Novtech Ages

NovTech: Ages

From a flint shard to the stars. NovTech: Ages is an age-based progression modpack for Minecraft 1.21.1 (NeoForge), inspired by SevTech: Ages and the large ATM and FTB packs. You start unable to even break a log. Each step unlocks the next age, until you leave the planet and craft the final item: the NovTech Core.

The Six Ages

Year 0 → Primal → Bronze Age → Pumping Iron → Modern Ages → Space Age

Each age unlocks when you complete the last quest of the previous chapter. Items from later ages stay visible in JEI, so you always know what is coming, but you can’t craft or use them yet.

• Year 0: no crafting grid. Craft on the ground, Vintage Story style: drop the ingredients on a block, sneak and right-click. Use a saw to cut logs into planks and a knife to split flint.
• Primal: campfires, cooking pots, backpacks and your first real tools.
• Bronze Age: copper, tin and the first Create machines.
• Pumping Iron: steel, brass, Immersive Engineering and the start of magic.
• Modern Ages: Mekanism, Applied Energistics 2 and full automation.
• Space Age: rockets, space suits, oxygen and other planets with Ad Astra.

Main Features

• 500+ quests in FTB Quests, fully bilingual (English and Portuguese). Rewards match what each quest asks for, plus XP, so you never get items from a later age.
• Realistic wildlife: no zombies, skeletons, creepers or spiders on the surface. Bears, wolves, lions, tigers, alligators and Komodo dragons hunt you, from farther away at night. Peaceful animals fight back only if you hit them.
• Age-locked exploration:
  • Loot from later ages turns into Old Salvage or Ancient Relics, which give loot from your current age.
  • Lootr gives every player their own chest loot.
  • Advanced structures stay sealed until you reach the right age.
  • Ores from later ages look and behave like stone until you can use them.
• Progressive difficulty: creatures get stronger as you advance through the ages and dimensions. Bosses are not affected.
• The Novari: a lore questline about an ancient people who walked this path before you. Find six Novari Tablets, one per age, hidden in chests and relics.
• Age ceremony: each new age brings a title screen, sounds, fireworks and a trophy you can place.
• Side Paths that never block the main campaign:
  • Arcana (Ars Nouveau, Occultism, Mystical Agriculture)
  • Dimensions & Bosses (Twilight Forest, Undergarden, Cataclysm and more)
  • Exploration
  • Logistics & Storage
  • Kitchen & Farm
  • Construction
• The NovTech Project: the endgame challenge. Combine seven cores, one for each path, into the NovTech Core.
• Polished experience: custom main menu, Complementary Unbound shaders built in (togglable), Fresh Animations and quality-of-life mods.

Requirements

• Minecraft 1.21.1 with NeoForge
• 8 GB of RAM recommended
• Start a new world