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The War of the World

Modpack

by FLAMEBRINGER808

The War of the World is a performance-optimized Minecraft 1.20.1 survival modpack featuring alien invasion themes, ruined cities, hostile nights, dynamic seasons, advanced AI, survival mechanics, and gameplay for singleplayer and multiplayer servers. Now!

Type

Modpack

CurseForge Downloads

4,219

CurseForge ID

1448248

Last Updated

Oct 17, 2026

Description

⚠️ IMPORTANT NOTE
When downloading on CurseForge, the pack may default to a server-friendly configuration. If you are playing singleplayer, make sure to select the singleplayer profile for the intended experience.

The War of the World

The War of the World is a dark, post-apocalyptic survival modpack for Minecraft 1.20.1 (Forge), built around a world that has already lost its war. Humanity has fallen, cities stand abandoned, nature grows unchecked, and survival is no longer guaranteed by strength alone.

The remains of civilization stretch endlessly across the continents. Vast ruined cities dominate the landscape, forests grow unnaturally dense, seasons pass without mercy, and the sky itself feels hostile. Dangerous entities roam freely, nights are suffocatingly oppressive, and every journey beyond shelter risks death.

This is not a rush-to-endgame experience. Progression is slow, tense, and punishing. Survival depends on scavenging ruined structures, managing food and rest, planning movement carefully, and knowing when to fight — and when to hide.

⚙️ Performance, Stability & Optimization

The War of the World is built from the ground up to be highly optimized and server-friendly. Extensive performance, memory, and simulation optimizations allow the pack to run smoothly even with dense city generation, high mob counts, complex weather systems, and long play sessions.

All of this is achieved without sacrificing atmosphere, visuals, or immersion, making the pack suitable for both long-term singleplayer survival and multiplayer servers.

🌍 Exploration, Survival & Atmosphere

Explore massive abandoned cities, overgrown forests, and vast continents shaped by decay. Structures weather and crumble over time, seasons alter survival conditions, and environmental effects constantly pressure the player.

Darkness is no longer safe. Visibility, sound, and positioning matter. Hostile entities behave more intelligently, nights are genuinely dangerous, and careless exploration is often fatal.

Survival mechanics emphasize realism and immersion. Food preparation and hunger management matter, healing is limited, death has consequences, and long-term survival requires preparation rather than raw power. Traps, defensive building, secure shelters, and careful planning play a major role.

Quality-of-life systems such as backpacks, furniture, detailed maps, and proximity voice chat support both solo survival and cooperative multiplayer gameplay without breaking immersion.

📦 Core Features & Mod Focus

🧠 AI, Difficulty & Gameplay
AI Improvements
Nyctophobia
LifeSteal
MineTraps
Hardcore Revival
Indestructible Blocks
BadMobs
Extermination
Time Control

🌍 World Generation & Environment
Lost Cities
Continents
TerraBlender
Better Forests
Immersive Weathering
Serene Seasons
Enhanced Celestials
Burnt
Particle Rain

🥩 Food, Farming & Survival
Farmer’s Delight
Farmer’s Respite
Large Meals
Comforts
Butchery
AppleSkin

🏗️ Storage, Building & Utilities
Sophisticated Backpacks
Refurbished Furniture
SecurityCraft
Gravestone
Lootr
Curios
WorldEdit
The Jobs Mod

🗺️ Maps, UI & Quality of Life
JEI
Just Enough Resources
Just Enough Professions
Jade
Better Advancements
Controlling
Mouse Tweaks
Xaero’s Minimap
Xaero’s World Map

🎙️ Multiplayer & Communication
Simple Voice Chat
Walkie-Talkie
Skin Restorer

⚡ Performance & Optimization
Embeddium
Rubidium Extra
ModernFix
FerriteCore
Starlight
Entity Culling
ImmediatelyFast
Krypton Reforged
Saturn
Radium
Fast Furnace
Fast Workbench
Fast Suite
Bobby
Dynamic FPS
C2ME
BadOptimizations

🎨 Visual & Audio Enhancements
Dynamic Lights
Continuity
Entity Texture Features
Entity Model Features
Drip Sounds
Dynamic Crosshair
Ok Zoomer

🎯 Intended Experience

The War of the Worlds is designed for players who want a bleak, hostile survival experience focused on large-scale ruined environments, tense exploration, meaningful scavenging, and a world that feels truly lost. Combat is dangerous, resources are scarce, and the environment itself is an enemy.

