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Brass & Backroads
A Vanilla+ modpack focused on exploration, engineering, building, and laid-back multiplayer survival.
Quick answer
Which Brass & Backroads release should I use?
Brass & Backroads-1.3.zip is a complete pack release for 1.21.1 with NeoForge 21.1.262. Install it as its own launcher instance. If the creator publishes a separate server file, make sure it names this exact pack release. For this loader, use Java 21. 92 mods in this pack file.
Pack setup
How should I set up Brass & Backroads for players and a server?
Use Brass & Backroads-1.3.zip as the pack version. Install the pack as its own launcher instance. The creator’s listing does not name a separate server file, so check the release notes before setting up a dedicated server. Do not upload the ordinary client folder blindly.
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What are the server requirements for Brass & Backroads?
Brass & Backroads-1.3.zip. Change the pack release and its contents or setup may change too.
The selected pack release is Brass & Backroads-1.3.zip. That file is for Minecraft 1.21.1 with NeoForge 21.1.262. This NeoForge setup needs Java 21. It contains 92 mod projects. The creator’s listing does not name a separate server file. Check their notes before using one, and do not upload an ordinary client folder or rebuild the pack mod by mod. A file count cannot tell us the right RAM, CPU or storage; size the server for the players and world you actually run.
About this project
What kind of pack is Brass & Backroads?
Brass & Backroads
Brass & Backroads started as a modpack I made to play with friends. The idea is pretty simple: add more things to do and explore without making Minecraft feel like a completely different game.
There's a big focus on exploration and building. Terralith changes up the world, towns and structures are more interesting, and Distant Horizons makes travelling actually feel like you're going somewhere. You can grab a ship, follow the coast, find somewhere nice and eventually realize you're thousands of blocks away from where you started.
Create is one of the bigger parts of the pack too. You can build factories, automate resources or spend six hours making a machine that would've taken five minutes to do by hand. Up to you.
There's also more food, building blocks, better combat, photography, instruments, proximity voice chat and a bunch of smaller additions that make a multiplayer world more fun to live in.
What's in it?
⚙️ Create and automation
🌍 New terrain and places to explore
🏘️ Better towns and structures
🧱 More stuff to build with
🍳 More farming and cooking
⛵ Ships
⚔️ Better combat
🏔️ Distant Horizons
🎙️ Proximity voice chat
📷 Cameras and photography
🎵 Playable instruments
🚀 Performance improvements
There's no quest book or intended way to progress through the pack.
Project description from CurseForge.
Mods in Brass & Backroads-1.3.zip
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