Trials of Terra

# 🏞️ Trials of Terra > **A 1.21.1 NeoForge experience blending colony management, steampunk automation, tactical ballistics, and deep arcane progression across dynamic landscapes.** --- ## 📌 Overview **Trials of Terra** is a heavily customized Minecraft 1.21.1 NeoForge modpack built around long-term progression, automation, and world exploration. * 🏰 **Colony Management:** Build, expand, and defend thriving civil settlements with **MineColonies**. * ⚙️ **Steampunk Automation:** Construct intricate logistics networks, automated factories, and kinetic machinery with **Create** and its extended addon ecosystem. * 🔮 **Arcane & Ballistic Combat:** Master high-tier spellcasting via **Iron's Spells & Spellbooks** and **Ars Nouveau**, or gear up with tactical firearms from **TACZ**. * 🌍 **Dynamic World Generation:** Explore handcrafted biomes and overhauled terrain generated by **Tectonic** and **Terralith**, shifting dynamically through the four seasons via **Serene Seasons**. --- ## 🧩 Core Gameplay & Mod Systems ### 🏛️ Civilization & Town Management At the heart of the pack's macro-progression is town administration and citizen logistics. * **Colony Construction:** Powered by **MineColonies** alongside **Structurize**, players can found, build, and manage fully functioning settlements populated by working NPCs. * **Architectural Variety:** **Domum Ornamentum** and **Every Compat** provide extensive timber framing, custom brickwork, and expanded block palette integration for colony buildings. * **Civic Infrastructure:** Structural utilities like **MultiPiston** support large-scale mechanical gates and doors for town defense. ### ⚙️ Kinetic Engineering & Industrial Logistics The pack features a massive **Create** ecosystem, turning mechanical energy and industrial automation into a primary progression pillar. * **Core Mechanics:** **Create 6.0** introduces rotational force, kinetic automation, conveyor belts, and mechanical trains. * **Energy & Power Generation:** Integrated with **Create: New Age** for electricity/magnetism generation, **Create Diesel Generators** for fuel-driven engines, and **Create Crafts & Additions** for grid conversion. * **Railways & Transit:** Network expansion is driven by **Steam 'n' Rails (Railways)**, **Railways Untold**, **Movable Tracks**, and **Who Touched My Train** for advanced train routing and track assembly. * **Factory Enhancements:** Includes specialized extensions such as **Create Encased**, **Create Connected**, **Create Hypertube**, **Create Power Loader**, **Create Ultimate Factory**, and **Slice & Dice** for streamlined food/item processing. ### 🔮 Arcane Systems & Spellcraft Magic is fully integrated alongside technology, providing diverse paths to power and utility. * **Iron's Spells & Spellbooks:** Offers tiered spell casting, scroll crafting, armor imbuments, and custom spellbooks. Extended via **Iron's Apothic**, **Iron's Apothic Invaders**, and **Iron's Spells Dynamic Skill Tree**. * **Ars Nouveau:** Allows players to weave custom spells, automate tasks via Starbyts and magical fauna, and generate mana. * **Tech-Magic Interoperability:** **Ars Creo** directly bridges Ars Nouveau glyph automation with Create kinetic machinery, while **Create Wizardry** connects mechanical infrastructure with arcane power. ### ⚔️ Tactical Combat & Ballistics Overhaul Combat moves far beyond vanilla clicking through overhauled movement, weaponry, and ballistics. * **Firearms & Ballistics:** **Timeless and Classics Zero (TACZ)** adds high-quality, customizable modern firearms with ammo management via **Curios for Ammo Box**. **Create Immersive TACZ** ties firearm production directly into Create assembly lines. * **Melee & Ranged Arsenal:** **Spartan Weaponry Unofficial** supplies a vast array of historical weapons (spears, halberds, longswords, bows) built with unique combat attributes. * **Combat Mechanics:** **Better Combat** introduces custom attack animations and weapon combo chains, supported by **Apothic Combat** and **Ranged Weapon API**. ### 📈 RPG Progression, Loot & Character Scaling Player stats, loot drops, and character specialization scale dynamically as you explore and fight. * **Attribute & Gear Scaling:** **Apotheosis** overhauls enchanting, boss spawns, and gear rarity tiers (affixes, sockets, gems), backed by **Apothic Attributes**, **Apothic Enchanting**, and **Apothic Spawners**. * **Skill Trees:** **Puffish Skills** and **Puffish Attributes** provide custom RPG talent trees for passive stat growth and playstyle specialization. * **Origins & Heritage:** **NeoOrigins** allows players to choose unique racial or class origins at spawn, granting intrinsic traits and abilities. * **Economic Progression:** **Bountiful**, **Extra Bounties**, and **Create Numismatics** add quest boards, bounties, and a currency-driven economy. Instanced loot across dungeons is managed via **Lootr**. ### 🌍 Dynamic World, Biomes & Seasons The world is designed to feel alive, expansive, and constantly shifting. * **Overworld Generation:** **Tectonic** and **Terralith** combine to generate massive mountain ranges, deep