VENTRIX Modpack 3.0.2-Frontier

The Realism & Compliance Update — dynamic seasonal blizzards, severe weather disasters, full CurseForge manifest compliance, and cloud server integration.

• CurseForge Moderation Compliance: 100% of the 511 mods are cleanly registered as official CurseForge dependencies in manifest.json. Zero raw .jar files in overrides/ for instant automated approval.
• Realistic Seasons & Physical Winter: Full seasonal cycles via Serene Seasons & GlitchCore. Water bodies freeze over, snow accumulates physically on exposed machinery and solar panels, and outdoor crops go dormant until spring thaw.
• Severe Weather & Base Defenses: Dynamic supercells, localized F1–F5 tornadoes, weather sirens, interactive radar consoles, handheld weather sensors, and Weather Deflector shields (Weather2 + CoroUtil + Expanded Weather2 Dynamics).
• Acoustic & Environmental Immersion: Realistic cave echoes and bunker storm baffling (Sound Physics Remastered), crunchy snow/ice step audio (Presence Footsteps), dynamic falling leaves, water ripples & boat wakes, and 3D volumetric cloud layers.
• Cloud Server Connectivity & Visual Branding: Out-of-the-box server entry pointing to mc.ventrixagency.com with live 20.0 TPS cloud sync, custom 64×64 obsidian carbon & cyber-cyan/amethyst server emblem, and updated BlueMap resource extensions.

VENTRIX Modpack 3.0.1-Frontier

Patch release — the complete quest book now ships inside the client pack.

Fix: quest book completeness in singleplayer. The 3.0.0 client zip carried the pre-Frontier stock quest book: multiplayer clients were unaffected (the server syncs its book on join, which is why nobody noticed), but a singleplayer install opened the old book with none of The Second Horizon. The client pack now ships the exact deployed book — 111 chapters including all five Second Horizon chapters — and the build pipeline mirrors the server's quest book on every future build, so it cannot drift again.

Server pack: hotfix splice. Mods, configs, and the pregenerated world are byte-identical to 3.0.0 (world data carries forward; no resets) — only the version stamp surfaces changed: ventrix-version.json, MOTD, welcome card, and announcements. No mod changes.

VENTRIX Modpack 3.0.0-Frontier

The Second Horizon — 13 new jars, five new quest chapters, and the chronicle opens a second book.

New content mods

• Mowzie's Mobs — mini-boss hunts: the Frostmaw, the Ferrous Wroughtnaut, Umvuthana's grove, and the Sculptor's monastery
• Malum — spirit arcana: scythes, spirit jars, the spirit altar, soul stained steel
• Hexerei — witchery: mixing cauldron, willow brooms, sage drying, the crow's errands
• Create: Connected — copycat blocks, brass gearboxes, crank wheels
• Create Railways Navigator — live station boards and the pocket navigator (beta channel)
• Replication — scan an item once, feed the disintegrator, print copies from stored matter
• Critters & Companions + Naturalist — otters, red pandas, koi, elephants, fireflies, snails, and plushies
• Beautify, Twigs, Supplementaries Squared — ropes, blinds, picture frames, lamps, tables, paper lanterns, gold candle holders, heavy keys, thatch
• Libraries: Lodestone (Malum), DragonLib (Railways Navigator)

New quest group: The Second Horizon — five chapters / 32 quests join the Ventrix Chronicles: The Menagerie (meet the new wilds), The Hunt (Mowzie's bosses), Arcana (Malum + Hexerei), The Workshop (Create: Connected, Railways Navigator, Replication), The Hearth (the builder's harvest). Every referenced id is runtime-probed against the actual server before ship. Quest book is [L].

Pack: 503 client / 478 server mods, NeoForge 21.1.249 on Minecraft 1.21.1. Boot-gated on staging: 21/21 startup + 177/177 server scripts clean, quest book loads with zero FTB errors.

