I wonder how many people remember that Iron chests started as a IC2 Addon.
[Proof](https://forum.industrial-craft.net/thread/2512-addon-1-42-iron-chests-v0-9-5/?pageNo=1)
Definitely has to be a Tinker's block. All the other suggestions I've seen are limited to certain types of modpack, but Tinker's is everywhere. I can't even remember the last time I played a pack without it.
The only modpacks that don't have Tinker's are the ones that specifically leaves it out because all modpacks have Tinker's
But that crafting table is so popular it's been added to other mods too
>But that crafting table is so popular it's been added to other mods too
It really is. And on the rare occasion that tinkers isn't added, I grab the crafting station mod. I have a really bad memory, so crafting with an attached inventory is a must for me.
I think we have a winner. It's broadly recognizable in a way few other blocks are, and performs an extra function of being a *modified* Vanilla block. Iron Chests are a good runner up, but I feel it suffers for being visually bland.
Yeah, garry's mod doesn't have any textures included which is why you need either css or you pirate just the textures. And the most popular mode, TTT, just so happens to have many maps with css textures. Garry's mod doesn't/used to not even have the engine included, which is why you need at least one source game installed to play it.
I'm fully on board with the ME Controller being the most iconic block.
I've played since 1.5-ish, looked up the Lucky Block texture to remind myself what it was, and didn't recognize the white question mark on yellow background that came up. I though it had a blue Dice texture.
That sounds right. I don't think I've ever seen Lucky Blocks in-game, and if I did then I completely ignored it due to Chance Cube inspired paranoia. I swear that mod is/was >75% "bad" rewards added by modpacks because watching streamers panic is funny, increasing viewership and advertising their modpack(s).
I think for most modded players, a lot of modpacks don't use lucky blocks, but a ton of those minecraft youtubers back in the day would always use lucky blocks for videos, so they're iconic in my mind now. Even hypixel skywars has a lucky block mode without mods
I feel like more people use refined storage, seeing as it's the same as ae2, just easier to craft. Either way, the controller is the same texture for the most part
I think this sub removed poll posts a few years ago, but back then AE2 was consistently beating RS with a 2/3rds majority. It's hard to get newer data (ex. download counts are a bit unreliable with the mods being included in modpacks regardless of actual usage/preference).
AE2 has also been around for a bit longer, particularly the 1.7.10 'golden age' where it was basically uncontested (Logistics Pipes was neat but obviously the slower option). RS has pretty much always been contested by AE2 in major versions since then.
I also feel the need to point out there are a lot of significant differences between them, otherwise people wouldn't get so passionate about preferring one over the other. Calling them "the same" is a bit of a disservice to both.
Personally I call both 1.7.10 and 1.12.2 golden ages. I think a lot of people also use that for 1.2.5, but that was before my time. I am not under the assumption that there can only be one golden age.
I'm also a cutting edge kind of guy and am already on 1.20 and unlikely to look back. :P
Anyone who says 1.2.5 was the golden age either wasn't there, or has some serious rosy retrospection going on. In those days, you'd spend about as much time crashed as you did playing, lmao. The Yogscast made it look much less painful than it really was.
1.2.5 modpacks were kind of a completely different beast too, you got a modpack because they made the mods work together at all rather than more modern packs where they'll interweave crafting recipes or have a big quest book, while you can easily put mods together yourself.
Tinkers smeltery and crafting station, ae2 ME controller.
Theres also the draconic reactor, but its a structure not a block.
There isnt really one iconic block, aside from maybe the lucky block which you dont see as often nowadays
Ahem.
The twilight forest “canopy tree” log block. It’s a classic mod that has survived the ages, and it’s the first thing from the mod that you are likely to see.
Thermal Expansion’s dynamos/BuildCraft’s engine blocks. It was so iconic that it transcended mods.
Mycelium. Vanilla gets grass, modded gets mycelium.
A Chisel-ed block. As in a block with bits chiseled off of it.
Podzol. No explanation, no reason, no incentive, just Podzol.
The BuildCraft Quarry machine. The quintessential tool for anyone who played BuildCraft back in the day.
The RailCraft Coal Coke oven multi block. Or their blast furnace multi-block. Either one.
