Welcome to the server

Everything you need to play: pick a guide below for direction, skim the modpack overview underneath, and see How to Join if you're not on yet.

THE GUIDES

GUIDE 01 Surviving Your First Week Deadly nights, seasons, falling trees, and the five crafts to rush. Start here. GUIDE 02 Kitchen & Farm Meals with real buffs, the cooking-pot chain, and farming around the seasons. GUIDE 03 Getting Started with Create Water wheels to brass to trains — rotational power from zero. GUIDE 04 Mekanism: Dirt to Jetpack Ore multiplication, the Digital Miner, and the MekaSuit long game. GUIDE 05 Becoming a Wizard Iron's Spells: scrolls, schools, mage gear, and boss-tier magic. GUIDE 06 Loot, Affixes & God-Gear Why your sword has purple stats — salvage, socket, reforge, enchant. GUIDE 07 The Boss Ladder A recommended fight order with gear checkpoints, so you die less. GUIDE 08 The Explorer's Atlas What's out there and how to find it — cave worlds, megadungeons, dimensions. GUIDE 09 Trinkets, Artifacts & Relics The Curios slots and the treasure that fills them. Mind the mimics. GUIDE 10 QoL Cheat Sheet Every small mod explained in one sentence. Skim now, thank us later.

THE MODPACK

Server Modpack Overview

A guide to the major gameplay mods on the server (284 mods total — this covers the ones that shape how the game plays; libraries, performance patches, and cosmetic-only mods are skipped).

Tech & Automation

  • Create — the pack’s flagship tech mod. Build machines from rotating shafts, cogs, belts, and water wheels: automated farms, trains, factories, and contraptions that move. Several addons extend it: Create Crafts & Additions (electric motors, bridging into electricity), Create Enchantment Industry (automated enchanting/disenchanting), Create: Slice & Dice (food automation), and Create: Interiors (furniture-style blocks).
  • Mekanism (+ Generators, Additions, Tools, Weapons) — the high-tech counterpart: ore quintupling, energy networks, digital miners, jetpacks, and endgame machinery. Where Create is mechanical and hands-on, Mekanism is wires-and-GUIs industrial.
  • Building Gadgets 2 — handheld tools that place, copy, and paste large structures quickly.

Magic & Progression

  • Iron’s Spells ‘n Spellbooks — the main magic system: learnable spells across elemental schools, spellbooks, mana, and wizard gear. Addons tie its spells into the pack’s boss mods (Cataclysm: Spellbooks, Ice and Fire: Spellbooks).
  • Apotheosis (+ Apotheotic Additions, Apothic Attributes/Curios/Materials) — deep overhaul of enchanting and loot: affix items (Diablo-style random stats), gems to socket into gear, enchantments beyond vanilla caps, and reworked bosses/spawners. Most “why does this sword have six purple stats” moments come from here.
  • Relics (+ More Relics) — collectible trinkets with unique active/passive abilities that level up as you use them.
  • Artifacts (+ More Artifacts, Grim’s Artifacts, Celestial Artifacts) — rare treasure items found in world loot (night-vision goggles, wall-climbing gloves, etc.), worn in trinket slots.
  • Curios & Accessories — the trinket-slot systems (rings, belts, charms) that the artifact/relic mods plug into.

Bosses, Dungeons & Combat

  • L_Ender’s Cataclysm — the pack’s hardest content: elaborate dungeons (Cursed Pyramid, Sunken City, Cataclysm fortresses) guarded by cinematic bosses with unique drops.
  • Ice and Fire — dragons: fire and ice dragons nesting in the world, dragon-slaying, taming, and dragon-forged gear, plus other mythical beasts (sea serpents, hydras, cyclopes).
  • Mowzie’s Mobs — hand-animated minibosses and creatures (Ferrous Wroughtnaut, Umvuthi, Frostmaw) with boss-fight mechanics and trophy drops.
  • Alex’s Mobs — ~90 real-and-fantastical animals from elephants to void worms, many with useful drops or tames.
  • Alex’s Caves — five massive hidden cave biomes (bioluminescent depths, primordial dinosaur caves, toxic wasteland, candy cavern, abyssal chasm), each practically a dimension with its own mobs, blocks, and tech.
  • Born in Chaos — a horde of new undead and nightmare mobs that make nights significantly more dangerous.
  • Deeper and Darker — extends the Deep Dark: the Otherside dimension beyond ancient cities, warden-themed gear.
  • The Graveyard — spooky structures (graveyards, crypts, haunted houses) with their own undead.
  • Enderman Overhaul / Creeper Overhaul — biome-specific variants of both mobs with new behaviors.
  • YUNG’s Better suite (Caves, Dungeons, Mineshafts, Strongholds, Nether Fortresses, Witch Huts, End Island) — vanilla structures rebuilt into far larger, more interesting versions.
  • When Dungeons Arise (+ Seven Seas) & Dungeon Crawl — huge explorable megastructures: sky castles, pirate fleets, sprawling multi-level dungeons.
  • Lootr — every loot chest is per-player, so dungeon loot isn’t gone because a friend got there first.
  • Spartan Weaponry & Spartan Shields (+ toolkit and compat addons) — dozens of new weapon classes (halberds, rapiers, javelins, crossbow variants) with reach/speed tradeoffs, in every material including modded ones.
  • Upgraded/Additional Trims + Trim Effects — armor trims grant actual gameplay effects, making smithing templates worth hunting.

