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Dawn of the Flood

Modpack

by FLAMEBRINGER808

Dawn of the Flood is a performance-optimized survival modpack for Minecraft 1.20.1, focused on a hostile flooded world, smarter enemies, environmental danger, and long-term immersive gameplay for singleplayer and servers.

Downloads

4,322

Type

Modpack

CurseForge ID

1405013

Last Updated

Apr 12, 2026

Description

⚠️ WHEN DOWNLOADING IN CURSEFORGE, IT AUTOMATICALLY DOWNLOADS THE SERVER-FRIENDLY VERSION! SO MANUALLY DOWNLOAD THE SINGLE-PLAYER VERSION!

🌊 Dawn of the Flood

Dawn of the Flood is an immersive, performance-optimized survival modpack for Minecraft 1.20.1 (Forge), set in a ruined, flood-scarred world where exploration is dangerous, nights are hostile, and long-term survival depends on preparation and adaptation.

The world is reshaped by massive continents, abandoned cities, environmental decay, and seasonal changes. Progression is slower and more deliberate, encouraging exploration, base defense, food planning, and cooperation rather than rushing endgame content. The pack is designed to remain stable and smooth for extended singleplayer worlds and multiplayer servers.

⚙️ Performance, Stability & Optimization

This modpack prioritizes smooth gameplay and long-term stability through extensive optimization and engine improvements, making it suitable for large worlds and servers without sacrificing atmosphere or visuals.

🌍 Exploration, Survival & Immersion

Players will explore vast continents, flooded ruins, and hostile environments while managing food quality, seasons, darkness, and smarter enemies. Quality-of-life features, storage solutions, maps, and multiplayer voice communication are included to support both solo and cooperative play.

📦 Final Mod List (Minecraft 1.20.1 – Forge)

AI & Gameplay:

AI Improvements

Bad Mobs

Hardcore Revival

LifeSteal

Nyctophobia

Indestructible Blocks

Enhanced Celestials

MineTraps

Dawn of the Flood

Enchanced Falling Trees

Flowing Fluids

World Generation & Environment:

Lost Cities

Continents

TerraBlender

Better Forests

Serene Seasons

Immersive Weathering

Structure Essentials

Structure Gel API

Food, Farming & Survival:

Farmer’s Delight

Farmer’s Respite

Large Meals

Comforts

Butchery

AppleSkin

Storage, Building & Utilities:

Sophisticated Backpacks

Sophisticated Core

Refurbished Furniture

SecurityCraft

Gravestone

Lootr

Curios API

The Jobs Mod

Maps, UI & Quality of Life:

JEI (Just Enough Items)

Just Enough Resources

Just Enough Professions

Jade

Better Advancements

Controlling

Mouse Tweaks

Searchables

Keybind Bundles

Overloaded Armor Bar

Xaero’s Minimap

Xaero’s World Map

Multiplayer & Communication:

Simple Voice Chat

Walkie-Talkie

Skin Restorer

Performance & Optimization:

Embeddium

Rubidium Extra

ModernFix

FerriteCore

Starlight

Entity Culling

ImmediatelyFast

Krypton Reforged

Saturn

Radium

Bad Optimizations

Fast Furnace

Fast Workbench

Fast Suite

Clumps

Dynamic FPS

FPS Boost

Cull Less Leaves Reforged

Better FPS Distance

Bobby

Visual & Audio Enhancements:

Dynamic Lights

Continuity

Entity Texture Features

Entity Model Features

Drip Sounds

Ok Zoomer

Dynamic Crosshair

Particle Rain

Libraries & Dependencies:

AAA Particles

Architectury

Balm

Blueprint

Citadel

Cloth Config

Clockwork

Collective

Common Networking

Connector

CoroUtil

CraftTweaker

CristelLib

CorgiLib

Cupboard

Data Anchor

Fabridge

Framework

GeckoLib

GlitchCore

Iceberg

Kotlin for Forge

Moonlight

Placebo

Prism

Puzzles Lib

Resourceful Lib

Resourceful Config

TCT Core

TenshiLib

Atlas Lib

AstemirLib

Argonauts

Bocchium

Burnt

Cadmus

Continuity

Fabric API (Connector usage)

Packet Fixer

🎯 Intended Experience

Dawn of the Flood is built for players who want:

Immersive, atmospheric survival

Exploration-driven progression

Balanced difficulty without excessive tech or magic

Strong performance and stability

Long-term singleplayer or multiplayer gameplay

The flood has already come.
How long you survive is up to you.

