Ruins of Growsseth

Mod logo, featuring the Researcher in his tent looking at a magical tower in the background

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Feeling brave? You can try the latest in-dev build here on GitHub!

A highly configurable structures mod, with a smart data-based NPC to sell maps and guide you in discovery, and structures that hint to vanilla features taking inspiration from Broken Nether Portals. Also available on Modrinth!

Adapted from a mod made for the italian streamer Cydonia, as such also contains discs, trims, and more with content from his community and assorted easter eggs (also configurable). Also, it contains a custom world preset (Growsseth) that generates the world with the same seed as his run, and the mod's structures in the positions they were placed in it.

The mod features cut content and other features not seen in the original run, most importantly a progression quest for the Researcher NPC.

Finally, the mod can work alongside a web-tool to act as a Gamemaster to another player's run, similarly to Cydonia's original run, being able to spawn structures, tweak trades, and send notifications.

The mod is currently in Beta, so some issues might be present. If you find any, please report them to our GitHub.

A floating tower, ingame screenshot

Features

For full details visit the Wiki, and if you have any ideas or improvements to suggest, have a look at the Discussions!

- Structures

The mod currently features 9 structures, plus a new house that can spawn in villages. The "main" structure is the Researcher's Tent, where you can find the Researcher NPC that can sell you maps to the mod's structures and more.

The other 9 structures are meant to guide the player towards vanilla features in a similar way as broken Nether portals and ancient city circuits, featuring incomplete conduit structures, broken noteblock circuits, enchanting table tips, and more. Some features might be well known by Minecraft veterans, but the structures are still nice additions to any world. Full details on the structures are found in the wiki. And remember, if you're at the bottom of the sea, look for a weird floor tile...

- Researcher

The Researcher is the main (only) NPC of the mod. This weathered villager will sell you maps to the structures, react with dialogues to many actions (you wouldn't deface a fellow traveler's tent, would you?), and will handily defend himself from mobs and from you with his trusty dagger. The Researcher has a quest-like progression by default, unlocking more structure maps as you discover more, until the time he may need your help instead...

- Items and easter eggs

The mod includes many music discs with music from the Cydonia&Chiara community, especially from Il Coro di Mammonk.

Included tracks are:

Binobinooo
Giorgio Cubetti
Giorgio LoFi
Giorgio Finding Home
Giorgio Cub8bit
Abbandonati
Ancora Qui
Sega di Niente
La Ballata Del Respawn
La Missiva Nell'Ombra
Odi et Amo
Oursteps
Elogio a Padre Mammonk
Il Tesoro Di CacoCaco
Pesci Strani

Some discs allow crafting with amethysts to turn into a vocals version. Other items are an armor trim, pottery sherd, and banner pattern with Cydonia's logo, and special rewards for ending the story, one way or another. Some familiar faces might show up as easter eggs...

All the items in the mod are only found in the mod's structures or sold by the Researcher (depending on settings), and the easter eggs are configurable.

- World Gen

The mod offers a world preset, Growsseth, featuring the seed in Cydonia's series and fixed spawning points for the mod structures as in his series. The structure maps will also be unlocked in the same order.

- Game-master mode

Using a webtool (downloadable from here) and enabling the relevant mod settings, the mod can be controlled by an external "Gamemaster", that can control structure spawns, Researcher trades, send notifications, and more. This feature is disabled by default for security, and was adapted from the original mod used in Cydonia's run.

Growsseth Story Summary

To provide context for those unfamiliar with the series:

The lands of Growsseth were once thriving and prosperous, with the Egobalego Kingdom being the richest and most powerful of all. But one day its King disappeared, and everything went wrong...

The King's sons started a civil war to get absolute power, bringing death and destruction everywhere. During this war, the God everyone worshipped left, and a terrifying curse started spreading...

People who fell asleep never woke up, turning into rotting monsters, while aggressive, never- before-seen creatures emerged from the woods, attacking the unfortunate souls who would dare to venture too far from the cities.

Many brave researchers tried to fight this plague without success, and it wasn't long before society fell, and with it the greatness of the lands of Growsseth.

Years have passed since those days of horror. You open your eyes, and see a living, breathing world, now under the domain of nature.

Your journey begins, who knows what you'll find?

Compatibility with other mods

Cobblemon, End Remastered have special synergies.

For full info see the wiki page.

You can challenge the Researcher NPC to a Cobblemon battle by right clicking him with a Cobblemon item. For this to work, you need:
- Cobblemon
- Radical Cobblemon Trainers API
- Mega Showdown
- (until Mega Showdown adds ZA megas) Navas' ZAMega

(and dependencies of each mod which should be handled automatically by your launcher of choice)

Additionally, you can find Cobblemon and related addons' loot around in our structures.

If you have End Remastered installed, the mod's main quest will give you a special Eye at the end.

Incompatibile Mods

Because of limited time, we were able to only test the mod with its dependencies. If you find any incompatibilities, please report them to our GitHub. These are the ones we know about:

Lithostitched (1.21 only): having this library installed will make our "golem" village houses also spawn in the Growsseth world preset (where they are not supposed to).

Configuration

The mod allows you to disable every structure (including the village houses), and in general enable or disable every part of the mod. Using Mod Menu for a simpler configuration UI is recommended.

Server language. The language of the structures' texts (books, signs, etc.) can be configured server-wise. Currently only en_us and it_it are available, but languages can be added by datapack.On the client, language for singleplayer worlds is autodetected on first launch.

Researcher. The researcher can be switched between multiple modes; by default every Researcher across the world is treated as the same NPC memory-wise, but this can be disabled, also removing trade progress and making trades random more like a regular villager. Fighting and mob interactions can be disabled.

Data-sync. To use game-master mode, data-sync must be enabled and pointed to the Gamemaster URL (see the Wiki for more information). Make sure to only connect to trusted players!

Growsseth world. The position of each structure in the Growsseth preset can be changed via settings.

Datapacks. Various mod features, such as Researcher dialogues, trades, and structure texts, can be configured via datapack. See the Wiki for more details.

Credits

Ruslan Fanclub:

Filloax (Lead Programmer)
Krozzzt (Programming and Writing)
Reivaxelain (Art, Structures and Writing)
bb01 (Structures, Additional Writing and Additional Testing)
SkullFury (Original member, Datapack Management)
Vovalcool (Original member, Structures)
Everyone: Design and Testing

Contributors:

Sync_Gabri (Supervisor, Coordinator and Writer for the Cydonia's version) and Worgage (API Integration, Testing and Writing for the Cydonia's version) from the Project Egobalego team
Simone Russo (Sound Effect)
Farcr (Guber texture)

Musical artists:

Il Coro di Mammonk (Ancora Qui, La Ballata Del Respawn, Il Tesoro Di CacoCaco, La Missiva Nell'Ombra, Odi et Amo, Oursteps, Elogio a Padre Mammonk, Pesci Strani)
Singalek (Binobinooo, Giorgio Cubetti, Giorgio Lo-Fi)
HunterProduction (Giorgio Finding Home)
Hawkelele (Giorgio Cub8bit)
Ako & R-E-M (Abbandonati)
Guber (Una sega di niente)

Ready to enter the lost land of Growsseth?

Chibi art featuring the researcher and a player