Bladebound

Bladebound is a combat- and power-progression modpack for Minecraft 1.21.1 on NeoForge, built around the idea that your character grows stronger through blade mastery, elemental technique, and awakened ability rather than just gear grinding.
At its core are three combat/power systems, each with its own native progression: Demon Slayer: Breath of Nichirin for katana-and-breathing-style combat, Iron's Spellbooks for arcane spellcasting, and Awakened for a rare, randomized power system that fundamentally changes how a character fights — all unlocked and progressed through those mods' own mechanics. Silent Gear and Simply Swords round out weapon crafting and variety, while Cataclysm and Bosses of Mass Destruction add serious end-game boss fights to test everything you've built toward.
Beyond combat, Bladebound layers in a full exploration and homestead loop — Terralith's overhauled world generation, YUNG's structure overhauls, Repurposed Structures, and When Dungeons Arise for things to find; Waystones, Traveler's Backpack, and Sophisticated Storage for getting around and hauling it all back; and Farmer's Delight, Croptopia, and Corn Delight for a deeper farming and cooking loop.
Tying it together is a custom, hand-built FTB Quests line. It doesn't gate or unlock any of the mods' own systems — it exists purely to guide you through everything the pack adds, chapter by chapter, so you're never stuck alt-tabbing to a wiki to figure out what a mod does or where to find something. Rewards along the way are themed to match each chapter rather than generic vanilla loot. The pack also ships with a fully custom UI and branding pass: a bespoke title screen, gradient-themed inventory and hotbar textures, and re-colored menu widgets, all built around the pack's own sunrise-and-blade visual identity.
Bladebound runs NeoForge 21.1.249 with 110 curated mods.
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Credits
Bladebound is built on the work of 110 mod authors. Full credit to every one of them — this pack wouldn't exist without their mods. Listed alphabetically:
AllTheLeaks (Memory Leak Fix) — Uncandango
Alternate Current — SpaceWalkerRS
Alex's Caves (Unofficial Port) — Raguto
Alex's Mobs (Unofficial Port) — Raguto
AppleSkin — squeek502
Aquamirae [Neo/Forge Edition] — Obscuria
Architectury API — shedaniel
Artifacts — ochotonida
AzureLib — AzureDoomC
Balm — BlayTheNinth
Better Advancements — way2muchnoise
Bookshelf — DarkhaxDev
Bosses of Mass Destruction — Cerbon
CERBON's API — Cerbon
Chat Heads — dzwdz
Citadel (Unofficial Port) — Raguto
Cloth Config API — shedaniel
Clumps — Jaredlll08
Comforts — TheIllusiveC4
Concurrent Chunk Management Engine (C2ME) — ishlandmc
Controlling — Jaredlll08
Corn Delight [Forge] — SyameimaruZheng
Corpse — henkelmax
Crafting Tweaks — BlayTheNinth
Croptopia — thethonk
Curios API — TheIllusiveC4
Deeper and Darker — KyaniteMods
Demon Slayer: Breath of Nichirin — XircTwerk
Dynamic FPS — juliand665
Embeddium — FiniteReality
Entity Culling — tr7zw
EpheroLib — thethonk
Explorer's Compass — Chaosyr
Farmer's Delight — vectorwing
Farming for Blockheads — BlayTheNinth
FancyMenu — Keksuccino
FerriteCore — malte0811
Forge Config API Port — Fuzs
Fragmentum [NeoForge Edition] — Obscuria
FTB Library (NeoForge) — FTB
FTB Quests (NeoForge) — FTB
FTB Teams (NeoForge) — FTB
Fzzy Config — fzzyhmstrs
GeckoLib — Gecko
Inventory Profiles Next — mirinimi
ImmediatelyFast — RaphiMC
Iron Chests — ProgWML6
Iron's Lib — Iron431
Iron's Spells 'n Spellbooks — Iron431
Jade — Snownee
Just Enough Items (JEI) — mezz
Just Enough Professions (JEP) — Mrbysco
Just Zoom — Keksuccino
Konkrete — Keksuccino
Kotlin for Forge — thedarkcolour
libIPN — mirinimi
Lionfish API — mcl_ender
Lithostitched — Apollo
L_Ender's Cataclysm — mcl_ender
Macaw's Bridges — sketch_macaw
Macaw's Doors — sketch_macaw
Macaw's Furniture — sketch_macaw
Macaw's Windows — sketch_macaw
Melody — Keksuccino
ModernFix — embeddedt
Moonlight Lib — MehVahdJukaar
More Mouse Tweaks — NotRyken
Mouse Tweaks — YaLTeR
Mutant Monsters — Fuzs
Mysterious Mountain Lib — SyameimaruZheng
NoisiumForked — Coredex
ParCool! ~ Minecraft Parkour ~ — alRex_U
playerAnimator — KosmX
Player Animation Library — ZigyTheBird
Polymorph — TheIllusiveC4
Prickle — DarkhaxDev
Puzzles Lib — Fuzs
Repurposed Structures — telepathicgrunt
Searchables — Jaredlll08
Silent Gear — SilentChaos512
Silent Lib — SilentChaos512
Simple Loot Viewer — DarkhaxDev
Simply Swords — sweenuss
Simply Swords: Cataclysm — Cephelo_
Simply Tooltips — sweenuss
Sophisticated Backpacks — P3pp3rF1y
Sophisticated Core — P3pp3rF1y
Sophisticated Storage — P3pp3rF1y
Spartan Weaponry Unofficial — mai_xiyu
Structure Compass — Mrbysco
TerraBlender (NeoForge) — TheAdubbz
Terralith — Starmute
The Awakening — TryHarderrr
Traveler's Backpack — Tiviacz1337
TrashSlot — BlayTheNinth
Veinminer - Highly Configurable — SGTSambam
Waystones — BlayTheNinth
When Dungeons Arise — Aureljz
Xaero's Minimap — xaero96
Xaero's World Map — xaero96
YUNG's API (NeoForge) — YUNGNICKYOUNG
YUNG's Better Desert Temples (NeoForge) — YUNGNICKYOUNG
YUNG's Better Dungeons (NeoForge) — YUNGNICKYOUNG
YUNG's Better End Island (NeoForge) — YUNGNICKYOUNG
YUNG's Better Jungle Temples (NeoForge) — YUNGNICKYOUNG
YUNG's Better Mineshafts (NeoForge) — YUNGNICKYOUNG
YUNG's Better Nether Fortresses (NeoForge) — YUNGNICKYOUNG
YUNG's Better Ocean Monuments (NeoForge) — YUNGNICKYOUNG
YUNG's Better Strongholds (NeoForge) — YUNGNICKYOUNG
YUNG's Better Witch Huts (NeoForge) — YUNGNICKYOUNG