Dawn of the Flood
Modpackby FLAMEBRINGER808
Dawn of the Flood is a performance-optimized survival modpack for Minecraft 1.20.1, focused on a hostile flooded world, smarter enemies, environmental danger, and long-term immersive gameplay for singleplayer and servers.
Description
⚠️ WHEN DOWNLOADING IN CURSEFORGE, IT AUTOMATICALLY DOWNLOADS THE SERVER-FRIENDLY VERSION! SO MANUALLY DOWNLOAD THE SINGLE-PLAYER VERSION!
🌊 Dawn of the Flood
Dawn of the Flood is an immersive, performance-optimized survival modpack for Minecraft 1.20.1 (Forge), set in a ruined, flood-scarred world where exploration is dangerous, nights are hostile, and long-term survival depends on preparation and adaptation.
The world is reshaped by massive continents, abandoned cities, environmental decay, and seasonal changes. Progression is slower and more deliberate, encouraging exploration, base defense, food planning, and cooperation rather than rushing endgame content. The pack is designed to remain stable and smooth for extended singleplayer worlds and multiplayer servers.
⚙️ Performance, Stability & Optimization
This modpack prioritizes smooth gameplay and long-term stability through extensive optimization and engine improvements, making it suitable for large worlds and servers without sacrificing atmosphere or visuals.
🌍 Exploration, Survival & Immersion
Players will explore vast continents, flooded ruins, and hostile environments while managing food quality, seasons, darkness, and smarter enemies. Quality-of-life features, storage solutions, maps, and multiplayer voice communication are included to support both solo and cooperative play.
📦 Final Mod List (Minecraft 1.20.1 – Forge)
AI & Gameplay:
AI Improvements
Bad Mobs
Hardcore Revival
LifeSteal
Nyctophobia
Indestructible Blocks
Enhanced Celestials
MineTraps
Dawn of the Flood
Enhanced Falling Trees
Shielded Zombies
Zombies With Bows
Zombies With Ender Pearls
Zombies With Fishing Rods
Zombies With TNT
TaCZ
Time Control
World Generation & Environment:
Lost Cities
Continents
TerraBlender
Better Forests
Serene Seasons
Immersive Weathering
Structure Essentials
Structure Gel API
Food, Farming & Survival:
Farmer’s Delight
Farmer’s Respite
Large Meals
Comforts
Butchery
AppleSkin
Storage, Building & Utilities:
Sophisticated Backpacks
Sophisticated Core
Refurbished Furniture
SecurityCraft
Gravestone
Lootr
Curios API
The Jobs Mod
WorldEdit
Configurable Despawn Timer
Maps, UI & Quality of Life:
JEI (Just Enough Items)
Just Enough Resources
Just Enough Professions
Jade
Better Advancements
Controlling
Mouse Tweaks
Searchables
Keybind Bundles
Overloaded Armor Bar
Xaero’s Minimap
Xaero’s World Map
Day Counter
Multiplayer & Communication:
Simple Voice Chat
Walkie-Talkie
Skin Restorer
Performance & Optimization:
Embeddium
Rubidium Extra
Oculus
ModernFix
FerriteCore
Starlight
Entity Culling
ImmediatelyFast
Krypton Reforged
Saturn
Radium
C2ME
Bad Optimizations
Fast Furnace
Fast Workbench
Fast Suite
Clumps
Dynamic FPS
FPS Boost
Cull Less Leaves Reforged
Better FPS Distance
Bobby
Visual, Audio & Replay:
Dynamic Lights
Continuity
Entity Texture Features
Entity Model Features
Drip Sounds
Ok Zoomer
Dynamic Crosshair
Distant Horizons
ReForgedPlay
Libraries & Dependencies:
AAA Particles
Architectury
Balm
Blueprint
Citadel
Cloth Config
Clockwork
Collective
Common Networking
Connector
CoroUtil
CraftTweaker
CristelLib
CorgiLib
Cupboard
Data Anchor
Fabridge
Framework
GeckoLib
GlitchCore
Iceberg
Kotlin for Forge
Moonlight
Placebo
Prism
Puzzles Lib
Resourceful Lib
Resourceful Config
TCT Core
TenshiLib
Atlas Lib
AstemirLib
Argonauts
Bocchium
Burnt
Cadmus
Fabric API (Connector usage)
Flame’s Zombie Lib
Packet Fixer
🎯 Intended Experience
Dawn of the Flood is built for players who want:
Immersive, atmospheric survival
Exploration-driven progression
Balanced difficulty without excessive tech or magic
Strong performance and stability
Long-term singleplayer or multiplayer gameplay
The flood has already come.
