Ancient Warfare 2: Remastered

Ancient Warfare 2: Remastered is an unofficial community remaster of Ancient Warfare 2.

This project restores the major systems of the original mod for modern Minecraft while extensively rewriting, expanding, and modernizing its code. It is not an official release by the original Ancient Warfare 2 authors.

Main Features

• Recruitable workers and combat NPCs
• Farming, mining, crafting, courier, and warehouse automation
• Research-based progression and crafting
• Large historical and fantasy structure generation
• Factions, hostile settlements, castles, towns, and dungeons
• Siege engines, artillery, ships, and transport vehicles
• Command batons, military formations, commanders, and mounted units
• Restored legacy interfaces, models, animations, textures, and recipes
• JEI recipe integration
• Optional compatibility with Ice and Fire
• Dragon riders, hippogryph riders, and hippocampus riders
• Ice and Fire creatures and additional themed loot in Ancient Warfare structures

Remastered Version

This project began as a version port, but many systems have since been substantially rewritten or recreated. It is therefore published as a remaster rather than a direct port.

The remaster preserves the identity and core gameplay of Ancient Warfare 2 while introducing restored legacy content, rewritten NPC behavior, new command systems, expanded mounted combat, modern compatibility integrations, and numerous fixes and improvements.

Requirements

• Minecraft 1.20.1
• Forge 47.x
• GeckoLib for Forge

JEI and Ice and Fire are optional but supported.

Model Notice

The models used by this remaster were recreated with AI-assisted tools and workflows to replace the legacy CodeChickenLib rendering pipeline.

This was done to remove the dependency on CodeChickenLib and to keep a possible future Fabric version technically feasible, since CodeChickenLib is not available for Fabric.

This does not mean that every asset in the mod is AI-created. Legacy textures, skins, structures, gameplay designs, names, and other contributed assets retain their original attribution.

Attribution

Ancient Warfare 2 was originally created by Shadowmage and maintained by its original development community.

This remaster is a modified and unofficial community project. The original authors and asset contributors are not responsible for bugs or changes introduced by this version.

Please see the included CREDITS and MODEL_NOTICE files for detailed attribution and disclosures.

Important Notice

Back up your worlds before installing or updating the mod.

Because the project remains under active development, some systems may change between releases. Please report problems to the remaster project rather than to the original Ancient Warfare 2 authors.