Urban Empire: Railways & Colonies
Modpackby simon_brai
Urban Empire: Railways & Colonies transforms Minecraft into a city-building and transit simulation, where players design towns and connect them with an intricate transit system.
Type
Modpack
CurseForge Downloads
2,816
CurseForge ID
988491
Last Updated
Jun 7, 2026
Description
Urban Empire: Railways & Colonies is an immersive Minecraft modpack that transforms the game into a detailed city-building and transit simulation experience. At the heart of this modpack are two foundational mods: Minecraft Transit Railway and MineColonies, which together enable players to design, build, and manage sprawling towns interconnected by an advanced transit system.
Main Features:
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MineColonies: This mod brings a new level of depth to building and managing your towns. Players can construct a variety of buildings, from humble homes to grand town halls, each staffed by AI-controlled citizens who perform tasks and contribute to the colony's economy. Develop your colony from a small village into a bustling city, managing resources, defenses, and citizen happiness along the way.
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Minecraft Transit Railway: Complementing MineColonies, this mod allows for the creation of realistic transit systems including trains, metros, and trams. Design intricate rail networks to connect your towns and facilitate easy movement of resources and citizens. Enjoy the view with fully rideable trains and detailed stations, enhancing the immersive experience of your growing empire.
Additional Mods Included:
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BlockUI: This mod revamps the Minecraft user interface, providing a more intuitive and visually appealing UI design, making management tasks more accessible and enjoyable.
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Distant Horizons: A Level of Detail mod: Enhances the game's visuals by improving how distant terrain is rendered. This results in a more realistic and breathtaking view of your cities and their surrounding landscapes, all without compromising performance.
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Just Enough Items (JEI): An essential tool for any modded Minecraft playthrough, JEI makes crafting and item management a breeze. It provides an easy-to-navigate database of all items and recipes available in the game, including those added by other mods in the pack.
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Multi-Piston: Adds a new dimension to building with pistons capable of moving multiple blocks at once. This mod opens up creative possibilities for constructing moving structures or complex machinery within your cities.
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Tectonic: This geological mod diversifies the underground world, adding new rock types and strata layers. It enriches resource gathering and exploration, making mining expeditions more interesting and visually varied.
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TownTalk: Enhances NPC interactions, making the citizens of your MineColonies settlements more lively and engaging. NPCs can offer quests, share information, or simply comment on their day, adding a layer of depth to the world.
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Waystones: Facilitates fast travel between your towns and points of interest. Place waystones in strategic locations to warp across vast distances instantly, making it easier to manage multiple colonies or explore far-off lands.
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WorldEdit: A powerful tool for large-scale construction and terraforming, WorldEdit allows you to quickly modify the terrain or build structures en masse, perfect for shaping the world around your colonies or laying down new sections of track for your transit system.
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Journey Map: These companion mods provide detailed, real-time maps of your world. Track your position, set waypoints, and plan out your city layouts and transportation networks with ease, all from a convenient on-screen interface.
Urban Empire: Railways & Colonies offers a unique blend of city-building, resource management, and transportation engineering, all set within the familiar and beloved Minecraft environment. Whether you're meticulously planning your next town, laying down miles of track, or simply enjoying a sunset train ride across your creation, this modpack promises a deeply engaging and endlessly creative sandbox experience.
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Contained Mods (33)
Just Enough Items (JEI)
View Items and Recipes
JourneyMap
Real-time map used for mapping in-game or your browser as you explore.
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
Jade 🔍
Shows information about what you are looking at. (Hwyla/WAILA fork for Minecraft 1.16+)
Waystones
Teleport back to activated waystones. For Survival, Adventure or Servers.
Clumps
Clumps XP orbs together to reduce lag
FerriteCore ((Neo)Forge)
Memory usage optimizations
Embeddium
A powerful, mod-friendly, FOSS client performance mod for NeoForge
Lithostitched
Library mod with new configurability and compatibility enhancements for worldgen
AI Improvements
Performance and logic upgrades for mod AIs
Inventory Sorter
Simple inventory sorting tweaks
Radium Reforged
Unofficial Fork of CaffeineMC's "Lithium", made to work with FML
Multi-Piston
Multi-directional Piston Block
TownTalk
Minecolonies Addon for more Voice Lines
BlockUI
Easy to Use UI library for Forge mods
Tectonic
Terrain shaping brought to new heights, grander and more varied than ever before!
Domum Ornamentum
Millions of unique block variants and all stairs/slabs/walls/fence and more vanilla Minecraft forgot
Structurize
Copy structures, paste structures, manipulate structures (100% GUI)
MineColonies
Grow your Own Massive Colony with Automation, Defense Structures, Raids and more
Distant Horizons: A Level of Detail mod
Increase view distance without harming performance.
WorldEdit
In-game Minecraft map editor - build bigger things more quickly!
Byzantine Styles Pack for Minecolonies
Byzantine Styles Pack for Minecolonies 1.20+ (Byzantine/Shogun/Nile)
MTR London Underground Trains
The MTR London Underground Trains Addon gives you LU trains to use for your own London Underground line using the Minecr...
MTR London Underground Addon
The Tube Addon for the Minecraft Transit Mod
Minecraft Transit Railway (Automated trains, planes, and more!)
The easiest transit mod you will ever need in Minecraft to build your dream city.
Station Decoration
Decorate your railroad world with decorations like catenary!
MTR: JCM
A Hong Kong metro decoration addon for the Minecraft Transit Railway Mod
Faithful 64x
An even more detailed experience with quadruple-resolution textures!
BlueMap
A mapping tool that creates 3D models of your Minecraft worlds and displays them in a web viewer
Domum Ornamentum - BlueMap Integration
This mod is an integration between Domum Ornamentum and BlueMap. It ensures that all custom blocks from Domum Ornamentum...
Ultra Metro Decorations
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Minecolonies - BlueMap Integration
This mod is an integration between MineColonies and BlueMap. It ensures that colonies will be displayed on BlueMap via m...