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Zoology & Paleontology, Oh My!
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Designed for those who adore furred, feathered, and scaled friends. For 1.12.2, 1.16.5, and 1.18.2
Themed around ancient times with dinosaurs, primitive technology, and survival elements in a prehistoric setting.
Themed around underwater exploration, marine life, and oceanic environments.
Designed to be relaxing and comfortable with little challenge, often including elements like peaceful villages, farming, and gentle exploration.
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.
Adds dinosaur mobs and related content.
Enhances farming mechanics and introduces new crops and livestock.
Includes quality of life improvements and small tweaks to enhance and customize gameplay.
Includes genetic manipulation and biological systems.
Focuses on cooking, recipes, and food-related mechanics.
Offers different gameplay modes or settings.
Forge is a popular mod loader for versions 1.1+ of Minecraft.
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Zoology & Paleontology, Oh My! is a modpack designed for those who adore animals of all shapes and sizes, prehistoric or modern. Featuring a multitude of zoological and paleontological centered mods, this pack gives a diverse selection of creatures to observe, interact with, and care for.
Build and maintain the perfect zoo! Feature and care for a variety of creatures, maintaining their health and happiness!
Create your own prehistoric park! Build enclosures to contain once-fossilized creatures and care for them!
If the work put into running a park or zoo isn't your style, then spend your time exploring vast biomes and observing the creatures in their natural habitats!
If you want a quiet life, then there are a number of tameable creatures to have to accompany you in your home!
NOTE: Because there are so many amazing mods that would be wonderful in a modpack like this, there is more than one version of the Zoology & Paleontology pack. One for 1.12.2, another for 1.16.5, and another for 1.18.2. The packs each contain some mods that are unique to their respective versions (ex: ZAWA: Rebuilt or FA Revival), with some mods being available in all versions (ex: Macaw's furniture or Realistic Horse Genetics). These options are provided so that players can choose which pack/version they prefer.
1.12.2 Mod List:
Core Animal Mods:
Credits to Purplicious_Cow and RazzleberryFox
- Butterflys - Mods - Minecraft - CurseForge
- Exotic Birds - Mods - Minecraft - CurseForge
- Fauna and Ecology - Mods - Minecraft - CurseForge
- Fossils and Archeology Revival - Mods - Minecraft - CurseForge
- Frikinzi's Fauna - Mods - Minecraft - CurseForge
- Just a Few Fish - Mods - Minecraft - CurseForge
- Lil' Critters - A ZAWA Addon - Mods - Minecraft - CurseForge
- Lumen Legacy 🔥 - Mods - Minecraft - CurseForge
- Not Enough Pets - Mods - Minecraft - CurseForge
- Pawprints - Mods - Minecraft - CurseForge
- Realistic Horse Genetics - Mods - Minecraft - CurseForge
- Simply Cats - Mods - Minecraft - CurseForge
- The Birdwatching Mod - Mods - Minecraft - CurseForge
- Wizard's Animals - Mods - Minecraft - CurseForge
- Zoo & Wild Animals Rebuilt ... - Mods - Minecraft - CurseForge
- Zoocraft Discoveries - Mods - Minecraft - CurseForge
Extra Mods:
- Antique Atlas - Mods - Minecraft - CurseForge
- BiblioCraft - Mods - Minecraft - CurseForge
- Biomes O' Plenty - Mods - Minecraft - CurseForge
- Future MC - Mods - Minecraft - CurseForge
- Macaw's Bridges - Mods - Minecraft - CurseForge
- Macaw's Doors - Mods - Minecraft - CurseForge
- Macaw's Fences and Walls - Mods - Minecraft - CurseForge
- Macaw's Furniture - Mods - Minecraft - CurseForge
- MrCrayfish's Furniture Mod - Mods - Minecraft - CurseForge
- Mushroom Quest - Mods - Minecraft - CurseForge
- Nature's Compass - Mods - Minecraft - CurseForge
- Pam's HarvestCraft - Mods - Minecraft - CurseForge
Credits to Pamela Collins (MatrexsVigil) and Rhodox of the Painterly Pack
- Serene Seasons - Mods - Minecraft - CurseForge
- Serene Tweaks - Mods - Minecraft - CurseForge
- Xaero's Minimap - Mods - Minecraft - CurseForge
- Xaero's World Map - Mods - Minecraft - CurseForge
Quality of Life/Performance Mods:
- AppleSkin - Mods - Minecraft - CurseForge
- Better Fps - Render Distanc... - Mods - Minecraft - CurseForge
- Born in a Barn - Mods - Minecraft - CurseForge
- Clumps - Mods - Minecraft - CurseForge
- Fast Leaf Decay - Mods - Minecraft - CurseForge
- Hwyla - Mods - Minecraft - CurseForge
- Just Enough Items (JEI) - Mods - Minecraft - CurseForge
- Performant - Mods - Minecraft - CurseForge
- Treecapitator Updated - Mods - Minecraft - CurseForge
1.16.5 Mod List:
Core Animal Mods:
- Alex's Mobs - Mods - Minecraft - CurseForge
- Ambient Additions - Mods - Minecraft - CurseForge
