The Iron Wind Modpack

Iron Wind

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Overview

Iron Wind is a mid-sized modpack on 1.21.1 built around Create: Aeronautics (and Create broadly). To make that exciting we're going to need a dramatic world. The overworld will be full of towering mountain chains, wide valleys, and open skies designed to be flown over. There'll be other dimensions and generated structures to explore that might pose even larger challenges or just new places to try out. Using the steampunk machinery is one way to navigate all this, or they can choose to embrace the magic available to them.

I'm using Miyazaki as a tonal guide--which basically means whatever I think fits. Think Howl's Moving Castle, Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke. Industry, spirits, vibes.

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Proposed Mod List

Create & Tech

• Create
• Create: Aeronautics
• Create: Big Cannons
• Create: Bells & Whistles
• Create: Crafts & Additions
• Create: Diesel Generators
• Create: Enchantment Industry
• Create: New Age
• Create: Sound of Steam
• Copycats+
• Slice & Dice
• Immersive Engineering

Magic

• Ars Nouveau
• Iron's Spells 'n Spellbooks
• Occultism
• Nature's Aura
• Forbidden & Arcanus
• Apothic Enchanting
• Corail Tombstone

Dimensions & Exploration

• The Twilight Forest
• The Aether
• Stellarity (End overhaul — server-side)

World Generation

• Tectonic
• Terralith
• Structory
• Terratonic (compatibility datapack — server-side)
• When Dungeons Arise
• YUNG's Better Dungeons
• YUNG's Better Mineshafts
• YUNG's Better Strongholds
• YUNG's Better Ocean Monuments
• YUNG's Better Nether Fortresses
• YUNG's Better Caves
• YUNG's Better Desert Temples
• YUNG's Better Jungle Temples

Food & Vibes

• Farmer's Delight
• Cooking for Blockheads
• Brewin' & Chewin'
• Supplementaries
• Serene Seasons

Combat & Loot

• L_Ender's Cataclysm
• Fargo's Talismans
• Mowzie's Mobs

Simpler Storage

• Sophisticated Storage
• Sophisticated Storage × Create Integration
• Sophisticated Backpacks
• Sophisticated Backpacks × Create Integration
• Storage Drawers

Advanced Storage

• Applied Energistics 2
• Applied Create
• Ars Énergistique

QoL

• Just Enough Items (JEI)
• Jade
• Waystones
• Xaero's Minimap
• Xaero's World Map
• Carry On
• Inventory Profiles Next

Client-side only

• Distant Horizons
• Iris
• Embeddium
• ImmediatelyFast

Server and/or shared perf improvements

• FerriteCore
• Lithium
• ModernFix

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Custom Multiplayer Datapack

Custom datapack to enforce Mandatory Fun. If you are the only person online, you have 15 minutes before being kicked. You'll receive warnings at 10 minutes, 5 minutes, and every minute from 4 minutes down. Your timer resets in full the moment a second player comes online, so you will never be kicked mid-session as long as someone else is around.

I often find myself getting drawn into "just one more thing" way too much, and then making a ton of progress without anyone else, making it less of a "group thing". Let's enforce some mandatory fun into this. We can disable it if it's getting painful.