Zoo and Wild Animals: Evolved
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This is a BETA VERSION
### We need your help to polish it up!
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You can report any issues on our GitHub page [here](https://github.com/ZAWA-Evolved/ZAWA/issues). This version does not feature the full planned mob and item roster. Please do not report missing animals or items as bugs.**
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Minimum Forge version required: 1.16.5 – 36.2.20
ZAWA is a mod that adds tamable animal mobs with realistic behavior, animations and care needs, with real-life animal conservation and science information so players – young and old – can learn while they play.
The animal catching, caring and conservation mod from 1.12 is back – in the new Evolved version, building your dream zoo will be better than ever! Do you have what it takes to collect – and properly care for – every animal in your Minecraft world?
ZAWA has been recoded from the ground up, with new diets, sizes, breeding and husbandry mechanics, a new capture system, and a clean new style. Evolved adds even more new animals to keep even the most seasoned players and builders on their toes. ZAWA is built for solo, multiplayer, survival and creative gameplay alike, and is balanced and accessible no matter what you or your server members are looking for. Use new blocks, items and entities to catch, build for, and care for lifelike, loveable and realistic animals and breed, trade and compete with friends.
**Have questions? Want to research ZAWA before jumping in? Give our [wiki](https://github.com/ZAWA-Evolved/ZAWA/wiki) a look.**
**Engage with other aspiring zookeepers – join our [discord](https://discord.gg/jqJyUwD4Bb)!**
[Check out our ZAWA: Evolved style GUI and HUD resource pack!](https://modrinth.com/resourcepack/zawa-evolved-gui-dark-mode)
**Beef Beta 1.0.2 Animals**
Spoiler
**Tamable animals**
These animals can be tamed with kibble. Once tamed, you’ll need to make sure they have access to food, water and enrichment. Tamable animals have genders, favorite foods, and individual breeding success rates. Animals with an asterisk in their name have multiple species to discover. You can learn more about your animals by using the data book.
African lion
African wild dog
Asian elephant
Bald eagle
Black footed ferret
Emperor penguin
Flamingo*
Giant anteater
Giant panda
Giraffe*
Grevy’s zebra
Hornbill*
Indian gharial
Kakapo
Koala
Macaw*
Mandrill
Orca
Polar bear
Red kangaroo
Sloth*
Snow leopard
Spider monkey*
Sumatran orangutan
Tree frog*
**Ambient animals**
Ambient animals can’t be tamed, don’t have genders, and don’t have different baby models or textures. They’re used as feeder animals, or to fill up an exhibit and make it look nice.
African lake cichlid*
Angelfish*
Betta*
Butterfly*
Clownfish*
Cod
Corydoras*
Gramma*
Honey bee
Leafcutter ant
Plecostomus
Praying mantis*
Salmon
Scorpion*
Tarantula*
**Beef Beta 1.0.0 Blocks**
Spoiler
**Decorative blocks**
These blocks will make your zoo look as good as it can be!
18 animal plush blocks – Less bitey, screamy, hungry versions of ZAWA’s lovable critters. Collect them all for a reward!
Acrylic fence (+block, slab, door, trapdoor) – Thin, modern black fencing for aviaries etcetera.
Animal plaque – A fancy sign block with a secondary text input, seen on right-clicking. Great for adding more information to animal signs. Edit existing signs with a feather.
Bamboo block (+slab, stairs, fence, fence gate, door, trapdoor) – Eco-friendly, renewable decor blocks crafted from vanilla bamboo.
Bench – A comfy, classic wooden bench for your guests. Craftable in all wood types.
Black bamboo block (+slab, stairs, fence, fence gate, door, trapdoor) – Eco-friendly, renewable decor blocks crafted from striking black bamboo.
Bug box – Using “fuel,” farms insects for animal (and player?) feed.
Cable fence – Decorative barrier block with matching gate.
Concrete bench – Craftable in all 16 dye colors.
Concrete table – Craftable in all 16 dye colors.
Dark paving stone (+slab, stairs) – Cool, clean bricks set into modern black concrete.
Exhibit glass – Translucent glass, with pane placed on edge of a block.
Incubator – Runs on charcoal, used to up the spawn chances from eggs laid by your animals.
Light paving stone (+slab, stairs) – Warm, bright bricks set into cheery white concrete.
Mixed mossy stone (+slab, stairs, wall) – See below.
Mixed stone (+slab, stairs, wall) – A clean, modern stone block with horizontal layers.
Mulch – A wood-based block that acts like dirt or grass. Plant plants, grow trees, go nuts! Craftable in all overworld wood types.
Mussel box – Using “fuel”, farms shellfish for animal and player feed.
Picnic table – A matching picnic table for your benches. Craftable in all wood types.
River stone (+slab, stairs, wall) – Round, soft river stones.
Rope fence – 1.5 block tall fence with a nautical rope look.
Rotting log – A hollow log for animals to climb, crawl on, or cuddle up into. Craftable in all overworld wood types.
