Fabulously Fossils & Archeology
Modpackhundreds of quests and beautiful dinosaurs, what more could you want?
Type
Modpack
Modrinth Downloads
151
Modrinth ID
ansHY0fA
Last Updated
Aug 27, 2026
Description
Welcome to Fabulously Fossils and Archeology!
please skim the description, this pack requires some FTB mods!
Step into the boots of a newly appointed paleontologist and resurrection biologist, with big ambitions but very empty pockets. Armed with little more than determination, a quest book, and a questionable amount of upcoming unpaid manual labor, you’ve been tasked with the ultimate challenge: build a thriving prehistoric park from the ground up.
Through a carefully crafted quest system, you’ll be guided through digging up fossils and discovering archaic DNA, to eventually managing your own park containing the creatures you worked hard to bring back and ethically contain. Each step of the process is rewarded, giving direction and incentivising you to keep pushing to reach the goal of enclosing every available species.
Fabulously Fossils and Archeology is built off of Fabulously Optimized for Minecraft 1.20.1, so you can save your GPU and RAM for the real meat and potatoes. The compiled modlist was painstakingly put together to complement Fossils and Archeology, to give you the best dinosaur lover experience. Alongside buttery smooth gameplay, there are various QoL mods that enhance the experience, with themes of progression, exploration, and building a spectacular park.
One of the defining features of this pack is its extensive questlines, crafted over a month of time to provide a guided structure for those who may not know where to begin. Whether you're uncovering ancient remains, or designing enclosures for your prehistoric creatures, the quests are there to give you an idea of what your next steps are!
This pack is perfect for players who enjoy:
-Dinosaurs!
-Guided progression with clear goals
-Building fun stuff!
-Exploration
-Dopamine from completing tasks :P
if you think another mod should be added, have a suggestion to improve the pack, or just want to share your experience, join the discord so I can hear from you.
Now get digging, you won’t be paid.
This modpack requires some FTB mods!
these are easy to add using the "Upload files" button after downloading. Nothing complicated, I promise! There's a video tutorial as well.
Extras
This modpack is optimized for lower end systems, so you can enjoy a fun modpack without worrying about dropping below 50-60 fps. I average 80-100 fps without VSync using a Ryzen 5 4600H and a GeForce GTX 1650 with 8GB of RAM. My laptop still gets hot enough to sound like an airplane at times, so please remember to allow good airflow to your devices if overheating could be a concern!
Ashen is the resource pack of choice as it spices up the typical vanilla experience while still meshing well with modded content. To amplify a new look, the default shader pack equipped is Complementary Shaders - Reimagined, with Miniature Shader pre-installed offering you a choice, as the latter of which is a bit less resource intensive. The pack customs.zip has retextures for various mods to fit the Ashen textures, plus a custom panorama and some tweaks to the FTB Quest menu. I encourage you play the pack with Ashen and the pack customs enabled, but it is your choice as it is not a necessary feature.
please support the creators of the mods in this pack! All mods, resource packs, and shader packs can be found in each version by clicking on it from the download page for more details, and any that are not available on modrinth are linked below!!
I'm not sure, it took a long time to make and a grueling amount of time for the moderation to be checked by a human... I do plan on adding some more to the quest tree(s) in the future but I am not sure how that will affect already played saves. There most likely won't be any additions of core mods unless it adds stuff that already meshes well with what is present and is actually fun. Feel free to add whatever you want into your pack though, I love when people do that!
Fabulously Optimized and Mod Menu Helper:
Fabulously Optimized Modpack Page
Some external links for those curious on non-embedded content:
-MrCrayfish's Furniture Mod: Refurbished
FTB dependencies for the quest system! Please install!
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