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SKS Minecraft v12

SKS Minecraft aims to provide a cohesive modded Minecraft experience centred around Immersive Engineering, designed to be played with multiple players.

Gameplay

Teamwork

SKS v12 is designed to be played with other people, whether that’s as a party of friends or as part of a settlement. The most efficient ways of doing things are very large scale, and the night is harsh, so work with others to survive and thrive!

To aid with this, the pack includes MultiMine for literally sharing the load and Antique Atlas for shared maps.

Building

SKS packs are designed to encourage building infrastructure and working together, while giving you lots of options to play with.

Railcraft, Alternating Flux, and EnderIO then give you the tools to build practical infrastructure at massive scale.

Chisel, Unlimited Chisel Works, Forestry, Binnie’s Extra Trees, Rustic, Cathedral, and Biomes O'Plenty provide many material options, and ArchitectureCraft, Macaw’s Roofs, Platforms, and Engineer’s Decor let you apply those options to your heart’s content.

Technology

Centred around Immersive Engineering, technology progression in SKS v12 feels natural, building up from simple electric furnaces, through to automating your farming with Forestry, drilling for and refining oil with Immersive Petroleum, building involved item networks with EnderIO, and eventually splitting the atom when nothing else will do.

Use Alternating Flux and Railcraft to distribute your items and energy to distant locations, and control it all with OpenComputers, or Project Red, if that’s more your style.

Farming

Use Forestry, Binnie’s Mods, and Agricraft to breed trees and crops, to feed yourself and others. Build a fancy kitchen with Cooking for Blockheads, make approximately nine trillion different food items with Pam’s Harvestcraft, and get more maximum health thanks to Spice of Life: Carrot Edition.

Exploration

Exploration is rewarding, thanks to Realistic Terrain Generation, Biomes O'Plenty, Traverse, Subaquatic, and Auxiliary Biomes creating a realistic and varied world, with traversable rivers, deep, varied oceans and tall mountains. Project: Vibrant Journeys, Dynamic Trees, Serene Seasons, and Animania make the world come alive.

Use the shared Antique Atlas to mark your discoveries for other players, or craft your own to keep them to yourself. Prospect for ore to find large Geolosys veins, and discover ruins, dungeons and monsters to win wild riches.

Magic

Engage in thaumaturgy, blood magic, or botania if industrial technology isn’t your scene, and become powerful through arcane knowledge, dark rituals and pacts with extra-dimensional entities.

Find ogres, imps and death worms, and fight or outsmart them. Raise dragons and ride them through the sky.

Combat

Fend off hordes of intelligent vanilla Minecraft monsters, buffed by Zombie Awareness and Rough Mobs.

Craft armour and weapons that suit you, with Tinker’s Construct, Construct’s Armory and Spartan Shields. Level them up until they become legendary and use them against everything from zombies to dragons. Use the bones of said monsters to improve your equipment, then tackle large dungeons as a party to get the best tool materials, use them, or trade them with other players for goods and services.

Death is not the major setback it can be, either, with Tomb Many Graves making sure your items don’t despawn when you die.

Optimisations & Tweaks

After extensive brain surgery, SKS v12 is running a horrific hybrid renderer using all manner of cursed OpenGL shenanigans, a rewritten lighting engine, much better garbage collection and reduced memory usage and proper entity culling, not to mention a myriad of server-side performance improvements.

To make use of the performance gains all that dark magic provides, see further with Dynamic View and Farsight. That said, your GPU won’t cook itself while you’re tabbed out, thanks to FPS Reducer limiting the game to 10 FPS when not focused.

For improved player customisation, the pack also includes Ears, Hats, and Cosmetic Armor Reworked.

Rules

  1. No Harassment, Flaming or Trolling
  2. No Cheating, Hacking, Glitching, Duping
  3. No griefing, raiding, or stealing

Community

System requirements

Installation

Download (MultiMC Compatible)

To import the pack into Prism Launcher/MultiMC/etc:

  1. Copy the above download link
  2. Click “Add Instance” in your launcher
  3. Select “Import” or “Import from zip” from the left pane
  4. Paste the link into the text box
  5. Click OK

If the game crashes immediately, you will need to install Java 8, then: 1. Right click on the “SKS v12” instance in Prism Launcher 2. Click “Edit” in the context menu. 3. Select the “Settings” section on the left 4. Tick the “Java installation” checkbox 5. Press the “Auto-detect” button between “Download Java” and “Test” 6. Select an entry with the “Version” starting with “1.8.0” and hit “OK”


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