Ancient Nature | A Prehistoric Experience!
Modby REAPERR
Adding ANCIENT fauna & flora to your Minecraft worlds.
Type
Mod
CurseForge Downloads
91,670
CurseForge ID
1372933
Last Updated
Aug 17, 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:
| Lepidodendron: A tall tree from the Carboniferous, provides edible cones and can peel scales from their logs.
| Ginkgo: A tree that appears golden and green on the overworld, golden Ginkgos provide the Fern Amber used to revive prehistoric plants.
| Zaphrentis: A prehistoric coral from the Paleozoic that releases bubbles and can be used as horn, bur with funny bubble sounds!
Fauna:
| Anomalocaris: The first apex predator from the oceans of the Paleozoic.
| Arandaspis: A jaw-less fish from the Ordovician that moves in boids near the corals.
| Dodo: A funny and beautiful bird from the Pleistocene that rarely spawns in jungles near the watermelon, their favorite food source.
| Dunkleosteus: An armoured predator from the Devonian, can be tamed and its rideable, its armor is unbreakable!
| Estemmenosuchus: A monster from the Permian, can be tamed and equipped with saddle or barrel.
| Jakapil: A small herbivore and territorial animal from the Cretaceous, can be tamed to ward zones and bases.
| Lizamber: A failure born from the Revival Stand, destroy as soon as possible or keep encaged.
| 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.
| 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.
| 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.
| Trilobite: An armored animal from the Paleozoic, was prey of anomalocaris, they turn into a ball to defend from dangers.
| Tuzoia: A prehistoric shrimp from the Paleozoic, seems attracted to coral, they have a very special breeding and revival.
Tools:
| 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.
| 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:
- Alex´s Caves: there are some interactions with Alex´s Caves.
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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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