mc-lan-party/modpack.md

LAN Party Modpack — "Create & Delight" (MC 1.20.1, Forge)

Target: Minecraft 1.20.1, Forge. This version/loader combo has the widest, most stable support across every mod below — don't mix in NeoForge/Fabric builds.

Core

Mod	Why it's in
Create	The automation/contraptions backbone. Gives the roadmap something to build toward (farms, kitchens, conveyor lines) before the food payoff.
Flywheel	Required rendering engine dependency for Create (Forge build).
Just Enough Items (JEI)	Not food itself, but mandatory — with this many food-adding mods stacked, nobody will find recipes without it.

Cooking base

Mod	Adds
Farmer's Delight	The core cooking/farming mod everything else builds on: cutting board, cooking pot, skillet, stews, pies, feasts.

Farmer's Delight addons (the "roadmap fuel")

Mod	Adds
Nether's Delight	Nether-themed cooking: Hoglin loin/ham/hide, nether salad, stuffed Hoglin, nether skewers.
End's Delight	End-dimension culinary content (shulker/chorus-themed dishes). Item list is thin on public docs — verify in-game with JEI before committing recipes to the IRL roadmap.
Delightful	Big grab-bag of immersive new foods independent of any dimension: marshmallows/s'mores, cheeseburgers, nut butter & jelly sandwiches, goat/venison, berry pies, matcha.
Delightful Creators	Bridges Create ↔ Farmer's Delight: soups/stews as Create fluids, sequenced-assembly "incomplete foods," cookie/pie recipes usable in Create contraptions.
FarmersCreate	Lets Create's Mixer/Deployer automate Farmer's Delight cooking-pot and cutting-board recipes (auto-cook the feast, don't stand there clicking).

Questing (the actual roadmap/quest-line UI)

Mod	Why it's in
FTB Quests	The quest book itself — this is where the food roadmap actually lives in-game. Build one quest chapter per day (Overworld → Nether → End), one quest per dish from food.md, with the required Create/Farmer's Delight item as the completion trigger and a reward chest/item. Players get a checklist UI (default hotkey, or a quest-giver NPC/item) showing exactly what to cook/build next.
FTB Library (Forge)	Required dependency of FTB Quests.
FTB Teams (Forge)	Required dependency of FTB Quests — also lets you decide whether quest progress is per-player or shared per-team, worth deciding before building the quest line (per-player means everyone cooks everything themselves; shared team means the group completes the roadmap together).
Architectury API	Required dependency (cross-loader API FTB's mods are built on).

All four go in both client and server mods/ folders — quest progress is synced through the server, so it's not optional on either side (same as Distant Horizons and the VR mods, see below).

Install via Fjord's built-in CurseForge/Modrinth browser, not manual jars — these four mods have had real version-mismatch bugs between each other on 1.20.1 (example), and the in-launcher browser resolves compatible dependency versions automatically instead of you having to hand-pick a working combination.

Building the quest line: open the quest book in-world (default keybind, configurable), create chapters, and for each dish you picked in food.md add a quest with an "item" task pointing at that dish (e.g. the actual Shepherd's Pie item) as the completion condition — FTB Quests detects it automatically when a player crafts/holds/turns it in, no extra setup needed. Do this once on your prepped instance before exporting, same as the mods/server-list/DH-cache steps in HOSTING.md — the quest progress file lives inside the instance too, so it travels with the modpack zip.

VR support (optional, per-player)

Mod	Side	Why it's in
Vivecraft	Both client and server	Adds VR rendering/motion controls for anyone with a PC-tethered or PC-streamed headset (Index, Vive, or a Quest using Air Link/Virtual Desktop into a gaming PC). Correction from earlier: this needs the Vivecraft mod on the dedicated server too, not just the client — without it, other players (VR and flatscreen alike) only see the VR player's vanilla default swing animation instead of their actual arm/head/body movement. (The "Vivecraft Spigot Extensions" plugin that does this job on Spigot/Paper servers doesn't apply here since we're Forge — it's the same Vivecraft mod jar on both sides.)
ViveCraft Compat	Both client and server	Patches specific interactions between Vivecraft and other mods in this pack — notably Create (fixes driving trains, track hitboxes, elevator controls in VR) and HUD overlay support for Jade. Requires Vivecraft. Since those interactions (e.g. train physics) are server-authoritative, this goes server-side too.
Customizable Player Models	Both client and server	Pulled in by Fjord's dependency resolver alongside Vivecraft; lets a player's in-VR avatar/body be customized. Same pattern as Vivecraft — other players need the server to relay that data to see the custom model/movement.

Note on standalone Quest headsets (no PC): this is for PC-tethered/streamed VR only. A standalone Meta Quest with no gaming PC involved would use QuestCraft instead — a separate sideloaded Android app that bundles its own Minecraft+Vivecraft runtime directly on the headset. QuestCraft does not go through Fjord/install.sh/install.ps1 at all; it's installed on the headset itself via sideloading tools (SideQuest etc.), connects to the same server address, but has its own separate mod manager with less certain compatibility against a heavy pack like this one (Create/Flywheel especially). If anyone at the party wants to join standalone without a PC, treat that as a separate per-person setup, not something this repo's scripts handle.

Vivecraft auto-detects whether a headset is actually connected and falls back to normal flatscreen play otherwise — so it's safe to leave in the single shared modpack.zip for everyone rather than maintaining a separate VR-only instance; people without a headset just won't notice it's there. The server-side requirement above means these three mods need to be in the dedicated server's mods/ folder unconditionally too, even if nobody ends up using VR that day — it's not optional/elective like Distant Horizons.

