Welcome to New Frontier Craft!

A New Adventure in Old Minecraft

IMPORTANT NOTE

Due to concerns regarding the nature of uploading jarmods onto Modrinth, we've discontinued the public download for the latest stable release, v3.5.3_01, from being hosted here. You can download that from our website.

Important Links

• How to Install
• Starting Guide
• Official NFC Forums

Modrinth Introduction

New Frontier Craft, like the many older style mods for Beta 1.7.3, is currently a jarmod. This means that instead of loading from an API or using Mixins, it edits the game files directly, alongside requiring custom libraries to work. Instructions on how to install the latest stable release of New Frontier Craft v3.5.3_01 and below can be found here

New Frontier Craft since v3.5.0 comes bundled with ModLoader and Forge for Beta 1.7.3. Mods modified for usage with NFC can be found here. This includes addons such as Rei's Minimap, IC2, HMI, or MAtmos.

Mod Introduction

Greetings newcomer! This is New Frontier Craft, a mod for Minecraft Beta 1.7.3!

But... why Beta? And why specifically Beta 1.7.3?

If you played Old Minecraft, you know the game felt quite a bit different than it does now. Pre-Alpha, Alpha, and Beta had their own little quirks about them, but all generally had the same feel and atmosphere. At some point along the line, the feel of the game suddenly had a large shift that carries over into how the game feels now.

This shift is seen by many people as happening around Beta 1.8, the "Adventure Update". Multiple things may have contributed to this shift, such as the faster pace of the game from sprinting and higher focus on fighting, the player base becoming a lot bigger and younger, or the looks of the game becoming duller. Whatever caused the shift, something changed around the Adventure Update.

Beta 1.7.3 is the last version before this shift, and we want to recapture that old feeling of the game. Whether you used to play these old versions back in the day, or want to experience a completely new feeling to Minecraft, we heavily encourage you to try out New Frontier Craft!

Now, originally, New Frontier Craft's intention was to really try and harp on the nostalgia chords, with its original slogan being "New Frontier Craft - The answer for your Nostalgia", but this is an unrealistic goal as everyone has a different standard as to what is "Nostalgic" to them. We all had something different about the game that we loved back then. What we can do is freshen up the old times with something new, a new vision for the game - a New Frontier - while keeping to the old roots of the game.

We feel this development goal has resulted in something more matured than Beta or modern. Something that can bring people who enjoy modern versions back to experience old times, as well as something that retains the ability to play on those feel chords again. Hopefully what we've created can be something for you too :)

TL;DR

New Frontier Craft is an overhaul mod, a new path of development for Minecraft. Think of something like TerraFirmaCraft or the Aether. We've completely overhauled elements of the game such as materials and ore generation, and we have huge plans for the future in for new expansions. It's a New Adventure in Old Minecraft

Additions

• A total rework of the system and the addition of many new ores and metals
• Authentication updated to use the modern servers
• Skins and capes updated to use modern servers. Alex skins are supported
• Books, a mix of modern and my own code
• The Brick Oven, a new utility block that is a combination of the crafting table and furnace
• A server list for connecting to servers
• A static structure generator. Currently this generates a couple rare surface buildings and some new dungeons, but there will be more in the future
• Shears can now harvest long grass and dead bushes
• NFC specific secret music discs
• New background and main menu music
• Quite a few new building blocks
• Cooked eggs
• Blue mushrooms
• Dynamite
• Bookshelves can now contain items
• Better debug menus
• Old sounds
• Wrenches
• Telescopes
• A FOV Slider
• A Cloud Slider
• New mobs and blocks in the Nether
• An optional Creative Mode
• 3D Dropped Items
• Shift clicking
• Cobblestone walls
• Creative mode
• Custom language support
• The Blood moon
• and much, much more!

Changes

• Massive changes to caves. They just keep on going
• Some of the old textures are added back in
• A new, fuller look for grass
• Zombies now uncommonly drop a leather tunic or leather pants
• Mobs spawned from monster spawners do not drop anything
• Plants in general will grow slower, but not by much. I plan to make this slower yet
• Worlds are saved to "NFCSaves" in the Minecraft directory
• As mentioned earlier, stairs and slabs can be placed in various orientations
• Texturepack loading has been improved, and they can be loaded from unzipped folders as well now in NFC

StationAPI Migration & Industrial Update Testing

New Frontier Craft is moving to StationAPI in our upcoming release, v4.0.0. StationAPI is a modern modding API built on top of a variant of Fabric (Babric) for Beta 1.7.3. The test builds on this Modrinth page are for Babric/StationAPI.

WE DO NOT CURRENTLY RECOMMEND THESE TEST BUILDS FOR PEOPLE WANTING A STABLE NEW FRONTIER CRAFT EXPERIENCE!

Future Plans

Some of the planned future updates for New Frontier Craft are an upcoming Industrial Update, as well as a potential heaven or "anti-nether" update, a combat update, an "adventure" update, and tons of other ideas we've got floating around.

These updates will be further elaborated on as they are developed and discussed with the community. If you want your ideas heard, join our Discord!

Closing Notes

It has taken three years to get New Frontier Craft to a stable and universally liked state. That said, it's finally ready for launch. In older versions of New Frontier Craft, the game was a good bit harder than it is now, making its appeal niche. Now its made to appeal more to everyone, and the way the game plays out feels a lot better and more chill.

And as a TL;DR for everything on this page; The point of NFC is to be a new continuation of Minecraft starting at Beta 1.7.3, with us taking an alternate route to development than the one Mojang took with the adventure update and Beta 1.8. We hope you'll enjoy our route better than the one Mojang gave us :)

This is not an official Minecraft product, and it is not approved by or associated with Mojang/Microsoft