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Horizons RPG
Horizons RPG is a large-scale RPG survival modpack built around exploration, combat, magic, technology, boss fights, dimensions, farming, automation, and long-term progression.
This pack started as something I wanted to build for players who enjoy modded Minecraft worlds that actually feel worth staying in. I did not want a pack where you spawn in, rush diamonds, build one machine, and then run out of things to do.
Horizons RPG is meant to feel like a full adventure.
You start with normal survival, but the world opens up fast. There are new biomes, large structures, dungeons, dangerous mobs, bosses, magic systems, Create machines, advanced storage, food progression, and multiple dimensions to work through.
This is not a strict expert pack, but it is also not a small vanilla-plus pack. There is a lot here, and the goal is to give players freedom while still having quests and progression to help guide them.
What is Horizons RPG?
Horizons RPG is built around a simple idea:
Survive, explore, build, grow stronger, enter new realms, and keep pushing forward.
You can play the pack in several different ways.
You can become an explorer, mage, engineer, farmer, builder, boss hunter, factory designer, or a mix of everything. The quest book is there to help guide you, but it is not meant to force every single step.
The pack has several main progression paths:
- Exploration and world discovery
- RPG combat and boss fights
- Magic and spellcasting
- Create-based automation
- Storage and logistics
- Farming, cooking, and homestead building
- Dimension progression
- Gear upgrading and power scaling
- Endgame factories, bosses, and realm-based goals
Quick Start Guide
If this is your first time playing Horizons RPG, here are a few things to know before jumping in.
1. Use the Quest Book
The quest book is your main guide.
It will help introduce the major systems in the pack, including survival basics, exploration, Create, magic, storage, farming, dimensions, bosses, and endgame progression.
You do not have to follow every quest immediately, but if you feel lost, the quest book is the first place to check.
2. Do Not Rush Combat
The world is more dangerous than vanilla Minecraft.
There are stronger enemies, better combat systems, elite mobs, bosses, and dangerous structures. Running into every dungeon early is a good way to get destroyed.
Prepare food, tools, armor, weapons, and a safe way home before going too far.
3. Build a Real Base
You will need storage, farms, machines, magic items, gear upgrades, and crafting areas.
A small starter shelter is fine early on, but this pack rewards players who build a proper long-term base.
4. Explore, But Mark Your Way Home
The pack includes Xaero’s Minimap, Xaero’s World Map, Waystones, Traveler’s Titles, and other travel tools.
Use them.
There are a lot of structures, biomes, and dimensions to find, and it is easy to get distracted or lost.
5. Create Is a Big Part of Progression
Create is one of the main technology paths in the pack.
You will eventually be able to build machines, factories, trains, logistics systems, flying contraptions, submarines, power systems, and automated production lines.
Early manual work can turn into full automation later.
6. Magic Is a Real Path
Iron’s Spells and Spellbooks, spell addons, magic schools, spell skill systems, and related compatibility mods make magic a full progression option.
You can use spells as your main combat style or mix them with weapons, armor, and technology.
7. Food Actually Matters
Farmer’s Delight, Let’s Do mods, Aquaculture, Twilight Delight, Ender’s Delight, and other food addons give you more reasons to farm, cook, fish, and prepare meals.
Better food can make exploration and combat much easier.
8. Expect the Pack to Open Up Over Time
Early game feels closer to normal survival.
Midgame opens into magic, Create, better storage, exploration, and stronger gear.
Late game is where the pack becomes much bigger, with advanced automation, boss progression, dimensions, AE2, powerful equipment, and endgame goals.
Key Features
Here are the main things you can expect from Horizons RPG:
- Quest-guided RPG progression
- Large world generation overhaul
- New biomes and terrain
- Many new structures, ruins, villages, dungeons, and strongholds
- Improved combat with Epic Fight and related combat systems
- Boss fights from Cataclysm, Ice and Fire, Mowzie’s Mobs, Twilight Forest, and more
- Magic progression with Iron’s Spells and Spellbooks
- Spell skill trees, magic schools, and spell addons
- Gear scaling with Apotheosis, Apothic Attributes, Ancient Reforging, and related mods
- Create 6 automation with many Create addons
- Create Aeronautics, submarines, trains, cannons, logistics, and advanced machines
- Applied Energistics 2 digital storage
- Sophisticated Backpacks and Sophisticated Storage
- Tom’s Simple Storage and Storage Drawers
- Farmer’s Delight, Let’s Do mods, Aquaculture, and many food addons
- Multiple dimensions including Aether, Deep Aether, Twilight Forest, Atlantis, Deeper and Darker, Better Nether, Better End, and Umbral Skies
- Xaero’s Minimap and World Map
- Waystones and map-to-waystone integration
- FTB Teams, FTB Chunks, and multiplayer-friendly systems
- KubeJS support for custom recipes, progression, and future pack scripting
- Performance and utility mods such as ModernFix, FerriteCore, Lithium, Sodium, Spark, C2ME, and more
- Built for long-term solo worlds or small multiplayer servers
Main Gameplay Loop
Horizons RPG is built around this loop:
Survive
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Explore
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Gather resources
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Build a base
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Choose a progression path
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Upgrade gear, magic, storage, or automation
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Enter harder areas and dimensions
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Defeat bosses
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Bring back rare materials
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Push into the next stage
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The pack is meant to keep giving you new reasons to continue playing.
