Neos Colony
Modpackby Matzenko
Build and manage your own thriving colony with MineColonies at the heart of this modpack, supported by advanced technology, magic, exploration, and quality-of-life enhancements for an immersive Minecraft experience.
Description
🏰 Colonial Adventures – Build, Automate, Explore!
Welcome to a powerful and immersive Minecraft experience built around 🏗️ MineColonies, where you are the mayor, architect, and protector of a growing medieval town.
This modpack combines strategic colony management, ⚙️ advanced tech, 🪄 magical systems, and 🧭 epic exploration – all optimized with performance and quality-of-life features!
🔑 Key Features:
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🏘️ MineColonies & Structurize – Plan, build, and manage your own colony with workers, guards, builders, and citizens.
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⚡ Modern Technology – Featuring Industrial Foregoing, Refined Storage, Iron Furnaces, and Powah! to fully automate your base.
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🌱 Magic & Nature – Use Waystones, Mystical Agriculture-style crops, and helpful gadgets to shape the world your way.
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🏞️ New Biomes, Dungeons & Structures – Explore a refreshed world filled with loot, enemies, and adventure.
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🎒 Sophisticated Backpacks – With magnet, feeding, crafting, and stack upgrades for smarter inventory management.
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🛠️ 160+ carefully chosen Mods – Balanced for gameplay variety and compatibility.
🎮 Who is this modpack for?
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Players who love city building and want to lead a colony from scratch.
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Adventurers who seek custom dungeons and rare loot.
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Tinkerers who enjoy automation, logistics, and magic systems.
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Builders and creatives looking for immersive decorations, block palettes, and construction tools.
✅ Recommended Setup:
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Minecraft 1.21.1 (NeoForge)
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6–8 GB RAM minimum
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Optional: Shader support via Iris + Sodium
Compatibility
Mod Loaders
Game Versions
Recommended Gear
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Contained Mods (180)
Just Enough Items (JEI)
View Items and Recipes
Cloth Config API (Fabric/Forge/NeoForge)
Config Screen API for Minecraft
Mouse Tweaks
Enhances inventory management by adding various functions to the mouse buttons.
AppleSkin
Adds some useful information about food/hunger to the HUD
Architectury API
An intermediary api aimed to ease developing multiplatform mods.
Bookshelf
An open source library for other mods!
Clumps
Clumps XP orbs together to reduce lag
Sodium
The fastest and most compatible rendering optimization mod for Minecraft. Now available for both NeoForge and Fabric!
JourneyMap
Real-time map used for mapping in-game or your browser as you explore.
Waystones
Teleport from waystone to waystone or craft magical scrolls to warp.
Jade 🔍
Shows information about what you are looking at. (Hwyla/WAILA fork for Minecraft 1.16+)
Curios API (Forge/NeoForge)
A flexible and expandable accessory/equipment API for users and developers.
Placebo
A library mod
Collective
🎓 Collective is a shared library with common code for all of Serilum's mods.
Balm
Abstraction Layer for Multi-Loader Mods
Puzzles Lib
Why is it called Puzzles? That's the puzzle.
Sophisticated Backpacks
Yet another backpack mod this time with backpack you can place in world, color in different color combinations, upgrade...
Kotlin for Forge
Adds a Kotlin language loader and provides some optional utilities.
AttributeFix
Removes arbitrary limits on Minecraft's attribute system.
Polymorph (Fabric/Forge/Quilt)
No more recipe conflicts! Adds an option to choose the crafting result if more than one is available.
Just Enough Resources (JER)
A JEI addon that adds mob drops, ore gen, ..
Carry On
Carry On allows you to pick up Tile Entities and Mobs and carry them around!
FTB Library (NeoForge)
Common code for all GUI stuff in FTB Mods
CraftTweaker
CraftTweaker allows modpacks and servers to customize the game. With CraftTweaker you can change recipes, script events,...
Sophisticated Core
Library mod for Sophisticated mods
FerriteCore ((Neo)Forge)
Memory usage optimizations
Iron Chests
Iron Chest mod
SuperMartijn642's Config Lib
Config Lib makes dealing with config files just a bit easier.