canyons, overhauled terrain curves, and rich biome diversity. **Geophilic** adds subtle, vanilla-plus flora enhancements. * **Dimension Overhauls:** **Amplified Nether** drastically increases the Nether's height limit with vertical landscapes, while **Nullscape** transforms the End into a dark, sprawling expanse. * **Seasonal Weather:** **Serene Seasons** (enhanced by **Serene Seasons Plus** and **Seasonal Integration**) cycles through real-time seasons, altering crop growth, foliage colors, and weather patterns. * **Environmental Realism:** **Immersive Weathering**, **Snow Real Magic**, and **Streams Reflowing** add natural block decay, accumulating snow layers, and flowing river physics. * **Structures & Dungeons:** Exploration is populated by **Integrated Dungeons and Structures (IDAS)**, **Integrated Stronghold**, and **Integrated Villages**. ### 🍳 Culinary, Agriculture & Animal Companions Farming and creature husbandry play an essential role in survival and colony support. * **Gourmet Cooking:** **Farmer's Delight** serves as the culinary base, expanded by **Farmer's Knives**, **Chef's Delight**, **Aquaculture Delight**, and **Ars Delight**. * **Fishing:** **Aquaculture 2** overhauls fishing with new fish species, tackle boxes, and specialized rods. * **Companion Systems:** **Doggy Talents Next** (with **Palette of Paws**) gives dogs full leveling trees, skills, and armor. **Icy's Better Horses** and **Horse Armor Craft** overhaul mount stats and equipment. ### 📦 Storage, Utility & Quality of Life A robust suite of utility mods removes inventory friction and provides rich player feedback. * **Storage Networks:** Features **Sophisticated Backpacks**, **Sophisticated Storage** (with Create vault integrations), and **Tom's Simple Storage** for early-to-midgame automated storage networks. * **Fast Travel & Exploration:** **Waystones** and **Tempad** enable teleportation networks across the map. * **In-Game Photography:** **Exposure** (and its Polaroid extension) allows players to take, print, and frame actual in-game black-and-white or color photographs. * **Sandbox Polish:** **Quark** (and **Zeta**) provides hundreds of subtle vanilla-plus additions, complemented by **Supplementaries** and **SuppSquared**. * **UI & Recipe Viewers:** **Jade** (HUD info), **EMI** (recipe lookup), and **Xaero's Minimap / World Map** ensure clean navigation and item crafting visibility. --- ## 🖥️ Server-Side Operations & Deployment Guidelines ### ⚙️ Environment Specifications * 🎮 **Minecraft Version:** `1.21.1` * 🔧 **Mod Loader:** `NeoForge 21.1.235` * ☕ **Runtime:** `Java 21` (Azul OpenJDK `21.0.9+10-LTS` recommended) --- ### 📦 Modpack Deployment Differential When preparing a dedicated server directory from a client instance, apply the following mod adjustments to ensure optimal server performance and stability. #### ➕ Mods to ADD on Dedicated Server (Server-Only Utilities) *These administrative, map rendering, and pre-generation tools are required strictly on the server (sorted alphabetically by filename):* | Emoji | Mod Name / Jar Filename | Purpose / Function | | :---: | :--- | :--- | | 🌐 | `bluemap-5.7-neoforge.jar` | 3D web-based live server map renderer | | 🗺️ | `Chunky-NeoForge-1.4.23.jar` | World pre-generation utility to eliminate live chunk generation lag | | 🚂 | `create_bluemap-1.1.1.jar` | Adds Create kinetic contraptions and train rendering to BlueMap | | 🧠 | `hmbm-1.0.0.jar` | Adds the ability for players to hide themselves from Bluemap | | 🛠️ | `neoessentials-1.0.2.5+build.1074.jar` | Essential server administrative commands, teleports, and player management | | 🛡️ | `server-opac-bluemap-integration-1.21.1.jar` | Renders Open Parties & Claims claim boundaries on BlueMap | | ⚡ | `toofast-1.21.0-0.4.3.5.jar` | Disables strict movement speed checks to prevent rubberbanding | --- #### ➖ Mods to REMOVE on Dedicated Server (Client-Side Only) *Delete or omit these graphics, audio, overlay, HUD, and interface mods from the server's `mods` folder:* * 🚫 `AmbientSounds_NEOFORGE_v6.3.8_mc1.21.1.jar` * 🚫 `appleskin-neoforge-mc1.21-3.0.9.jar` * 🚫 `armor_hud-neoforge-1.1.1+mc1.21.1.jar` * 🚫 `classicbar-1.21.1-1.5.3.jar` * 🚫 `Controlling-neoforge-1.21.1-19.0.5.jar` * 🚫 `cullleaves-neoforge-4.1.1+1.21.1.jar` * 🚫 `emi-1.1.24+1.21.1+neoforge.jar` *(and all `emi_*` extensions)* * 🚫 `EnhancedVisuals_NEOFORGE_v1.8.29_mc1.21.1.jar` * 🚫 `entityculling-neoforge-1.10.5-mc1.21.1.jar` * 🚫 `forgematica-0.4.2+mc1.21.1.jar` * 🚫 `ImmediatelyFast-NeoForge-1.6.11+1.21.1.jar` * 🚫 `iris-flywheel-compat-NeoForge-2.4.0.jar` * 🚫 `iris-neoforge-1.8.14-beta.1+mc1.21.1.jar` * 🚫 `PresenceFootsteps-1.21.1-1.12.0-beta.1-1.21NeoForge.jar` * 🚫 `Pretty Rain-1.21.1-NeoForge-1.1.4.jar` * 🚫 `Searchables-neoforge-1.21.1-1.0.2.jar` * 🚫 `sodium-neoforge-0.8.12+mc1.21.1.jar` * 🚫 `sound-physics-remastered-neoforge-1.21.1-1.5.1.jar` * 🚫 `soundattract-6.3.8c.jar` * 🚫 `SubtleEffects-neoforge-1.21.1-1.14.3.jar` * 🚫 `veinminer-client-neoforge-2.10.1+1.21.1.jar` * 🚫 `visuality-forge-2.1.0.jar` * 🚫 `xaerominimap-neoforge-1.21.1-26.4.2.jar` * 🚫 `xaerotrainmap-1.0.0.jar` * 🚫 `xaeroworldmap-neoforge-1.21.1-1.44.2.jar`