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Ancient Nature | A Prehistoric Experience!
Adding ANCIENT fauna & flora to your Minecraft worlds.
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Which Ancient Nature | A Prehistoric Experience! release should I use?
Ancient Nature | A Prehistoric Experience! Ancient Nature 0.1.1 targets 1.20.1 with Forge. The project page does not say whether this file belongs on the client, dedicated server, or both. No extra mods listed for this file.
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Ancient Nature 0.1.1. Change the file and its required mods may change too.
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About this project
What does Ancient Nature | A Prehistoric Experience! add?
Introducing...



|Ancient Nature|
ABOUT
This mod aims to add fantastic and realistic prehistoric features to your Minecraft world!
Currently this mod is on it's first beta stage! Aside its a beta, it contains enough content to have a full experience! Bringing new animals, flora, armors, blocks, tools, blocks & more!
WARNING: REQUIRES SKULLLIB!
WARNING: THIS PROJECT USES MIXINS, EXPECT INCOMPATIBILITIES!
ADVISE: WE ARE THE ONLY MOD WITH PERMS TO USE ASSETS FROM "THE DAWN ERA", ASSETS OWNED BY REAPER ( AND MUSH CO ).
CONTENT:
Flora:
| Lepidodendron: A tall tree from the Carboniferous, provides edible cones and can peel scales from their logs.
| Ginkgo: A tree that appears golden and green on the overworld, golden Ginkgos provide the Fern Amber used to revive prehistoric plants.
| Zaphrentis: A prehistoric coral from the Paleozoic that releases bubbles and can be used as horn, bur with funny bubble sounds!
Fauna:
| Anomalocaris: The first apex predator from the oceans of the Paleozoic.
| Arandaspis: A jaw-less fish from the Ordovicianthat moves in boids near the corals.
| Dodo: A funny and beautiful bird from the Pleistocenethat rarely spawns in jungles near the watermelon, their favorite food source.
| Dunkleosteus: An armoured predator from the Devonian, can be tamed and its rideable, its armor is unbreakable!
| Estemmenosuchus: A monster from the Permian, can be tamed and equipped with saddle or barrel.
| Jakapil: A small herbivore and territorial animal from the Cretaceous, can be tamed to ward zones and bases.
| Lizamber: A failure born from the Revival Stand, destroy as soon as possible or keep encaged.
| Saber-toothed Salmon: A big salmon from the Miocene, travels to oceans and rivers, to breed on rivers and live on oceans but they die or turn into zombies after breeding.
| Paranogmius: A prehistoric big fish from the Cretaceous, can be ridden feeding it with salmon, being able to sprint and jump out of the water for a limited time.
| Thylacine: A friendly animal from the Holocene, spawns in forest biome, only lonely babies can be tamed and they can search for items depending the biome.
| Trilobite: An armored animal from the Paleozoic, was prey of anomalocaris, they turn into a ball to defend from dangers.
| Tuzoia: A prehistoric shrimp from the Paleozoic, seems attracted to coral, they have a very special breeding and revival.
Tools:
| Lepidodendron Armor: Gives protection like a shield and deals damage to attackers.
| Paleontologist Hat: Spawns in the chests of mineshafts, outlines the location of fossils.
| Geologist Hammer: Spawns in the chests of mineshafts, able to switch modes between Efficient(improves loot of fossils) and Hammer(destroys faster and more blocks).
| Chisel: Used for the fossil cleaning minigame.
| Golden Bottle: Used for the fossil cleaning minigame (if has water), your potions are endless!
| Magnifying Glass: Provides info about items that will be used on fossil cleaning minigame, also if totems are active on the minigame, also provides information about the creatures.
| Weather Idol: Change the weather for a short time.
| Totems: Boost the chances of getting a fossil of a determined creature you enchance it with.
| Jakapil Arrow: Has the ability to piercing mobs.
Structures:
| Paleontologist Tent: On this structure you can find the "Paleontologist" Villager and some loot.
| Underground Cabin: On this structure you can find the "Crusher" a block used for some recipes.
| Copper Bunker: On this structure you can find the "Copper Altar", a powerful method to revive prehistoric stuff.
| Ritual Ruins: On this structure you can find the "Revival Altar", an ancient method to revive prehistoric stuff.
Compats:
- Alex´s Caves: there are some interactions with Alex´s Caves.
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ALSO TO REPORT BUGS AND ISSUES!
Credits:
Director: Reaper
Programmers: Monkey_biznec, DarkBlade, Axtrough, Oiha, ReinierTheGhost, BlackGear, DinoFazbearYT, VoidArkana & Reaper.
Artists: Reaper, Jurnaro, Raina & Dororuw.
SFX: Reaper & ChipsTheCat.
Music: Reaper.
Title Logo: Curlyfley.
Special thanks to RomanSans, Yahrim and GibblyJ for being there from the start!
Project description from CurseForge.
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Recent files
Ancient Nature | A Prehistoric Experience! versions and loaders
Ancient Nature 0.1.1
ancient_nature-0.1.1.jar
5 Nov 2025
Ancient Nature 0.1.0
ancient_nature-0.1.0.jar
5 Nov 2025
beta of the beta, TOMORROW ALL WILL BE COKMPLETED
ancient_nature-0.0.5-1.20.1.jar
1 Nov 2025
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