Echoes Belows

A pure exploration and vanilla-style modpack packed with features and fully optimized.

Start step by step: begin by surviving with a campfire and a tent. As you progress, you’ll build a house, explore diverse biomes, discover new structures, and encounter new mobs. Stay alive by managing hydration—craft a water bottle and smelt it over a campfire to obtain safe drinking water.

There’s even more to discover: travel to the Ancient City dimension, the Aether dimension, and explore many new mobs. In caves, you’ll find goblins you can trade with. Expect a harder early game, improved waystones, better Minecraft structures, new wooden planes, immersive aircraft, darker depths, and a much better world terrain thanks to the Tectonic mod—plus plenty more to uncover.

Early Game Guide

Start by finding a tree, but you can’t mine it yet. Break leaves to get sticks, then find flint. Craft 1 stick + 1 flint to make a flint knife. Use the knife to cut grass and obtain plant fiber. Craft 3 plant fibers into plant string.

Mine dirt, then craft 2 dirt + 2 plant string into a mud ball. Combine 1 stick + 2 mud balls to create a reinforced stick. You can now craft tools using reinforced sticks instead of normal sticks.

Next, craft 1 flint + 1 plant string + 1 mud ball to make a flint axe. Now you can chop down trees and begin progressing to stone tools. Craft a campfire, then make a tent using 5 leather and 4 sticks.

After that, craft a water bottle and smelt it over a campfire to get clean, safe water so you can stay hydrated. Continue upgrading your campfire and tent. Later, build a proper house.

You’ll eventually encounter human companions who are also trying to survive. Give them what they need, and they will protect and follow you. You can let them stay, upgrade their armor, and grow your group.

Progress into technology by crafting aircraft to travel to new places. Keep upgrading until you can travel to space, explore the Moon and other planets, and descend into darker, deeper dimensions. There, you can obtain powerful Warden armor. You can also travel to the Aether dimension—but beware: forests at night are dangerous, filled with scary figures and ghosts.