MOAR Changes!

It's time to be a bit more serious. With my life changing soon, I thought now would be a pretty good time to revise my patreon and how I work it out. So here's the new changes.

First off, a good portion of the "why I'm on patreon" section was rewritten, so I do recommend you check it out!

Second off, the rewards have been changed yet again! In a different way this time, though. Usually I remove some that don't work out too well and replace them with others. This time, I lowered the values for each reward. The most important ones are the change to the discord server and head flower ($5 -> $2), and the access to the patreon minecraft server ($10 -> 5$).

There's also a new reward, which fits in to the new modpack.

Obviously, this change is done to try to get more people to chime in with smaller pledges, as it definitely does add up. (if you got a dollar or two to spare, wink wink nudge nudge :3)

This also increases the value of the patreon minecraft server reward, as a lower barrier to entry will lead to more players coming in, which leads to a more alive server, it's a win-win.

Speaking of the patreon minecraft server, the reason it's been taking so long has to do with me wanting to push Quark 1.0 out first. Now that it's done, development of the modpack we will be using is well underway. I'm making something a bit different this time, based on Quark and Better With Mods. The pack will be 1.10.2 and won't have Botania Unofficial, nor Psi.

While Quark feels "vanilla", I want this pack to feel like "Minecraft". The idea is for it to necessarily play 100% like the base game, as Quark aims to, but to simply not deviate enough from the simple gameplay style of Minecraft itself. I'll be doing some recipe tweaking work to integrate mod items into the tech tree, as well.

If you're not aware, Better With Mods is a forge "remake" of Better Than Wolves. I don't intend to push it out as a full BTW styled modpack, and thus won't be including stuff like the various hardcore modes it comes with, but I definitely enjoy the low tech progression BTW has, which will definitely be employed here, as well as the cool features from it (windmills!!). Better With Mods is not complete, but we do have a fair bit already, that I believe can be fun.

Here is the current tentative modlist, which is prone to change. Tough as Nails' inclusion is not final, and I'm still playing around with it. Chances are it'll not be included, or a very neutered version of it will instead. 

A few of the mods in the pack have a bunch of config work done on them, and Pillar will definitely be put to use with come cool custom dungeons, that may contain fancy loot for building and moving around (Advanced Hook Launchers has its recipes disabled for that reason). Random Things is pretty barebones, with most features removed. Extend A Hand is creative only.

Nothing is final right now, as I'm still working on it. Expect the modpack and the server out before the end of the month, if it all goes according to plan. Please don't kill me if it doesn't though :(