Valhelsia 6 First Look and Getting Started Guide

Welcome to Valhelsia 6! Let's talk about how to install this mod pack and discover the must-have mods and the progression that makes it stand out. Valhelsia 6 is a kitchen sink / sandbox mod pack, meaning that there's no set progression in the game. You can just do what you want! So we'll categorize the mods by their relevance in early, mid, and late game stages. Of course you can go in any direction you want.

The best part about this mod pack is that the developers take great care in curating the included mods and making them work together. I've known the Valhelsia devs for years now and they always prioritize quality over speed and quantity in their packs and mods.

Give it a try. I don't think you'll be disappointed!

How to Install Valhelsia 6

Use Prism Launcher or Curseforge to search for and install Valhelsia 6. Most people use Curseforge, but my recommendation is to use Prism. There are many Minecraft launchers that you can use for this. For more information, check out my post on how to get started with modded Minecraft.

How to Install Valhelsia 6 with Prism Launcher

1. Download and install Prism Launcher

2. Make sure you have enough RAM configured in the settings. Here's how mine is set and it allocates 9GB.

2. Add an Instance, choose CurseForge, search for Valhelsia, and choose Valhelsia 6. Click OK.

3. Double Click on Valhelsia 6 in the Instances screen

How to Install Valhelsia 6 with Curseforge

1. Download and Install Curseforge

2. Search for Valhelsia 6 In the Mod pack list and click Install

3. Allocate enough RAM - Make sure CurseForge is configured with more than the default. For a mod pack the size of Valhelsia 6, I'd recommend 6GB or more RAM (but not more than your system can handle, and overall, rarely would you need more than 8-10GB for any mod pack). You can find this in the Settings -> Minecraft -> Java Settings

3. Click Play on the Valhelsia 6 Instance

Valhelsia 6 Video Guide

Here's a video showing you what Valhelsia 6 is all about.

Where to start with Valhelsia 6 ...and where are we going?

Getting Started

Right from the start, you'll notice the landscapes and structures thanks to mods like Biomes O' Plenty and Valhelsia Structures. These mods enhance the world generation, making your initial exploration more exciting and diverse.

For quality of life improvements, AppleSkin and Jade provide essential information like hunger and detailed item descriptions.

Just Enough Items, or JEI gives us a fully searchable list of every item in the game including how to craft it, and what they're used in. Simple Inventory Sorter and Trash Slot make managing your inventory a breeze, essential when you're just starting out and gathering resources.

Get a Sophisticated backpack as early as you can. Modded Minecraft has so many different blocks that you'll be out of inventory space in no time.

Early game isn't just about survival, it's also about setting up your first base. There are many mods that add countless aesthetic and functional building options, perfect for personalizing your first home. Nature's Compass and Xaero's Minimap are invaluable for navigating and marking key locations.

Here are some good mods to focus on early game to get started.

Tetra is a great early game mod that allows you to craft and repair tools more cheaply. To start on Tetra, make a hammer and right click a crafting table with it.

Getting into Tech

As you progress, mods like Mekanism, Create, PneumaticCraft, and Immersive Engineering introduce complex machinery and energy systems. These are perfect for automating tasks and setting up more efficient resource processing.

For those who enjoy the culinary arts, Farmer's Delight and Cooking for Blockheads offer a delightful way to manage and expand your food resources, turning your kitchen into a powerhouse of buffs and benefits.

Exploration and combat get a boost with Alex's Mobs, Alex's Caves, Ad Astra, adding new creatures and planetary exploration. This stage is about expanding your capabilities and preparing for the late game challenges.

Entering the late game, Applied Energistics 2 provides an advanced storage system, crucial for managing the vast resources you've accumulated. This mod offers a sophisticated network for storing items and automating complex crafting processes, making it an essential tool for any advanced setup.

Getting into Magic

Magic also becomes a significant aspect of later game with mods like Botania and Ars Nouveau. These provide powerful magical tools and automation options, blending the intricacies of magic with technological advancements to elevate your gameplay.

Exploration and adventure continue to expand with dimensional mods like The Twilight Forest introducing new worlds filled with unique bosses, biomes, and treasures. These dimensions offer fresh challenges and exciting opportunities for exploration and conquest.

