One Block to Rule Them All

The world did not end in fire. It ended in forgetting.

A story-driven OneBlock modpack for NeoForge 1.21.1. Every quest comes with a reason: the Oneblock is remembering the world out loud, and you are the Keeper who rebuilds it.

It is a long pack: roughly ten acts, 160+ quests, and many hours of play, with progression gated by both the blocks you break and the quests you finish.

The Lore

Long ago the Ender Dragon grew tired of guarding a barren island at the edge of everything. It learned to feed on something richer than void: the world's memory. Every forest, river, village and cave was held together by the world remembering itself, and the Dragon devoured it one biome at a time. Scholars called it the Unmaking.

Before the last chunk fell, every engineer, mage and tinkerer poured everything they knew into a single block: the seeds, the stones, the ores, the creatures and the blueprints of every machine. They called it the Oneblock. The Dragon could not eat it, but the Oneblock cannot restore the world by itself. It needs a pair of hands.

You wake on a single block of grass hanging in an endless dark. Break it, and it becomes something new: dirt, a log, stone. The Oneblock is not giving you resources. It is handing the world back to you, one memory at a time.

The Six Memories

Each act is a phase of the block and ends with a Memory Shard:

• Soil (Plains, Forest): farming, food and your first home. Shard of Growth.
• Gears (Underground, Caves): Create. Waterwheels, presses, brass and a contraption that breaks the block for you. Shard of Motion.
• The Deep (Ocean, Lush Caves): Mystical Agriculture. Grow mana itself. Shard of Life.
• Fire (the Nether): Mekanism, Oritech and Actually Additions. Real power, reactors and ore processing. Shard of Flame.
• Thought (Ancient City, Deep Dark): Applied Energistics 2 and friends. Store the whole world in crystal. Shard of Memory.
• The End: the Oneblock was never just restoring the world. It was building a door.

The Devourer

Beyond the portal the End is full of the ghosts of everything the Dragon swallowed: half-dissolved mountains, a village frozen mid-collapse, a river hanging in the air. The Keeper brings everything the six ages taught and fights the Dragon for the Dragon's Heart, the world's memory of itself, still whole.

The Worldseed

Combine six shards, the Heart, a reactor core, a storage cell and a binding of dragon breath into the Worldseed, then plant it in the Oneblock. Real terrain grows outward from your island over several minutes: forests, rivers, caves full of ore, biomes, and often a village with villagers and an iron golem to greet you. Nothing you built is touched. The world was not restored around your work. It was restored because of it.

After that comes Act X: The Restored World: bees, black pools of crude oil, maps and a world to explore.

Features

• A full FTB Quests book: Prologue, Acts I to X, The Devourer, and optional side quests, written to be read by a child.
• A custom NeoBlock progression: ten tiers, unlocked by breaking blocks and finishing quests.
• Custom story items: six Memory Shards, the Dragon's Heart, the Seed's Heart and the Worldseed.
• A one-time world restoration that clones real vanilla terrain (with villages, caves and ores) around the Oneblock without altering anything the player built.
• Traders and chests tuned so that every quest item can be obtained at the point it is asked for.

Included Mods (highlights)

Create (with Sifter, Connected, Encased), Mystical Agriculture and Agradditions, Mekanism, Oritech, Actually Additions, Applied Energistics 2 (with ExtendedAE, Applied Flux, Applied Mekanistics, Create Applied Kinetics), Farmer's Delight, Iron Furnaces, Iron Jetpacks, Just Dire Things, Sophisticated Storage, Waystones, FTB Quests / Chunks / Ultimine, JEI and more.

Notes

• This is an early release and has been playtested by one player. Please report bugs and unclear quests.
• Create a new world to play. The Worldseed finale takes several minutes and is meant to be left running.
• Don't break blocks while Worldseed finale is running, you won't get drops.
• Recommended memory: 6 to 8 GB.
• Do not run /neoblock commands unless you know why. Quest rewards advance the Oneblock's tiers for you.