UPDATE OVERVIEW
BEFORE UPDATING TO THIS RELEASE, PLEASE DO THE FOLLOWING : 
MAKE SURE YOU HAVE BACKUPS! Multiple mods make downgrading to a previous FOGCraft Goes West version impossible due to changes.
Empty all Corail Recycler inventories. (Block resets)
Move all items you want to keep out of your Aroma1997 Mining Dimension. (Dimension resets)
Finish any Better Questing OSS block progress (Block resets)

Consider Random PSIDeas


Back after a bit of a health related break (heart surgery, yikes...) and quite a busy real life shift.

A lot of mods are updated to fix various bugs and issues. Some quests are updated, and some new stuff is in the works! 

NEW MODS

RATS
>Hey, want your own Remy the rat? Tame and command an army of Rats!
ORE EXCAVATION
ORE EXCAVATION INTEGRATION
>A vein mining type mod has been highly requested. Ore Excavation with the Integration addon enables you to enchant normal weapons or modify tinker's weapons with the Excavate ability. 
FTB UTILITIES : BACKUPS
>The backups function was moved into its own mod
MOB DROPS YOUR WAY
>Mod to help me work around changes to forge/some mods for scripting purposes
RANDOM PATCHES
>Fixes a few things, improves a few things
BAUBLEY HEART CANNISTERS
>Increase your max health! (Reward Only!)
GRAVITY GUN
>Pick up and launch blocks and mobs! (Reward Only)
PORTAL GUN
>Jump between two points! WITH PORTALS! (Reward Only)
JACK-O-LAUNCHER
>Adds a jackolantern launcher, with customizable ammo (Reward Only)
EIGHT FABLED BLADES
>Adds 8 magic blades that can be awakened with great power (Reward Only)


SWAPPED MODS

Embers > Embers Rekindled
Embers Rekindled is an updated version of Embers with many bug fixes and additions.

RETURNING MODS

Chisels and Bits
Certain changes to VanillaFix were split off to their own mod, which no longer causes issues with Chisels and Bits. So its back!


REMOVED/DISABLED MODS

Animalium
Conflicted with Rats, which contains more interesting Rats.

CHANGELOG

Questing
>BQ3 now has new version tracking, providing a way to update the quest database easily.
>What We Can Provide
>>New section to provide certain items to purchase
>What We Know
>>Bag of Junk!
>>>Replaced Lootbag Storage task with Lootbag Opener, updated quest text
>>Stone Cold Tomb
>>>Fixed icon
>>>Fixed task item (changed due to internal mod changes)
>>Pocket Pets
>>>Changed Tiny Coal task to Obsidian Nugget
>>New Quest - Can You Dig It?
>>>Covers Excavation and Excavation Integration mods
>>New Quest - The Squeaky Squeak Gets the Cheese
>>>Covers Rats mod
>>>Includes Quickstart guide for Rats
>What We Need
>>Vegetables
>>>Fixed to require 300 vegetables instead of 1.
>>Raw Meat
>>>Fixed to require 150 raw meat instead of 1.
>>Raw Fish
>>>Fixed to rquire 150 raw fish instead of 1.
>>Bones of the Dead
>>>Changed Necrotic Bone to Oredictionary: boneWithered, to include Withered Bone drops
>>Added 4 Baubley Heart quests
>>>Covers the rare occurance when plain Baubley Hearts drop.
>What We Can Provide
>>Added 9 Ticket Exchange quests
>New Questline - Who We Can Trust
>>Late game trading with The Ferret Business for special items you can't craft.

The Hungry Machine
>Added tooltip, since not all foods have been added to the Hungry Machine edible list.
>Added Rats Cheese to food list

Rail Tickets
>Drop rate shifted slightly as drops have shifted from scripts to a mod
>Some creatures that were missing ticket drops have been fixed
>Toads, Frogs, and Dart Frogs now drop Blue Tickets instead of White Tickets
>Villagers now drop Yellow tickets
>You can exchange tickets in the What We Can Provide section of the Ledger

New Custom Items
>Pride Metals
>>Themed for LGBT+ Pride, these metal alloys are craftable in TFB Workbenches.
>>Turn these in via The Ledger for special rewards that are highly difficult to obtain elsewhere, including : 
>>>Vehicles
>>>Gravity and Portal Guns
>>>Max Health Boosters
>>>And More!

