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The Wonder Years

Rediscover Minecraft's magic! Vanilla-friendly modpack with quest guidance, quality-of-life improvements and opened for multiplayer. Perfect for newcomers to modding. Experience that first-time wonder again.

File Details

The Wander Years - Beta 0.2.0.zip

  • B
  • Jul 17, 2025
  • 42.60 MB
  • 21
  • 1.21.1
  • Fabric

File Name

The Wander Years-Beta 0.2.0.zip

Supported Versions

  • 1.21.1

The Wonder Years Changelog Version 0.2.0

📋 General Updates

  • I truly believe the modpack is very close to its first release. Most of the elements are as i envisioned them. Still, some minor changes need to be made.
  • Updated the modpack description.
  • Disabled the Distant Horizons mod by default due to high resource usage (even if render is off).

⚙️ Settings Changed

List all configuration changes organized by mod.

FTB Quests:

  • Complete rewrite of Introduction chapter.
  • Separated Multiplayer quests from the introduction (now have their own chapter).
  • Complete rewrite of the Utility chapter.
  • New Building & Beauty chapter.
  • New Exploration & Adventure chapter.

Crafting:

  • Removed unused trashcan recipes.
  • Removed vanilla ender chest.
  • Changed Abyss Watcher recipe to integrate Better Enchanting Essence.
  • Changed Explorer's Compass recipe to integrate Mythic Upgrades Shards.
  • Changed Nature's Compass recipe to integrate Mythic Upgrades Shards.
  • Changed Ender Pouch recipe to integrate Better Enchanting Essence.
  • Added Mythic Upgrades gems recipe since they do not spawn in overworld/nether dimension.
  • Removed Recipes of all Better Enchanting Essences.

Better Enchanting:

  • Added missing ingredients for the Critical Hit enchant.
  • Removed Fire Aspect enchantment (topaz tools have it by default).
  • Removed Mending enchantment (too op, item repair is experience free).
  • Removed Leaping enchantment (jade armor has it by default).
  • Removed Agility enchantment (jade armor has it by default).
  • Removed Poison Aspect enchantment (peridot tools and armor have it by default).
  • Removed Last Hope enchantment (too op).
  • Removed Auto Smelt enchantment (topaz tools have it by default).
  • Removed Bedrock Breaker enchantment (too op).
  • Removed Life Steal enchantment (Scarlet Dagger from Incendium has the same effect).
  • Removed Accuracy Shot enchantment (Ragnarok from Incendium has the same effect).
  • Removed give back chances.

Simple HUD Enhanced:

  • System time format changed to 24-hour.

Ender Chests:

  • Increased the max slots to 54 (double chest).
  • Disabled Ender Pouch.
  • Modified the items for small and large slot upgrades: Mythic Upgrades nether gems for small upgrades and Mythic Upgrades end gems for large upgrades.

Bag Of Holding:

  • Decreased the number of slots for higher-tier bags to encourage the use of Ender Chests bags.

Jade:

  • Disabled entity informations.

Nature's Compass:

  • Blacklisted disabled biomes.

Explorer's Compass:

  • Blacklisted disabled structures, replaced structures and buried treasure.

Overlay Tweaks:

  • Lowered the shield height.

❌ Mods Removed

List all mods that were removed with reasons.

  • Reforged: TieredZ offers a better reroll system and tiers.
  • Hand Glider: There's already the umbrella from Artifacts.
  • Redstone Pen: Makes redstone too convoluted.
  • Gen's Recipes Plus: Generates massive log file of errors.
  • UnionLib: Dead dependency.
  • Hopper Gadgetry: Toms Simple Storage already has items to filter input/output. Keeping things simple.
  • Klee Slabs Annoying animation: when a block composed of two slabs is broken, only the half the player is looking at drops, while the other half blinks for a second before reappearing.
  • Forgiving Void There is a specific enchant from Neo Enchant that saves the player from the void.
  • Shared Advancements There is no config file and by default the achievements are shared globally.
  • Unloaded Activity Not needed when there are chunk loaders.
  • Passive Shield Overlay Tweaks allows to reduce the on screen shield overlay when equipped.
  • DNT Stronghold Overhaul It was hiding between mods.
  • Quick Right Click Not compatible with Visual Workbench.
  • Sneaky Curses Not hiding curses properly with the tooltip mod.
  • Geophilic Significantly slow down the world generation.
  • Amecs Sometims make drop stop working properly.
  • Legendsry Tooltips Mame simple storage crash when item stacks have a size greater than 99.

➕ Mods Added

List all newly added mods with reasons.

  • EMI Loot: Displays loot tables and some drops.

  • EMI Professions: Show the block villagers get their job.

  • Just Enought Items: Used for some recipe compatibility (JEI is hidden by EMI).

  • Just Enought Breeding: JEI plugin that shows how to breed animals.

  • Just Enough Beacons Reforged: Adds 3 new JEI categories: Beacon Base Blocks, Beacon Payments and Conduit Frame Blocks.

  • Not Enough Librarian[Datapack]: Disable librarian profession.

  • Chunks Loader: Allows to keep chunks loaded with different tiers of chunk loaders.

  • FTB Chunks: Allows to claim chunks to protect your blocks.

  • Spark: Performance profiler.

  • TieredZ: Every tool and armor piece you make will have a special modifier.

  • CERBON's Better Beacons: Improved version of Minecraft's beacon.

  • Stylish Effects: Overhauls how status effects are displayed.

  • Visual Workbench: Makes items put into a crafting table stay inside.

  • Cube Without Borders: Allows borderless fullscreen window.

  • Hopo Better Underwater Ruins: Improves underwater ruins.

  • Potion Stacking: Make potions stack up to 16.

  • Durability Tooltip: Color durability.

  • Clean Tooltips: Color enchantments names.

  • Enchantment Level Cap Indicator: Indicate the enchantment level cap with a star.

  • No Mob Farms: Prevent mob farms.


⬆️ Mods Updated

List all mods that were updated with their version changes.

  • Luki's Crazy Chambers: v1.0.1v1.0.2
  • Entity Culling: v1.8.0v1.8.1
  • Skin Layer 3D: v1.8.0v1.8.1
  • Jade: v15.10.1v15.10.2
  • Particle Rain: v3.0.5v4.0.0-alpha-2
  • Not Enough Animations: v1.10.0v1.10.1
  • Skeleton AI Fix: v21.1.0v21.1.1
  • Lithostiched: v1.4.10v1.4.11
  • ImmediatelyFast: v1.6.5v1.6.6
  • LibIPN: v6.5.0v6.5.1
  • DashLoader: v5.0.0-beta.4v5.0.0-beta.5
  • Accessorify: v2.1.1v2.1.2
  • Accessories: v1.1.0 (5/20)v1.1.0 (7/10)
  • Structurify: v1.0.17v1.0.18
  • Untitled Duck Mod: v0.8.1v1.1.5
  • Distant Horizons: v2.3.2v2.3.3
  • Charged Mobs: v2.1.0v2.1.1
  • Modern Fix: v5.24.1v5.24.3
  • Convenient Effects: v21.1.0v21.1.1
  • Inventory Profiles Next: v2.1.9v2.1.10
  • Drop Confirm: v5.0.0v5.0.1
  • MidnightLib: v1.6.9v1.7.5
  • Fzzy Config: v0.7.0v0.7.1