Convergence

One mod instead of dozens. Convergence brings together the best of many popular mods (unified materials and gear, enchantments, dungeons, new biomes, maps, backpacks, quality-of-life tweaks, light shaders) in a single mod for Fabric and NeoForge, compatible by design: one set of materials, one logic, no duplicates.

Every module can be tuned or turned off in game: Options > Convergence….

Features

Resources

• Unified materials: 20 materials (iron, copper, gold and coal reused; 7 new ores: tin, lead, zinc, nickel, silver, osmium, uranium; 5 alloys: bronze, brass, electrum, invar, steel; 4 dungeon materials: necrite, adamant, luminite, ebonite), with ingots, nuggets, blocks, plates and dusts; vanilla-style textures (those of your resource pack), only the color changes.
• Recipes and hammer: 151 tag-based recipes that work with other mods; the hammer makes plates and dusts in the crafting table.
• Ore generation: the new ores spawn in the Overworld, including Convergence biomes.
• Recipe viewer: a list of every item next to the inventories, with search (name, @mod, #tag); left click for recipes, right click for uses, a "+" button to fill the crafting grid. It steps aside if JEI, REI or EMI is installed.

Gear and combat

• Metal gear: tools and armor for the 12 metals, emerald and the 4 dungeon materials (153 items), each with its role: bronze early on, steel before diamond, electrum very fast but fragile, osmium very tough but heavy, necrite almost on par with netherite, luminite highly enchantable…
• New weapons: dagger (fast, short reach), halberd (slow, 4-block reach) and warhammer (heavy, knockback, disables shields) in 23 materials, and two longbows (faster, stronger arrows).
• Slime boots: unbreakable boots that bounce like a slime block and cancel fall damage.
• Enchantments: 23 new enchantments from the table, librarians and loot: weapons (Armor Piercing, Reach, Frost, Venom, Execution, Life Steal…), shield (Riposte), tools (Auto-Smelt, Telekinesis, Excavation…), armor (Vitality, Light Step, Leap, Night Vision…), bow (Volley, Quick Draw, Homing) and 2 curses; a description under each enchantment in the tooltip.
• Pick-your-enchantment table: 4 cards showing all their enchantments: you choose instead of rolling; 5 special bookshelves that steer the cards; an "Extract" tab on the grindstone moves one enchantment onto a book. It steps aside if Apotheosis, Enchanting Infuser or Easy Magic is installed.

World

• Convergence (biomes) world type: chosen when creating the world (More World Options → World Type); our biomes only appear there, the Default type stays vanilla.
• Biomes: 10 in the Overworld, 3 in the Nether and 2 in the End, each with its plants, creature and structure; fortresses, bastions, End cities and the central island are still there.
• Trees and wood: 4 species (maple, weeping willow, pine, white cherry), each with logs, planks, stairs, slabs, fences, doors, trapdoors, signs, leaves and saplings.
• Autumn forest: russet fern, fallen-leaf carpet, small mushroom, autumn bush and its berries, shy deer, mossy stone ruins with a chest.
• Flower prairie: lavender, pansy, buttercup, meadow wisteria, blueberry bush, hedgehog, abandoned apiary.
• Misty marsh: reeds, cattails, flowering lily pad, marsh algae, glowing mushroom, heron, stilt hut, sunken crypt.
• Rocky tundra: dry grass, lichen on stone, arctic berries, white dryad, reindeer, cairn with a buried chest, frozen barrow.
• White cherry grove: a plateau biome with white cherry trees, white petals, primrose, clover, shy red panda and a tea pavilion.
• Willow grove: a wet biome of weeping willows and ponds, flowering rush, forget-me-not, meadowsweet, shy beaver and a beaver lodge with a chest.
• Heathland: a cool biome near taigas with heather, gorse, cotton grass, podzol and lone pines, shy grouse and a standing-stone circle.
• Pine forest: a cold, damp biome of pines, podzol and mossy boulders, needles and pine cones, twinflower, chanterelles, shy red squirrel, a forester's cabin and a spider nest.
• Lavender fields: a warm, dry biome with lavandin fields, wild thyme, rockrose, large oaks with bee nests, tortoise and a lavender distillery.
• Glowing caves: the first underground biome: mycelium patches, glowing caps and amber puffballs that give light, glowing moss up to the ceiling, cave salamander and a forager's camp.
• Ash steppe (Nether): layered ash, charred trees, ember thistle that gives light, fireproof salamander, abandoned forge.
• Magma marsh (Nether): ember reed on lava shores, lava toad that swims in it, collapsed nether brick bridge.
• Quartz forest (Nether): white-glowing quartz spires, quartz clusters that grow like amethyst, nether firefly, quartz shrine.
• Starlit meadow (End): purple End moss, star flower that gives light, void butterfly, ruined obsidian observatory.
• Void crystal fields (End): glowing purple crystals growing out of end stone, void altar.
• Biome-wood villages: in our biomes, villages are built of pine, maple or white cherry, and villagers take the biome's type.
• Old chunk upgrade: after an update, already generated chunks receive the new ores, plants, trees and structures, without damaging your builds (configurable).

