Peaks & Talons

Long before the first villager raised a roof, the mountains belonged to the eagles. They ruled the summits as sovereigns of the sky, guarding relics older than the stone they nested on. Beneath the cliffs, where the sea runs into the rock, the troll Orduk built a tavern in a hollow no sunlight reaches. He pours the ale, he keeps the eagles' old treasures, and he has never once let a guest leave without paying the tab in blood. Every adventurer's road starts at the trailhead and ends at his bar. Hunt the eagles, or earn their trust. Claim the relics of the summit. Follow the talon-dust compass down to the bay. Then make your offering at the podium, and see whether you're still standing at last call.

Peaks & Talons is a story-driven adventure modpack for NeoForge 1.21.1. A four-chapter campaign carries you from your first shelter to the high peaks, into Orduk's Hollow and through a multi-phase boss fight. Around that story is a full sandbox of RPG classes, engineering, farming, taverns, sailing and exploration.

1. I · The Trailhead: a home, a shield and a road into the peaks.
2. II · Sovereigns of the Sky: Hunt a Mountain Eagle and survive its Vengeance Eagles, or Bond with one: ride out its wild flight until it trusts you, then fly it with a Golden Eagle Harness, give it orders with its feather and fit it with eagle armor. Both paths lead onward.
3. III · Relics of the Summit: the Eye of the Eagle, the Storm Crystal, the Ancient Talon and the Eye of the Summit. Mill talons with Create to craft the Explorer's Compass.
4. IV · Orduk's Hollow: the compass won't guide you from the air, so sail there by whale with your eagle perched in the crow's nest calling out the way. Follow the lit coastal path to a one-per-world sea cavern with a marina, a tavern and an arena guarded by eagles. Offer your compass at the podium and face Orduk, the Cave Troll: Dash Plow, Beer Mug Smash and a poison Stank Breath that spreads as it travels.

Side chapters teach you the pack as you go: Create Engineering, Kitchen & Foundry, Storage & Logistics, Equipment & Villagers, Too Many Bows, Mekanism Workshops, Tavern & Battle Axe, Simply Swords, Industrial Foregoing, When Dungeons Arise, a Whaleborne sea voyage, and Paths of the Adventurer: Paladin, Archer, Wizard, Berserker or Rogue.

• Custom content: Mountain Eagles, Orduk's Hollow, socketed necklaces (Silk Touch, Fortune, Haste, Flight, Dragon Fire…), talon weapons and the soulbound Last Call battle axe, all from Peaks & Talons Core.
• Eagle flight, dragon-style: harnessed eagles fly like Dragon Mounts dragons: take off with Jump, steer with the camera, dive and climb, and dash with Windburst (5-second cooldown).
• Your eagle, your partner: command it with its feather (Follow, Defend, Wander, Perch), let it help in fights, armor it in iron, gold or diamond, and post it in your whale's crow's nest as a scout.
• A whale you can live on: befriend a Whaleborne hullback and it grows a two-floor ship. Sails, masts and the helm sit on the upper deck. The plank lower deck is yours for Create machines, a bed and storage, with four water-wheel mounts that speed the whale up and power your machines when you drop anchor.

• RPG classes and skills: the RPG Series (Paladins & Priests, Wizards, Archers, Rogues & Warriors, Berserker), Spell Engine, Skill Tree, Pufferfish's Skills and Player Abilities.
• Loot and gear: Apotheosis, Simply Swords, Too Many Bows, Artifacts, Lootr (per-player loot).
• Build and craft: Create, Mekanism, Industrial Foregoing, Refined Storage, Storage Drawers, Sophisticated Backpacks, Iron Furnaces.
• Food and hospitality: Farmer's Delight, [Let's Do] Farm & Charm and Brewery, plus the full Macaw's building set.
• World: Tectonic mountains, Biomes O' Plenty, Towns and Towers, When Dungeons Arise, Dragon Mounts Remastered, Whaleborne, Aquaculture 2, Waystones.
• Quality of life: Quark, JEI, Jade, Xaero's Minimap and World Map, FTB Quests, FTB Ultimine, HT's TreeChop, Fast Leaf Decay, Polymorph, Mouse Tweaks, Controlling, Corail Tombstone.
• Built for multiplayer: FTB Chunks (claim land, keep your base loaded, share a team map), Simple Voice Chat (proximity voice), and Almost Unified so every mod's copper, tin and steel become one item.
• Runs smooth: FerriteCore, ModernFix, ImmediatelyFast, Entity Culling, Lithium, Dynamic FPS and Structure Layout Optimizer, plus Chunky to pre-generate your world and spark to track down lag.
• Looks: Sodium and Iris with Complementary Unbound and Bliss shaders, Legendary Tooltips, and a custom FancyMenu title and loading screen.
• Original soundtrack: fantasy ambience by Sonic Atlas plays on the title screen, in menus and while you explore, and a boss score takes over when Orduk or the eagles come for you. Vanilla music is replaced entirely.
• Content creators: ReForgedPlay (Replay Mod) with a one-key F9 record toggle and Motion Capture.

