🧱 MonkeyCraft — Build • Trade • Thrive (NeoForge 1.21.1)

Minecraft: 1.21.1 • Loader: NeoForge
Version: v2025.11.05 • Type: Major / Game-Changing Update

🌍 Overview

Welcome to MonkeyCraft, a community-friendly survival modpack built around MineColonies, FTB Quests, and a balanced blend of exploration, economy, and automation.

This update introduces a revamped food and colony life system powered by Farmer’s Delight, deeper town automation, and refreshed world generation.

✨ Core Features

🏘️ Living Towns — MineColonies at the Core

• Build a living colony with simulated citizens, jobs, housing, and supply chains.
• Supports Structurize, Domum Ornamentum, StyleColonies, and MineColonies Tweaks for smarter AI and new designs.
• Towns evolve naturally as you upgrade the Town Hall and citizen jobs.

🍲 Food & Farming — New with Farmer’s Delight

• Farmer’s Delight adds crops, cooking tools, meals, and feasts that integrate directly with your colony’s Cook and Restaurant.
• Villagers and colonists now benefit from a larger variety of food tiers.
• Supports seamless progression from basic farms to gourmet kitchens.

🌎 Exploration & World Generation

• YUNG’s Better Structures overhaul caves, dungeons, strongholds, temples, and more.
• Biomes O’ Plenty and Explorify create rich terrain diversity and scenic landscapes.
• Updated Explorify (v1.6.4) introduces refined cave and terrain blending—explore new chunks to see changes.

🧭 Economy & Progression

• MEconomy provides a working in-game currency and trading system.
• FTB Quests guides players through early setup, exploration, and advanced goals.
• FTB Ranks manages server-wide ranks and permissions with clear progression paths.

⚙️ Quality of Life

• FTB Essentials adds homes, teleporting, spawn control, and server tools.
• Waystones, Sophisticated Backpacks/Core, Easy Villagers, Guard Villagers, and Double Doors make everyday life smoother.
• Healing Campfire, Falling Tree, and Stack Refill for convenience and immersion.
• Jade and Jade Addons provide detailed tooltips and colony integration.

🧰 Server Utilities

• FTB Backups for automatic world saves.
• FastAsyncWorldSave for efficient server-side saving.
• Spark performance monitoring.
• BlueMap for real-time 3D web maps.
• Chunky for pre-generation and optimization.

🔄 Recent Major Updates (v2025.11.05)

• Added Farmer’s Delight – full colony food integration and new cooking system
• Added MineColonies Tweaks – smarter worker behavior and job handling
• Updated MineColonies (1.1.1178) – improved AI, pathfinding, and build logic
• Updated Explorify (v1.6.4) – new POIs and terrain blending
• Updated FTB Library, Teams, Quests, and KubeJS
• Updated CristelLib, Balm, StyleColonies, PolyLib, and Domum Ornamentum
• Numerous QoL improvements, bug fixes, and worldgen optimizations

🧠 Getting Started

1. Install the pack through the CurseForge App (Java 21+ required).
2. Create a new world or join the MonkeyCraft Server (monkeycraft.org).
3. Place your Supply Camp or Ship to start your first colony.
4. Visit your Town Hall and assign jobs to citizens.
5. Build farms and kitchens to take advantage of Farmer’s Delight meals.

💡 Tip: Explore outside your current borders to experience the new world generation!

🛠️ Server Owner Notes

• Always back up your world before upgrading.
• Delete caches: kubejs/cache/ and config/fmlcache/ for clean load.
• Replace your entire /mods/ folder when updating.
• Confirm Java 21+ is being used (ZGC recommended).
• Allow MineColonies indexing to complete on first boot (may take a few minutes).

🧾 Recommended Server JVM Settings

-Xms12G
-Xmx16G
-XX:+UseZGC
-XX:+ZGenerational
-XX:MaxGCPauseMillis=50
-XX:+AlwaysPreTouch
-Dfile.encoding=UTF-8

🧩 Modpack Philosophy

MonkeyCraft is designed for community-driven building and exploration.
It balances MineColonies, automation, and survival immersion—encouraging teamwork, trade, and creativity.

🧱 Credits

• Modpack: Daniel Shirley / MonkeyCraft.org
• World design & optimization: MonkeyCraft Community
• BlueMap integration, spawn builds, and MineColonies testing: LeeCares TX team
• Special thanks to all the players helping shape the server and modpack direction 🐒

📜 License

This pack is distributed under the Minecraft Modpack Usage Terms (CurseForge EULA).
Do not reupload or redistribute modified versions without permission.
You’re free to use this pack for personal and server play.

📣 Join the Community

• 🌐 Website: https://monkeycraft.org
• 📘 Wiki: wiki.monkeycraft.org
• 💬 Discord: https://discord.gg/6Wk6mDTT