Why Not Create
Modpackby Ice_2161
Build and automate with Create, survive zombie hordes, enchant gear, and explore with AVA Guns and Chocolate Cows. NeoForge optimizes performance in Minecraft 1.20.1 for a smooth experience.
Description
Why Not Create (1.20.1)
Overview:
Welcome to Why Not Create, the mod pack where creativity knows no bounds! Powered by the innovative Create mod and its exciting addons, this pack lets you craft, automate, and engineer your world like never before. But don't get too comfortable—when the sun sets, massive zombie hordes will descend, and it’s up to you to defend your creations. Whether you're deep into building, battling, or simply looking to add some fun twists to your Minecraft world, Why Not Create has it all. With a blend of technical creativity, fun combat, and aesthetic upgrades, you’ll never run out of things to do.
Key Features:
Build & Automate with Create:
Unlock the power of Create to build awe-inspiring contraptions and automate your world. Whether you're designing massive factories, automated farms, or intricate machines, Create offers endless possibilities for engineers and builders alike.
Addons to Expand Your Creativity:
With Create Addons, you’ll have even more tools to enhance your creations, including fluid mechanics, advanced processing systems, and new automation options. There’s always something new to explore and build!
Survive the Night: The Hordes are Coming!
Nightfall brings more than just darkness—it brings zombie hordes. With the The Hordes mod, you’ll face massive waves of zombies every night, testing your ability to protect your creations and survive. Use your engineering skills to craft automated defenses, traps, and barricades to fend off the undead
Enhance Your Gear with Apothic Enchanting:
Want to take your gear to the next level? Apothic Enchanting lets you unlock powerful enchantments that can help you defend your base, speed up automation, or give you the edge in combat. Customize your tools and weapons for maximum efficiency.
Sophisticated Backpacks & Storage for Organization:
Stay organized in style with Sophisticated Backpacks and Sophisticated Storage. Whether you're on the move or building a massive factory, these mods will help you manage your items and resources more efficiently, giving you the freedom to focus on your creations.
AVA Guns for Combat:
Prepare for combat with AVA Guns! Equip yourself with a variety of firearms to fend off the zombie hordes or any other threats in your world. The added firepower gives you a new dimension of combat that’s both exciting and strategic.
Chocolate Cows for a Sweet Surprise:
Sometimes, you need a little sweetness in your world. Chocolate Cows adds adorable cows that drop delicious chocolate-themed items. While you focus on building and automating, these quirky mobs will bring some fun and tasty rewards.
Macaw's Addons for Beautiful Builds:
Make your world your own with Macaw's Addons, which add tons of decorative blocks and furniture to customize your base. Whether you're building a factory or a fortress, you can make it look stunning with Macaw’s expansive collection of decorative mods.
Optimized for Smooth Gameplay with NeoForge:
With NeoForge, this pack runs smoothly on Minecraft 1.20.1. NeoForge optimizes performance and mod compatibility, ensuring a seamless experience as you build, explore, and survive.
Mod List Highlights:
Create (Master the art of automation and mechanical design)
Create Addons (Expand your possibilities with additional mechanics)
Apothic Enchanting (Unlock powerful enchantments to upgrade your gear)
Sophisticated Backpacks (Carry your resources and items with ease)
Sophisticated Storage (Efficient, organized storage solutions)
AVA Guns (Equip firearms for combat and defense)
The Hordes (Survive massive zombie waves at night)
Chocolate Cows (Quirky mobs that drop sweet rewards)
Macaw's Addons (Decorative mods to personalize your world)
Who is this for?
Why Not Create is for players who love to combine creativity, engineering, and survival with a side of fun. If you enjoy automating your world, crafting epic defenses, and surviving zombie hordes, this pack will keep you engaged for hours. Perfect for both solo players and multiplayer groups looking to build, defend, and explore together in a world full of challenges and surprises.
Requirements:
Minecraft 1.20.1
NeoForge (For optimal performance and compatibility)
Compatibility
Mod Loaders
Game Versions
Recommended Gear
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Enderman plush toys, and a reliable gift for a younger player.
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Apothic Enchanting
A total overhaul to Minecraft's enchanting system
Apothic Spawners
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Architectury API
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Athena
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Atlas API
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Atlas Lib
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AttributeFix
Removes arbitrary limits on Minecraft's attribute system.
Balm
Abstraction Layer for Multi-Loader Mods
Baubley Heart Canisters
Bauble Heart Canisters
Better Combat [Fabric & Forge]
⚔️ Easy, spectacular and fun melee combat system from Minecraft Dungeons.
