A Quiet Machine — 2.0

Major Release — Mature State

Version 1.2 represents a major stabilization and refinement of A Quiet Machine.

The pack has moved beyond its experimental stage and now has a much clearer identity: a harsh, atmospheric survival experience built around preparation, fragility, exploration, combat, and industrial progression.

Removed

• Removed Midnight Lurker.
• Removed Spooki's Unique Mobs and its more extreme mob variants.
• Removed unnecessary or obsolete performance configurations and JVM arguments.

Combat & Survival

• Added Better Combat.
• Added Simply Swords.
• Improved the role of melee combat as an alternative to firearms.
• Rebalanced the relationship between firearms, ammunition, melee weapons, and survival.
• Adjusted hostile mobs to provide dangerous encounters without overwhelming the player with excessive artificial variants.
• Maintained the importance of localized damage and player fragility through First Aid.

Atmosphere & Horror

• Added new atmospheric and horror-oriented mods.
• Expanded environmental tension and the feeling of an unpredictable world.
• Shifted the horror design away from constant scripted threats and toward uncertainty, isolation, exploration, and environmental danger.
• The world is not designed to hunt the player. It simply does not care whether they survive.

World & Exploration

• Reworked world generation.
• Adjusted exploration and environmental distribution.
• Improved the relationship between structures, dangerous areas, resources, and survival.
• Replaced Xaero's World Map with Antique Atlas to encourage exploration without turning the world into a constantly available GPS.

Technology & Progression

• Refined the progression between primitive tools, firearms, materials, and industrial machinery.
• Preserved the usefulness of older materials throughout progression instead of making them immediately obsolete.
• Continued development of Create as a long-term industrial solution rather than an instant source of power.
• Industrialization remains resource-intensive and requires time, space, infrastructure, and protection.

Performance

• Major performance pass.
• Removed obsolete JVM arguments.
• Reduced unnecessary configuration overhead.
• Improved rendering configuration.
• Extended testing performed across exploration, combat, construction, Creative testing, and long play sessions.
• Current testing indicates RAM is the primary hardware consideration for the pack.

Configuration & Infrastructure

• Updated the main menu and presentation.
• Refined custom configuration and resource handling.
• Continued development of KubeJS-based custom content.
• Updated installation and Java 17 recommendations.
• Updated hardware requirements based on real-world testing.

Current State

A Quiet Machine is now considered mature and stable.

This release establishes the current foundation of the modpack. Future updates will focus primarily on refinement, additions, balance changes, atmospheric improvements, and fixing remaining issues rather than fundamental redesigns.

The Survival Guide is currently undergoing further work and may be incomplete or unavailable in this release.

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