The war has already been lost.
The world belongs to the ruins now.
Adapt… or disappear.

Compatibility

Mod Loaders

Forge

Game Versions

1.20.1

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Just Enough Items (JEI)

Just Enough Items (JEI)

View Items and Recipes

Mod 722,116,572
Cloth Config API (Fabric/Forge/NeoForge)

Cloth Config API (Fabric/Forge/NeoForge)

Config Screen API for Minecraft

Mod 566,014,072
Mouse Tweaks

Mouse Tweaks

Enhances inventory management by adding various functions to the mouse buttons.

Mod 546,542,857
AppleSkin

AppleSkin

Adds some useful information about food/hunger to the HUD

Mod 517,036,481
GeckoLib

GeckoLib

A 3D animation library for entities, blocks, items, armor, and more!

Mod 497,742,532
Architectury API

Architectury API

An intermediary api aimed to ease developing multiplatform mods.

Mod 457,896,337
Controlling

Controlling

Adds a search bar to the Key-Bindings menu

Mod 440,361,470
Entity Culling Fabric/Forge

Entity Culling Fabric/Forge

Using async path-tracing to hide BlockEntities/Entities that are not visible

Mod 421,623,111
Clumps

Clumps

Clumps XP orbs together to reduce lag

Mod 419,050,018
Xaero's Minimap

Xaero's Minimap

Displays the nearby world terrain, players, mobs, entities in the corner of your screen. Lets you create waypoints which...

Mod 374,917,997
Jade 🔍

Jade 🔍

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

Mod 351,832,267
Curios API (Forge/NeoForge)

Curios API (Forge/NeoForge)

A flexible and expandable accessory/equipment API for users and developers.

Mod 348,459,636
Collective

Collective

🎓 Collective is a shared library with common code for all of Serilum's mods.

Mod 340,209,763
Placebo

Placebo

A library mod

Mod 339,631,208
ModernFix

ModernFix

All-in-one mod that improves performance, reduces memory usage, and fixes many bugs. Compatible with all your favorite p...

Mod 332,621,868
Xaero's World Map

Xaero's World Map

Adds a fullscreen worldmap which shows you what you have explored in the world. Can work together with Xaero's Minimap.

Mod 328,490,368
Balm

Balm

Abstraction Layer for Multi-Loader Mods

Mod 327,616,019
ImmediatelyFast

ImmediatelyFast

Speed up immediate mode rendering in Minecraft

Mod 326,805,787
Moonlight Lib

Moonlight Lib

Forge and Fabric lightweight library with utilities such as custom Villagers AI, data driven trades, global datapack, cu...

Mod 292,710,527
Puzzles Lib

Puzzles Lib

Why is it called Puzzles? That's the puzzle.

Mod 290,303,206
Better Advancements

Better Advancements

Successor to BetterAchievements for the new advancements system in minecraft 1.12+

Mod 283,719,935
Comforts

Comforts

Adds sleeping bags and hammocks for, respectively, portability and turning day to night, without setting new spawns. Com...

Mod 276,172,247
Sophisticated Backpacks

Sophisticated Backpacks

Yet another backpack mod this time with backpack you can place in world, color in different color combinations, upgrade...

Mod 270,674,969
Farmer's Delight

Farmer's Delight

A cozy expansion to farming and cooking!

Mod 265,018,325
Kotlin for Forge

Kotlin for Forge

Adds a Kotlin language loader and provides some optional utilities.

Mod 261,964,633
Just Enough Resources (JER)

Just Enough Resources (JER)

A JEI addon that adds mob drops, ore gen, ..

Mod 251,399,999
[EMF] Entity Model Features [Fabric & Forge]

[EMF] Entity Model Features [Fabric & Forge]

EMF is an, OptiFine format, Custom Entity Model replacement mod available for Fabric and Forge.

Mod 251,045,845
Sophisticated Core

Sophisticated Core

Library mod for Sophisticated mods

Mod 234,195,158
CraftTweaker

CraftTweaker

CraftTweaker allows modpacks and servers to customize the game. With CraftTweaker you can change recipes, script events,...

