Ages Progression

Ages: Milestone Progression

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Shape your Minecraft world around a journey through the ages. Ages adds configurable progression to a world: players complete milestones to advance, while access to selected equipment, items, and workstations is limited by their current age.

The default progression moves through the Initial, Wood, Stone, Copper, Iron, Gold, Redstone, Diamond, and Netherite ages. Modpack creators can change the ages, milestones, requirements, and restrictions to fit their gameplay.

✅ Progress Through Milestones

Each age has its own goals. Depending on the milestones configured for your world, you might gather materials, mine ores, smelt ingots, craft items, or defeat specific creatures. Complete enough of the current age's milestones to unlock the next one. The required number can be adjusted, so a pack can ask players to complete every milestone or give them a choice.

Progress is tracked individually for each player. Milestone goals are tied to the age you are in, so actions completed before reaching an age do not count toward its milestones.

🚫 Age-Based Restrictions

Ages definitions set which items and workstations belong to each age. which items and workstations belong to each age. Until you reach the required age, you cannot use or craft restricted items, or access restricted workstations. You can still pick up, carry, move, and store those items; Ages does not take them away.

🔍 View Your Progress

Press H to open the Ages Progress screen. You can change this key in Minecraft's Controls settings. You can also open the screen with /ages or /ages gui.

The screen shows your current age, your progress toward its requirements, and its milestones.

⚙️ Admin Commands

These commands require operator permission level 2. Player-targeting commands require the target player to be online.

✏️ How to Customize

On first launch, Ages creates editable configuration files in the config folder. Modpack creators can customize the progression in config/ages/progression.json, including eras, milestones, advancement requirements, and age-based item and workstation restrictions. Selectors support individual items and blocks, Minecraft tags, and custom groups of modded content.

Supported milestone goals include breaking blocks, defeating entities, obtaining items, collecting furnace output, and crafting items in the vanilla inventory or crafting table. Keep era and milestone IDs stable to preserve player progress, and run /ages reload after editing the progression file.

Resource packs can provide translations and custom milestone icons.