How long you survive is up to you.
Compatibility
Mod Loaders
Game Versions
Recommended Gear
AffiliateHardware and extras that pair well with this modpack.
Minecraft Enderman Character Plush
Enderman plush toys, and a reliable gift for a younger player.
LEGO Minecraft Set
Official sets that translate the building side of the game off-screen.
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Contained Mods (151)
[TaCZ] Timeless and Classics Zero Guns
The most Immersive and Customizable modern FPS experience in Minecraft - A complete Remaster of the TaC gun mod by the o...
Moonlight Lib
Forge and Fabric lightweight library with utilities such as custom Villagers AI, data driven trades, global datapack, cu...
ModernFix
All-in-one mod that improves performance, reduces memory usage, and fixes many bugs. Compatible with all your favorite p...
Collective
🎓 Collective is a shared library with common code for all of Serilum's mods.
Just Enough Items (JEI)
View Items and Recipes
Just Enough Resources (JER)
A JEI addon that adds mob drops, ore gen, ..
Sophisticated Backpacks
Yet another backpack mod this time with backpack you can place in world, color in different color combinations, upgrade...
Sophisticated Core
Library mod for Sophisticated mods
Curios API (Forge/NeoForge)
A flexible and expandable accessory/equipment API for users and developers.
Particle Rain
replaces the default weather with particle effects
KeyBind Bundles
Do you have too many keybinds but not enough keys? With this mod you create add your own key bundles, collapsing a set o...
Simple Voice Chat
A working voice chat in Minecraft!
[ETF] Entity Texture Features - [Fabric & Forge]
Custom, Emissive and Varied mobs like Optifine and so much more.. +Player skin features!)
CoroUtil
Library Mod for Weather/Tropicraft/ZombieAwareness/etc
Balm
Abstraction Layer for Multi-Loader Mods
Fresh Animations
Make your game like the trailers! Dynamic animated entities to freshen your Minecraft experience.
Fresh Animations: Extensions
A combination of offical extension packs for Fresh Animations
Mellow
Shaderpack with a painterly aesthetic made for people who want to actually play the game. It's easy on your eyes and on...
Common Network
Forge and Fabric Unified Networking Solution
Data Anchor
Simple library mod with helpful data attaching and networking utilities including attaching data to entities, chunks, pl...
Sinytra Connector
Lets you play Fabric mods on NeoForge
Resourceful Lib
Lib for Team Resourceful and more
CraftTweaker
CraftTweaker allows modpacks and servers to customize the game. With CraftTweaker you can change recipes, script events,...
Puzzles Lib
Why is it called Puzzles? That's the puzzle.
Xaero's Minimap
Displays the nearby world terrain, players, mobs, entities in the corner of your screen. Lets you create waypoints which...
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.
Forgified Fabric API
Fabric API implemented on top of NeoForge
Better Advancements
Successor to BetterAchievements for the new advancements system in minecraft 1.12+
Structure Essentials
Essential features for structures: Faster locating, distance adjustments, nearby structure command, automatic structure...
The Lost Cities
The Lost Cities is a world generation mod
MakeUp - Ultra Fast | Shaders
High performance shaders. Gameplay oriented. Lightweight.
AAA Particles
Effekseer loader on minecraft 1.18+
[EMF] Entity Model Features [Fabric & Forge]
EMF is an, OptiFine format, Custom Entity Model replacement mod available for Fabric and Forge.
WorldEdit
In-game Minecraft map editor - build bigger things more quickly!
ImmediatelyFast
Speed up immediate mode rendering in Minecraft
Jade 🔍
Shows information about what you are looking at. (Hwyla/WAILA fork for Minecraft 1.16+)
Placebo
A library mod
Security Craft
Adds plenty of blocks and items to defend and secure your base with.
Iceberg [Neo/Forge]
A modding library that contains new events, helpers, and utilities to make modder's lives easier.
GlitchCore
A library mod aimed at abstracting mod loaders and providing various utilities for our mods.
Kotlin for Forge
Adds a Kotlin language loader and provides some optional utilities.
CorgiLib
A library mod containing code used across Corgi Taco's mods.
Butchery
Realistically butcher everything in Minecraft!
Architectury API
An intermediary api aimed to ease developing multiplatform mods.
Controlling
Adds a search bar to the Key-Bindings menu
Searchables
Searchables is a library mod that adds helper methods that allow for searching and filtering elements based on component...
Entity Culling Fabric/Forge
Using async path-tracing to hide BlockEntities/Entities that are not visible
Resourceful Config
Resourceful Config is a mod that allows for developers to make crossplatform configs
Framework
A common library powering all of MrCrayfish's Mods
TerraBlender (Forge)
A library mod for adding biomes in a simple and compatible manner!