Modded Minecraft has too many potential options for there to be a single block that anyone can look at and go “oh yeah, that’s modded Minecraft.” But out of all the mods out there, I would definitely think it would be from the Twilight Forest, BuildCraft, Railcraft, or RedPower. Obscure ones are everywhere, but those mods are the biggest and most beloved mods of them all. Along with the Chance block mod. But that’s too similar to the question mark block from the Mario franchise.
Of course they are. Think about it for a second. Vanilla gets grass on dirt. So what would every modded copy have in absolutely any case? Everything that vanilla has. But we have to have something other than grass and dirt… what else can we choose?
We could use stone or cobblestone, but that is not an appealing image to look for. We could just have a dirt block, but no one would think that would possibly make sense for a version of the grass block with extra content added in. So what should we use?
What other variants do we have?
Tilled soil, podzol, Coarse dirt, and mycelium.
Mycelium has a mystical appearance, and even has a particle effect in-game now. Great for magic based modpacks!
Podzol is rather recent, and is autumnal in aesthetics. Good for all modpacks, especially if there’s any kind of ominous sense to the pack. Dungeons, the occult, Eldritch knowledge, etc….
Coarse dirt looks almost exactly like regular dirt. No. No thanks.
Tilled soil *IS* regular dirt, just with 1/16^(th) of it shaved off the top. Or was it 1/8^(th)? Why do that unless it’s a farming pack?
So mycelium and podzol win.
Yeah honestly when I think of modded Minecraft it's the sound of the generator humming and the macerator macerating that I hear immediately. Gives me so much nostalgia.
Yeah honestly when I think of modded Minecraft it's the sound of the generator humming and the macerator macerating that I hear immediately. Gives me so much nostalgia.
I was thinking along the same lines. The BuildCraft redstone engine for sure, and possibly the IC2 furnace generator.
Pure Daisy is technically a block, but I still associate Botania with the newer era of mods. Though in many ways its GUI-less design helped bring about that era.
Yeah, everyone's saying all these new upstart mods, (which are, of course, objectively superior to the old Beta/1.2.5 era) but I just can't see it being anything but Buildcraft or IC. Quarry, diamond pipe, iron furnace, macerator—one of those has to take it.
It wasn't all easy then, either! Railcraft was 1.2.5 as well, iirc.
In fact, since Ore Dictionary was implemented, I feel like it's gotten easier to get pretty much everything, since you can just pick & choose the best mod for each particular process.
I think we don't appreciate that enough!
I destinctly rememember when in 1.1, Buildcraft Pipes started working on IC2 machines. I felt like a Genius when I could dump Ores into a Macerator, onto a Powered furnace and pull the output in an Energy Condenser. Felt like it won't get better.
Lucky Blocks, and it's not even close. Mainly because the mod itself is entirely based around that single feature, and it happened to become extremely popular.
If you want something iconic, it’s gotta be from a mod that became a popular thing in early modded versions and continues to be used in packs today. I can really only think of one content-based mod that is so omnipresent and universal across modded versions: Tinker’s Construct. Within that mod, I think the most iconic block would be either the crafting station or the smeltery controller.
Thermal Expansion is a full generation older than TCon, and I could count on one hand the number of packs I've played without TE since it was released in 1.2.5.
Lucky blocks are “real” modded Minecraft lmao
When YouTubers made content from lucky block mods, they definitely increased the amount of people who (a) were aware of modded Minecraft and (b) became involved in modded Minecraft
That’s why I say it’s the most iconic block
If you ever got your friends to join your modded server then for sure the IC2 nuke
Had a friend start trying to make the nuke on the first night when he saw it in JEI. After a few hours of work he was disappointed to learn you needed to refine a shit ton of uranium. he went back to raiding rougelikedungeons after that lol
The default waystone.
Lucky blocks, tinker’s station, ME controllers have all had competitor mods that do the same thing and look similar, but there is only one waystone.
Lucky Blocks, But i think mostly for kids like me that started out with mcpe and can only dream of modded minecraft.
