Arcane Colony: The Tinker’s Age
Modpackby someaddon
Build your colony in a world full of magic and tech tinkering
Description

Build your empire. Master magic. Tinker with technology.
Arcane Colony: The Tinker’s Age, is a modpack with focus on exploration, building a colony with Minecolonies and tinkering with tech and magic.
Explore a rich and carefully curated world blending town building, magic, machinery, and monster-slaying, all tied together by exploration, discovery, and progression. The pack is optimized to run well on client and server.
Key Features
🛠 Tinkering & Tech
Harness the power of Tinker's Construct, Railcraft, and Immersive Engineering to build complex contraptions, forge modular golems, fly with Immersive Aircraft, and defend your base with force fields.

Deep Magic Systems
Grow nature spirits with Roots Classic and Nature’s Aura, or study spellbooks and rituals with Iron’s Spells ‘n Spellbooks, Wizard’s Reborn, and the all time classic revived Enchanted: Witchcraft. Multiple magic systems coexist and interact, giving you tools to shape the world — or destroy it.

Combat & Loot Overhaul
Challenge Brutal Bosses and L_Ender 's Cataclysm monsters for legendary loot. Collect Nameless Trinkets, gear up in Immersive Armors, and master Spartan Shields and Fantasy Armor with unique traits and Trim Effects.

🌍 Exploration & Structures
Adventure through massive, handcrafted dungeons from When Dungeons Arise, taverns and towns from Dungeons and Taverns, and overhauled vanilla structures by Yung’s Better Structures and explore nether and end from Moog’s structures.

Life Simulation & Survival
Eat well with Spice of Life: Carrot & Onion, diversify your meals with Farmer’s Delight, and stock your food in Storage Drawers. Waystones allow fast travel between villages, and Totemic rituals bring tribal magic into your daily life.

Atmosphere & Ecology
Discover lots of animals and creatures with Alex’s Mobs and Naturalist, traverse stunning environments from Stellarity and Wythers Expanded Ecosphere, and experience a world where magic and nature constantly intertwine.

