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ARACHNO-CRAFT (SpiderCraft)

A spider-focused modpack centered around my mod, The Netherite Octoarachnopod, the way it was MEANT to be played. Expect a TON of spiders, insects, and bugs!
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Spidercraft

Survive the Netherite Octoarachnopod.

Spidercraft is built around one mod: the Netherite Octoarachnopod, that netherite spider from the videos. A single, relentless, procedurally animated giant spider hunts you across the world. Its eight legs are solved live with inverse kinematics, so it scuttles, climbs and lunges like a real spider. It towers over the trees from far away, charges in at up to 8× speed, and shrinks down as it closes in to bite.

Everything else in this pack exists for that hunt: guns to kill it, gear and magic to survive it, backpacks and tech to keep you going, and a big, dangerous world for it to chase you through. 220 mods on NeoForge 1.21.1.

⚠️🕷️ Arachnophobia warning: this pack is full of spiders, and the big one moves exactly like a real one. If spiders bother you, this pack is not for you.


🕷️ The hunter

Only one exists at a time, and it always comes back. It wears four faces:

  • The netherite juggernaut: 350 HP inside the stats of a full netherite armour suit, a 6-heart bite, and fireproof. It wades straight through lava.
  • The camo stalker: 600 HP. Its legs repaint themselves as the blocks it stands on, and its footsteps sound like yours.
  • The poison striker: 500 HP. It rears up and lunges like a tarantula, and its bite poisons you for 30 seconds.
  • The HUNTER: 400 HP, player-sized and dead silent. It blinds you when it gets close and only moves while you are not looking at it.

There is nowhere to hide. It follows you through portals into any dimension, squeezes down 1×1 holes after you, comes through doors, and rides above deep water. Feed the netherite spider a netherite ingot and it enrages into a true boss (700 HP, 10-heart bite) that always drops a full netherite block. Any kill has a 50% chance to drop the netherite ingot it is made of.

Your one safe place: craft a Warding Idol (4 diamonds, 4 deepslate, 1 netherite ingot). Nothing spawns within 128 blocks of it, and the spider cannot follow you inside. Run home mid-chase and it stops at the edge. Only the enraged boss walks in and blows it apart.

How the hunt is paced in Spidercraft:

When Wait
The first spider of a session about 5 minutes
After you kill it 40 minutes of peace (two Minecraft days)
After someone switches Peaceful off 5 minutes
Between its bites 3 seconds

The rest of the pack

🔫 Guns: for killing the spiders

A 350-HP spider wearing the stats of a full netherite armour suit shrugs off a stone sword. These are what bring it down. TaCZ provides the firearms and Elite X Quality Guns adds a big arsenal on top. Create: Gunsmithing brings Create-style guns, and the target dummy lets you see how hard each one hits before you need it.

TaCZ (unofficial NeoForge port), Elite X Quality Guns, Create: Gunsmithing, NukaTeam's Gun Lib, TacZ Mesh Loader, MmmMmmMmmMmm (target dummy).

🎒 Survival gear: to keep you alive between hunts

Hunting a giant spider means long trips far from home. Backpacks and storage carry and sort everything you bring back. Corpse keeps your gear safe in a grave when the spider wins a round, and Waystones warp you home. Heart canisters raise your health, and the craftable extras turn hard-to-find essentials (saddles, horse armour, name tags, enchanted golden apples) into recipes.

Sophisticated Backpacks, Sophisticated Storage, Corpse, Waystones, Baubley Heart Canisters, AppleSkin, Tree Harvester, Vein Mining, Craftable Horse Armour & Saddle, Simple Netherite Horse Armor, Craftable Enchanted Golden Apple, Craftable Name Tag, Just Another Rotten Flesh to Leather Mod.

⚔️ Gear, relics and magic: to stand a chance in the fight

Build better weapons and armour, collect relics and trinkets with real abilities, and learn spells. All of it stacks up into the edge you need against a boss-grade spider.

Silent Gear, Silent's Gems, Artifacts, Artifacts Crafting, Relics, Relics: Arcane Abilities, Reliquified Artifacts, More Relics, Spell Engine, Jewelry (RPG Series), Relics (RPG Series), Additional Jewelry (RPG Series Plus), More Relics (RPG Series Plus), Nameless Trinkets, Trinkets and Baubles Reforked, BountifulBaubles:Reforked, Curios Dragon Eggs, Re:Avaritia, Universal Enchants, Disenchantment Edit Table, Anvil Never Too Expensive, Iron Bookshelves.

🏭 Tech: build, automate and fortify

Power your base, automate your resources and grow whatever you are short of. Strap on a jetpack when running is the only option left.