Exploration
Exploration is one of the biggest parts of Horizons RPG.
The world is filled with new terrain, large biomes, ruins, dungeons, villages, temples, strongholds, caves, and hidden areas. You are encouraged to travel, loot, map, and discover what is around you.
Exploration is not just for fun. It is part of progression.
You will find useful loot, rare materials, boss paths, new dimensions, and resources that help push your world forward.
Major exploration features include:
- Terralith
- Oh The Biomes We’ve Gone
- Dynamic Trees
- Ecologics
- Integrated Dungeons and Structures
- Integrated Villages
- Integrated Stronghold
- Moog’s structures
- YUNG’s API-supported structures
- Traveler’s Titles
- Xaero’s Minimap
- Xaero’s World Map
- Waystones
- Lootr
Combat and Bosses
Combat is a major focus in this pack.
Horizons RPG uses Epic Fight, Better Lock On, Simply Swords, Apotheosis, Apothic Attributes, Cataclysm, Ice and Fire, Mowzie’s Mobs, Twilight Forest, Deeper and Darker, and other combat-related systems to make fights more involved than vanilla.
You should expect:
- Stronger mobs
- Better combat animations
- Boss fights
- Elite gear scaling
- Dangerous structures
- Magic-based enemies
- Stronger weapons
- More meaningful armor and attributes
- Preparation before major fights
Bosses are not just there to be hard. They are part of the reward loop.
Defeating stronger enemies can lead to better gear, rare drops, progression materials, and access to harder parts of the pack.
Magic
Magic is one of the main RPG paths.
With Iron’s Spells and Spellbooks and several addons, players can find spellbooks, unlock spells, use magic schools, improve spell power, and mix spellcasting with weapons or armor.
Magic content includes:
- Iron’s Spells and Spellbooks
- Iron’s Spells Skill Tree
- Iron’s Spells Magic Schools
- Iron’s Spellbooks KubeJS
- GameTechBC’s Spellbooks
- GTBC’s SpellLib
- GTBC’s Geomancy Plus
- Ace’s Spell Utils
- Cataclysm Spellbooks
- Iron’s Apothic
- Epic Fight and Iron’s Spells compatibility
You can play as a full spellcaster, a battle mage, or just use spells as support while focusing on another path.
Technology and Automation
Create is one of the largest parts of Horizons RPG.
The pack includes Create 6 and a large amount of Create addons, allowing players to build machines, factories, trains, contraptions, logistics systems, cannons, flying machines, submarines, power systems, and large-scale automation setups.
Create content includes things like:
- Create
- Create: New Age
- Create Crafts & Additions
- Create: The Factory Must Grow
- Create Aeronautics
- Create: Big Cannons
- Create: Steam ’n’ Rails
- Create: Ultimate Factory
- Create: Additional Logistics
- Create: Connected
- Create: Transmission
- Create: Hypertube
- Create: Stock Bridge
- Create: Ender Gateway
- Create: Dreams n’ Desires
- Create: Dragons Plus
- Create: Train Parts
- Create Nuclear
- Create: Copycats+
- Create Deco
- Create: Interiors
- Create: Submarine
- Create: High Seas
- Create: Aeroworks
- Create Aeronautics addons and compatibility mods
Early game starts simple.
Later, automation becomes a major part of progression.
Storage and Logistics
You will collect a lot of items in this pack.
Storage starts simple, but it can grow into large connected systems and full crafting networks.
Storage and logistics options include:
- Sophisticated Backpacks
- Sophisticated Storage
- Storage Drawers
- Tom’s Simple Storage
- Applied Energistics 2
- AE2 JEI Integration
- Schematic Energistics
- Create storage integrations
- Create Stock Bridge
- Create logistics addons
Early game storage is basic.
Midgame storage becomes organized.
Endgame storage can become automated and connected to your machines and crafting systems.
Farming, Food, and Homestead
Horizons RPG is not only about fighting and machines.
You can build a real home, farm, kitchen, settlement, or cozy base. Farming and cooking give players another progression path and help support long exploration trips or boss fights.
Food and homestead content includes:
- Farmer’s Delight
- Chef’s Delight
- Aquaculture
- Aquaculture Delight
- Aquaculture Lava Fishing
- Ender’s Delight
- L_Ender’s Delight
- Twilight Delight
- Let’s Do Bakery
- Let’s Do Brewery
- Let’s Do Candlelight
- Let’s Do Vinery
- Let’s Do Farm & Charm
- Let’s Do Furniture
- Macaw’s building mods
- Handcrafted
- Supplementaries
- Quark
- Rechiseled
- Design n’ Decor
If you like building a base that actually feels lived in, there is a lot here to work with.
Dimensions and Realms
Horizons RPG includes several dimensions and realm-style progression paths.
