Forgepunk

Introduction

Forgepunk is a medieval fantasy minecraft modpack focused on crafting, survival, and exploration. Its core features include substantial improvements to the way Minecraft looks, major tweaks to Minecraft's survival systems, and several large magic mods with extensive amounts of content. However, all players must start with surviving the first night, which must be done either by mastering the smithing skills of the Minefantasy: Reforged mod, or by teaming up as a group to take on the night as a team.

Community Focus

Forgepunk is a pack intentionally designed for multiplayer play. It is designed to encourage players to work together, to branch off into different specialties and provide each other with different goods, and to present players with challenges best tackled as a group. It is extraordinarily difficult to become a master of all skills in this pack, so collaboration is key for unlocking the most powerful items. So, go forward, and have fun together!

Engaging Crafting Mechanics, In-Game Documentation

The central pillar of Forgepunk's game design is the mod Minefantasy: Reforged; which overhauls the vanilla system for crafting tools with a system that is deep and engaging. Level up your skills and forge powerful tools on your anvil, bake potent foods in your kitchen, and craft elaborate feats of engineering. However, no matter how complex the crafting recipe, the pack is full of in-game documentation. Look up any recipe in game with JEI, which has had additional information added to it. Look through guidebooks added by mods for answers, explanations, and tutorials for using modded features. Though some recipes may be hidden until you unlock the research required to craft it, the aim of this pack has been to have in-game ways of acquiring all the information you need to play. And, when in doubt, read the tips in the loading screen!

More Challenging Survival Features

This pack aims to take some basic survival features that are of little-to-no consequence in vanilla and make them more involved and interesting. Health regenerates slowly, rather than rapidly after eating food, encouraging the use of bandages and health potions. Crops grow more slowly, encouraging players to plant large fields and stock up between harvests. Vanilla foods aren't as fulfilling, prompting players to delve into Minefantasy's cooking system. Livestock require food and water to stay happy (don't worry, they won't die, just won't breed and won't drop as much if unhappy), but will naturally reproduce on their own so long as they are fed. Breaking blocks by hand takes longer, encouraging players to pursue quality tools. However, this pack does not provide problems without solutions, and with sufficient progression through the pack, or with help from friends, these challenges can be thoroughly overcome!

Beautiful, Living World

Forgepunk has been built from the ground up to provide as stunning a visual experience as is possible within Minecraft. World generation has been overhauled, countless mods working in tandem to create sweeping natural landscapes dotted with ancient ruins, abandoned structures, and dynamic living creatures. Seasons will pass, roughly one season per real life day, trees will grow on their own and shift forest borders, the wilds are populated by dozens of species of animals. In addition, this pack has been engineered to work with shaders, and a customized selection of resource packs have been included in the download.

Dangerous Monsters

Though the night remains dangerous, the generic monsters of the night have not received many tweaks (except zombies, who may swarm you). However, once you move beyond spawn, the world is populated by deadly monsters, fit to be challenged only be groups of well-armed players. Any creature from the Ice and Fire mod will be a pain to tackle alone-but modifications to how Minecraft's frames of damage immunity work will allow players to coordinate in combat more so now than ever before. It is dangerous to go alone-so bring a friend, and conquer the wilds together!

The Five Schools of Magic

After surviving the first night, the majority of Forgepunk’s most powerful features lies within its five magic mods, which are referred to as the Five Schools of Magic. Follow the path of druidism in the Roots mod, and gain mastery of the natural forces of the world. Delve into the arcane secrets of thaumaturgy with the Thaumcraft mod, and slowly trade your sanity for devices of magical power. Tinker with dwarven, molten magic in the Embers mod to further empower your weapons, tools, and workshop with the power of embers. Perform Occult rituals and become a fairy-tale hero (or villain!) in the Witchery mod (which also adds lycanthropy and vampirism, I might add). Hardest to unlock, but most powerful of all, is the study of starlight present in the Astral Sorcery mod, which lets one channel the power of the heavens into their very bodies to grant them superhuman abilities. Each mod has a guidebook (or several) that will guide players through its content and allow them to unlock all the power the mod has to offer. As each mod has its distinct progression path, it will take time and effort to master just one—so work with a team of friends to explore multiple progression paths all at once!

