Emberfall Genesis — v0.1.0 (Alpha)

First public version of the pack after a full rebuild from scratch, designed from the start to run well on both strong PCs and weaker machines (tested with a low-end laptop with integrated graphics and 8GB of RAM in mind).

Core / Performance

• Sodium, Lithium, FerriteCore, ModernFix — core optimizations for rendering, memory, and game logic
• Entity Culling, More Culling, ImmediatelyFast — reduce entity render overhead and combat lag
• Alternate Current — redstone optimization
• ServerCore — general server-side optimization
• Krypton Reno — optimizes the network/encryption layer of the connection
• Packet Fixer — prevents large-packet crashes common in mod-heavy packs
• Distant Horizons — long-distance terrain rendering (LOD)

Menu / Visual Identity

• FancyMenu — custom main menu with an image slideshow background
• BetterF3 — cleaner debug (F3) screen

Storage

• Storage Drawers, Tom's Storage — bulk and networked storage
• Traveler's Backpack — expandable backpacks

Technology

• Create — mechanical technology with a medieval feel
• Immersive Engineering — industrial technology, the electrical evolution of Create
• Iron Furnaces — improved-tier furnaces

Magic

• Relics — magic items/artifacts
• Artifacts — magical exploration accessories

Tools / Weapons / Armor

• Silent Gear — modular tool, weapon, and armor crafting using different materials

World Generation

• Terralith — enhanced Overworld terrain generation
• The Aether — floating-islands dimension
• The Twilight Forest — magical forest dimension

Structures / Dungeons / Colonies

• YUNG's Better Dungeons, YUNG's Better Strongholds — improved dungeons and strongholds
• Dungeons and Taverns — richer medieval villages and structures
• When Dungeons Arise — extra structure variety
• L_Ender's Cataclysm — endgame bosses
• MineColonies — build and manage your own colony

Exploration

• Waystones — teleport between marked points
• Explorer's Compass, Nature's Compass — locate structures and biomes
• Xaero's Minimap + World Map — map and minimap
• Lootr — per-player individual loot chests
• Easy Villagers — carry villagers in your inventory

Visuals

• Iris + a light shaderpack — included but disabled by default
• Fresh Animations (full pack) — mob re-animations
• Entity Model Features, Entity Texture Features — support for custom models/textures
• 3D Skin Layers — 3D skin layers

Health / Damage

• ToroHealth-Continued — mob health/damage indicator

Quality of Life

• JEI, Just Enough Resources — recipes and resource sources
• Mouse Tweaks, Inventory Profiles Next — inventory management
• Vein Miner (+ ore/tree variants) — vein mining
• Right Click Harvest — harvest with automatic replanting
• Carry On (Building Wands / Construction Wands Revived) — assisted building
• FastFurnace, FastWorkbench — faster smelting/crafting
• Chat Heads, No Chat Reports — chat with avatars, no telemetry
• Jade — block/mob info on hover
• AppleSkin — hunger/saturation HUD
• Clumps — groups XP orbs
• Fancy Toasts, Legendary Tooltips, Enchantment Descriptions, Shulker Box Tooltip, Searchables, Controlling, Crafting Tweaks — small UI and usability tweaks
• Trade Cycling — re-rolls villager trades

Known Fixes

• Iris pinned to version 1.8.14 Beta 1 for compatibility with the Sodium 0.8.13 build used in this pack (avoids a ClassNotFoundException crash)
• JVM configured with G1GC + Aikar's flags (do not use ZGC with this pack — tested and performs worse with the 6GB heap used here)

Version Notes

This is an Alpha release: the focus of this phase is load stability, freedom from crashes, and a first read on performance. Progression balance, recipes, the economy between systems (tech/magic/storage), and content polish are still open and may change significantly between alpha versions.