Apocalypse Begins [Zombie Apocalypse]

Apocalypse Begins [Zombie Apocalypse] is a modern zombie apocalypse survival modpack. It includes a handcrafted modern city, specialized survival mechanics, and a growing zombie threat that escalates over time. The goal of the modpack is to craft the vaccine & survive 100 Days. It is designed for the hardcore gamemode, but can be enjoyed casually too.

✨ Features

The following are some of the features this modpack includes, but isn't limited to:

⚔️ Combat & Apocalypse

• Superb Warfare - Firearms, melee weapons, armor, turrets, and missiles.
• Better Combat - Melee weapon combat overhaul.
• The Hordes - Hordes strike each player periodically, increasing in difficulty each time.
• Improved Mobs - Increased mob intelligence. Zombies will learn to mine blocks, steal items, and use off-hand items such as ender pearls and lava buckets. Zombies come in all shapes and sizes, with increasing stats scaling with difficulty.
• Artifacts - Loot you can find throughout the city that usually gives you a massive buff.

🌡️ Survival Mechanics

• First Aid - Limb-based health system where you manually bandage wounded areas to heal.
• Diet - Managing to keep a diet above 50% for all categories gives you regeneration. If any falls below 5%, you get the hunger status effect. This requires you to eat a variety of food.
• Always Eat - You can eat past full hunger bars in order to meet nutritional standards.
• Tough as Nails - Thirst and temperature are necessary components to manage. Finding, purifying, and storing drinkable water will be a new challenge. Temperature will affect where you can go at any time, forcing you to build bases and technology to keep you at room temperature.
• Hardcore Revival - Revive your downed teammates.
• Parcool - Navigate the world using parkour to outrun your enemies and reach what they can't quicker.
• Hardcore Lite - If you die, you lose a heart (in non-hardcore gamemode).

🤖 Technology & Progression

• Create - Using stress to automate farms, generate materials, and build secure contraptions to protect yourself from the zombies.
• Create New Age - Introduces electricity generation and nuclear reactors to power everything from vehicles to storage systems
• Create Slice & Dice - Integrates with Farmer's Delight to allow automation of managing your diet.
• Pufferfish's Skills - Use skill points to upgrade your attributes like max health to increase your survivability. Earn skill points by slaying mobs.

👥 Multiplayer & Immersion

• Simple Voice Chat - Play and chat with friends using proximity voice chat.
• What Are They Up To - See your friend's inventories and UI's when they are accessing it.
• Presence Footsteps - Use your hearing to locate zombie threats approaching you.
• Open Parties & Claims - Claim chunks, forceload your contraptions, and build a secure base with your team.

🌎 World & Exploration

• Xaero's World Map - Mark waypoints to your base or points of interest and see your teammates on the map.
• Lost Cities - Custom modern city generation with a plethora of handpicked loot. Navigated using Superb Warfare ground vehicles along highways and roads.
• Serene Seasons - Forces you to stockpile food for winter and prepare a warm base as farming in winter is much harder and colder.
• Nature's Compass - Find any biome you want using a special compass.

📦 Storage & Quality of Life

• Sophisticated Backpacks - Carry massive amounts of loot at once as you explore, with no limit to how many backpacks you can have.
• Refined Storage - Set up a mass storage system at your base with automated appendages and auto-sorted grid views.
• Client Sort - Sort your inventory & chests. Transfer items between inventories with one click.
• XP Tome - Store your xp for scenarios where you may lose it.
• Corpse Mod - Collect your items after death with one click.

⚡ Optimization & Performance

This modpack was designed with performance in mind (especially since the world is in a memory chip shortage). It keeps the use of heavy mods low and also sticks to default minecraft terrain generation to massively boost performance that would otherwise be lost.

DRAM Recommendations

• Playable - 2048 MB (using Distant Horizons or shaders is NOT recommended)
• Recommended - 4096 MB (can use Distant Horizons and shaders)
• Beautiful Graphics - 4096 MB - 8192 MB (can use far Distant Horizons render distances at roughly 256+)

VRAM Recommendations

• Playable - Integrated Graphics (using Distant Horizons or shaders is NOT recommended)
• Recommended - 2048 MB - 6144 MB (can use Distant Horizons and shaders)
• Beautiful Graphics - 8192 MB+ (can use far Distant Horizons render distances and high-end profiles for shaders)

⚠️ WARNINGS

• Do NOT use Distant Horizons for chunk generation. It is disabled by default. Use Chunky instead.
• Do NOT destroy Create: New Age blocks with explosions from Superb Warfare.
• Please use AB[ZA]-2.2.1-SERVER-PACK.zip for the server pack. The AB[ZA]-2.2.1-Lite.zip version is a client pack that is an easier version of the modpack. Its corresponding server pack is AB[ZA]-2.2.1-Lite-SP.zip.

🪲 Known Bugs & Glitches

This modpack does contain a few bugs. Bugs are patched according to their severity (game breaking or not). Some trivial bugs may not be addressed (if I'm too incompetent to do so 💀). Sometimes bugs can be solved by updated corresponding mods to newer versions, but is often delayed / un-doable due to compatibility or dependency issues.

🟢 Solved / Mitigated
🟡 Unsolved Minor Bug
🟠 Unsolved Moderate Bug
🔴 Unsolved Critical Bug (Game Crashing / Unplayable)

1. 🟡 Certain block entities fail to render until interacted with (e.g., beds, Create items). This bug is NOT game breaking or significant, but it is noticeable.
2. 🟢 Using chunk generation from distant horizons breaks the city generation. It is resolved using Chunky.
3. 🟡 Random floating mobs in an idle state (non-aggressive or dead). Usually solved by restarting the game / server.
4. 🔴 Destroying Create: New Age blocks with explosions from Superb Warfare causes the game / server to crash.
5. 🟡 Using shaders while rendering Superb Warfare entities causes a performance dip, noticeable on lower end PCs.
6. 🟡 Backpacks have a GUI formatting mistake where upgrade slots go.
7. 🟡 Background music plays while in-world music plays if your in the pause menu.
8. 🟡 Vanilla music sometimes plays (not the intended function).
9. 🟡 If you leave a dedicated server while chunky is generating chunks, the server may crash (could be on the condition that no players are online).

❤️ Socials

You can join the for finding any support or general contact with the community. Support at

📜 License

The source code for this modpack is open source with a public domain license. This means you are free to copy, modify and distribute at your own discretion (there are no license restrictions of any kind).

📂 Source Code

Project source code is available on GitHub. The city was made using a custom app that allowed minecraft schematics to turn into compatible city files.

💡 Inspiration

Apocalypse Begins is heavily inspired by DeceasedCraft (author is TqLxQuanZ).

Apocalypse Begins by RinkyDinkyNooble is marked CC0 1.0 Universal