Age of Scales & Bones
ModpackJourneying with dinosaurs and dragons
Description
Age of Scales & Bones is a large-scale RPG-focused fantasy modpack built around danger, progression, and exploration. The world is hostile, magic is powerful but earned, and survival requires preparation. This is not a fast endgame pack — every upgrade matters.
Combat, Monsters & Challenge
The world is filled with deadly creatures and epic encounters thanks to:
L_Ender’s Cataclysm, Alex’s Mobs, Mowzie’s Mobs, Ice and Fire, Legendary Monsters
improved mob AI, unique boss mechanics, and dangerous abilities
combat that rewards preparation, positioning, and smart gear choices
Every major fight can be fatal if you are unprepared.
Magic, Abilities & Progression
Magic and character growth are core mechanics:
Iron’s Spells & Spellbooks, Ars Nouveau, Magic Circles
spellcasting, abilities, upgrades, and specialization
no instant overpowered gear — power is unlocked gradually
Progression feels meaningful and earned.
World Exploration & Structures
The world strongly encourages exploration:
YUNG’s Better Dungeons, Mineshafts, Strongholds, Temples, and more
Moog’s Voyager Structures, Dungeons and Taverns
ruins, fortresses, ancient cities, and dangerous locations
Exploration always carries risk — and great rewards.
Gear, Weapons & Enchantments
Deep build customization through equipment:
Simply Swords, Artifacts, Relics
Apothic Attributes & Enchantments
powerful weapons, accessories, and synergistic bonuses
Your build matters more than raw stats.
Compatibility
Mod Loaders
Game Versions
Recommended Gear
AffiliateHardware and extras that pair well with this modpack.
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Contained Mods (251)
Cloth Config API (Fabric/Forge/NeoForge)
Config Screen API for Minecraft
Mouse Tweaks
Enhances inventory management by adding various functions to the mouse buttons.
AppleSkin
Adds some useful information about food/hunger to the HUD
GeckoLib
A 3D animation library for entities, blocks, items, armor, and more!
Architectury API
An intermediary api aimed to ease developing multiplatform mods.
Controlling
Adds a search bar to the Key-Bindings menu
Entity Culling Fabric/Forge
Using async path-tracing to hide BlockEntities/Entities that are not visible
Clumps
Clumps XP orbs together to reduce lag
Xaero's Minimap
Displays the nearby world terrain, players, mobs, entities in the corner of your screen. Lets you create waypoints which...
Jade 🔍
Shows information about what you are looking at. (Hwyla/WAILA fork for Minecraft 1.16+)
Waystones
Teleport from waystone to waystone or craft magical scrolls to warp.
Curios API (Forge/NeoForge)
A flexible and expandable accessory/equipment API for users and developers.
Collective
🎓 Collective is a shared library with common code for all of Serilum's mods.
Enchantment Descriptions
Adds in-game descriptions for enchantments to tooltips.
ModernFix
All-in-one mod that improves performance, reduces memory usage, and fixes many bugs. Compatible with all your favorite p...
Nature's Compass
Nature's Compass is an item that allows you to locate biomes anywhere in the world.
Balm
Abstraction Layer for Multi-Loader Mods
Xaero's World Map
Adds a fullscreen worldmap which shows you what you have explored in the world. Can work together with Xaero's Minimap.
ImmediatelyFast
Speed up immediate mode rendering in Minecraft
Puzzles Lib
Why is it called Puzzles? That's the puzzle.
CreativeCore
a core mod
Quark
A Quark is a very small thing. This mod is a collection of small things that improve the vanilla minecraft experience.
Better Advancements
Successor to BetterAchievements for the new advancements system in minecraft 1.12+
Sophisticated Backpacks
Yet another backpack mod this time with backpack you can place in world, color in different color combinations, upgrade...
Kotlin for Forge
Adds a Kotlin language loader and provides some optional utilities.
Not Enough Animations
Bringing first-person animations to the third-person
Supplementaries
Vanilla+ additions: Jars, signposts, faucets, weather vanes spring launchers, sconces, planters, lights, decoration and...