UPDATED FORGE

2725 to 2838


UPDATED MODS

Actually Additions (r135 to r148)
-Bug Fixes
-Performance improvements

Advanced Hook Launchers (build.0121 to build.0220)
-New voxel models
-New Recipes
-Bug Fixes

Animalium (0.3.7 to 0.3.8)
-Bug Fixes

Animania (1.4.8 to 1.6.2)
-Many food drops were condensed into the same types, including : 
--Longhorn Steak, Hereford Steak, Angus Steak, Large Black Pork, Duroc Pork, Old Spot Pork, Hampshire Pork, Orpngton Chicken, Plymouth Rock Chicken, Wyandotte Chicken, Rhode Island Red Chicken, Large Black Bacon, Duroc Bacon, Old Spot Bacon, Hampshire Bacon
-Animals now sleep at appropriate times
-New Blocks
-Tamed animals no longer teleport to you
-In Game Book Added
-Bug Fixes

Aroma1997Core (b155 to b156)
-Performance Improvements
-Bug Fixes

Aroma1997s Dimensional World (1.3.0.0.b37 to 2.0.0.2.b96)
-Performance Improvements
-Bug Fixes

Auto Ore Dictionary Converter (1.0 to 1.0.1)

AutoRegLib (1.3-18 to 1.3-30)
-Bug Fixes

Avaritia (3.2.0.13 to 3.3.0.33)
-Bug Fixes

B.A.S.E. (3.9.0 to 3.13.0)
-Performance Improvements
-Bug Fixes

Better Questing (3.5.259 to 3.5.300)
-New GUIs
-New Interface Button to Update Quests (finally!)
-Can now leave parties
-Performance Improvements
-Bug Fixes

Better Questing Quest Book (3.1.0 to 3.1.1)
-Bug Fixes

Better Questing Standard Expansion (3.4.143 to 3.4.159)
-JEI Support
-New Task Types
-Performance Improvements
-Bug Fixes

Bibliocraft (2.4.4 to 2.4.5)
-Bug Fixes

Bonsai Trees (b77 to b156)
-Bonsai Pots can now be dyed
-Performance Improvements
-Bug Fixes

Bookshelf (2.3.552 to 2.3.585)
-Performance Improvements
-Bug Fixes

Botania (1.10-354 to 1.10-361)
-New Items and Blocks
-Added Thaumcraft and Buildcraft Support
-Bug Fixes

Brandon's Core (2.4.2.157 to 2.4.12.205)
-Bug Fixes

Capsule (3.1.69 to 3.2.100)
-New Capsule Types and Sizes
-Bug Fixes

Chargers (1.0.0.1 to 1.2.0.4)
-Added Slots for Offhand and Baubles
-Blocks now keep energy when broken
-Bug Fixes

Chisel (0.2.0.31 to 0.2.1.35)
-New/Returning Blocks
-Bug Fixes

Chisels and Bits (14.18 to 14.33)
-Bit Bags can now be dyed
-Bug Fixes

Chunk-Pregenerator (1.8.1 to 2.1)
-Performance Improvements
-Bug Fixes

CodeChicken Lib (3.1.9.344 to 3.2.2.353)
-Bug Fixes

COFH Core (4.5.2.19 to 4.6.3.27)
-Bug Fixes

COFH World (1.2.0.5 to 1.3.1.7)
-Performance Improvements
-Bug Fixes

Connected Textures Mod (0.3.0.15 to 0.3.3.22)
-Performance Improvements
-Bug Fixes

Content Tweaker (4.6.0 to 4.9.1)
-New Script Stuff
-Bug Fixes

Cooking for Blockheads (6.4.40 to 6.4.70)
-New Blocks
-Recipe handling improvements
-Bug Fixes