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Contained Mods (188)
Just Enough Items (JEI)
View Items and Recipes
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.
Bookshelf
An open source library for other mods!
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.
Patchouli
Accessible, Data-Driven, Dependency-Free Documentation for Minecraft Modders and Pack Makers
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...
Balm
Abstraction Layer for Multi-Loader Mods
Puzzles Lib
Why is it called Puzzles? That's the puzzle.
CreativeCore
a core mod
Farmer's Delight
A cozy expansion to farming and cooking!
Kotlin for Forge
Adds a Kotlin language loader and provides some optional utilities.
FTB Library (NeoForge)
Common code for all GUI stuff in FTB Mods
spark
spark is a performance profiler for Minecraft clients, servers and proxies.
Storage Drawers
Interactive compartment storage for your workshops.
Citadel
A Lightweight Library
Mantle
Shared code for Forge mods
FerriteCore ((Neo)Forge)
Memory usage optimizations
FTB Teams (NeoForge)
Library for mods that can utilize team progression
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.
Resourceful Lib
Lib for Team Resourceful and more
Cupboard
Cupboard provides code, frameworks, and utilities for minecraft mods
SuperMartijn642's Core Lib
SuperMartijn642's Core Lib adds lots of basic implementations that allow for similar code between different Minecraft ve...
Iceberg [Neo/Forge]
A modding library that contains new events, helpers, and utilities to make modder's lives easier.
Cooking for Blockheads
Adds a multiblock kitchen that shows recipes you can make with what ingredients you have available.
playerAnimator
player animation library
Tinkers Construct
Modify all the things, then do it again!
Immersive Engineering
A retro-futuristic tech mod!
Embeddium
A powerful, mod-friendly, FOSS client performance mod for NeoForge
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.
AmbientSounds 6
#listentonature
YUNG's Better Mineshafts (Forge/NeoForge)
A long-awaited and much-needed abandoned mineshaft overhaul!
Connectivity
Fix Login timeouts, Packet sizes errors, Payloads errors, ghostblocks and more.
Resourceful Config
Resourceful Config is a mod that allows for developers to make crossplatform configs
Handcrafted
Make your house a home!
Fzzy Config
Config API with automatic GUIs, powerful validation options, server-client sync, and more!
Corpse
Never lose your items again!
FTB XMod Compat
Official multi-mod integrations support for the FTB Mods
TrashSlot
Adds a draggable trash slot to all inventory screens. Press T to toggle.
FTB Chunks (NeoForge)
A mod that allows you to claim chunks to protect your blocks and view minimap / large map
YUNG's Better Strongholds (Forge/NeoForge)
A complete redesign of Minecraft's strongholds
Server Performance - Smooth Chunk Save[Forge/Fabric]
Enables lag-free continuous chunk saving, increasing server TPS
When Dungeons Arise - Forge!
Adds various elegant -and likely hostile- roguelike dungeons and structures that generate on your worlds!
Cristel Lib
A Library mod for easy structure config and runtime datapacks.
Towns and Towers
Spice up your world with new villages, pillager outposts, and even new ships!
Prism [Neo/Forge]
A library all about color! Provides lots of color-related functionality for dependent mods.
L_Ender 's Cataclysm
Discover mythical structures across your world and through dimensions, harboring challenging enemies, end-game bosses, a...
Legendary Tooltips [Neo/Forge]
Give your rare items a fancier tooltip! Also adds additional tooltip configuration options.
Advancement Plaques [Neo/Forge]
Replace those boring advancement popups with something flashier.
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!
fix GPU memory leak[Forge/Fabric]
A mod that fixes memory leaks on the client
Structure Essentials
Essential features for structures: Faster locating, distance adjustments, nearby structure command, automatic structure...
Spice of Life: Carrot Edition
A mod based around food that rewards the player instead of punishing them for discovering new foods!
The Aether
The Aether Team presents: The original Aether mod!
Better Fps - Render Distance[Forge]
Better FPS Render Distance is a mod which adds a few performance improvements to increase fps.
MineColonies
Grow your Own Massive Colony with Automation, Defense Structures, Raids and more
SmartBrainLib (Forge/Fabric/Quilt)
A smarter brain system for Minecraft
Lionfish API
Very Light Animation API
Load My F***ing Tags
Prevents Incorrect Tag Entries from breaking an entire Tag
Loot Integrations
Allows loot from loottables to be integrated into other lootables, inherently adds better dungeon loot to a few structur...
YUNG's Better Jungle Temples (Forge/NeoForge)
A complete redesign of Minecraft's jungle temples!
BisectHosting Server Integration Menu [FORGE]
BisectHosting Server List Integration Menu for Modpacks [FORGE ONLY]
Spartan Shields
Needing more Shields in Minecraft? You've come to the right place!
Structurize
Copy structures, paste structures, manipulate structures (100% GUI)
Iron's Spells 'n Spellbooks
A magic mod bringing back the classic RPG spellcasting fantasy.
Chunk Sending[Forge/Fabric]
Optimizes chunk packet delivery
Farsight [Forge/Neo]
See far chunks on clientside, even if the server has low view distance