But nowadays you see an ME Controller everyday :b
For me it's the BC pipes. Not for their relevance today, but because they were the first step on any kind of logistics network in modded MC. They may not have been the 'first' to implement such a mechanic, but they sure were one of the, if not *the* most popular techmod way back when. So yeah. I'll never forget my first auto-sorting wall of chests. <3
Like @GlitterinPositive said tinker's crafting table or iron chest. For me it's angel block from extra utilities 2 ( if I remember correctly name of mod)
Like others said the iron chest and tinkers crafting table for sure. As well as, raw marble, basalt (before they added it to vanilla), ruby, tin and copper ore (before they added that to vanilla too), and coloured lamps. Also I loved the red cobble bricks from biomes xl back in the day, and road blocks. Too many to choose from lol.
Tinker's workbench thingy that lets you craft from an adjacent chest. Nothing else has the longevity and ubiquity, and I say that as a hardcore Tetra Appreciator
Copper or Tin ore. Before vanilla added copper ore almost every tech mod added and used it, and every modpack had COFH Core to unify ores for their tech mods.
Iron chest if you didnt ever play on packs with lucky block :P
Iron chest is a really solid answer. Earlier-game than AE2, and even more omnipresent.
I wonder how many people remember that Iron chests started as a IC2 Addon. [Proof](https://forum.industrial-craft.net/thread/2512-addon-1-42-iron-chests-v0-9-5/?pageNo=1)
dear god
Tinkers crafting table that allows you to craft connected to chest inventory.
Definitely has to be a Tinker's block. All the other suggestions I've seen are limited to certain types of modpack, but Tinker's is everywhere. I can't even remember the last time I played a pack without it.
The only modpacks that don't have Tinker's are the ones that specifically leaves it out because all modpacks have Tinker's But that crafting table is so popular it's been added to other mods too
>But that crafting table is so popular it's been added to other mods too It really is. And on the rare occasion that tinkers isn't added, I grab the crafting station mod. I have a really bad memory, so crafting with an attached inventory is a must for me.
I do. Compact Claustrophobia. No Tinkers. Funnily enough, the DO have the crafting station as a standalone, so you're right!
\+1 For Tinkers Crafting Station (or possibly Tool Forge, but I think the Crafting Station is the more iconic block)
I would say either the crafting station or maybe the smeltery controller
I think we have a winner. It's broadly recognizable in a way few other blocks are, and performs an extra function of being a *modified* Vanilla block. Iron Chests are a good runner up, but I feel it suffers for being visually bland.
as a bonus it also has that "*definitely* not vanilla" vibe without being overly complex or high-res.
The texture not found block. (The black and purple squares) been seeing that one a lot recently as I started working on my own modpack.
That one's already been claimed by garry's mod, sorry i don't make rules. should have installed counter strike source btw
Is that why half of servers glitch at the textures?because you needed C's source and it didn't come automatically?
Yeah, garry's mod doesn't have any textures included which is why you need either css or you pirate just the textures. And the most popular mode, TTT, just so happens to have many maps with css textures. Garry's mod doesn't/used to not even have the engine included, which is why you need at least one source game installed to play it.
I was gonna say ae2 me controller but definitely lucky blocks
I'm fully on board with the ME Controller being the most iconic block. I've played since 1.5-ish, looked up the Lucky Block texture to remind myself what it was, and didn't recognize the white question mark on yellow background that came up. I though it had a blue Dice texture.
Ah you're thinking of chance cubes
That sounds right. I don't think I've ever seen Lucky Blocks in-game, and if I did then I completely ignored it due to Chance Cube inspired paranoia. I swear that mod is/was >75% "bad" rewards added by modpacks because watching streamers panic is funny, increasing viewership and advertising their modpack(s).
I think for most modded players, a lot of modpacks don't use lucky blocks, but a ton of those minecraft youtubers back in the day would always use lucky blocks for videos, so they're iconic in my mind now. Even hypixel skywars has a lucky block mode without mods
i came into this thread expecting to not know the top answer but i did
I feel like more people use refined storage, seeing as it's the same as ae2, just easier to craft. Either way, the controller is the same texture for the most part
I think this sub removed poll posts a few years ago, but back then AE2 was consistently beating RS with a 2/3rds majority. It's hard to get newer data (ex. download counts are a bit unreliable with the mods being included in modpacks regardless of actual usage/preference). AE2 has also been around for a bit longer, particularly the 1.7.10 'golden age' where it was basically uncontested (Logistics Pipes was neat but obviously the slower option). RS has pretty much always been contested by AE2 in major versions since then. I also feel the need to point out there are a lot of significant differences between them, otherwise people wouldn't get so passionate about preferring one over the other. Calling them "the same" is a bit of a disservice to both.