Steel fence (+block, slab, door, trapdoor) – Thick, traditional steel bars for new and old zoos alike.
Thatch (+slab, stairs, fence, fence gate, door, trapdoor) – Decorative blocks with a tropical thatch theme.
Waste bin – Decorative block in all wood types.
Wire fence (+block, slab, door, trapdoor) – Thin, chain link fencing for good visibility and better security.
Yellow bamboo block – Eco-friendly, renewable decor blocks crafted from dry yellow bamboo.
Zoo fence (+block, slab, door, trapdoor) – Green-painted steel bars for a bright, colorful zoo look.
**Feeders**
These blocks are used to provide food and water to animals. All feeders can accept all types of food, but some will only render certain ones. All feeders can also take water. When food is placed in a feeder, it will deplete when an animal eats, but water will not. All animals can use all feeder blocks, as long as they can reach them!
Food bowl – A metal food bowl, with a rubber rim for stability.
Metal trough – Connecting metal troughs with connecting inventory.
Pedestal feeder – A stone pedestal with a special rendering model for fruit. Could also be used as a bird bath!
Stone bowl – A small stone bowl.
Stone trough – Connecting stone toughs with connecting inventory.
Underwater feeder – A feeder block used for swimming creatures.
Wall bowl – A wall-mounted bowl, for very tall animals, or arboreal critters.
Wall forage – A wire-fronted foraging fixture for herbivorous animals. Renders foliage and grain-type foods. Can be crafted in all wood types.
**Animal Enrichment**
Animals use these blocks to keep themselves happy. Make sure you check which ones each animal uses in the data book!
Branch – Connector-type block. Connects to sturdy block faces. Can be climbed by some animals. Renders with random branching pieces – don’t like what you got? Break it and try again!
Climbing vine – Connector-type block. Connects to sturdy block faces. Can be climbed by some animals. Renders with random tendrils and leaves.
Hay browse – A wicker ball full of tasty forage. Gives enrichment to animals that come into contact with it.
Heat lamp – Light-generating block that gives enrichment to animals within radius.
Heat rock – “Heat” generating block that gives enrichment to animals that come into contact with it.
Leaf browse – A wicker ball full of fresh foliage. Gives enrichment to animals that come into contact with it.
Perching stand – 1.5 block tall perch used by birds.
Puzzle feeder – Currently missing functionality.
Rope – Connector-type block. Connects to sturdy block faces. Can be climbed by some animals.
Salt lick – Big block of that fancy Himalayan salt your parents buy, for animals to lick. Gives enrichment to animals that come into contact with it. Depletes over time.
Scratching post – Rope-wrapped post used for scratching, grooming and rubbing by animals. Gives enrichment to animals that come into contact with it. Can be climbed by some animals.
Tire swing – A tire swing for animals to climb and play on. Gives enrichment to animals that come into contact with it. Multi-orientation block – place it on the side of a block for one configuration, or on the top/bottom for another!
**Plants**
Plants generate naturally in the world, and are great for making any exhibit or pathway natural.
**Terrestrial plants**
Agavoid – Placeable on desert blocks.
Arctic moss – Placeable on dirt-type blocks.
Arctic poppy – Placeable on dirt-type blocks.
Eucalyptus – Placeable on dirt-type blocks. Can be harvested with shears for 1-3 Eucalyptus. Can be crafted with 6 Eucalyptus.
Fan palm – Placeable on dirt-type blocks.
Golden barrel cactus – Placeable on desert blocks.
Johnson grass – Placeable on dirt-type blocks.
Kochia – Placeable on desert blocks.
Peach flower – Placeable on dirt-type blocks.
Prickly pear cactus – Placeable on desert blocks. Can be harvested with shears for 1-3 Prickly Pear. Can be crafted with 6 Prickly Pear.
Red bromeliad – Placeable on dirt-type blocks.
Violet – Placeable on dirt-type blocks.
Yellow bromeliad – Placeable on dirt-type blocks.
**Aquatic plants**
Amazon sword – Freshwater aquatic plant.
Brain coral – Saltwater coral.
Branch coral – Saltwater coral.
Condy anemone – Saltwater marine animal.
Coral plates – Saltwater coral.
Coral rocks – Saltwater coral.
Duckweed – Freshwater floating plant. 3 water coverage variants.
Hornwort – Freshwater aquatic plant.
Java moss – Freshwater aquatic plant. 2 size variants.
Purple sea urchin – Saltwater marine animal.
Red myrio – Freshwater aquatic plant.
Red root floater – Freshwater floating plant.
Staghorn coral – Saltwater coral.
Striped colonial anemone – Saltwater marine animal.
Tropical sea anemone – Saltwater marine animal.
Turtle grass – Saltwater aquatic plant.
Water hawthorne – Freshwater floating plant.
Water hyacinth – Freshwater floating plant. 2 texture variants.
Water lettuce – Freshwater floating plant.