Compatibility

Mod Loaders

Forge

Game Versions

1.20.1

Screenshots

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Contained Mods (121)

Just Enough Items (JEI)

Just Enough Items (JEI)

View Items and Recipes

Mod 47,586,115
GeckoLib

GeckoLib

A 3D animation library for entities, blocks, items, armor, and more!

Mod 338,718,856
Cloth Config API (Fabric/Forge/NeoForge)

Cloth Config API (Fabric/Forge/NeoForge)

Config Screen API for Minecraft

Mod 327,671,257
Architectury API

Architectury API

An intermediary api aimed to ease developing multiplatform mods.

Mod 312,471,030
Mouse Tweaks

Mouse Tweaks

Enhances inventory management by adding various functions to the mouse buttons.

Mod 435,064,978
AppleSkin

AppleSkin

Adds some useful information about food/hunger to the HUD

Mod 375,251,226
ModernFix

ModernFix

All-in-one mod that improves performance, reduces memory usage, and fixes many bugs. Compatible with all your favorite p...

Mod 189,918,732
Balm

Balm

Abstraction Layer for Multi-Loader Mods

Mod 207,498,602
Jade 🔍

Jade 🔍

Shows information about what you are looking at. (Hwyla/WAILA fork for Minecraft 1.16+)

Mod 222,694,914
ImmediatelyFast

ImmediatelyFast

Speed up immediate mode rendering in Minecraft

Mod 138,493,867
Moonlight Lib

Moonlight Lib

Forge and Fabric lightweight library with utilities such as custom Villagers AI, data driven trades, global datapack, cu...

Mod 240,788,023
Curios API (Forge/NeoForge)

Curios API (Forge/NeoForge)

A flexible and expandable accessory/equipment API for users and developers.

Mod 263,004,498
Controlling

Controlling

Adds a search bar to the Key-Bindings menu

Mod 366,345,122
Xaero's Minimap

Xaero's Minimap

Displays the nearby world terrain, players, mobs, entities in the corner of your screen. Lets you create waypoints which...

Mod 208,878,234
Clumps

Clumps

Clumps XP orbs together to reduce lag

Mod 328,333,387
Entity Culling Fabric/Forge

Entity Culling Fabric/Forge

Using async path-tracing to hide Tiles/Entities that are not visible

Mod 187,476,358
Xaero's World Map

Xaero's World Map

Adds a fullscreen worldmap which shows you what you have explored in the world. Can work together with Xaero's Minimap.

Mod 179,523,503
Sophisticated Backpacks

Sophisticated Backpacks

Yet another backpack mod this time with backpack you can place in world, color in different color combinations, upgrade...

Mod 201,638,452
Collective

Collective

🎓 Collective is a shared library with common code for all of Serilum's mods.

Mod 220,292,618
FerriteCore ((Neo)Forge)

FerriteCore ((Neo)Forge)

Memory usage optimizations

Mod 201,714,681
Puzzles Lib

Puzzles Lib

Why it's called Puzzles, you ask? That's the puzzle!

Mod 42,920,112
Placebo

Placebo

A library mod

Mod 294,132,500
Cupboard

Cupboard

Cupboard provides code, frameworks, and utilities for minecraft mods

Mod 162,613,651
Searchables

Searchables

Searchables is a library mod that adds helper methods that allow for searching and filtering elements based on component...

Mod 138,417,784
Sophisticated Core

Sophisticated Core

Library mod for Sophisticated mods

Mod 10,106,148
Farmer's Delight

Farmer's Delight

A cozy expansion to farming and cooking!

Mod 196,828,087
[ETF] Entity Texture Features - [Fabric & Forge]

[ETF] Entity Texture Features - [Fabric & Forge]

Custom, Emissive and Varied mobs like Optifine and so much more.. +Player skin features!)

Mod 121,787,202
Kotlin for Forge

Kotlin for Forge

Adds a Kotlin language loader and provides some optional utilities.

Mod 163,788,647
[EMF] Entity Model Features

[EMF] Entity Model Features

EMF is an, OptiFine format, Custom Entity Model replacement mod available for Fabric and Forge.

