Minecraft is a game that has since nearly the very beginning been obsessed with a forgotten past from the giant brick pyramids of infdev to desert temples Ocean Monuments and end cities the game seems to constantly be hinting that you are not the first person to venture into this world the nether Update served to further cement this idea with the addition of Bastion remnants and ancient debr which undeniably point toward the existence of A Lost Civilization in Minecraft fortunately this is an idea that moang has continued to build on with the later editions of the ancient city and the Wild update as well as the majority of the trails and tales update focusing on the Deep past Trail ruins structures the archaeology system and the sniffer all represent this increased interest in the past unfortunately I believe that players may all too easily forget the weight of history as they play Slowly Turning this world the once belonged to the Ancients into their own personal Paradise progression in the base game is quick allowing for little appreciation of the genuine survival aspects of the game or the hardships surely endured by those who came before with my previous mod I intended to make the later game More difficult by providing near unbeatable challenges that even Almighty netherite could only do so little against this time I took my focus back to the beginning to the early game that is so frequently forgotten about after the first night lots of videos that have come out recently talk about how one way To enjoy Minecraft again is to take time to appreciate each stage of gameplay and I personally agree with this sentiment however what I still feel like Minecraft is missing is a feeling of helplessness in the face of a vast and unknowable world and even if you are only limited To wood or stone tools the challenges of survival rarely encroach into your cozy home maybe I’m biased but when I see all these ancient monuments and stand before them with wooden pickaxe in hand I can only think of what it might be like to return to the lost world that Minecraft Orbits to a time when everything wasn’t already domesticated and ready for the taking with this new mod I’ve put together I wanted to bring players back to the dawn of man creating a world as harsh and unforgiving as that faced by our real world ancestors however I didn’t want to make Just another mod where you can’t punch trees no I wanted an all new experience that builds on top of the base gameplay Loop without interfering with it well without interfering too much my approach to accomplishing this goal focused on the personal choice of the player which is supported by in-game incentives if You want to Simply treat my mod as another animal mod then that’s perfectly allowed but in exchange for engaging with this material you will you will open up all new experiences with the early game that are certain to reinvigorate your gameplay with all that out of the way let’s actually get into It welcome to cazic nightmare when you first enter your world with with this mod installed you’ll quickly notice that you are now the proud owner of an ancient manuscript I uh don’t recommend losing it as it’s your key to everything the mod has to offer if you’ve spawned in a cold or Temperate biome you’ll also quickly notice that you are not alone azoic nightmare adds a number of prehistoric creatures to your world if you’re lucky the distant movement you see is merely a lone woolly mammoth wandering beneath the trees don’t approach too quickly though for you might just wake up a Sleeping smileton or stumble upon a pack hungry hyenadons and you might not want to get too close to that Mammoth either unless you’re interested in getting thrown actually the smart thing to do might be to build that little dirt Hut that you haven’t made in years and Hunker down till you’ve had a chance to read some of the ancient manuscript looking into this piece of text it seems like you’ve got a couple of things to worry about and the big one is the Hunter’s challenge which is the mod’s name for the group of quest lines that It centers on of course you can skip the quests if you want but but I’m going to assume that you’re determined to see this through once you obtained the iron in any form you’ll be invalidated from completing quests so you’re going to be working with some pretty basic stuff for A while this is the Stone Age after all good thing I added Spears but before you get to Stone you’ll want to take a look at the first Quest called Hunters Mark 1 which must be completed before you you’ve obtained Cobblestone or iron what did you think this was going to be easy Oh and the quest requires killing a hyena on to make an effigy so uh Wood Tools it is at least until you can gather the courage to face a hyena a small side note here hyons are not actually closely related to hyenas in spite of their similar names anyway uh Leaving your cozy dirt Hut you start to gather up some wood and work on a more reasonable goal getting a hand axe hand axes are primitive yet highly versatile tools that are going to serve you well on your prehistoric Journey yours is made from Flint and Clay which requires A bit