**Beef Beta 1.0.0 Items**
Spoiler
**Kibbles**
Kibbles are special items used to tame animals. They can also give instant food points to already-tamed animals, so they don’t clutter up your inventory.
Carnivore kibble – A pelleted diet for meat-eating animals.
Herbivore kibble – A pelleted diet for plant-eating animals.
Insectivore kibble – A pelleted diet for insect-eating animals.
Omnivore kibble – A pelleted diet for opportunistic eaters.
Piscivore kibble – A pelleted diet for fish-eating animals.
Shellfish kibble – A pelleted diet for shellfish-eating animals.
**Animal enrichment**
Apple ice treat – Tasty fruit in a block of ice. A slow-melting treat for herbivorous animals who come into contact with, or finally break it.
Beef ice treat – Succulent meat in a block of ice. A slow-melting treat for carnivorous animals who come into contact with, or finally break it.
Boomer ball – A large, buoyant and bouncy toy ball for large animals. Moves and rolls when hit by a player of animal, for hours of fun. Gives enrichment to animals who come into contact with it.
Scented ball – A small, buoyant and bouncy toy ball for smaller animals. Moves and rolls when hit by a player or animal, for hours of fun. Gives enrichment to animals who come into contact with it.
**Animal capture**
Capture cage – A sturdy, safe transport cage for zoo animals of all sizes and temperaments. Either lure in a large animal, or just pick up a little guy and toss him in! When you’ve caught an animal, break the block and carry it with you for easy transport, then place it down and right-click to release.
Capture net – A net on a stick used for catching ambient, tiny, small and medium-sized animals. Left-click an animal to catch, right-click to release. Deals a small amount of damage to the animal on release. Be careful, the animal might be angry once released!
Handling glove – An item used to pick up and hold dangerous animals. Equip in the off-hand and pick up ambient, tiny or small animals that would otherwise bite or sting for safe transport.
Net gun and Sling Net – A net gun to catch skittish, fast-moving or flying animals. Load a net into the chamber, right-click to fire, and collect what you caught! Right-click the ground with a full sling net to release the animal.
Seine net – A net to catch and transport aquatic animals. Place it in the water, lure or chase an animal in, and once it’s captured, break the block to carry them.
**Other**
Animal data book – A vital item for animal care. When right clicking a wild animal, shows its basic stats and information you’ll need to catch and care for it. When right clicking a tame animal, shows all of its important attributes, its diet, and what enrichment it can use. NOTE: Data book is currently missing a lot of GUI functionality, so hold tight!
Clams – Sustainable shellfish. Can be farmed in the mussel box with kelp. Can be cooked and eaten.
Collectible insects – Insect drops from ambient mobs. Can be collected and framed, or eaten by animals.
Earthworm – Alternative protein source. Can be farmed in the bug box with veggies, seeds or wheat. Can be eaten… if you’re into that.
Eucalyptus – Tender, fresh eucalyptus branches, for picky herbivores.
Fish – Fish drops from ambient mobs. Can be collected and framed, or eaten.
Fish buckets – Fish in buckets.
Mealworms – Alternative protein source. Can be farmed in the bug box with carrots and potatoes. Can be eaten… if you’re into that.
Mussels – Sustainable shellfish. Can be farmed in the mussel box with kelp. Can be cooked and eaten.
Prickly pear – Sweet, refreshing cactus fruit, edible by animals… and players, so chow down!
Rat – A feeder animal item. Currently not farmable.
Shrimp – Sustainable shellfish. Can be farmed in the mussel box with seeds. Can be cooked and eaten.
Target stick – Currently missing functionality.
Termites – Alternative protein source. Can be farmed in the bug box with veggies, seeds or wheat. Can be eaten… if you’re into that.
### Internationalization and Localization
Interested in helping translate the mod? Please submit a pull request with your language file directly to the [public github’s /lang folder](https://github.com/ZAWA-Evolved/ZAWA/tree/main/lang). As long as everything checks out, it will be included in the next update. Thank you!
**We do not accept animal suggestions.**
Essentials – A ZAWA Addon
A ZAWA:Evolved addon that adds all the parrots.
All of them.
(and some other stuff, too)
Essentials adds all the stuff that isn’t interesting enough for the main ZAWA roster.
It is made by ZAWA staff, and as such, features everything to ZAWA’s standard: adorable baby animals, expansive data entries and icons, and rare breed-only variants for species commonly kept in captivity. Essentials’ animals breathe and walk with lifelike movement, and will feature real-recording calls and sounds the second Fisk can be bothered to clip them all from public-domain documentaries.
Enjoy new blocks to spice up your zoos, with engaging new enrichment for animals. Spice up your zoo with small, but welcome additions to the usual decor you never knew you needed. Essentials also features block swaps and tweaks of ZAWA staples, for when stripped wood would look that much better on a fence.