Exploration

• Large dungeons: four multi-room places assembled at random, guarded by equipped monsters and a guardian with a boss bar, who drops the ingots of their material:
  • Crypt: a ruined chapel whose stairs lead down to 9 to 11 rooms and the tomb of the Crypt Guardian (necrite).
  • Abandoned mine: a miners' camp, timbered tunnels buried under the Overworld and the Foreman's hall (adamant).
  • Bandit hideout: a palisaded yard in forests, tents, huts and the Bandit Chief's storeroom (ebonite).
  • Glowing caves temple: a lever puzzle room, a trial room and the sanctuary of the Spore Guardian (luminite).
• Small places: ruined watchtower (hills), swamp wreck and mountain observatory (peaks), each with its chest and often a map to a large dungeon.
• Elites: some dungeon monsters have an ability (swift, sturdy, vampiric, leader) and an enchanted piece that can drop; trial spawner rooms and three tiers of chests.

Maps and travel

• Minimap: round or square map in the corner of your choice: terrain, relief, automatic cave mode, creature heads, coordinates, biome, time and more, zoom. It steps aside if Xaero's Minimap, JourneyMap, VoxelMap or FTB Chunks is installed.
• World map: M opens a full-screen map of the areas you explored, with a cave and Nether view at your feet's height; you, nearby players and your last death.
• Waypoints: created from the map, automatic death points, shown on the map, the minimap and in the world (name and distance); teleport with the /tp permission.
• Waystones: a block to craft or find in villages; right-click to activate it and travel to another activated waystone for 1 to 3 levels. They step aside if Waystones is installed.

Storage

• Backpacks: seven bags (45 to 108 slots) worn in 4 dedicated slots; the inventory and the bags form a single scrolling grid; each bag takes anything or a single kind (tools, food, ores, blocks, misc).
• Upgradable chests: iron, gold, diamond, crystal, obsidian and netherite (up to 12 × 9), upgraded in place with kits that keep the contents; the crystal chest shows its items above the lid.
• Upgradable furnaces: eight furnaces, from copper to netherite, faster and faster; the same kits upgrade them in place.
• Inventory and chest sorting: one button or key; stacks merged, three orders, hotbar never sorted. Deposit matching items, take all, hotbar refill, locked slots, trash slot.
• Shulker box contents: hovering a box shows a 9 × 3 grid of its contents in its color.

Quality of life

• Look-at tooltip: a panel at the top of the screen shows the block or creature you look at, the tool needed, mining progress, health and armor.
• Settings screen: every setting in game (Options > Convergence…, NeoForge Config button, Mod Menu on Fabric), applied immediately, per world and per server.
• Hunger and saturation: food tooltips show hunger and saturation, saturation and exhaustion bars, meal preview.
• Durability warning: a message, a blinking icon and an optional sound when a tool or armor piece is about to break.
• Spawn zones: marks on the ground where monsters can spawn (red: always, yellow: at night), with a key or a torch in hand.
• Right-click harvest: right-click a ripe crop to harvest and replant it.
• Fast leaf decay: after a tree is cut, its leaves fall in a few seconds, with their usual drops; placed leaves stay.
• Tree felling: sneak with an axe and the whole trunk comes down; only real trees, never houses; adjustable limit.
• Vein mining: sneak with a pickaxe and the whole vein of the same ore comes out; needs the right pickaxe; adjustable limit.
• Grave: on death, a grave keeps your whole inventory (bags included) and part of your experience; only its owner can open it, every item goes back to its slot; steps aside if another grave mod is installed.
• Starter kit: a new player gets stone tools, a leather chestplate, a crafting table and a furnace once (server setting).
• Multiplayer sleep: the night passes once a share of players sleeps (50% by default); steps aside if another sleep mod is installed.
• Memory reminder: a message if the game has less than 4 GB of memory, to raise it in the launcher.

Visuals

• Zoom: hold C to zoom, scroll to adjust, smooth transition; steps aside if another zoom mod is installed.
• Dynamic lights: a torch, a lantern or a lava bucket in hand or on the ground, a burning creature or a blaze light up their surroundings (client side only); steps aside if Sodium, Iris or LambDynamicLights is installed.
• Light shaders: glow around very bright areas, warm sunrise and sunset, slightly blue nights, richer colors, vignette; several presets; steps aside if Iris is installed.
• Performance: more frames per second in busy places (creatures and chests hidden behind walls are not drawn, adjustable distances, limited particles); steps aside if Sodium or Iris is installed.
• Biome ambience: fog, clouds, tinted sunsets, spores and fireflies at night, in Convergence biomes only.
• Translations: the whole mod in English and French.

Installation

One Convergence jar per profile: the one for your loader, never both.

• Fabric: also install Fabric API. Mod Menu is optional.
• NeoForge: nothing else.

Status

Convergence is in beta: back up your worlds before updating.