RLCraft
2021
- role-playing (rpg)
- adventure
- open world
The story
This started out as a simple little thing I was putting together for my own server and friends, and since then it's turned into something pretty ridiculous. I've gotten some requests about releasing it as a modpack so here it is. RLCraft, the RL standing for Real Life or Realism and is a take on another mod I made for Unreal called RLCoop that generally has a similar goal, is my interpretation of what I've always wanted in Minecraft when it comes to pure survival, adventuring and RPG, and immersion. I hand selected many mods and individually tweaked each and every one to fit the exact play-style I was looking for, making sure they all worked fluidly with each other, adding my own custom scripts for various changes to vanilla behavior, etc. Bottom line is, this ain't your dad's Minecraft, and you're going to die...a lot. Just be prepared for that. This tends to happen whenever I make mods for any game for some reason...it usually ends up being unfairly difficult.
What it’s like
Blocky Minecraft landscapes rendered in the familiar low-poly palette, but darkened and weighted: dusk-brown forests, grey overcast skies, torchlight pooling warm and small against deep night. The soundtrack is largely the ambient Minecraft hum, rain and wind, with sudden threatening stingers when something stirs in the trees, so the quiet stretches feel tense rather than restful. Progress is slow and hard-earned; a session tends to be a run of careful gathering, scouting, retreating to a shelter and trying again, with long stretches of wandering through unfamiliar terrain under a sense of creeping danger. Its tone is grim, stubborn and lonely, a sort of survival-horror-adjacent grind in a familiar aesthetic. Violence is constant but stylised and blocky, and death is frequent and punishing, with fear coming more from threat and attrition than from gore. Best suited to late-night solo play, or to players who want a hardcore survival challenge and enjoy the satisfaction of slowly mastering a brutal world. Not a gentle pick for anyone wanting relaxed, low-stakes building.
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