Play as Dragon: Gothic Edition

■ Play as Dragon: Gothic Edition is a modpack from the developer of the Dragon Survival mod, who loves the games from Piranha Bytes. It combines the creativity of Minecraft with the sternness of Gothic. You will be greeted by a variety of cruel animals on surface, and undeads will be lurking underground. Get ready for an interesting and long adventure! 

■ This modpack is suitable for you if:

• You want a more realistic world with a natural ecosystem, predators and prey.
• You are willing to accept that you will die a lot in the beginning, but you will gradually get stronger.
• You agree that the lack of resource grind/farms is good.
• You like to feel stronger and overcome challenges.
• You realize that going into caves without equipment is a bad idea.
• You are a fan of the Gothic game series.
• You appreciate that the modpack has done a lot of work with textures, datapacks, and configs.
• You won't explode when you find out that many of the non-medieval things in create are disabled and most of the crafting has been changed.
• You will read quests for the sake of learning a lot of new things.
• You like gradual progression.

■ This modpack is NOT for you if:

• You're a casual game fan (nothing against it, just modpack not about this). 
• You lose your temper easily over failures (just don't go where you shouldn't).
• You don't like dragons. (how did you end up here?)
• You expect most of the mods and vanilla part of the game to be unchanged. (this is a global modpack, not a collection of random mods)
• Your only goal is to kill the Ender Dragon. (why?)
• You want a fast game and fast progression.

■ Other official modpacks:

• Play as Dragon - 1.18.2 (unsupported) - main goal is be a dragon and explore the harsh world. Your wings will not save you from many arrows and every cave can become your grave. Only the strongest and most agile dragons can survive in this world. The modpack is not hardcore if you think outside the box and allocate your dragon's strength properly. Only true dragons can pass this way. If you are human, you don't belong here.
  
  
• Play as Dragon Comfort Edition - 1.19.2 - is a very light modpack for those who do not like hardcore, read quests and experience difficulties in survival. A good basis for playing in survival mode without unexpected encounters with monsters at night. Dragons also have all debuffs disabled.

■ Other non-official modpacks can be found here and here.

■ Modpack Features:

• - The modpack gets hardcore if you get into dangerous areas early.
• - Lots of fantasy creatures. 
• - You can turn into a dragon and have full gameplay as a dragon!
• - Wilder and more realistic nature. No more overpopulation of domesticated animals outside.
• - About 300 different quests with lore and mods descriptions. Currently available: Russian (main), English (100% done), Korean (95% done).
• - 250+ well balanced mods. Nothing superfluous.
• - Everything will be intuitive. This does not mean that you will understand everything from the first time (it's impossible), but I tried to minimize the need to close the game to open the browser and search.
• - Built-in shaders that are easy to turn on and off at will. No need to install Optifine.
• - Medieval setting. Castles, ruins, villages, creepy dungeons and monsters. Without the mess of technology and knight armor.
• - Good balance and smooth progression. Do what you like without having to do grind staff. Just play!
• - Official minecraft server with many players in my discord.
• - No annoying ads about hosting services.

■ The main changes:

■ - This is a reimagining of the 1.18.2 Play as Dragon modpack for 1.19.2 version. You can turn into a dragon and conquer this world. Here you can safely play as a human, unlike the previous version of the modpack. Regardless of your choice, the gameplay will be rich and balanced.

■ - On the surface there are Gothic Creatures ready to rip you to shreds, and in dungeons and caves you will get your ass kicked by a variety of undead. Avoid enemies below 60 coordinates until you get at least some affix gear.

■ - Dragons start without wings and can only get them by traveling a very long way to End. The gift of flight is something you have to earn. If this change is against your religion, give yourself wings in creative - /dragon cave 1 true

■ - No more pets in the wild! Domestic animals can only be found in villages or bought from villagers on the second level of trade. You might get lucky and be able to steal a couple from near the village.

■ - Do you want resources? Better to travel instead of digging in the dirt, but if you start mining, then use the pickaxes from a mods or create netherite pickaxe. The gold pickaxe breaks quickly, but it can even mine diamonds. All other tools will produce few resources. Read quests for more info.

■ - The main currency of the modpack is Magic Ore. It can be earned by sweat and blood in quests, to find or exchange for hunting trophies from merchants. It also has many other properties and uses - creating armor, improving items, decorative and others.

■ - The new system of hunting skills, which allow you to get more trophies from wild animals. Buy books and gain new knowledge about skinning, extract claws, fangs and other.

■ - Diamond armor set can no longer be crafted. It can now only be found in treasure houses. Take a closer look at Medieval Steel Armor. It takes a long time to melt steel, but it's worth it.

■ - Torches will go out over time and need to be re-ignited with matches. Lanterns are not susceptible to fading.

■ - Completing quests is not necessary for a comfortable game, but you learn a lot about mods and get extra resources for which you can buy stuff.

■ - If you're not a fan of nerdy stone digging like me, or you're just tired of digging one block at a time, hit R and automatically dig up all the contacting blocks of the same type.

■ - You can no longer get into other Dimensions at the snap of your fingers. You need to create a special compass and collect a lot of artifacts. Read quests for more info.

■ - The final bosses have also been greatly enhanced and will no longer be bashing toys.

■ - Spawners have their own opinion about your presence in the dungeon and will not let themselves be easily curbed. Torches no longer work for them, and trying to destroy them can be disastrous.