AttributeFix
Removes arbitrary limits on Minecraft's attribute system.
Polymorph (Fabric/Forge/Quilt)
No more recipe conflicts! Adds an option to choose the crafting result if more than one is available.
[EMF] Entity Model Features [Fabric & Forge]
EMF is an, OptiFine format, Custom Entity Model replacement mod available for Fabric and Forge.
Carry On
Carry On allows you to pick up Tile Entities and Mobs and carry them around!
Create
Aesthetic Technology that empowers the Player
Sophisticated Core
Library mod for Sophisticated mods
Citadel
A Lightweight Library
YUNG's API (Forge/NeoForge)
A library mod for YUNG's Minecraft mods
SuperMartijn642's Config Lib
Config Lib makes dealing with config files just a bit easier.
Iron Chests
Iron Chest mod
Resourceful Lib
Lib for Team Resourceful and more
Searchables
Searchables is a library mod that adds helper methods that allow for searching and filtering elements based on component...
Oculus
Unofficial Fork of "Iris", made to work with FML
Iceberg [Neo/Forge]
A modding library that contains new events, helpers, and utilities to make modder's lives easier.
TerraBlender (Forge)
A library mod for adding biomes in a simple and compatible manner!
Rhino
A fork of Mozilla's Rhino library, modified for use in mods
playerAnimator
player animation library
Lootr (Forge & NeoForge)
A mod that makes it so nobody misses out on Loot! All loot chests are instanced per player and visually unique.
Complementary Shaders - Unbound
Transforming the visuals of Minecraft with exceptional quality, detail, and performance.
KubeJS
Edit recipes, add new custom items, script world events, all in JavaScript!
NetherPortalFix
Ensures correct destinations when traveling back and forth through Nether Portals in Multiplayer.
Embeddium
A powerful, mod-friendly, FOSS client performance mod for NeoForge
Mekanism
High-tech machinery, powerful energy generation, fancy gadgets and more. Now on Curse!
Caelus API
A coremod and API to provide developers access to elytra flight mechanics through an entity attribute.
Alex's Mobs
85+ New mobs with stylistic quality above the default game.
Chat Heads
See who are you chatting with!
Macaw's Bridges
A simple mod that adds a lot of bridges!
FerriteCore
Memory usage optimizations
Resourceful Config
Resourceful Config is a mod that allows for developers to make crossplatform configs
Artifacts
Adds various treasure items that can be found through exploration
Mekanism Generators
Advanced energy generation for Mekanism.
Chipped
Every block deserves a friend.
YUNG's Better Dungeons (Forge/NeoForge)
A complete redesign of Minecraft's dungeons!
Continuity
A Minecraft mod that allows for efficient connected textures
Handcrafted
Make your house a home!
Fzzy Config
Config API with automatic GUIs, powerful validation options, server-client sync, and more!
Macaw's Doors
Adds vanila doors with every wood color and new unique doors!
Elytra Slot
Adds curio support to the elytra so you can fly and wear chest armor at the same time. Formerly known as Curious Elytra.
Macaw's Windows
Adds lots of Windows, Mosaic Glass, Blinds, Shutters, Curtains and more..!
YUNG's Better Strongholds (Forge/NeoForge)
A complete redesign of Minecraft's strongholds
Macaw's Fences and Walls
Adds new vanila styled fences, walls and gates!
Fusion (Connected Textures)
Fusion allows resource packs to use additional texture and model types such as connected textures!
Amendments
Cauldron Potion Mixing, Lanterns Animation, Carpeted Stairs, Candle Skulls, Double Cakes, Better Lilypads and much more
Cristel Lib
A Library mod for easy structure config and runtime datapacks.
Mowzie's Mobs
Powerful overworld enemies and more!
Towns and Towers
Spice up your world with new villages, pillager outposts, and even new ships!
Mekanism Tools
Powerful tools and armor for Mekanism.
Prism [Neo/Forge]
A library all about color! Provides lots of color-related functionality for dependent mods.
