Cataclysmic Ascension
Modpackby rollylindenshnizzer
Cataclysmic Ascension is a high-powered Minecraft 1.21.1 modpack that challenges players to rise through a world of chaos, monsters, magic, and ancient relics, combining intense combat, deep progression, and immersive exploration across dimensions.
Description
🌌 Cataclysmic Ascension
Cataclysmic Ascension is a content-rich Minecraft 1.21.1 modpack built on NeoForge, crafted to deliver an intense and rewarding journey through this world.
🗡️ Combat & Progression
Face down powerful bosses from L_Ender’s Cataclysm, master unique weapons with Simply Swords and Too Many Bows, and wield arcane power using Iron’s Spells ‘n Spellbooks. This pack offers deep combat variety and meaningful progression as you rise through the ranks.
🧟 Survival Challenges
Brave the chaos with mutant monsters, brutal environmental conditions from Tough As Nails, and unpredictable magical threats. You'll need skill, strategy, and the right gear to survive.
🏰 Exploration & Loot
Explore rich structures from Dungeons and Taverns, uncover dimension-hopping secrets, and scavenge rare Relics that grant extraordinary powers. Every ruin and dungeon holds the potential for game-changing treasure.
🍲 Utility & Immersion
Manage your inventory with Sophisticated Backpacks, cook gourmet meals with Farmer’s Delight, and equip powerful trinkets through Curios API for maximum customization and survival depth.
Whether you're battling eldritch horrors or ascending through mystic trials, every step in Cataclysmic Ascension pushes you toward godlike power—or cataclysmic failure.

Server packs will be released a few weeks or days after a version is released.
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Mini PC for Self-Hosting
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Contained Mods (192)
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
GeckoLib
A 3D animation library for entities, blocks, items, armor, and more!
Architectury API
An intermediary api aimed to ease developing multiplatform mods.
Controlling
Adds a search bar to the Key-Bindings menu
Bookshelf
An open source library for other mods!
Entity Culling Fabric/Forge
Using async path-tracing to hide BlockEntities/Entities that are not visible
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!
Waystones
Teleport from waystone to waystone or craft magical scrolls to warp.
Collective
🎓 Collective is a shared library with common code for all of Serilum's mods.
Placebo
A library mod
Enchantment Descriptions
Adds in-game descriptions for enchantments to tooltips.
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
ImmediatelyFast
Speed up immediate mode rendering in Minecraft
Moonlight Lib
Forge and Fabric lightweight library with utilities such as custom Villagers AI, data driven trades, global datapack, cu...
FancyMenu
Customize Minecraft's menus with ease!
Konkrete
Just another boring library mod.
Puzzles Lib
Why is it called Puzzles? That's the puzzle.
CreativeCore
a core mod
Better Advancements
Successor to BetterAchievements for the new advancements system in minecraft 1.12+
Comforts
Adds sleeping bags and hammocks for, respectively, portability and turning day to night, without setting new spawns. Com...
Sophisticated Backpacks
Yet another backpack mod this time with backpack you can place in world, color in different color combinations, upgrade...
Farmer's Delight
A cozy expansion to farming and cooking!
YetAnotherConfigLib
A builder-based configuration library for Minecraft.
Kotlin for Forge
Adds a Kotlin language loader and provides some optional utilities.
Not Enough Animations
Bringing first-person animations to the third-person
Polymorph (Fabric/Forge/Quilt)
No more recipe conflicts! Adds an option to choose the crafting result if more than one is available.
Complementary Shaders - Reimagined
Preserving the elements of Minecraft with exceptional quality, detail, and performance.
[EMF] Entity Model Features [Fabric & Forge]
EMF is an, OptiFine format, Custom Entity Model replacement mod available for Fabric and Forge.
Just Enough Resources (JER)
A JEI addon that adds mob drops, ore gen, ..
Lithium (Fabric/NeoForge)
An optimization mod for Minecraft which improves server performance significantly.
Sophisticated Core
Library mod for Sophisticated mods
FerriteCore ((Neo)Forge)
Memory usage optimizations
Resourceful Lib
Lib for Team Resourceful and more
Searchables
Searchables is a library mod that adds helper methods that allow for searching and filtering elements based on component...
Cupboard
Cupboard provides code, frameworks, and utilities for minecraft mods
Melody
OpenAL-based library mod for playing background music.
