TwoGGs Horizons Unbound

🌅 Build, explore, and reach beyond the sky.

Horizons Unbound is a Forge 1.20.1 sandbox modpack with more than 250 hand-picked mods. It brings together three things that rarely fit into one pack: big tech, deep exploration and a cozy, living world.

There are no quests, no gated progression and no forced path. One player might automate a whole valley with Create trains and Mekanism factories. Another might spend weeks digging into the strange biomes of Alex's Caves, sailing to the Twilight Forest or building a rocket to the Moon. A third might run a farm with seasons, cook with Farmer's Delight and furnish a cottage by the river. Every path is a good one.

The pack has been tested, cleaned up and tuned: mods that caused conflicts or did nothing were removed, broken recipes were fixed, chat spam on join was silenced and the configs were tuned for performance. It also comes with its own custom main menu.

✨ Highlights

• Tech: Create, Mekanism, Applied Energistics 2, Thermal, Immersive Engineering, Ender IO, PneumaticCraft, Draconic Evolution and more, all in one world
• Space travel: build rockets with Ad Astra and visit the Moon, Mars, Venus, Mercury and beyond
• A reworked world: Terralith, Biomes O' Plenty and Climate Rivers reshape the overworld, and Alex's Caves adds whole new underground biomes
• Hundreds of structures: YUNG's overhauls, ChoiceTheorem's villages, Repurposed Structures, Dungeon Crawl and more, with per-player loot through Lootr
• A world that feels alive: new animals, mob variants, seasons, ambient sounds, realistic reverb, falling leaves and dynamic lights
• Performance first: Embeddium, ModernFix, FerriteCore, ImmediatelyFast, Entity Culling and tuned configs
• Custom main menu and styled buttons throughout the game, made for this pack

⚙️ Tech & Automation

Start with water wheels and hand-cranked contraptions in Create, then grow into trains, mechanical crafters and whole production lines. When you outgrow rotational power, the rest of the tech tree is waiting.

• Create with Crafts & Additions, Central Kitchen, Slice & Dice, Deco, Bells & Whistles, Hypertube and Rechiseled: Create, plus Create Repair for bug fixes
• Mekanism with Generators and Tools: ore processing, fission and fusion reactors, and digital miners
• Applied Energistics 2 with Advanced AE, Applied Mekanistics and wireless terminals for your storage network
• Thermal Series, Immersive Engineering and Industrial Foregoing
• Ender IO, PneumaticCraft: Repressurized, Extreme Reactors and Flux Networks
• Draconic Evolution for the endgame
• Hostile Neural Networks, Botany Pots, Sophisticated Storage & Backpacks, Iron Chests, Iron Furnaces and Ender Storage
• SecurityCraft for cameras, lasers and locked doors

🚀 Space

With Ad Astra you can build rockets, space suits and oxygen systems. Leave the overworld for the Moon, Mars, Venus, Mercury and Glacio, each with its own resources and dangers. Build a space station in orbit and turn your factory into an interplanetary one.

🗺️ Exploration & Adventure

• Terralith, Biomes O' Plenty and Ecologics: about a hundred new biomes, from towering mountains to lush wetlands
• Climate Rivers: natural, winding rivers instead of straight channels
• Alex's Caves: magnetic caverns, primordial jungles, toxic wastelands, abyssal trenches and more
• Deeper and Darker: what lies beyond the Ancient Cities
• The Twilight Forest: a whole dimension of bosses, mazes and progression
• End Remastered and new End structures make the dragon fight a real journey
• YUNG's dungeons, mineshafts, temples, fortresses and bridges, ChoiceTheorem's Overhauled Village, Repurposed Structures, Dungeon Crawl, Structory and Moog's Voyager Structures
• Lootr: every player gets their own loot from each chest, which makes the pack perfect for multiplayer
• Immersive Aircraft, Waystones and Nature's Compass for getting around