Corail Recycler (2.0.0 to 3.2.3)
-New Models
-New GUIs
-Recycler can now store energy
-Bug Fixes

Corail Tombstone (2.9.7 to 3.5.5)
-Perk system added, replacing inherited bonuses from before
-Changes to how death is handled
-Updates to textures
-Bug Fixes

Cosmetic Armor Reworked (v1 to v4a)
-Bug Fixes

CraftTweaker (4.1.8 to 4.1.19)
-New script stuff
-Performace Improvements
-Bug Fixes

CraftStudio (1.0.0.93 to 1.0.1.95)
-Bug Fixes

CreativeCore (1.9.22 to 1.9.45)
-Performance Improvements
-Bug Fixes

Custom Main Menu (2.0.8 to 2.0.9)
-New Stuff for Pack Makers

Custom NPCs (13may18 to 30jan19)
-New Textures
-New GUI
-Bug Fixes

Cyclic (1.15.12 to 1.19.12)
-New Blocks and Items
-Health system now compatible with other health boosting mods
-Improvements to Sack of Holding
-Updates to some textures and models
-Performance Improvements
-Bug Fixes

DecoCraft 2(2.6.0 to 2.6.2)
-New Models
-Bug Fixes

Deep Resonance (1.7.0 to 1.8.0)
-Bug Fixes

Default Options (9.2.7 to 9.2.8)
-New Options

Doomlike Dungeons (1.11.1 to 1.12.5)
-Loot better balanced
-Bug Fixes

Draconic Evolution (290 to 343)
-Added config options for various things
-Performance improvements
-Bug Fixes

ElecCore (1.8.434 to 1.9.452)
-Performance Improvements
-Bug Fixes

Electroblob's Wizardry (4.1.2 to 4.1.4)
-Bug Fixes

EmberRoot Zoo (1.3.7 to 1.3.10)
-Fallen Knights Slower
-Bug Fixes

Enchiridion (3.3.3 to 3.3.5)
-Bug Fixes

Environmental Tech (2.0.11a to 2.0.20.1)
-New Blocks and Items
-Guide Improvements
-Controllers now store contents when broken
-Bug Fixes

ExCompressum (3.0.22 to 3.0.27)
-Added Rats to the Compressed Creature list
-Bug Fixes

FoamFix (0.9.9.1 to 0.10.5)
-Performance Improvements
-Bug Fixes

Forge Multipart CBE (2.4.2.60 to 2.6.1.81)
-Performance Improvements
-Bug Fixes

Forge Endertech (0125 to 0377)
-Bug Fixes

FTB Lib (5.1.0.22 to 5.4.3.121)
-Performance Improvements
-Bug Fixes

FTB Utilities (5.1.0.27 to 5.4.0.99)
-Backups moved to separate mod
-Performance Improvements
-Bug Fixes

Game Stages (2.0.91 to 2.0.115)
-Performance Improvements
-Bug Fixes

Guidebook (2.6.5 to 2.9.2)
-Bug Fixes

Hunting Dimension (1.0.24 to 1.0.39)
-Hunting dimension time is no longer locked
-Bug Fixes

Hydrophobia (1.0.1c to 1.0.4c)
-Bug Fixes

Immersive Engineering (0.12-82 to 0.12-89)
-New Blocks and Items
-Added Thaumcraft Compatability
-Bug Fixes

Immersive Hempcraft (0.0.6.2 to 0.0.7.1)
-New Blocks
-Bug Fixes

Immersive Railroading (1.2.1 to 1.6.1)
-Thermal Foundation Fuel Support
-New and Updated Models
-Updated Track System
-More crossmod compatability
-Bug Fixes

In Control! (3.8.0 to 3.9.10)
-Performance Improvements
-Bug Fixes

Industrial Foregoing (1.10.1-176 to 1.12.12-236)
-Improved Textures
-Hydrator now waters farmland in operation range
-Performance Improvements
-Bug Fixes

