Explorer's Eve - Wither Storm Modpack

Prepare yourself for a grand adventure to defeat an even grander adversary. Beginning in the Twilight Forest, flee from the Wither Storm, scavenging for essential supplies and unique gear while the beast relentlessly chases and destroys anything in its path. Explorer's Eve uses a custom-made datapack with over 1000 functions to give the Wither Storm new abilities, add music throughout the adventure, enhance every single boss fight with unique twists, overhaul typical progression, and more.

Key ingredients to defeat the Wither Storm are only found in certain structures scattered across multiple worlds. You might scour the Aether for armor imbued with the power of flight, or you may square off against the champion of the Twilight Forest atop the white castle. You could use the Nether's greatest treasure to call forth a deadly machine, or you might pursue an Illager mage through an abandoned portal to a realm where the sun stands still. As you travel, you'll find 50 unbreakable treasures that provide all sorts of benefits and abilities. But never forget: Wherever you go, the Wither Storm is sure to follow, and should it ever catch up, you'll be lucky to escape its wrath. And once it finally falls, a completely unique true final battle awaits as a capstone to the entire journey...

Expect to die as you venture forth into varied locales, whether you've seen them before or not. Many changes have been made to facilitate respawning, including corpses to preserve dropped items, a tweak to beds to keep their spawn points even when broken, and a death mercy system for the Wither Storm to take off some pressure after a tragedy. Explorer's Eve also adds a menu guide to provide advice if needed and help players adjust to the progression changes.

Performance issues or problems with chunks not rendering? Try downloading Rubidium-Aether Chunk Fix from Modrinth! Regular Rubidium for 1.19.4 has some bugs, but this fork fixes them.

Speaking of Aether, do not update it. Yes, it's on an outdated version. This is to prevent a major crash and doesn't significantly affect gameplay.

Explorer's Eve is incompatible with Lootr and Essential. Please do not add these mods; unexpected behavior will occur.

Note that Explorer's Eve uses a built-in resource pack for custom features, and as such, languages other than en_us will display certain things incorrectly.

Credits

For content creators: I haven't encountered any copyright issues with the tracks used in this modpack, and I haven't yet seen any videos get demonitized or silenced for including them. Please send me message somewhere if anything goes wrong, and I'll either put a warning here about them or remove them.

Music is listed below and sorted by which mod adds the boss it's used for.
Unless otherwise stated, all music used in this pack was made by Antimo & Welles.

Wither Storm - Wither Storm Theme
Wither Storm Evolves - How Dark Your Life Could Be (in-game version)
Echo Shard Obtained - Map Room
Wither Storm Escaped - How Bright Your Life Could Be
Wither Storm Teleporting - Sunshine Stella
Super TNT Obtained - Cave (in-game version)
Withered Symbiont - Sports Finale & Sport Central
Command Block Parts Obtained - The Old Builders
Bowels Ambience - Scavengers
Command Block - Wither Storm Destroyed
Wither Storm Defeated - Theme - Reprise
Wither Storm (Resummoned) - The Lethalest Weapon (in-game version)
Bowels Ambience (Resummoned) - Beacontown Twisted
Command Block (Resummoned) - To Kill the Unkillable & The Nightmare Rages (by Vertigo)
Wither Storm Defeated (Resummoned) - Victory for Beacontown

Ender Dragon - Friends till Death
Wither - Bound by Darkness - First Phase (by Mar Mar)

Naga - Action Suspense
Lich - Ivor Theme
Minoshroom - Indoor Guardians
Hydra - Challenge Room
Knight Phantoms - Red Crosses
Ur-Ghast - Escape the Maze (in-game version)
Alpha Yeti - Last Moments in Wonderland
Snow Queen - Terminal Zone Teleporting - Second Phase
Dragonsbane - Spiders!

Slider - Shooting Gallery & Shooting Gallery Final Stage
Valkyrie Queen - Atop the Maze (in-game version)
Sun Spirit - The Admin in Wonderland
Aerwhale King - Resurrection

Alchemist & Summoner - Ivor Fight
Arachnarch & Starlit Crusher - 104 Credits

Netherite Monstrosity - PAMA
Ender Guardian - 106 Credits
Ignis - Bedrocking & Dangerous Eyes
The Harbinger - Bound by Darkness - Second Phase (by Mar Mar)
Nameless Sorcerer - Ninja Fight

Empowered Command Block - Redstonia Credits 102 & Gold Protocol
Empowered Wither Storm - Skyland Destroyed (in-game version, no link available) & Showdown in Skyland
Simulated Showdown - Father of All Glitches (by Quillver)
True Final Battle Defeated - 201 Credits

Additionally, I'd like to thank:

Vertigo and Quillver for allowing me to use their music tracks in this pack. They've been credited already, but their music is excellent, go check them out!

dashdestroyer82 from the Cracker's Modded Community Discord server for designing the Wither's Bane, the major inspiration for the Evolved Command Block tool textures.

Gearsaw Studios for doing most of the work for the revamped Aurora Palace and Everden dungeons.

Everyone who has sent me feedback about this pack to help improve it.

And all of the modders who created the mods included in this pack, especially nonamecrackers2 for his incredible Wither Storm mod.

Any versions prior to 1.3.0 are unbeatable/unplayable because one of the mod authors deleted their mod from CurseForge! They're only listed for archival purposes.