The Dawn's Early Light
Version
1.31
This Modpack is for players who want to experience Minecraft in a way that adds to the challenge and longevity of the game as well as sticking to the core ideas surrounding Minecraft survival. I achieved this by adding many mods that improve the Minecraft experience and give the player an extra edge while balancing it with the increased difficulty of mobs, and the addition of thirst and seasons. On top of that a new world type called realistic from the Realistic Terrain Generation Mod makes the landscape, just that, realistic and beautiful. Here are a few pictures of the terrain you might encounter.(note that this is an entirely separate world type)
Every mod has a distinct purpose to fulfill and no Mods do completely the same thing, a often occurence you see in Mod Packs such as tekkit and other "futuristic mod packs." I will go over the core mods and their purpose below.
A camp site from Camping Mod and a smeltery from Tinkers' Construct 2 creating a block of gold
The Camping Mod adds tents, fur armor, a backpack, and a lantern. This this mod can be very useful in travel and making your mining trips longer and safer. For example, lanterns can be used to light the way on your mining trips and tents give you a comfortable place to sleep and store goods.
Tinkers' Construct 2 adds a extremely wide variety of fully customizable tools and weapons with unique attributes. It will increase your chances of survival and make the process of everything just that much more fun and rejuvenating. For example, tools such as the excavator and the hammer mine a 3x3 hole making clearing land much easier than before but at the cost of lots of materials in order to make and keep the tool functioning. But that's not all, Tinkers' Construct adds a smeltery which doubles the output of ores and is used to craft all metal weapons.
A picture of heavy rain during the end of Summer, a common occurence during this time of year.
Tough As Nails adds seasons, temperature, and thirst. This mod makes it a priority to save up food for the winter and to watch where you live, certain biomes are too cold or too hot to live in permanently(without a heater or a cooler). It not only adds thirst but makes it a bit of a challenging addition, with the fact that you need use charcoal filters or rain collectors in order to get clean water.
A woman and a nun inside a church
Minecraft Comes Alive is a mod which replaces villagers with fully interactive NPC's who can trade, talk, and even have relationships with you. This mod adds an extra layer of depth to the Modpack and a goal to follow. Will you have a family in the middle of the woods or will you have a small village run and owned by you? This is all possible in this mod.
A skeleton with chainmale armor, a bow, and a sword riding on horse back. You don't want to mess with this guy!
Rough Mobs makes mobs much more interesting and hard, with things such as skeletons riding on horse back with a sword in their off hand, to a crazy diamond plated zombie boss which when defeated, can drop some pretty cool loot. Some of the additions are increased following range for most mobs at 30 blocks, zombies at 60! All skeletons carry some weapon in their off weapon which they will use if you get too close. Spiders will give you a slowness affect and if it is applied enough they can rap you in webs. and the list goes on and on for you to discover! (Contact me, earlyshooter, if you have balancing issues, as all of this is completely configurable!)
Items and Blocks from all the mods in The Dawns Early Light
There are plenty of other small mods that add to this game that will be listed below!
Fast Leaf Decay adds, just that, very fast leaf decay!
Just Enough Items lets you see crafting recipes for many items in the game.
Hopper Ducts Mod Adds a pipe system for hoppers helping you transport items faster and for less resources.
Optifine Improves game FPS and allows use of shaders!
Placable Items allows you to place ALL food items, All mineral items, and even bows and swords. And the best part is when you place down the food you can eat it right off the table!
Sophisticated Wolves improves the wolf AI and adds wolves of various colors. Now wolves are very useful companions!
Storage Drawers Allow you to visualize and organize your storage. Drawers are also pretty good looking furniture for your home!
MineTweaker 3 Allows me to edit crafting recipes in order to balance and improve your gaming experience. Such as making beds impossible to craft(because of a nasty bug), making it impossible to craft vannila tools so you are forced to use tconstruct, and other balances soon to come as more feed back and my own personal experience thinks it to be necessary.