Inventory Pets (1.5 to 2.0.1)
-New Items and Blocks
-New Textures
-New Dungeons
-Slime Pet only resurrects once per feeding
-Bug Fixes

Iron Chests (7.0.44.829 to 7.0.67.845)
-New Textures
-Fixed Recipes
-Named chests will remember name when placed, broken, and upgraded
-Bug Fixes

Item Stages (1.0.35 to 2.0.50)
-Bug Fixes

Journeymap (5.5.2 to 5.5.5b7)
-New Server Stuff
-Performance Improvements
-Bug Fixes

Just Enough Harvestcraft (1.5.1 to 1.6.4)
-Added Water Filter support

Just Enough Items (4.10.0.199 to 15.0.283)
-Performance Improvements
-Bug Fixes

Just Enough Resources (0.8.6.28 to 0.9.2.60)
-Bug Fixes

LagGoggles (4.1 to 4.4)
-Bug Fixes

Lootbags (2.5.6 to 2.5.8.5)
-New GUIs
-Added many items to the Recycler blacklist
-Bug Fixes

LootTweaker (0.0.7 to 0.0.10)
-Bug Fixes

Mantle (1.3.2.24 to 1.3.3.55)
-Bug Fixes

MattDahEpic Core (1.0 to 1.1)
-Added config options for some commands

McJtyLib (3.0.1 to 3.5.3)
-Performance Improvements
-Bug Fixes

MeeCreeps (1.2.0 to 1.3.1)
-Performance Improvements
-Bug Fixes

Modular Diversity (0.2hotfix to 1.5)
-More mod compatabilities
-Bug Fixes

Modular Machinery (1.9.4 to 1.10.0)
-Bug Fixes

More Overlays (1.13 to 1.14)
-Bug Fixes

Mouse Tweaks (2.8 to 2.10)
-Bug Fixes

MrCrayfish's Furniture Mod (4.2.0 to 6.3.0)
-New Blocks and Items
-New and Fixed Models
-Performance Improvements
-Bug Fixes

Mrcrayfish's Gun Mod (0.3.1 to 0.12.1)
-New Items and Blocks
-Added reloading mechanic
-Mobs now get scared when gun fires near them
-Weapons now made with workbench
-Bug Fixes

Nether Portal Fix (5.3.13 to 5.3.17)
-Bug Fixes

Not Enough Items (2.4.1.233 to 2.4.2.240)
-Bug Fixes

Not Enough Roofs (0.8.0.0 to 0.8.0.1)
-New Block
-Bug Fixes

Not Enough Wands (1.7.0 to 1.8.1)
-Bug Fixes

Obfuscate (0.2.4 to 0.2.6)
-Bug Fixes

OMLib (3.0.0-148 to 3.1.3-245)
-Performance Improvements
-Bug Fixes

Online Picture Frame (1.4.18 to 1.4.24)
-Bug Fixes

OpenBlocks Elevator (1.3.6 to 1.4.2)
-Elevator blocks can now be redyed
-Bug Fixes

OpenComputers (1.7.2.67 to 1.7.4.153)
-New Blocks and Items
-New code things
-Performance Improvements
-Bug Fixes

OpenComputers Drivers for Tinker's Construct (0.4 to 0.6)
-Bug Fixes

OpenModularTurrets (3.0.1-257 to 3.1.3-355)
-New Blocks and Items
-New GUIs
-New Textures
-Turrets and bases cannot be moved by pistons anymore
-Performance Improvements
-Bug Fixes

Ore Stages (2.0.30 to 2.0.38)
-Bug Fixes

Pam's HarvestCraft (2u to 2zd)
-New Blocks and Items
-New Textures
-Bug Fixes

PlusTiC (6.5.2.0 to 7.1.0.0)
-More mod/integrations support
-Bug Fixes

Psi (1-59 to 1-77)
-Spells can now be rotated
-Improvements to search
-Bug Fixes

PTRLib (1.0.2 to 1.0.4)
-Performance Improvements
-Bug Fixes

Quark (125 to 165)
-Lots of new blocks and items
-New Creatures - Stonelings
-Performance Improvements
-Bug Fixes