Mod 65,093,963
Resourceful Lib

Resourceful Lib

Lib for Team Resourceful and more

Mod 143,962,912
Comforts

Comforts

Adds sleeping bags and hammocks for, respectively, portability and turning day to night, without setting new spawns. Com...

Mod 217,076,181
Embeddium

Embeddium

A powerful, mod-friendly, FOSS client performance mod for NeoForge

Mod 122,127,046
Framework

Framework

A common library powering all of MrCrayfish's Mods

Mod 108,227,176
Lootr (Forge & NeoForge)

Lootr (Forge & NeoForge)

A mod that makes it so nobody misses out on Loot! All loot chests are instanced per player and visually unique.

Mod 135,908,827
Iceberg [Neo/Forge]

Iceberg [Neo/Forge]

A modding library that contains new events, helpers, and utilities to make modder's lives easier.

Mod 137,833,018
Better Advancements

Better Advancements

Successor to BetterAchievements for the new advancements system in minecraft 1.12+

Mod 225,063,103
Citadel

Citadel

A Lightweight Library

Mod 185,199,087
Resourceful Config

Resourceful Config

Resourceful Config is a mod that allows for developers to make crossplatform configs

Mod 105,004,765
Packet Fixer

Packet Fixer

A simple mod to solve various problems with packets, NBTs and timeouts.

Mod 85,241,965
CoroUtil

CoroUtil

Library Mod for Weather/Tropicraft/ZombieAwareness/etc

Mod 113,046,862
Simple Voice Chat

Simple Voice Chat

A working voice chat in Minecraft!

Mod 94,574,340
TerraBlender (Forge)

TerraBlender (Forge)

A library mod for adding biomes in a simple and compatible manner!

Mod 135,569,377
Cristel Lib

Cristel Lib

A Library mod for easy structure config and runtime datapacks.

Mod 78,629,735
AI Improvements

AI Improvements

Performance and logic upgrades for mod AIs

Mod 136,537,902
Just Enough Resources (JER)

Just Enough Resources (JER)

A JEI addon that adds mob drops, ore gen, ..

Mod 223,618,141
GlitchCore

GlitchCore

A library mod aimed at abstracting mod loaders and providing various utilities for our mods.

Mod 51,528,110
Structure Essentials

Structure Essentials

Essential features for structures: Faster locating, distance adjustments, nearby structure command, automatic structure...

Mod 81,683,989
CorgiLib

CorgiLib

A library mod containing code used across Corgi Taco's mods.

Mod 75,159,775
Prism [Neo/Forge]

Prism [Neo/Forge]

A library all about color! Provides lots of color-related functionality for dependent mods.

Mod 82,487,431
FastSuite

FastSuite

A performance upgrade for the JSON recipe system.

Mod 79,186,440
BadOptimizations

BadOptimizations

Optimization mod that focuses on things other than rendering

Mod 54,315,458
FastFurnace

FastFurnace

A performance upgrade for the furnace.

Mod 131,655,935
FastWorkbench

FastWorkbench

A performance upgrade for the crafting table.

Mod 167,234,258
Serene Seasons

Serene Seasons

Seasons with changing colors, shifting temperatures, and more!

Mod 100,041,385
Just Enough Professions (JEP)

Just Enough Professions (JEP)

A JEI addon that adds profession workstations

Mod 94,513,764
MrCrayfish's Furniture Mod: Refurbished

MrCrayfish's Furniture Mod: Refurbished

The next generation of MrCrayfish's Furniture Mod, redesigned from the ground up with new models, sounds, and more!

Mod 38,664,453
Blueprint

Blueprint

Library that implements the framework of all Abnormals mods!

Mod 101,078,220
Continuity

Continuity

A Minecraft mod that allows for efficient connected textures

Mod 48,476,880
Security Craft

Security Craft

Adds plenty of blocks and items to defend and secure your base with.

Mod 90,268,118
Better Fps - Render Distance[Forge]

Better Fps - Render Distance[Forge]

Better fps for 1.16+ minecraft, improved render distances

Mod 75,254,400
Structure Gel API

Structure Gel API

An API for simplifying the developer end of creating generated structures.

Mod 109,944,972
CraftTweaker

CraftTweaker

CraftTweaker allows modpacks and servers to customize the game. With CraftTweaker you can change recipes, script events,...

