Tellus: Real Earth Survival

Tellus: Real Earth Survival

Build on Preikestolen. Sail the actual North Sea. Walk the Sahara. Set up
a logging camp in the boreal forests of British Columbia. Get hypothermia
in Patagonia and sunstroke in Death Valley.

This is a real-Earth survival modpack. The overworld is Tellus — a
worldgen mod that replaces vanilla terrain with real elevation, real
coastlines, and real biomes drawn from actual geographic data. There's
only one Earth, but it has a lot of corners worth exploring.

The world

• Tellus generates the entire overworld from real-world topology.
  Every coastline, fjord, mountain range, river, desert, and forest is
  in roughly the place you'd find it on a map.
• Distant Horizons 3.0 with Iris and the Solas Shader are
  preconfigured to render that scale beautifully — see real mountains
  from real distances.
• The world is vast. The pack is built for long-form survival,
  multiplayer expedition play, and base-building in places that look
  like real places.

The tech

A full Create-centric tech tree, paired with Immersive Engineering
and The Factory Must Grow for heavy industry.

• Create 6.0 + Create Aeronautics for the airships
• 14 Create addons including TFMG (oil, refining, heavy industry), Big
  Cannons, Crafts & Additions, New Age, Ironworks, Connected, Encased,
  Garnished, Power Grid, Power Loader, Copper & Zinc, Dragons Plus,
  Dreams & Desires, and Enchantment Industry
• Immersive Engineering for high-voltage transmission, multiblock
  refining, and proper industrial scale alongside Create's elegance
• Farmer's Delight for cooking, crops, and food variety

Survival realism

The pack is tuned for survival realism. You will need to manage:

• Temperature (Tough As Nails) — hypothermia in cold biomes,
  heatstroke in hot ones, gear and shelter matter
• Thirst (Thirst Was Taken) — hydration as a real resource; rivers
  and rain matter
• Seasons (Serene Seasons) — yearly cycle with biome shifts
• Diet variety (Spice of Life: Onion) — eating the same thing every
  day stops being enough

The wildlife is real wildlife: Naturalist populates each biome with
species from that part of the world — bears, lions, alligators, deer,
foxes — and Better Combat gives melee enough depth that a brown bear
is genuinely a problem.

The market

The pack ships with a custom Market Stalls mod — placeable trading
blocks with a four-currency system (emeralds, diamonds, oak logs, spruce
logs). They exist as a deliberate fallback for the geographic realism
problem: when you spawn in Iceland, you don't have easy access to jungle
wood; when you spawn in Indonesia, you don't have easy access to spruce.
The market stalls bridge those gaps without breaking the survival
economy — premium items are emerald-only, common items can be paid for
with whatever you have.

Multiplayer-ready

• Open Parties And Claims — chunk claims and a party system
• Xaero's Minimap + World Map — full integration with claim overlays
  so you can see your party's territory at a glance
• Sophisticated Storage + Sophisticated Backpacks + Carry On
  for inventory and base logistics
• Chat Heads, No Chat Reports, Better Advancements,
  Inventory Profiles Next — the standard server quality-of-life set

Sound and decoration

• Sound Physics Remastered — spatial audio with proper occlusion and
  reverb. Caves sound like caves. Forests sound like forests.
• Ambient Sounds — biome-aware nature sounds layered over everything
• Supplementaries, Chipped, Macaw's suite, Dramatic Doors
  for build variety and decoration

Performance baseline

• Sodium + Sodium Extra + EntityCulling + ModernFix —
  the modern performance stack
• EMI + JEI + JER + Jade for recipe and information
  tooling

Requirements

• Minecraft 1.21.1
• NeoForge 21.1.228+
• Java 21
• RAM: 12 GB minimum, 16 GB recommended

Real-world chunk generation, Distant Horizons render distance, and the
Sodium ecosystem all want headroom. Don't allocate less.

Server play

This pack is designed with multiplayer in mind. We strongly recommend
pre-generating chunks around your intended spawn area before opening
to players — Tellus fetches elevation tiles on demand, so first-time
chunk loads are bandwidth-bound. Pre-gen once, smooth gameplay forever.

Get involved

• Issues with Tellus: giurca/Tellus
• Issues with Market Stalls:
  giurca/marketstalls
• All other mods belong to their respective authors — please support
  them on Modrinth and CurseForge.

Now go build something on a fjord.