Malevolent Colonies v2.0

BREAKING CHANGE: Malevolent Colonies now uses MCTech / MC-TechColonies 1.12 as its base modpack. This replaces a substantial part of the previous mod lineup and changes world generation, recipes, and progression.

Back up your worlds before upgrading. Install v2.0 in a separate CurseForge profile and start a fresh world for the new pack. Migration from 1.x has not been validated; existing worlds may lose content from removed mods or fail to load.

• Updated the platform: Minecraft remains on 1.21.1; NeoForge moves from 21.1.92 to 21.1.218.
• Rebuilt the mod lineup around MCTech: 134 base-pack mod entries plus FourTwenty, for 135 required CurseForge entries.
• Updated FourTwenty to 0.5.0. CurseForge downloads the pinned release automatically.
• Expanded technology and storage: Added Oritech, Project Red, Immersive Machinery, Sophisticated Storage, and Backpacked. Packed Up is no longer included.
• Added exploration and travel content: Includes Deeper and Darker, L_Ender's Cataclysm, Stellarity, Dungeons and Taverns, Immersive Aircraft, Small Ships, and Wormhole portals.
• Changed farming and food: Added Farmer's Delight, Display Delight, Storage Delight, Vanilla Cookbook, Actually Harvest, and HT's TreeChop. Removed Croptopia, Cooking for Blockheads, Harvest with Ease, and Panda's Falling Trees.
• Updated colony progression: Updated MineColonies and its supporting mods, and included MCTech's kpack recipes connecting colony crafters with Oritech equipment, including exo armor and jetpacks.
• Adjusted gameplay settings: Increased MineColonies raid difficulty, made corpse inventories owner-only, revised weather and Overgrowth settings, and changed food rewards to one heart per milestone across ten milestones.
• Changed world generation and legacy content: Removed Biomes O' Plenty, Oh The Biomes We've Gone, and several previous structure mods. The separately bundled Cliffs blueprint pack and Vegan Craft recipes are no longer included.
• Updated performance and presentation mods: Added ModernFix, FerriteCore, Entity Culling, Dynamic Surroundings, and Particular. Removed Embeddium and PackMenu.