Misty Dale

Where the mist keeps its secrets.

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Misty Dale is a cozy and slightly eerie adventure pack for Minecraft 26.2 (NeoForge). Explore misty sky islands and hundreds of Terralith biomes, settle in a village, cook, farm, furnish your home, befriend new animals and work through one hand-made map of 347 advancements — every vanilla and mod tree woven into a single web.

The whole pack is in English and Russian: switch the game language and the logo, title texts, advancements and mod descriptions follow.

What's inside

• Worlds: Terralith biomes with sky islands, Structory ruins, livelier Better Village villages, YUNG's frog villages of Ribbits, and a separate Biospheres world type — glass spheres floating in the void, each with its own biome (Create World → World → World Type).
• Home and kitchen: Farmer's Delight, Croptopia, Chef's Workbench, Pantry for Blockheads, Crate Delight, Saros Fruit Trees; furniture from Adorn, Refurbished Furniture, Skniro Furniture, Fantasy Furniture, Voxelized Furniture and Macaw's bridges, fences and paths; Sophisticated Storage, Waystones, sleeping bags.
• Nature: Naturalist, Friends & Foes, Cube Animals, ducks, raccoons, Crop Critters, fireflies, wind chimes and ambient sounds of forests, caves and shores.
• Danger: The Graveyard, Spider Overhaul, Goblin Traders, Better Combat, gravestones that keep your items.
• Looks: the Excalibur resource pack with smooth block transitions (Continuity) and eleven shader packs for Iris (Photon recommended), all optional.
• One advancement tab: six chapters of the pack's own (The Kitchen, Housewarming, Into the Wild, Wayfarer, A Dangerous World, Legend of Misty Dale) plus every vanilla and mod tree, laid out as a web with custom frames per mod; rewards are XP and items.

Performance

Sodium, Lithium, C2ME, Entity Culling, Clumps and Get It Together Drops, Quick Pack. Measured on a 4-core laptop (i5-10200H, RTX 3060): new chunks per second doubled in the overworld (C2ME), item and XP piles merge (−43% entities, +19% FPS in a farm scene), start-up to the world 16 s faster. Misty Dale Fixes removes several lag sources and crashes of the included mods (see its page).

Requirements

• 8 GB of RAM for the game is recommended (6 GB minimum). More is not better here: with 16 GB+ the default ZGC collector lets garbage pile up and the game stalls for seconds.
• Java 25 (the CurseForge app installs it).

Mods made for this pack

• Misty Dale Fixes — targeted fixes for mods of the pack.
• Misty Dale Core — the advancement web, logo, title texts.
• Unofficial 26.2 ports: Ribbits, YUNG's API, NeoBiosphere (sources on GitHub, original authors credited).
• The resource packs Misty Dale (extra block transitions: sand, gravel, clay, ice, nylium, sandstone and the Graveyard's blocks; their tiles are drawn in game from Excalibur by Misty Dale Fixes) and Misty Dale Russian (Russian strings for the mods) ship in the pack itself.

Credits

All mods, resource packs and shaders belong to their authors — see the Mods tab, every one of them is downloaded from CurseForge. Thank you, all of you. Pack, fixes and ports were put together by blackhellvelz; the logo, icons and advancement frames were generated with Meshy AI and adapted for Minecraft by script.

Known issues

• /locate of a structure that cannot exist in the current world type may freeze the server for a long time.
• The Twilight Forest is not in this version: it has no 26.2 release on CurseForge yet. It will come back as soon as it can be included.