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A heavily customized survival experience where progression, danger, and an unsettling world evolve alongside you.

Welcome to ENDCRAFT

You have 30 seconds to decide whether this was a good idea.

You spawned.

You punched a tree.

Something looked at you.

You died.


ENDCRAFT is a heavily customized survival modpack for people who are tired of becoming an unstoppable god three hours into a Minecraft playthrough.

Here, the player is not the strongest thing in the world.

In fact, sometimes you're not even the strongest thing in your own house.

Vanilla mobs are already stronger than you from the beginning.

As time passes and you progress, the world progresses with you — enemies become more dangerous, resources and progression become more demanding, and mistakes become increasingly expensive.

You cannot simply build a dirt tower and call it strategy.

You cannot hide forever.

You cannot AFK your way through progression.


Explore. Fight. Learn.

That's the entire philosophy.

Explore the world instead of sitting in one biome.

Fight instead of avoiding everything.

Learn how your character, equipment and environment work.

Every mod is configured.

Every item has a purpose.

Many items have custom statistics, progression requirements, recipes and uses.

Progression is designed to keep moving forward rather than forcing you into endless hours of meaningless grinding.

Although...

If you like grinding, you might actually get rewarded for it.

Chop enough wood?

Congratulations.

You get a small progression bonus and may unlock recipes that save you several hours later.

Yes.

ENDCRAFT rewards you for being a Minecraft nerd.


Difficulty

There is no simple "Easy / Normal / Hard" slider here.

The difficulties actually change the experience.

Easy

This difficulty does not exist.

Don't pay attention to the button.

Seriously.

It's here completely by accident.

Normal

The original intended experience.

The core progression without additional punishment systems or extreme mechanics.

A good place to experience what ENDCRAFT is supposed to be.

Hard

Now we're getting somewhere.

Some classes disappear.

Some items become unavailable.

Item statistics are reduced.

Progression changes.

Random events are introduced.

The world becomes less forgiving.

Lore becomes significantly more important.

New progression systems and additional rewards are introduced to compensate for the increased difficulty.

You will probably start questioning some of your life choices.

TrueStory

One class.

One story.

One world.

And absolutely no guarantee that you'll like where this goes.

Hardcore dramatically slows progression, heavily reduces item effectiveness, increases restrictions and introduces much harsher consequences for death.

Its lore is also fundamentally different.

This is the canonical ENDCRAFT experience.

The story is written around a solo player and gradually reveals the actual meaning behind the world, the systems and the events surrounding you.

At the end of each difficulty, the complete lore of that path becomes available.

And Hardcore?

Hardcore tells the whole story.


There is also a daily system.

You are encouraged to keep moving.

Explore.

Fight.

Learn.

Do things.

Because sitting in one place forever isn't exactly what the system has in mind.

On higher difficulties, failing to keep up can have consequences.

How bad?

That depends on the difficulty.

Let's just say that on Hardcore, the final consequence is not exactly a friendly reminder.

And yes, there is a reason the final death screen has an option called:

Observe the World

You might want to find out why.

Or maybe you don't.


Solo or multiplayer?

Both.

ENDCRAFT is designed around cooperation as much as personal progression.

Play solo for the full challenge and lore experience.

Play with friends for the inevitable moment when someone says:

"Guys, I found something."

And then everything immediately becomes someone else's problem.


Creator / Builder modes

Builder — a sandbox-oriented mode with progression restrictions disabled and Creative available. Vanilla difficulty can also be changed freely.

Creator — a development showcase available to Patreon / Ko-fi / Boosty supporters (Soon).

Everything unlocked.

All quests completed.

All lore available.

Development notes.

Hidden dev notes.

Creator commentary.

And basically every button you were never supposed to press.


Performance

Yes, there are a lot of mods.

No, you don't need a supercomputer.

Optimization has been treated as seriously as the custom content itself.

The pack is intended to remain playable on reasonably average hardware, while weaker systems may experience stutters depending on world activity and settings.

I spent an unreasonable amount of time optimizing things.

Probably more time than was healthy.

You're welcome.


ENDCRAFT

Explore. Fight. Learn.

Progress or fall behind.

Stay alert.

And remember:

The world won't wait for you.


ENDCRAFT and all original content created for the project are © 2024 UnderStudioGroup. All Rights Reserved.

This license applies only to original ENDCRAFT content. Third-party mods, libraries, resource packs and other included content remain under their respective licenses and belong to their original authors.

Redistribution, reuploading, repackaging, or publishing modified versions of ENDCRAFT itself is not permitted without explicit permission.

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