Unofficial NeoForge port

TaCZ: Renovated is an unofficial community port of Timeless & Classics Guns: Zero (TaCZ). It is not an official TACZ Dev Team release and has not been reviewed or endorsed by that team.

This project brings TaCZ to NeoForge on Minecraft 26.2, 26.1.2 and 1.21.11. It is based on the public GPL source lineage of MCModderAnchor/TACZ, Sh1roCu/TACZ-Refabricated, and TaCZ Refabricated Unofficial. Its focus is porting and compatibility maintenance, not adding new firearms.

Features

• TaCZ firearms, attachments, optics, ammunition, workbenches and data-driven gun packs, including the upstream default gun pack.
• NeoForge-native registration, events and networking, with resource, GUI and rendering adaptations for each supported Minecraft release.
• Direct loading of modern gun packs and conversion of supported legacy layouts.
• A partial LRTactical compatibility framework for melee items, consumables, detonators and several throwable behaviours.
• Built-in JEI/REI ammo queries and workbench categories where available; optional integrations vary by Minecraft release.

Exact compatibility and test status are listed on each uploaded file and in its release notes. Third-party gun packs, tactical-equipment packs, optional mods and shader packs must still be checked per version.

Requirements

Files for different Minecraft releases are not interchangeable. This project provides NeoForge only. For Fabric, use the sister project TaCZ Refabricated Unofficial.

Installing gun packs

Place modern gun packs in .minecraft/tacz/. Zip files may be loaded directly, or packs may be extracted as folders. In both cases, gunpack.meta.json must be at the pack root; do not wrap a zip in an extra directory.

Place legacy-layout packs in .minecraft/tacz_backup/, keep the originals, and run /tacz convert in game. Conversion cannot repair every resource, recipe or script difference automatically. Decide whether conversion is needed from the pack structure, not only its advertised Minecraft version.

For multiplayer, install the same packs on server and clients. The server supplies gameplay data; clients supply models, textures, animations, sounds and translations. After adding a pack, run /tacz reload on the server and press F3+T on clients.

LRTactical and Arcana

The built-in LRTactical layer is a partial compatibility framework, not a complete NeoForge distribution. It does not bundle the original art, does not include flash_shield, and cannot guarantee that every LRTactical content pack will work. Content packs must provide all assets they are licensed to distribute.

This project does not include TacZ:Arcana or implement its API or protected asset-loading process. Packs that explicitly require Arcana are unsupported. Missing models or purple/black textures alone do not prove an Arcana dependency; incorrect directory nesting, resource paths, version constraints or incomplete files can cause the same symptom.

Known boundaries and issue reports

• Detection of a gun pack does not prove that all models, animations, recipes and scripts are compatible.
• Scope rendering is adapted separately for each branch; results can differ by graphics backend and shader pack.
• Hosting panels, proxy networks and hybrid Bukkit/mod servers are not covered by one compatibility guarantee. Reproduce issues on a plain NeoForge server.

When reporting a problem, first reproduce it in a minimal NeoForge environment with this mod and attach the complete latest.log or crash report. For multiplayer issues, include both server and client logs. Report port issues to this project, not to TaCZ, TaCZ Refabricated or LRTactical authors.

Credits and licensing

• Original: MCModderAnchor / TACZ
• Direct upstream: Sh1roCu / TACZ-Refabricated
• NeoForge port skeleton reference (GPL-3.0, auxiliary — rendering code not adopted): MUKSC / TACZ-1.21.1
• LRTactical original: LesRaisins Tactical Equipements
• Fabric sister project: TaCZ Refabricated Unofficial
• This NeoForge port: source and issue tracker are available in this page's Links section

TaCZ, this port and the incorporated LRTactical code use GPL-3.0. The default gun pack declares CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 for its assets. LuaJ uses MIT; Commons Math uses Apache-2.0. Other code and assets retain their own licenses. A code license does not automatically cover models, textures, animations or sounds. See LICENSE and LICENSES.md in the source repository.

The mod ID remains tacz for existing gun-pack dependencies and save data. This does not make the project official. Provided as-is, without warranty.