Andesite Age

A Create-focused vanilla+ modpack for Minecraft 1.21.1 on NeoForge.

Status: beta. Playable end-to-end and server-validated. Balance has not been road-tested by a full group yet.

The pitch

Most Create packs bolt Create onto a kitchen-sink tech stack and let Mekanism, Thermal, or AE2 outscale it by mid-game. Andesite Age goes the other way: Create is the industrial backbone, and nothing in the pack is allowed to trivialize it.

Every mod passes two filters before it gets in:

1. Does this trivialize Create's role? No parallel tech trees, no alt power systems, no mod-added quarries or magic-box ore doublers.
2. Does this break the vanilla world feel? No aggressive worldgen overhauls. Modern vanilla worldgen is good enough; we add to it, not replace it.

What you get is Create + a curated set of Create addons, plus a thin layer of QoL, performance, and vanilla-gap-fillers.

What's in

Core — Create, Create Crafts & Additions, Create: Copycats+, Create Deco, Create: Central Kitchen, Create: Enchantment Industry, Create: New Age, Create Stuff 'N Additions, Create: Aeronautics, Create: Dragons Plus (shared utilities used by several Create addons).

Adventure & exploration — YUNG's Better Dungeons / Mineshafts / Strongholds / Witch Huts / Nether Fortresses / Ocean Monuments; When Dungeons Arise (+ Seven Seas); Dungeons and Taverns; Towns and Towers; Repurposed Structures.

QoL — AppleSkin, Bucketable, Easy Anvils, Easy Magic, Easy Villagers, Gravestone Mod, Polymorph, Mouse Tweaks, Controlling.

Vanilla+ flavor — Farmer's Delight, Supplementaries.

UI & info — EMI, Jade.

Performance — Sodium, Sodium Extra, FerriteCore, ModernFix, spark.

Scripting & libraries — KubeJS + Rhino (pack-side recipe tweaks); Cristel Lib, Moonlight, Puzzles Lib, Sable, Searchables (framework dependencies pulled in by other mods).

What's deliberately out

• Mekanism, Thermal Series, AE2, Industrial Foregoing, and other parallel-tech stacks.
• Mod-added quarries, digital miners, and ore-doubling shortcuts.
• Terralith and other aggressive worldgen replacements.

Requirements

• Minecraft 1.21.1 · NeoForge 21.1.227 · Java 21
• ~4–6 GB RAM for the client; similar for the server

Installing

Client. Download the .mrpack from this page and import it into Prism Launcher, ATLauncher, or any MultiMC-family launcher. They handle mrpack natively.

Server (Docker, via itzg). Minimal compose:

services:
  mc:
    image: itzg/minecraft-server
    ports: ["25565:25565"]
    environment:
      EULA: "TRUE"
      TYPE: MODRINTH
      MODRINTH_PROJECT: andesite-age
      MODRINTH_VERSION_ID: <pin-a-specific-version-id>
      MEMORY: 6G
    volumes: ["./data:/data"]

Pin MODRINTH_VERSION_ID explicitly so a pack update doesn't silently change the mods under a live world. Client-only mods are tagged in the mrpack and itzg skips them on server installs automatically.

Known issues

A handful of harmless upstream warnings fire during boot (class-load noise from @OnlyIn references in certain mod mixins), and four advancements fail to load in When Dungeons Arise and Dungeons and Taverns — players just won't earn those four specific achievements. These will self-fix when the upstream mods update.

Report real bugs on the issue tracker.

Credits

This pack is a curation, not a creation. Every mod above is the work of its respective author(s), and their licenses apply to their jars. Built on the shoulders of the Create team and the wider Create addon community.