What is in the pack

Tekkit 2 combines a large number of mods and it is not always clear what can be achieved with the combination of mods and what any of them do based on their titles. This article attempts to lay out what the mods do in an easy to digest way...

(Full modlist)

## The best stuff - mods that add blocks, items etc to give you more content to explore in your game

### Construction and architecture - build more complex and beautiful buildings

* Blockcraftery - frames that can be placed then surfaces added
* Chisel - more options for construction and architecture using a chisel
* Chisel and bits - even more options for construction and architecture using chisels and wrenchs
* Statues - build statues

### Industry and automation - automate crafting and other tasks with industrial machinery

* Buildcraft - pipes, auto-crafting, quarries, engines and more
	+ Additional Pipes for Buildcraft - more buildcraft pipes
	+ Buildcraft fluxified - buildcraft uses flux energy instead of MJ
	+ Iron Tanks - bigger tanks for buildcraft fluids
	+ Logistics Pipes - better pipes for buildcraft
* CC: Tweaked - build computers and automate things
	+ Computronics - computer peripherals
	+ Plethora Peripherals - computer peripherals
* Charset Crafting - improved automated crafting and cauldrons
* IC2 Classic - "Industrial Craft 2 Classic" includes electricity, ore processing, items, weapons, automation and more!
	+ Energy Control - better control for nuclear reactors
	+ Advanced Solars Classic - more solar panels
* Industrial Foregoing - remake of "minefactory reloaded" includes item farming, power generation and more!
	+ Cable flux - transport RF energy
* Project Red - massive improvements and additions to the redstone system in minecraft
	+ Project Red - Expansion - large mechanisms and a power system
	+ Project Red - Exploration - world generation for new ores etc
	+ Project Red - Fabrication - redstone circuits, logic gates, machinery
	+ Project Red - Illumination - new lighting solutions
	+ Project Red - Transmission - more wires and cables
* Railcraft - better rail systems
* Steve's Carts - advanced modular carts
* Wireless Redstone: Chicken Bones Edition - Items to transmit your redstone state wirelessly
* Zetta Industries - special blocks to improve other mods like computercraft and buildcraft

### Nature and magic - craft magical items and explore breeding animals and plants

* Forestry - Farming, renewable energy, breeding trees, bees, and butterflies.
	+ Binnie's mods - more content for forestry mod (bees, trees etc)
* Project E - rewrite of "equivalent exchange 2" includes magic items, transmutation and more!
* Reforged - lots of different weapons

### Science and Technology - go to space and create powerful sci-fi tech

* Galacticraft - explore the solar system in your own spaceship!
	+ Space Ambient - ambient music in space
* Gravisuit Classic - Advanced armor, tools and more!
* Modular ForceField System - adds a modular system for generating Force fields within game, at the cost of energy

### Useful smaller mods - a collection of helpful mods that can take some of the busy work out of the game

* Charset Immersion - stack items in the world
* Charset Storage - Barrels - adds craftable barrels
* CraftingTable IV - improved crafting table
* Debark - decorative logs without the bark
* EnderStorage - adds chests to access single storage at multiple locations
* Exchangers - exchange placed blocks using gadgets
* Iron Chests - new, bigger chests
* MmmMmmMmmMmm - adds a Target Dummy
* Nature's Compass - item that lets you search for a biome and view information about it
* Netherending Ores - ores and furnace recipes for nether and ender ore
* Player Plates - adds obsidian and mossy cobble pressure plates
* Tekkit Jaffa Cakes - produce jaffa cakes in tekkit!
* Quark - new blocks that fit with the base game eg. colored slime and a chute for hoppers

## Visual/Audio - mods that add cosmetic improvements

* Additional Banners - More banner designs
* ASMC - modern sound effects
* Bad Wither No Cookie - removes annoying worldwide sounds
* Damage Tilt - camera tilts when damage is taken
* Fairy Lights - fairy lights and other decorations