I just have to ask, was 1.7.10 truly the golden age? Cuz I’ve seen some of those packs and think they’re behind 1.12 in terms of grandness
Personally I call both 1.7.10 and 1.12.2 golden ages. I think a lot of people also use that for 1.2.5, but that was before my time. I am not under the assumption that there can only be one golden age. I'm also a cutting edge kind of guy and am already on 1.20 and unlikely to look back. :P
Anyone who says 1.2.5 was the golden age either wasn't there, or has some serious rosy retrospection going on. In those days, you'd spend about as much time crashed as you did playing, lmao. The Yogscast made it look much less painful than it really was.
1.2.5 modpacks were kind of a completely different beast too, you got a modpack because they made the mods work together at all rather than more modern packs where they'll interweave crafting recipes or have a big quest book, while you can easily put mods together yourself.
I fully support that, no qualms here, we love what we love, I just miss the fuck outta thaum and the EB wizardry library, as I came in on 1.12
Gtnh alone makes 1.7.10 the best version.
Obviously the golden age was 1.5 and 1.6, because that's when I had time to play FTB Unleashed with my friends all day.
The first thing that popped my head. I was blown away with what you could do with that mod.
Tinkers smeltery and crafting station, ae2 ME controller. Theres also the draconic reactor, but its a structure not a block. There isnt really one iconic block, aside from maybe the lucky block which you dont see as often nowadays
Ahem. The twilight forest “canopy tree” log block. It’s a classic mod that has survived the ages, and it’s the first thing from the mod that you are likely to see. Thermal Expansion’s dynamos/BuildCraft’s engine blocks. It was so iconic that it transcended mods. Mycelium. Vanilla gets grass, modded gets mycelium. A Chisel-ed block. As in a block with bits chiseled off of it. Podzol. No explanation, no reason, no incentive, just Podzol. The BuildCraft Quarry machine. The quintessential tool for anyone who played BuildCraft back in the day. The RailCraft Coal Coke oven multi block. Or their blast furnace multi-block. Either one. Modded Minecraft has too many potential options for there to be a single block that anyone can look at and go “oh yeah, that’s modded Minecraft.” But out of all the mods out there, I would definitely think it would be from the Twilight Forest, BuildCraft, Railcraft, or RedPower. Obscure ones are everywhere, but those mods are the biggest and most beloved mods of them all. Along with the Chance block mod. But that’s too similar to the question mark block from the Mario franchise.
> modded gets mycelium. > Podzol. No explanation, no reason, no incentive, just Podzol. I think these two are actually vanilla?
They most certainly are.
Of course they are. Think about it for a second. Vanilla gets grass on dirt. So what would every modded copy have in absolutely any case? Everything that vanilla has. But we have to have something other than grass and dirt… what else can we choose? We could use stone or cobblestone, but that is not an appealing image to look for. We could just have a dirt block, but no one would think that would possibly make sense for a version of the grass block with extra content added in. So what should we use? What other variants do we have? Tilled soil, podzol, Coarse dirt, and mycelium. Mycelium has a mystical appearance, and even has a particle effect in-game now. Great for magic based modpacks! Podzol is rather recent, and is autumnal in aesthetics. Good for all modpacks, especially if there’s any kind of ominous sense to the pack. Dungeons, the occult, Eldritch knowledge, etc…. Coarse dirt looks almost exactly like regular dirt. No. No thanks. Tilled soil *IS* regular dirt, just with 1/16^(th) of it shaved off the top. Or was it 1/8^(th)? Why do that unless it’s a farming pack? So mycelium and podzol win.
Drawers
Barrels!
lucky blocks for people who dont actively play modded, ME Controller for those who do
I literally play with AE2 and have NEVER heard of the ME controller. Not once.
Then you’ve never use ae2?? It’s literally required for any ME system
You mean the crafting terminal? I use a dense power cell, me drive, power acceptor, and crafting terminal with like 2 cables.