of exploring but but night is coming quick and you know what hunts at night hyenadons and smilodons for that matter better hurry so by this point you’re probably starting to get the idea of what this mod is all about so let’s talk a little bit more directly about features firstly There are currently only three creatures added but I have way more in the works it’s been a huge task getting the mod to its current point so I’m really just happy to share what I have so far each of these creatures have a ton of custom abilities moods and reactions to Different scenarios for example mammoths grieve their dead smilodons break down doors and hyenadons are scared of a mammoth tusk whistle just to name a few they all also become corpses when they die which can be harvested using a hand axe allowing access to their various drops corpses however attract Predators Often leading to you having to defend your kill something else to keep in mind when playing with the mod is that if you want to complete all the hunter quests you won’t be able to farm until after you’ve completed Hunter’s Mark two which requires kill the Kill you know what skrew it I’m going going to keep in my inability to uh to speak yes you you you’ll need to complete Hunters Mark I before you can do any sort of farming stuff which of course requires drops from Mammoth the idea is that you are progressing through The mod in a way that sort of mirrors the real world progression through the most ancient history which began long before agriculture developed of of course the quests are ultimately optional and it won’t you know directly bar you from farming or whatever but most of the mod’s content is locked Behind them so it’s tradeoff now the higher tier qu quests will bring you into conflict with Elite variants of the mod’s creatures called triarchs which are stronger and generally more aggressive than their regular counterparts there is also so far one Arc variant as well which is Incredibly rare and it comes in the form of the white Smiled On but I won’t spoil exactly what its specialty is moving on from that czo nightmare also adds a peculiar disease known simply as the Mind rot which can rarely be caught by touching tar and tar pets tar in of Itself is a useful material that you can Harvest but I’ll leave that for you to discover on your own getting back to the Mind rot it is a contagious disease which can rapidly spread between living organisms damaging them in a way akin to a slow wither base game creatures are Partially immune and will simply wither if not cured but cenozoic creatures will be driven mad insatiably attacking their own kind and spreading the disease in the process the bodies Left Behind will also serve as further beacons of disease and less destroyed fortunately mind rot infected entities are highly Flammable now the Mind rot can be cured but you will need to make an ancient Remedy by combining various plants including those dug up by the sniffer this remedy can be packed into snowballs to be quickly administered to animals but it won’t immediately get rid of the Mind Rod instead it will make the disease no longer contagious for that entity meaning that you may have to intervene to keep it from succumbing but hey at least it won’t get anything else sick oh and also you can turn the ancient remedy into an ancient amnestic Which will wipe all of your current advancements if you have if you consume it and that can be used if you’ve already gotten iron and you want to go back and complete quests uh however it will also wipe out any currently completed quests and some do require Being completed in order so again it’s a trade-off anyway that’s the mod so far if people are interested in a deep dive into the smaller aspects such as the historical relevance of various tools and items I’d be happy to do more but I think that the in-game guide book does a Pretty good job of covering that I am also fully open to suggestions for anything that you think I should add do let me know if you want to see me attempt to beat the this mod anyway thanks for watching make sure to like And subscribe and do all that comment do that Too uh and I will see you around bye for Now The I Video Information
This video, titled ‘I Added Prehistoric Beasts to Minecraft’, was uploaded by Ethan Summers on 2023-12-30 14:00:28. It has garnered 533 views and 40 likes. The duration of the video is 00:10:21 or 621 seconds.
Here is the official release video for my mod, Cenozoic Nightmare. This mod is built to incentivize spending more time in the early game with new challenges and rewards. All creatures have unique, custom AI and behaviors.
Link to the mod: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/cenozoic-nightmare-the-horror-of-prehistory
In the meantime, you can also check out my other mod, Depth Crawler: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/depth-crawler-the-horror-of-exploration
Shaders Used: Bliss (BSL edit)
Music: “Enchanted Forest” http://www.dl-sounds.com/royalty-free… Composer: Pascal Tatipata https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlFuIWHFHzc
Blizzard Sounds: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AAbUHmMaD-U