Mod 215,326,372
Forgified Fabric API

Forgified Fabric API

Fabric API implemented on top of NeoForge

Mod 36,102,964
Sinytra Connector

Sinytra Connector

Run your favourite Fabric mods on NeoForge

Mod 32,308,840
[TaCZ] Timeless and Classics Zero Guns

[TaCZ] Timeless and Classics Zero Guns

The most Immersive and Customizable modern FPS experience in Minecraft - A complete Remaster of the TaC gun mod by the o...

Mod 25,017,299
Dynamic FPS

Dynamic FPS

Improve performance when Minecraft is in the background

Mod 41,653,732
Radium Reforged

Radium Reforged

Unofficial Fork of CaffeineMC's "Lithium", made to work with FML

Mod 38,278,546
Saturn

Saturn

A performance mod designed to optimize Minecraft's memory usage.

Mod 46,695,850
The Lost Cities

The Lost Cities

The Lost Cities is a world generation mod

Mod 82,768,089
CullLessLeaves Reforged (Unofficial)

CullLessLeaves Reforged (Unofficial)

Gives you a 9% fps improvement for leaves rendering

Mod 32,868,970
Krypton Reforged

Krypton Reforged

Unofficial Forge Port of the server networking performance mod "Krypton"

Mod 37,834,657
Overloaded Armor Bar

Overloaded Armor Bar

Allows the armor bar to wrap and change color with better than diamond armor

Mod 58,584,926
Bad Mobs

Bad Mobs

A mod to blacklist mobs from spawning.

Mod 52,257,443
Particle Rain

Particle Rain

replaces the default weather with particle effects

Mod 12,143,027
GraveStone Mod

GraveStone Mod

Places a gravestone with your inventory items inside when you die

Mod 85,759,466
Starlight (Forge)

Starlight (Forge)

Rewrites the light engine to fix lighting performance and lighting errors

Mod 39,568,949
Data Anchor

Data Anchor

Simple library mod with helpful data attaching and networking utilities including attaching data to entities, chunks, pl...

Mod 10,804,677
Atlas Lib

Atlas Lib

A serialzation and math libary for minecraft mods.

Mod 26,723,226
WorldEdit

WorldEdit

In-game Minecraft map editor - build bigger things more quickly!

Mod 59,634,017
Embeddium (Rubidium) Extra

Embeddium (Rubidium) Extra

Port of Sodium Extra to work with Embeddium/Rubidium on (Neo)Forge

Mod 33,037,328
Enhanced Celestials - Blood, Blue, & Harvest (Super) Moons

Enhanced Celestials - Blood, Blue, & Harvest (Super) Moons

A mod adding new Lunar Events like blood moons and harvest moons!

Mod 40,153,285
KeyBind Bundles

KeyBind Bundles

Do you have too many keybinds but not enough keys? With this mod you create add your own key bundles, collapsing a set o...

Mod 9,840,640
Bocchium

Bocchium

Forge port of Bedrodium, culling bedrock sides for better performance.

Mod 11,175,628
AAA Particles

AAA Particles

Effekseer loader on minecraft 1.18+

Mod 12,172,368
Common Network

Common Network

Forge and Fabric Unified Networking Solution

Mod 17,210,353
Fresh Animations

Fresh Animations

Make your game like the trailers! Dynamic animated entities to freshen your Minecraft experience.

Texture Pack 80,992,565
Farmer's Respite

Farmer's Respite

Tea addon for Farmer's Delight

Mod 26,600,614
[LEGACY] Drip Sounds (Forge)

[LEGACY] Drip Sounds (Forge)

Forge mod that adds sounds for drip particles landing

Mod 13,047,205
Immersive Weathering [FORGE]

Immersive Weathering [FORGE]

An abundance of new natural systems to make your world feel more alive than ever.

Mod 19,961,158
TenshiLib (Forge/NeoForge)

TenshiLib (Forge/NeoForge)

Core and Library mod for my other projects

Mod 25,222,629
Dynamic Crosshair

Dynamic Crosshair

A Minecraft mod that hides or changes the crosshair dependent on context

Mod 14,249,299
Bobby Reforged

Bobby Reforged

Allows for render distances greater than the server's view-distance setting

Mod 4,757,570
ClockworkLib

ClockworkLib

Small and easy to use library that will be used in all of our projects.