World Generation & Environment

  • Biomes O’ Plenty and Oh The Biomes We’ve Gone — two large biome mods adding ~100 new overworld/nether biomes between them.
  • Dynamic Trees (+ compat addons for BOP, Croptopia, Pam’s, Quark) — trees grow branch by branch from saplings into natural shapes and fall when chopped; replaces the vanilla insta-tree.
  • Serene Seasons (+ Plus/Extended) — a real seasonal cycle: crops only grow in season, leaves change color, winter snow creeps south. Pairs with the farming mods to force crop planning.
  • Enhanced Celestials — lunar events: blood moons (mob swarms), harvest moons, blue moons, each changing that night’s rules. Chaos Moon adds more chaotic variants.
  • ChoiceTheorem’s Overhauled Villages, More Villagers, Guard Villagers — villages rebuilt per-biome and much larger, new villager professions, and armed guards that defend them.
  • The Bumblezone — a bee-themed dimension entered by throwing an enderpearl at a beehive.
  • Better Archeology — expands brushing/digging with new dig sites and artifacts.
  • Immersive Weathering — blocks age, moss spreads, leaves pile — the world slowly changes on its own.
  • Better Days / Hourglass — day/night length control (nights pass faster when everyone sleeps).

Farming & Food

  • Farmer’s Delight — the cooking backbone: cutting boards, skillets, cooking pots, and meal buffs. A dozen addons extend it into every corner of the pack (Chef’s Delight, Farmer’s Respite (tea), Ocean’s Delight, Alex’s Delight, L_Ender’s Delight, Aquaculture Delight, Croptopia Delight, and more) — most mob and biome mods feed into the kitchen.
  • Croptopia (+ Additions) and Pam’s HarvestCraft 2 (crops, trees, food core/extended) — hundreds of new crops, fruit trees, and dishes between them.
  • Aquaculture 2 — fishing overhaul: ~30 real fish per biome category, upgradable rods, tackle boxes, and fishing loot.
  • Let’s Do series: Vinery, Bakery, Meadow, Farm & Charm — themed culinary professions: winemaking, baking, alpine dairy farming, and general homestead cooking.
  • Cooking for Blockheads — an auto-sourcing kitchen: a cooking book that shows what you can make from what’s in your connected kitchen blocks.
  • XP From Harvest Reworked — harvesting crops grants XP, making farmer a viable playstyle.

Storage, Travel & Quality of Life

  • Sophisticated Backpacks & Sophisticated Storage — upgradable backpacks and chests (auto-pickup, magnets, filters, stack upgrades) — the pack’s main inventory solution.
  • Waystones — teleport network: activate waystones found in villages/dungeons (or craft your own) and warp between them.
  • Xaero’s Minimap & World Map — the mapping suite; server-synced so waypoints and map data behave consistently.
  • Tombstone — death creates a grave holding your items, with a scroll to teleport back to it. No more item despawn panic.
  • Quark (+ Zeta) — ~150 small vanilla-plus features: chest sorting, item pipes, new building blocks, mob tweaks — the “should have been in vanilla” mod.
  • Supplementaries — functional decor: ropes, pulleys, jars, signs, timber frames, weather vanes, and dozens of small interactive blocks.
  • Carry On — pick up and carry chests, spawners (config-dependent), and small mobs with empty hands.
  • JEI / Jade / AppleSkin — recipe lookup, block/mob info overlay, and food-value tooltips.
  • Clumps — merges XP orbs (also a performance saver).
  • Mob Grinding Utils — purpose-built mob farm blocks (fans, mob mashers, XP taps).
  • Torchmaster — mega torches that block hostile spawns in a radius, for protecting builds.
  • Nature’s Compass / Explorer’s Compass — search-and-point tools for locating specific biomes and structures.
  • Disenchanting Table / Uncrafting Table — recover enchantments from gear and break items back into materials.
  • Corail Spawners & Portable Mobs — interactable spawners and mob transport.
  • Pehkui — entity size-scaling engine used by several mods’ effects.

Building & Decoration

  • Macaw’s suite (doors, windows, fences, furniture, lights, paths, paintings, roofs, stairs, trapdoors + biome-wood compat) — the definitive building-detail collection, in every wood type including modded ones.
  • Chipped — 11,000+ decorative variants of vanilla blocks via the mason workbenches.
  • Handcrafted / Refurbished Furniture / Cozy Home / Beautify / MOA Decor sets — furniture and room decoration in many styles.
  • Fairy Lights — hangable string lights, lanterns, and pennants.

Backbone (invisible but load-bearing)

Not gameplay, but worth knowing they exist: Packet Fixer (lets a pack this size connect at all), ModernFix + FerriteCore (memory/startup optimization), and ~60 library mods (Citadel, GeckoLib, Balm, Bookshelf, Puzzles Lib, etc.) that the mods above depend on.

Removed from the pack: Nutritional Balance (server performance), XL Packets (obsolete), duplicate Bakery 1.1.15. See SETUP.md for the player installation checklist.