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

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.
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

Found and grow your own settlements with Minecolonies and Structurize, managing citizen jobs, housing, defenses and supply chains.
Enhance village flavor with Village Names, TownTalk, Easy Villagers, trading helpers like Trade Cycling, and other villager-related QoL tools.

🌾 Farming, Food & Homesteads

Farmer’s Delight expands cooking and agriculture with hearty meals and decorative kitchen gear.
Botany Pots & Botany Trees give you compact, stylish crop and tree automation.
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

Enter The Twilight Forest for classic dungeons, labyrinths, treasures, and progression bosses.
Challenge late-game encounters from L_Ender’s Cataclysm, adding massive, cinematic boss fights and unique loot.
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

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.
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

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.
Building & storage QoL with Storage Drawers, Sophisticated Backpacks/Core, and related utility mods.

🚀 Performance & Stability

Built with larger colonies and Create factories in mind:

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.
Libraries and core dependencies are included and configured so you can jump in and play with minimal tweaking.