Cogs & Citizens is a 1.21.1 NeoForge modpack focused on engineering-driven colonies, cozy building, and dangerous adventures. Build fully automated Create factories, manage bustling Minecolonies towns, and take on powerful bosses
🏗 Cogs: Automation with Create
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Create and its addons (Ultimate Factory, Enchantment Industry, Winery, Cobblestone, Power Loader, Structures Arise, Dragons Plus, etc.) let you design automated farms, factories, transport systems and crazy contraptions.
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Use building helpers and block variety from FramedBlocks, Copycats, Multipiston, Chipped, and more to make your factories both efficient and pretty.
🏘 Citizens: Colonies & Village Life
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Found and grow your own settlements with Minecolonies and Structurize, managing citizen jobs, housing, defenses and supply chains.
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Enhance village flavor with Village Names, TownTalk, Easy Villagers, trading helpers like Trade Cycling, and other villager-related QoL tools.
🌾 Farming, Food & Homesteads
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Farmer’s Delight expands cooking and agriculture with hearty meals and decorative kitchen gear.
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Botany Pots & Botany Trees give you compact, stylish crop and tree automation.
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Decoration mods like Handcrafted, Macaw’s Furniture/Paintings, Refurbished Furniture, Supplementaries, and more let you turn every house into a proper home.
🧭 Exploration, Magic & Bosses
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Enter The Twilight Forest for classic dungeons, labyrinths, treasures, and progression bosses.
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Challenge late-game encounters from L_Ender’s Cataclysm, adding massive, cinematic boss fights and unique loot.
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Navigate with ease using Waystones, Nature’s Compass, and Explorer’s Compass to track down biomes, structures, and points of interest.
⚔️ Gear, Style & Visual Flair
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Gear up with Immersive Armors, trinket slots via Curios, and various tooltip / UI improvements like Legendary Tooltips, Jade + Addons, Equipment Compare, Clean Tooltips, and BetterF3.
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Enjoy visual polish from mods such as 3D Skin Layers, extra entity/model/texture features, better skies, lighting tweaks, and more (depending on your shader/resource pack setup).
🧰 Quality of Life Essentials
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Core helpers: JEI, Controlling, Searchables, Mouse Tweaks, Inventory Essentials, Right-Click Harvest, Visual Workbench, Gravestone (plus Curios compat), Starter Kit, and other small improvements that remove grind and tedium.
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Building & storage QoL with Storage Drawers, Sophisticated Backpacks/Core, and related utility mods.
🚀 Performance & Stability
Built with larger colonies and Create factories in mind:
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Performance mods such as Sodium (plus Extras/Dynamic Lights/Options API/Reese’s Options), Lithium, ModernFix, FerriteCore, Bad Optimizations, ServerCore, Smooth Chunk, FastSuite, FastLeafDecay, Entity Culling, ImmediatelyFast, GPU Memory Leak Fix, Memory Sweep, and others keep things playable on modest machines.
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Libraries and core dependencies are included and configured so you can jump in and play with minimal tweaking.
The Cogs & Citizens Team