Customized, Compatible Experience

There is not a single mod in Forgepunk that has not been intentionally tweaked or altered in some way. Hundreds of lines of custom Crafttweaker scripting have gone into removing or renaming duplicate items, rewriting crafting recipes, and more to tailor each mod to fit into the whole. Though most of the most important changes will go unseen (like the many duplicate instances of copper that were disabled), the result is a tightly-knit modpack that provides a cohesive experience!

Complete Mod List:

[Forge]

1.12.2-forge-14.23.5.2860

[Core Game Changes]

Animania – Fundamentally changes how farm animals and husbandry works

Animania Base by Purplicious Cow, RazzleberryFox, javaraptor & Tschipp
Animania Extra by Tschipp, Purplicious Cow & RazzleberryFox
Animania Farm by Tschipp, Purplicious Cow & RazzleberryFox
Craft Studio API by jibiay, Timmypote & Phenix246

Immersive Combat by burgggy– A myriad of changes to make combat more thematic

NoDamI by ProfHug0– Mob Invulnerability changed to improve co-op combat!

CraftTweaker by Jaredlll08, kindlich & TheSilkMiner – Many recipes have been changed, use JEI to look up all recipes

MTLib by Jaredlll08
Modtweaker by Jaredlll08
Loottweaker by Daomephsta

Hardcore darkness by Lumien231 – Bring a light, as it will get very dark

Hunger Overhaul by ProgWML6 et al. – Many small tweaks to how crops and hunger work

Apple Core by squeek502

Minefantasy Reforged by Thatpolishkid99 & windanesz – Overhauls tool, weapon, and armor crafting and function

CodeChickenLib by covers1624, Chicken_Bones
MFREx by PIPPIP5789
Mixinbootstrap by Rongmario
Mixinbooter by LX_Gaming

MoBends by IVESIRIS – Animation overhaul!

Spice of Life: Carrot Edition by lordcazsius – Eat a variety of food to increase your health

Survival Reimagined by Insane96MCP – Makes mining more challenging

Tips by DarkhaxDev– Custom tips will appear during loading screens

Zombie Awareness by Corosus – Zombies will be attracted to lights and sounds

Coro Util by Corosus

[Environment and Atmosphere]

Ambient Sounds 5 by CreativeMD

Creative Core by CreativeMD

Better Biome Blend by FionaTheMortal

Biomes O’ Plenty by Forstride, TheAdubbz

ClimaticBiomes by JaredBGreat

Dynamic Surroundings by OreCruncher

OreLib by OreCruncher

Dramatic Trees by Lily and ACGaming

Dynamic Trees Compatibility for Climatic Biomes by JaredBGreat
Dynamic Trees - Biomes O' Plenty by cadaverous_queen et al.
Dynamic Trees - Mystical World by MaxHyper & HarleyOConnor
Dynamic Trees - Quark by MaxHyper
Dynamic Trees - Thaumcraft by cadaverous_queen
Dynamic Trees - The Twilight Forest by MaxHyper

Fluidlogged API by jbredwards

Pam’s Weee! Flowers by pamharvestcraft

Project Vibrant Journeys by OrderedChaosDev

Serene Seasons by TheAdubbz & Forstride

Serene Tweaks by FIREdog5

Snow! Real Magic! by Snownee_

Sound Filters by Tmtravlr

Worley Caves by super_fluke & booleanbyte

[Magic, Adventure, and Utilities]

Antique Atlas by Hunternif

Astral Sorcery by HellFirePvP

Caves and Dungeons Mod by ironkiller224

Corail Tombstone by Corail_31

Davinci’s Vessels by darkevilmac

Moving World by darkevilmac

Embers: Rekindled by BordListian

Emberforged by Lenvill_Jarlsen

Ice and Fire: RotN edition by asterixxxxxxxxxxxxxx

LLibrary by mmdlexiconn & Gegy

Locks by Melonslise

Mowzie’s Mobs by bobmowzie, wadoo154 & pau101

LLibrary by mmdlexiconn & Gegy

Rex’s Additional Structures by XxRexRaptorxX

Roots by Noobanidus et al.

