eula=false" to "eula=true".
  9. Open the new server.properties file (you will have to specify a text editor) and change minecraft's server settings to your desire. Make sure to set "allow-flight=true" and "enable-command-block=true" for your convenience later.
  10. You will need to port forward your router and allow connections to that port through your server computer's firewall. Instructions are router-specific. I can't help you with this part, I'm sorry.
  11. Launch the server by running the .bat file.
  12. Connect to your server using a client instance of the same EGGS version, such as the one you downloaded at the beginning.
  13. Give your minecraft account op access using the server console.
  14. Use commands in-game to change the gamerules as desired.
  15. Use Chunky commands (https://github.com/pop4959/Chunky/wiki) to pregenerate chunks. I would recommend a radius of 2500 in the overworld to start with. Optionally, set a world border at that radius to prevent players from generating a ton of new chunks.

Your server should now be set up!

Instructions for updating your server between EGGS versions:

As a general rule, you should create a fresh Quilt server each time you update, rather than trying to "hotswap" the update's changes with your current server. This is also convenient for keeping previous versions of the modpack around in case something goes horribly horribly wrong.

  1. Install the new version of EGGS (Prism Launcher is recommended), creating a fresh instance. Do not run the instance.
  2. Create a fresh Quilt server with the QuiltMC installer (see the instructions above).
  3. Copy the following folders and files from your old server into the new one:

Your world's folder (mine is called Sandwich)

The previous server's .bat file

journeymap

mapfrontiers

banned-ips.json

banned-players.json

eula.txt

ops.json

server.properties

server-icon.png (if you want to keep your server icon)

usercache.json

whitelist.json

  1. Copy the config folder and mods folder from the new EGGS instance's .minecraft folder and paste them in the new server folder.
  2. Run the server using the .bat file.

Your server should now be ready to accept players from the newest EGGS version!

Have fun.

Ченджлог

3.0.0Релиз1.19.2 · 9 марта 2023 г.

3.0.0

This update makes major changes to the modlist, pruning several problem mods and introducing many new mods. An entire tech mod has been replaced, two dimensions have been removed, a storage mod has been replaced, and big changes have been made to minecarts and redstone gadgets. This update will absolutely require creating a new world. I repeat: please do not try to play on 2.x.x worlds, as many of your items will most likely be deleted.

Removed mods:

  • The Twilight Forest; the fabric port of this mod has been causing massive problems since day one, but couldn't be removed without seriously breaking players' worlds. This 3.0.0 update marks the final straw, where I simply couldn't continue updating the game while working around TF's limitations.
  • Deeper and Darker; while cool in its own right, every "dimension" mod added to the game significantly increase the filesize of the world. With just Twilight Forest and Deeper and Darker together, the server world has already well surpassed 11 gigabytes and has started breaking our server backup tool. Because Deeper and Darker does not actually add that much content to the game in its current form, it was decided that it was not worth the additional strain on the server.
  • Industrial Revolution; the current beta for Industrial Revolution has missing textures, crashes, and other big issues that make it difficult to use during normal gameplay. It just isn't very stable. It will be swapped with Tech Reborn for now.
  • Expanded Storage; one of the many reasons that players will need to regenerate their worlds. This mod has serious issues, including the config file just... not changing anything when it's updated and outright causing a server crash on newer versions. It will need to be replaced with a new storage mod.
  • Tinkerer's Smithing & nbtcrafting; I am very sad to see this mod go, but nbtcrafting has been causing extensive, persistent crashes for both servers and clients.

Added mods:

  • Tech Reborn; with Industrial Revolution out of commission, Tech Reborn is the obvious pick. In hindsight, I should have made this change a long time ago, as many mods in EGGS use Tech Reborn's energy system.
  • Iron Chests: Restocked; a replacement for Expanded Storage from the creator of Lil Wings and Spirit. Unfortunately, I don't believe that barrels are included.
  • Cammie's Minecart Tweaks; while it was possible for players to chain minecarts together using Create and speed up Furnace Carts using Fabrication, the interactions between these systems was often strange and minecarts were much easier to use with vanilla mechanics. Cammie's Tweaks provide a much more reasonable speed boost, make Furnace Carts less of a pain to set up, and give alternate forms of cart chaining that are less "strict" than Create's. -Redstone Pen; after playtesting for some time, I found that vanilla redstone was still fundamental to the EGGS experience but was sorely lacking in utility compared to, say, Modern Industrialization's pipes. This mod should add some utility tools that make complex redstone circuits more compact and useful. I do not know if it's compatible with Alternate Current.
  • TIS-3D & Markdown Manual; this delightful mod implements mechanics from the game TIS-100. I would recommend reading the documentation thoroughly in order to get a better idea of how to use the mod. It should help with optimizing redstone contraptions in a major way.
  • Ultris: Boss Expansion; to compensate for The Twilight Forest no longer being in EGGS, Ultris has been added to provide some cool boss encounters without needing the player to expand their world into new dimensions.
  • Simple Uncrafting Table & MCPitanLibarch; as an alternative to Twilight Forest's uncrafting table, this mod from the developer of Advanced Reborn will once again allow players to break items and blocks down into their component parts.
  • HexBound; this was included in very early versions of EGGS, but was removed during routine mod pruning for being somewhat unstable. It has been updated, so I added it back in for convenience.
  • LuckPerms; several mods in EGGS, such as BlossomLib, have permission-related commands that players can use. However, until now, there were very few ways to prevent players from using them, and so luckperms was added to give server owners stronger control over commands.
  • Litematica, Litematica Server Paster, & MaLiLib; this is being added to provide an easy way for player houses to be transferred to the new server world. It also provides some fun schematic functionality for players on their own servers or in singleplayer.
  • BlueMap; it was becoming a nuisance that servers could have an entire world pregenerated using chunky, but there was no way to provide a full and functional map over the overworld without manually flying out and "exploring" all of the chunks. BlueMap is the solution to this, but because it has additional port requirements on the server side, server owners will have to set it up themselves using BlueMap's own manual (https://bluemap.bluecolored.de/wiki/).
  • More End Cities; in line with making the filesize of worlds much smaller, more end cities will spawn, disincentivizing players from exploring far out into the End to find elytras and other resources.
  • Where Is It; without AE2, the functionality for players to find items in their storage has been lacking, and Where Is It allows them to find resources quickly and easily.
  • Luna Slimes; a simple mod that makes slimes slightly more interesting and consistent.

Updated mods:

  • Fabric Waystones -> 3.0.7
  • Lithium -> 0.11.0
  • Spirit -> 2.2.4

Changed config:

  • Significantly updated the default controls.
  • Waystones no longer generate in villages. This was done to reduce the amount of waypoint spam in Journeymap and cajole players into crafting their own waystones instead of just stealing them.
  • Waystones can be used to travel out of the Nether or End, but cannot be used to travel there. This disincentivizes waystone spam even more and pushes players towards using each individual portal type to better access the respective dimensions.
  • Removed some of chunky's cached settings so that fresh installations don't have "active tasks" or pre-determined world borders.
  • Undid several Fabrication changes made to minecarts in response to adding Cammie's Minecart Tweaks, which add more polished versions of the same changes.
  • Disabled BCLib's auto-update to prevent errors.
  • Enabled Fabrication's "foliage creepers" that allow creepers to better blend in with biome environments.
  • Disabled LambDynamicLight's Entities and BlockEntities functions to significantly improve FPS in cases where entities are capable of producing constant light engine updates. This should fix an issue where Hexal Wisps caused massive dropped frames on clients.
  • Increased the delay on Leaves Be Gone to avoid lag when large trees are chopped down.
  • Disabled Modern Industrialization's version check to prevent log spam.
  • Manually disabled Modern Industrialization's salt ore generation, to prevent conflicts with Bewitchment.
  • Disabled Puzzle's version check to prevent log spam.
  • Disabled Resource Packs overriding the custom splash screen via Puzzle settings.
  • Disabled Reacharound's vertical placement feature as Accurate Block Placement essentially re-implements it, causing a "double up" effect that makes placing blocks a goddamn nightmare.
  • Through Sodium, disabled Large Smoke, Smoke, and Sparkle (Hex Crafting) particles by default because they were by far the largest source of lag spikes during normal gameplay.
  • Improved the StarterKit inventory with very low-level enchanted tools (to encourage use of Tinkerer's Smithing) and a Spyglass so that new players can use Ok Zoomer.
  • Disabled Modern Industrialization oregen for Bauxite, Iridium, Lead, and Tin to play more nicely with Tech Reborn. Left Tungsten as-is because TR Tungsten only generates in the End, breaking standard MI progression.
  • For this same reason, both Tech Reborn and Bewitchery generate Silver ore. Silver ore in Bewitchery is quite common and very necessary for progression, whereas TR would make it much rarer.
  • Removed the vestigial config file for Archon.
  • Removed the vestigial config file for Xaero capes.

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