## Quality of life - mods that improve the way you interact with the game

* Akashic Tome - stores other mods' documentation books in one book
* Aqua acrobatics - modern swimming mechanics
* Backups - backs up your world to a small file
* Client Tweaks - quality of life improvements to gameplay
* Controlling - keybinding improvements
* KleeSlabs - break one half of a double slab
* Let Sleeping Dogs Lie - dogs sleep when owners are away
* Loading Progress Bar - progress bar displayed when loading world
* MAtmos - generates ambient noise based on environment
* Morpheus - sleeping on multiplayer servers
* Mouse Tweaks - better crafting interface (drag to craft etc)
* Schematica - import, export, and display schematics of anything you build in the game!
* Smooth Font - smoother font and you can use fonts from your PC
* Smooth Scrolling Everywhere - smooth scrolling in menus and lists
* Sound Device Options - switch active sound device ingame
* TipTheScales - more options for GUIscale
* Toast Control - control what toasts show up
* Translocators - transfer items between adjacent chests
* Tumbleweed -  tumbleweeds randomly spawn and can be harvested
* View EMC - view EMC values of blocks by crouching and looking at them
* VoxelMap - minimap in top right

## HUD - mods that improve and add the information you see onscreen

* AppleSkin - Adds useful food and hunger information to the HUD
* Better Ping Display - displays player ping as number
* Had Enough Items - Item and recipe viewing
* Inventory Tweaks - more intuitive inventory management
* More Overlays - useful overlays like block boundaries
* Picture in Picture - renders other player views picture in picture
* Waila - "what am i looking at" shows what you are looking at on screen
* Waila Harvestability - additional information on what you are looking at

## Under the hood (for modders) - mods that are used by modders and don't have any obvious effect for the player

* AttributeFix - increases attribute limits
* AutoRegLib - common code for other mods
* Born in a barn - fixes bug with villages
* Charset Lib - required for Charset mods
* Chicken ASM - ASM related shenanigans
* CodeChickenLib - model rendering, ASM etc.
* COFH world - world generation improvements
* ConnectedTexturesMod - rendering improvements in resource packs
* CraftTweaker - change recipes, scripted events etc.
* Custom Main Menu - modify the main menu
* Default Options - stops resetting of options on mod update
* Diet Hoppers - better collision boxes for hoppers
* DupeFix Project - fixes dupes between mods in the modpack
* ElecCore - shared code for forge mods
* Entity Desync Fix - fixes to arrows and other entity desync
* FastLeafDecay - tree foliage decays faster
* FastWorkbench - crafting performance improvements
* Fix Experience Bug - keep experience between dimensions
* FoamFix - performance improvements
* Forge -  required for mods to run in minecraft
* Forge Multipart CBE - API for forge
* Guide-API - modders create in game documentation
* GunpowderLib - support for Jackky's mods
* Hammer Core - common utility code
* Help Fixer - bug fix for help command
* Hesperus - fixes crashes and mod conflicts
* iChunUtil - shared library for ichun mods
* IFPatcher - patch for industrial foregoing
* Integration Foregoing - integration for industrial foregoing with other mods
* JEI Bees - JEI integration for bees
* JEI Integration - integrate JEI mod with other mods
* Jon's Exclusives - utilities for other mods
* Just Enough Drags - JEI drag support
* Just Enough Pattern Banners - JEI banner integration
* Just Enough Resources - JEI integration for world resources
* LemonLib - utilities for mod developers
* LoliASM - optimizes RAM usage
* LunatriusCore - utility classes
* Main Menu Scale - constant gui scale for main menu
* MCMultiPart - multipart API
* MixinBooter - mixin mods
* MrTJPCore - modding utilities
* MysticalLib - common library for modding
* NoMoreRecipeConflict - eliminates recipe conflicts
* OpenEye - dev tool
* Pack Crash Info - modpack crashlog
* Placebo - common mod library
* Project Red - Base - common resources for project red mods
* Project Red - Compat - compatibility for project red
* RandomPatches - bug fixes
* Reach Fix - hit detection fixes
* ReAuth - renew authentication session
* Reborn Core - common library for modding
* Resource Loader - easier to use resources with mods
* Save My Stronghold! - changes world generation to preserve strongholds
* Shadowfacts' Forgelin - common code library
* Steve's Carts Reborn IC2C Compat - compatibility between steves and IC2
* Tekkit 2 Configs - configuration for modpack
* Tekkit 2 Resources - video/audio for modpack
* Tesla Core Lib - common code library
* UniDict - unifies mods
* VoxelMapFixes - fixes for Voxelmap
* WanionLib - shared code library