Mod 233,446,979
Citadel

Citadel

A Lightweight Library

Mod 230,598,256
FerriteCore ((Neo)Forge)

FerriteCore ((Neo)Forge)

Memory usage optimizations

Mod 224,678,629
Searchables

Searchables

Searchables is a library mod that adds helper methods that allow for searching and filtering elements based on component...

Mod 220,520,691
Resourceful Lib

Resourceful Lib

Lib for Team Resourceful and more

Mod 219,865,642
Oculus

Oculus

Unofficial Fork of "Iris", made to work with FML

Mod 216,379,702
Cupboard

Cupboard

Cupboard provides code, frameworks, and utilities for minecraft mods

Mod 211,629,788
Iceberg [Neo/Forge]

Iceberg [Neo/Forge]

A modding library that contains new events, helpers, and utilities to make modder's lives easier.

Mod 207,063,349
TerraBlender (Forge)

TerraBlender (Forge)

A library mod for adding biomes in a simple and compatible manner!

Mod 203,814,400
Simple Voice Chat

Simple Voice Chat

A working voice chat in Minecraft!

Mod 200,622,415
Lootr (Forge & NeoForge)

Lootr (Forge & NeoForge)

A mod that makes it so nobody misses out on Loot! All loot chests are instanced per player and visually unique.

Mod 194,080,395
Complementary Shaders - Unbound

Complementary Shaders - Unbound

Transforming the visuals of Minecraft with exceptional quality, detail, and performance.

Shader 193,087,245
Embeddium

Embeddium

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

Mod 190,666,247
FastWorkbench

FastWorkbench

A performance upgrade for the crafting table.

Mod 186,435,789
CoroUtil

CoroUtil

Library Mod for Weather/Tropicraft/ZombieAwareness/etc

Mod 176,937,900
AI Improvements

AI Improvements

Performance and logic upgrades for mod AIs

Mod 172,954,922
Resourceful Config

Resourceful Config

Resourceful Config is a mod that allows for developers to make crossplatform configs

Mod 162,476,427
[ETF] Entity Texture Features - [Fabric & Forge]

[ETF] Entity Texture Features - [Fabric & Forge]

Custom, Emissive and Varied mobs like Optifine and so much more.. +Player skin features!)

Mod 160,505,234
FastFurnace

FastFurnace

A performance upgrade for the furnace.

Mod 151,439,085
Packet Fixer

Packet Fixer

A simple mod to solve various problems with packets, NBTs and timeouts.

Mod 144,582,411
Continuity

Continuity

A Minecraft mod that allows for efficient connected textures

Mod 143,951,453
Framework

Framework

A common library powering all of MrCrayfish's Mods

Mod 143,088,382
Structure Gel API

Structure Gel API

An API for simplifying the developer end of creating generated structures.

Mod 130,104,890
BadOptimizations

BadOptimizations

Optimization mod that focuses on things other than rendering

Mod 127,326,895
Dynamic FPS

Dynamic FPS

Improve performance when Minecraft is in the background

Mod 125,070,383
Blueprint

Blueprint

Library that implements the framework of all Abnormals mods!

Mod 124,837,839
Serene Seasons

Serene Seasons

Seasons with changing colors, shifting temperatures, and more!

Mod 124,686,322
Cristel Lib

Cristel Lib

A Library mod for easy structure config and runtime datapacks.

Mod 122,948,192
Prism [Neo/Forge]

Prism [Neo/Forge]

A library all about color! Provides lots of color-related functionality for dependent mods.

Mod 121,437,051
Just Enough Professions (JEP)

Just Enough Professions (JEP)

A JEI addon that adds profession workstations

Mod 116,167,952
Security Craft

Security Craft

Adds plenty of blocks and items to defend and secure your base with.

Mod 113,461,244
CorgiLib

CorgiLib

A library mod containing code used across Corgi Taco's mods.

Mod 111,107,280
GraveStone Mod

GraveStone Mod

Places a gravestone with your inventory items inside when you die

Mod 105,510,091
The Lost Cities

The Lost Cities

The Lost Cities is a world generation mod

Mod 103,407,032
Structure Essentials

Structure Essentials

Essential features for structures: Faster locating, distance adjustments, nearby structure command, automatic structure...

