✨ Herald's Craft ✨

Experience a challenging, vanilla-flavored, immersive modded Minecraft fantasy with many of your favorite legacy mods from 1.12.2, with only a fraction of the normal performance drawbacks.

🎨 Design Philosophy 🎨

Herald's Craft is built on 6 core mechanical ideas:

1) Fair challenge drives progression. Without challenge, mechanics begin to lose purpose.

2) Anyone can play. This pack is built for lower-end rigs and multiplayer.

3) Play how you want. Problems have more than one solution.

4) Immersion is paramount. HUD clutter dilutes the experience.

5) No Quest Walls. If you have the resources, you can craft it.

6) Same ol' Minecraft. It is still the same game, but with more.

🎮 Gameplay 🎮

Outstanding client and server performance for a kitchen-sink pack on 1.12.2!

See all new dimensions, or craft your own!

Delve head-first into a wide range of magical and technological fields and studies!

Craft and forge hundreds of new pieces of equipment and armor!

See new creatures! Definitely not all friendly!

Chad farmer, or chef? We have you covered with extensive farming and cooking mechanics!

New challenges via dungeons, caves, and mechanics!

A sandbox experience with no extensive pre-made story, no tutorial, and no hand-holding!

Comes with a guide book item!

No overwhelming HUD additions!

Join our exceedingly chill PvE SMP Server!

🔖 History 🔖

A higher-performance continuation of our other 1.12.2 pack, Messenger's Return 2; Herald's Craft possesses 90+% of the content of the old pack while also bearing a revitalized priority geared towards performance, exploration, and challenge, so we can have as much fun with as many friends as possible!

Primarily made for my large group of mates for our multiplayer server, but was also designed with singleplayer in mind. If you'd like to join our PvE SMP server, details are below!

🔧 Necessary Optimization Steps 🔧

In the Curseforge app, Click on the gear Icon in the bottom left corner > Click on the "Minecraft" Tab >> Scroll to the very bottom until you can see the "Java Settings" category >> Find the dot slider representing how much RAM to dedicate to Minecraft and drag it to the right until it it reads 8192 if you have 12=< GB of RAM, or 4096 or 6144 if you have 8GB>= of RAM (Also If you are unsure how much RAM you have, follow this guide) >> Next copy and paste these command arguments into the bar marked "Additional Arguments" just below the Allocated Memory slider:

-XX:+UnlockExperimentalVMOptions -XX:+UnlockDiagnosticVMOptions -XX:+AlwaysActAsServerClassMachine -XX:+AlwaysPreTouch -XX:+DisableExplicitGC -XX:+UseNUMA -XX:NmethodSweepActivity=1 -XX:ReservedCodeCacheSize=400M -XX:-DontCompileHugeMethods -XX:MaxNodeLimit=240000 -XX:NodeLimitFudgeFactor=8000 -XX:+PerfDisableSharedMem -XX:+UseFastUnorderedTimeStamps -XX:+UseCriticalJavaThreadPriority -XX:ThreadPriorityPolicy=1 -XX:AllocatePrefetchStyle=3 -XX:+UseG1GC -XX:MaxGCPauseMillis=50 -XX:G1HeapRegionSize=16M -XX:G1NewSizePercent=20 -XX:G1ReservePercent=30 -XX:SurvivorRatio=32 -XX:G1MixedGCCountTarget=3 -XX:G1HeapWastePercent=20 -XX:InitiatingHeapOccupancyPercent=10 -XX:G1RSetUpdatingPauseTimePercent=0 -XX:MaxTenuringThreshold=1 -XX:G1SATBBufferEnqueueingThresholdPercent=30 -XX:G1ConcMarkStepDurationMillis=5.0 -XX:G1ConcRSHotCardLimit=16 -XX:G1ConcRefinementServiceIntervalMillis=150 -XX:GCTimeRatio=5 -XX:+UseStringDeduplication -XX:+UseCompressedOops -XX:+UseCodeCacheFlushing -XX:-UsePerfData -XX:+AggressiveOpts -XX:+ParallelRefProcEnabled

(These JVM arguments also work really well for other 1.12.2 modpacks and low RAM, thanks brucethemoose for the base args, I just edited them slightly <3)

Optionally, you can install Optifine for shaders/texture updates from here into the pack's mods folder, but Optifine slows your game down slightly and creates lighting errors, so I don't currently recommend it.