- Aquafina - Mods - Minecraft - CurseForge
- Baby Fat - Mods - Minecraft - CurseForge
- Barca's Critters - Mods - Minecraft - CurseForge
- Bettas - Mods - Minecraft - CurseForge
- Better Animals Plus - Mods - Minecraft - CurseForge
- Endless Ocean: Aquatic Adve... - Mods - Minecraft - CurseForge
- Environmental - Mods - Minecraft - CurseForge
- Exotic Birds - Mods - Minecraft - CurseForge
- Frikinzi's Fauna - Mods - Minecraft - CurseForge
- Genetic Animals - Mods - Minecraft - CurseForge
- Monke Madness - Mods - Minecraft - CurseForge
- Odd Water Mobs - Mods - Minecraft - CurseForge
- Panthalassa - Mods - Minecraft - CurseForge
- Prehistoric Fauna - Mods - Minecraft - CurseForge
- Realistic Bees (Forge) - Mods - Minecraft - CurseForge
- Realistic Horse Genetics - Mods - Minecraft - CurseForge
- Unnamed Animal Mod - Mods - Minecraft - CurseForge
- Untamed Wilds - Mods - Minecraft - CurseForge
- Untitled Duck Mod (Forge) - Mods - Minecraft - CurseForge
- Wilds - Mods - Minecraft - CurseForge
- Zoo and Wild Animals: Evolv... - Mods - Minecraft - CurseForge
Extra Mods:
- Antique Atlas - Mods - Minecraft - CurseForge
- Biomes O' Plenty - Mods - Minecraft - CurseForge
- Macaw's Bridges - Mods - Minecraft - CurseForge
- Macaw's Doors - Mods - Minecraft - CurseForge
- Macaw's Fences and Walls - Mods - Minecraft - CurseForge
- Macaw's Furniture - Mods - Minecraft - CurseForge
- MrCrayfish's Furniture Mod - Mods - Minecraft - CurseForge
- Mushroom Quest - Mods - Minecraft - CurseForge
- Nature's Compass - Mods - Minecraft - CurseForge
- Pam's HarvestCraft 2 - Food... - Mods - Minecraft - CurseForge
- Pam's HarvestCraft 2 - Crops - Mods - Minecraft - CurseForge
- Pam's HarvestCraft 2 - Food... - Mods - Minecraft - CurseForge
- Pam's HarvestCraft 2 - Trees - Mods - Minecraft - CurseForge
Credits to Pamela Collins (MatrexsVigil) and Rhodox of the Painterly Pack
- Portable Mobs - Mods - Minecraft - CurseForge
- Xaero's Minimap - Mods - Minecraft - CurseForge
- Xaero's World Map - Mods - Minecraft - CurseForge
Quality of Life/Performance Mods:
- AppleSkin - Mods - Minecraft - CurseForge
- Better Fps - Render Distanc... - Mods - Minecraft - CurseForge
- Clumps - Mods - Minecraft - CurseForge
- Fast Leaf Decay - Mods - Minecraft - CurseForge
- FerriteCore (Forge) - Mods - Minecraft - CurseForge
- Hwyla - Mods - Minecraft - CurseForge
- Just Enough Items (JEI) - Mods - Minecraft - CurseForge
- Performant - Mods - Minecraft - CurseForge
1.18.2 Mod List:
Core Animal Mods:
- Alex's Mobs - Mods - Minecraft - CurseForge
- AlternaCraft - Mods - Minecraft - CurseForge
- Ambient Additions - Mods - Minecraft - CurseForge
- Better Animals Plus - Mods - Minecraft - CurseForge
- Domestication Innovation - Mods - Minecraft - CurseForge
- Endless Ocean: Aquatic Adve... - Mods - Minecraft - CurseForge
- Exotic Birds - Mods - Minecraft - CurseForge
- Goodall - Mods - Minecraft - CurseForge
- Hedgehogs - Mods - Minecraft - CurseForge
- Lil' Wings - Mods - Minecraft - CurseForge
- Monke Madness - Mods - Minecraft - CurseForge
- Naturalist - Mods - Minecraft - CurseForge
- Panthalassa - Mods - Minecraft - CurseForge
- Realistic Bees (Forge) - Mods - Minecraft - CurseForge
- Realistic Horse Genetics - Mods - Minecraft - CurseForge
- Untamed Wilds - Mods - Minecraft - CurseForge
Extra Mods:
- Biomes O' Plenty - Mods - Minecraft - CurseForge
- Macaw's Bridges - Mods - Minecraft - CurseForge
- Macaw's Doors - Mods - Minecraft - CurseForge
- Macaw's Fences and Walls - Mods - Minecraft - CurseForge
- Macaw's Furniture - Mods - Minecraft - CurseForge
- MrCrayfish's Furniture Mod - Mods - Minecraft - CurseForge
- Nature's Compass - Mods - Minecraft - CurseForge
- Pam's HarvestCraft 2 - Food... - Mods - Minecraft - CurseForge
Credits to Pamela Collins (MatrexsVigil) and Rhodox of the Painterly Pack
- Serene Seasons - Mods - Minecraft - CurseForge
- Xaero's Minimap - Mods - Minecraft - CurseForge
- Xaero's World Map - Mods - Minecraft - CurseForge
Quality of Life/Performance Mods:
- AppleSkin - Mods - Minecraft - CurseForge
- Better Fps - Render Distanc... - Mods - Minecraft - CurseForge
- Clumps - Mods - Minecraft - CurseForge
- Fast Leaf Decay - Mods - Minecraft - CurseForge
- FerriteCore (Forge) - Mods - Minecraft - CurseForge
- Just Enough Items (JEI) - Mods - Minecraft - CurseForge
- WTHIT Forge Edition - Mods - Minecraft - CurseForge
If you experience any issues or bugs between mods not functioning properly within the pack (or with each other), report it in the comments. Attempts will be made to resolve the issue within the pack config, or the problem mod will be removed entirely.
Suggestions for more mods are always welcome in the comments!
Where you can find me:
Twitter: @Silverpelt3600_
Discord: Silverpelt3600#7497
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