ArsPunk — Major Update

Arcane Engineering • Minecraft 1.21.1

ArsPunk has received a substantial refresh. Minecraft remains on 1.21.1, but hundreds of mod entries have changed, the NeoForge version has been updated, and several major systems have been reworked through updated mods, new additions, and removals.

The biggest changes affect Create, Ars Nouveau, spellcasting, and the pack's technical foundation.

Create and engineering

Create has been updated from 6.0.9 to 6.0.10.

The update brings fixes for stock-link inventory counts, steam-engine water filling, contraption storage, fluid handling, train schedules, mechanical mixers, and belt transfers. Contraption collision calculations and railway initialization have also been optimized.

Stock Keepers gain configurable recipe-viewer synchronization, while additional fixes address crashes involving train stations and ComputerCraft, postbox duplication, and other machinery issues.

New engineering additions

Create Aeronautics introduces the pack to an expanded world of assembled, physics-driven contraptions and aircraft-like engineering.

Create: Radars adds radar-based systems to the engineering sandbox.

Create: Simulated Missiles expands the pack's military and mechanical possibilities, with integrations for Aeronautics, Create Big Cannons, and Radars.

Create Aeronautics: Shield Generators adds another defensive system to the engineering ecosystem.

The update also adds Create: Creator Sword and KubeJS Create, expanding the available tools for custom interactions and mod integration.

Ars Nouveau and spellcasting

Ars Nouveau has been updated to 5.13.3.

The newer release line includes fixes to glyph documentation, spell rendering, and related magical systems. The update continues to build on the 1.21.1 generation of Ars Nouveau and its supporting addons.

The broader magical ecosystem has also been reshaped. Several Iron's Spells 'n Spellbooks addons and related compatibility projects have been removed, reducing the number of separate spellbook systems and integrations in the pack.

Removed spellcasting content

The following mods have been removed:

• Iron's Spells 'n Spellbooks
• Ars Hex Unity
• Ars 'n Spells
• Ace's Spell Utils
• Better Spellcasting
• Cataclysm: Spellbooks
• Cataclysm: Spellbooks & BetterCombat Compatibility
• Deeper and Darker: Spellbooks
• Create Iron's Spells Recipe
• Crystal Chronicles
• Dark Doppelganger
• Dreamless Spells and Spellbooks
• Asterism Arcanum
• GTBC's Geomancy Plus
• GTBC's Spellbooks
• GTBC's SpellLib/API
• T.O Magic 'n Extras
• Valiant
• Wizards Help!

These removals affect the optional spellbook and addon ecosystem rather than representing the removal of Ars Nouveau itself.

New mods

The update introduces the following content and utilities:

• Create Aeronautics
• Create: Radars
• Create: Simulated Missiles
• Create Aeronautics: Shield Generators
• Create: Creator Sword
• KubeJS Create
• Sable
• Hexerei Patch
• Delight Lib
• ExpandAbility
• Lithostitched
• Fusion (Connected Textures)
• Forgified Fabric API
• Sinytra Connector
• Faster Iris Shadow Mapper
• Better Advanced Tooltips
• MezzConfig
• No Cheating!
• No Cheats Allowed
• No LAN Cheating
• No More Debug Cheating + Optional Camera Lock
• WakeUpIntro
• Complementary Shaders – Reimagined

Several additions are libraries or utilities rather than standalone gameplay features. Sinytra Connector and Forgified Fabric API provide infrastructure for compatible Fabric-based mods, while Lithostitched and Fusion support other mods' world-generation and connected-texture requirements.

The shader update replaces Complementary Unbound with Complementary Reimagined.

Removed mods and integrations

Beyond the spellcasting changes, the following entries have been removed:

• Better Doors
• Better Lanterns
• BetterF3
• Camera Overhaul Reforged
• Configured
• Default Options
• Delightful Creators
• Fresh Animations: Creepers
• Fresh Animations: Extensions
• Fresh Animations: Spiders
• Fzzy Config
• Fix GPU Memory Leak
• Compatibility addon for MineColonies
• Let's Do addon for MineColonies
• Tweaks addon for MineColonies
• Particle Core
• Reese's Sodium Options
• ScalableLux
• Sodium/Embeddium Options API
• Complementary Shaders – Unbound

The removals include visual enhancements, configuration tools, performance-related components, MineColonies integrations, and optional gameplay addons. Their removal does not necessarily mean the underlying features have disappeared entirely; some functionality may be supplied by other mods or newer dependencies.

Technical changes

NeoForge has been updated from 21.1.220 to 21.1.264.

The modpack's configuration overrides have also changed, and the recommended memory allocation has decreased from 11,456 MB to 10,336 MB.

These changes accompany a large refresh of the mod ecosystem, including 195 updated entries, 23 additions, and 39 removals or replacements in the CurseForge manifest comparison.

The workshop continues to evolve

ArsPunk remains a blend of arcane experimentation, industrial invention, exploration, and combat. This update expands its engineering possibilities while consolidating parts of the spellcasting ecosystem and refreshing the technical foundation.

Build the impossible. Master the arcane. Keep the machinery running.