Cupboard
Cupboard provides code, frameworks, and utilities for minecraft mods
SuperMartijn642's Core Lib
SuperMartijn642's Core Lib adds lots of basic implementations that allow for similar code between different Minecraft ve...
Rhino
A fork of Mozilla's Rhino library, modified for use in mods
CodeChicken Lib 1.8.+
Contains various tools to make modding easier.
Lootr (Forge & NeoForge)
A mod that makes it so nobody misses out on Loot! All loot chests are instanced per player and visually unique.
Fast Leaf Decay
Makes leaves decay faster when a tree is cut down.
Complementary Shaders - Unbound
Transforming the visuals of Minecraft with exceptional quality, detail, and performance.
NetherPortalFix
Ensures correct destinations when traveling back and forth through Nether Portals in Multiplayer.
Crafting Tweaks
Allows you to rotate, balance or clear crafting grids by the press of a button.
FastWorkbench
A performance upgrade for the crafting table.
OpenBlocks Elevator
Port of OpenBlocks Elevator.
Caelus API
A coremod and API to provide developers access to elytra flight mechanics through an entity attribute.
Cucumber Library
A library of shared code and functionality used by my mods.
AI Improvements
Performance and logic upgrades for mod AIs
Resourceful Config
Resourceful Config is a mod that allows for developers to make crossplatform configs
Refined Storage
An elegant solution to your hoarding problem.
Building Gadgets
A collection of Gadgets to make building large structures a little bit easier!
Industrial Foregoing
A collection of machines to make your minecraft builds easier to automate
FastFurnace
A performance upgrade for the furnace.
Iris Shaders
A modern shaders mod for Minecraft intended to be compatible with existing Optifine shaders
Corpse
Never lose your items again!
Flux Networks
Wireless Energy Networks, compatible with FE/EU/RF/TESLA/AE
Elytra Slot
Adds curio support to the elytra so you can fly and wear chest armor at the same time. Formerly known as Curious Elytra.
Configured
Automatic in-game configuration menus for every mod!
Ender IO
Ender IO
Fusion (Connected Textures)
Fusion allows resource packs to use additional texture and model types such as connected textures!
Towns and Towers
Spice up your world with new villages, pillager outposts, and even new ships!
Cristel Lib
A Library mod for easy structure config and runtime datapacks.
Lithostitched
Library mod with new configurability and compatibility enhancements for worldgen
Just Enough Professions (JEP)
A JEI addon that adds profession workstations
Titanium
Library for Horizon Studio
Ore Excavation
A lightweight veinminer alternative
Trash Cans
Trash Cans adds trash cans which can be used to void items, liquids, and energy!
Silent Lib (silentlib)
Library to make writing and maintaining mods easier.
Iron Furnaces
Inspired by cpw's Iron Chests, this mod introduces a variety of new furnaces to the game.
FastSuite
A performance upgrade for the JSON recipe system.
Sophisticated Storage
Storage mod with multiple tiers and functional upgrades
Spice of Life: Carrot Edition
A mod based around food that rewards the player instead of punishing them for discovering new foods!
Inventory Sorter
Simple inventory sorting tweaks
Starter Kit
📦 Give all new players joining the world configurable starter gear, items and/or potion effects. It can overwrite the i...
MineColonies
Grow your Own Massive Colony with Automation, Defense Structures, Raids and more
Inventory HUD+
Adds your main inventory, potion effects and your equipments to your HUD. And few other features.
Pipez
Simple and efficient pipes
Easy Anvils
Overhauled anvils with stored items, fairer costs, and no more frustrating repair penalties.
Simply Light
Simple light for a complicated world.
Loot Integrations
Allows loot from loottables to be integrated into other lootables, inherently adds better dungeon loot to a few structur...
Wither Skeleton Tweaks
General improvements to wither skeletons
Ranged Pumps
Ranged Pumps is a simple mod that adds a pump that pumps liquids in a range.
Iron Jetpacks
A fully customizable Forge Energy (FE) based jetpacks mod!
Structurize
Copy structures, paste structures, manipulate structures (100% GUI)
Connected Glass
Connected Glass adds new types of glass with connecting textures!
Easy Villagers
Never get annoyed by villagers again!
Jade Addons (Neo/Forge)
Jade 🔍's additional mod supports for Neo/Forge
ChoiceTheorem's Overhauled Village
Enhances and creates new villages and pillager outposts, that perfectly fit into your Minecraft world.
