Malevolent Colonies

Malevolent Colonies

Build a town. Power an industry. Give your citizens something to come home to.

Minecraft Java 1.21.1 · NeoForge · Colony building · Technology · Exploration

Your first camp is only the beginning. Raise a settlement of builders, farmers, craftspeople, and guards. Turn its outskirts into farms and factories, connect distant outposts, and venture beyond the walls for the next discovery worth bringing home.

Malevolent Colonies is the Malevolent Gods take on MC-TechColonies: a MineColonies-centered pack combining town management, industrial automation, dangerous adventures, and our own FourTwenty mod. Build a bustling capital, a quiet farming community, or a fortified industrial town with a dispensary down the street. Your colony gives every project a place in a larger world.

Make the colony your own

• Lead a living settlement. MineColonies supplies the citizens, professions, construction, research, and defenses. Stylecolonies adds building styles, TownTalk gives your workers voices, and Domum Ornamentum opens up material choices for your architecture.
• Put your town to work. Build Oritech processing lines, experiment with Immersive Machinery, and control your creations with Project Red wiring and logic. The pack includes recipes connecting MineColonies craftspeople to Oritech equipment, including jetpacks and exo armor.
• Grow something different. FourTwenty brings cannabis farming, craftable smoking items, edibles, and a MineColonies Dispensary with its own Budtender profession.
• Make the journey part of the adventure. Fly with Immersive Aircraft, sail with Small Ships, and connect destinations through Wormhole portals. Tectonic landscapes, underground dungeons, seaside structures, and rebuilt Nether fortresses give you reasons to keep exploring.
• Prepare for trouble. Cataclysm bosses, hostile villages, evolving creatures, and a tougher Ender Dragon give your equipment a purpose. End Remastered makes reaching the End an exploration goal, while Stellarity and Deeper and Darker offer more to discover beyond the Overworld.
• Enjoy life between expeditions. Cook with Farmer's Delight, furnish your home with Handcrafted, display meals on the table, and earn extra hearts by trying different foods. Maps, recipe browsers, storage upgrades, and everyday conveniences help keep your attention on the next project.

FourTwenty: from the field to the dispensary

Our original FourTwenty mod adds a new crop and a new corner of colony life. Find wild cannabis, cultivate it on farmland, and turn harvested buds into joints, pipes, cookies, and brownies. Place a bong at your base to share its effects with nearby players.

With MineColonies, that harvest becomes part of the town:

• Let colony farmers grow the crop using their familiar farming workflow.
• Build and upgrade a Dispensary through five levels, expanding from a small shop into a larger shop and lounge.
• Hire a Budtender to turn buds and paper into joints, with colony couriers supplying ingredients.
• Serve eligible adult citizens living in completed level-3 or higher residences. Citizens collect and consume joints, use available seating, and then return to their routines.
• Support citizen satisfaction and temporary maximum-health benefits through completed consumption, with a service panel to help you track staffing, supplies, and waiting customers.

FourTwenty is included in the pack. More original MineColonies-compatible mods from Malevolent Gods are planned for future updates as they become available.

Find your next project

Start with a builder's hut and a reliable food supply. Expand into workshops and storage, then decide what your town needs next: a factory district, a harbor, an airfield, a furnished town square, or a dispensary supplied by your own fields. Between construction projects, pack a bag and follow a treasure map, explore a dungeon, or gather what you need for the journey to the End.

For help along the way, use JEI to look up recipes, Jade to inspect blocks and creatures, JourneyMap to mark discoveries, and Oracle Index to read supported mod guides in game. The MineColonies wiki is a useful companion for your first settlement.

Explore the full mod lineup

Malevolent Colonies 2.0 includes 135 mods, covering gameplay, conveniences, performance tools, and the libraries that support them. Each name below links to its project page so you can learn more and discover the creators behind the pack.

