No longer maintained, but should be in a working state.

A collection of mods designed to introduce a difficult early-game with:

Temperature (affecting body and crops)
Thirst
Starting health of three (3) hearts
Absolute darkness with Grues
Diminishing nourishment
Diablo-esque hostile mobs

Once players are settled down, they can then choose to pursue down a few different technology- or magic-based mods, go exploring for the many rogue- and Doom-like dungeons, or create magnificent creations with bits!

In a server environment, the following mods should be removed as they are client-side only (and fail to disable themselves in a server environment):

Shield Hider
Shoulder Surfing
Sound Filters

Block Drops WILL slow down the initialisation of Minecraft, due to the massive calculations it does. If you don't mind not getting block drop information in JEI, then you can disable/remove it to speed up Minecraft starting up.

The following .jars are downloaded as a part of other mods, but are not on CurseForge:

ic2/EJML-core-0.26.jar (IndustrialCraft²)
mp3spi-1.9.5-1.jar (Charset)
vorbisspi-1.0.3-1.jar (Charset)

Challenging Magitech

Agricultural Expansion

airbreathercore

AppleCore

Arrow Fixer

AtomicStryker's Infernal Mobs

Auto Sapling

Bagginses

Baubles

Baubles Stuff

Better Builder's Wands

Better Combat Mod

BetterAchievements

BetterBedrockGen

BetterFps

Biomes O' Plenty

Block Drops (JEI Addon)

Blood Magic

Bloodmoon

Botania Unofficial

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