All the Mods 10: To the Sky Server Hosting

Same mod list, completely different opening. ATM10 gives you a world to mine; To the Sky gives you a tree, one block and the void, so every resource has to be manufactured rather than found. The late game converges, but the first many hours are about building production loops instead of exploring. Pick this one if your group has played kitchen sinks and wants a harder start.

8 GB, which matches the 6 to 8 GB the pack itself suggests. The mod list is large, so a good part of that is spent before anyone builds. The rest goes to your platform, and skyblock bases get heavy in a way that overworld bases do not, because all the machinery ends up concentrated in a handful of permanently loaded chunks.

No. The world is void, so there is no terrain being generated as players move around and nothing useful to prepare in advance. The pack includes no pregeneration mod for the same reason. Performance work on a skyblock server is entirely about what is built: machine density, entity counts and how many chunks are being kept loaded.

FTB Chunks force-loads chunks only while a team member is online unless you change it, and on a skyblock that means your whole resource generation halts rather than just one farm. Set `force_load_mode` to `ALWAYS` in the `force_loading` group of the FTB Chunks server config and restart, editing the copy under `world/serverconfig` once a world exists.

Not really. It assumes you are comfortable with the ATM mod list and know roughly how to approach automation, because the void start removes the gentle learning curve that mining provides. A group new to modded Minecraft will have a better time on a smaller skyblock or on ATM10 proper first, then come back to this once the mod names are familiar.

Usually, and the panel keeps the world and can back it up first. Pay closer attention to removed mods than you would on a normal pack: on skyblock a dropped mod can remove a link in a production chain your whole base depends on, not just some blocks. Read the changelog, back up, and have everyone update their client together.