Colony building and community

Mod	What it brings to your world
MineColonies	A town of working citizens, specialized buildings, supply chains, research, guards, and raids.
FourTwenty	Cannabis cultivation, joints, pipes, edibles, bongs, and the Dispensary and Budtender colony integration.
Structurize	Blueprint previews and building tools used to plan and place your colony's structures.
Stylecolonies	Additional MineColonies blueprint styles for giving your settlement its own identity.
Domum Ornamentum	Customizable architectural blocks made from different materials for detailed, coordinated buildings.
TownTalk	Spoken citizen dialogue that adds character to the working day.
JadeColonies	MineColonies and Domum Ornamentum information in Jade's inspection overlay.

Technology, automation, and engineering

Mod	What it brings to your world
Oritech	Industrial machines, resource processing, power generation, logistics, and advanced equipment.
Immersive Machinery	Rustic machinery for mining, transport, and automation.
Project Red - Core	The shared foundation for the pack's Project Red circuitry and lighting modules.
Project Red - Integration	Compact logic gates for building more sophisticated redstone controls.
Project Red - Transmission	Redstone wires and bundled cables that make complex circuits easier to connect.
Project Red - Illumination	Decorative lighting with redstone control for streets, workshops, and interiors.
CB Multipart	Multiple compatible parts in one block space, plus microblocks for finer construction details.
Multi-Piston	A configurable piston for moving blocks in different directions.
Oracle Index	In-game documentation for supported mods, including Oritech.

Travel, storage, and supplies

Mod	What it brings to your world
Immersive Aircraft	Craftable rustic aircraft for exploring and traveling above the landscape.
Small Ships	Larger, vanilla-style vessels for journeys across rivers and seas.
Wormhole (Portals)	Constructible portals for connecting distant destinations.
Backpacked	Wearable backpacks with unlockable styles and useful upgrades.
Sophisticated Storage	Upgradeable storage containers with tools for organizing and handling your supplies.
Storage Racks	Upgradeable racks and a controller for finding items across connected storage.
Storage Delight	Furniture-like storage options for kitchens and cozy interiors.

Farming, food, and everyday comforts

Mod	What it brings to your world
Farmer's Delight	More crops, ingredients, cooking tools, and satisfying meals to build a kitchen around.
Display Delight	Placeable food displays that turn prepared meals into part of your decor.
Vanilla Cookbook	More food choices that fit Minecraft's familiar ingredients and style.
Spice of Life: Carrot Edition	Extra hearts for dietary variety; this pack awards one heart at each food milestone.
Actually Harvest	Convenient right-click harvesting and replanting, with harvesting XP support.
HT's TreeChop	A tree-felling system that makes gathering timber less repetitive.
Handcrafted	Furniture and decorative pieces for homes, workshops, and gathering places.
Comforts	Sleeping bags and hammocks for resting away from home without moving your spawn point.

Landscapes, discoveries, and dimensions

Mod	What it brings to your world
Tectonic	Dramatic terrain and varied landscapes for memorable colony locations.
Biome Sizes	Controls biome scale, helping shape the size of the regions you explore.
Critters and Companions	Additional animals that bring more life to the Overworld.
Better Archeology	Archaeological structures, artifacts, and fossils to uncover on your travels.
Dungeons and Taverns	New structures ranging from places to stop along the road to dungeons worth investigating.
Fantastic Deepslate Dungeons	Deep underground dungeons with traps, monsters, and hidden treasure.
Towns and Towers	More village, pillager outpost, and ship designs across the world.
Underground Bunkers	Hidden bunkers to discover beneath the surface.
Unnamed Sea	Ocean and beach structures that add interest to coastal expeditions.
Realm RPG: Fallen Adventurers	The skeletal remains of earlier explorers, with supplies and treasures to find.
Medieval Buildings: Nether Edition	Additional Nether buildings for a more varied journey through the dimension.
Nether Trials & Chambers	Trial chamber adventures built for the Nether.
YUNG's Better Nether Fortresses	Redesigned Nether fortresses with much more to explore.
YUNG's Better Strongholds	Larger, redesigned strongholds that make the search for the End portal an adventure.
Deeper and Darker	A Deep Dark expansion with new equipment, creatures, and the mysterious Otherside dimension.
End Remastered	An exploration-driven route to the End, built around finding special eyes throughout the world.
Stellarity	A fantasy overhaul of the End with new environments, structures, equipment, and discoveries.
Forgiving World - Dimension Stacking	Connections between dimension boundaries, including a route back to the Overworld from the End's void.