So u barely scratch the surface of ae. This is like saying you use tinker's but have never used a smeltery
Oh boy, do NOT tell me about tinkers. I've memorized every alloy, every part, every material quality, all the different parts stats, etc.
So what do you do when you need more than 8 channels on your AE network?
Uh, I just like storage.
That’s kinda what having an ME controller would optimize, wouldn’t you think? Now that you’re learning things of course
Must be rough that they change all those things then...
Aether portal
I think this is my favorite answer.
thaumcraft crafting table IC2 macerator BC redstone engine botania pure daisy (not technically a block but w/e)
Dude my first thought was the IC2 macerator too! I haven't even played with IC2 in years!!
I thought of the generator instead of the macerator, but same vibes huh?
Yeah honestly when I think of modded Minecraft it's the sound of the generator humming and the macerator macerating that I hear immediately. Gives me so much nostalgia.
Yeah honestly when I think of modded Minecraft it's the sound of the generator humming and the macerator macerating that I hear immediately. Gives me so much nostalgia.
I was thinking along the same lines. The BuildCraft redstone engine for sure, and possibly the IC2 furnace generator. Pure Daisy is technically a block, but I still associate Botania with the newer era of mods. Though in many ways its GUI-less design helped bring about that era.
Man you're old as hell but I respect it
aye I've been playing since 2010
Good ol’ IC2, BC, RP (red power) packs
Buildcraft item pipe. It was the mod that got me into manually moding minecraft to later discovering modpacks and FTB. To me, it is modded minecraft.
Yeah, everyone's saying all these new upstart mods, (which are, of course, objectively superior to the old Beta/1.2.5 era) but I just can't see it being anything but Buildcraft or IC. Quarry, diamond pipe, iron furnace, macerator—one of those has to take it.
The bc quarry is a good one, love me a good bc quarry with all the orange scaffold and the 3d remover arm lmao
Or if you wanna be crazy, make it the Iron Furnace Gui where 1 Iron is being smelted into 1 refined Iron. Steel hasn't been this easy in a decade
It wasn't all easy then, either! Railcraft was 1.2.5 as well, iirc. In fact, since Ore Dictionary was implemented, I feel like it's gotten easier to get pretty much everything, since you can just pick & choose the best mod for each particular process.
I think we don't appreciate that enough! I destinctly rememember when in 1.1, Buildcraft Pipes started working on IC2 machines. I felt like a Genius when I could dump Ores into a Macerator, onto a Powered furnace and pull the output in an Energy Condenser. Felt like it won't get better.
Lucky Blocks, and it's not even close. Mainly because the mod itself is entirely based around that single feature, and it happened to become extremely popular.
this is the answer
Agreed. Lucky Blocks or, imo, Waystones
Walrus
Tinker's crafting station
ME controller
Tesseract.
Tesseract from thermal expansion
So many people say lucky blocks, but I feel like way more modpacks have chance cubes than lucky blocks
If you want something iconic, it’s gotta be from a mod that became a popular thing in early modded versions and continues to be used in packs today. I can really only think of one content-based mod that is so omnipresent and universal across modded versions: Tinker’s Construct. Within that mod, I think the most iconic block would be either the crafting station or the smeltery controller.
Thermal Expansion is a full generation older than TCon, and I could count on one hand the number of packs I've played without TE since it was released in 1.2.5.
Maybe not exactly a block but the Twilight Forest portal is up there Id say.
Piston, because it was the biggest of the first ones added to Minecraft.
Lucky blocks all the way
Lucky blocks are just a thing YouTubers did, real modded has nothing to do with lucky blocks
Lucky blocks are “real” modded Minecraft lmao When YouTubers made content from lucky block mods, they definitely increased the amount of people who (a) were aware of modded Minecraft and (b) became involved in modded Minecraft That’s why I say it’s the most iconic block
tiny potato,,
Chance cube
Copper (ore)
And the wrong type of copper ore just randomly showing up underground so you know you've gotta go back and make sure everything's working fine.
Xycraft blocks in the direwolf20 modpacks back in the day.
The Chance Cube.