AI Improvements
Performance and logic upgrades for mod AIs
GraveStone Mod
Places a gravestone with your inventory items inside when you die
Distant Horizons: A Level of Detail mod
Massively increase render distance without harming performance.
Lootr (Forge & NeoForge)
A mod that makes it so nobody misses out on Loot! All loot chests are instanced per player and visually unique.
TenshiLib (Forge/NeoForge)
Core and Library mod for my other projects
Cloth Config API (Fabric/Forge/NeoForge)
Config Screen API for Minecraft
Prism [Neo/Forge]
A library all about color! Provides lots of color-related functionality for dependent mods.
GeckoLib
A 3D animation library for entities, blocks, items, armor, and more!
Serene Seasons
Seasons with changing colors, shifting temperatures, and more!
Mouse Tweaks
Enhances inventory management by adding various functions to the mouse buttons.
Packet Fixer
A simple mod to solve various problems with packets, NBTs and timeouts.
Cristel Lib
A Library mod for easy structure config and runtime datapacks.
AppleSkin
Adds some useful information about food/hunger to the HUD
Just Enough Professions (JEP)
A JEI addon that adds profession workstations
Dynamic FPS
Improve performance when Minecraft is in the background
Dynamic Crosshair
A Minecraft mod that hides or changes the crosshair dependent on context
Clumps
Clumps XP orbs together to reduce lag
Hardcore Revival
Help your friends back up after they die (if you can make it in time)
Cupboard
Cupboard provides code, frameworks, and utilities for minecraft mods
Continuity
A Minecraft mod that allows for efficient connected textures
BadOptimizations
Optimization mod that focuses on things other than rendering
Complementary Shaders - Unbound
Transforming the visuals of Minecraft with exceptional quality, detail, and performance.
Structure Gel API
An API for simplifying the developer end of creating generated structures.
Blueprint
Library that implements the framework of all Abnormals mods!
Farmer's Delight
A cozy expansion to farming and cooking!
Enhanced Celestials - Blood, Blue, & Harvest (Super) Moons
A mod adding new Lunar Events like blood moons and harvest moons!
Citadel
A Lightweight Library
MrCrayfish's Furniture Mod: Refurbished
The next generation of MrCrayfish's Furniture Mod, redesigned from the ground up with new models, sounds, and more!
Better Fps - Render Distance[Forge]
Better FPS Render Distance is a mod which adds a few performance improvements to increase fps.
Comforts
Adds sleeping bags and hammocks for, respectively, portability and turning day to night, without setting new spawns. Com...
FastWorkbench
A performance upgrade for the crafting table.
FastFurnace
A performance upgrade for the furnace.
FastSuite
A performance upgrade for the JSON recipe system.
Configurable Despawn Timer
✏️ Allows items and experience orbs to remain longer, shorter or infinitely on the ground.
Short Sword
Experience a clearer view and smoother swings!
Farmer's Respite
Tea addon for Farmer's Delight
Atlas Lib
A serialzation and math libary for minecraft mods.
Indestructible Blocks
A server utility that allows you to make any block you want indestructible.
Flowing Fluids
Gives fluids realistic flowing physics, making them mostly finite. With various settings for performance, visuals, and g...
Skin Restorer
A server-side mod for managing and restoring player skins.
Continents
Explore the seas to find realistic continents & islands. Works with most mods!
Overloaded Armor Bar
Allows the armor bar to wrap and change color with better than diamond armor
Lifesteal [Fabric/NeoForge/Forge]
Lifesteal is a mod where killing other players steals their hearts for your own gain
FerriteCore ((Neo)Forge)
Memory usage optimizations
TCT Core
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Spooklementary
A Spooky, very moody and atmospheric Complementary Shaders Edit
AstemirLib
Library for my old mods.
MineTraps
This mod adds several new traps to the game!
Burnt: Better Vanilla Fire
The Vanilla fire enhancing mod with ADDED EXTRAS
Bocchium
Forge port of Bedrodium, culling bedrock sides for better performance.
Bad Mobs
A mod to blacklist mobs from spawning.
Embeddium (Rubidium) Extra
Port of Sodium Extra to work with Embeddium/Rubidium on (Neo)Forge
Saturn
A performance mod designed to optimize Minecraft's memory usage.
Embeddium
A powerful, mod-friendly, FOSS client performance mod for NeoForge
Immersive Weathering [FORGE]
An abundance of new natural systems to make your world feel more alive than ever.