🐾 Living World

• Alex's Mobs, Naturalist, Critters and Companions, Friends & Foes and Ribbits
• Creeper Overhaul and Enderman Overhaul: mob variants that match their biome
• Serene Seasons: spring, summer, autumn and winter change your crops and the landscape

🔮 Magic & Combat

• Botania: nature magic powered by flowers
• Tinkers' Construct: build and upgrade your own tools and weapons
• Artifacts and Relics: rare treasures with unique abilities
• Better Combat: weapon-specific attack animations and combos

🍞 Farming, Food & Cozy Life

• Farmer's Delight, Croptopia, Ender's Delight and Cooking for Blockheads
• Aquaculture: fishing with new fish, rods and treasures
• Comforts (sleeping bags and hammocks), RightClickHarvest and AppleSkin

🏡 Building & Decoration

• All Macaw's mods (furniture, doors, windows, roofs, bridges, paths and more) and Handcrafted
• Rechiseled, Chisels & Bits, FramedBlocks and Twigs
• Quark, Supplementaries, Amendments, Decorative Blocks, Create Deco and Connected Glass

🎧 Atmosphere

• AmbientSounds, Sound Physics Remastered, Sounds and Biome Music: caves echo, forests rustle, and every biome has its own soundtrack
• Falling Leaves, Visuality, dynamic lights and Immersive Lanterns
• 3D Skin Layers, Not Enough Animations and eating animations
• Exposure: take real photos in-game with a working camera
• Immersive Melodies: play music on in-game instruments
• Simple Voice Chat: proximity voice chat on servers

🧭 Quality of Life

• EMI and JEI with Just Enough Resources and Just Enough Breeding for recipes and drops
• JourneyMap, Jade, Corpse, Carry On, Tool Belt, Mouse Tweaks and Inventory Essentials
• Cosmetic Armor, Elytra Slot, Chat Heads and Better Advancements

🚀 Performance

A big pack doesn't have to run badly. Horizons Unbound ships with Embeddium, ModernFix, FerriteCore, ImmediatelyFast, Entity Culling, Starlight, Dynamic FPS, Clumps and the Fast Suite mods.

On top of that, the configs are tuned. On your first launch, Default Options sets sensible video settings: render distance 10, simulation distance 8, VSync off and automatic GUI scale. Updates never overwrite your own settings later.

🧑‍🚀 Getting Started

• Press J to open your map. JourneyMap also tracks your death points.
• Hover over any item and press R to see its recipe or U to see its uses in EMI.
• Hold W while hovering over a Create item to watch an animated Ponder tutorial.
• Many mods come with an in-game guide book. AE2, Botania, Immersive Engineering and PneumaticCraft are good places to start.
• Craft a Sophisticated Backpack early, because you will collect a lot.
• Press V to open the voice chat settings when playing on a server.

💻 Requirements

🌄 Shaders (optional)

Shaders are supported through Oculus, and Colorwheel makes them work with Create's contraptions. No shader pack is included. Drop any Iris-compatible shader pack, such as Complementary Reimagined or BSL, into your shaderpacks folder and enable it under Video Settings → Shader Packs.

❓ FAQ

Is there a server pack?
Not yet. A server pack is planned for a future update.

Can I add or remove mods?
Of course, it's your game. Please test with an unmodified install before reporting bugs, though.

Can I use another launcher (Prism, ATLauncher, …)?
Yes. A few mod authors don't allow third-party downloads, so your launcher may ask you to download those mods by hand.

The game crashed. What now?
Crash Assistant is included. It opens automatically after a crash and uploads your logs with one click. Please include that link when you report the issue.

My FPS is low.
Lower your render distance first. It makes the biggest difference by far. Also make sure that no more than 8–10 GB of RAM is allocated, and close other programs while playing.

❤️ Credits

All mods belong to their respective authors. Horizons Unbound is only possible because of their incredible work, so please support them by visiting their project pages. The full mod list is available in the Mods tab of this project.