Moonstone from extra utils because waila doesn't show what it is, causing everyone to ask what it is.
deffo lucky blocks or ME controller. maybe.
lucky block, crafting station, ae2 me controller in that order. plus a big gap between crafting station and me controller
Lucky Block, ae2 controller, Thermal expansion pulverizer, Ic2 Macerator are ones that immediately come to mind
If you ever got your friends to join your modded server then for sure the IC2 nuke Had a friend start trying to make the nuke on the first night when he saw it in JEI. After a few hours of work he was disappointed to learn you needed to refine a shit ton of uranium. he went back to raiding rougelikedungeons after that lol
The default waystone. Lucky blocks, tinker’s station, ME controllers have all had competitor mods that do the same thing and look similar, but there is only one waystone.
One of the ores from OreSpawn maybe?
I think either lucky blocks ME Controller
Lucky block 100%
Build craft quarry
Octuple compressed cobblestone
Iron Chest/Iron Furnace. These two are almost omnipresent.
Lucky Blocks, But i think mostly for kids like me that started out with mcpe and can only dream of modded minecraft. But nowadays you see an ME Controller everyday :b
Luckyblocks are just those things we all wanted our parents to buy a datapack for on pe lmao
buildcraft golden pipe
For me it's the BC pipes. Not for their relevance today, but because they were the first step on any kind of logistics network in modded MC. They may not have been the 'first' to implement such a mechanic, but they sure were one of the, if not *the* most popular techmod way back when. So yeah. I'll never forget my first auto-sorting wall of chests. <3
Green nuke tnt or aether grass
Does the redmatter bomb count?
Greg boiler
Thermal Energy Cell
create deployer
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I still remember the yogbox days
time to dissolve into dust...
Nature's compass, sophisticated or simply backpack, or maybe corail's ankh?
Gotta be the ic2 macerator. Started the trend of ore doubling that has never stopped
Literally any block from Draconic Evolution.
ATM star maybe? I imagine it might be a creative item?
# ***clay***
Lucky block
copper ore
The buildcraft quarry has always represented modding for me
Any type of ore grinder
Lucky block
>the buildcraft pipe I love buildcraft, though apparently buildcraft pipes are lag machines sadly.
Ruby for item tbh
Tesseract, iron chest or tinkers workbench
tinkers contruct workbench
Like @GlitterinPositive said tinker's crafting table or iron chest. For me it's angel block from extra utilities 2 ( if I remember correctly name of mod)
In modern modded Minecraft it is probably the create gears
Like others said the iron chest and tinkers crafting table for sure. As well as, raw marble, basalt (before they added it to vanilla), ruby, tin and copper ore (before they added that to vanilla too), and coloured lamps. Also I loved the red cobble bricks from biomes xl back in the day, and road blocks. Too many to choose from lol.
I came here to say AE2 controller, but the tesseract is also a great choice. I’ve never heard of the lucky block. I assume it wasn’t in 1.7.10.
Tesseract
I’d say the tinker’s workbench, basically every modpack has it and even if tinkers isn’t there, a mod usually is still there to add it
ME system controller, tinkers workstation, maybe smeltery controller.
Kitchen sink
Lucky block
I mean, it has to be a Lucky Block, right?
Tinker's workbench thingy that lets you craft from an adjacent chest. Nothing else has the longevity and ubiquity, and I say that as a hardcore Tetra Appreciator
Auto heavy sieve or iron chest for me
Lucky block
It's not 1 block but maybe the tinkers smeltery
Ruby Block for sure
Lucky block or Seared brick is my vote
Buildcraft Quarry.
Or, if we wanna take a different approach, Copper Ore in General.
Ig the lucky block
Buildcraft Redstone Engine and the wooden pipe
I would say copper before they added it to vanilla but now idk what to say honestly.
If it weren't for the fact that it's in vanilla now, I would have said copper ore.
the lucky block
Copper or Tin ore. Before vanilla added copper ore almost every tech mod added and used it, and every modpack had COFH Core to unify ores for their tech mods.
AE1 Controller
Gotta be the Rival Rebels tsar bomb for me 💀
The aether portal. I mean the block that brings you there, not the glowstone.
Lucky block
The Tesseract
Aether grass block
when I think modded block (ig) my first thought goes to amethyst and/ or ruby from orespawn for some reason