Recipe Essentials[Forge/Fabric]
Recipe Essentials improves recipe processing, item comparisons, and the vanilla recipe book
Fast Async World Save[Forge/Fabric]
Prevent lag-spikes and data loss during intermittent world saves
Naturalist Lite
Adds 47 animals *(and 66 variants)* to your world with immersive behaviors and drops.
Clickable advancements[Forge/Fabric]
Click advancement in chat to open its location. Helps players getting into different mods
Immersive Aircraft [Fabric/Forge]
A set of vanilla style, customizable and upgradable aircraft, from biplanes to airships
Memory Settings[Neo/Forge/Fabric]
Startup warning to configure the proper amount of ram/memory for java, prevents micro stuttering/freezing problems.
MES - Moog's End Structures
Lots of Vanilla styled structures to fill up the end dimension with life!
Structory: Towers
Adds immersive, biome-themed towers to the world, for Fabric/Forge/Quilt.
Clean Swing Through Grass
Hit your Enemies even in Grass
HT's TreeChop
Fell trees chop-by-chop instead of block-by-block.
Global Packs
Automatically load your favorite data packs and resource packs globally across all your Minecraft worlds. A must have ut...
Domum Ornamentum
Millions of unique block variants and all stairs/slabs/walls/fence and more vanilla Minecraft forgot
BlockUI
Easy to Use UI library for Forge mods
Client Crafting
Clientside crafting without network delay
Delightful
Configurable Farmer's Delight addon with compat features and immersive new foods.
e4mc
Open a LAN server to anyone, anywhere, anytime.
Nature's Aura
Collecting, using and replenishing the Aura naturally present in the world to create useful devices and unique mechanics
Friends&Foes (Forge/NeoForge)
Adds outvoted and forgotten mobs from the mob vote, expanding on their original concepts and adding new vanilla-like fea...
Multi-Piston
Multi-directional Piston Block
Immersive Armors [Fabric/Forge]
A lot of unique and vanilla-faithful armor sets.
End Remastered [NeoForge/Fabric]
Make your journey towards the End more challenging and engaging with End Remastered!
ExpandAbility
Library mod that provides increased control over vanilla effects and abilities
Login Protection[Forge/Fabric]
Protects the player during login and dimension change/respawn teleport from any harm, until the loading screen is over.
Biome Music[Forge/Fabric]
change delay between music, more varied music, fix modded biomes not playing music
MNS - Moog's Nether Structures
loads of structures made with vanilla blocks and entities bringing life to your world! Discover loot, enemies, & more al...
Illager Invasion
The illagers are back! Be ready to fight new foes. A port of Illager Expansion.
FLIB
FutureLIBrary mod to speed up porting and developing new content
Paragliders
BotW style Paraglider
Structure Layout Optimizer
Attempts to optimize the generation of Jigsaw Structures and NBT pieces
Moog's Structure Lib (moogs_structures)
This is a library mod for the Moogs Structure series
Subtle Effects
Adding many new subtle details through particles and a few sounds
Neko's Enchanted Books
Gives each and every Enchanted Book a unique texture!
When Dungeons Arise - Seven Seas
Elegant - and likely hostile - vessels lost in the seven seas...
TownTalk
Minecolonies Addon for more Voice Lines
Dungeons and Taverns
an Vanilla styled structure mod
Savage Ender Dragon[Forge/Fabric]
Overhauled ender dragon fight with new mechanics
Medieval Music[Forge/Fabric]
Add medieval music to your world
Better chunk loading[Forge/Fabric]
Predicts player movement to pre-load chunks and increases chunk load speed
Stylecolonies
A set of blueprint sets for the Minecolonies Mod
Dynamic View[Forge]
Dynamically changes chunk view(and simulation) distance based on server load to avoidlag
Limited Chunkloading - Chunk cleanup[Forge/Fabric]
Server utility to clean up loaded chunks
Yung Structures Addon for Loot Integrations
Adds better loot to yung mods structures, an addon to the lootintegrations mod
MSS - Moog's Soaring Structures
Lots of awesome vanilla style floating islands full of loot, mobs and dungeons for you to explore!
Roots Classic
Create magic wands and perform druidic rituals
PlayerRevive
Revive your friends
Railcraft Reborn
Redefine your rails!
Brutal Bosses - Custom Bosses[Forge/Fabric]
Adds 29+ Bosses to dungeons and structures. Allows custom boss creation through datapacks
Legendary Monsters
Adds middle game and late game bosses to the base game
Just Enough Immersive Multiblocks
Immersive Engineering addon that adds JEI support for multiblocks.
Totemic
A mod with a focus on Totems, music and nature
Modular Force Field Systems (MFFS)
Use that extra power to protect your base
StackablePotions [Forge]
Allows vanilla potions to stack.
Iron's Lib
Provides common functionality and content for Iron's mods
L2 Library
Library for LightLand mods
GottschCore
This is a new base library of code that is used in all of my other mods.
Pretty Pipes
A hassle-free, all-inclusive item transport mod
TrimsEffects - 2.1 NOW AVAILABLE!
Armor trims will now give some special effect
Nameless Trinkets
Add powerful trinkets, which you will find when exploring the world.
Better Treasure Map
Display Block Distance on Treasure Maps
Leaky - Item Lag Fix[Forge/Fabric]
Detects broken farms and item leaks, reduces dropped item lag, and safely cleans up dangerous item concentrations