Mod 102,526,610
Fresh Animations

Fresh Animations

Make your game like the trailers! Dynamic animated entities to freshen your Minecraft experience.

Texture Pack 102,470,269
FastSuite

FastSuite

A performance upgrade for the JSON recipe system.

Mod 102,215,377
GlitchCore

GlitchCore

A library mod aimed at abstracting mod loaders and providing various utilities for our mods.

Mod 98,672,043
Better Fps - Render Distance[Forge]

Better Fps - Render Distance[Forge]

Better FPS Render Distance is a mod which adds a few performance improvements to increase fps.

Mod 89,472,783
Forgified Fabric API

Forgified Fabric API

Fabric API implemented on top of NeoForge

Mod 84,109,698
WorldEdit

WorldEdit

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

Mod 78,076,213
[TaCZ] Timeless and Classics Zero Guns

[TaCZ] Timeless and Classics Zero Guns

The most Immersive and Customizable modern FPS experience in Minecraft - A complete Remaster of the TaC gun mod by the o...

Mod 71,129,826
Overloaded Armor Bar

Overloaded Armor Bar

Allows the armor bar to wrap and change color with better than diamond armor

Mod 66,125,710
Saturn

Saturn

A performance mod designed to optimize Minecraft's memory usage.

Mod 62,166,239
Bad Mobs

Bad Mobs

A mod to blacklist mobs from spawning.

Mod 61,299,888
Starlight (Forge)

Starlight (Forge)

Rewrites the light engine to fix lighting performance and lighting errors

Mod 61,248,709
MrCrayfish's Furniture Mod: Refurbished

MrCrayfish's Furniture Mod: Refurbished

The next generation of MrCrayfish's Furniture Mod, redesigned from the ground up with new models, sounds, and more!

Mod 57,250,436
MakeUp - Ultra Fast | Shaders

MakeUp - Ultra Fast | Shaders

High performance shaders. Gameplay oriented. Lightweight.

Shader 53,910,750
Radium Reforged

Radium Reforged

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

Mod 50,987,674
Sinytra Connector

Sinytra Connector

Lets you play Fabric mods on NeoForge

Mod 47,692,905
Embeddium (Rubidium) Extra

Embeddium (Rubidium) Extra

Port of Sodium Extra to work with Embeddium/Rubidium on (Neo)Forge

Mod 47,237,864
Enhanced Celestials - Blood, Blue, & Harvest (Super) Moons

Enhanced Celestials - Blood, Blue, & Harvest (Super) Moons

A mod adding new Lunar Events like blood moons and harvest moons!

Mod 47,187,125
🎃 Insanity Shader

🎃 Insanity Shader

A highly customizable horror styled Minecraft shaderpack based on BSL.

Shader 43,934,180
Krypton Reforged

Krypton Reforged

Unofficial Forge Port of the server networking performance mod "Krypton"

Mod 43,420,270
Particle Rain

Particle Rain

replaces the default weather with particle effects

Mod 42,577,317
CullLessLeaves Reforged (Unofficial)

CullLessLeaves Reforged (Unofficial)

Gives you a 9% fps improvement for leaves rendering

Mod 41,786,296
Atlas Lib

Atlas Lib

A serialzation and math libary for minecraft mods.

Mod 35,550,038
Farmer's Respite

Farmer's Respite

Tea addon for Farmer's Delight

Mod 30,857,049
TenshiLib (Forge/NeoForge)

TenshiLib (Forge/NeoForge)

Core and Library mod for my other projects

Mod 29,633,112
Common Network

Common Network

Forge and Fabric Unified Networking Solution

Mod 27,995,088
Immersive Weathering [FORGE]

Immersive Weathering [FORGE]

An abundance of new natural systems to make your world feel more alive than ever.

Mod 25,829,778
Fresh Animations: Extensions

Fresh Animations: Extensions

A combination of offical extension packs for Fresh Animations

Texture Pack 22,595,355
Data Anchor

Data Anchor

Simple library mod with helpful data attaching and networking utilities including attaching data to entities, chunks, pl...

