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NCU Expansion!

All of NCUs SMP Mods In one easy mod! Play a New Way! Play the NCU Way!

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Which NCU Expansion! release should I use?

Updated 2 days ago
Latest stable file ncu_expansion-1.0.2-neoforge-26.1.2.jar
Game version 26.1.2
Loader NeoForge

NCU Expansion! ncu_expansion-1.0.2-neoforge-26.1.2.jar targets 26.1.2 with NeoForge. The project page does not say whether this file belongs on the client, dedicated server, or both. All 1 required mods have matching files.

Where it goes

Is NCU Expansion! required on the client, server, or both?

The project page does not say whether this file belongs on the client, dedicated server, or both.

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Loader for this release NeoForge
Required install it here Optional supported, not mandatory Not supported do not install here Source doesn’t say do not assume

The source does not explicitly classify this release as client-only or server-only.

What else does NCU Expansion! ncu_expansion-1.0.2-neoforge-26.1.2.jar need?

ncu_expansion-1.0.2-neoforge-26.1.2.jar. Change the file and its required mods may change too.

All 1 required mods have matching files

Install Curios API first. We found matching files for this game-version and loader setup.

Curios API Needed by NCU Expansion! ncu_expansion-1.0.2-neoforge-26.1.2.jar
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Matching file found Matched file: curios-neoforge-15.0.0+26.1.2.jar

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Before you install it

Add NCU Expansion! without breaking your instance.

Built for NCU Expansion! ncu_expansion-1.0.2-neoforge-26.1.2.jar. Pick another file and the loader, install side or required mods may change.

  1. 01

    Stick to this file

    Use ncu_expansion-1.0.2-neoforge-26.1.2.jar. It targets 26.1.2 with NeoForge; another release may have different loader, side or dependency requirements.

  2. 02

    Bring the mods it needs

    Install Curios API first. We found matching files for this game-version and loader setup.

  3. 03

    Put it on the correct side

    The project page does not say whether this file belongs on the client, dedicated server, or both.

  4. 04

    Pick the file you checked

    Use the “Get this file” button beside ncu_expansion-1.0.2-neoforge-26.1.2.jar. It opens that exact file at the source.

About this project

What does NCU Expansion! add?

NCU EXPANSION

Play different. Play the NCU way!

All of NCU's SMP mods, packaged into one for the NCU SMP and NCU Modpacks! — one install, custom mobs, biomes, dimensions, structures, and foundational game-rule changes built for a world that's further along in its story than you think.

Important Information

CURRENT UPDATE: Odds and Ends!

Next Update: Deep Blue!

Note: The Creator Adds a lot in updates, from plants to mobs to locations so sometimes content is added outside of update themes to give more time to inprove them! so theres always content to explore!

Official NCU Expansion Minecraft Key Art - By XRL NATION

What's Inside

New Mobs

  • Boom Box — Creepers are gone. In their place: a rare (10% spawn rate), war-era construct disguised as a treasure chest. Still explodes. Still ruins your day.
  • Twisted — A swamp lurker with a gaze that won't let go. Passive unless provoked — attack it and you'll wish you hadn't.
  • Guard Dolls — Moss-covered wooden sentinels, crafted rather than born.
  • Possessed Sea Doll — Guard Dolls have a cousin in the deep. Zombies and Drowned are gone; this is what's waiting in their place.
  • Mold Mushrooms — Small, mobile, and not what they look like at first glance.
  • Reworked vanilla mobs: Skeletons now fight with melee weapons, and other vanilla mobs have been individually adjusted to fit the world's new rules and lore.

New Biomes & Structures

  • Ceanothus Forest — glowing, firefly-lit, and older than it looks.
  • Volcanic Badlands
  • Mold Hills (The Lush) — a black-mold biome dotted with the Mold Bloom, a vibration-triggered hazard that punishes lingering.
  • Bonewaypost — a structure rising out of a bone desert that shouldn't exist.
  • Ender Falls, Ender Jungle, Ender Shallows — three new faces of the End, each stranger than the last.
  • Purpur Pavilion — go inside. What's the worst that can happen?
  • End Shipwrecks — something didn't make it across.
  • Lush Ruined Portal — the way in isn't a secret anymore. Find it, don't just craft it.

Coming soon: Glowing Mushroom Caves, and more.

New Dimensions

  • The Lush — every book calls it a jungle. It isn't. A bone desert under a faint, pale light, home to the mold-choked Hills and worse things underneath.
  • A second dimension, reached through the Pale Garden, Deep Dark, or Crafted Portal, with its own new biomes.

New Flora & Decor

  • Ghost Pipes — found haunting the Deep Dark and the Pale Garden.
  • Golden Driptee — a glint of gold growing wild across the Plains.
  • Passiflora — blooming through the Cherry Grove and the Forest.
  • Netherrack Spikes — the Nether Wastes just got sharper.
  • End Crystal Trees — the Chorus Fruit trees of Ender Shallows, grown strange and healthy.
  • End Crystal Growths — scattered through Ender Jungle, humming with something.

Tech, Ores & Progression

  • Aethel Levitator — a floor-inset lift disguised as decoration.
  • Aethel Tools & Armor — a full set now, forged from what you dig up.
  • Alchemist Bench — a new station for the Alchemist's own recipes.
  • Totem of Returning — won't stop your death. Sends you falling home to the Overworld instead.
  • Eye Banner Pattern — sixteen colors, one unblinking eye.
  • New ores to discover!
  • Custom advancements, villager (Alchemist) trade lines, and a Core lore thread that ties every system in the mod to one continuous timeline.

Coming soon:

  • **Prism Core** — an inverted conduit built to keep land-dwellers out of the deep.
  • Ocean dungeons and More lore mobs!

⚠️ Compatibility Note

As an all-in-one pack, some biome/structure/worldgen features may not play perfectly with other large worldgen mods.

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