Quartz & Compass is a carefully curated NeoForge 1.21.1 adventure and engineering modpack that keeps the familiar Minecraft rhythm while giving every journey more to discover, build, and share.

EXPLORE
- Expanded biomes, structures, dungeons, temples, strongholds, and monuments.
- New wildlife, creature variants, collectible mob heads, and atmospheric details.
- Deeper destinations, including the Otherside.

BUILD AND ENGINEER
- Create-powered automation with decorative and compatibility additions.
- Armor Statues, expanded storage, backpacks, furniture, bridges, lighting, paintings, and building details.
- Mini Blocks and Age Lock add compact decorative tools without changing the core progression.

PLAY TOGETHER
- Designed for both singleplayer and dedicated multiplayer.
- Proximity voice chat, visible player activity, chat heads, emoji support, and Multiplayer Sleep.
- Corpse keeps dropped inventory recoverable after death, while Silence Mobs helps control noisy builds.

TECHNICAL DETAILS
- Minecraft 1.21.1
- NeoForge 21.1.238
- 95 client mod JARs and one resource pack
- Matching 69-mod dedicated server set
- Java 21 required

The current public beta is 0.1.2-beta. The exact dependency lock, checksums, changelog, licenses, known issues, and setup documentation are included with the release.

Credits: Vanilla Tweaks: https://vanillatweaks.net/

Quartz & Compass is a carefully curated NeoForge 1.21.1 adventure modpack that keeps the familiar Minecraft rhythm while giving every journey more to discover and build.

EXPLORE
- Expanded biomes, structures, dungeons, temples, strongholds and monuments.
- New wildlife, creatures and atmospheric details.
- Deeper destinations, including the Otherside.

BUILD AND ENGINEER
- Create-powered automation with decorative and compatibility additions.
- Expanded storage, backpacks, furniture, bridges, lighting and building details.
- Practical quality-of-life improvements without turning progression into an expert pack.

PLAY YOUR WAY
- Designed for both singleplayer and dedicated multiplayer.
- EMI recipe browsing, Jade information, JourneyMap and visual improvements.
- Performance-focused components for a smoother large modded world.

TECHNICAL DETAILS
- Minecraft 1.21.1
- NeoForge 21.1.239
- 89 client mods and one resource pack
- Matching 64-mod dedicated server set
- Java 21 required

This first public build is marked 0.1.0-qa. Server configuration and clean installation have been tested; client menu, singleplayer and client-to-server runtime validation remain part of the QA checklist.

Installation instructions, exact dependency locks, checksums, licenses, known issues and server setup documentation are included with the release.