Reborn Core (3.8.9.300 to 3.13.12.447)
-Performance Improvements
-Bug Fixes

Reborn Storage (3.1.0.50 to 3.3.4.85)
-Performance Improvements
-Bug Fixes

Recurrent Complex (1.4.7 to 1.4.8.2)
-Trees spawn again
-Performance Improvements
-Bug Fixes

Redstone Flux (2.0.2.3 to 2.1.0.6)
-Bug Fixes

Refined Storage (1.5.34 to 1.6.14)
-Autocrafting and other systems reworked
-Performance Improvements
-Bug Fixes

Refined Storage Addons (0.3 to 0.4.4)
-Bug Fixes

RFTools (7.53 to 7.71)
-Performance Improvements
-Bug Fixes

RFTools Control (1.9.0 to 2.0.2)
-New Opcodes, functions, and commands
-Bug Fixes

RFTools Power (1.1.0 to 1.2.0)
-Performance Improvements
-Bug Fixes

Scannable (1.6.3.19 to 1.6.3.24)
-Bug Fixes

Shadowfacts' Forgelin (1.7.4 to 1.8.3)
-Performance Improvements
-Bug Fixes

Scavenge (1.8.2 to 1.8.3.2)
-Bug Fixes

SilentLib (2.3.2-109 to 3.0.13-167)
-Performance Improvements
-Bug Fixes


Silent's Gems (2.7.2b-270 to 2.8.18-322)
-New Blocks and Items
-TiC support moved to different mod
-New Textures
-Bug Fixes

Silent's Gems Extra Parts (1.4.1-34 to 1.4.6-49)
-Bug Fixes

SlashBlade (r13 to r25)
-New Items
-Recipe changes
-Performance Improvements
-Bug Fixes

Statues (0.8.6.3 to 0.8.8.1)
-New Blocks
-Recipe changes
-Performance Improvements
-Bug Fixes

Steve's Carts Reborn (2.4.21.105 to 2.4.30.134)
-Recipe changes
-Performance Improvements
-Bug Fixes

No More Recipe Conflict (0.10 to 0.13)
-Bug Fixes

Storage Drawers (5.3.6 to 5.3.8)
-Bug Fixes

Tesla Core Lib (1.0.14.10 to 1.0.15.13)
-Bug Fixes

Tetra (0.8.1 to 0.30.0)
-New Blocks and Items
-New material options for multiple parts
-Improved systems
-Performance Improvements
-Bug Fixes

The Lost Cities (2.0.7 to 2.0.20)
-Performance Improvements
-Bug Fixes

The One Probe (1.4.23 to 1.4.28)
-Performance Improvements
-Bug Fixes

Tinker's Construct (2.10.1.87 to 2.12.0.135)
-Performance Improvements
-Bug Fixes

TOP Addons (1.7.0 to 1.11.0)
-Performance Improvements
-Bug Fixes

Torchmaster (1.6.4.62 to 1.7.1.74)
-Mega Torch and Dread Lamp cover a cube instead of a cylinder
-Use any dye on a Mega Torch to display the area covered. Use a dye or an empty hand on the Torch to remove the display
-Mega Torches should stop ambient cave sounds
-Bug Fixes

Trample Stopper (1.0.0.1 to 1.2.0.5)
-Bug Fixes

Traverse (1.5.4-61 to 1.6.0-69)
-Bug Fixes

Valkyrie Lib (2.0.11a to 2.0.20.1)
-Performance Improvements
-Bug Fixes

Vanilla Fix (1.0.9-97 to 1.0.10-99)
-Bug Fixes

XNet (1.7.1 to 1.8.1)
-Performance Improvements
-Bug Fixes

Yoyos (1.2.2.20 to 1.3.0.21)
-New Textures
-New Yoyos
-Botania Integration
-Bug Fixes