Valhelsia 6 is a modpack that grows with you, offering tools and enhancements that cater to every stage of your progression. Whether you're building your first shelter or crafting an intricate magic system, there's something here for everyone.

Valhelsia 6 Mod List

Here's a bigger list of the important mods in Valhelsia 6.

Exploration and World Generation

• Aquamirae - Introduces new underwater biomes and features, expanding exploration opportunities and challenges in aquatic environments.
• Artifacts - Adds a variety of rare and powerful artifacts that can be found while exploring, each with unique effects and abilities that enhance gameplay.
• Autumnity - Adds a lush autumn-themed biome with new flora, fauna, and items, enhancing the visual diversity and exploration potential of the game.
• Biomes O' Plenty - Massively expands Minecraft's biomes to enhance world diversity.
• Boatload - Adds various types of boats and related features, enhancing maritime exploration and travel.
• Comforts - Introduces portable sleep options like hammocks and sleeping bags, enabling easier and safer exploration by allowing players to rest anywhere to skip dangerous nights or set a temporary spawn point without returning home.
• Enlightened - Improves visibility in exploration areas by adding light sources and illuminating items that enhance the safety and aesthetics of nighttime or underground adventures.
• Gardens of the Dead - Introduces eerie and mysterious garden biomes populated with unique flora and fauna, adding a spooky element to exploration.
• Galosphere - Expands the exploration experience with new celestial phenomena, adding atmospheric and astronomical elements to enhance the sky and overall visual appeal of different worlds.
• Nature's Compass - Allows players to find any desired biome with a compass, making it easier to locate specific environments for exploration.
• Phantasmic - Adds new spectral creatures and phenomena, enriching the exploration with otherworldly encounters.
• Valhelsia Structures - Generates large, interesting structures throughout the world for exploration.
• Waystones - Adds waystones that players can set up and use to teleport between, significantly enhancing exploration and travel efficiency across vast distances.
• YUNG's Better Desert Temples - Improves the design and loot of desert temples, making them more challenging and rewarding.
• YUNG's Better Dungeons - Enhances the generation and complexity of dungeons in Minecraft.
• YUNG's Better End Island - Transforms the End dimension with new features and challenges.
• YUNG's Better Jungle Temples - Redesigns jungle temples to be larger and more intricate.
• YUNG's Better Nether Fortresses - Revamps the architecture and content of Nether fortresses, increasing their size and complexity.
• YUNG's Better Ocean Monuments - Upgrades ocean monuments with better layouts and dangers.
• YUNG's Better Strongholds - Overhauls stronghold structures to make them more extensive and intricate.

Tech Mods

• Create
• Mekanism
• PneumaticCraft: Repressurized
• Ad Astra
• Applied Energistics 2
• Immersive Engineering

Magic Mods

• Allurement - Enhances enchantment possibilities, adding new enchantments and improving the enchanting system to offer more strategic options in gameplay.
• Ars Nouveau - Allows for the creation and customization of spells and magical systems.
• Botania - Utilizes flowers and natural resources to create magical artifacts and machinery.
• Forbidden & Arcanus - Adds a rich selection of mystical items, blocks, and enchantments, deepening the magical lore and capabilities available to players.
• Malum - Introduces dark magic themes with new rituals, entities, and magical items that delve into deeper mystical arts.

Mods that bring new Mobs

• Alex's Caves - Enhances cave ecosystems with unique mobs and creatures, adding depth and challenge to underground exploration.
• Alex's Mobs - Introduces dozens of new animals and creatures that inhabit various biomes.
• Goblin Traders - Adds small goblin traders who appear randomly and offer unique items for trade, enriching the economic aspects of the game.
• Guard Villagers - Introduces new villager types who protect their villages, adding dynamics to village security and interaction.
• Mowzie's Mobs - Adds a variety of imaginative and dynamic creatures with unique AI and engaging combat experiences.
• Ribbits - Introduces magical frogs with special abilities that add a whimsical and enchanting aspect to the mob ecosystem.
• The Conjurer - Adds a mysterious new mob that performs magic tricks and poses unique challenges to players, bringing a magical and elusive element to mob encounters.

