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A custom Minecraft 1.20.1 RPG world built over five years of development.
Fantastic Frontier is a handcrafted modpack with its own town, economy, guild work, dungeons, class systems, orbital threats, custom tech, altered endgame, and original systems built specifically for this... Fantastic Frontier.
This is not a random mod list with quests taped onto it. You arrive in a world with history under the ground, machinery in the sky, and several problems that have been waiting longer than you have.
Updates, bug reports, server news, testing, screenshots, support, and future development happen in the Discord.
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If you play the pack, join the Discord. Most communication around the project happens there.
Fantastic Frontier is free to play, but it is not small to build.
Support helps cover server costs, development time, commissioned work, custom assets, testing, bug fixing, and the amount of time I can realistically keep putting into the project.
Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/matulives PayPal: https://paypal.me/MattLeTwat
Downloads help. Support decides how far the project can grow.
Little Hope - the central hub of the Frontier.
Little Hope is the spine of Fantastic Frontier.
It is a town full of traders, NPCs, services, questlines, progression hooks, and systems that keep pulling you back from the wilderness.
Your dungeon loot comes back here. Your money moves through here. Your guild work starts here. Your place in the Frontier begins here. Every single new playthrough will always begin through here, there are many valueable traders and with every new playthrough you will probably find new ones.
The pack is built so exploration, money, reputation, gear, danger/heat, and story keep returning to Little Hope instead of scattering into disconnected modded clutter.
Big Raku turns almost anything you drag back from the world into money.
Fantastic Frontier has a custom economy built around Big Raku.
The current sell table contains over 28,000 priced item and block entries, letting almost anything in the modpack become part of your progression.
That changes the basic loop:
Junk from a dungeon run is not always junk. Mining leftovers are not always dead weight. Strange drops can become money. Money feeds back into traders, rare goods, materials, upgrades, and progression items. Better yet, there is also a stockmarket system built into Big Raku.
Quest book, guild jobs, task tiers, questlines, and reputation
Fantastic Frontier uses a large custom quest book, guild reputation, delivery contracts, encounter missions, and Slayer-style task tiers to give the world structure.
Some work is simple, and it developers into harder work:
The Frontier has people who need things done, places that need clearing, enemies that need names, and rewards that make the trip matter. Inspired by my favorite RPG-like anime such as Goblin Slayer.
Fantastic Frontier includes a custom RPG class framework built for the pack.
The system tracks class identity, Field Study experience, mastery stages, rebirths, universal attributes, skill trees, ultimates, branch classes, limit break progression, and long-term character growth.
Each class is meant to feel like a different way of belonging to the Frontier.
Some are power routes. Some are support routes. Some are punishments with a skill tree attached.
NEMESIS does not behave like a normal boss. It watches sectors, reads heat, escalates doctrine, and punishes infrastructure.
NEMESIS can watch, hunt, lock down, escalate, and commit heavier doctrine as your sector becomes more interesting. It checks for players congregating around the world and locks them down. It escalates severely if you start looting Warium dungeons such as Oil Rigs or Warium Encampments, this is made so that players who prefer playing peacefully essentially never have to worry about Nemesis so long they stay in their lane of being a peaceful/neutral player.
It is an orbital campaign layer. The world can become a killbox. Your base can become evidence. Your machines can make the sky look twice. Countermeasures exist, but they are not free wins. Signal jammers, decoys, reinforced cover, and buried shelter can buy time. Bad decisions can make the attention worse.
Fantastic Frontier includes its own tech foundation through Frontier Works.
This system adds custom machines, components, fluids, hatches, buses, recipes, GUI work, multiblock validation, JEI integration, and a projector tool for building machine structures.
The goal is to make technology feel like part of the Frontier’s world instead of another imported machine list. Machines have structure. Progression has weight. Automation becomes infrastructure. This is heavily inspired by Gregtech progression and Thermal Foundation UI.
Fantastic Frontier adds its own Entropi layer onto Apotheosis enchanting.
Entropi is a pressure system around enchanting tables, marked artifacts, illegal enchantment steps, stabilizing structures, chamber quality, and containment infrastructure.
It adds Entropi readouts to enchanting screens and tooltips, plus Jade integration where available.
Small setup can reduce table pressure. A stronger telescope and ring setup can push containment further. A full core structure can reach extreme shielding. This has been made to no longer make it so that Reaper 7, Sharpness 8 etc. are easily obtained and put on a one-shotting miracle weapon.
It starts feeling like a machine built around something unstable.
Doomed is a completely optional class.
It is not a mandatory medical overhaul. It is not something every player has to deal with. You choose it, and the class drags you into a different kind of survival. Perhaps... you will even be rewarded for it once your transformation completes...
The WITNESS diagnostic tablet tracks vitals such as:
The medical system includes:
All of that work exists for one singular optional class route.
Doomed is not hunger with extra icons. It replaces hero fantasy with body failure, diagnosis, treatment, countdown pressure, and the knowledge that the class was never meant to end well...
Fantastic Frontier has custom dungeons, structure loading, world anchors, hidden locations, ritual content, boss work, and handcrafted spaces made for the pack.
Some places are dangerous immediately and you will be rewarded once you deal with the threat, others hide journals, artifacts, old machinery, single-use abilities, buried rooms, or pieces of story that only make sense once the rest of the world starts clicking together. They are not just loot boxes made of stone.
The Godloop has closed us off from everything we used to be.
The Frontier carries its story through ruins, diaries, NPCs, systems, and the things that refuse to stay buried.
Fantastic Frontier uses environmental storytelling, diaries, named forces, custom locations, altered encounters, recurring symbols, and strange remnants to make the world feel remembered rather than generated. Some of it is obvious, however some wait until you have played long enough to notice the pattern. The pack is built around the feeling that the Frontier has history beneath it, and not all of that history is dead.
The Frontier Storm - a reworked Wither Storm encounter with a stronger identity inside the pack.
Fantastic Frontier pushes past ordinary Minecraft progression with custom boss work, altered encounters, stronger presentation, special items, reworked systems, and large-scale threats designed to feel like events rather than recycled milestones.
The Frontier Storm is one of the clearest examples: a reimagined Wither Storm with changed sound work, altered music, a different visual identity, and a stronger place inside the world of the pack.
Custom weapons, relic items, special abilities, Epic Fight work, and pack-specific combat systems push the Frontier beyond default modded combat.
Fantastic Frontier uses custom Epic Fight weapon work, class abilities, unique items, altered progression, special encounters, stronger enemies, and handcrafted reward loops to make combat feel connected to the world around it.
A fight should feel like it belongs to the same world as the town, the economy, the dungeons, the machines, and the thing watching from orbit. As I was working on this modpack, some events gave me goosebumps and then I knew it was finally "good enough."
Fantastic Frontier is still actively being built.
Development is currently pushing harder into:
Some systems are simple to maintain however it costs a lot of time and my own money to be allowed to work on this.
Support directly affects how much testing, custom asset work, commissioned help, and development time can go into future updates.
Five years of development, rewriting, worldbuilding, testing, and obsessive detail shaped the Frontier into what it is now.
Updates, support, testing, bug reports, screenshots, server news, and future development happen here.
▶ https://discord.gg/5cyJsuqgef ◀
SUPPORT FANTASTIC FRONTIER
If you want the project to keep growing at a larger scale, support helps more than downloads alone.
Ko-fi: https://ko-fi.com/matulives PayPal: https://paypal.me/MattLeTwat
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A brutal Forge health overhaul heavily inspired by Project Zomboid and Casualties Unknown
A brutal Forge health overhaul heavily inspired by Project Zomboid and Casualties Unknown