Combat, danger, and adventure rewards

Mod	What it brings to your world
L_Ender's Cataclysm	Major boss encounters, dangerous dungeons, and powerful equipment to pursue.
Brutal Bosses - Custom Bosses	Special boss enemies that make dungeon encounters more demanding.
Hostile Villages	Hostile versions of villages that turn familiar settlements into dangerous destinations.
Evolution of Entities	Inheritable and evolving creature traits that add variety to enemies and animal breeding.
Variants&Ventures	Additional mob variants that make encounters across the world more varied.
Basic Weapons	Additional weapon types with a familiar Minecraft style.
Immersive Armors	Distinctive armor sets for more choice in how you equip your adventurer.
Dusk	Increasing monster population limits during the night, making darkness more threatening.
Savage Ender Dragon	A more demanding dragon fight with additional combat mechanics and difficulty scaling.
More Dragon Eggs	A dragon egg reward for repeat dragon victories.
Respawning Structures	Lets eligible explored structures regenerate over time for return adventures.

Atmosphere and a changing world

Mod	What it brings to your world
Dynamic Surroundings	Environmental audio and effects that make different places feel more distinct.
Particular Reforged	Extra visual details such as water splashes, falling leaves, and ambient particles.
Biome Music	Music selection that responds to your surroundings and exploration.
Medieval Music	A medieval-inspired soundtrack for building, wandering, and adventure.
Better Days	Adjustable day and night pacing, with sleep that speeds the passage of time.
Weather settings	Control over the timing of weather events.
TheOvergrowth	Environmental changes over time; the pack enables selected plant-growth and natural-world effects.
Bad Wither No Cookie - Reloaded	Controls disruptive global sounds and other unwanted sound effects.

Information and useful conveniences

Mod	What it brings to your world
Just Enough Items (JEI)	Searchable items, crafting recipes, and ingredient uses.
Jade	At-a-glance information about the block or creature you are looking at.
JourneyMap	A map of your explored world, a minimap, and waypoints for important destinations.
AppleSkin	Clearer food, hunger, and saturation information.
Inventory Essentials	Handy shortcuts for moving items between inventories.
Polymorph	A choice of outputs when multiple recipes share the same ingredients.
Anvil Balance	More manageable anvil costs for repairing and combining equipment.
Bottle Your Xp	Store your own experience in bottles for later use.
Clean Swing Through Grass	Helps melee attacks reach enemies through grass and similar plants.
Better Treasure Map	Distance information to help you follow treasure maps.
Clickable advancements	Click advancement messages in chat to open the relevant advancement.
TrashSlot	A convenient inventory slot for disposing of unwanted items.
Corpse	Leaves your inventory in a recoverable body when you die.
PlayerRevive	Gives friends a chance to revive a fallen player.
Login Protection	Brief damage protection while a player is logging in.
Vanilla Plus Tools	Larger-area tools for tasks such as 3×3 mining and digging.
Vanilla Backport	Selected features from newer Minecraft releases brought back to 1.21.1.

Performance and responsiveness

These mods work behind the scenes on memory use, rendering, saving, networking, and other busy parts of the game.

