Create and Dragons (CaD) is a family-friendly questing modpack where kids and parents build a colony, learn automation, explore dungeons, face dragons, cook varied meals, decorate cozy homes, and progress from simple survival to advanced technology and space through a questbook-guide.

• Build your colony
• Automate
• Explore the world and dungeons
• Cook, decorate, farm and grow
• Progress into advanced technology without being punished like a hardcore expert pack.

This is not a hardcore expert pack. It is also not a free creative sandbox. Progression matters, tools matter, quests matter, and machines matter — but the pack is designed to be readable, fair, and playable together.

Quest-guided progression with FTB Quests

The quests gives the pack a clear path. You are not dropped into hundreds of mods with no idea what to do. The questbook introduces mechanics gradually:

• survival basics
• colony setup
• tool progression
• food and farming
• Create machines
• exploration
• storage
• power
• advanced technology
• bosses
• space
  
• Create-based automation and engineering
  Create is one of the central pillars of the pack. Expect cogwheels, belts, shafts, mixers, presses, mechanical arms, trains, and factories. Create is not just decoration here. It is part of progression.
• Minecolonies and settlement growth
  Build a real working settlement with MineColonies-style progression. Your base should feel alive: builders, farms, storage, roads, decorations, houses, and production areas.
• Dragons, bosses, dungeons and exploration
  The world contains adventure content, dangerous structures, bosses, and fantasy threats. The goal is excitement, not constant punishment.  You should prepare, gear up, and explore together.
• Food, farming and decoration
  Food and decoration are not filler. The pack includes crops, meals, kitchens, furniture, cozy building blocks, storage options, and visual polish to make bases feel warm and lived-in.
• SilentGear Tools and progression
  Tools and materials matter. Silent Gear is used to make equipment progression more meaningful, with mining tiers and material upgrades integrated into the pack’s progression.
• Advanced machines and storage
  Later progression moves into Mekanism, Applied Energistics 2, reactors, digital storage, power networks, and advanced automation.
• Space as a late-game goal
  Space is not the first thing you do. It is the long-term expedition goal after your colony, machines, tools, and technology have grown enough.
• Quality-of-life and performance-focused setup
• Multiplayer/server-friendly design

Create and Dragons is a guided family-friendly adventure with three main phases:

1. Cozy survival and colony building

Start small, gather basic resources, build a safe home, discover the questbook, and begin your colony.

2. Create machines and dragon adventure

Use Create-style engineering to automate materials, build workshops, improve your tools, explore dangerous places, and prepare for stronger enemies.

3. Advanced technology and space

Move into larger machines, power systems, digital storage, better gear, bosses, reactors, and late-game space progression.

The goal is simple:

Start as a small settlement. Grow into a powerful engineering colony. End as a space-age expedition.

Create and Dragons is made for shared play. For example :  

One player or team can build, organize storage, manage the colony, and help with machines.
Another player or team can explore, collect food, decorate, discover quests, fight monsters, and help the colony grow.

The pack is intended to be:

• guided, but not restrictive
• adventurous, but not cruel
• playful, but not childish
• challenging, but not punishing
• good for small family servers
• readable for players who do not already know every mod

This modpack is for you if you want:

• a modpack to play with children, parents, friends, or family
• a clear questbook
• Create automation without expert-pack suffering
• cozy colony building
• dragons and fantasy adventure
• food, decoration, and base-building content
• a long-term progression path
• multiplayer-friendly gameplay
• late-game technology and space goals

This pack is probably not for you if you want:

• brutal expert recipes
• hardcore survival punishment
• endless grind for the sake of grind
• a pure kitchen-sink pack with no direction
• instant access to every machine and dimension

Create and Dragons works best as a small team pack, if you want to play solo, that's ok too.

Suggested family roles:

• The Builder — houses, roads, colony layout, decoration
• The Engineer — Create machines, power, automation
• The Explorer — dungeons, maps, structures, loot
• The Farmer/Cook — crops, meals, kitchens, food bonuses
• The Gearsmith — Silent Gear tools, armor, mining tiers
• The Scientist — Mekanism, AE2, reactors, space tech

You do not need to follow these playstyle roles, but they may help your team get more fun.

The pack is built around:

• Create
• MineColonies
• Silent Gear
• FTB Quests
• Mekanism
• Applied Energistics 2
• Farmer’s Delight
• Sophisticated Storage and Backpacks
• YUNG’s structures and dungeon content
• L_Ender’s Cataclysm
• Stellaris
• KubeJS custom progression
• Many QOL, food, decoration, performance and UI mods

Full list of mods here.

Recommended memory:

• Minimum: 6 GB RAM allocated
• Recommended: 8 GB RAM allocated
• For servers: depends on player count, view distance, pregeneration, and colony size
  • You need Java.

The pack includes performance and quality-of-life mods, but it is still a large modded experience. Lower-end machines may need reduced render distance and shaders disabled.

Create and Dragons is designed to work well on small family servers.

Server play is recommended if you want a shared colony, shared machines, shared exploration, and long-term progression together.

A server pack is available for supported releases.

Planned progression focus:

• Chapter 1: Arrival, shelter, first tools, first food
• Chapter 2: Colony start and early settlement growth
• Chapter 3: Create basics and early automation
• Chapter 4: Exploration, dungeons and stronger gear
• Chapter 5: Dragons and major adventure milestones
• Chapter 6: Power, machines and advanced resources
• Chapter 7: Digital storage and large-scale automation
• Chapter 8: Bosses, reactors and late-game equipment
• Chapter 9: Space expedition

The pack will grow through meaningful updates and will be updated regularly.

KidZ 5 - Create and Dragons is the modern successor to the previous KidZ packs. It keeps the original idea — a modpack for kids and parents — but rebuilds it with a stronger identity, newer Minecraft version, better quests, better progression, and a more polished experience. Have fun and leave a comment ;)

KidZ 4 - Dragons and Creepers - requires less memory.

KidZ 3 - Works well on potato computer.

KidZ 2 - Ultralightweight modpack.

Learn LUA with Minecraft - If you want to learn some useful LUA while playing minecraft, give this a go ;)

The modpack is fully working: fully playable in it's ensemble. Read the patchnotes to know more about the updates and the progression of the development.

Notes

This modpack is built as a genuine progression pack. Some recipes, tools, ores, rewards, dimensions, and machines may differ from their default mod behavior.

If something feels too easy, too punishing, confusing, or broken, please report it in the issue tracker.

Please do NOT rehost/redistribute the modpack or any of its content, logo, name, custom configs, art on other platforms.

Of course it is OK to stream/shoot/make/share screenshots and videos of the modpack and its in-game content.