Mod 19,868,692
Mellow

Mellow

Shaderpack with a painterly aesthetic made for people who want to actually play the game. It's easy on your eyes and on...

Shader 19,685,650
Dynamic Crosshair

Dynamic Crosshair

A Minecraft mod that hides or changes the crosshair dependent on context

Mod 18,065,351
Hardcore Revival

Hardcore Revival

Help your friends back up after they die (if you can make it in time)

Mod 17,511,730
Spooklementary

Spooklementary

A Spooky, very moody and atmospheric Complementary Shaders Edit

Shader 17,051,367
Bocchium

Bocchium

Forge port of Bedrodium, culling bedrock sides for better performance.

Mod 15,146,705
KeyBind Bundles

KeyBind Bundles

Do you have too many keybinds but not enough keys? With this mod you create add your own key bundles, collapsing a set o...

Mod 14,796,896
[LEGACY] Drip Sounds (Forge)

[LEGACY] Drip Sounds (Forge)

Forge mod that adds sounds for drip particles landing

Mod 14,213,747
Dynamic Lights [Server] [Fabric/Quilt/Forge/NeoForge]

Dynamic Lights [Server] [Fabric/Quilt/Forge/NeoForge]

Supported entities and items such as torches or lanterns emit light!

Mod 12,405,140
Ok Zoomer Forge

Ok Zoomer Forge

Adds a highly-configurable zoom key for Forge. The zoom is yours!

Mod 9,896,556
Large Meals (An Add-on for Farmer's Delight)

Large Meals (An Add-on for Farmer's Delight)

A Farmer's Delight addon that adds new and creative recipes to the game.

Mod 8,461,569
Butchery

Butchery

Realistically butcher everything in Minecraft!

Mod 7,679,142
Walkie-Talkie

Walkie-Talkie

Adds two-way radios with different upgrades.

Mod 7,281,354
MineTraps

MineTraps

This mod adds several new traps to the game!

Mod 7,205,613
TCT Core

TCT Core

This mod allows you to centralize all the other mods in order to be able to access the information or settings directly...

Mod 6,785,404
Bobby Reforged

Bobby Reforged

Allows for render distances greater than the server's view-distance setting

Mod 6,040,771
Colourful Containers: Modded Dark Mode GUI Compat

Colourful Containers: Modded Dark Mode GUI Compat

Adds a new look to all the boring modded GUI's, now in Dark Mode!

Texture Pack 5,665,866
Nyctophobia (FORGE)

Nyctophobia (FORGE)

Spooky and scary new biomes

Mod 5,216,963
Time Control

Time Control

Want longer or shorter in-game days/nights? So did I.

Mod 4,206,602
Fresh Animations: Player Extension

Fresh Animations: Player Extension

Animates players in Fresh Animations' style. An official FA extension.

Texture Pack 3,791,512
Skin Restorer

Skin Restorer

A server-side mod for managing and restoring player skins.

Mod 3,744,138
Continents

Continents

Explore the seas to find realistic continents & islands. Works with most mods!

Mod 3,544,217
AstemirLib

AstemirLib

Library for my mods.

Mod 3,187,598
ReForgedPlay [replay mod on (neo)forge]

ReForgedPlay [replay mod on (neo)forge]

Replay mod port to (neo)forge! Record your adventures in minecraft

Mod 2,704,418
Odyssey Allies

Odyssey Allies

Form a guild to live and work together with your friends. Form a party to fight and adventure together with allies. Chat...

Mod 2,181,650
Configurable Despawn Timer

Configurable Despawn Timer

✏️ Allows items and experience orbs to remain longer, shorter or infinitely on the ground.

Mod 2,135,990
Burnt: Better Vanilla Fire

Burnt: Better Vanilla Fire

The Vanilla fire enhancing mod with ADDED EXTRAS

Mod 1,958,594
Glowing Emissive Ores

Glowing Emissive Ores

Adds emissive ore textures to 305 mods and vanilla, no other resource pack supports as many! Updates add additional mod...

Texture Pack 1,743,838
Odyssey Claims

Odyssey Claims

A land claiming mod that allows users to claim land to protect your home from thieves, bandits and monsters, and admins...