Sound Physics Remastered
A Minecraft mod that provides realistic sound attenuation, reverberation, and absorption through blocks.
Iceberg [Neo/Forge]
A modding library that contains new events, helpers, and utilities to make modder's lives easier.
Rhino
A fork of Mozilla's Rhino library, modified for use in mods
playerAnimator
player animation library
Lootr (Forge & NeoForge)
A mod that makes it so nobody misses out on Loot! All loot chests are instanced per player and visually unique.
Toast Control
Control toasts, those popups in the corner!
Complementary Shaders - Unbound
Transforming the visuals of Minecraft with exceptional quality, detail, and performance.
KubeJS
Edit recipes, add new custom items, script world events, all in JavaScript!
NetherPortalFix
Ensures correct destinations when traveling back and forth through Nether Portals in Multiplayer.
MmmMmmMmmMmm (Target Dummy)
Target Dummy that show damage dealt and can be equipped with armor. Damage numbers!
Caelus API
A coremod and API to provide developers access to elytra flight mechanics through an entity attribute.
CoroUtil
Library Mod for Weather/Tropicraft/ZombieAwareness/etc
AmbientSounds 6
#listentonature
AI Improvements
Performance and logic upgrades for mod AIs
Connectivity
Fix Login timeouts, Packet sizes errors, Payloads errors, ghostblocks and more.
Reese's Sodium Options
Alternative Options Menu for Sodium
Resourceful Config
Resourceful Config is a mod that allows for developers to make crossplatform configs
[ETF] Entity Texture Features - [Fabric & Forge]
Custom, Emissive and Varied mobs like Optifine and so much more.. +Player skin features!)
Drippy Loading Screen
Addon for FancyMenu to customize the loading screen.
Framework
A common library powering all of MrCrayfish's Mods
Iris Shaders
A modern shaders mod for Minecraft intended to be compatible with existing Optifine shaders
Fzzy Config
Config API with automatic GUIs, powerful validation options, server-client sync, and more!
Corpse
Never lose your items again!
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.
oωo (owo-lib)
A general utility, GUI and config library for modding on Fabric and Quilt
Better Compatibility Checker
Changes the default server compatability check to compare modpack versions
BadOptimizations
Optimization mod that focuses on things other than rendering
Euphoria Patches
Euphoria Patches is an add-on for Complementary Shaders, extending it with more optional features and settings.
Dynamic FPS
Improve performance when Minecraft is in the background
Amendments
Cauldron Potion Mixing, Lanterns Animation, Carpeted Stairs, Candle Skulls, Double Cakes, Better Lilypads and much more
Lithostitched
Library mod with new configurability and compatibility enhancements for worldgen
Prism [Neo/Forge]
A library all about color! Provides lots of color-related functionality for dependent mods.
BSL Shaders
Shaderpack for Minecraft: Java Edition. It's bright, colorful, and distinct.
Visual Workbench
Items stay inside of crafting tables and are also rendered on top. It's really fancy!
L_Ender 's Cataclysm
Discover mythical structures across your world and through dimensions, harboring challenging enemies, end-game bosses, a...
Skin Layers 3D
Render the player skin layer in 3d!
ShatterLib | OctoLib
Collection of shared code for Shatterbyte mods
Just Enough Professions (JEP)
A JEI addon that adds profession workstations
Legendary Tooltips [Neo/Forge]
Give your rare items a fancier tooltip! Also adds additional tooltip configuration options.
CorgiLib
A library mod containing code used across Corgi Taco's mods.
Guard Villagers
Guards that help with village pest control
What Are They Up To (Watut)
Lets you see if players are typing, in a GUI, idle, with cool ingame visuals
Sodium/Embeddium Options API
Config API for adding Sodium/Embeddium options with a better categories menu
FastSuite
A performance upgrade for the JSON recipe system.
Sodium/Embeddium Dynamic Lights
Multiloader port of LambDynLights that adds Sodium/Embeddium settings support
GlitchCore
A library mod aimed at abstracting mod loaders and providing various utilities for our mods.
Yeetus Experimentus
Yeetus Experimental Settings
Easy Magic
Enchanting tables as they always should have been! Items stay after closing, and easy re-rolls.
Goblin Traders
Adds goblins that you can find underground with unique and useful trades!
Lionfish API
Very Light Animation API
Easy Anvils
Overhauled anvils with stored items, fairer costs, and no more frustrating repair penalties.
