Apocalypse Begins [LEGACY]

Apocalypse Begins LEGACY Version

This project exists separately to maintain the legacy version of Apocalypse Begins. You can find the original modpack here.

Apocalypse Begins [Zombie Apocalypse] is a modern zombie apocalypse survival modpack. It includes a handcrafted modern city, specialized survival mechanics, and a growing zombie threat that escalates over time. The goal of the modpack is to craft the vaccine & survive 100 Days. It is designed for the hardcore game mode, but can be enjoyed casually too.

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Features

Combat & Apocalypse

• Superb Warfare: Firearms, vehicles, and missiles.
• Better Combat: Melee weapon combat overhaul.
• The Hordes: Hordes strike each player periodically, increasing in difficulty each time.
• Improved Mobs: Increased mob intelligence. Zombies will learn to mine blocks, steal items, and use off-hand items such as ender pearls and lava buckets. Zombies come in all shapes and sizes, with increasing stats scaling with difficulty.
• Artifacts: Loot you can find throughout the city that gives you a massive buff.

Survival Mechanics

• First Aid: Limb-based health system where you manually bandage wounded areas to heal.
• Diet: Managing to keep a diet above 50% for all categories gives you regeneration. If any falls below 5%, you get the hunger status effect. This requires you to eat a variety of food.
• Always Eat: You can eat past full hunger bars in order to meet nutritional standards.
• Tough as Nails: Thirst and temperature are necessary components to manage. Finding, purifying, and storing drinkable water will be a new challenge. Temperature will affect where you can go at any time, forcing you to build bases and technology to keep you at room temperature.
• Hardcore Revival: Revive your downed teammates.
• ParCool: Navigate the world using parkour to outrun the zombies.

Technology & Progression

• Create: Automate farms, generate materials, and auto-mine ores.
• Create: New Age: Introduces electricity generation and nuclear reactors to power everything from vehicles to storage systems.
• Create Slice & Dice: Integrates with Farmer's Delight to allow automation of managing your diet.
• Puffish Skills: Use skill points to upgrade your attributes like max health. Earn skill points by damaging mobs.

Multiplayer & Immersion

• Simple Voice Chat: Play and chat with friends using proximity voice chat.
• What Are They Up To: See your friends' inventories and UIs when they are accessing them.
• Presence Footsteps: Use your hearing to locate zombie threats approaching you.
• Open Parties & Claims: Claim chunks, forceload your contraptions, and build a secure base with your team.

World & Exploration

• Xaero's World Map: Mark waypoints to your base or points of interest and see your teammates on the map.
• Lost Cities: Custom modern city generation with a plethora of handpicked loot. Navigated using Superb Warfare ground vehicles along highways and roads.
• Serene Seasons: Forces you to stockpile food for winter and prepare a warm base as farming in winter is much harder and colder.
• Nature's Compass: Find any biome you want using a special compass.

Storage & Quality of Life

• Sophisticated Backpacks: Carry massive amounts of loot at once as you explore, with no limit to how many backpacks you can have.
• Refined Storage: Set up a mass storage system at your base with auto-sorted grid views.
• Client Sort: Sort your inventory & chests. Transfer items between inventories with one click.
• XP Tome: Store your XP for scenarios where you may lose it.
• Corpse Mod: Collect your items after death with one click.

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Optimization & Performance

NOTE: Superb Warfare entity models can be laggy with shaders on due to their incredible detail.

For additional performance gains, turn off minimap rendering in-game from being displayed on your HUD.

DRAM Recommendations

Tier	Memory	Notes
Playable	2048 MB	Using Distant Horizons or shaders is NOT recommended
Recommended	4096 MB	Can use Distant Horizons and shaders
Beautiful Graphics	4096 MB to 8192 MB	Can use far Distant Horizons render distances at roughly 256

VRAM Requirements

Tier	Memory	Notes
Playable	Integrated Graphics	Using Distant Horizons or shaders is NOT recommended
Recommended	2048 MB to 6144 MB	Can use Distant Horizons and shaders
Beautiful Graphics	8192 MB+	Can use far Distant Horizons render distances and high-end profiles for shaders

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Warnings

• Do NOT use Distant Horizons for chunk generation. It is disabled by default. Use Chunky instead.
• Do NOT destroy Create: New Age blocks with explosions from Superb Warfare. This can cause the server to crash. As a result, explosion destruction is disabled by default.

Known Bugs & Glitches

Solved / Mitigated | Unsolved Minor Bug | Unsolved Moderate Bug | Unsolved Critical Bug (Game Crashing / Unplayable)

#	Status	Bug
1	Minor	Certain block entities fail to render until interacted with (e.g., beds, Create items). This bug is NOT game breaking or significant, but it is noticeable.
2	Solved	Using chunk generation from Distant Horizons breaks the city generation. It is resolved using Chunky.
3	Minor	Random floating mobs in an idle state (non-aggressive or dead). Usually solved by restarting the game / server.
4	Solved	Destroying Create: New Age blocks with explosions from Superb Warfare causes the game / server to crash.
5	Moderate	Using shaders while rendering Superb Warfare entities causes a performance dip, noticeable on lower end PCs.
6	Minor	Background music plays while in-world music plays if you're in the pause menu.
7	Minor	Vanilla music sometimes plays (not intended).
8	Minor	If you leave a dedicated server while Chunky is generating chunks, the server may crash (could be on the condition that no players are online).

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Socials

You can join the Discord for finding any support or general contact with the community. Support with GitHub Sponsors.

License

You are free to copy, modify and distribute at your own discretion (there are no license restrictions of any kind).

Inspiration

Apocalypse Begins is heavily inspired by DeceasedCraft (author is TqLxQuanZ).