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Ancient Nature | A Prehistoric Experience!

Mod

by REAPERR

Adding ANCIENT fauna & flora to your Minecraft worlds.

Type

Mod

CurseForge Downloads

81,938

CurseForge ID

1372933

Last Updated

Jun 20, 2026

Description

Introducing...

|Ancient Nature|

ABOUT


This mod aims to add fantastic and realistic prehistoric features to your Minecraft world!

Currently this mod is on it's first beta stage!
Aside its a beta, it contains enough content to have a full experience!
Bringing new animals, flora, armors, blocks, tools, blocks & more!

 

WARNING: REQUIRES SKULLLIB!

WARNING: THIS PROJECT USES MIXINS, EXPECT INCOMPATIBILITIES!

ADVISE: WE ARE THE ONLY MOD WITH PERMS TO USE ASSETS FROM "THE DAWN ERA", ASSETS OWNED BY REAPER ( AND MUSH CO ).

CONTENT:

Flora:

  • description_1b2b3cae-97d6-4cf3-8064-fdd65739c759.png| Lepidodendron: A tall tree from the Carboniferous, provides edible cones and can peel scales from their logs.
  • description_d181674c-b66e-48d6-bf2a-ad56be63271d.png| Ginkgo: A tree that appears golden and green on the overworld, golden Ginkgos provide the Fern Amber used to revive prehistoric plants.
  • description_1e5e7fbd-b9ea-4dcd-b90b-8796aee98253.png| Zaphrentis: A prehistoric coral from the Paleozoic that releases bubbles and can be used as horn, bur with funny bubble sounds!

Fauna:

  • description_a252587f-cb4c-4272-9353-d53d3ee7cc9c.png| Anomalocaris: The first apex predator from the oceans of the Paleozoic.
  • description_78928e82-2775-4bd8-93a0-88ec2b1cf100.png| Arandaspis: A jaw-less fish from the Ordovician that moves in boids near the corals.
  • description_3473dd33-f79c-461c-b08e-a1bbb7abcf8c.pngDodo: A funny and beautiful bird from the Pleistocene that rarely spawns in jungles near the watermelon, their favorite food source.
  • description_3473dd33-f79c-461c-b08e-a1bbb7abcf8c.pngDunkleosteus: An armoured predator from the Devonian, can be tamed and its rideable, its armor is unbreakable!
  • description_82e2578f-9ce2-4330-9aed-309486368553.pngEstemmenosuchus: A monster from the Permian, can be tamed and equipped with saddle or barrel.
  • description_b846eed4-125d-4b2a-a84a-76fd02d5d8c0.png| Jakapil: A small herbivore and territorial animal from the Cretaceous, can be tamed to ward zones and bases.
  • description_d9d9b605-3cf8-4ccf-922f-e8c66eead4da.png| Lizamber: A failure born from the Revival Stand, destroy as soon as possible or keep encaged.
  • description_e615dbb4-ae96-4f37-941c-79cc13657338.png| Saber-toothed Salmon: A big salmon from the Miocene, travels to oceans and rivers, to breed on rivers and live on oceans but they die or turn into zombies after breeding.
  • description_c9aa2aeb-3c2a-4ea6-873f-c7904e012cd7.png| Paranogmius: A prehistoric big fish from the Cretaceous, can be ridden feeding it with salmon, being able to sprint and jump out of the water for a limited time.
  • description_673f6bdf-3d50-484d-900a-d2bdcbfa1931.png| Thylacine: A friendly animal from the Holocene, spawns in forest biome, only lonely babies can be tamed and they can search for items depending the biome.
  • description_84dfda0e-f8f3-45cb-b5d6-5784d4ab483a.png| Trilobite: An armored animal from the Paleozoic, was prey of anomalocaris, they turn into a ball to defend from dangers.
  • description_9d76c1b0-b7fa-406c-b270-4ec1f357e7d6.png| Tuzoia: A prehistoric shrimp from the Paleozoic, seems attracted to coral, they have a very special breeding and revival.

Tools:

  • description_e6538e14-1555-4f4a-a0c9-b24f23d00e47.png| Lepidodendron Armor: Gives protection like a shield and deals damage to attackers.
  • | Paleontologist Hat: Spawns in the chests of mineshafts, outlines the location of fossils.
  • description_37626d23-3c69-4446-93da-828da6b35177.png| Geologist Hammer: Spawns in the chests of mineshafts, able to switch modes between Efficient(improves loot of fossils) and Hammer(destroys faster and more blocks). 
  • | Chisel: Used for the fossil cleaning minigame.
  • | Golden Bottle: Used for the fossil cleaning minigame (if has water), your potions are endless!
  • | Magnifying Glass: Provides info about items that will be used on fossil cleaning minigame, also if totems are active on the minigame, also provides information about the creatures.
  • | Weather Idol: Change the weather for a short time.
  • | Totems: Boost the chances of getting a fossil of a determined creature you enchance it with.
  • | Jakapil Arrow: Has the ability to piercing mobs.

Structures:

  • | Paleontologist Tent:  On this structure you can find the "Paleontologist" Villager and some loot.
  • | Underground Cabin:  On this structure you can find the "Crusher" a block used for some recipes.
  • | Copper Bunker:  On this structure you can find the "Copper Altar", a powerful method to revive prehistoric stuff.
  • | Ritual Ruins:  On this structure you can find the "Revival Altar", an ancient method to revive prehistoric stuff.

Compats:

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Credits:

Director: Reaper

Programmers: Monkey_biznec, DarkBlade, Axtrough, Oiha, ReinierTheGhost, BlackGear, DinoFazbearYT, VoidArkana & Reaper.
Artists: Reaper, Jurnaro, Raina & Dororuw.

SFX: Reaper & ChipsTheCat.
Music: Reaper.
Title Logo: Curlyfley.
Special thanks to RomanSans, Yahrim and GibblyJ for being there from the start!

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