Oculus
Unofficial Fork of "Iris", made to work with FML
Radium Reforged
Unofficial Fork of CaffeineMC's "Lithium", made to work with FML
🎃 Insanity Shader
A highly customizable horror styled Minecraft shaderpack based on BSL.
Odyssey Allies
Form a guild to live and work together with your friends. Form a party to fight and adventure together with allies. Chat...
Odyssey Claims
A land claiming mod that allows users to claim land to protect your home from thieves, bandits and monsters, and admins...
Walkie-Talkie
Adds two-way radios with different upgrades.
Time Control
Want longer or shorter in-game days/nights? So did I.
CullLessLeaves Reforged (Unofficial)
Gives you a 9% fps improvement for leaves rendering
Starlight (Forge)
Rewrites the light engine to fix lighting performance and lighting errors
Tissou's Zombie Pack
This turns all undead to deadly horrifying walker-like creatures.
Krypton Reforged
Unofficial Forge Port of the server networking performance mod "Krypton"
[LEGACY] Drip Sounds (Forge)
Forge mod that adds sounds for drip particles landing
Bobby Reforged
Allows for render distances greater than the server's view-distance setting
ClockworkLib
Small and easy to use library that will be used in all of our projects.
Fabridge
Fabridge is a core mod that does stuff on Forge with the trick that it works like Fabric
Large Meals (An Add-on for Farmer's Delight)
A Farmer's Delight addon that adds new and creative recipes to the game.
Dynamic Lights [Server] [Fabric/Quilt/Forge/NeoForge]
Supported entities and items such as torches or lanterns emit light!
ReForgedPlay [replay mod on (neo)forge]
Replay mod port to (neo)forge! Record your adventures in minecraft
Ok Zoomer Forge
Adds a highly-configurable zoom key for Forge. The zoom is yours!
Enhanced Falling Trees
Ensure that trees topple in a lifelike manner when they are felled.
Fresh Animations: Player Extension
Animates players in Fresh Animations' style. An official FA extension.
Nyctophobia (FORGE)
Spooky and scary new biomes
Fresh Animations: Details
Adds an assortment of extra details to mobs for Fresh Animations. An official FA extension.
Fresh Animations: Emissive
Makes some Fresh Animations' textures emit light. An official FA extension.
FPS Boost
Want to optimize your game and improve performance? This mods is for you
Dawn of the Flood - "Rising Tides"
This game changing minecraft mod adds the horrific flood virus from the original halo franchise into the game! Prepare y...
Fresh Animations: Quivers
Gives skeletons quivers, compatible with Fresh Animations. An official FA extension.
Fresh Animations: Spiders
Overhauls the design of spiders with Fresh Animations. An official FA extension.
Better Forests
Fills Minecraft forest biomes with beautiful and varying trees.
CTR VCR
Retro stylized shader that brings artifacts from CRT and VCR / VHS
Glowing Emissive Ores
Adds emissive ore textures to 314 mods and vanilla, no other resource pack supports as many! Updates add additional mod...
Day Counter (Original) for 1.16 - 1.21.10!
This datapack/mod add text on top of your hotbar that will count the day realtime.
The Jobs Mod
Jobs Mod lets admins create custom jobs and assign them to players. Each job grants passive effects and item enchantment...
Fresh Animations: Objects
Animates non-mob entities in Fresh Animations' style. An official FA extension.
Fresh Animations: Creepers
New look for creepers, compatible with Fresh Animations. An official FA extension.
Low Fire Pack
Lower your first-person fire to enhance visibility!
Classic Glint
Brings back the old enchantment glint from 1.19.3!
Glowing
Use Optifine/ConnectedTextureMod/Vanilla(CoreShaders) format to make some things glow or emissive for vanilla.
Powdered Snow+
Enhances the visibility of powdered snows.
Zombies With Fishing Rods
Think you're safe on that rooftop? Think again. Zombies can now wield Fishing Rods, hook players from a distance, and dr...
FLAME's Zombie Lib
FLAME's Zombie Lib is a lightweight library that provides shared systems for zombie-focused mods, including dynamic equi...
Small Totem Animation
Make your totem "pop" animation smaller for less obtrusiveness!
Zombies With TNT
Zombies With TNT gives zombies the ability to wield, ignite, and throw TNT at their targets. Configure spawn chances and...
Zombies With Enderpearls
Zombies that can use Ender Pearls to teleport toward their targets.
Zombies With Bows+
Gives zombies, husks, drowned, and other undead a chance to spawn with bows or crossbows, complete with configurable enc...
Shielded Zombies
Zombies can now spawn with shields and actually block attacks! Configure shield spawn chances, enchantments, Unbreaking,...