The Whole Mine Yards

A large kitchen-sink modpack for Minecraft players whose “small starter base” always ends up needing another building.

The Whole Mine Yards brings together technology, magic, exploration, farming, and building, with a quest book to help you find your way through it. Start a factory, learn a little witchcraft, build a proper kitchen, or spend a few days exploring before deciding where to settle. There’s plenty to work toward, and you can choose where to begin.

From a workbench to a factory

Build production lines with Mekanism, Ender IO, Oritech, and Powah. As your base grows, connect it with pipes, wireless transfers, and the Integrated Dynamics suite.

For the inevitable storage problem, choose between Applied Energistics 2, Refined Storage, and Sophisticated Storage, with addons to expand your network as your needs change.

A bit of magic goes a long way

Explore Witchery, Occultism, and Forbidden and Arcanus, or improve your equipment through Apotheosis. Make tools with Legacy Construct, experiment with upgrades, and prepare for the things waiting beyond your base.

Leave room for the farm

Grow resources with Mystical Agriculture, set up crop automation, and stock your kitchen with Croptopia and Cooking for Blockheads. Building Gadgets and Rechiseled help turn that collection of machines and chests into somewhere worth coming home to.

See what’s out there

Explore the landscapes of Biomes O’ Plenty and Regions Unexplored, visit The Aether II and The Undergarden, or take on the creatures of Ice and Fire. When the overworld starts feeling familiar, Stellaris and NeroSpace give you another reason to keep building.

A quest book with room to choose

The pack includes over 1,600 quests across 69 chapters. Vanilla chapters cover the basics, while mod chapters follow materials, machines, tools, and upgrades through their progression.

• Chapters are grouped by technology, magic, logistics, storage, tools, farming, exploration, and endgame.
• Each mod has an unlocked starting quest.
• Related mods share suite chapters, including Applied Energistics, Refined Storage, and Integrated Dynamics.
• Rewards are experience points, scaled to the difficulty of the task.

Follow a chapter through to the end or switch projects when something else catches your attention. There’s always another corner of the yard to work on.