Performance utility

Mod	Side	Why it's in
Distant Horizons	Both client and server	Renders a simplified level-of-detail view of terrain beyond the server's view-distance, so players see far-off scenery without the server having to actually load/send those chunks. Does the same job you were picturing from "Bobby" — Bobby itself is Fabric-only (no Forge build exists), so Distant Horizons is the Forge equivalent. Installing the same DH build on the server too lets it push accurate LOD data to clients directly — no manual exploring/flying needed, and it replaces Chunky's job (see below).

Chunky is not used. It was the original plan for pregeneration, but DH-on-server + Chunky-on-server crashes the world on first chunk load — this is a confirmed, currently open DH bug (GitLab #1329, exact match for the 3.3.3 build here): DH's Chunky-compat accessor binds to Chunky's provider before Chunky's own init has run, throwing IllegalStateException: Chunky is not loaded. No official config toggle exists to disable that integration. Instead, Distant Horizons' own built-in "Full"/"Internal Server" distant-generation mode generates real, normal chunks itself — the same job Chunky would have done — so Chunky is redundant once DH is installed server-side this way. Simpler and avoids the crash entirely.

Setup: same DH jar/version on both client and server mods/ folders (mismatched builds between the two sides are the officially recommended-against configuration). On the server, set Distant Generation mode to FULL (or INTERNAL_SERVER) and a generation radius in DH's config — this pregenerates real terrain and builds the LOD cache in one automatic background pass, no manual flying required. See HOSTING.md for exact config.

Optional / stretch (only if the group wants more scope)

Mod	Adds	Caveat
Aether's Delight	Aether-themed dishes (Holystone/Zanite knives, berry bowls, buffed meals)	Requires installing The Aether too — a full extra dimension mod. Only add if someone really wants to make the trip.

Installed list (ground truth, from the actual exported client mods/ folder)

Confirmed by extracting LANParty.zip directly — 25 jars, superseding the earlier screenshot-based guess (the FTB (NeoForge)-labeling concern resolved itself: all three loaded as their Forge builds fine). Side column reflects what's actually in mcserver/mods/ on the deployed server as of this writing.

Mod	Side	Role
AppleSkin	Both	QoL — HUD overlay showing exact hunger/saturation/exhaustion values instead of guessing from the icon.
Architectury API	Both	Dependency — cross-loader API FTB's mods are built on.
Create	Both	Listed above — core. Bundles Flywheel and Ponder internally via Forge's JarJar mechanism — they auto-extract at runtime, no separate jar needed on either side.
Create Slice & Dice	Both	Create addon — automates cutting/dicing-style food prep via Create contraptions; pulled in alongside Delightful Creators for the Create↔food bridge.
Delightful	Both	Listed above.
Delightful Creators	Both	Listed above.
Distant Horizons	Both	Listed above — same build both sides, server-side Full-mode pregen replaces Chunky (see Performance section).
End's Delight	Both	Listed above.
Farmer's Delight	Both	Listed above — base.
Farmer's Respite	Both	Farmer's Delight addon — adds tea/drinks (kettle, brewed teas) as another food category; worth adding a quest or two for this if you want a drinks stage in the roadmap.
Farmers Structures	Both	Adds farmhouse-style structures that generate in the world — gives the Overworld food chapter something to explore toward, not just build from scratch.
FerriteCore	Both	Performance — reduces RAM usage by deduplicating/compacting in-memory data structures (block states, chunk storage) that Forge normally keeps bloated. Pure upside, no gameplay effect; lowers how much of the HOSTING.md sizing-table RAM budget actually gets used.
FTB Library	Both	Listed above — FTB Quests dependency.
FTB Quests	Both	Listed above — the quest book.
FTB Teams	Both	Listed above — FTB Quests dependency.
Jade	Both	QoL — "look at" overlay showing block/entity info on hover (WAILA-style), handy with this many new mod blocks/crops to identify.
Just Enough Items (JEI)	Both	Listed above — recipe lookup.
Kotlin for Forge	Both	Library dependency — several newer mods (Jade and others) are written in Kotlin and need this runtime present. Note: distributed as kotlinforforge-4.12.0-all.jar (the "-all" / fat-jar variant), not the bare kffmod name.
MezzConfig	Both	Library dependency — shared in-game config-menu framework used by multiple mods here.
ModernFix	Both	Performance — reduces startup/load time and fixes various vanilla/Forge memory leaks; pure upside for a 3-day session that stays up a long time.
Mouse Tweaks	Both	QoL — shift-click/drag item sorting in inventories, genuinely load-bearing once Create/Farmer's Delight items start filling chests.
Nether's Delight	Both	Listed above.
Customizable Player Models	Both	Listed above (VR section) — corrected from client-only to both sides.
Vivecraft	Both	Listed above (VR section) — corrected from client-only to both sides.
ViveCraft Compat	Both	Listed above (VR section) — corrected from client-only to both sides.

Chunky is explicitly not in this list — removed from the client early on (it was causing the DH crash before we understood the root cause), and never added back server-side either now that DH's own Full-mode generation replaces its job. See the Performance section above for why.

Why this shape

• Create gives you progression (you have to build the farm/kitchen contraption before you "unlock" a dish) — good quest-line material.
• Farmer's Delight + addons give you the actual food variety across three dimensions (Overworld/Nether/End) plus a flavor-pack (Delightful) that isn't dimension-gated, so you can pace the 3-day roadmap: early-game Overworld dishes → mid-game Nether run → late-game End dish as the "final boss" meal.