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Hippo - CAD Simplified

A 1.20.1 architectural design tool for near-unrestricted creative building and structural drafting.
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Description

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Offcial Hippo Pack

Why use Rhino when you have Hippo? Featuring a curated registry of over 80,000 unique architectural assets—nearly 8x the density of standard 'large' modpacks, Hippo is a masterclass urban design tool. Build cities, homes, skyscrapers, gardens, anything.

Hippo successfully integrates Axiom, Valkyrien Skies, Chisels & Bits, Oculus, Embeddium, Create, and Immersive Vehicles in one optimized package. This isn't another building pack. It's a complete CAD-Inspired platform for creative design.

Design → Build → Detail → Pose → Film

OverHead Shot of Vehicles from MTS Real Cars Pack

  • Sculpt terrain with Axiom (organic landscapes, hills, coastlines)
  • Build infrastructure with NX Roads and Saro's Roads (realistic asphalt, lane markings, highways)
  • Design buildings with FramedBlocks (custom geometry for any architectural style)
  • Add micro-details with Chisels & Bits (signage, trim, ornamental work at 1/16th block scale)
  • Drive through it with Immersive Vehicles (real cars on real roads)
  • Make your builds move with Valkyrien Skies and Create (elevators, trains, moving structures)

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Complete Block Palettes

  • Chipped
  • Rechiseled
  • XK's Decoration
  • Macaw's Mods
  • Paladin Furniture
  • Vertical Blocks
  • Architect's Palette
  • Yuushya
  • NX Roads and Skyscrapers
  • Nifty Blocks
  • MUCH MUCH more!!

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Create Ecosystem

  • Create - Mechanical systems and automation
  • Create Deco - Decorative additions
  • Create: Copycats+ - Mimic any block
  • Create: Steam 'n' Rails - Advanced train systems
  • ClockWork

Test Create automation, design mechanical systems, integrate with structures, visualize physics with Valkyrien Skies. Elevators, working train signals, driveway gates, complex redstone. Try it with SecurityCraft…

Physics

The presence of VS2 and Clockwork allow you to rotate any structure or block at any angle. This feature does work with Chisel Bits and most of the furniture and decor mods.

Geometry

  • 5 Shader Options - Bliss, BSL, Complementary (Reimagined & Unbound), Photon
  • Multiple Texture Packs
  • Optimized Performance with various perfomance boosters

Use Cases

  • Architecture Enthusiasts
  • Casual Night Building
  • Urban Planners
  • Cinematic Screenshots

Performance

Optimized with:

  • Embeddium
  • ModernFix
  • ImmediatelyFast
  • Entity Culling
  • FerriteCore
  • And More

Technical Achievement

Hippo solves some of the biggest compatibility issues in the modding community through careful mod selection.

Requirements

⚠️ PERFORMANCE NOTE: To access the full 81,000+ asset library with high-end shaders like Complementary, we recommend 12GB-16GB of allocated RAM.

Resolution plays a large part in performance

Getting Started

  • Install and launch - Allocate 8-10GB RAM
  • Choose a Texture Pack
  • Choose a shader
  • Open a flat world - Perfect for architecture
  • Start building!

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TIP Setup Keybinds Beforehand

Credits:

Includes mods from dozens and dozens of talented mod developers. Full mod list available on the files tab. Special thanks to the Minecraft modding community for making this possible.

Support & Community Questions? Join our Discord. This is just the start.

The Hippo - CAD Simplified Team

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