Each realm has its own resources, enemies, loot, structures, and reasons to explore.
Major realm content includes:
- The Aether
- Deep Aether
- Aethersteel
- Aether Villages
- Aether Ruined Portals
- Explore Ruins Aether
- Twilight Forest
- Twilight Forest Bosses Resurrection
- Twilight Forest Dungeons & Villages
- Twilight Delight
- Atlantis
- Deeper and Darker
- Better Nether
- Better End
- End Remastered
- Umbral Skies
- Moog’s Nether Structures
- Moog’s End Structures
These dimensions are not just side areas. They are meant to support exploration, boss progression, loot, crafting, and long-term goals.
Questing and Progression
Horizons RPG uses FTB Quests, ExtraQuests, Quest Titles, FTB Filter System, and KubeJS support to guide players through the pack.
The quest book is meant to help players understand what to do next without removing freedom.
Expect quests for:
- Getting started
- Basic survival
- Exploration
- Combat
- Farming
- Create
- Magic
- Storage
- Dimensions
- Bosses
- AE2
- Endgame systems
- Optional repeatable contracts
The quest book will continue to be expanded as the pack grows.
RPG Systems and Power Scaling
Horizons RPG includes several systems that make the player stronger over time.
This includes gear upgrades, attributes, skill trees, spell progression, better weapons, reforging, and more.
RPG-style systems include:
- Apotheosis
- Apothic Attributes
- Apothic Enchanting
- Apothic Spawners
- Ancient Reforging
- Puffish Skills
- Puffish Attributes
- Stronger Skill Tree
- Epic Fight Skill Tree
- Simply Swords
- Fantasy Armor
- Accessories and Curios compatibility
- Obscure Tooltips and Simply Tooltips
The idea is that your character should feel stronger as you play, not just because of one armor set, but because of several systems working together.
Multiplayer
Horizons RPG can be played solo, but it also works well with friends.
Different players can naturally take different roles:
- One player builds Create machines
- One player focuses on magic
- One player explores and maps the world
- One player handles farming and food
- One player builds the base
- One player hunts bosses
- One player works on storage and logistics
Multiplayer-friendly systems include:
- Simple Voice Chat
- FTB Teams
- FTB Chunks
- FTB Chunks Control
- Lootr
- Waystones
- Xaero’s Minimap
- Xaero’s World Map
- Xaero’s Maps x Waystones
- FTB Chunks x Xaero’s Map Compat
The pack is meant to support both solo worlds and small group servers.
Difficulty
Horizons RPG is not designed to be unfair, but it is designed to be more involved than vanilla Minecraft.
You should expect:
- Stronger enemies
- More dangerous exploration
- Bigger caves and structures
- Boss fights that require preparation
- More complex progression over time
- More storage needs
- More crafting systems
- More reasons to build a permanent base
- More long-term goals
The early game should feel familiar.
The midgame should feel wide open.
The endgame should feel powerful, dangerous, and rewarding.
Recommended Playstyle
Horizons RPG is best for players who enjoy:
- Long-term survival worlds
- RPG-style progression
- Quest-guided gameplay
- Exploring structures and dimensions
- Magic and spellcasting
- Epic combat and bosses
- Create automation
- Building factories
- Farming and cooking
- Advanced storage systems
- Base building
- Playing solo or with friends
This pack is not meant to be rushed in one sitting.
Take your time, explore, build, and grow into the world.
Installation Notes
Recommended Install
Use the CurseForge App.
Install the pack, press play, and let the launcher handle the files.
Manual Install
Manual installs are not recommended unless you know what you are doing.
This pack uses NeoForge 1.21.1 and includes many mods that depend on specific versions and compatibility layers.
If you manually install the pack, make sure you are using the correct Minecraft version, modloader, mods, configs, scripts, and resource files.
Recommended RAM
Because Horizons RPG is a large modpack, the default Minecraft RAM allocation is not enough.
Recommended client RAM:
8 GB minimum
10–12 GB recommended
For multiplayer servers, RAM needs will depend on player count, view distance, world generation, loaded chunks, and how many machines or farms are active.
Server Notes
Server owners should test performance before opening a public server.
This pack includes large world generation, Create automation, dimensions, bosses, and many gameplay systems. Those can be heavy if players spread out too quickly or keep too many chunks loaded.
Recommended server tips:
- Pre-generate the world if possible
- Keep view distance reasonable
- Watch loaded chunks
- Use Spark for profiling
- Limit excessive chunk loading
- Make sure players do not overload Create contraptions or farms
- Test boss and dimension content before public launch
Final Goal
The final goal of Horizons RPG is to create a modded world that keeps giving players reasons to continue.
You may start with a small shelter and basic tools, but over time that can turn into:
- A full base
- A Create-powered factory
- A spellcasting build
- A strong combat loadout
- A farming and food setup
- A connected storage network
- Explored dimensions
- Defeated bosses
- Completed questlines
- Endgame automation
- A world that feels like your own
Horizons RPG is about building your own path through a large, dangerous, and rewarding modded adventure.