All music in Peaks & Talons comes from Sonic Atlas (Dugal Olsowski) on YouTube, and is included with his permission:

• Menu & exploration: Mistwood Falls – Relaxing Fantasy Music
• Boss battles: Blades Drawn – Legendary Boss Battle Playlist

If you enjoy it, please visit his channel and subscribe. The soundtrack is always on, and music starts at 30% volume on first launch (change it under Options → Music & Sounds). The music isn't covered by this modpack's license, so please don't extract or re-upload it.

• Java 21. The CurseForge app handles this for you.
• 8 GB RAM allocated recommended (6 GB minimum).
• Shaders are optional: turn them on under Options → Video Settings → Shader Packs.
• Multiplayer ready: boss rewards and eagle progression are tracked per player. A server pack is available under Files.
• Server hosts: Simple Voice Chat uses its own UDP port, 24454 by default; open it on your host or router.

Found a bug or have an idea? Leave a comment on this page. Please include your latest.log for crashes.

• [Let's Do] Brewery - Farm&Charm Compat (by satisfy)
• [Let's Do] Farm & Charm (by satisfy)
• Almost Unified (by AlmostReliable)
• Apotheosis (by Shadows_of_Fire)
• Apothic Attributes (by Shadows_of_Fire)
• Apothic Enchanting (by Shadows_of_Fire)
• Apothic Spawners (by Shadows_of_Fire)
• Aquaculture 2 (by Shadow)
• Archers (RPG Series) (by daedelus_dev)
• Architectury API (by shedaniel)
• Armor Model API (by daedelus_dev)
• Armory (RPG Series) (by daedelus_dev)
• Artifacts (by ochotonida)
• AttributeFix (by DarkhaxDev)
• Balm (by BlayTheNinth)
• Berserker (RPG Series Plus) (by Fichteee)
• Biomes O' Plenty (by Forstride)
• Bookshelf (by DarkhaxDev)
• Bundle API (by TheRedBrain)
• Chunky (Forge/NeoForge) (by pop4959)
• Cloth Config API (Fabric/Forge/NeoForge) (by shedaniel)
• Clumps (by Jaredlll08)
• Comforts (by TheIllusiveC4)
• Controlling (by Jaredlll08)
• Corail Tombstone (by Corail_31)
• Create (by simibubi)
• Creeper Overhaul (by joosh_7889)
• Cristel Lib (by Cristelknight)
• Critical Strike (by daedelus_dev)
• Curios API (by TheIllusiveC4)
• Dragon Mounts Remastered (by Horeaki)
• Drippy Loading Screen (by Keksuccino)
• Dynamic FPS (by juliand665)
• Easy Villagers (by henkelmax)
• Enchantment Descriptions (by DarkhaxDev)
• Entity Culling Fabric/Forge (by tr7zw)
• Explorer's Compass (by Chaosyr)
• FancyMenu (by Keksuccino)
• Farmer's Delight (by vectorwing)
• Fast Leaf Decay (by olafskiii)
• FerriteCore ((Neo)Forge) (by malte0811)
• FFmpegLib (by FLYover67)
• Framework (by MrCrayfish)
• FTB Chunks (NeoForge) (by FTB)
• FTB Library (NeoForge) (by FTB)
• FTB Quests (NeoForge) (by FTB)
• FTB Teams (NeoForge) (by FTB)
• FTB Ultimine (NeoForge) (by FTB)
• Fzzy Config (by fzzyhmstrs)
• GeckoLib (by Gecko)
• GlitchCore (by TheAdubbz)
• Goblin Traders (by MrCrayfish)
• Guard Villagers (by almightytallestred)
• HT's TreeChop (by hammertater)
• Iceberg [Neo/Forge] (by Grend_G)
• ImmediatelyFast (by RaphiMC)
• Immersive Messages API (by Txni)
• Immersive Tips (by Txni)
• Industrial Foregoing (by Buuz135)
• Iris Shaders (by coderbot)
• Iron Furnaces (by XenoMustache)
• Isekai API (by KURONAMl)
• Jade 🔍 (by Snownee)