Loot Integrations: Moog's Voyager, Soaring, End & Nether Structures
Adds better loot to Moog's Voyager, Soaring, End & Nether Structures chests, including modded loot
No Telemetry
Disable the telemetry introduced in 21w38a
More Minecarts and Rails
Expands minecarts and rails to provide intuitive, viable trasportation, automation and utility solutions.
Experimental Settings Disabler
Disables the experimental world icon, loading, and generation warning settings.
Fantasy Armor (Medieval Series)
New armor sets with 3D models in medieval fantasy style.
Dusk[Forge/Fabric]
Dusk gives you full control over how dangerous Minecraft nights become
Knight Lib
A library that serves as a bridge between mods.
Fruits Delight
Adds fruits, jelly, juice, and fruit-based food in Farmer's Delight style
Harder Spawners
Make Spawners harder to break, take revenge when being broken, harder to disable with Light and Limited Lifespan, all co...
Hourglass
Beds accelerate the passage of time smoothly until daytime. Custom day and night lengths.
Spice of Life Onion
A mod designed to encourage dietary variety!
Alshanex's Familiars
An Iron Spells and Spellbooks addon that introduces new familiars scattered around the world, which you can tame and bri...
Loot Integrations: When Dungeons Arise & Co
Adds better loot to When Dungeons Arise chests, including modded loot
William Wythers' Expanded Ecosphere
This mod adds close to 200 biomes and aims to make the overworld more realistic and atmospheric
Loot Integrations: L_Ender 's Cataclysm
Adds better loot to Cataclysm chests and bosses, including modded loot
Respawning Structures[Forge/Fabric]
Enables structures to respawn automatically after some time
Knight Quest [Reforged]
Introducing an adventuring armor quest for Forge! Adding +30 beautiful armor sets, new mobs and much more!
Forgiving World - Dimension Stacking[Forge/Fabric]
Connect dimension floor and ceiling to other dimensions in any fashion possible
Enchanted: Witchcraft
A magic and sorcery mod for all things witchcraft
StateObserver
A library for observing state changes.
Packed Up (Backpacks)
Packed Up allows you to pack up all your things into new amazing Backpacks!
Biome Sizes[Forge/Fabric]
Customize Biome Size settings per dimension
Loot Integrations: Randomized Loot Compatibility
Adds more loot variance to vanilla chests, including modded loot
Lios Overhauled Villages
A complete Overhaul to Vanilla Villages making them modernized.
Storage Racks
Simple but Powerful Storage Mod
Loot Integrations: Towns and Towers
Adds better loot to Towns and Towers chests, including modded loot
Armor & damage scaling[Forge/Fabric]
Allows adjusting damage calculations of armor, protection and player damage
Dynamic Villager Trades
Makes villager trading more interesting
Modular Golems
Tinker-Style Modularized Metal Golems and Humaniod Golems
Hostile Villages[Forge/Fabric]
Mobs overrun Villages!
Harder Natural Healing
Control healing in your game. Rate, Hunger Cost, Hunger Minimum, Healing On Waking, Peaceful Hunger
Stellarity
Extreme rehaul of The End in a unique fantasy style, combined with biome and structure overhauls, new items, weapons and...
FamiliarsLib
Library mod for the core features of the Alshanex Familiars mod
Loot Integrations: Structory & Towers
Adds better loot to Structory and Structory: Towers chests, including modded loot
Portable Mobs
Allows the player to capture mobs and move them around.
Ecliptic Seasons
A living seasonal world with changing landscapes, weather, crops, and 24 solar terms—even beyond the horizon.
Tactical Shield Overhaul[Forge/Neo/Fabric]
Shield mechanics changes the mechanic of shield blocking to add gear progression to shields allowing better shields to a...
Wizard's Reborn
Adds magical things
Weather settings[Forge/Fabric]
Lightweight mod to control and configure weather settings
Cave Spelunking[Forge/Fabric]
Revamps Minecraft ore generation causing ore to mostly spawn in caves(configurable)
Fluffy Fur
Adds fluffy and renders things
Loot Integrations: Dungeons and Taverns
Adds better loot to Dungeons and Taverns chests including modded loot
Copper Drops
Decreases Copper Ore's drops to balance gameplay.
TheOvergrowth
Makes your World feel more Alive by Changing the Environment around the Player over Time
More Vanilla Potions [NEOFORGE&FABRIC&FORGE]
This Mod adds a brewable Potion for every Effect in Minecraft
Evolution of Entities
Mobs and animals evolve different traits and shape the future over time
Glowing Ores
Adds a configurable light level to ore blocks
Fantastic Deepslate Dungeons
Fantastic Underground Dungeon Structures ready for the Player to Conquer
Anvil Balance
Balances and caps the item repair cost in a vanilla friendly way
Mahi's Better Sky, Bedrock Support!
Mahi's Better Sky - Enhance your Minecraft experience with a better and more realistic sky while preserving the vanilla...
Sophisticated Auto Walk
Client-side mod that lets you toggle automatic forward movement with a keybind
Profession Lock
Prevents Players from Easily Resetting Villager Profession and Sales
Hibernal Herbs
Hibernal Herbs celebrates the holidays with a little bit of mystic arts! Collect herbs and other ingredients to make the...
Enemy Echelons
A mod that assigns difficulties and attribute modifications to mobs based on the world height range that they spawn at.
