Outbreak Protocol - Dead Horizon

A survival-horror modpack set in a world overrun by zombies, mutants, and the occasional armed human faction. Barricade at night, scavenge ruined cities by day, and don't get caught out in a storm — thunder makes zombies hear you from farther away.

⚠️ Before you install — please read

This is my first modpack. I'm not a professional pack developer, I don't have a fixed roadmap, and I'm genuinely figuring a lot of this out as I go. The mod selection reflects what I personally enjoy playing — it is not trying to be a "complete" or "meta" pack, and it will change shape based on what players report back. Bug reports, balance complaints, and "please add/remove X" suggestions are not just welcome, they're basically how this pack is going to be finished.

This pack does not include Create (or any Create-based mods/add-ons). If you're joining expecting Create-style automation/contraptions, this isn't that pack — it's focused on survival, combat, and atmosphere instead.

Core themes

Survival pressure

Cold Sweat (temperature) + Thirst was Taken (hydration) stacked on top of vanilla hunger — you have three separate resources to manage, not just food.
AppleSkin for clear at-a-glance food/saturation info.

Combat & firearms

TaCZ (Timeless & Classics: Guns) as the core firearms system, extended with several TaCZ add-ons (attachments, optimization, extra weapons).
Combat Roll for dodge-based melee, Better Combat for weapon variety.
Gunfire carries — firing your weapon draws zombies from a distance, so silencers and positioning actually matter.

Enemies

Alex's Mobs, Mutant Monsters, and Mutants and Zombies add variety beyond vanilla zombies.
Cannibal Conundrum adds human enemies that behave differently from undead ones.
Enhanced Hordes brings periodic large-scale horde events — barricade accordingly.
Human military-style encounters (armed NPCs that take cover and shoot back) alongside the undead.

Base building & security

SecurityCraft for cameras, alarms, and defenses.
Sophisticated Backpacks and Curios API for extra storage/equipment slots.
Corpse (death items stay on a corpse body instead of scattering).

World & exploration

Terralith, Tectonic, and Project: Vibrant Journeys layered on TerraBlender for varied, non-vanilla terrain.
A large set of ruined/abandoned structure packs (abandoned cities, watchtowers, doomsday structures, radio towers) to scavenge.

Performance

Embeddium, Ferrite Core, EntityCulling, Clumps, Dynamic FPS, BadOptimizations, and several other optimization mods included by default — this pack is heavy (~260 mods), so performance mods aren't optional extras, they're load-bearing.

Status

Actively in development. Expect balance changes, mob tuning, and structure/worldgen adjustments in future updates as feedback comes in. If something feels broken, unbalanced, or unfinished — it probably is, and that's exactly the kind of feedback that shapes the next update.

Feedback

Report bugs, balance issues, or suggestions on the pack's Discord/issue tracker (link here). This pack is being built with the community playing it, not delivered as a finished product.

Outbreak Protocol- Dead Horizon