BSL Shaders
Shaderpack for Minecraft: Java Edition. It's bright, colorful, and distinct.
Ars Nouveau
Craft custom spells, summon magical servants, and make powerful wearables and tools!
VeinMiner
VeinMiner
ShatterLib | OctoLib
Collection of shared code for Shatterbyte mods
BetterF3
A mod that provides a highly customizable, more human-readable Debug HUD.
Ice and Fire: Dragons
Dragons and Mythical creatures in minecraft.
Explorer's Compass
Explorer's Compass is an item that allows you to locate structures anywhere in the world.
Legendary Tooltips [Neo/Forge]
Give your rare items a fancier tooltip! Also adds additional tooltip configuration options.
Deeper and Darker
Deep Dark expansion mod adding new mobs, items, blocks and a new dimension.
YUNG's Better Ocean Monuments (Forge/NeoForge)
A complete redesign of Minecraft's ocean monuments!
YUNG's Better Nether Fortresses (Forge/NeoForge)
A complete redesign of Minecraft's Nether fortresses!
[ETF] Entity Texture Features
Emissive, Random & Custom texture support for entities in resourcepacks just like Optifine but for Fabric
Iron Furnaces
Inspired by cpw's Iron Chests, this mod introduces a variety of new furnaces to the game.
Silent Lib (silentlib)
Library to make writing and maintaining mods easier.
GraveStone Mod
Places a gravestone with your inventory items inside when you die
Sodium/Embeddium Options API
Config API for adding Sodium/Embeddium options with a better categories menu
Terralith
A 1.18+ overworld expansion for Fabric and Forge, with tons of new biomes and caves!
Creeper Overhaul
A mod which overhauls the vanilla creepers!
YUNG's Better End Island (Forge/NeoForge)
An overhaul of the main End Island where the dragon fight takes place!
Easy Magic
Enchanting tables as they always should have been! Items stay after closing, and easy re-rolls.
SmartBrainLib (Forge/Fabric/Quilt)
A smarter brain system for Minecraft
YUNG's Better Witch Huts (Forge/NeoForge)
Adds overhauled witch huts to swamps!
Lionfish API
Very Light Animation API
Easy Anvils
Overhauled anvils with stored items, fairer costs, and no more frustrating repair penalties.
Forgified Fabric API
Fabric API implemented on top of NeoForge
Zeta
Comprehensive Load-Bearing Library for Modular Mods
YUNG's Better Jungle Temples (Forge/NeoForge)
A complete redesign of Minecraft's jungle temples!
3D Skin Layers
Render the player skin layer in 3d!
Not Enough Recipe Book [NERB]
Completely removes recipe book from the game, optimizing player data.
EMI
Featureful and accessible modern item and recipe viewer with JEI compatibility
Explorify – Dungeons & Structures
A simplistic, vanilla-friendly collection of new structures.
YUNG's Extras (Forge/NeoForge)
Extra structures, features, and vanilla+ content suitable for any modpack
libIPN
Gui/Config Libarary for Inventory Profiles Next and related mods
JamLib
The platform-agnostic, Architectury based library used in all of JamCoreModding's mods
Iron's Spells 'n Spellbooks
A magic mod bringing back the classic RPG spellcasting fantasy.
Tom's Simple Storage Mod
Simple vanilla style storage mod
RightClickHarvest
Allows you to harvest crops by right clicking
MVS - Moog's Voyager Structures
160+ structures made with vanilla blocks and entities bringing life to your world! Discover loot, enemies, & villagers a...
Easy Villagers
Never get annoyed by villagers again!
AzureLib
Java Minecraft mod using Bedrock models to create custom models and animations for items, blocks, entities
Trading Post
Rule the village! Trade with every villager at once!
Relics
Just a mod about useful items with unique mechanics :3
Naturalist Lite
Adds 47 animals *(and 66 variants)* to your world with immersive behaviors and drops.
Simply Swords [Fabric & Forge]
Adds Spears, Glaives, Chakrams, Katanas, Greathammer/axes, Rapiers, and many more weapons!
