Archive of a gist. Original Post Date, April 12, 2022 (revised)

For Forge 1.18.2

A Peaceful-Like Vanilla Styled Modpack designed with accessibility and approachability in mind.

Modpack Core Tenets

• Approachable for all types of players, Crucial 2 had a somewhat overwhelming feeling for people who weren't already very experienced with vanilla, so the content list should be slightly held back
• Played in Normal, but Peaceful-like, combat should never be required for completing the game* but should still exist and doable on the player's terms
  • Definition of "completing the game" is flexible but I'm going to say getting an Elytra and being able to use rockets for it is about that
  • Mob ginders are allowed and encouraged to get mob drops
  • Ways to bypass direct combat should be available for core features, but combat should still be present let the player want to go on a structure raid
• You should be able to fully enjoy the pack using an unconventional control scheme that does not permit speed and percision at the same time (e.g. eye tracker)

Peaceful-ness Setup

• Aggressive mobs spawn, but do not aggro to the player, unless:
  • The mob is provoked by attacking it or a mob it would normally protect
  • The mob is guarding a structure (Piglin Brute, Illagers, Elder Guardian)
  • The mob was summoned by the player (Wither, Dragon rematch)
  • The player is in Hard or Hardcore difficulty
• Mobs can not spawn with view to the sky, so the surface is always safe
• For accessibility to arachonophobia, due to the lack of combat, Spiders will only spawn as the Cave Spider version from mineshaft spawners, and normal Spiders and Spider Spawners will be removed
  • You can use the Flax crop to get string
• Snowballs will be buffed to allow using Snow Golems in combat against Wither type mobs
  • To help with this, Snowballs and other throwable items will be made to stack to 64
  • Additionally, Snowballs will instantly kill Blazes, allowing safe gathering of Blaze Rods*
  • Not 100% on this one, maybe a crop could be more interesting
• Mob Griefing (selectively), Fire Spread, and Wandering Patrols gamerules will be disabled by default
• Quark recipes like the iron rod and backpack are made easier
• Tridents will be craftable using Heart of the Sea, giving that item an actual use someone cares for lol
• Upon entering the end, the portal + one gateway will automatically open, making the dragon fight fully optional

Considerations

• Documentation will be mostly lifted from C2, using JEI, Gossip, and likely the very same Patchouli entries, aint broke don't fix it and all that