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Exploration Reinvented

An extensive modpack meant to expand the possibilities of Minecraft while keeping a somewhat vanilla feel

A modpack focused primarily on exploration (overworld, overworld caves, end, nether, oceans, plus two new dimensions and new bosses), but also vanilla tweaks, building (numerous new wood types, blocks, furniture items), endgame content (new weapons, armors, challenges, and enchantments), farming and cooking, new mechanics (relics which that give buffs to the player), and much more. This modpack provides a much more in-depth Minecraft experience while still feeling like Minecraft. The possibilities for what you can do and what you can explore are endless.

 

Notable Mods and Features

 

Adorn: Adds new furniture items

Alex's Mobs: Adds new overworld mobs (mostly land mobs)

Aquaculture: Adds new fish and sea creatures to the game and improves fishing

Better caves: Self explanatory, improves cave generation and adds new cave biomes

Better Mineshafts: Improves mineshafts

Better Weather: Adds seasons and new weather events 

Biomes O' Plenty: Adds over 50 new biomes

Chunk Animator: Chunks pop up when they generate, turn render regions off for this feature if using Optifine

Dungeon Crawl, Dungeons Plus and Dungeons Mod: Adds new dungeons and bosses

Dynamic Surroundings: Adds new biome sound and visual effects

Earth Mobs: Adds mobs from Minecraft Earth

Endergeletic expansion, Outer End, Better End: Adds new end generation, biomes, mobs, and more

Enhanced Celestials: Improves the night sky and adds a blood moon

Evolved RPG: Adds new mobs, bosses, and armor sets

Exotic Birds: Adds numerous new birds

Farmers Delight: Adds new food types, wild crops, cooking blocks, and recipes

Gemspark: Adds new mineable gems for armor and tools that are in between iron and diamond

Infernal Expansion: New Nether Mobs

JEI: Displays all items in an interface and shows how to craft them and the uses for those items

Offhand combat: Allows dual wielding weapons

Personality: Improves movement/ adds new keybinds for crawling, sitting, etc.

Quark: Adds a ton of vanilla tweaks and features, too much to summarize here

Relics: Think Terraria accessories, these items can give you bonuses to your stats/abilities if equipped

Repurposed Structures: Uses existing Minecraft structures and changes the block palate to fit different biomes/dimensions

Subterranean Wild: Adds new cave biomes and blocks

The Undergarden: An exciting dimension mod with a unique feel

The Abyss 2: Adds a new dimension with new blocks, items, ores, mobs, and bosses

The Conjurer: New illager type boss with magic abilities

HT's Treechop: Changes how trees are cut down, can be enabled and disabled with keybind

Valhelsia Structures: Adds new naturally generated structures

Waystones: Craftable waystones allow you to warp to different locations around your world

Wonderful Enchantments: Adds tons of new enchantments

Xaeros Minimap/Worldmap: Adds a minimap and worldmap with waypoints

 

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All credit goes to the modders that allowed me to create this modpack, all the modpages for this modpack are linked down below and may also help you learn more about the individual mods and features. The comments are open down below for questions of any kind and new mod recommendations for future updates. I will try my best to answer ASAP, enjoy!

 

All Mods For Forge 1.16.5 (should work on all versions 36.0.25 and above): http://files.minecraftforge.net/maven/net/minecraftforge/forge/index_1.16.5.html 

 

Abnormals Core: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/abnormals-core 

Adorn: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/adorn-for-forge 

Alex’s Mobs: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/alexs-mobs/download/3224639 

Aquaculture 2: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/aquaculture 

AutoRegLib: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/autoreglib 

Better Caves: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/yungs-better-caves 

Better End: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/betterend-forge-port 

Better Mineshafts: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/yungs-better-mineshafts-forge 

Better Shields: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/better-shields 

Better Third Person: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/better-third-person 

Better Weather: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/better-weather 

Biomes O’ Plenty: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/biomes-o-plenty 

Bloodletting: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/bloodletting 

Caelus:https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/caelus 

Chunk Animator :https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/chunk-animator  

Citadel: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/citadel 

Clumps: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/clumps 

Collective: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/collective 

Corpse: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/corpse   

Cuneiform: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/cuneiform 

Curios: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/curios 

Curious Elytra: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/curious-elytra 

Deadly End Phantoms: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/deadly-end-phantoms 

Desolation: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/desolation-forge 

Dungeon Crawl: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/dungeon-crawl 

Dungeons Plus: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/dungeons-plus 

Dungeons Mod: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/dungeons-mod 

Dynamic Surroundings: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/dynamic-surroundings 

