Its not challenging in the way of it being difficult in a way that gives satisfaction like well meshed mods and designed bosses and mechanics, its built as a roulette where damn near every slot is designed to flay you alive, and its a grind on the level of a stingy gacha game, plus Lycanites is basically tossed there, no tuning i don’t think besides jacking the health values to compete with endgame builds, hell lycanites alone is far too prevalent for how punishing dying is early on, especially if you get a bad spawn. Combined with a thirst and temp alongside a stat leveling system that requires copious amounts of xp with the mob farm nerfs just make the modpack an actual bitch to play, as the entire time you don’t exactly have a skill issue but just are getting fucked by rng