Powah! (Rearchitected)
A tech mod that adds various ways to generate, store and transmit Energy.
Double Doors
🚪 Multiple identical double doors, trapdoors and fence gates can be opened simultaneously.
Simple Magnets
Simple Magnets adds Magnets that pickup items around the player!
Prickle
Prickle is a JSON based configuration file format brought to Minecraft.
Bonsai Trees 4
Grow small trees!
More Overlays Updated
Adds NEI-like light overlay for mob spawns, a chunk border overlay and a JEI item search overlay. (updated for 1.16.5, 1...
Clean Swing Through Grass
Hit your Enemies even in Grass
Domum Ornamentum
Millions of unique block variants and all stairs/slabs/walls/fence and more vanilla Minecraft forgot
BlockUI
Easy to Use UI library for Forge mods
Charging Gadgets
A simple mod for charging with ForgeEnergy
Inventory Essentials
The most essential inventory tweaks. Now with sorting!
ExtraStorage
Add new blocks to Refined Storage, like more advanced crafters
Scalable Cat's Force
Scala language provider for Minecraft 1.13.2 and newer
Multi-Piston
Multi-directional Piston Block
Bliss Shaders
A well performing fantasy styled shaderpack with emphasis on scene variation and customization.
EdivadLib
Just a common library for all my mods
Extra Disks
Extra Disks adds bigger disks to Refined Storage 1.14+
GuideME
A guidebook toolkit for mods and modpack makers alike with comfortable markdown formatting, and live 3d scenes!
Crafting on a stick
Adds multiple crafting station on a stick such as crafting table on a stick
Additional Enchanted Miner
add advanced enchant-able mining machines
Photon Shader
A gameplay-focused shader pack with a semi-realistic style
Chicken Chunks 1.8.+
Chunk load all the chunks with the power of chicken!
TownTalk
Minecolonies Addon for more Voice Lines
MonoLib
A non-invasive library mod for Fabric, Forge, and NeoForge.
Stylecolonies
A set of blueprint sets for the Minecolonies Mod
Stylish Effects
Status effect display overhaul: Display them in any menu! And way more compact.
Inventory Tweaks - ReFoxed
Inventory Tweaks for NeoForge
YUNG's API (NeoForge)
A library mod for some of YUNG's Minecraft mods
Tesseract
Tesseract allows you to transport Items, Fluid and Energy
Dis-Enchanting Table
Recover enchantments from enchanted weapons or books!
Tesseract API (NeoForge)
Another library mod for mod developers
Stack Refill
📚 Automatically refills the player's hand when using the final item if a replacement exists.
Easy Piglins
Never get annoyed by bartering anymore!
Faster Ladder Climbing
Quickly climb up or down ladders by looking in the direction you want to go.
Tax Free Levels
Flattens the ever-increasing anvil and enchantment costs and makes renaming items always cost 1 level
Refined Storage - Quartz Arsenal
Quartz Arsenal is an addon for Refined Storage that adds various new tools.
Refined Storage - JEI Integration
Refined Storage has an optional integration mod for Just Enough Items (JEI), enhancing crafting and recipe interaction.
Gliders
Gliders: essential for traversing terrain and preventing falls
Refined Storage - Curios Integration
An optional integration mod adds support for Curios on NeoForge, providing two dedicated Curios slots for Refined Storag...
Inventory Totem
🎴 Makes the totem of undying effect work when it's anywhere in the inventory.
Advanced XRay (Neoforge Edition)
A simple but advanced xray mod that allows you to find all of your most loved blocks.
Better With Minecolonies
Recipes that allow you to get hard to acquire blocks with slightly less difficulty. Great for level 2 schematics that wa...
JadeColonies
A Jade addon for MineColonies and Domum Ornamentum
Paxi (NeoForge)
Global data & resource packs made easy.
Custom Nether Portals [Any Shape Nether Portals]
Build Nether Portals of any size, form and in any direction: on the floor, on walls, on the ceiling or floating in the a...
