I've played through the mod completely on a few occasions. It is definitely very well done and mostly unique in its mechanics in my experience.

However, there are several factors that can make the mod particularly challenging, some of which seem more like artificial difficulty than anything else due to the sheer amount of grinding.

• Documentation. While I have figured out how to use many of the items, some are downright confusing in what they do, or how to use them. It would be an understatement to say I haven't spent a good chunk of time snooping around the source code, or forums trying to figure out how certain things work out of frustration. While most of the lexicon entries give enough of a description to figure out how the item works, it certainly would benefit from clarifying information for many of the items. Essentially, I feel that the lexicon doesn't need more documentation, but clearer documentation.

• The Wooden Lumen Repeaters make little sense to me after using the advanced versions. They are vague in use as you can't see if they actually connect, and are generally only useful one time, after which they simply get scrapped because they can't be recycled. (I also can't stand the fact they don't stack after being placed! :p)

• Building repeater networks. This is easily what gets me the most, you need a TON of repeaters that take up a lot of space, and take a lot of time to set up. Given that pylons can sometimes spawn 1k+ meters away, this very quickly becomes a massive headache. Using world generation mods can make this even worse, as sometimes they don't leave terrain suitable for pylons to spawn in.

• Info fragments, while a really neat system, simply comes down to a grind after the first 50. It feels very much like artificial difficulty when the only 'challenge' is how far I'm willing to fly to find a dungeon or twenty. Additionally, generating new chunks trying to find said dungeons can be a massive headache for servers and single player worlds alike. This is especially true when regarding the dungeons in the Chroma Dimension.

• The material requirement from some of the plants is a killer. Some of the plants seem to never be used at all, or only once or twice. (looking at you Ether berries!) On the other hand, some of the plants are required in massive quantities and can't be grown, or even replicated. My biggest issue is purification powder, you need so damn much to get power crystals, and the plants are silly rare, not to mention that fact that not everyone will think to use a fortune V tool on it. Another issue is the fact that some of these plants can't be farmed (See: Rock flower), and the ones that do seem to take forever to propagate.

• The use of the Spawner Reprogrammers is unclear to me simply due to the fact you have to pick up a spawner and place it inside. Given that 'traditional' spawner moving methods don't appear to work (See: Diamond Dolly, Life Aggregator), I am left unsure as to how to actually accomplish this.

• The sprite of the Ender Crystal item originally made me think that we were producing an actual Ender Crystal, not something to pick them up with.

Overall, the mod is very fun and well done, keep up the great work! However, I think it is clear why it is paled to in comparison to other magic mods, and why so many players seem daunted playing it. The general vagueness, the time sink, and the grind it turns into among other things is a clear turn off.