Upgrading from a 2.0.1-Starbound world: world data carries forward (no resets), but clients and server must move together — the mod set changed on both sides. Playtested on a fresh boot only; keep a backup of any world you care about before upgrading (tools/server/backup.sh).

VENTRIX Modpack 2.0.1-Starbound (hotfix)

Same-day hotfix on top of 2.0.0 — no mod changes, no world resets; just drop it in over 2.0.0.

Fixes

• Fullscreen map is back on [J]. JourneyMap's map key shipped unbound in 2.0.0, which made JourneyMap nag "Press [NOT BOUND]" on every join. J is the map again; the overlapping keys moved out (toast-clear unbound; Mekanism suit leg-mode → apostrophe). Minimap stays on Ctrl+J, and [M] still opens the chunk-claiming map.
• 149 broken recipes restored. A pack-script bug silently zeroed the input field of Ad Astra's Mekanism compat recipes (14 sawing/crushing) and crashed the sawmill backfill (~135 recipes) every boot. Both are fixed and boot-verified: 0 recipe parse errors, 1,723 recipes registered.

If you already play on a 2.0.0 server: the server owner should run the 2.0.1 server zip; clients on 2.0.0 keep working but won't get the [J] bind until they update (rebind by hand in Controls if you can't wait).

VENTRIX Modpack 2.0.0-Starbound

The chronicle closes — and the whole pack gets a maintenance pass.

Story finale

• Act XIV — The Thousand Hands and Act XV — What Wanted the Dark: 24 new quests complete the Ventrix Chronicles (481 quests in total). The ledger, the reckoning, and the Star of Stars. Open the quest book [L].
• New reward tables for both acts, and Act XV's Hollow Map milestone.
• The Ventrix Chronicles and Ventrix Codex guide books now cross-reference the new acts.

Maintenance wave (73 mods updated)

• Boot-gated per batch on a staging server before anything touched release: Ad Astra 1.16.25 + Giselle 8.4, Apotheosis 8.8.0, Draconic Evolution 3.1.4.633, Ender IO 8.2.12, Modern Industrialization 2.5.7, the Sophisticated stack, FTB Chunks/Library/Quests refreshes, MVS/MES universal builds, and the long tail.
• A few updates were deliberately held back as incompatible for now (ExtendedAE pin, KubeJS pin, tombstone/Structory Towers CDN, RU 0.6.2 pending worldgen retest) — they land in a later patch when their dependency chains are clean.

Server pack

• Companion world pregenerated to radius 2048 (~66k chunks) with zero tick-time warnings.
• Version surfaces unified: MOTD, welcome card, splashes, and BetterCompatibilityChecker all report 2.0.0-Starbound, so clients can verify they're on the right pack.

Upgrading: existing worlds and bases carry over — update the client to 2.0.0 and run the new 2.0.0-Starbound server zip (dedicated servers must move together; the mod set changed on both sides).

VENTRIX Modpack 1.0.1-Genesis (hotfix)

Fixes a hard launch failure on fresh installs ("Error loading mods — computercraft is not installed"):

• CC: Tweaked 1.120.2 and Noisium 2.3.0 are now bundled directly in the pack (with attribution in the mod list) instead of manifest references — the CurseForge-hosted files those references pointed to have been removed/archived by their projects, which made CurseForge skip them on install. Both licenses (MPL-2.0 / MIT) permit redistribution; sources are linked in the mod list.
• No other changes: same mods, same configs, same quests as 1.0.0.

VENTRIX Modpack 1.0.0-Genesis

Initial public release.

• 13-act Ventrix Chronicles questline (~450 quests) with per-act starter kits
• Ventrix Primer + Ventrix Chronicle in-game guide books
• Curated keybind policy and branded main menu
• ATM10 8.1 mod set on Minecraft 1.21.1 / NeoForge 21.1.249
• Companion server pack with pregenerated world and BlueMap