Crownfall turns your world into a living medieval age. Autonomous cities grow street by

street into true cities. A real coin economy replaces emerald barter. Armies muster in

minutes at a Barracks — no villager kidnapping, ever. Player- and AI-led nations spread

across a **real-world Earth map**, forge alliances, and wage coalition wars over provinces

and whole countries — all while monsters haunt the wilds. You begin a Freeman. You may end

an Emperor.

> Forge 1.20.1. One dependency: **GeckoLib**. Singleplayer and dedicated servers both fully

> supported. Works alongside Epic Fight, JEI, and MineColonies — no vanilla-village mixins,

> namespace-isolated, `crownfall.`-prefixed attributes.

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## Living Settlements

The **Folk** are not villagers. Their cities found themselves in fertile land, lay roads,

and build block by block through five stages — Hamlet, Village, Town, City, Capital — raising

palisades, stone walls, gates and keeps as they grow. Cities tick even when nobody is nearby,

and a fast-forward reconciler completes anything that finished while you were away. After a

war or a monster raid, builders work the **Repair Ledger** until the city is whole again and

trade resumes on its own. Charter a vanilla village into a Folk hamlet, or found your own.

## Real Coinage

Copper Penny, Silver Groat (100 pennies), Gold Crown (100 groats) drive every trade, wage,

tax and recruitment. Carry a **Coin Purse** — picked-up coins flow straight in. Mine **Silver

Ore**, then mint ingots into coins at a **Mint** (a 10% fee funds the city treasury). Around

forty goods carry supply-and-demand prices that swing with production and war. A deterministic

economy simulation keeps the whole thing from inflating or collapsing.

## Effortless Armies

Open a **Barracks**, pick a unit, pay coins — a soldier walks out the door. Nine units from

Levy Spearman to Mounted Knight and Siege Engineer, with real counters (pikes beat cavalry,

crossbows punch plate, cavalry runs down archers). Command them with the **Marshal's Baton**

(follow, hold, patrol, garrison, assault, retreat; five formations, three stances) and rally

with the **War Horn**. Kills promote units through Veteran and Elite. Pay daily wages or they

desert. Off-duty soldiers serialize into a **Muster Post** — no entity leaks, no losses. Need

an army *now*? Hire a mercenary company at the **Tavern**.

## The Old World

A world preset that is planet Earth at 1200 AD, generated from real elevation data: recognizable

coastlines and mountain ranges, the Bosphorus, the Nile, the Alps and Himalaya. **44 historic

nations** from England and France to the Sultanate of Rum, Byzantium, the Ayyubids, Song China

and Kamakura Japan — placed at their real capitals with original, heraldic-flavoured arms. The

Americas, Oceania and inner wilds are open for colonization. Choose a starting realm on your

first join.

## Wars, Sieges & Coalitions

Nations hold **provinces**; diplomacy runs on opinion, treaties and casus belli. Declare war

(a war-chest deposit brakes griefing), fight field battles that autoresolve when far away and

materialize as real companies when near. Build five **siege engines** — Trebuchet, Mangonel,

Ballista, Battering Ram, Siege Tower — to breach walls, then **occupy** a city for taxes or

**raze** it to a Ruin. Grow too large and the world forms a **coalition** against you. Peace

deals transfer provinces, exact reparations, or release nations. No war drags on forever.

## Beasts of the Wild

Trolls, werewolves, wyverns, dragons, giants, barrow wights, basilisks and sea serpents — plus

the Elder Dragon and the Lich of the Barrows — lair **only in their home regions**. An active

lair infests its province, bleeding trade until you clear it. Take contracts at a **Bounty

Board** for coin and renown; rare **artifacts** (Wyrmfang Blade, Wolfsbane Charm, Barrow Crown,

Giant's Belt and more) drop from the mighty and repair with coins.

## Heraldry, Titles & Logistics

Renown raises your **title** from Freeman to Emperor, lifting your army cap and charter rights.

Design your own arms in the **Heraldry Designer** — field, division and charge, from lion to

fleur-de-lis — and your soldiers march under your livery. **Caravans** carry goods between

cities (escort one for coin, raid it in war); build **Docks** to launch a Transport Cog or War

Galley, load your troops and cross the sea — even island realms can be invaded from the water.

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## FAQ

**Forge only?** Yes — Forge 1.20.1 (47.x). Never Fabric or NeoForge.

**Dependencies?** Exactly one: **GeckoLib 4.x** (animated monsters). Everything else is pure

Forge + vanilla.

**Does it work with other mods?** It coexists cleanly with Epic Fight, JEI and MineColonies —

no vanilla-village mixins, isolated namespace, prefixed attributes. Combat stays vanilla-compatible.

**How do I enable the Earth map on a server?** Set `level-type=crownfall:old_world` in

`server.properties`. See `server-starter-README.txt`.

**Singleplayer?** Fully playable — AI nations run the whole strategic layer around you.

**Can I turn things off?** Yes — server/common/client TOML configs cover sim caps, recruit

costs, war windows, peacetime protection, block-damage-in-war-only, monster density, map scale

and more.

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## Gallery shot list (for the CurseForge page)

1. An S3 city at dusk, seen from its walls.

2. A coalition war on the political map (M).

3. A trebuchet volley breaching a gate.

4. A dragon over the Alps.

5. The Heraldry Designer with a finished coat of arms.

6. A company of soldiers in matching surcoat livery.

7. A caravan on the road between two cities.

8. A War Galley landing troops on a foreign coast.

9. The starting-nation selection screen on the Earth map.

10. A Bounty Board contract and a cleared lair.

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## Inspired by (no assets used)

Crownfall is an original, clean-room work. It was *inspired by* — and takes no code, art,

models, sounds or structures from — these mods, with thanks to their authors: MineColonies,

Recruits and Workers (talhanation), Valarian Conquest, Medieval Siege Machines, Small Ships,

Astikor Carts, Epic Fight, Iron's Spells 'n Spellbooks, and the medieval building-block and

decoration families of the CurseForge medieval scene. Please support the originals.

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