Welcome to Gondwana, the ultimate nature pack! This pack was made especially for those who enjoy the visual side of Minecraft: exploration, aesthetic building and plenty of eye candy rather than redstone contraptions and automating everything. It aims to make the Minecraft world as beautiful, detailed, immersive and alive as possible with terrain that recaptures the excitement of exploring in the beta days with loads of quirky generation like floating islands, lagoons, natural bridges and overhangs. There's also many weird and wonderful creatures, structures and NPCs to stumble upon in your travels as well as an element of natural, druidic magic.

* When starting a new world make sure to select the Biomes O Plenty worldtype. If you select another worldtype such as Quark's Realistic type many of the biomes, animals and cool stuff won't spawn. (tip: try the continents landmass option for extra awesome)

**A huge thanks to all the devs who patiently fixed all the various crashes and incompatibilities to make this pack possible

This pack was heavily inspired by watching Let's Plays of the 1.7.10 pack Life In the Woods Renaissance such as VintageBeef's. I have stuck to the core theme of 'exploring nature' and even though it ended up being much, much larger at around 200 mods Gondwana retains the rustic, homespun feel of LITWR with an emphasis on both exploring the natural world and building/gardening/interior design...as well as food and cooking!

Gondwana is made to be enjoyed with low to no automation; the emphasis being on novelty, rather than efficiency. Unlike other packs which encourage you to settle down ASAP here you'll find living off the land, scavenging and looting are often rewarded over mass production. So if you'd prefer rustic thatched roof houses, homemade butter, free range chickens and camping in the woods to flashy RF contraptions and pipes then you'll love this pack.

Getting Started:

While JEI will have you covered for the most part your first day may be a little non intuitive. Tried punching trees yet? Ouch! Instead your first set of tools will need to be a flint set - you need a flint hatchet to chop trees and a flint saw to make planks. Start by punching gravel and grass. Flake some flint by striking it against stone like a caveman, and look around for wild cotton to make a bed. Another essential for your first night is a fire bow to light torches. Alternatively you could forget about all this and live like a true freeloading scavenger by trying to find a village to raid before nightfall which should have your covered for the essentials. Beware though - if you fail to do so you could be in for a very long rough night. You also want to try to eat as many different types of food as possible to keep your health up. It shouldn't be too difficult to find many different types of bush tucker such as edible plants, roots, wild berries and insects although you might find it's best to skip the steak on your first day!

Notes:

-As it adds a huge amount of terrain generation this is a resource intensive pack. It requires a bare minimum of 6GB allocated RAM and ideally 8-10GB especially if using shaders. If you experience poor fps, disable Better Foliage and Fancy Block Particles and make sure Weather 2's particle effects are set to Low. I highly recommend installing Optifine.

-Got a recipe conflict? Craft a table from Forestry and cycle through different items with same recipe.

-Because I wanted an old school explorer feel I haven't included the typical minimap mods. I have instead added Antique Atlas and Batty's Coordinates. You can also teleport using a Floo network.

- Vanilla animals must be allowed to spawn in Animania's and Fauna and Ecology's config or there will be incompatibilities with several other mods.

Features:

Epic terrain that will actually get you dying to explore again rather than the boring, uniform landscapes of vanilla. Featuring many different biome mods including some you've probably never heard of. Possibly breaks the record for number of biomes in a single pack!
Raise and breed an impressive amount of animals as diverse as dinosaurs, mystical horses, quaggas, butterflies, Japanese giant salamanders and lammergeiers (bearded vultures). You can even breed dogs with coat patterns resembling domestic breeds with Wildcraft.
10+ magical dimensions to visit including Atum, Aether II, the Tropics, the Betweenlands the Erebus, Kathairis, Twilight Forest, the Midnight, the Tofu dimension and the Gaia dimension (pictured).
Build a beautifully detailed home and garden with mods such as Useful Interior, Mr Crayfish's furniture mod, Cathedral, ChinjufuMod, Chineseworkshop, Ferdinand's Flowers, Blockcraftery, Bibliocraft, Comfy Cozy and much more.
Master herblore and natural medicine with mods like Totemic, Shamanism, Roots, Extra Alchemy, Bewitchment and Rats.
Visit a completely overhauled and much more exiting End and Nether
Build a mobile home and become a nomad, exploring tens of thousands of blocks of beautiful and unique terrain - get your kurtjmac on and travel to your heart's content!
A fun new food system that rewards instead of punishes. Loads of neat food mods to try out (hint, it pays to be as adventurous in your diet as possible!)
Caving made great again with Worley's Caves, Quark, Subterranian Waters and more.
Go vegan or hunt and fish for all sorts of exotic meat - it's up to you.
NOT just the popular stuff - this pack probably contains one of the highest % of new and lesser used (but still awesome) mods you'll ever see for totally fresh content!