Animal list
Spoiler
Australian ringneck parrot* (twenty-eight parrot, Port Lincoln parrot, mallee parrot)
Budgerigar (with 11 breed-only captive colors)
Caique* (white-bellied caique, black-capped caique)
Cockatiel (with 7 breed-only captive colors)
Congo gray parrot (with 3 breed-only captive colors)
Eclectus parrot* (Solomon Island eclectus, Tanimbar eclectus, Sumba Island eclectus, Vosmaer eclectus + 2 breed-only captive colors)
Conure* (sun conure, jenday conure, nanday conure, mitred conure, golden conure, blue-crowned conure)
Green-cheek conure* (green-cheek conure, painted conure, crimson-bellied conure, fiery-shouldered conure, ochre-marked conure, white-necked conure, black-capped conure + 5 breed-only captive colors)
Hawk-headed parrot (with 1 breed-only captive color)
Kakariki* (red-fronted kakariki, yellow-fronted kakariki, Antipodes island kakariki + 5 breed-only captive colors)
Kea parrot
Poicephalus parrot* (Senegal parrot, red-bellied parrot, Ruppell’s parrot, jardine parrot)
Quaker parakeet (with 5 breed-only captive colors)
Ringneck parrot* (Indian ringneck, moustache parrot, plum-headed parrot, Malabar parrot + 5 breed-only captive colors)
Rosella* (crimson rosella, Eastern rosella, Northern rosella, pale-headed rosella)
Moho* (Hawaii ‘Ō‘ō, O’ahu ‘Ō‘ō, Moloka’i ‘Ō‘ō, Kaua’i ‘Ō‘ō)
Greater prairie chicken
Chinchilla (with 11 breed-only captive colors)
Maned wolf (with 1 breed-only captive color)
Blocks and enrichment list
Spoiler
Flood light – stop lighting your modern zoos with torches, I will cry.
Security camera – for when the Instagram exotic pet crowd keeps circling your kakapos, and won’t take “no” for an answer.
Wood cable fence – ZAWA’s cable fence, except using vanilla log textures for a more natural look. Wood variants.
Stripped wood cable fence: Wood cable fence, but scandalous. Wood variants.
Bell toy – the most annoying toy this side of the Rockies. Connects to ZAWA ropes.
Cup feeder – a dual-purpose feeder and enrichment item for animals with weird grabby appendages and/or gumption. Connects to ZAWA ropes.
Hanging perch – a fun swing for birds, complete with wood variants and pretty beads for them to gingerly remove and throw at you when you feed them an hour late. Connects to ZAWA ropes.
Large bird toy – a solid stack of wood and leather for ripping, mauling, and shaking vigorously. Connects to ZAWA ropes.
Credits:
Mnesikos: Code
Fisk: Everything else
Shoresy: Extra textures
Coda512: Item textures
Special thanks to Shoresy, Sparrow, Coda512, Keaka and Chinchillin
Zav’s Stamina and Abilities
This mod adds a new stamina bar. You can only drain it when you attack. Running however will stop the stamina recovery.
Any version under 1.1.1 will get you a visual bug when switching dimensions!
Make sure you are up to date!
HONEY FRUIT PUNCH
A new food item is added called the Honey Fruit Punch. It increases stamina recovery temporarily.
ABILITIES
To complement the stamina system abilities are added.
Dodge Ability
Kick Ability
Parry Ability
Backflip Attack Ability
Foot Stomp Ability
Sword Dash Ability
Full Swing Hurrican
Guard Counter
Shield Crusher
Mega Dash
You can learn abilities from those book learner items
You can find those items in most dungeons and drops from mobs like zombies and spider. Good luck!
Curseforge:https://legacy.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/kavs-stamina-mod
The texture Pack of the stamina bar and slot belongs to Hecco. I got permission from him and here is a link to his texture pack: https://www.planetminecraft.com/texture-pack/hecco-s-hearts-gold-edition/
Huge thanks to Kaupenjoe for the tutorial!
Zauber
# Zauber
[](https://modrinth.com/mod/D4OgkVp4)
[](https://modrinth.com/mod/midnightlib)
[](https://modrinth.com/mod/polymer)
### Spells
#### This Mod adds 11 new Spells to the Game!
– Arrow Spell
– Shoots a barrage of Arrows in front of you.
– Dash Spell
– Dodge attacks and escape fights.
– Pull Spell
– Pulls Players to you.
– Push Spell
– Pushes Players away from you.
– Fire Spell
– Ignite your opponents.
– Ice Spell
– Frezze your opponents.
– Rewind Spell
– Teleports back in to your Past.
– Suicide Spell
– Trapped in a Prison? Your free way out!
– Sprout Spell
– Lets Plants grow.
– Teleport Spell
– Teleports you to a Player in your surrounding.
– Supernova Spell***¹**
– BIG BOOM
– Juggernaut Spell***¹**
– Become the Juggernaut, for 2 Minutes.
Most of these Spells are available through the Spell Table, a new Block. 