Better Combat [Fabric & Forge]
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Loot Integrations
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EnhancedVisuals
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EMI
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AllTheLeaks (Memory Leak Fix)
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Iron's Spells 'n Spellbooks
A magic mod bringing back the classic RPG spellcasting fantasy.
Let Me Despawn
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AzureLib
Java Minecraft mod using Bedrock models to create custom models and animations for items, blocks, entities
Villager Names
🧑🌾 Gives all villager entities a default or custom name to liven up the world.
Relics
Just a mod about useful items with unique mechanics :3
Double Doors
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Prickle
Prickle is a JSON based configuration file format brought to Minecraft.
Simply Swords [Fabric & Forge]
Adds Spears, Glaives, Chakrams, Katanas, Greathammer/axes, Rapiers, and many more weapons!
Just Enough Breeding (JEBr)
JEI/REI/EMI plugin that displays breeding information
HT's TreeChop
Fell trees chop-by-chop instead of block-by-block.
LootJS: KubeJS Addon
Add functionality for packdevs to modify global loot modifications through KubeJS
Particle Core
Particle optimizations: Culling, rendering optimizations, configurable particle-type-specific spawn reduction, and potio...
Every Compat (Wood Good)
Universal Wood Compat: Quark, Twilight Forest, Twigs, Another Furniture, Farmers Delight, Macaw's, Valhelsia, Architect...
Mutant Monsters
The mutants are back! Face scary creatures and powerful beasts like never before.
MakeUp - Ultra Fast | Shaders
High performance shaders. Gameplay oriented. Lightweight.
Oh The Biomes We've Gone
An astounding sequel to the original BYG mod for 1.20.1+ with over 50+ biomes ranging from the magical to the realistic...
Colorful Hearts
A client side mod that replaces multiple vanilla heart rows with a single row using colored hearts
Tectonic
Terrain shaping brought to new heights, grander and more varied than ever before!
Almanac Lib
A loader independent library containing shared code reused between mods and a fix for empty nbt issues.
Oh The Trees You'll Grow
Tree library used by popular mods such as Oh The Biomes We've Gone.
Solas Shader
A good performing fantasy stylized shaderpack with colored lighting and fancy visuals
Simple Discord RPC
A simple to use RPC plugin for Minecraft and Modpacks
Bliss Shaders
A well performing fantasy styled shaderpack with emphasis on scene variation and customization.
End Remastered [NeoForge/Fabric]
Make your journey towards the End more challenging and engaging with End Remastered!
Accessories
An extendable and data-driven Accessory Mod for Minecraft
Zombie Awareness
- Smarter more aware zombies (and skeletons), they track you down via blood scent, sound, and light source awareness
Better Archeology
Discover artifacts & fossils by encountering new structures that'll enhance your adventure and exploration!
Just Enough Effect Descriptions (JEED)
JEI/REI/EMI plugin that displays information on all potion and status effects
End's Delight
An addon mod for Farmer's Delight based around adding culinary content to the end!
BaguetteLib
A simple but powerful event library that gives mod developers the control they actually need.
First-person Model
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Nyf's Spiders
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Dungeons and Taverns
an Vanilla styled structure mod
CraterLib
A library mod for First Dark Development and HypherionSA's mods
Item Borders [Neo/Forge]
Add colored borders to inventory slots to make your rare items stand out!
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Adds Curios API support to Corpse
Chef's Delight [Forge] - Farmer's Delight Villagers
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YUNG's API (NeoForge)
A library mod for some of YUNG's Minecraft mods
Tough As Nails
A difficult, survival-based mod that adds body temperature and thirst!
TerraBlender (NeoForge)
A library mod for adding biomes in a simple and compatible manner!
EMI Enchanting
EMI Plugin that gives basic enchantment information; valid items, exlcusions, etc.
My Nether's Delight
New Nether addon for Farmer's Delight
Fresh Moves
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Fast Item Frames
Supercharged item frames! Less lag, better performance, and now they can change color and vanish!
👻 Hysteria Shaders
Atmospheric, highly customizable eerie shaderpack, successor of Insanity Shader.
Variants&Ventures
Adds multiple new mob variants seamlessly integrated into your Minecraft world.