🏘️ Join our PvE SMP 🏘️

If you would like to join my friends and I on our invite-only PvE SMP Server, join our Discord and fill out an application!

https://discord.gg/KbW77EZ

Our SMP Server's whitelist is managed MANUALLY BY HAND, and thus you need to fill out an application and introduce yourself to @SevArktic in the general chat on our Discord before being let on the Minecraft server! Hop in and introduce yourself!
(We're on Pacific Standard Time in the United States!)

🤓 Stats for Nerds 🤓

As tested on my windows rig.

Client Performance Stats [4GB RAM ALLOCATED]:

Boot Time: ~90 seconds.
Resting ticktime (ms): 2-6ms SP.
Active Chunk Generation ticktime (ms): 14-25ms (Both SP and SMP).
Resting framerate: ~100fps.
Dungeon framerate: ~90fps.

Modpack Content Stats:

Mods Loaded: 150 mods.
New Items: ~5,000.
New Entities: ~1,000.
New Dimensions: ~7; not including custom player-made Mystcraft dimensions.
Full Paths of Power (aka Tech Trees): ~14.
Full Completion Time: ~2,000hrs; probably more tbh.
Number of players screaming "WTF IS THAT" per hour: ~3; depending on circumstances.

❔Q/A❔

"Why is my health starting so low?"

Your health can increase in a number of ways in HCraft, but one of the ways is eating new foods. You need to eat at least 2 new foods when starting out to get back to the baseline 20HP (10 Hearts). If you are in the Betweenlands, you might have to restore your corruption level via "Ball of Sap", "Weeping Blue Petal", or similar means. If all that doesn't apply, you were probably dimension hopping and got the health bug, which requires a simple disconnect/reconnect to fix.

"Why is everything hitting so hard, including me?"

All damage, outgoing and incoming, is doubled. Along with this, backstabs deal an additional double damage. This is both to your advantage, and disadvantage. The purpose of this is to increase the lethality and combat options when engaging enemies, and allow low-to-mid grade weapons and equipment to be effective in a wider set of scenarios.

"Why are caves so dark?"

To increase the fear factor when entering caves and unexplored areas, as well as increase the value of effective lighting, and previously underrated night vision capabilities.

"I died in the void, how do I get my stuff back?"

Your Corpse, with all of your items, will be floating on the void just above the spot you died, waiting for you to retrieve it.

🐛 Known Bugs & Fixes 🐛

Visually Missing Chunks - Hit [F3]+[A] while in-game.

Gameplay Freezing - Allocate more RAM to Minecraft.

Crash When Placing Structure - Break the structure's Poppet Shelves & Fairy Lights.

Broom Not Working - Craft your broom into a Juniper Broom.

Thaumcraft Perma-Fog - Fully restart your game.

Interdimensional Stymphalian Bird Flocks - Scream in terror. No fix yet.

Can't Place Backpacks - Disabled Feature. Created phantom inventories.

Unlootable Wizard Chests - Place a Hopper under the loot chest. No fix yet.

📋 Credits 📋

Many thanks to my friends and their friends for playing the packs I've made over the years. We've all shared many good excuses to have fun together, and I wouldn't trade any of it for anything in the world. Thank you to all of my friends who have endured me occasionally blabbering on and on about technical jargon, and a special thanks to all my friends who have simply rolled their eyes and continued playing when I repeatedly get distracted refining the pack to be the best it can be. I don't own any of the mods inside this pack, all credits go to the inspiring people who made them. I just fine tuned their configs and wrote scripts and such so they all work well together. I also don't own any of the images or sounds found in the server's resource pack, they were compiled from other amazing resource packs, or from popular games such as Bethesda's The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim; I may have made adjustments to said images or sounds, but I did not make them. Optifine Overworld night sky texture and darkness shader coloring was ported from the old SMP Revival Texture Pack. I am but one man, and I stand on the shoulders of giants to get a better view of the stars. I only take credit for my thousands of hours spent optimizing, refining, cleaning, scripting, and envisioning the experience I wish others to share with me.