This Block can be charged through the power of lightning. But only natural Lightning don’t even try to use channeling.
Or you can learn them directly with `/learn @s all`
# Mana
You can brew Mana Potions using a Brewing stand (who would have thought that).
You can use Chorus Flowers, to brew your Mana Potions.
You can have up to **20** Mana.
# Vanilla compatibility
Through [Polymer](https://modrinth.com/mod/polymer) Vanilla players are able to play on a Server using this Mod.
They will not be able to use the Features of this Mod when playing with Vanilla.
# Tranlsation
😺 Lol-Cat ✅
🇩🇪 German ✅
🇺🇸 English ✅
🇪🇸 Spanish ⏳ (wip)
# Modpack?
This Mod is developed for the the [ChainSMP](https://discord.gg/fQUHbP6EmM).
You can still use it for yourself, if you include it in a Modpack credit would be nice.
### *¹This Spell is not obtainable in Survival.
–<[Zareh's Better Vanilla+]>–
![-<[Zareh's Better Vanilla+]>-](https://cdn.modrinth.com/data/cached_images/9aa721dd5e61693d427a7b252df2ff3c4b1b9907.png)
🧬 Philosophy of the Pack
Zareh’s Better Vanilla+ is crafted with a razor-sharp intention:
To preserve the magic of vanilla, while pushing it beyond its shallow limits—without ever snapping that immersive thread that holds it all together.
This isn’t a chaotic mess of mods tossed into a blender.
It’s a delicately brewed elixir.
Every line of code, every structure, every biome, and every item has been chosen with one question in mind:
“Does this make Minecraft feel more like Minecraft?”
If the answer’s no, it doesn’t make the cut.
If the answer’s hell yes—it becomes part of the experience.
🌍 World Atmosphere & Biome Identity
You’ll no longer roam empty plains or samey forests.
With Terralith, Nullscape, and Biome Makeover, you’ll walk through…
Shattered fjords shrouded in mist, where ruined bridges whisper of a lost civilization.
Sun-bleached canyons crawling with coyotes and echoing ghost towns.
Blackened wastelands, filled with cursed totems and petrified trees, remnants of some forgotten battle.
Overgrown ruins, buried deep in the jungle, where vines strangle broken machinery.
The world is layered, expressive, and poetic.
Every chunk? A painting.
Every biome? A story.
🧱 Building Reimagined (Because Builders Deserve More)
You love building?
Then this pack’s your damn candy store.
🧱 Chipped: Thousands of block variations. Bricks, wood, stone, and decorative madness.
🖼️ Supplementaries: Hanging signs, hourglasses, cages, wind vanes—pure visual sex.
🪑 Handcrafted Furniture: Finally, seats you can actually sit in.
🧰 Create Deco + Adorn + Blockus: Rich block libraries for both modern and medieval styles.
🧙♀️ Framed Blocks: Paint your world like an artist, block by block.
And that’s not even counting connected textures, rounded logs, glowy mushrooms, and custom light sources.
You’ll walk into your own base and go:
“Damn. I built this?”
🧭 Exploration: Every Step Feels Worth It
You’re not just walking.
You’re questing.
And now? There’s a reward behind every bend.
🏞️ YUNG’s Structure Suite: Massive, hand-designed strongholds, mineshafts, temples and more.
📜 Waystones + Traveler’s Titles: Custom nameable warp points and location-based achievements.
⛏️ Oh The Biomes You’ll Go: Exotic, whimsical and sometimes terrifying biomes beyond your wildest dreams.
🧊 Snow Under Trees, Foggy Mornings, Fireflies, Rain Particles: Little touches that immerse you deeper.
💀 Gravestones with a personal touch—because your death matters. Leave behind a legend.
Dungeons now have stories.
Ruins now have secrets.
Villages now feel like homes.
⚔️ Combat, Tools & Adventure Enhancements
Let’s keep it vanilla… but make it sharp.
⚔️ Better Combat: Adds weight and flair to fights without bloating your hotbar.
🏹 Guard Villagers: Villages aren’t helpless anymore. Armies rise. Raids get real.
🔨 Tool Stats, More Anvils, Enchanting Tweaks: Now every weapon feels unique.
🧰 Simple Farming + Croptopia: Food matters. Cooking matters. Farming matters.
💥 Explosions Enhanced, Mobs with Brains: A more tactical, grounded survival loop.
And yes… the Warden is still your daddy. Just a little more terrifying now.
🌀 Optional Addons for Roleplayers & Storytellers
Want a sprinkle of mystique?
🪞 Looking Glass: Freecam mod for cinematic shots.
📓 Journal Book: Keep notes, write lore, roleplay like a badass.
💭 Emotes, Chat Emotes, Speech Bubbles: Make multiplayer theatrical.
🎭 Name Tag Tweaks, Mob Portraits, Voices in the Dark: Perfect for servers, quests, and storytelling.
🧩 Lore Books + Decorative Heads: Scattered through dungeons and ruins.