YUNG's Better Strongholds (NeoForge)
A complete redesign of Minecraft's strongholds
Data Anchor
Simple library mod with helpful data attaching and networking utilities including attaching data to entities, chunks, pl...
YUNG's Better Mineshafts (NeoForge)
A long-awaited and much-needed abandoned mineshaft overhaul!
Amplified Nether
256-tall nether with 3D biomes, mountains and more!
YUNG's Better Nether Fortresses (NeoForge)
A complete redesign of Minecraft's Nether fortresses!
YUNG's Better Dungeons (NeoForge)
A complete redesign of Minecraft's dungeons!
Easy Shulker Boxes
Supercharge shulker boxes with browsing, inserting and extracting contents directly from your inventory.
YUNG's Better End Island (NeoForge)
An overhaul of the main End Island where the dragon fight takes place!
YUNG's Better Jungle Temples (NeoForge)
A complete redesign of Minecraft's jungle temples!
Veinminer Enchantment (Fabric/Forge/NeoForge/Quilt)
New enchantment for pickaxes to mine multiple matching connected ores!
Dynamic Crosshair
A Minecraft mod that hides or changes the crosshair dependent on context
YUNG's Better Ocean Monuments (NeoForge)
A complete redesign of Minecraft's ocean monuments!
YUNG's Better Witch Huts (NeoForge)
Adds overhauled witch huts to swamps!
Oracle Index
A minecraft fabric / neoforge client-side documentation viewer mod, intended to be used with wikis alongside moddedmc.wi...
Hopo Better Ruined Portals
Improve how the portals look in your world
CameraOverhaul
Makes gameplay more satisfying through the use of various camera tilting.
YUNG's Better Desert Temples (NeoForge)
A complete redesign of Minecraft's desert temples!
Boss Refreshed
Minecraft's Bosses with a Refreshed Take!
YUNG's Extras (NeoForge)
Extra structures, features, and vanilla+ content suitable for any modpack
DnT Ancient City Overhaul
Standalone Splinter version of Dungeons and Taverns Ancient City Overhaul
Better Ping Display
Displays ping in milliseconds in the player list in a configurable way
Visual Traveler's Titles
Visual titles when entering dimensions!
Golems Are Friends Not Fodder
This mod makes Armorer, Toolsmith and Weaponsmith villagers attempt to repair damaged golems in their village during day...
Clear Glass with Connected Textures! [16x]
Clean Glass! Remove line streaks from Glass & Stained Glass!
Nyf's Quivers
Add's Quivers that hold Arrows based on Quiver Type and Bows will pull from the Quivers Active Slot First
Cataclysmic Combat
Adds support to L_Ender 's Cataclysm for better combat
Too Many Bows
A bunch of amazing crazy bows with unique abilities!!!
DnT Pillager Outpost Overhaul
Standalone split version of the Pillager Outpost Overhaul from Dungeons and Taverns
Traveler's Titles (NeoForge)
Epic, RPG-like titles when entering biomes & dimensions!
YUNG's Bridges (NeoForge)
Adds beautiful naturally generated bridges throughout the world
Loot Integrations: L_Ender 's Cataclysm
Adds better loot to Cataclysm chests and bosses, including modded loot
Medieval Style Lootr
Turns Lootr's bright gold chests into more medieval chests.
Double Slabs
Adds improvements to all slabs created in vanilla and modded
[ESF] Entity Sound Features
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Cataclysm: Spellbooks
An addon for Iron's Spells and Spellbooks and L_Ender's Cataclysm
Reliquified L_Ender 's Cataclysm
Compatibility addon between Relics & L_Ender 's Cataclysm
Better Modlist
enhances default neoforge modlist.
EnhancedVisual Pixelated
A pixelated version of EnhancedVisuals' textures
[Deprecated] Curios Compat Layer for Accessories
A Compatibility layer for mods using the Curios API to work with Accessories
Fancy Block Particles - Renewed
3D Digging Particles! Original mod by MorphoxL
Ace's Spell Utils
An util API for making Iron's Spells and Spellbooks addons
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[Retired] DnT End Castle Standalone
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Loot Integrations: Dungeons and Taverns
Adds better loot to Dungeons and Taverns chests including modded loot
L_Ender 's Cataclysm Delight
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Simply Swords: Cataclysm
Addon for Simply Swords that adds compatibility with L_Ender's Cataclysm.
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Cataclysm: Spellbooks & BetterCombat - Compatibility
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