Emberwild Journey

Light a fire. The wild is waiting.

Emberwild Journey is a Fabric 26.3 modpack about leaving home and coming back to it. A hundred new biomes to cross, a pack on your back, a waystone to bring you home, and a base where everything you own is one search away.

It is built around five original mods made for this pack. Where other packs bundle a waystone mod, a backpack mod, a storage mod, an enchanting mod and a villager mod from five different authors, Emberwild Journey has one of each, designed together, with matching art and screens, and nothing else in the pack doing the same job twice.

• 81 mods, hand-picked, every one on a stable release for 26.3 where one exists
• 8 shader packs and 6 resource packs included and switched off, so you choose how the game looks
• Tested as a whole: the full pack boots on a dedicated server and in the client, and the originals pass 111 automated checks with every other mod loaded
• A quest book that shows the way and never blocks it. No forced progression, no tech tree: still Minecraft, with more world and less busywork

The five originals

Lodeways: Waystones

• Craft a Waystone (amethyst, gold, an ender pearl, polished deepslate), place it and name it.
• Right-click any waystone to see the others in a scrolling list with distance and cost, and travel with one click.
• Travel costs experience by distance and has a short cooldown, so it is a choice and not a free teleport.
• Way Charts: use paper on a waystone to write a chart of it. A friend who reads the chart knows the waystone without the walk.
• With many waystones, a search box filters the list by name.
• Pets come along: tamed pets that follow you and animals on your lead travel with you. Pets told to sit stay home.
• Public waystones: the owner sneak-right-clicks a waystone with an empty hand to make it public, and everyone can travel there without finding it first.
• Cost, cooldown and limits are in config/lodeways.json.

Haversack: Backpacks

• Four tiers: Leather (18 slots), Iron (27), Diamond (36), Netherite (54). Upgrading keeps what is inside.
• Every pack tidies itself when you open it: equal stacks merge and line up by name.
• Four charms that slot into the pack: Magnet (pulls in drops within 6 blocks), Feeding (feeds you and your tamed pets from the pack), Compacting (presses nine ingots, gems or nuggets into their block), Restocking (keeps the stacks in your hotbar full).
• With a Feeding Charm fitted, a button under the charms chooses how it feeds you: no waste, always full or only when hurt.
• Sneak and use to set the pack down as a block. It keeps its contents, works with hoppers, and joins a Stowage network.
• Each tier has its own screen and its own block model. With Shulker Box Tooltip installed, hovering a pack shows what is inside.
• Open-pack key (B by default, in Controls): opens the first pack you carry, no need to take it in hand.
• Void Charm: hold it with a junk item in the other hand and right-click to teach it. It deletes that item from the pack and your main inventory; the hotbar is never touched.

Sigilry: Runes

• The Rune Altar inscribes the rune you choose. No lottery: one Blank Rune and 8 levels buy exactly the rune you picked.
• Twelve runes: Leech, Frost, Venom, Vitality, Swift, Stride, Reach, Tenacity, Magnetism, Smelting, Featherfall, Night Eye, each with two levels.
• Magnetism picks up drops near you while the tool is in hand, Smelting makes ores drop ingots, Featherfall lets you fall further without harm, Night Eye gives Night Vision while worn.
• Apply a rune stone to gear in an anvil. One rune per item, so you have to decide.
• Runes are ordinary data-driven enchantments, so tooltips, JEI and Enchantment Descriptions all understand them.

Stowage: Networked storage

• Put a Storage Terminal against your chests. Every chest, barrel and shulker box touching it, each other, or a Storage Conduit becomes one searchable list.
• Search box, sort by amount or name, scroll through everything you own.
• Click to take a stack, right-click for half, shift-click your own items to store them. Items go to the chest that already holds that item.
• Craft straight from the network: the 3x3 grid refills itself from storage, shift-click crafts until you run out.
• JEI "+" button: with a terminal open, the plus on any crafting recipe lays that recipe out on the grid from storage. Shift-click it for as many as you have items for.
• JEI keys work on stored items: point at anything in the list and press JEI's recipe or uses key. JEI also lists the terminal as a place to craft.
• Compact button: packs every nine ingots, gems, nuggets and the like in storage into their block.
• Works with the mods around it: Crafting Tweaks buttons rotate, balance and clear the grid, Farmer's Delight cabinets and baskets count as storage, and Lootr chests are left alone.
• Hoppers feed it: point a hopper at the terminal and whatever it pushes is sorted into the network. A full network leaves the items in the hopper.
• Nothing is stored in the terminal. Break it and every item is still in its chest.
• Wireless Terminal: use it on a Storage Terminal to link it, then open that network from anywhere in the same dimension.

Hearthfolk: Villagers

• The Trade Ledger lists every trade of every villager within 48 blocks, with prices and stock.
• Trade from the ledger: click a line to buy once, shift-click to buy as many as you can afford. No walking between stalls.
• Right-click a line and that villager glows, so you can find them.
• Discounts are capped at 30 percent. Curing zombie villagers no longer gets you one-emerald everything.
• Villagers stock more as they rank up, and a Trade Contract rerolls the offers of a villager you have not traded with yet.
• Reroll button: on the trade screen of a villager nobody has traded with yet, one click draws new trades. No breaking and replacing the workstation.
• Search and stars: the ledger has a search box, and Ctrl-click stars a trade so it stays at the top of the list.

The Journey Book

• You start with the Journey Book: 36 quests in seven chapters that walk through the pack, from the first campfire to the End.
• Each quest says what to do and pays a small reward. None of them is required, and nothing is locked behind them.
• Every quest is also an advancement, so the vanilla advancement screen shows the same trail. Lost the book? A book and a torch make a new one.