■ - Standard iron farms will no longer work.

■ - The Mending enchantment works very differently now. You won't be able to get perfect eternal gear at the start of the game with a level one enchantment. This book will make mending cheaper. To make eternal gear you need to go to End and get improvements for your enchantment table through the Apotheosis mod. Then with a small chance you may have Mending II.

■ - Completely new trades for villagers, goblin traders and wandering traders. Each of them are now useful and will not trade useless trash.

■ - Be sure to tame one of the improved horses (even if you're a dragon!) to fight monsters and be able to change your distance at any time. If horses aren't to your liking, become an alchemist and create yourself a witch's broom for flying!

■ Quests - for the modpack I have written more than 300 quests in several categories:

• ■ - Travelling - 20+ quests about how to explore this huge world more conveniently and quickly.
• ■ - Hunting and Fishing - 100+ quests about unusual creatures, their habits and hunting them.
• ■ - Tutorial - 20+ quests to explain how quests, shaders, configs, and other important things in modpacks work.
• ■ - Construction - 60+ quests about Create, decorative blocks, disabling creature spawns, and base defense.
• ■ - Dragons - 80 quests specifically for dragon players to teach proper survival.

■ Client Installation:

• Download Curseforge Launcher (article link)
•  Find and Install my modpack (article link)
• Allocate a minimum of 8 gigabytes of memory in the Curseforge Launcher (video link)
• Make sure you have Java 17 (Open JDK) installed.
• Update AMD drivers if you are using video cards from that vendor.
• Play.

■ Server Installation:

• There is NO special version for the server. Use the previous point to install the modpack (as if you were going to play single, but not run this).
• Create the server the same as usual (video). 
• When you have done EVERYTHING like in the video, close server, delete the world folder.
• Move ALL (REALLY ALL) folders and files into a prepared server folder from installation in Curseforge Launcher (open local files). No need to download the zip from the website! Only full installation in the launcher!
• Run server.
• Uninstall old versions of Java and install the latest version of Java 17 (Open JDK) if your server does not start.

■ - Update Modpack - When official modpack updates come out, I recommend creating a new profile and making backups (a copy to the desktop) of your world to avoid breakages. It's not necessary, but it might save your nerve cells one day. I always try to do updates as carefully as possible and test thoroughly before posting, but stuff happens. It's hard work and it's easy to make mistakes.

■ - Resource Packs - You only need to have Gothic_Edition_All. The other texture packs have been added just so their authors can get Curseforge Points. Do not include the other packs in the menu, as they are already in Gothic_Edition_All. If you play as a dragon, include the texture pack for dragonized armor. I intentionally do not add any global texture packs that greatly change the appearance of the game. You can do it yourself at your own risk. Many of the textures were drawn specifically for the modpack.

■ - Transferring to Other Launchers - For those who only move the "mods" folder there is a separate cauldron in hell. 99% of the content and features of modpacks are not stored in the mods folder. If you don't want to use Curseforge to run a modpack, be sure to transfer absolutely all of the folders and files that are in Cursefogre\Instances\Play as Dragon Gothic Edition. Before you move everything to the new folder, delete all the old folders. Under no circumstances should you move the files with replacements!!!

■ - Official Server - In our discord you can join a good and quality server, if you have a licensed copy and want to play with good people. 

■ - Shaders - This modpack is 100500% not compatible with Optifine. Instead Oculus is used here. You can quickly enable/disable shaders. The default setting is Complementary Reimagined (link). You can add more via the shaderpacks folder.

■ - Optimization - lot of work has been done to optimize the modpack and the only thing that can cause lag is the initial generation of the world. If you don't want to encounter slow loading chunks while traveling, use this command after join map: /pregen start gen radius 120Chunk SQUARE ~ ~ 32 minecraft:overworld NORMAL_GEN

■ - Check TPS - If you are experiencing freezes on your server and can't figure out what's causing them, and rebooting doesn't help, use the Spark mod. It will not fix your problem, but it will give you an idea why it happens. To start the test you should do the following steps:

1. /spark profiler start
2. /spark tickmonitor
3. Fly around the world, visit different places and do different actions. There will be spam from the stats in the chat. If you often get spikes above 500-800 TPS, that's a reason to think about optimization.
4. /spark tickmonitor
5. /spark profiler stop
6. A link will appear in your chat. Open it and analyze the results.

■ - Map - you can generate it yourself from any seed, but do not install someone else's maps that were not created specifically for this modpack.

■ - Localization - If you want to localize the modpack, let me know - BlackAures#7759. The main language is Russian.

■ - Links - The basis of this modpack is the Dragon Survival mod. If you don't understand something, use the Wiki for that mod. In case of problems, write to us on the discord server: http://discord.gg/8SsB8ar. You can support us on Patreon. 

■ - Rights and Use - I do not allow the use of parts of modpack created by me (quests, datapacks, configs, textures) in other projects. If you want to use modpack on your server or YouTube channel, leave a link to this page. All rights to mods belong to their owners (full mod list). Also, the modpack used content that are not in the Curseforge ecosystem: New-Ocean-Ruins, New-End-Cities, New-Ruined-Portals (https://www.milesplayz.com/category/datapacks/), better-crops-3d-e2230 (https://www.planetminecraft.com/texture-pack/better-crops-3d-16x/). Shader: ComplementaryReimagined.