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.

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We also have a public server: play.fantasticfrontier.xyz

SUPPORT DEVELOPMENT

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.

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Downloads help. Support decides how far the project can grow.

Main Features

Little Hope, a central town built as the spine of the pack
Big Raku economy with a huge item/block sell table
Guild jobs, delivery work, encounter missions, reputation, task tiers
Frontier Codex, a custom class framework with mastery and rebirth systems
NEMESIS, an orbital threat system built around surveillance and escalation
Frontier Works, a custom tech foundation with machines and multiblocks
Entropi, a custom enchanting pressure layer built around Apotheosis
Doomed, a completely optional class with an entire body-simulation system behind it
Custom dungeons, story fragments, altered encounters, boss work, and endgame events

Deep system note:
A lot of Fantastic Frontier is built through custom KubeJS systems and custom mod work rather than just config changes. The pack includes custom economy data, quest logic, class progression, machines, medical systems, orbital events, GUI work, tooltip systems, and pack-specific mechanics that exist specifically for this world. Translations for other languages will be worked on as well.

Little Hope - the central hub of the Frontier.

LITTLE HOPE IS NOT JUST A SPAWN

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

Big Raku turns almost anything you drag back from the world into money.

A REAL ECONOMY

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:

Explore the world
Bring back what you can carry
Sell what you do not need
Spend money in town
Push deeper into the Frontier

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.

Economy note:
Big Raku is designed to reduce the usual modded problem where half your loot becomes storage clutter. The goal is to make more of the pack feed back into progression instead of becoming dead inventory weight.

Quest Book

Quest book, guild jobs, task tiers, questlines, and reputation

GUILD WORK, SLAYER TASKS, 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:

Deliver a parcel
Bring back supplies
Help a trader
Finish a contract
Travel to marked coordinates
Trigger an encounter
Survive what arrives
Come back paid

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.

THE FRONTIER CODEX

Classes That Actually Change the Run

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.

Current Class Routes

Titan Heavy melee tank with Grit, shockwaves, armor-break pressure, and Unstoppable Force.
Forgotten Magic tank built around stillness, lunar resistance, spell-eating, and La Black Luna Gate.
Rogue Melee execution class with speed, invisibility, kill pressure, and Bankai.
Shade Ranged rogue route built around invisibility, marks, projectile execution, and Selected Atomization.
Archer Ranged control class with orbit arrows, detonation windows, and Fantastic Undertale.
Engineer Utility progression class with repairs, crafting access, supply cache support, and technical rewards.
Warium Scrapper Anti-machine Engineer branch for fighting Warium systems, salvaging enemy parts, and suppressing machines.
Saint Knight Support class with healing, death prevention, ally protection, and Domain Expansion.
Apostle of Mordred Magic attacker built around forbidden scriptures, blood-script pressure, and Creedbreaker.
Sinned Ordeal duelist with Guilt, Stains, Penance, execution pressure, and the Seventh Gate.
Doomed A completely optional affliction class with its own medical systems, WITNESS diagnostics, body simulation, treatment tools, countdown pressure, and no clean heroic rescue.
Corebound The absolute pinnacle of all classes, obtaining it is a mystery and extremely difficult.

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.

Doomed clarification:
Doomed is not a global survival overhaul forced onto every player. It is one optional class route. The WITNESS diagnostics, body simulation, treatment systems, trauma logic, and collapse states exist because that one class needed to feel fundamentally wrong instead of merely harder.

Titan

NEMESIS does not behave like a normal boss. It watches sectors, reads heat, escalates doctrine, and punishes infrastructure.

NEMESIS: THE SKY STARTS KEEPING SCORE

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.

Things that can matter

Powered machines
Mekanism infrastructure
Create machinery
RF signatures
Exposed bases
Bad cover
Signal jammers
Decoys
Reinforced concrete
Underground movement

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.

