Those Before Us is a modpack aiming to create a Minecraft with an atmosphere you'll never forget, a modpack where you can play, build, and do whatever your heart desires.

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I am a game dev student, and this is my modpack for testing game design! It turned out way better than I expected, so I decided to share it here!

I have carefully selected 300+ mods to build and improve upon what I consider to be

Minecraft's Core:

1. Exploration

2. Adventure

3. Creativity

5. Mystery

NOTE: Joining your friend's world through Essential works great without issues or lag! :D

So please share this pack with people who might like it. I would be grateful🙏

Quest system

With both trading, progression, tips, and a lot of rewards, but nothing too easy.

This is the 2.1.7.1 Quest System (Likely better now)

Mod List

Aesthetics & Ambience

Travelers Titles

Medieval Music

Easy Anvils

Easy Magic

Cubes Without Borders

Visual Workbench

Not Enough Animations

Realistic Bees

Camera Overhaul (Disabled)

First Person Model

Better Third Person

Sun and Moon Celestial Configuration

Villager Death Messages

Biome Music

Better Biome Blend

Simple Voice Chat

Effective

World Play Time

Simple Hats

Ambient Environment

Atmospheric Paintings Pack

Legendary Tooltips

Pet Names

Villager Names

AmbientSounds 6

Sound Physics Remastered

Drip Sounds

BetterF3

Better Statistics Screen

Connectedness

Item Borders

Skin Layers 3D

AppleSkin

Advancement Plaques

Advancement Frames

ItemZoom

Enchantment Sort

Camera Mod

Double Doors

What Are They Up To (Watut)

World / Food / Creatures

Weather, Storms & Tornadoes

Village Spawn Point

Spore Blossoms Pollinate

Enhanced Celestials - Blood, Blue, & Harvest (Super) Moons

Straw Golem Rebaled

Sparse Structures Reforged

Dimensional Gravity

Random Mob Sizes

Regions Unexplored

Tiny Skeletons

Natural Decoration

Tectonic

Fossils and Archaeology

Inventory Pets

Mimic

Gems & Jewels

BrassAmber BattleTowers

Twilight Forest

Alex's Mobs

Mowzie's Mobs

Enhanced Hordes

Zombie Awareness

Untamed Wilds

Ecologics

Nyf's Spiders

Fins and Tails

Pig Iron

Piglin Expansion

Big Fish

Pam's HarvestCraft 2 - Trees

Unusual End

Plus The End

B.F. End Cities

Quicksand

Upgrade Aquatic

Infernal Expansion

Wild Bushes

Wild Berries

Dimensional Depths

Hunter's Return

Structory

Treasure2

Golums Are Friends, Not Fodder

Farmer's Delight

Large Meals (An Add-on for Farmer's Delight)

Untamed Delight (An Add-on for Farmer's Delight)

Chef's Delight - Farmer's Delight Villagers

Nether's Exoticism

Nether Gold Veins

Guard Villagers

Simply Houses

NoCube's Villagers Sell Animals

Lil' Wings

Duckling

Atmospheric

Ghosts

Critters and Companions

Goblin Traders

Mushroom Quest

Mystical Oak Tree

YUNG's Extras

YUNG's Better Nether Fortresses

YUNG's Better Witch Huts

YUNG's Better Ocean Monuments

Gnumus Settlement

Signpost

Salt

Rare Ice

YDM's Red Panda

YDM's Allay

YDM's Glare

YDM's Fennec Fox

NoCube's Better Frogs

Gaggle of Golems

Geode+

Worldgen Revisited - Now with noise caves!

Serene Shrubbery

Grabby Mobs

Subterrestrial

The Lost Castle

Realm RPG: Fallen Adventurers

Realm RPG: Pots & Mimics

Towns and Towers

Project: Vibrant Journeys

Overworld Piglins

Waystones

Waystone Towers

Mining Dimension

Unusual Fish Mod

Creeper Overhaul

Sword in the Stone

Excavated Variants

Firefly Bush [Backport]

Neko's Enchanted Books

Magic, Building & Tech

Create

Immersive Engineering

Redstone Pen

Roots Classic

Biomancy 2

Comforts

Create: The Salt

Supplementaries

The Gold Rush

Sculk Microphone

Refined Pipes

Iron Chest

Placeable Blazerods

Lucky's Cozy Home: Refurnished!

Macaw's Lights & Lamps

Macaw's Roofs

Macaw's Windows

Macaw's Bridges

BlackAure's Paintings

Just Player Heads

Twilight Decor

Fantasy's Furniture

Extended Lights

Surface Mushrooms

Diagonal Fences

Diagonal Windows

Bone Torch

Aquatic Torches

Decorative Blocks

Building Wands

Building Gadgets

Quality of Life

Craftable Blaze Rods and Powder

InvMove

Wall-Jump!