• Just Enough Items (JEI) (by mezz)
• Konkrete (by Keksuccino)
• Kotlin for Forge (by thedarkcolour)
• Legendary Tooltips [Neo/Forge] (by Grend_G)
• Lithium (Fabric/NeoForge) (by JellySquid)
• Lithostitched (by Apollo)
• Lootr (Forge & NeoForge) (by Noobanidus)
• Macaw's Doors (by sketch_macaw)
• Macaw's Fences and Walls (by sketch_macaw)
• Macaw's Furniture (by sketch_macaw)
• Macaw's Roofs (by sketch_macaw)
• Macaw's Trapdoors (by sketch_macaw)
• Macaw's Windows (by sketch_macaw)
• Mekanism (by bradyaidanc)
• Mekanism Tools (by bradyaidanc)
• Melody (by Keksuccino)
• MezzConfig (by mezz)
• ModernFix (by embeddedt)
• Moonlight Lib (by MehVahdJukaar)
• More RPG Classes - Skill Tree (RPG Series Plus) (by Fichteee)
• More RPG Library (by Fichteee)
• Motion Capture (by mt1006)
• Mouse Tweaks (by YaLTeR)
• Nature's Compass (by Chaosyr)
• Paladins & Priests (RPG Series) (by daedelus_dev)
• Patchouli (by Vazkii)
• Placebo (by Shadows_of_Fire)
• Player Abilities (by Silvertide)
• playerAnimator (by KosmX)
• Polymorph (by TheIllusiveC4)
• Prickle (by DarkhaxDev)
• Prism [Neo/Forge] (by Grend_G)
• Pufferfish's Skills [Fabric & Forge & NeoForge] (by Pufferfish)
• Quark (by Vazkii)
• Ranged Weapon API (by daedelus_dev)
• Refined Storage (by raoulvdberge)
• ReForgedPlay [replay mod on (neo)forge] (by Ferri_Arnus)
• Resourceful Config (by ThatGravyBoat)
• Resourceful Lib (by ThatGravyBoat)
• Rogues & Warriors (RPG Series) (by daedelus_dev)
• Runes (by daedelus_dev)
• Searchables (by Jaredlll08)
• Shield API (by TheRedBrain)
• Simple Voice Chat (by henkelmax)
• Simply Swords [Fabric & Forge] (by sweenuss)
• Simply Tooltips (by sweenuss)
• Skill Tree (RPG Series) (by daedelus_dev)
• Sodium (by JellySquid)
• Sophisticated Backpacks (by P3pp3rF1y)
• Sophisticated Core (by P3pp3rF1y)
• spark (by Iucko)
• Spell Engine (by daedelus_dev)
• Spell Power Attributes (by daedelus_dev)
• Storage Drawers (by Texelsaur)
• Structure Layout Optimizer (by telepathicgrunt)
• Structure Pool API (by daedelus_dev)
• SuperMartijn642's Config Lib (by SuperMartijn642)
• SuperMartijn642's Core Lib (by SuperMartijn642)
• Supplementaries (by MehVahdJukaar)
• Tectonic (by Apollo)
• TerraBlender (NeoForge) (by TheAdubbz)
• Titanium (by Buuz135)
• Too Many Bows (by Bandit_Bytes)
• Torchmaster (by xalcon)
• Towns and Towers (by Biban_Auriu)
• Trash Cans (by SuperMartijn642)
• TxniLib (by Txni)
• Useful Hats (by thecech12)
• Waystones (by BlayTheNinth)
• Whaleborne (by FloofHips)
• When Dungeons Arise - Forge! (by Aureljz)
• Wizards (RPG Series) (by daedelus_dev)
• Xaero's Minimap (by xaero96)
• Xaero's World Map (by xaero96)
• Zeta (by Vazkii)

Shader packs

• Bliss Shaders (by Xonk___)
• Complementary Shaders - Unbound (by EminGT)

Music

• Peaks & Talons Soundtrack: music by Sonic Atlas (Dugal Olsowski), used with permission

Made for this pack

• Peaks & Talons Core (by Leigh)
• Replay Recording Hotkey (by Leigh)

Huge thanks to every mod author listed above. This pack only exists because of their work.

Peaks & Talons is a fan-made modpack and is not affiliated with Mojang or Microsoft.

Logo and title art created with AI assistance. All other images are in-game screenshots.