🦖 Primordial Earth 1.8.0: The First Dawn

Minecraft gives you blocks. Primordial Earth gives you a world that can kill you.

Primordial Earth turns Minecraft into a prehistoric survival world. You get continent-scale mountain ranges and 400-block volcanoes, 30 prehistoric creatures that hunt, herd and sleep, the Dawn People, tribes with their own villages and language, and one legendary dragon asleep in the tallest volcano.

🌋 A World Rebuilt

• Primal terrain: peaks near y 490, volcanoes 400+ blocks high, granite domes and stone-pillar forests, with clouds at y 330
• Great rivers up to 50 blocks wide, floodplains, oxbow lakes, streams and cliff waterfalls
• 13 new Overworld biomes: Great River Basin, Swamp of Giants, Primeval Rainforest, Fern Plains, Cycad Highlands, Scorched Expanse, Canyon of Bones, Tar Pits, Hidden Eden, Primeval Conifer Forest, Amber Grove, Volcanic Ridge, Ashfall Caldera
• 5 new Nether biomes: Magma Sea, Bone Wastes, Ash Forest, Basalt Cathedral, Sulfur Fields
• Features: tar pits, amber caches, colossal skeletons, hot springs, lava vents, giant ferns and cycads, egg clutches

🦕 30 Prehistoric Creatures

Tyrannosaurus, Giganotosaurus, Spinosaurus, Allosaurus, Carnotaurus, raptor packs, Triceratops, Stegosaurus, Ankylosaurus, Brachiosaurus, Argentinosaurus, Parasaurolophus, Quetzalcoatlus, Pteranodon, Mosasaurus, Dunkleosteus, Sarcosuchus and more, plus two creatures of the Nether.

• A signature attack for every species: the tyrant's bite-and-shake, the crocodile's death roll, the Quetzalcoatlus snatch, the Dilophosaurus' blinding venom, the Mosasaurus breach
• Living behaviour: hunger-driven hunting, packs, herds that stampede, territorial warnings, drinking, sleeping, nocturnal hunters
• Detailed models with hand-tuned animation, and an original voice for every creature

🔥 The Dawn People

• Tribal camps and villages with huts, a great fire, totems and a palisade
• Hunters, firekeepers, scouts, healers, toolmakers and elders, each with their own trades
• Standing from Enemy to Kin, quests from elders and healers, and their own Dawn tongue
• They sense danger, flee from giants, fight together, and drive predators off with fire

🐉 Kaal'Ashura, the Ember of the First Dawn

There is one dragon in every world. It sleeps in the crater of the tallest volcano. The elders will tell you its legend and give you an Ember Scale that burns toward it. Far roars and falling ash lead you closer.

• A world boss with 600 health. It bites, sweeps its tail and breathes fire on the ground, and circles, strafes and dives in the air. Every attack is telegraphed. At half health it becomes enraged.
• It cannot be killed. At 20% health it yields and kneels. Climb on to start the bond flight, then lean into every lurch as it tries to throw you off.
• Tame it and fly it: look to steer, W to fly, Space to climb, Sprint to surge, R to breathe fire. The camera banks with every turn.

🧗 Still Here From 1.5

• Named peaks with a Summit Register, cairn trails and vista points
• Climbing Rope, Camp Kit and Barometer
• Readable regional storms and rockfalls, with difficulty modes from Cinematic to Hardcore

📦 Installation

1. Install Fabric Loader 0.20.1+ and Fabric API 0.165.0+ for Minecraft 26.3 (Java 25).
2. Drop the mod jar into your mods folder.
3. Create a new world and choose the Primordial Earth world type. Your normal worlds are never changed.

Tips: it looks best with Distant Horizons and Complementary shaders. Don't run Chunky together with Distant Horizons 3.3.4, because that combination crashes when a world is created. /primordialearth locate dragon (operators) shows the dragon's lair.

🎬 Trailer

The full cinematic trailer is on the Wumbo YouTube channel.

💬 Feedback

Found a bug or an ugly spot in the terrain? Bug reports and screenshots are very welcome. Which creature should hunt you next?