Freecam

SwingThroughGrass

Ore Excavation

Essential

Teleport Asker

Anvil Restoration

Inventory Hud+

Inventory Essentials

Starter Kit

Trading Post

Item Filters

Jade

More Overlays Updated

Husks Drop Sand

Tips

Mouse Tweaks

Chalk

Corpse

Nature's Compass

Xaero's Minimap (Fair-play Edition)

Antique Atlas

BetterAdvancements

Fertilization

Tool Belt

Chat Head

Pick Up Notifier

Item Highlighter

Traversable Leaves

Fire Explodes Creepers

Better Burning

Potion Bundles

Just Enough Items

Just Enough Resources

Just Enough Professions

Bottle Your XP

Inventory Sorter

Health Overlay

Enchantment Transfer

Beet The Root

Incubation

Softer Hay Bales

Seamless Loading Screen

Just Another Rotten Flesh to Leather Mod

Trash Slot

Searchables

Bed Benefits

Polymorph

No Hostiles Around Campfire

Controlling

Configured

Anvil Never Too Expensive

Game Menu Mod Option

Immunity Enchants

Torchmaster

Dynamic Lights

Harvest with Ease

HT's TreeChop

Equipment Compare

FPS Monitor

Fast Leaf Decay

Enchantment Descriptions

JAGS (Just A Grass Seed)

Equipment / Traversal / Other

ProjectE

Potion Blender

FTB Quests

Limited Lives

Spice of Life: Carrot Edition

Spice of Life: Apple Pie Edition

Realistic Sleep

Ring of Repair

Immersive Armors

PlayerRevive

Player Tracking Compass

ExplorersCompass

Useful Spyglass

Charm Of Return

Carry On

Fish On The Line

Fishing Overhaul

Charms

Baubley Heart Canisters

Sophisticated Backpacks

Tarot Cards

MmmMmmMmmMmm (Target Dummy)

Paragliders

Hang Glider

Scuba Gear

Pickle Tweaks

Superior Hammers!

Immersive Aircraft

Mob Lassos

Magical Jewelry

Spartan Weaponry

Spartan Weaponry Addon Toolkit

Spartan Weaponry: Twilight Forest

Max's Armory

Just Mob Heads

Special Drops

RpgZ

Wandering Bags

Performance & Fixes

CraftTweaker

Rubidium

Connectivity

Entity Culling

Rubidium

Modern Fix

Mixin In Heaven

Entity View Distance

Crash Assistant (disabled)

Oculus

FerriteCore

Lightspeed - Launch optimizations

Lazy DataFixerUpper

Reforgium

Loot Integrations

Responsive Shields

Smarter Farners (farmers replant)

Better Fps - Render Distance

Fast Load

Spark

Let Me Despawn

XL Packets

Dynamic Asset Generator

Clumps

AttributeFix

More Hitboxes

Better Compatibility Checker

Libraries & APIs

AddonsLib

AutoRegLib

Balm

Architectury API

Aquamirae Api

Blueprint

Bookshelf

Citadel

Cloth Config API

Caelus API

Cobweb

CreativeCore

Team ProjectE

JEITweaker

CodeChicken Lib 1.8+

Collective

CoroUtil

Yung's Api

Cucumber

Cupboard

Curios API

Deimos Lib

FTB Library

FTB Teams

GeckoLib

GottschCore

Iceberg

iChunUtil

Kotlin

Insane Lib

libIPN

Library Ferret

Prism

Patchouli

Pehkui

Obscure API

Puzzles Lib

Structure Gel API

Sophisticated Core

Player Animation Lib

TerraBlender

Moonlight Lib

Gameplay Twist

When you die, you lose lives. To gain more, you have to eat new foods. This way, you have to discover new foods, leading you to the corners of your world.

Our Goal

With these mods, I wanted to achieve a more varied terrain, flora, and fauna,

while adding a few fun additions on the side.

Giving you countless more ways to personalise and decorate your environment and home.

Seeking to create a Minecraft for those with curious minds.

I made this modpack to create a world greater than ourselves, where I could witness it living its own life, leading to moments seen in the images above. I wanted a game world of variety, immersion, and possibilities, and I truly believe I succeeded.

This pack was originally based around the mod Fossils and Archaeology, as building a zoo for dinosaurs and creatures alike would be epic. But now, with all of these mods, you can do so much more than that, with hundreds of new creatures, mechanics, and plants at your disposal.