Reasonable Realism FAQ

It is a collection of small mods that make Minecraft more interesting, dangerous, and a little harder by adding realistic mining, wildlife life cycles, underground hazards, and vanilla-style automation. The realism is kept reasonable for gameplay, so you still craft without tools, smelt iron in a normal furnace, and get wood from punching trees.

It has four core sub-mods: Harder Ores, Harder Underground, Harder Wildlife, and Expanded Industry.

It is for Minecraft 1.7.10.

Harder Ores is one of the four core sub-mods and is part of the realistic mining content. The Ore Flowers feature was originally extracted from Harder Ores.

Harder Underground is one of the four core sub-mods and covers underground hazards. Screenshots show features like gas fires with smoke.

Harder Wildlife is one of the four core sub-mods and adds wildlife life cycles.

Expanded Industry is one of the four core sub-mods and provides vanilla-style automation.

Ore Flowers is a small standalone feature that grows unique flowers near concentrations of ores, both during worldgen and when using bonemeal. It tracks ores including iron, gold, diamond, redstone, tin, copper, lead, uranium/pitchblende, silver, nickel, aluminum, zinc, platinum, fluorite, cadmium, and thorium.

Yes, it adds features like ore flowers, gold veins, diamond veins, and gas fires. The wiki also includes crafting recipes for every block and item.

The mods' features are explained in detail on the wiki, including crafting recipes, for those that don't play with NEI or TMI. The facts do not list any required dependencies.