Smarter Farmers (farmers replant)
Allows villagers to replant the correct seed & allows them to use modded ones
Durability Tooltip
Durability Tooltip shows you the durability of an item!
Obscure API (Forge)
Auxiliary Library
Shulker Box Tooltip [Fabric/Forge/NeoForge]
What's in my shulker box?
Aquamirae (Forge)
Ship graveyard with terrible deep sea creatures!
Chloride (Embeddium++/Sodium++)
Gives to Sodium (and Embeddium for 1.20.1) additional Performance and Quality features for a tasteful experience
MemoryLeakFix
A mod that fixes random memory leaks for both the client and server
Regions Unexplored
A stack of new biomes spread across the Overworld and Nether!
CIT Resewn
Re-implements MCPatcher's CIT (custom item textures from optifine resource packs)
[Let's Do] Vinery
Sun-warmed vineyards, creaking barrels and dusty bottles in a cool cellar. Grow your grapes, press your own wine and bui...
ItemPhysic Full
#enhancedphysics
[Let's Do] API
A Library for Forge and Fabric with utilities such as Render Features, Recipe Books and Wood API
Enderman Overhaul
A mod which overhauls the vanilla enderman!
Bookshelf
An open source library for other mods!
Friends&Foes (Forge/NeoForge)
Adds outvoted and forgotten mobs from the mob vote, expanding on their original concepts and adding new vanilla-like fea...
Embeddium (Rubidium) Extra
Port of Sodium Extra to work with Embeddium/Rubidium on (Neo)Forge
Alex's Caves
Explore five new rare cave biomes hidden under the surface of the Overworld...
Remove Reloading Screen
Makes resource packs load in the background, allowing you to do other things while waiting!
Cubes Without Borders
A mod that allows you to play Minecraft in a borderless fullscreen window.
Villages&Pillages
Structure mod that brings an exciting twist to Minecraft by introducing hostile and unfriendly pillages, providing a thr...
Moonlight Lib
dynamic data pack and registration, villager activities, custom map marker and a lot more
Cut Through
Cleanly swing through transparent blocks like tall grass to hit mobs without breaking said block.
Trade Cycling
Refresh villager trades without needing to break workstations.
Presence Footsteps (Forge)
An unofficial port of Presence Footsteps from Fabric to Forge
Majrusz Library
Library with common code for some of my modifications.
Advanced Netherite (Forge / NeoForge)
A configurable, vanilla friendly, open-source mod that adds in more tiers of Netherite!
Supplementaries Squared
The extra content of Supplementaries that doesn't necessarily fit in the base mod!
Nyf's Spiders
Modifes spiders to be more realistic.
Scaling Health
Change player/mob health and more! Spiritual successor to Difficult Life.
Moog's Structure Lib (moogs_structures)
This is a library mod for the Moogs Structure series
EMI Loot
A loot drop (chest, block, entity) plugin for the EMI Recipe and Item viewer.
Model Gap Fix
Fixes gaps in Block Models and Item Models
Mekanism Additions
Additions module for Mekanism, contains things that don't quite fit in the other modules.
Item Borders [Neo/Forge]
Add colored borders to inventory slots to make your rare items stand out!
More Mob Variants
Adds new variants to existing mobs.
Icarus
Adds a bunch of colourful and unique wings that can be worn in the Trinkets/Curios Cape slot.
Polytone
Custom Block Sounds, Colors, Lightmaps, Colormaps, Post Shaders, Custom Item Models, Biome Variant Textures, Gui modifi...
Enchanting Infuser
An all-new enchanting table for choosing your enchantments at fair prices without the randomness.
Ribbits
Swamp villages and musical frogs!
Common Network
Forge and Fabric Unified Networking Solution
EMI Enchanting
EMI Plugin that gives basic enchantment information; valid items, exlcusions, etc.
The Lost Castle [NeoForge/Fabric]
A gigantic castle that once was the home of a long forgotten civilization
Sinytra Connector
Run your favourite Fabric mods on NeoForge
[Let's Do] Beachparty
Get your suncream out, we're going to the beach! Beachparty overhauls minecrafts Beach Biome for an all new experience.
