A Distant Journey

🔮 The Story of The Architect's Prism 🔮

Eons ago, there was the Architect’s Prism. It was originless - it had no maker, no beginning. It was universal, only one existed among all realms. Its only purpose - shaping thoughts into form, and form into reality.

The Prism was discovered and wielded by the greatest nation of its time, millenia before today. Its power gave rise to elegant weaponry, cities of unimaginable beauty, and a deeper understanding of the world itself. The influence of the Prism profoundly shaped the magical arts, as well as the creation of other - albeit less powerful - artifacts that still exist today.

However, should the thoughts fueling the Prism become ever so sligthly corrupt, its creations would twist and turn to darkness. A curious sorcerer, in an experiment to test the Prism’s true power, once unleashed its darkest creations - beings so terrible they consumed both him and the nation. Having barely managed to contain the outbreak of these wretched beings, other sorcerers, recognizing the danger of the Prism’s power, resolved to destroy it.

Though shattered, the Prism’s essence survived through the split shards, which then started adapting and took the form of Eyes. Every eye inherited a tiny fraction of the Prism's powers, but some were scattered across realms, some lost to time, others reforged through arcane craft and ritual lost their power. Knowledge of them withered - first becoming legends and eventually fading into myths.

Yet there remains an old saying that whoever retrieves all of the Eyes can restore the Architect’s Prism and wield its miraculous powers of creation

✨ Overview ✨

A Distant Journey (or ADJ for short) is an adventure/RPG style modpack which flips the game upside down, introducing a full achievement-driven campaign with linear progression, scaling difficulty, and intentionally quirky balancing.

This isn't just another generic vanilla-style pack, but it doesn't shy away from being one. It's a mix of both worlds, as during a playthrough you can feel both as if you were playing regular modded Minecraft we all know and love, as well as potentially a whole different game nested inside. In order to beat the main campaign, you will have to dip your fingers in every core mod at least slightly, being a bit of a change of pace from adventure packs which just focus on killing bosses and upgrading equipment. Magic, tech, bosses, exploration, building... it's got it all.

ADJ, despite being labeled as an RPG, doesn't put much pressure on the lore. Outside of what's already written, you are free to add your own stories, just like in vanilla Minecraft. It's a sandbox game after all, and I tried my best to keep that feeling all throughout the playthrough. The progression is also loosened up - in every new chapter, you unlock at least a few new things to do, and you can choose the order in which you do them.

⚒️ Key Features ⚒️

400+ mods - a huge roster of mods, including community favorites like Create, Botania, Farmer's Delight, and The Aether to slightly less popular ones like Ars Nouveau, The Bumblezone, and Cracker's Wither Storm - plus a few hidden gems, e.g. Rediscovered. To finish the pack, you’ll have to dip your fingers into most of the core mods, so you will experience everything included.
Linear progression & scaling difficulty - a full achievement-driven campaign split into 5 chapters, each focusing on a different dimension and ending with a different boss. Difficulty scales as you progress: mobs get stronger, but so do you.
Complete game rebalance - every number was flipped upside down. Double digit numbers of damage and triple digit ones for health. If you liked how games like Terraria play, you might like ADJ.
Fresh world generation - built on Clifftree with plenty of my own edits and a semi-strict “no overused worldgen mods” rule, giving worlds in ADJ a fresh and slightly unique look compared to other modpacks. Every vanilla dimension was redesigned and 3 new ones were added.
Integrated mod content - Mods content is interwoven together, making the pack feel more coherent and less like every mod is played separately (if you know what I mean). Don't be surprised if mods you're very familiar with suddenly have different recipes!
Light lore, sandbox spirit - while classified as an RPG, ADJ doesn’t force the story on you. It keeps Minecraft’s sandbox soul intact, allowing you to build your own stories around what's already there, with plenty of mods to give you some 'artistic liberty' for that purpose (e.g. Etched, The Joy of Painting, Scholar).

🧿 Chapters and The Eyes 🧿

In order to assemble the Architect's Prism, you will need to collect a total of 7 eyes. You will get 4 of them through defeating bosses and 3 through crafting.

From left to right are:

Eye of Cinders - essence of fire that destroys and recreates. Dropped by Wither, starts chapter 2 when picked up.
Eye of Angels - essence of purity that cleanses what's dirty. Dropped by Aerwhale King (Lost Aether Content), starts chapter 3.
Eye of Dreams - essence of nostalgia and memories of something that could be real. Dropped by Red Dragon (Rediscovered), starts chapter 4.
Eye of Desolation - essence of nothingness where everything comes from. Dropped by Ender Guardian (Cataclysm), starts chapter 5, the last one.
Eye of Verdancy - essence of life that allows everything to bloom. Crafted through Gaia Infusion (Botania + Botanic Additions).
Eye of Arcana - essence of magic that keeps the threads of reality together. Crafted through Enchanting Apparatus (Ars Nouveau).
Eye of Ethercraft - essence of curiosity that allowed technological progress. Crafted through an Assembly Line (Create).

Unfamiliar with the aforementioned mods? Don't be intimidated! Most items in ADJ have elaborate descriptions of their usage. Combine this with achievements giving you a push in the right direction and connecting the tech components from different mods becomes nothing more than a simple riddle.

⚙️ Technical Info and Notes ⚙️

Minimum of 5 GB of RAM is required to run the pack, with 6 GB being a recommended minimum.
Recommended RAM allocation: 8 GB. ADJ was made and tested specifically on that amount to make sure that weaker machines can handle it too.
The pack was made on a higher-end PC, but tested on a few machines with different hardware.
This pack is still relatively new, so bear with some stability/performance problems! I'll try to fix them to my best abilities.

📜 Special Thanks 📜

ElocinDev, blueversal, raspmary, and the ATM Team as their projects were a huge inspiration for ADJ, especially raspmary's Raspberry Flavoured and blueversal's Beyond Depth. Especially the last one, as it was actually a direct reason why I started making my own modpack in the first place.
MidasDaEpik and brokenemp for making the Eye and Prism textures.
Everyone who participated in the early tests.
YOU, for even checking out this page <3.

🔮 The Story of The Architect's Prism 🔮

✨ Overview ✨

⚒️ Key Features ⚒️

🧿 Chapters and The Eyes 🧿

⚙️ Technical Info and Notes ⚙️

📜 Special Thanks 📜

Support the development through my Ko-Fi!
I'm just one guy doing everything myself, so your support would really mean a lot to me <3

Join my Discord to get notified of updates and share feedback!

🔮 The Story of The Architect's Prism 🔮

✨ Overview ✨

⚒️ Key Features ⚒️

🧿 Chapters and The Eyes 🧿

⚙️ Technical Info and Notes ⚙️

📜 Special Thanks 📜

Support the development through my Ko-Fi!I'm just one guy doing everything myself, so your support would really mean a lot to me <3

Join my Discord to get notified of updates and share feedback!

Support the development through my Ko-Fi!
I'm just one guy doing everything myself, so your support would really mean a lot to me <3