Dnd inspired minecraft modpack for my frens to enjoy. This is a getting started post, to get you up and running. More posts about the mods and what you can do in the modpack can be found here

Installing

The downloads can be found on my github. You should see one or more releases with the top one being the most recent. At the bottom of the release there is a thing called Assets, thats what you need. If youre on windows, download Helios.Launcher-setup-1.8.1.exe, for linux its .AppImage and for mac its .dmg. Just download and run the respective file and ur good to go. You will need an okish pc with probably more than 8 gb ram.

Optional Mods

In case you want you game to be more pretty or less pretty (better performance) checkout this section.

When you open the launcher, there is a settings button directly below your character at the top right. Going to Mods on the left side reveals the required and optional mods, but which ones should you pick?

Most of the optional mods are cosmetic enhancements to the game. If you have a beefy computer you can think about enabling the following:

• Chunk Animator: makes generated terrain gently float up from below (BUT youll need to disable Performance -> Render Regions in the in-game Options -> Video Settings)

If you are having performance issues you can disable the following (estimated biggest to least performance impact):

• Dynamic Surroundings: less fancy sounds, particles and foilage
• Better Animal Models: vanilla mobs will look less fancy for you
• AmbientSounds 3: less vibrant ambience
• Enchanted Book Redesign: back to the vanilla enchanted book design

Performance Problems

First, refer to the Optional Mods section above. Then there’s a few things you can do in the in-game Options -> Video Settings:

• decrease the Render Distance (determines how far you can see)
• Graphics from Fancy to Fast (makes some things less pretty)
• Performance -> Render Regions to ON (biggest impact but you can’t use it with the optional Animated Chunks mod)
• Performance -> Fast Render to ON (makes a difference only to some people)
• Performance -> Fast Math to ON (also works for some people only)
• Performance -> Smart Animations to ON (potentialls makes some things look weird)
• Performance -> Smooth FPS to ON (may actually make things worse so test it)
• decrease Details -> Entity Distance (the range in which you can see moving things)
• last resort: Animations -> All OFF (you wont be able to see particles)

Showing FPS ingame: Options -> Video Settings -> Other -> Show FPS

Shaders

If you want you game to look even more beautiful, i recommend you try out shaders. Shaders are notorious for not playing nice with mods but i have included compatability shaders which are specifically well suited for modded minecraft. To enable them you go into Options -> Video Settings -> Shaders and click on ComplementaryShaders_blah.zip. Be patient, this will take some time. The Game might also put you back to the title screen saying it crashed. Thats fine, as i said shaders are a bit wonky.

Unfortunately there is still one more thing to do. There is a mod called Astral Sorcery and it changes the way the sky is displayed (in the same way the shader is trying to do). So your sky will be just blank. To get around this issue youll need to change a config file.

• On windows the file is located at %AppData%/.landofooo/instances/land-of-ooo-1.16.5/config/astralsorcery-client.toml,
• On linux its ~/.landofooo/instances/land-of-ooo-1.16.5/config/astralsorcery-client.toml
• And on mac its ~/Library/Application Support/.landofooo/instances/land-of-ooo-1.16.5/config/astralsorcery-client.toml.

Once you opened that file there should be a line like:

skyRenderingEnabled = [“minecraft:overworld”]

change that to

skyRenderingEnabled = []

What this will do is prevent the mod from changing the sky. You wont be able to see the mods star constellations in the sky but im pretty sure the mod is still playable (don’t quote me on that).