Athena
A crossplatform (Forge/Fabric) solution to connected block textures for 1.19.4+
Freecam
A highly customizable freecam mod.
Dungeons and Taverns
A Structure Datapack adding dungeons, taverns and other structures to find while you explore the world.
YUNG's Better Mineshafts
A long-awaited and much-needed abandoned mineshaft overhaul!
Legendary Monsters
Adds middle game and late game bosses to the base game
[Let's Do] Meadow
Hey Wanderer! Sit down, enjoy a piece of cheese, and take a look at the new mountain pasture - cliffs, beautiful forests...
Client Sort
Versatile and easy inventory sorting.
EMI Ores
Easily view ore generation information from inside EMI.
Easy Shulker Boxes
Supercharge shulker boxes with browsing, inserting and extracting contents directly from your inventory.
Chunky
A small mod that adds chunky pigs!
Sodium Dynamic Lights
Multiloader port of LambDynLights that adds Sodium options integration
L_Ender's Cataclysm
Cataclysm is a mod that adds difficult dungeons, challenging boss-fights and powerful items.
WI Zoom
The zoom from the Wurst Client as a standalone mod.
Wavey Capes
The cape shouldn't be a static slab
Village Spawn Point
🏙 Sets the spawn point in a new world to the center of a village.
Stack Refill
📚 Automatically refills the player's hand when using the final item if a replacement exists.
Resourcify
In-game resource pack, data pack and shader browser and updater
[Let's Do] Farm & Charm
The farm calls: Experience the art of advanced agriculture and farmhouse cuisine! Use mincers, cooking pots, as well as...
Smooth Swapping
Moves items smoothly in inventories
Jupiter
A powerful, auto sync config library.
Eating Animation
A mod that adds sprite animations for edible and drinkable items.
Uranus
A Library contains animation engine, object helper and so on. Partly based on LLibrary and Citadel.
Celestisynth: Wishes and Hells
A Minecraft mod with celestial weapons and stunning visuals for enhanced gameplay.
FallingTree
Break down your trees by only cutting one piece of it
IceAndFire Community Edition
The community version of mod Ice and Fire
EMIffect
EMI addon that appends status effects in EMI and provides information about each status effect.
Villager Names
🧑🌾 Gives all villager entities a default or custom name to liven up the world.
MaFgLib
MaLiLib unofficial forge port. Library mod for the Forge port of masa's mods.
AddonsLib
A library to facilitate registration between mods, in particular macaw's bridges/roofs/fences/etc...
Elytra Trims
Lightweight and customizable support for elytra trims, patterns and dyes
Macaw's Regions Unexplored
A compatibility between Macaw's Mods and the different woods of Regions Unexplored
[Let's Do] NetherVinery (unsupported)
NetherVinery is an Addon all about the Nether for Vinery.
[Let's Do Addon] EMI Compat
EMI compat with all of the Let's do series
VillagersPlus
A villager extension mod, adding new villager types, trades and beautiful workstations.
[Let's Do] HerbalBrews
It's Tea Time! Brew Tea, Coffee and Flasks.
Animal Feeding Trough
Mobs self feed with feeding trough
Low Fire
Lower your first-person fire to enhance visibility!
Lighty
The Light Overlay Mod with a twist!
Infinite Trading
♾ Prevents villager trades from locking up, making them always available. Trade away!
[Let's Do] Candlelight - Farm&Charm compat
Welcome to Candlelight! This version was made for improved compat with [Let's Do] Farm & Charm
Chipped Express
Mod addon for Chipped to allow to craft ANY recipe with stonecutter
Tarot Cards
Adds the 22 Major Arcana tarot cards with unique passive bonuses
[Let's Do] Bakery - Farm&Charm Compat
Bake many variations of Bread, Cupcakes and Cakes! Eatable, placeable. This version was made for improved compat with [...