Food Mods

• Aquaculture 2 - Expands the fishing mechanics, adding a plethora of new fish species, fishing gear, and related food items to enhance the fishing experience and culinary options.
• Farmer's Delight - Enhances the cooking and farming aspects of Minecraft, adding new crops and meals.
• Incubation - Focuses on poultry farming, improving the management and utility of chickens and their products in the game.
• Nether's Delight - Broadens the culinary possibilities with new foods and recipes inspired by the Nether, adding depth to the food options available.
• Neapolitan - Adds a variety of ice cream and other sweets that offer special effects when consumed.
• Twilight's Flavor & Delight - Integrates new foods and culinary delights from the Twilight dimension, enhancing the thematic food experience.

Tools & Weapons

• Ars Nouveau - Provides magical tools and weapons that can be customized and enchanted with various magical abilities.
• Botania - Includes a variety of mystical tools and weapons that harness mana to perform powerful actions and enhancements.
• Mekanism - Offers a range of high-tech tools and weapons that provide advanced capabilities and utilities.
• Mekanism: Tools - Extends the Mekanism mod by adding specialized tools and armor with unique functionalities.
• Tetra - Focuses on modular tool and weapon customization, allowing players to build and modify their gear with a wide range of materials and upgrades. Includes enhancements from Tetranomicon for increased compatibility with dozens of other mods.
• Universal Sawmill - Adds a versatile sawmill tool that increases the efficiency and yield of wood and other materials, enhancing crafting and building tools.

New Dimensions

• Ad Astra - Allows exploration of outer space with different planets and moons, each with unique environments and challenges.
• The Twilight Forest - Adds a mystical dimension filled with enchanted forests, mazes, and formidable foes.
• The Undergarden - Offers a dark, subterranean realm teeming with exotic flora, dangerous creatures, and unique resources to discover.

QoL Mods

• AppleSkin - Displays additional information about food and hunger mechanics.
• Carry On - Allows players to pick up and move blocks and entities physically, enhancing interaction and convenience in handling various in-game objects.
• Jade - Shows detailed information about the blocks and entities you look at.
• Jade Addons - Enhances the Jade mod with additional features and information displays.
• Just Enough Items (JEI) - Provides a comprehensive recipe and item list interface, making it easier to discover and craft various items in the game.
• Quark - Adds a vast range of small, thoughtful tweaks and features that enhance player interaction and game mechanics, such as improved item sorting, management, and auto-replacement of tools.
• Quark Oddities - Introduces unique and useful items and features that complement the main Quark mod, adding more depth to the gameplay experience.
• Right Click Harvest - Simplifies the harvesting process by allowing players to right-click crops to harvest them without breaking the plant.
• Simple Inventory Sorter - Streamlines the management of inventory by sorting items with a single click.
• Xaero's Minimap - Adds a customizable, detailed minimap to the game for easier navigation.

Multiplayer

• Open Parties and Claims - Enhances multiplayer interaction by allowing players to form parties and claim land for team-based activities and protection.
• Personality - Adds unique player animations and interactions that enhance the personalization and social dynamics in multiplayer settings.
• Simple RPC - Provides integration for multiplayer communication, enhancing the ease of coordinating and interacting in a multiplayer environment.

Performance

• Chunky - Provides tools for managing and reducing chunk loading times, significantly improving overall game performance during exploration and large-scale building.
• Oculus - Optimizes visual performance, enhances rendering capabilities, and enables shaders to improve frame rates and reduce latency. Included shaders: ComplementaryReimagined, Complementary Unbound, Spooklementary, and customized Complementary Shaders for Valhelsia.
• Spark - Adds comprehensive profiling and debugging tools that help optimize server and client performance, essential for maintaining smooth gameplay in larger modpacks.

Valhelsia 6 offers an all-encompassing experience that reshapes and enhances every aspect of Minecraft gameplay. From the depths of its dungeons to the heights of its skies, this modpack invites you to explore, craft, and conquer like never before. Dive in and let your adventure begin!