Hopping Bonsai pots are hardly automation, they're a one-block fix item. Modded packs too often turn the game into Crafting Simulator, where your job is to clic

Hopping Bonsai pots are hardly automation, they're a one-block fix item. Modded packs too often turn the game into Crafting Simulator, where your job is to click the right series of buttons to get the one block that does everything. I think the best modded pack right now is the Create mod, because in it you use more flexible, more primitive automation tools like belts and shafts and gearboxes to build machines that do the work. You can have a contraption that does everything a hopping bonsai does, but instead of crafting it in JEI you have to assemble it in the world with deployers and timers and filters and so on. Vanilla minecarts are useful for moving mobs, but not for actual mining.