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Better Combat compatibility for Apotheosis
Better Days
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Better Than Mending
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Better Treasure Map
Display Block Distance on Treasure Maps
Biome Cows
Biome oriented cows
Blocks You Need (BYN) - Industrial, Steampunk, Laboratory, Space & more!
Adding blocks to your palette that are integrated into the minecraft world!
Bookshelf
An open source library for other mods!
Builders' Jetpack Mod
Adds a late game jetpack that makes building in survival more enjoyable!
Building Gadgets
A collection of Gadgets to make building large structures a little bit easier!
Building Wands
Building Wands (Fabric/Forge)
Camera Mod
A working Camera in Minecraft!
Carry On
Carry On allows you to pick up Tile Entities and Mobs and carry them around!
Chisel Reborn [Forge/Fabric/NeoForge]
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Chocolate Cows
Adds a new cow variant that allows you to obtain various new chocolate items.
ChoiceTheorem's Overhauled Village
Enhances and creates new villages and pillager outposts, that perfectly fit into your Minecraft world.
Clean Swing Through Grass
Hit your Enemies even in Grass
Cloth Config API (Fabric/Forge/NeoForge)
Config Screen API for Minecraft
Clumps
Clumps XP orbs together to reduce lag
Cobweb
Crystal Nest API
Collective
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Colorful Hearts
A client side mod that replaces multiple vanilla heart rows with a single row using colored hearts
Complementary Shaders - Reimagined
Preserving the elements of Minecraft with exceptional quality, detail, and performance.
Connected Glass
Connected Glass adds new types of glass with connecting textures!
Controlling
Adds a search bar to the Key-Bindings menu
CoroUtil
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Corpse
Never lose your items again!
Cosmetic Armor Reworked
This mod allows you to wear two sets of armor, one for display, one for function.
Create
Aesthetic Technology that empowers the Player
Create : CROWNS
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Create : Misc & Things
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Create : Teleporters
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Create Chromatic Return
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Create Confectionery
🍫 Create your own Chocolate Factory !
Create Contraption Terminals
Allows Tom's Simple Storage Terminals to work on Create contraptions.
Create Crafts & Additions
Electrifying the Create mod!
Create Encased
Allow to use all casing on shafts/cogwheels/pipes
Create Mechanical Cow
Kinetic Milk generator
Create Mechanical Extruder
A mechanical extruder block. Can be used to generate any block or item from adjacent blocks/fluids.
Create Ore Excavation
Extract resources using machines powered by Rotational Force
Create Ore Excavation Plus
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Create Stuff 'N Additions
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Create: Bells & Whistles
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Create: Better Motors (Crafts & Additions Addon)
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Create: Better Villager (Fabric/Forge/NeoForge)
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Create: Copycats+
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Create: Dragons Plus
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Create: Enchantable Machinery
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Create: Enchantment Industry
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Create: Escalated
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Create: Extra Casing
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Create: Extra Gauges
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Create: Filters Anywhere
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Create: Framed
A Create mod addon that adds more Framed Glass variants.
Create: Haven Qualities
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Create: Ironworks
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Create: Let The Adventure Begin
A addon that implements many unique and balanced, create themed structures
Create: Liquid Fuel
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Create: More Features
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Create: New Beginnings
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Create: Pattern Schematics
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Create: Recycling Everything [NeoForge Port]
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Create: Rustic Structures
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CreativeCore
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Cryonic Config
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Cupboard
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Curios API (Forge/NeoForge)
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Dynamic Trees
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Enchantment Descriptions
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Ender's Delight
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EverlastingAbilities
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Extreme sound muffler - (Neo)Forge
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Factory Blocks [Forge/Fabric/NeoForge]
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Farmer's Delight
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Farmers Structures
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Farsight [Forge/Neo]
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Fast Leaf Decay
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Fast Paintings
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FramedBlocks
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Framework
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Freecam
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FTB Chunks (NeoForge)
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Fusion (Connected Textures)
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Gateways to Eternity
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GeckoLib
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Harvest with ease
Don't break crops, right click them!
Health Enchantment (Fabric/Forge/NeoForge/Quilt)
New enchantment for armor to increase max health!
HT's TreeChop
Fell trees chop-by-chop instead of block-by-block.
Iceberg [Neo/Forge]
A modding library that contains new events, helpers, and utilities to make modder's lives easier.
Indestructible Blocks
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Inventory Essentials
The most essential inventory tweaks. Now with sorting!
Inventory HUD+
Adds your main inventory, potion effects and your equipments to your HUD. And few other features.
