Minecolonies Getting Started (MCGS)
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Guided quests lead you from stone tools to Town Hall, then Minecolonies NPCs handle the grind. Rich ambience, extra structures, a towering Nether, handy gadgets, and big backpacks keep adventures—and streams—fresh past automation.
Themed around castles, knights, medieval weapons, and magic from the Middle Ages.
Features a central focus of farming and villages/ homesteading.
Includes a large focus on traversing worlds with enhanced world generation, structures, dungeons, and more for players to find unique loot.
Centers on surviving in harsh conditions, managing resources, and fending off PvE threats.
Includes quests that drive progression, whether through a quest book, NPC, or other in world source.
Includes creation and management of cities and towns.
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Bootstrapped Colonies is a 1.21.1 NeoForge experience laser-focused on getting you from punching wood to running a bustling Minecolonies settlement—fast. A concise questline ushers you through crafting the Supply Camp or Ship, placing your Town Hall, and hiring your first Builder. Once those milestones are hit, Minecolonies’ own contextual requests pick up the slack, letting NPCs gather resources, expand housing, and defend the perimeter while you chase bigger dreams.
World & Atmosphere
- Additional Structures dots the landscape with ruins, tents, and dungeons that double as early loot caches.
- Ambient Sounds 6 replaces silence with biome-aware audio, making forests creak and towns buzz.
- Amplified Nether stretches the underworld sky-high, turning quartz runs into vertical parkour.
Build Power & Style
- Domum Ornamentum adds skinnable beams, arches, and roofs the Builder understands, so every street feels unique.
- Building Gadgets 2 plus Charging Gadgets let you paste roads and walls at scale for late-game megaprojects.
- TownTalk gives settlers voice lines, turning status pings into lively banter.
Quality of Life
JEI, Controlling, Mouse Tweaks, Clumps, and Ultimine streamline menus, XP orbs, and block-breaking. Sophisticated Backpacks and Tom’s Storage handle pre-warehouse hoarding. NoChatReports adds server safety, while BetterWithMinecolonies tweaks farmer logic for smoother production.
Play Flow
- Follow quests to establish your first colony core.
- Let Minecolonies NPCs request materials while you explore new structures and biomes.
- Expand with gadgets, custom blocks, and vertical Nether expeditions.
- Automate, decorate, and watch your settlement flourish—all without losing the survival thrill.
1.21.1 Mod List
- Additional Structures
- Ambient Sounds
- Amplified Nether
- Architectury API
- Bad Packets
- Balm
- Bamboo Everything
- Better Compatibility Checker (BCC)
- Better Advancements
- Better With MineColonies
- BH Menu
- Blackwolf Library
- BlockUI
- Brick Hopper
- Building Gadgets 2
- BWNCR
- Ceiling Torch
- Charging Gadgets
- Cloth Config
- Clumps
- Collective
- Controlling
- Crafting Slots
- Crafting Tweaks
- CraftTweaker
- CreativeCore
- Cyclops Core
- Domum Ornamentum
- Enhanced Farming
- FancyMenu
- Fast Leaf Decay
- FTB Library
- FTB Quests
- FTB Teams
- FTB Ultimine
- Inventory Sorter
- Iron Chests
- Iron Furnaces
- Just Enough Items (JEI)
- JourneyMap
- JumpBoat / Jumpy Boats
- Jump Over Fences
- Just Enough Crowns
- Konkrete
- Let Me Sleep
- Light Overlay
- Lootr
- Macaw's Bridges
- Macaw's Fences
- Melody
- MineColonies
- More Decorative Blocks
- Mouse Tweaks
- Multi-Piston
- No Chat Reports
- No Trample
- Once Upon A Stroll
- Placebo
- Rain Shield
- Resourceful Tools
- Searchables
- Sophisticated Backpacks
- Sophisticated Core
- Starter Kit
- Structurize
- Terracart Reloaded
- Toast Control
- Tom's Storage
- Tool Belt
- TownTalk
- Tree Harvester
- Vanilla Plus Tools
- Wooden Hopper
- WTHIT
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All 3 of the Taunoa resource packs at https://zaliku.jimdo.com/downloads/taunoa/, just scroll to the bottom to find them.
Sildur’s Vibrant Shaders at https://www.minecraftforum.net/forums/mapping-and-modding-java-edition/minecraft-mods/1291396-1-6-4-1-13-2-sildurs-shaders-pc-mac-intel, we recommend the 1.18 High but you can pick w/e runs on your computer.
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