Stonecage

Welcome to Stonecage

Stonecage is a lightweight modpack with a focus on exploration and combat.  To help push players towards exploration, players no longer have the ability to break stone (as well as various other blocks).  This means you'll have to explore vast, dangerous cave systems instead of strip mining, travel through deadly dungeons instead of digging through them, and to build a base instead of living in a hole in the wall like some kind of forest animal.

The pack doesn't have many mods compared to some packs out there, but the mods that are here have been both carefully chosen and also well integrated to try and make a cohesive experience.  There are many, many lines of scripting in this pack to make all the pieces fit together.

What's it all About?

Stonecage is mainly about combat and exploration.  It's a pack for those who like combat and collecting loot, with a little bit of tech, a little bit of magic, and a little bit of automation.  Instead of using a quest book, it is organized around the research table.  After exploring around and killing mobs, you can use research notes you've collected at the research table to unlock new machines.  You'll also find Curios while exploring, powerful artifacts that can be refined into useful baubles to help you keep up with your foes.

Tools, armor and weapons can be made out of a large assortment of materials through the Silent Gear mod, allowing you to customize your gear.  There's also new ways to fight, including dual wielding, guns, and magic, allowing you to customize your play style to your challenges and your preferences.

Rediscover lost technology from Thermal Expansion and other tech mods, creating powerful machines that will help you survive this harsh world, as well as others.

With the research table as your main guide through the pack, forge your own journey without worrying about quests, while never feeling truly lost.

Featuring:

Powerful artifacts from the Gobber mod!

Expanding Lifebars and Dastardly Foes from the Scaling Health mod

Customizable gear from the Silent Gear mod!

Martial Moves from the Better Combat Rebirth mod!

Massive caverns from the Worley's Caves mod!

Useful technology from the Thermal Expansion mod!

Apocalyptic Settlements from the Lost Cities mod!

Unique Biomes from the Traverse and Project Vibrant Journeys mods!

...And much, much more!

There are many mods you may know, and many you might not.  Either way, this pack will put a spin on all of them, and you'll learn play them differently than you ever have before.