Earth Mobs Mod: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/earth-mobs 

Easy Magic: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/easy-magic 

Effete Wood: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/effete-wood 

The Endergelectic Expansion: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/endergetic 

Enhanced Celestials: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/enhanced-celestials 

Evolved RPG: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/evolved-rpg 

Exotic Birds: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/exotic-birds 

Fantasy Mounts: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/fantasy-mounts 

Farmers Delight: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/farmers-delight  

Fast Leaf Decay: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/fast-leaf-decay 

Gemspark Mod: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/gemspark 

Gemspork: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/gemspork 

Gilded Armor: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/gildedarmor/files/3187107 

Goblin Traders: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/goblin-traders 

Guard Villagers: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/guard-villagers 

I Like Wood: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/i-like-wood 

I Like Wood Biomes O’ Plenty: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/i-like-wood-biomes-o-plenty-plugin 

Infernal Expansion: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/infernal-expansion 

Itemzoom Rekindled: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/itemzoom-rekindled 

JEI: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/jei 

Klee Slabs: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/kleeslabs 

Kotlin: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/kotlin-for-forge 

Marjusz Library: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/majrusz-library 

Macaw’s Paintings: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/macaws-paintings 

Mouse Tweaks: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/mouse-tweaks 

Offhand Combat: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/off-hand-combat 

Outer End: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/the-outer-end 

Passive Shield: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/passive-shield 

Patchouli: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/patchouli 

Personality: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/personality 

Polymorph: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/polymorph 

Portable Jukebox: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/portable-jukebox-forge 

Project Vibrant Journeys: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/project-vibrant-journeys

Quark Oddities: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/quark-oddities 

Quark O’ Plenty: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/quark-o-plenty 

Quark: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/quark 

Recast: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/recast 

Relics: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/relics-mod 

Repurposed Structures: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/repurposed-structures 

Save My Stronghold: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/save-my-stronghold 

Sound Filters: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/sound-filters 

Structure Gel: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/structure-gel-api 

Subterranean Wilderness: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/subterranean-wilderness 

Swing Through Grass: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/swingthroughgrass 

TA2 the Beginning: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/add-on-the-abyss-beginning 

Terra Incognita: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/terraincognita 

The Undergarden: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/the-undergarden 

The Abyss 2: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/the-abyss-chapter-ii 

The Conjurer: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/the-conjurer 

Torch Slabs: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/torchslabs-mod 

Trample No More: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/trample-no-more 

HT’s Tree Chop: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/treechop 

Tumbleweed: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/tumbleweed 

Valhesia Structures: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/valhelsia-structures 

Void Totem: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/voidtotem/ 

Waystones: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/waystones 

Wonderful Enchantments: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/wonderful-enchantments 

Xaero's Minimap (Fair-Play): https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/xaeros-minimap-fair-play-edition 

Xaero's Worldmap: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/xaeros-world-map 

YungsApi: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/yungs-api  

 

Installation

 

Automatically through Curseforge launcher by downloading the desktop and installing this modpack, or manually by downloading the file from the website, unzipping using WINRAR or other software and dropping the individual mods into the mods folder in the .minecraft directory (this requires a forge install).

 

Performance Requirements

 

High end PC is recommended for gameplay with above 60 fps at 16 chunk render distance with shaders (BSL, Complimentary Shaders, and Sildurs Vibrant Shaders recommended). Even if you do not plan to run shaders, I highly recommend externally installing Optifine for the performance improvements since this is a heavy modpack (download here: https://optifine.net/downloads and installation guide here: https://youtu.be/WCfDJ7ZFB1c). If you are experiencing a low framerate I would recommend lowering render distance, setting graphics profile to fast, and using the optimal Optifine settings, guide here: https://gameplayerr.com/best-optifine-settings-for-fps/. If you are experiencing framerate inconsistency and stuttering you need to allocate more RAM to Minecraft to keep up with all the mods, if you have 8gb assign 4gb, if you have 16gb assign 8gb, if you have 32gb assign 16gb. Guide for how to allocate RAM to Minecraft Forge here: https://cubedhost.com/help/en/articles/1648388-how-do-i-allocate-more-memory-to-my-minecraft-launcher-client-side. Curseforge Launcher here: https://youtu.be/uZpG9WnxoM8

 

Usage

 

If you decide to make any content using this modpack I would like to be credited and have this page linked so others can find the modpack. Besides that, feel free to use and customize this modpack to your liking and adapt it in any way, although I cannot guarantee the modpack will function if edits are made. Also sub to Whaledude on YT, trust me, just do it: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLIDaWgszcb3KqQBankulwg 

 

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