🧱 MonkeyCraft Server Update — NeoForge 1.21.1 Migration
📅 Date: October 2025
🔧 Version: NeoForge-1.21.1
🌍 Server Type: Dedicated (MineColonies + Economy + FTB Essentials)
🆕 Major Updates
🧩 Core Server Framework
- 🔄 Migrated server jar for improved MineColonies performance and full mod compatibility.
🏗️ Gameplay & Content Mods
| Mod |
Description |
Update |
| MineColonies |
Updated to latest 1.21.1 snapshot with improved worker AI and stability. |
✅ Updated |
| Structurize |
Core building library required by MineColonies. |
✅ Updated |
| Domum Ornamentum |
Provides decorative blocks and schematics for colony buildings. |
✅ Updated |
| StyleColonies / MineColonies QOL / Questline / Bluemap |
Adds styling options, quests, and integration tools. |
🆕 Added |
| Guard Villagers |
Enhances colony defense with upgraded villager guards. |
✅ Updated |
| Easy Villagers |
Adds villager handling, storage, and trading blocks. |
🆕 Added |
| Healing Campfire |
Regenerates health near campfires. |
🆕 Added |
| Replanting Crops / Respawning Structures |
Quality-of-life world improvements. |
🆕 Added |
⚙️ System & Utility Mods
| Mod |
Description |
Status |
| FTB Essentials |
Replaces EssentialsX – homes, spawn, TPA, etc. |
🆕 Added |
| FTB Backups |
Automatic world backups (replaces DriveBackupV2). |
🆕 Added |
| FTB Library / Teams / Ranks / Quests / Optimizer / XMod-Compat |
Full FTB suite for team play and questing. |
🆕 Added |
| LuckPerms (Forge Build) |
Forge-native permissions management. |
🆕 Added |
| Spark |
Performance profiling and TPS diagnostics. |
✅ Updated |
| FastAsyncWorldSave |
Multithreaded world saving for smoother ticks. |
🆕 Added |
| Simple Discord Link Bot |
Two-way chat bridge and whitelist integration between Discord and Minecraft. |
🆕 Added |
| M Economy |
Digital economy system with banks, ATMs, and player/admin shops. |
🆕 Added |
| Architectury / Balm / Curios / GeckoLib / CraterLib / Collective |
Updated shared libraries for stability and mod compatibility. |
✅ Updated |
🌍 World & Exploration
| Mod |
Description |
Update |
| Biomes O’ Plenty |
Expands biomes and terrain variety. |
✅ Updated |
| Yung’s Better [Dungeons, Mineshafts, Temples, etc.] |
Revamps vanilla structures for exploration. |
✅ Updated |
| Explorify |
Adds world generation and terrain variety enhancements. |
🆕 Added |
| TerraBlender |
Biome blending API for modded terrain. |
✅ Updated |
| Waystones |
Adds global teleportation points. |
🆕 Added |
🎒 Player Utilities
| Mod |
Description |
Update |
| JourneyMap |
Interactive mini-map and waypoints. |
✅ Updated |
| AppleSkin |
Displays hunger/saturation overlay. |
✅ Updated |
| Jade / Jade Addons / JEI |
Tooltip and recipe browser support. |
✅ Updated |
| Sophisticated Backpacks / Core |
Expandable, portable inventory system. |
✅ Updated |
| Double Doors / Stack Refill |
Small but useful gameplay quality-of-life features. |
🆕 Added |
🧰 Libraries & Dependencies
| Library |
Description |
Update |
| FTB Library |
Backend framework for all FTB mods. |
✅ Updated |
| Architectury API |
Cross-mod compatibility layer. |
✅ Updated |
| Balm |
Core library for mods like Waystones and MineColonies. |
✅ Updated |
| Curios API |
Adds extra equipment slots. |
✅ Updated |
| GeckoLib |
Model animation system used by several mods. |
✅ Updated |
| Collective / CraterLib / GlitchCore / Rhino / PolyLib |
Core logic and scripting libraries. |
✅ Updated |
🪄 Technical Notes
- Server simulation-distance increased to 24 chunks for full MineColonies worker range.
- Minecolonies tuned for background colony loading
- Optimized JVM flags for Java 21 using G1GC with parallel reference processing.
- Confirmed multi-colony simulation now persists across player absence.
🧾 Summary
- ✅ Full migration of java jar complete
- ✅ Added native economy and Discord integration
- ✅ Improved MineColonies AI and performance
- ✅ Enhanced world generation and gameplay stability
— MonkeyCraft Admin Team
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