It’s subtle. It’s tasteful. It’s story-driven Minecraft without turning into Skyrim.
🔧 Mod List Highlights (Because You Asked)
Here’s just a taste of the total lineup:
Terralith
Nullscape
Chipped
Supplementaries
Better Combat
Create Deco
Adorn
Farmer’s Delight
Waystones
WTHIT + Jade
BetterF3
Dynamic Sound
AmbientSounds 5
Custom UI
Fresh Animations
Plasmo Voice (optional)
Clear Despawn
Custom Entity Models (CEM)
…and dozens more, tightly integrated.
🧭 World Generation & Exploration Overhaul
Explore a living, breathing world that constantly surprises you with handcrafted beauty:
🌍 Terralith: Reimagines all biomes with stunning natural formations, new vegetation, and dynamic landscapes. No two chunks feel the same.
🏰 Dungeons & Taverns, Medieval Buildings, Better Strongholds: Say goodbye to boring vanilla structures—hello to complex, loot-filled dungeons, taverns, ruined towers, grand cities, and reworked strongholds that actually feel ancient.
🗿 Fwaystones: Fast travel system that respects immersion. You’ll earn your shortcuts.
🦴 Gravestones & Backpacks: Exploration has risk. These mods soften the blow, while still making death feel meaningful.
Every corner of the world has secrets. You’ll never stop discovering.
✨ Visual and Audio Enhancement (Shaderless)
A jaw-dropping world without shaders or GPU pain:
🌿 Fresh Animations: Mobs and NPCs have fluid, expressive movements that make the world feel… real.
🔥 Fancy Lanterns, Better Torches, Authentic Shadows: Realistic lighting and props that enhance your builds.
🌸 Simple Grass Flowers, Custom UI Themes, Custom Particles: Small touches, big vibe.
🪞 Emojipack: Replaces outdated item icons with more modern, cute, or expressive versions.
🎧 Dynamic Sound, Ambient Sounds: Gives the world dimension. You’ll feel the caves, the rain, the wind.
Builds look better. Environments feel immersive. All without sacrificing FPS.
⚙️ QoL + Interface + Utility Mods
Play smoother, smarter, and with full control:
🧠 WTHIT + Jade + BetterF3: Full information overlay with clean visuals. No more tabbing out to the wiki.
🔍 Zoomify: Smooth Optifine-style zoom, but cleaner and more customizable.
🛠️ Cloth Config + Mod Menu: Easy to configure everything, from visuals to performance.
🎒 Inventory HUD, Pickup Notifier, Trinkets API: Tiny tweaks that make a massive difference.
💬 Chat Heads, Presence Footsteps, Clear Despawn: Add polish and personality to multiplayer and solo play.
It all feels native. It all just… works.
🧪 Magic & Lore Lite (Optional Flavor)
Without going full fantasy, this pack gives you a taste of the strange:
🐲 Warden Slayer, Easy Magic: Minor tweaks to deep exploration and enchantment systems.
🧭 Resourcid: Items now have actual IDs, which adds layers to progression and resource collecting.
🔦 Advanced Compass, World Map, Mini Map: Optional tools for those who want more control in massive, unpredictable worlds.
Subtle fantasy, grounded in survival logic. Perfect for light RPG vibes.
🚀 Performance & Optimization
No one likes lag. This pack is built to run well on mid-tier systems:
🧊 LazyDFU, Fastload, Memory Leak Fix, Krypton, FerriteCore – the all-star squad of optimization.
🧼 Entity Culling, Sodium + Iris (Optional), Dynamic FPS – smart systems that keep frames stable even with 100+ mods.
🔧 Includes performance configs already tuned for high-quality visuals and decent framerates. No headaches, no config hell.
👥 Who Is This For?
This pack was made with a very specific player in mind:
The builder who wants every block and biome to look just right.
The adventurer who’s sick of empty worlds with nothing new to find.
The aesthetic lover who wants that Studio Ghibli meets Dark Souls vibe.
The casual+ player who wants quality of life, but not creative mode cheats.
The vibe chaser who doesn’t want shaders but still craves beauty.
💬 Final Words from Zareh:
“This isn’t about adding a million features.
It’s about curating the right ones—
So that every sunrise, cave, village, and ruined castle
Feels like a place you want to live in.”
So yeah…
If you want Minecraft Vanilla,
But you want it hotter, deeper, smoother, and smarter—
Then this pack?
It’s the one.
🏁 Coming Soon…
🖼️ Official Title Screen Background
🔊 Custom Music Pack
🌐 Zareh’s Vanilla+ Server Template
🎬 Cinematic Trailer (Script-ready. Just say the word.)
💾 Lite Version for potato PCs
📘 Lorebook Expansion Addon
Apocalypse
The time for homo sapiens has come. After an outbreak of a mysterious disease, calm was promised by governments, but quarantines exacerbated the contagious disease. Cures were being delivered, but too little, too late. Those locked away in hospitals, homes, and where else soon turned inhuman. There’s no such thing as order as now it’s a pure game of survival of the fittest.
