🧟‍♂️ The Day Earth Stopped – Version 1.0.0 (CurseForge Verified Build)

⚙️ Overview

This update prepares The Day Earth Stopped for official verification on CurseForge, ensuring full compliance with redistribution and licensing policies while preserving the intended gameplay, atmosphere, and performance of the original Modrinth edition.

It also introduces several refinements for balance, stability, and long-term survival consistency.

🧩 Major Changes

🧾 CurseForge Compliance & Licensing

To comply with CurseForge’s redistribution and moderation policies, all non-CurseForge or restricted mods have been reviewed and adjusted:

🧠 Gameplay & Balance

• Adjusted zombie population to maintain pacing with the new “Ultimate Zombie Apocalypse” mod.

• Verified The Hordes, Zombie Awareness, and Improved Mobs for synchronized AI scaling and sound detection.

• Fine-tuned Legendary Survival Overhaul hydration and temperature multipliers for longer survival runs.

• Maintained Mediumcore as default world mode.

• Verified Weather2 (Storms & Tornadoes) integration — stable performance with Photon shaders and Distant Horizons.

• Default world generation:

  • Lost Cities (ChaosZPack) profile → testworld

  • “Enable Distant Generation” disabled (for Distant Horizons compatibility).

• The Nether and End remain disabled, replaced by:

  • Sky’s Overworld Quartz

  • Sky’s Overworld Netherite

🎯 Performance & Optimization

• Verified optimization stack for stable FPS even in large city environments:

  • ModernFix, FerriteCore, Embeddium, Oculus, GPUBooster, Noisium, Entity Culling, Saturn

• Distant Horizons set to Minimal Impact Mode for smoother terrain streaming.

• Average performance benchmark:

  • 90+ FPS (Shader active)

  • 150+ FPS (No shader) on mid-high range systems.

🧱 World & Progression

• Progression remains unchanged from Modrinth edition:

  • Start scavenging abandoned structures.

  • Craft steel (via CraftTweaker recipe).

  • Fortify bases using Immersive Weathering materials.

  • Deploy automated K-Turrets for defense.

  • Hunt Sky’s ores to reach exoskeleton-tier armor.

• Added support for new zombie AI scaling (Improved Mobs) — enemies now gain resistances and small stat bonuses over time.

📜 Licensing & Credits

• All mods and assets belong to their respective creators and remain under their original licenses.

• This compilation was built solely to deliver a unified, high-performance post-apocalyptic experience.

• Redistribution follows the CurseForge Modpack Guidelines (October 2025 revision).

Special Thanks To:

• Keerdm – For permission to include Zombie Apocalypse Essentials.

• Corosus – For Weather2 and Zombie Awareness.

• TACZ Dev Team – For Timeless & Classics Zero, the core weapon mod.

• William Wythers – For Expanded Ecosphere, shaping the world’s atmosphere.

• ERAzer Gaming – Hardware partner supporting testing and performance optimization.

💻 Technical Note

• This version replaces all manually included .jar files from non-approved sources with manifest-based references.

• Fully compatible with CurseForge Launcher and Modrinth App.

• Modpack verified as single-modloader (Forge 1.20.1).

🧟 Summary

The Day Earth Stopped remains a dark, realistic, and atmospheric survival experience,
now optimized and licensed for full public release on CurseForge.
Every breath is survival. Every sound could be your last.