NEMESIS note:
The intent is to make late-game industry feel powerful but unsafe. If the player builds loud enough, hot enough, or exposed enough, the sky should eventually start feeling like part of the enemy roster. A lot of this heat can be avoided by not killing Warium machines or looting their 'dungeons/bases' in the first place though.

FRONTIER WORKS

Custom Tech Built for the Pack

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.

Current Frontier Works Systems

Frontier Pulverizer
Powered Furnace
Magma Crucible
Oil Pump with pump hoses
Storage Matrix Assembler
Storage Core Controller
Circuit Assembly Line
Chemical Tower
Bulk Press Line
Ore Refinery Array
Reactant Column
Coolant Plant
Heat Exchanger Stack
Frontier Dynamo Hall
Pattern Foundry
Warium Leaching Vat
Heavy Assembly Gantry
Satellite Cleanroom
Orbital Fabrication Dock
Dimensional Stabilizer
Reality Compiler

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.

Frontier Works note:
This is where the pack starts moving beyond normal modpack assembly. The system exists to give Fantastic Frontier its own industrial spine, with machines and multiblock progression built around the world rather than dropped in as unrelated content. This also forces players to make bigger bases.

ENTROPI

Apotheosis Pushed Into Containment

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.

Entropi Structure Blocks

Entropi Damper
Entropi Anchor
Entropi Telescope
Entropi Ring Emitter
Entropi Core
Entropi Beam Emitter
Entropi Lens
Entropi Pylon
Entropi Stabilizer
Entropi Governor

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.

Entropi note:
The purpose is to make enchanting feel more physical and dangerous inside the pack’s world. Apotheosis is still part of the foundation, but Entropi gives Fantastic Frontier its own layer of control, risk, containment, and presentation.

DOOMED

One Optional Class With an Entire Body System Behind It

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...

WITNESS Diagnostics

The WITNESS diagnostic tablet tracks vitals such as:

Heart rate
Blood pressure
SpO2
Blood volume
Consciousness
Core temperature
System load
Prognosis

Body-Level Survival

The medical system includes:

Limb damage
Bleeding
Fractures
Dislocations
Infection
Sepsis pressure
Pain
Consciousness
Radiation
Stamina
Wetness
Temperature
Treatment tools

Treatment Equipment

Bandages, splints, sutures, transfusions, antibiotics, defibrillators, AED logic, chest drains, syringes, infections, injections, medical tools, wearable extra gear, trauma rigs, treatment screens

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...

Doomed design note:
The point is not to punish every player. The point is to satisfy the mashochistic side of the Minecraft playerbase! You're welcome! If you do not choose Doomed, this is not your normal survival experience.

DUNGEONS WITH WEIGHT

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.~~

Statue

The Frontier carries its story through ruins, diaries, NPCs, systems, and the things that refuse to stay buried.

A WORLD WITH ITS OWN VOICE

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.

Frontier Storm

The Frontier Storm - a reworked Wither Storm encounter with a stronger identity inside the pack.

ENDGAME THAT DOES NOT STOP AT VANILLA

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.

Requiem

Custom weapons, relic items, special abilities, Epic Fight work, and pack-specific combat systems push the Frontier beyond default modded combat.

COMBAT WITH CUSTOM IDENTITY

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."

FUTURE DEVELOPMENT

Fantastic Frontier is still actively being built.

Development is currently pushing harder into:

Class progression
NEMESIS escalation
Entropi containment
Frontier Works industry
World events
Stronger presentation
"They Are Billions" inspired infection, where the world becomes sieged by billions of enemies

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.

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SUPPORT FANTASTIC FRONTIER

If you want the project to keep growing at a larger scale, support helps more than downloads alone.

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IMPORTANT INFO

All server packs for version 0.1.6x are compatible with any 0.1.6x release. For example, a server pack made for 0.1.65 will also work with 0.1.66.

This does not apply to 0.1.7x and later, since those versions may include mod updates that require a newer server pack.