Mod	What it contributes
ModernFix	Performance improvements and fixes across loading, memory use, and other game systems.
FerriteCore	Reduces memory used by Minecraft's internal data.
Entity Culling	Skips rendering hidden entities and block entities.
Farsight	Keeps previously received terrain visible beyond the server's current view distance.
Better chunk loading	Adjusts chunk loading around moving players to reduce unnecessary work.
Chunk Sending	Optimizes how terrain data reaches players.
Fast Async World Save	Moves world-saving work off the main game thread where possible.
Server Performance - Smooth Chunk Save	Spreads chunk saves over time to reduce saving spikes.
Dynamic View and Simulation Distances	Adjusts view and simulation distances in response to server load.
Connectivity	Addresses connection and network packet issues.
fix GPU memory leak	Targets graphics-memory leaks.
Leaky - Item Lag Fix	Helps manage performance problems caused by excessive dropped items.
Limited Chunkloading - Chunk cleanup	Unloads lingering chunks after players leave.
Client Crafting	Makes crafting respond locally while synchronizing with the server.
Recipe Essentials	Optimizes recipe handling and adds recipe-book improvements.
Structure Essentials	Improves structure searching and compatibility between world-generation features.
spark	Performance diagnostics to help investigate slowdowns.

Pack integration and server utilities

Mod	What it contributes
Global Packs	Loads the pack's shared data packs, including its colony and technology recipe adjustments.
Loot Integrations	Connects loot tables so modded rewards can appear in more appropriate places.
Loot Integrations: L_Ender's Cataclysm	Extends loot integration to Cataclysm structures.
Loot Integrations: When Dungeons Arise & Co	Loot support for compatible structures, including Underground Bunkers and Nether Trials & Chambers.
Spawner Control	Configuration of monster-spawner timing, limits, and rewards.
Experimentalist	Manages experimental-feature settings and their world-creation notices.
Shutdowner	Scheduled shutdown and hang-detection tools for server operators.
BisectHosting Server Integration Menu	Hosting-service links and menu integration inherited from the base pack.

Supporting libraries

These included libraries provide the shared features that other mods use, from animated creatures to configuration screens and colony interfaces.

Library	What it supports
Architectury API	Shared functionality for mods built for multiple loaders.
Athena	Custom block-model rendering.
Balm	Shared functionality for BlayTheNinth's mods.
BlockUI	Interfaces used by MineColonies and related mods.
Cloth Config API	In-game configuration screens.
CodeChicken Lib	Rendering and shared systems used by the Project Red ecosystem.
Collective	Shared features for Serilum's mods.
CreativeCore	Shared systems used by CreativeMD's mods, including PlayerRevive.
Cristel Lib	Structure configuration and data-pack utilities.
Cupboard	Shared configuration and utilities for several of the pack's mods.
Curios API	Accessory slots and equipment integration.
Framework	Shared systems used by MrCrayfish's mods, including Backpacked.
GeckoLib	Animation support for modded creatures, items, and blocks.
JamLib	Shared functionality for JamCore's mods.
Lionfish API	Shared support used by Cataclysm.
Lithostitched	World-generation configuration and compatibility tools.
oωo (owo-lib)	Shared user-interface and development utilities.
Platform	Shared functionality across mod loaders.
Resourceful Config	Configuration tools for supported mods.
Resourceful Lib	Shared functionality for Team Resourceful's mod ecosystem.
Sophisticated Core	The common storage and upgrade systems used by Sophisticated Storage.
SuperMartijn642's Config Lib	Configuration support for SuperMartijn642's mods.
SuperMartijn642's Core Lib	Shared interfaces and utilities used by mods such as Wormhole.
YetAnotherConfigLib	Configuration menus for supported mods.
YUNG's API	The shared foundation for YUNG's structure overhauls.

Start your colony

Install Malevolent Colonies through the CurseForge app and launch the included Minecraft 1.21.1 / NeoForge profile. The pack includes FourTwenty and its required mod lineup automatically.

Bring a plan for your first settlement, leave room for the projects that follow, and see how far a small colony can grow.

Credits

Malevolent Colonies is based on MC-TechColonies 1.12. Thank you to its creators for the foundation, to the MineColonies team for the colony experience at the heart of the pack, and to every mod author linked above for their work.

FourTwenty and the Malevolent Colonies customization are by Malevolent Gods. Follow the pack's development for updates and future original MineColonies-compatible additions.