Loot Integrations: Towns and Towers
Adds better loot to Towns and Towers chests, including modded loot
World Stripper
Strips away blocks to reveal the underground world gen. A must have tool for all devs. dev ore map strip world
ARLib
My multiblock, GUI, networking & rendering lib
Easy Emerald Tools & More [FORGE/NEOFORGE]
Armor, tools, and weapons from Emerald & Ruby
Loot Integrations: ChoiceTheorem's Overhauled Village & Immersive Structures
Adds better loot to ChoiceTheorem's Overhauled Village & Immersive Structures chests, including modded loot
Solar Cooker
Solar Cooker / Furnace - Cooking without fuel (Forge, NeoForge, Fabric, Quilt)
SmallColonies for Minecolonies
A collection of blueprints for Minecolonies by Thaylar
Simple Grinder
Add machine-crasher.
Age of Steam Core
Axles, Gearboxes, Crankshafts!
Mechanical Pump
A simple mechanical fluid pump
BBL Smart Crafting
A block that views your inventory and inventories around it and shows available crafts
Resource Library
Library Mod for all my Resource Mods
[IU] Industrial Upgrade
Industrial Upgrade is the spiritual successor to Industrial Craft
Resource Config API
A Config API for my Resource Mods
Exp Ore
This mod add the EXP Ore and when you break it you will receive random amount of experience
Hud Compass
Shows a compass at the top of the screen with waypoints
Glowing Ores
Adds a configurable light level to ore blocks
Craftable Totem Of Undying - The Craftables Series
Makes the totem of undying craftable
Lux V1
Lux is a high fidelity Minecraft: Java Edition shader pack based on Capt Tatsu's BSL Shaders.
Leather Craft
Create leather by smelting rotten flesh.
Resource Nether Ores
Add Vanilla ores to the Nether Dimension
[IU] Simply Quarries
Simply Quarries - addon to IndustrialUprade
Craftable Experience Bottle
Makes the Experience Bottle craftable
[IU] Power Utilities
Power Utilities - addon to IndustrialUpgrade
[IU] Quantum Generators
Quantum Generators - addon to IndustrialUpgrade
Ender Tendril
Growable ender pearl substitutes
Craftable Saddle - The Craftables Series
Makes the saddle craftable
Craftable Enchanted Golden Apple - The Craftables Series
Makes the enchanted golden apple craftable
Craftable Trident - The Craftables Series
Makes the trident craftable
Craftable Spawners and Eggs (H version) - The Craftables Series
Ever wanted to craft mobs?
Glowstone Dust Crafting
Easy to craft Glowstone Dust
Craftable Elytra - The Craftables Series
Makes the elytra craftable
SLIMEasier
Lacking slime balls in Minecraft? Now you can get them easier!
Craftable Horse Armors - The Craftables Series
Makes the horse armors craftable
Minecolonies Quality of life
small mod changing how fast builders build, break blocks, and even letting you start a colony with chosen research alrea...
Modern Silk Touch Spawners
Allows for the removal and replacement of any spawner blocks
Craftable Cobweb - The Craftables Series
Makes the cobweb craftable
Craftable Spawners and Eggs (P version) - The Craftables Series
Ever wanted to craft mobs?
Bonsai Crops
A Minecraft mod adding a block that grows crops inside a single block space.
Craftable End Portal Frame - The Craftables Series
Makes the end portal frame craftable
Craftable Chainmail Armor - The Craftables Series
Makes the chainmail armor craftable
String Crafting from Wool
This mod adds a crafting for white wool
Craftable Uncraftable Items
This mod adds crafting to uncraftable items.
Easy Ores
With this mod you can craft ores with Recipes Very simple
Another Craftable Nether Stars
With this mod Nether Stars are getting craftable!
Craftable Nether Wart - The Craftables Series
Inverse crafting from nether wart block
Netherite Plus: No Template
Upgrade to Netherite faster by removing the Smithing Template requirement.
Craftable Bedrock - The Craftables Series
just a terrible idea..
Craftable Discs - The Craftables Series
Makes the discs craftable
Inventory Crafter Returns
Craft from anywhere via button or keybind while a crafting table is in your inventory
Craft Everything, Craft It All
A simple but effective mod which makes some of the rarest and/or useful items craftable.
Simple Shulkers
Early game wooden shulker boxes for portable storage.
Solar Furnace
A Furnace that smells items through the power of the Sun