Mystical Lib by Noobanidus et al.
Mystical World by Noobanidus et al.
Patchouli by Vazkii

Roguelike Dungeons by Greymerk

Ruins by atomicstrykergrumpy

Rustic by cadaverous_queen

Rustic Thaumaturgy by Voxel_Friend
Rustic BOP Woods by WolfieWaffle

Thaumcraft by Azanor13

Baubles by Azanor13

Thaumcraft Addons:

Crimson Revelations by MobiusFlip
Crimson Warfare by Ta6e
Thaumic Augmentation by TheCodex6824
Thaumic Periphery by cadaverous_queen
Thaumic Wonders by daedalus4096

Traveler’s Backpack by Tiviacz1337

Twilight Forest by Benimatic et al.

Witchery: Resurrected by Ashley et al.

YUNG's Better Mineshafts by YUNGNICKYOUNG

[Architecture and Style]

ArchitectureCraft by darkevilmac

Bibliocraft by Nuchaz

Delightful Cuisine for Woodheads by XemnesXIII

Cathedral by ferreusveritas

Chisel by tterrag1098, minecreatr, Drullkus

Chisel by tterrag1098, minecreatr, Drullkus

Connected Texture Mod by tterrag1098

Connected Glass by SuperMartjin642

Earthworks by EnderDevelopment

Fairy Lights by pau101

Macaw’s Modset:

Macaw’s Bridges by sketch_macaw
Macaw’s Doors by sketch_macaw
Macaw’s Fences and Walls by sketch_macaw
Macaw’s Roofs by sketch_macaw
Macaw’s Trapdoors by sketch_macaw
Macaw’s Windows by sketch_macaw

Masonry Blocks by liahim85

[Miscellany Mods]

Aqua Acrobatics by ambeddedt and Fuzs

Better Animals Plus by cybercat5555 & itsmeowdev

Camels by talhanation

Drawers by Texelsaur

Chameleon by Texelsaur

Elevator Mod by vsngarcia

Future MC by thedarkcolour

Shadowfact’s Forgelin by Shadowfacts' Forgelin

Ichun’s Mods:

Clef by ohaiiChun
Hats by ohaiiChun
Ichun Util by ohaiiChun

Nature’s Compass by Chaosyr

Open Glider by gr8pefish

Quark by Vazkii & wiresegal

AutoRegLib by Vazkii

Serilum’s Mods:

Collective by Serilum
Dragon Drops Elytra by Serilum
Easy Elytra Takeoff by Serilum
End Portal Recipe by Serilum
First join Message by Serilum
Nether Portal Spread by Serilum
Villager Names by Serilum

Sophisticated Wolves by nightkosh

Village Names by AstroTibs

Wolf Armor and Storage Legacy by saturniidae

[UI/Quality of Life Improvements]

Apple Skin by squeek502

Better Advancements by way2muchnoise

Client Tweaks by BlayTheNinth

Colorful Health Bar by tfarecnim

Controlling

Crafting Tweaks

Enchantment Descriptions

Fancy Block Particles

Instant Unify

Inventory Tweaks

Item Borders

InvMove

Just Enough Items (JEI)

ThaumicJEI

Legendary Tooltips

More Overlays

MouseTweaks

Overloaded Armor Bar

Passthrough Signs

Primitive Crafting

Real Drops

Shoulder Surfing

Smooth Font

Toro Health

Toughness Bar

UniDict

WanionLib

[Performance/Fixes]

Better FPS

Born in a Barn

Chunk Pregenerator

Clumps

FoamFix

Mixinbooster

Censored ASM
Universal Tweaks
ConfigAnytime

Moddirector

Nether Portal Fix

No More Recipe Conflicts

Not Enough IDs

Old Java Warning

Particle Culling

Performant

Hesperus (Phosphor)

RandomPatches

ReAuth

Sound Device Options

Worldgen Block Replacer