[Let's Do] Brewery - Farm&Charm Compat
Welcome to the Brewfest! This version was made for improved compat with [Let's Do] Farm & Charm
EMI Trades
Villager trading for EMI.
Bulk Villager Trading
Bulk Villager Trading. Automatically Re-Stocks the trade UI after shift-click.
EMI Enchants
EMI addon to view enchantment information
Jade Addons (Neo/Forge)
Jade 🔍's additional mod supports for Neo/Forge
Looot
Random item name generators and other loot table utilities
EMI professions (EMIP)
An EMI addon that adds profession workstations
Mob Player Animator
An add-on mod to Player Animator that allows it to work with humanoid mobs.
Tweakerge
Tweakeroo unofficial forge port. A client-side Minecraft mod that adds various "tweaks" (= usually small-ish individual...
Dungeons and Taverns Ancient City Overhaul
Standalone Splinter version of Dungeons and Taverns Ancient City Overhaul
Cataclysm: Spellbooks
An addon for Iron's Spells and Spellbooks and L_Ender's Cataclysm
Map Distance Fix
A simple mod that shows a player indicator instead of a white dot when outside map boundaries.
Pufferfish's Attributes
An Addon to Reskillable
More Hitboxes
Library mod that adds support for multiple hitboxes that can optionally be controlled by GeckoLib animations
Hold My Items - Reforged
A client-side Forge mod that makes holding items feel immersive and real.
[Let's Do Addon] Corn Expansion
A corn overhaul for Farm&Charm
Vocal Villagers
Adds 43 extra sounds villagers can make! Maintain the vanilla feel while making villages more lively.
Iron's Spells 'n Spellbooks Dynamic Skill Trees
This mod adds 4 dynamic skill trees for Iron's Spells 'n Spellbooks in RPG style through Pufferfish's Skills
Iron Shulker Boxes
Iron shulker boxes, formerly in Iron Chests
ClickThrough Plus
Click through Signs and Item Frames to Chests and other containers - a port of ClickThrough to modern versions.
Mob AI Tweaks
Tweaks certain mob AIs, major or minor. Reworks the Wither and Ender Dragon boss fights!
Archery Expansion
Adds progression to bows and arrows in Minecraft!
Book of Dragons
Dragons and more from the Dreamworks Dragons universe!
EMI: Create Schematics
Add schematic items to EMI Favourites list
Artifacts crafting
Implements crafting recipes for Artifacts mod
Infinity With Mending
Give you the ability to combine Infinity with Mending
Quality Equipment
Introduces a wide variety of reforges for all types of equipment
UI Lib
A user interface library for Minecraft modding.
Charms
A compact mod that adds charms with potion effects on them. Usable by holding in your off hand or by putting them in cra...
Pommel - Held Item Models
Allows resource pack creators to overwrite the models for held items just like the spyglass and trident
Majrusz's Enchantments
Mod that adds plenty of unique and balanced enchantments to the game.
Create: FastSchematicCannon
A mod for make schematic cannon more fast and fix cannon delay from server.
Regions Unexplored: Expansion
Remodels vanilla biomes to match the look of Regions Unexplored biomes
Fossils and Archeology: Revival
The mod offers a variety of dinosaurs that are brought back to life through discovering bones, extracting DNA, creating...
Tiny Mob Farm Remastered
Single-block size mob farms that makes mob farming neater and easier.
Magic Circles - ISAS Addon
Iron's Spells 'n Spellbook addon that makes magic circles to appear when casting magic!
Simply Swords: Cataclysm
Addon for Simply Swords that adds compatibility with L_Ender's Cataclysm.
Exline's Wool to String
craft string from wool!
Fusion Connected Glass
Makes glass textures connect
Hide Item Frame
Hide the frame if it contains an item
Dynamic Lights
An OPTIMIZED server-side datapack/mod that brings dynamic lights to your world!
Fusion Connected Blocks
Makes textures from many blocks connect
Fusion Block Transitions
Adds transitions between natural blocks
Fusion Emissive Ores
Makes ores look emissive
Fusion 3D Items
Replaces many item textures with 3D models