Mod 1,718,651
FPS Boost

FPS Boost

Want to optimize your game and improve performance? This mods is for you

Mod 1,484,104
Fresh Animations: Emissive

Fresh Animations: Emissive

Makes some Fresh Animations' textures emit light. An official FA extension.

Texture Pack 1,299,263
Fresh Animations: Details

Fresh Animations: Details

Adds an assortment of extra details to mobs for Fresh Animations. An official FA extension.

Texture Pack 1,292,219
Extermination

Extermination

The Tripods from War of the Worlds (2005) have arrived. Your World is doomed!

Mod 966,409
Fresh Animations: Spiders

Fresh Animations: Spiders

Overhauls the design of spiders with Fresh Animations. An official FA extension.

Texture Pack 950,159
CTR VCR

CTR VCR

Retro stylized shader that brings artifacts from CRT and VCR / VHS

Shader 837,878
Fresh Animations: Objects

Fresh Animations: Objects

Animates non-mob entities in Fresh Animations' style. An official FA extension.

Texture Pack 717,839
Enhanced Falling Trees

Enhanced Falling Trees

Ensure that trees topple in a lifelike manner when they are felled.

Mod 715,984
Lifesteal [Fabric/NeoForge/Forge]

Lifesteal [Fabric/NeoForge/Forge]

Lifesteal is a mod where killing other players steals their hearts for your own gain

Mod 687,804
Fresh Animations: Creepers

Fresh Animations: Creepers

New look for creepers, compatible with Fresh Animations. An official FA extension.

Texture Pack 569,275
Flowing Fluids

Flowing Fluids

Gives fluids realistic flowing physics, making them mostly finite. With various settings for performance, visuals, and g...

Mod 499,611
Fresh Animations: Quivers

Fresh Animations: Quivers

Gives skeletons quivers, compatible with Fresh Animations. An official FA extension.

Texture Pack 436,098
Better Forests

Better Forests

Fills Minecraft forest biomes with beautiful and varying trees.

Mod 407,675
Indestructible Blocks

Indestructible Blocks

A server utility that allows you to make any block you want indestructible.

Mod 363,788
Glowing

Glowing

Use Optifine/ConnectedTextureMod/Vanilla(CoreShaders) format to make some things glow or emissive for vanilla.

Texture Pack 218,896
Low Fire Pack

Low Fire Pack

Lower your first-person fire to enhance visibility!

Texture Pack 158,465
Short Sword

Short Sword

Experience a clearer view and smoother swings!

Texture Pack 73,475
Classic Glint

Classic Glint

Brings back the old enchantment glint from 1.19.3!

Texture Pack 35,795
The Jobs Mod

The Jobs Mod

Jobs Mod lets admins create custom jobs and assign them to players. Each job grants passive effects and item enchantment...

Mod 18,990
Powdered Snow+

Powdered Snow+

Enhances the visibility of powdered snows.

Texture Pack 18,809
Small Totem Animation

Small Totem Animation

Make your totem "pop" animation smaller for less obtrusiveness!

Texture Pack 17,535
FLAME's Zombie Lib

FLAME's Zombie Lib

FLAME's Zombie Lib is a lightweight library that provides shared systems for zombie-focused mods, including dynamic equi...

Mod 2,098
Shielded Zombies

Shielded Zombies

Zombies can now spawn with shields and actually block attacks! Configure shield spawn chances, enchantments, Unbreaking,...

Mod 1,758
Zombies With Fishing Rods

Zombies With Fishing Rods

Think you're safe on that rooftop? Think again. Zombies can now wield Fishing Rods, hook players from a distance, and dr...

Mod 1,652
Zombies With Bows+

Zombies With Bows+

Gives zombies, husks, drowned, and other undead a chance to spawn with bows or crossbows, complete with configurable enc...

Mod 1,651
Zombies With TNT

Zombies With TNT

Zombies With TNT gives zombies the ability to wield, ignite, and throw TNT at their targets. Configure spawn chances and...

Mod 1,647
Zombies With Enderpearls

Zombies With Enderpearls

Zombies that can use Ender Pearls to teleport toward their targets.

Mod 1,561
Zombies With Flint & Steel

Zombies With Flint & Steel

Zombies that can ignite players, mobs, and TNT using Flint & Steel.

Mod 875

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