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Urban Empire: Railways & Colonies

Modpack

by 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

3,331

CurseForge ID

988491

Last Updated

Jul 28, 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:

  • 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.

  • 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:

  • BlockUI: This mod revamps the Minecraft user interface, providing a more intuitive and visually appealing UI design, making management tasks more accessible and enjoyable.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

Compatibility

Mod Loaders

Forge

Game Versions

1.20.1

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Just Enough Items (JEI)

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View Items and Recipes

Mod 667,247,753
JourneyMap

JourneyMap

Real-time map used for mapping in-game or your browser as you explore.

Mod 355,784,763
ModernFix

ModernFix

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Balm

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Mod 290,675,714
Jade 🔍

Jade 🔍

Shows information about what you are looking at. (Hwyla/WAILA fork for Minecraft 1.16+)

Mod 313,560,782
Waystones

Waystones

Teleport back to activated waystones. For Survival, Adventure or Servers.

Mod 326,074,170
Clumps

Clumps

Clumps XP orbs together to reduce lag

Mod 390,242,356
FerriteCore ((Neo)Forge)

FerriteCore ((Neo)Forge)

Memory usage optimizations

Mod 214,557,883
Embeddium

Embeddium

A powerful, mod-friendly, FOSS client performance mod for NeoForge

Mod 172,754,693
Lithostitched

Lithostitched

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Mod 102,020,257
AI Improvements

AI Improvements

Performance and logic upgrades for mod AIs

Mod 161,099,682
Inventory Sorter

Inventory Sorter

Simple inventory sorting tweaks

Mod 86,239,025
Radium Reforged

Radium Reforged

Unofficial Fork of CaffeineMC's "Lithium", made to work with FML

Mod 45,327,866
Multi-Piston

Multi-Piston

Multi-directional Piston Block

Mod 44,307,707
TownTalk

TownTalk

Minecolonies Addon for more Voice Lines

Mod 30,703,104
BlockUI

BlockUI

Easy to Use UI library for Forge mods

Mod 51,832,727
Tectonic

Tectonic

Terrain shaping brought to new heights, grander and more varied than ever before!

Mod 44,948,515
Domum Ornamentum

Domum Ornamentum

Millions of unique block variants and all stairs/slabs/walls/fence and more vanilla Minecraft forgot

Mod 53,322,519
Structurize

Structurize

Copy structures, paste structures, manipulate structures (100% GUI)

Mod 73,681,302
MineColonies

MineColonies

Grow your Own Massive Colony with Automation, Defense Structures, Raids and more

Mod 85,987,717
Distant Horizons: A Level of Detail mod

Distant Horizons: A Level of Detail mod

Massively increase render distance without harming performance.

Mod 24,746,338
WorldEdit

WorldEdit

In-game Minecraft map editor - build bigger things more quickly!

Mod 72,749,659
Byzantine Styles Pack for Minecolonies

Byzantine Styles Pack for Minecolonies

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Mod 12,524,355
MTR London Underground Trains

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...

Mod 245,030
MTR London Underground Addon

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Mod 753,208
Minecraft Transit Railway (Automated trains, planes, and more!)

Minecraft Transit Railway (Automated trains, planes, and more!)

The easiest transit mod you will ever need in Minecraft to build your dream city.

Mod 4,141,115
Station Decoration

Station Decoration

Decorate your railroad world with decorations like catenary!

Mod 747,812
MTR: JCM

MTR: JCM

A Hong Kong metro decoration addon for the Minecraft Transit Railway Mod

Mod 798,948
Faithful 64x

Faithful 64x

An even more detailed experience with quadruple-resolution textures!

Texture Pack 7,007,306
BlueMap

BlueMap

A mapping tool that creates 3D models of your Minecraft worlds and displays them in a web viewer

Mod 652,090
Domum Ornamentum - BlueMap Integration

Domum Ornamentum - BlueMap Integration

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Mod 14,642
Ultra Metro Decorations

Ultra Metro Decorations

A lightweight Minecraft mod that adds decorative 1x1 railway-themed blocks for immersive station and transit builds.

Mod 3,334
Minecolonies - BlueMap Integration

Minecolonies - BlueMap Integration

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