MineColonies Father & Son

Introduction

This modpack is focusing on the medieval / steampunk timeline with city building using MineColonies as main mod. But even, when you don't want to be Major of a colony you can have adventures and build several machines, new armor & weapons over the complete achievement tree.

Mod Overview

MineColonies, StyleColonies and Towntalk

• You can be the mayor of a town with NPC citizens and decide how you city will look like
• choose you style favorite style of the buildings out of several themes, extended by the StyleColonies mod or build even you own style pack to create Your city.
• Grow your colonies from a small settling with a few wooden houses to a big metropolis with several hundred inhabitants
• But be aware! You will need the help of your citizens and works to run a big town
• Align with your neighbor cities or fight epic battles to burn your enemies.
• Feel the life in your city, when the citizens were chatting about here daily problems and stuff.

Armor, Weapons and Utilities

Epic Knights

• Dozens of new medieval armor sets are waiting to protect you warriors.
• Use new weapons from that age to compete your enemies

Advanced Finders

• You were annoyed in searching resources, but don't want to use a X-ray mod?
• Maybe those finders will become your best friends. Three different types to find all sorts of resources.
• You need big amounts of gravel for your steampunk railway network? No problem! Simply add it to the configuration files and use those tools to search faster and effective

Better Copper / Armor Tools

• If you ever questioned yourself what to do with the huge amounts of copper ore? It doesn't least as long as iron, but you have huge amounts of it.
• Use it for a complete set of vanilla tools made out of copper.
• Craft armor and weapons out of it. At the beginning it's a perfect alternative to iron.

Advanced Netherite

• This mod provides high tier armor and weapons stuff on the price of very rare ressources
• Netherite isn't advanced enough? You can upgrade the stuff for even higher stats.

Comforts

• You forgot your bed in your house and want to sleep over night? You want to go camping but don't want to change you saving spot?
• Use the fine sleeping bags from Comforts mod in your favorite color.
• Easily place the bag on the ground, sleep and pick it up next morning like every other loot item.

Sophisticated Backpacks and Storage

• With Sophisticated Storage you can build your own depot and store everything.
• Different upgrades can even extend the storage room to store even grater amounts.
• You need more mobile? No problem! Try the Backpacks from the same author. They are the mobile variante of the storage version.
• A little extension combines Sophisticated Storage with minecarts, so that you can have a even mobile variant for the storage chests.

Traveling and Transportation

AstikorCarts Redux

• Use the different carts for transportation of different gooods. Even animals were possible.
• You are tired pulling the cart by hand? Use you donkey or horse to do the job for you.

CarryOn

• Now you can transport a filled chest easily.
• But be aware you need both hands to pickit up.
• Crouche, keep your back straight, right click the block and carry it where you want.

HorseInBoat

• Ho! Ho sailor. You find a new horse across the ocean and want to take it with you home?
• Why do you do it!

Hang Glider

• Build up some gliders and jump off a mountain. A new way of traveling!

Immersive Aircraft

• So what jump off a mountain with the gliders is not enough?
• Well! Build your own aircraft or airships.
• Different vehicles for specials mission can be even upgraded.

Railcraft Reborn

• The element air is not your best friend? Maybe you are a railway manager!
• With the famous Railcraft Reborn an old mod returned from retirement.
• Use different locomotives and carts to build trains.
• Extend your rails and run a almost fully automated rail network at the end.

Small Ships

• A boat is to small? Maybe a galley is what need you need!
• The best sailor for narrow water is the Hanse cog.

Performance Improvements

Client Crafting

• Speed your crafting by optimizing server communication and reduce lag.

Better FPS

• Power up your frame rate by optimizing different settings inside the graphics pipeline.

Clumps

• Your are master in collecting XP inside your Mob farm, but the XP balls were to much for your system?
• Clumps joins several XP bubbles to a bigger, when they would be appear
• Reducing the lag for smoother gameplay.

Farsight

• Clientside optimization to see far more of your wonderful Minecraft world.

Other Improvements

CraftingTweaker

• Configure all recipes like you want. You could do it, but you don't need to! ;-)

Crafting Tweaks

• Gives you the ability to use gestures to speed up your crafting work with the Crafting Tables
• Rotate a circle to lay done a circular recipe with the stack of blocks in your hand
• Handy button to clear the Crafting Table into your inventory
• A button to balance all the material over all slots in the Crafting Table
• Many useful other functions! Maybe you should have a look to their mod page.

Craftable Name Tags, Horse Armor and Saddle

• In a big city you need Name Tags for several things, but looting doesn't give you the right amount?
• With this little mod you can craft not only Name Tags, Horse Armor and saddles can be crafted too

DynamicTrees

• A wonderful mod to see a tree growing over time
• Plant a small sapling and over long time a strong old oak will grow out of it

Trading Improvement

• A Goblin trader is selling you stuff somewhere deep into the cave system of minecraft. He is also buying the stuff you mine, if you want.
• Annoyed by the trader or he doesn't have anything interesting in his bag? Then tell him to move on his journey by simply clicking to a button in the trading window.

Graphics and Shaders

• Sodium will improve the graphics performance and gave you new properties to control the quality and the performance of Minecraft
• Iris Shaders will beautify Minecraft by do some shader tricks. But be careful not to overload your hardware. When you don't like, then switch it of by simply clicking SHIFT+H

Just Enough of Everything

• Breeding
• Items
• Resources
• Archaeology

Credits

Many thanks to all mod creators, builders and people around all the mods. Without your work, we would have less fun with this great Minecraft game.

All rights of the mods belonging to the specific creators.