More of our own

Smaller mods, written for this pack like the rest.

Seamstrike: Vein mining

• Hold the Seamstrike key (` by default) and mine one block: every connected block of the same kind comes with it, up to 64. Any block: ore, stone, logs, leaves, gravel, crops.
• The selection is outlined in the world before you swing, with the block count and the shape name beside the crosshair.
• Six shapes, picked with the mouse wheel while the key is held: Shapeless (the whole seam), Small Tunnel (1x1), Small Square (3x3), Large Tunnel (3x3 deep), Mining Tunnel (stairs down) and Escape Tunnel (stairs up).
• Right-click works too: a hoe tills, a shovel makes paths and an axe strips the whole selection. With Sowback installed, one right-click on any plant of a field, ripe or not, harvests and replants every ripe one.
• Nothing is free: the tool wears per block and stops before it breaks, Fortune and Silk Touch apply, hunger drains. Ore needs the right pickaxe.
• All the drops and experience land together at your feet, ready to pick up. The key is in Controls; limits are in config/seamstrike.json.
• Tree felling, no key needed: an axe on a log of a real tree takes the whole tree and its leaves, and a sapling goes back in the ground. Log houses are safe (no natural leaves), and sneaking chops one log. Steps aside when FallingTree is installed.

Neatfold: Inventory sorting

• Press the sort key (middle mouse button by default) over your inventory or over an open chest: stacks merge and everything lines up in order.
• A small button on the top-right of every sortable screen does the same.
• Your hotbar is never touched. Furnaces, crafting grids and other workstations are left alone.
• Works on chests, barrels, shulker boxes and Haversack packs. The key is in Controls > Inventory.

Sowback: Right-click harvest

• Right-click a ripe crop: it drops its harvest and is a seedling again. Nothing is broken, nothing needs replanting.
• One seed of the harvest goes back into the ground, so you get exactly what breaking and replanting would give.
• Wheat, carrots, potatoes, beetroot, nether wart, cocoa, and crops from other mods that are built on the vanilla crop.
• Unripe plants are left alone, so you can sweep a field without looking.
• Hold the Seamstrike key and one right-click anywhere in the field, even on a seedling, harvests every ripe plant in it.
• Hoes harvest a square: right-click with an iron hoe for 3x3, diamond for 5x5, netherite for 7x7. Works from an unripe plant too.

Farstride: Travel

• Roads are faster: dirt paths, stone bricks, bricks and other paving speed you up by 30 percent, so the road home is worth building.
• Walking Staff: in either hand you step up full blocks and walk a little faster.
• Climbing Claws: hold them and climb any wall you walk into, like a ladder.
• Glider: hold it and a fall becomes a slow float. It wears while it carries you; leather repairs it.
• Grappling Hook: aim at a block up to 24 blocks away and it pulls you to it.
• Horse Whistle: brings your nearest tamed horse, donkey or mule to you from up to 128 blocks.
• Saddlebags: put them on your own horse for 27 slots of storage. Sneak and right-click with an empty hand to open them.
• Boats row half again as fast.
• Homeward Scroll: read it and you stand at your bed, or at the world spawn if you have none.

Lapiskeep: Lapis stays in the table

• Lapis you leave in an enchanting table stays in that table. Close the screen, come back later, it is still there.
• The table keeps up to one stack. Break the table and the lapis drops.
• Works for everyone who uses the table, and two players can never take the same lapis twice.

What else is inside

World generation

A new overworld, Nether and End, and far more to find in them.

Content

Cooking, animals, forgotten mobs, and a full set of building blocks for the house you come home to.

Quality of life

The chores, shortened.

Interface

Information where you need it.

Visuals

Small touches that make the world feel alive, with or without shaders.

Sound

Performance

The pack is meant to run well on ordinary hardware.

Shaders and resource packs: play it your way

Everything below is downloaded with the pack and switched off. Nothing changes until you turn it on, and you can switch at any time without restarting.

Shaders

Options > Video Settings > Shader Packs, pick one, press Apply. Press K in game to toggle shaders on and off.

Resource packs

Options > Resource Packs, move the ones you want to the right. They can be combined.

Installing

1. Install the CurseForge App, or any launcher that installs CurseForge packs (Prism Launcher, ATLauncher).
2. Find Emberwild Journey and press Install. The launcher downloads Minecraft 26.3, Fabric Loader 0.19.5 and every mod.
3. Give the game 6 GB of memory (4 GB is the minimum, 8 GB if you use shaders with a long view distance).
4. Play.

Playing on a server

Download the server pack from the Files tab, or copy the client mods folder and remove the client-only mods. Everyone who joins needs the pack installed, because the five originals add blocks, items and screens.

Good to know

• JEI only has a beta build for Minecraft 26.3. It has been stable in testing, and it is the one recipe viewer that runs alongside every other mod here.
• World generation is heavier than vanilla. The first minutes in a new world load slowly while the land around you is built.
• Do not add a second waystone, backpack, storage network, enchanting or villager trading mod. The pack is balanced around its own.

Libraries

Installed automatically. You never have to touch them.

Credits and licences

Every third-party mod, shader and resource pack is downloaded from its own CurseForge page and belongs to its authors. They are the reason this pack exists, and each one is linked above. The five original mods (Lodeways, Haversack, Sigilry, Stowage, Hearthfolk) are MIT licensed.

Found a bug? Say which mod it is in if you can, and include logs/latest.log.