IdiotCraft 2 — v1.0.0

A Complete Rebuild

IdiotCraft is back.

IdiotCraft 2 is a ground-up reconstruction of the original pack into a much larger tech-fantasy sandbox, dramatically expanding exploration, industry, magic, combat, survival, engineering and space gameplay.

🌎 World & Exploration

• Rebuilt terrain around Tectonic + Biomes O' Plenty
• Added the YUNG's Better structure suite
• Added Integrated Villages, Towns and Towers and Stoneholm
• Expanded wildlife and environmental variety
• Added Alex's Caves
• Added Deeper and Darker
• Added Twilight Forest
• Added Ice and Fire: Dragons
• Added L_Ender's Cataclysm

⚙️ Technology & Engineering

• Massively expanded the Create ecosystem
• Added Create: Steam 'n' Rails
• Added Create Crafts & Additions
• Added Create: New Age
• Added Create: Big Cannons
• Added Immersive Engineering
• Added PneumaticCraft: Repressurized
• Added Mekanism
• Added Applied Energistics 2
• Added numerous cross-mod compatibility systems
• Added Valkyrien Skies 2 and its physics/vehicle ecosystem

🔮 Magic

• Mana and Artifice returns
• Added Ars Nouveau
• Added Iron's Spells 'n Spellbooks
• Expanded spectacular and combat-oriented magic
• Multiple independent magic paths can be developed alongside technology

🔫 Firearms & Artillery

• Added Timeless and Classics Zero (TaCZ)
• Added Create: Timeless and Classics Zero
• Added Create: Big Cannons for industrial artillery
• Added [TaCZ] IronsArms
• Iron's Spells magic can now interact directly with the TaCZ firearm system
• Expanded the bridge between fantasy combat and industrial weaponry

⚔️ Combat & Movement

• Added Epic Fight
• Added Battle Arts
• Added Weapons of Miracles
• Added Combat Evolution
• Added compatibility between major combat systems
• Added ParCool
• Added Do a Barrel Roll

🌙 Survival & Horror

• Added Born in Chaos
• Added Zombie Awareness
• Expanded nighttime danger
• Added temperature and thirst mechanics
• Added seasons
• Expanded environmental ambience

🚀 Space

• Added Ad Astra
• Expanded planetary structures and exploration
• Added Aliens vs. Predator
• Added a custom IdiotCraft AVP spawning datapack
• Xenomorphs are exceptionally rare in the Overworld but common-to-uncommon across Ad Astra planets

🎨 Visual Overhaul

• Added Fresh Animations
• Added EMF + ETF
• Added Stay True
• Added the Fusion visual ecosystem
• Added connected textures, block transitions, 3D/stacking items and emissive enhancements
• Added optional Complementary Reimagined, Complementary Unbound, Bliss and Solas shaders

🗺️ Quality of Life

• Added Xaero's Minimap + Xaero's World Map
• Added Waystones integration
• Added Polymorph for recipe conflicts
• Updated JEI to 15.57.0.207 for Polymorph compatibility
• Numerous crafting, interface, inventory and exploration improvements

🔧 Technical

• Rebuilt around Minecraft 1.20.1 Forge
• Extensive staged compatibility testing
• Custom Paxi datapack for AVP spawn balancing
• Numerous dependency and compatibility fixes
• Critical mod versions deliberately frozen where required for compatibility
• Create remains on 6.0.8
• Create: Big Cannons 5.10.2 selected specifically for the Create 6.0.8 build CurseForge
• CC:Tweaked is currently excluded after being identified as a launch-crash source

This is the first public release of the completely rebuilt IdiotCraft.

With this many interacting systems, unexpected mod interactions are still possible.

Welcome to IdiotCraft 2. Try not to get eaten, shot, exploded, crushed by your own machinery, or launched into space.