Inventory Sorter
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Iris Shaders
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Iron's Gems 'n Jewelry
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Iron's Spells 'n Spellbooks
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Item Highlighter [Neo/Forge]
Highlights newly picked-up items. Simple and convenient.
Jade Addons (Neo/Forge)
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Jade 🔍
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JamLib
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JourneyMap
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Just Enough Items (JEI)
View Items and Recipes
Just Enough Professions (JEP)
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Just Enough Resources (JER)
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kogtyv-Towny and Village
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Kotlin for Forge
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Large Ore Deposits
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Lightman's Currency
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Lithostitched
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Lootr (Forge & NeoForge)
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Macaw's Bridges
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Macaw's Doors
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Macaw's Fences and Walls
Adds new vanila styled fences, walls and gates!
Macaw's Furniture
Decorate your world with wardrobes, drawers, chairs, desks, tables, couches, sinks... and more!
Macaw's Holidays
Adds Christmas & Halloween decorations, Christmas Tree, Lights, Garland, Candy cane and more!
Macaw's Lights and Lamps
Adds vanila styled lamps, torches, street lamps, paper lamps, slabs... Make your worlds brighter!
Macaw's Paintings
Adds lots of custom made paintings!
Macaw's Roofs
Build roofs with actual roofs instead of stairs!
Macaw's Stairs
Adds new Vanilla styled Stairs, Handrails for Stairs and Balconies!
Macaw's Trapdoors
Adds vanila trapdoors in every plank variation, and some new trapdoors too!
Macaw's Windows
Adds lots of Windows, Mosaic Glass, Blinds, Shutters, Curtains and more..!
Mechanicals Lib
Common library for mods.
Moonlight Lib
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More More Cows[Discontinued]
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Mouse Tweaks
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The next generation of MrCrayfish's Furniture Mod, redesigned from the ground up with new models, sounds, and more!
No Enchantment Cap Level
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Not Enough Animations
Bringing first-person animations to the third-person
Patchouli
Accessible, Data-Driven, Dependency-Free Documentation for Minecraft Modders and Pack Makers
Petrol's Parts for Create
Unique aesthetic and functional components for Create like Corner Shafts, Pneumatic Tubes and Coaxial Cogwheels
Petrolpark Library
Shared code for my mods
Placebo
A library mod
playerAnimator
player animation library
Prickle
Prickle is a JSON based configuration file format brought to Minecraft.
project-1245485
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Puzzles Lib
Why is it called Puzzles? That's the puzzle.
Rechiseled
Rechiseled allows you to chisel blocks into various decorative blocks with connected textures!
Rechiseled: Create
Rechiseled: Create adds new decorative variants of blocks in Create!
Searchables
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Security Craft
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Simply Light
Simple light for a complicated world.
Sodium
The fastest and most compatible rendering optimization mod for Minecraft. Now available for both NeoForge and Fabric!
Sophisticated Backpack/Storage Emerald Upgrade
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Sophisticated Backpacks
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Sophisticated Backpacks Create Integration
Sophisticated Backpacks on create contraptions
Sophisticated Core
Library mod for Sophisticated mods
Sophisticated Storage
Storage mod with multiple tiers and functional upgrades
Sophisticated Storage Create Integration
Full Featured Sophisticated Storage on Create Contraptions
Sort It Out!
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Sound Physics Remastered
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SuperMartijn642's Config Lib
Config Lib makes dealing with config files just a bit easier.
SuperMartijn642's Core Lib
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Tom's Simple Storage Mod
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Too Fast
Fixes "moved too quickly".
Torchmaster
Adds a special torch which prevents mob spawning in a configurable radius
Towns and Towers
Spice up your world with new villages, pillager outposts, and even new ships!
Trash Cans
Trash Cans adds trash cans which can be used to void items, liquids, and energy!
Underground Villages, Stoneholm (Fabric/Forge/NeoForge)
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Villager Names
🧑🌾 Gives all villager entities a default or custom name to liven up the world.
Visual Workbench
Items stay inside of crafting tables and are also rendered on top. It's really fancy!
Wandering Cursebringer
Adds the Wandering Cursebringer, an illager that sells curses that make the game more difficult in return for a buff.
Wandering Trader +
more trades, useful I think
What Are They Up To (Watut)
Lets you see if players are typing, in a GUI, idle, with cool ingame visuals
When Dungeons Arise - Forge!
Adds various elegant -and likely hostile- roguelike dungeons and structures that generate on your worlds!
WorldEdit
In-game Minecraft map editor - build bigger things more quickly!
Zombie Awareness
- Smarter more aware zombies (and skeletons), they track you down via blood scent, sound, and light source awareness