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When I was a teen, I had the most sublime experience in Minecraft.

It was a modpack with so much stuffed in: nuclear reactors, blood magic, piped factories, portals, decoration, cooking, pets, you name it.

It was on a highly populated public server, yet whitelisted and 'cozy' enough to kinda know the regulars. I made a little path from spawn and a 'public access' base to help other newcomers start out with free ore processors, battery chargers, mob farms, altars, cobblestone+glass, stuff like that. It turned into a little social hub and neighborhood. We'd all build these complex megastructures testing mods as they got updated.

I've been trying to replicate that experience for years, and I've never found it again, even in Minecraft. Most modded servers are either too sparse or antisocial. I've bought into tons of games and MMOs chasing it too, but they're mostly faded promises, and most 'survival techy factory' style games are single player or 'friends only'