Description
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
Login Shield
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