## Features
A progressive difficulty system through rising spawn rates and better zombie stats to consistently keep players on their toes as they acquire better gear and build bases.
Exploration is near mandatory, but should be exercised with significant caution, in order to ensure that everything has a place in the modpack and attaining them requires the player to explore and not just mine all day. Every item has a purpose and shouldn’t be discarded without care.
A rebalanced arsenal from “Timeless and Classics: Zero” mod for better integration with a more hardcore survival experience, resource management and PvP. Full automatic firing of weapons is substantially discouraged and weapons are balanced according to how resource intensive they are.
If you’re brave enough, venture to the Toxic Caves to search for radioactive but incredibly useful materials for crafting tools such as a pair of Night Vision Goggles.
Remember to read the changelogs! Many vanilla and modded items have been given new crafting recipes, and some are no longer craftable!
## Current State of the Modpack and Potential Changes
At the moment, Apocalypse is still very much in Beta as much of the content are placeholders, so the experience may either feel out of place or progression may involve less-than-expected exploration for a modpack that revolves around being kept on your toes.
Known Issues:
– Non-vanilla crops cannot be directly harvested (this is due to No Tree Punching, and a workaround would be to dig the dirt beneath them, or use a Hoe enchanted with Harvester). This wouldn’t be fixed until the author of No Tree Punching resolves the issue.
– The issue also affects wild crops too, just dig the soil beneath them to forage.
– TaCZ Sniper Rifles have reload time and animation desync (This is because the reload time and animation cues are configured separately, and as far as animations are concerned, I’m not sure of what to do as I only know how to configure weapon stats).
– Performance issues, this is a byproduct of the incredibly intense zombie spawn rates. Even though I’ll try to minimize the negative impact of the spawns, it’s just a natural side effect as when coupled with other mods (such as Create and its add-ons), the performance will be taxing.
– Steel weapons from Spartan Weaponry has 1/3 of the durability of Steel tools from Create: Ironworks. (This is because Steel Weapons from Spartan Weaponry are based off of Steel from an older, different mod, as Ironworks is much more recent.)
## Shoutouts
[robin](https://modrinth.com/modpack/robin) modpack by marolune, as robin serves as an incredible base for optimizing a large Forge modpack.
[In Control](https://modrinth.com/mod/in-control) by McJty. Without In Control, there wouldn’t have been a zombie apocalypse modpack.
[Timeless and Classics: Zero](https://modrinth.com/mod/timeless-and-classics-zero) by Nekocrane. By default, TaCZ is more Call of Duty-esque in terms of gunplay, so I’ve changed the weapon stats significantly for better alignment with a hardcore experience.
[MineTraps]([https://modrinth.com/mod/minetraps) by XxRexRaptorxX. Keeps the zombies from tearing down your base.
[Insurgents](https://modrinth.com/mod/insurgents) by S0lfur. Provides something similar to players to shoot at if you’re in single player (0.4.4 and below only!).
[Create](https://modrinth.com/mod/create) by simibubi. No more Copper for bullets.
[Tissou’s Zombie Pack](https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/texture-packs/tissous-zombie-pack-optifine-1-7x-1-20) by Tissou. I finally got the permission, and now zombies will no longer be out of place.
[CraftTweaker](https://modrinth.com/mod/crafttweaker) by jaredlll08. Can’t be more hardcore and Netherless without CraftTweaker.
Zaffre’s Mineshafts
Overhauls the existing underground and Badlands mineshafts into a more interesting experience for gameplay, visuals, and rewards while maintaining a vanilla feel.
Loot is neither underwhelming or overpowered and is largely the same save for Fortune and Efficiency enchantment books, TNT ingredients, and haste potions.
As a consequence of using jigsaws and not being hardcoded, these new mineshafts will no longer spawn beneath river or ocean biomes.
**Now includes:**
– TNT and TNT cart mechanics.
– Archaeology! Be sure to bring a brush for a few extra goodies.
– More minecart types! This includes the largely forgotten about spawner minecarts.
– Variety and distinction between individual and especially the kinds of mineshafts themselves.
– Cave spiders replace normal spider spawns in mineshafts.
Za-Killer Vosk Fabric
# Za-Killer Vosk Fabric
A voice-reactive Minecraft challenge mod.
Sound expands your vision.
Silence makes the world dark.
Saying “자” can kill you.
This mod was inspired by Hwiyong’s voice challenge video and is designed for singleplayer challenge runs.
## Important: Vosk model required
This Modrinth file only contains the mod jar.
To use voice recognition, you must separately download the Vosk Korean model:
`vosk-model-small-ko-0.22`
Official Vosk model page:
https://alphacephei.com/vosk/models
Direct model download:
https://alphacephei.com/vosk/models/vosk-model-small-ko-0.22.zip
Download the model ZIP, extract it, and make sure the extracted folder name is exactly `vosk-model-small-ko-0.22`.