Create, Create Crafts & Additions, Create Stuff 'N Additions, Create Goggles, Create O' Plenty, Create: Curios Jetpack & Backtank, Mekanism, Mekanism Generators, Mekanism Additions, Mekanism Tools, Ender IO, Actually Additions, Iron Furnaces, Cognition (experience obelisk), Mystical Agriculture, Mystical Agradditions, Mystical Customization, Mystical Extended Tier, Mystical Missing Items.

👹 It is not the only thing hunting you

More spiders, horror creatures and smarter, tougher mobs. Mobs grow stronger over time, and blood moons rise.

Arachnids, Nyf's Spiders, Infested: Swarms and Spiders, Arthropod Phobia Expansions (ArPhEx), The Obsessed, Frozen Spider Mini Dungeon, Eyes in the Darkness, The Boiled One, Again, Horror Elements, The Graveyard, Mutant Monsters, Enhanced AI, Zombie Awareness, Illagers Wear Armor, Naturally Charged Creepers, Nether's Cruelty, Silent's Power Scale, Enhanced Celestials (blood moons).

🌍 A big world to be hunted across

New biomes, deep caves, whole dimensions, ruined cities and dungeons. Remember that it follows you through portals.

Biomes O' Plenty, Alex's Caves, Alex's Mobs, The Twilight Forest, The Lost Cities, Dimensional Doors, Dungeon Crawl, YUNG's Better Dungeons, Explorify, Subterranean Wilderness Revival, Lucky's Spelunker's Charm II, Serene Seasons, Randomium Ore, Guard Villagers, Wither Skeleton Tweaks.

🍖 Food and farming

A long hunt runs on a full stomach.

Farmer's Delight, My Nether's Delight, Alex's Delight, Aquaculture Delight, Farmer's Sandwiches, Croptopia, Aquaculture 2, Nether's Exoticism.

🏠 Your base

Make home worth defending. Then guard it with a Warding Idol, because the spider comes straight through doors.

Macaw's mods (Bridges, Doors, Fences and Walls, Furniture, Holidays, Lights and Lamps, Paintings, Paths and Pavings, Roofs, Stairs, Trapdoors, Windows), MrCrayfish's Refurbished Furniture, Supplementaries, Supplementaries Squared, Amendments, Quark, Quark Oddities, Builders Crafts & Additions, Dramatic Doors, Additional Lanterns, Glassential Renewed, Obsidian & Crying Obsidian Expansion, Additional Additions.

🔊 Atmosphere

So you hear it coming. Or, in the camo spider's case, so you don't.

AmbientSounds 6, Sound Physics Remastered, Sounds, Drip Sounds, Ambient Environment, Falling Leaves, EnhancedVisuals, Blood Bits, Enhanced Boss Bars, Fusion (connected textures), Entity Model Features, Entity Texture Features, NeOculus (shader support).

🧭 Quality of life

JEI, Just Enough Resources, Just Enough Effect Descriptions, Just Enough Breeding, Just Enough Professions, Jade, Jade Addons, Xaero's Minimap, Xaero's World Map, XaeroPlus, Inventory Essentials, Mouse Tweaks, TrashSlot, Controlling, Configured, Polymorph, FreeCam, Dynamic Crosshair, More Overlays Updated, Overloaded Armor Bar, Colorful Hearts, Enchantment Descriptions, Cosmetic Armor Reworked.

⚡ Performance

Embeddium, ModernFix, FerriteCore, ImmediatelyFast, Entity Culling, Dynamic FPS, Clumps, Model Gap Fix.

📚 Libraries and compatibility

Accessories, Additional Attributes, Architectury API, AzureLib, BaguetteLib, Balm, Blueprint, Bookshelf, Citadel, Cloth Config API, Collective, CorgiLib, CoroUtil, Corpse compat for Cosmetic Armor and Curios, CreativeCore, Cucumber Library, Curios API, Data Anchor, EpheroLib, ExpandAbility, Forgified Fabric API, Framework, GeckoLib, GlitchCore, InsaneLib, Kotlin for Forge, MezzConfig, Moonlight Lib, More RPG Library, MRU, owo-lib, Patchouli, Placebo, playerAnimator, Prickle, Puzzles Lib, Ranged Weapon API, Searchables, ShatterLib / OctoLib, Silent Lib, Sophisticated Core, Spell Power Attributes, Structure Pool API, SuperMartijn642's Core Lib, TerraBlender, TimeCore, YetAnotherConfigLib, YUNG's API, Zeta.


Requirements

  • Minecraft 1.21.1 with NeoForge 21.1.249. The CurseForge app installs both for you.
  • Allocate at least 8 GB of RAM. The pack was put together with about 10 GB.
  • Shaders are not included. NeOculus is, so you can add your own shader pack.

Credits

Every mod in this pack downloads from its author's own CurseForge page. Nothing is re-uploaded. Thank you to every author whose work made this pack possible, with special credit to:

ARACHNO-CRAFT (SpiderCraft) Team

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