The Ancient Dawn LITE
Modpackby Apotheotic_Studios
Forge 1.20.1 | A LITE prehistoric adventure with quests, dinosaurs, overhauled world gen, and more.
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A Prehistoric Adventure

✔️ Hundreds of Prehistoric Creatures
✔️ Overhauled world generation, explore ancient lands of high mountains and deep oceans
✔️ Quests, to guide you through the age of giants
✔️ Unique mechanics to slay and revive ancient wildlife (Unusual Prehistory, ShineaL's Prehistoric Expansion, Prehistoric Fauna)
✔️ New bosses, to face on your adventure (Alex's Caves, Legendary Monsters)
✔️ Natural disasters, such as Meteor Showers (Skyfall)
✔️ Tons of new biomes, and overhauled caves (BYG, Terralith, YUNG's Cave Biomes)
The Ancient Dawn LITE is a prehistoric-themed RPG and adventure modpack packed with hundreds of ancient mobs, items, and immersive world changes. Experience completely overhauled landscapes with towering trees, deep caverns, and colossal mountains, all sprawling with naturally spawning prehistoric creatures. Engage with unique scientific mechanics that let you study and interact with these ancient beasts. Journey through time-worn lands and skies, uncovering new structures, secrets, and monsters to slay.
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Collective
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Patchouli
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Kotlin for Forge
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AttributeFix
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FTB Library (NeoForge)
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Sophisticated Core
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Citadel
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FTB Quests (NeoForge)
Questing Mod by FTB
FTB Teams (NeoForge)
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FerriteCore ((Neo)Forge)
Memory usage optimizations
YUNG's API (Forge/NeoForge)
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SuperMartijn642's Config Lib
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Resourceful Lib
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Cupboard
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Melody
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Iceberg [Neo/Forge]
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TerraBlender (Forge)
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Cosmetic Armor Reworked
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playerAnimator
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Toast Control
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Embeddium
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CoroUtil
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Alex's Mobs
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Aquaculture 2
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Connectivity
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Resourceful Config
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Artifacts
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FTB XMod Compat
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Configured
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Better Compatibility Checker
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Structure Gel API
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Fusion (Connected Textures)
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Server Performance - Smooth Chunk Save[Forge/Fabric]
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Prism [Neo/Forge]
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Kiwi 🥝 (Neo/Forge)
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FTB Ultimine (Forge)
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Explorer's Compass
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Advancement Plaques [Neo/Forge]
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FastSuite
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Tom's Simple Storage Mod
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Let Me Despawn
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Chunk Sending[Forge/Fabric]
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FPS Reducer
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Almost Unified
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Neruina - Ticking Entity Fixer
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TxniLib
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Recipe Essentials[Forge/Fabric]
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Relics
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Fast Async World Save[Forge/Fabric]
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Double Doors
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Clickable advancements[Forge/Fabric]
Click advancement in chat to open its location. Helps players getting into different mods
Max Health Fix
Fixes a bug with max health in Minecraft.
Paxi (Forge)
Global data & resource packs made easy.
Clean Swing Through Grass
Hit your Enemies even in Grass
Chloride (Embeddium++/Sodium++)
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HammerLib
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Particle Core
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Oh The Biomes We've Gone
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Client Crafting
Clientside crafting without network delay
Almanac Lib
A loader independent library containing shared code reused between mods and a fix for empty nbt issues.
Oh The Trees You'll Grow
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bad packets
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Alex's Caves
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Krypton Reforged
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Canary
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You Shall Not Spawn! (Modpack Utils Series)
JSON based entity blacklisting. Disable spawning for any entity from any mod.
DEUF - Duplicate Entity UUID Fix
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MonoLib
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WITS (What Is This Structure?)
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Eclectic Trove (Legendary Tooltips)
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Enhanced Boss Bars
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Item Borders [Neo/Forge]
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Medieval Music[Forge/Fabric]
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Sky Villages [Forge]
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Better chunk loading[Forge/Fabric]
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Farmers Structures
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Inventory Tweaks - ReFoxed
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Fresh Waystones Texture
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Mobtimizations - Entity Performance Fixes
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YUNG's Cave Biomes (Forge/NeoForge)
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FullStack Watchdog
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Dimensional Sync Fixes
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GroovyModLoader (GML)
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Quests Freeze Fix
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Loot Journal: Pickup Notifier (Forge)
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River Redux
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Explosive Enhancement: Reforged
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DespawnTweaker
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Exotic Birds
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Bocchium
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Sky Villages - Supplementaries Compat
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Sky Villages - Waystones Compat
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Sky Villages - Farmer's Delight Compat
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Lodestone
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FTB Quests Optimizer
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Legendary Tabs
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Bigger Trees
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Lucky's Spelunker's Charm II
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Stellar View
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