Mod 1,575,673
Fabridge

Fabridge

Fabridge is a core mod that does stuff on Forge with the trick that it works like Fabric

Mod 1,059,460
TCT Core

TCT Core

This mod allows you to centralize all the other mods in order to be able to access the information or settings directly...

Mod 4,448,673
Large Meals (An Add-on for Farmer's Delight)

Large Meals (An Add-on for Farmer's Delight)

A Farmer's Delight addon that adds new and creative recipes to the game.

Mod 6,757,702
Time Control

Time Control

Want longer or shorter in-game days/nights? So did I.

Mod 3,173,972
Butchery

Butchery

Realistically butcher everything in Minecraft!

Mod 4,190,657
AstemirLib

AstemirLib

Library for my mods.

Mod 1,967,128
Odyssey Claims

Odyssey Claims

A land claiming mod that allows users to claim land to protect your home from thieves, bandits and monsters, and admins...

Mod 609,540
Dynamic Lights [Server] [Fabric/Quilt/Forge/NeoForge]

Dynamic Lights [Server] [Fabric/Quilt/Forge/NeoForge]

Supported entities and items such as torches or lanterns emit light!

Mod 8,906,212
MineTraps

MineTraps

This mod adds several new traps to the game!

Mod 4,892,451
ReForgedPlay [replay mod on (neo)forge]

ReForgedPlay [replay mod on (neo)forge]

Replay mod port to (neo)forge! Record your adventures in minecraft

Mod 1,686,378
Ok Zoomer Forge

Ok Zoomer Forge

Adds a highly-configurable zoom key for Forge. The zoom is yours!

Mod 8,411,993
Enhanced Falling Trees

Enhanced Falling Trees

Ensure that trees topple in a lifelike manner when they are felled.

Mod 292,634
Hardcore Revival

Hardcore Revival

Help your friends back up after they die (if you can make it in time)

Mod 5,627,356
Walkie-Talkie

Walkie-Talkie

Adds two-way radios with different upgrades.

Mod 5,404,233
Nyctophobia (FORGE)

Nyctophobia (FORGE)

Spooky and scary new biomes

Mod 4,844,163
Skin Restorer

Skin Restorer

A server-side mod for managing and restoring player skins.

Mod 1,315,813
Continents

Continents

Explore the seas to find realistic continents & islands. Works with most mods!

Mod 1,577,539
FPS Boost

FPS Boost

Want to optimize your game and improve performance? This mods is for you

Mod 1,012,073
Burnt: Better Vanilla Fire

Burnt: Better Vanilla Fire

The vanilla fire enhancing mod. Light it up, burn it down. Realistic fire spread and burnt blocks.

Mod 974,527
Dawn of the Flood - "Rising Tides"

Dawn of the Flood - "Rising Tides"

This game changing minecraft mod adds the horrific flood virus from the original halo franchise into the game! Prepare y...

Mod 1,106,095
Odyssey Allies

Odyssey Allies

Form a guild to live and work together with your friends. Form a party to fight and adventure together with allies. Chat...

Mod 978,814
Better Forests

Better Forests

Fills Minecraft forest biomes with beautiful and varying trees.

Mod 139,824
Glowing Emissive Ores

Glowing Emissive Ores

Adds emissive ore textures to 253 mods and vanilla, no other resource pack supports as many! Frequently updated with add...

Texture Pack 1,193,533
Lifesteal [Fabric/NeoForge/Forge]

Lifesteal [Fabric/NeoForge/Forge]

Lifesteal is a mod where killing other players steals their hearts for your own gain

Mod 364,070
Flowing Fluids

Flowing Fluids

Gives fluids realistic flowing physics, making them mostly finite. With various settings for performance, visuals, and g...

Mod 165,860
Day Counter (Original) for 1.16 - 1.21.10!

Day Counter (Original) for 1.16 - 1.21.10!

This datapack/mod add text on top of your hotbar that will count the day realtime.

Mod 75,199
Indestructible Blocks

Indestructible Blocks

A server utility that allows you to make any block you want indestructible.

Mod 141,484
The Jobs Mod

The Jobs Mod

Jobs Mod lets admins create custom jobs and assign them to players. Each job grants passive effects and item enchantment...

Mod 6,624

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