After downloading, extract the ZIP and place the model folder like this:
“`text
mods/
za-killer-vosk-fabric-26.1-26.1.2-1.0.0.jar
za-killer-vosk/
vosk-model-small-ko-0.22/
“`
If the model folder is missing, the mod may load, but voice recognition will not work.
## Requirements
* Minecraft 26.1 / 26.1.1 / 26.1.2
* Fabric
* Java 25
* Fabric API
* Microphone
Optional:
* Mod Menu
## Gameplay
The mod uses your microphone volume to control vision distance.
* No sound: very limited vision
* Louder sound: wider vision
* Trigger word detected: death
Default trigger text: `자`
Default difficulty: Hard
### Easy difficulty
The player dies only when the configured trigger text is recognized almost by itself.
Example:
If the trigger text is `자`, the player mainly dies when `자` is recognized as a standalone result.
### Hard difficulty
The player dies when the configured trigger text appears anywhere in the recognition result.
Example:
If the trigger text is `자`, results such as these can kill the player:
* `자`
* `자작나무`
* `감자`
* `시작하자`
Hard is the default difficulty.
## Configuration
Press `F8` in-game to open the Za-Killer settings screen.
You can configure:
* Minimum vision distance
* Maximum vision distance
* Silence threshold
* Loud voice threshold
* Vision change speed
* Trigger text
* Difficulty
* HUD mode
## Notice
Korean speech recognition is powered by Vosk and may not be perfect.
Misrecognition can happen.
In this mod, occasional misrecognition is part of the challenge.
This mod was fan-made with the assistance of ChatGPT.
ChatGPT was used for planning, feature design, code generation, debugging, documentation, and release text drafting.
## Source and licenses
Source code and third-party license notices are available on GitHub.
This project uses:
* Vosk API
* Vosk Korean speech recognition model
* Java Native Access, JNA
* Fabric API
Z0rthax’s Smithing Enhanced
## General
This datapack allows you to use the smithing table to upgrade diamond gear into multiple different equipment types, instead of just netherite. The “netherite upgrade” item has been replaced with the “upgrade template”, which can be used to upgrade diamond gear into netherite, or any of the new materials. It can be found in ancient cities as well as bastions; it can be duplicated with the same recipe as the netherite upgrade, but you can also use deeplsate or cobbled deepslate instead of netherrack.
## Equipment Types
### Mithril
A mithril ingot is crafted with 4 prismarine crystals, 4 iron ingots, and 1 echo shard. A mithril ingot can be used with an upgrade template in a smithing table to turn diamond gear into mithril gear.
Mithril armour provides the same protection as netherite, but it provides more armour toughness at the cost of providing no knockback resistance. The mithril sword and tools have the same stats as netherite.
### Dragon’s Mithril
A dragon’s mithril ingot is crafted with one mithril ingot and one dragon’s breath. A dragon’s mithril ingot can be used with an upgrade template in a smithing table to turn diamond gear into dragon’s mithril gear. All dragon’s mithril gear has the same stats as mithril; the only difference is the texture.
### Emerald
A reinforced emerald is crafted with one emerald and one netherite ingot. a reinforced emerald can be used with an upgrade template in a smithing table to turn diamond gear into emerald gear. All emerald gear has the same stats as netherite gear, the only difference is the texture.
## Important Notes
Mithril ingots, dragon’s mithril ingots, and reinforced emeralds are technically spawn eggs. This is because there is currently no way to add recipes (through data packs) that require the ingredients to have custom nbt data, so I had to use items unobtainable in survival for the recipes. This means that:
a) If it is possible for players to obtain spawn eggs in your world, then they will be able to use them in place of the custom ingots in the smithing table.
b) If a player right clicks with a custom ingot, it will be consumed, and a command will attempt to give it back to them. However, in some situations the command may not run, or it may give the custom ingot to a different player who is nearby. Please do not right click with the custom ingots.
This datapack has a required resource pack; you will not be able to see the custom textures without it.
Z0mb’s Survival Plus+
## Description:
**_Z0mb’s Vanilla+ Experience_** is a Modpack with over 250 mods that enhances the vanilla Minecraft experience while adding much more exploration and content without altering the core of Minecraft’s gameplay.
## This Modpack includes:
– Many new ways to experience Villages and Pillagers.
– New structures that build the world around you and lead you to explore for longer (Structory, Dungeons and Taverns, etc).
– New and improved dungeons with a wide range of loot (When Dungeons Arise, The YUNG’s Library, etc).
– Customization for the player and new ways to engage in combat (Simple Hats, VanitySlots, Better Combat, etc).
– New world gen for both Overworld and Nether.
– Many QOL updates to streamline the experience (VanillaTweaks, Mouse Tweaks, etc).
_Runs on Fabric – 1.15.6, MC vers. 1.20.1_