Maximum impact through radical simplicity.
The "foundation" for your future playthrough.
Foundations is an ultra-minimalist progression datapack designed under the Pareto Principle: applying minimal, surgical changes to transform 80% of the gameplay experience.
Instead of cluttering the game with hundreds of new items, Foundations recalibrates Minecraft's core mechanics to restore the weight of survival, the value of resources, and the dread of the dark present in the Alpha/Beta eras.
Caution
Not for ultra-casual builders: Foundations is designed for players seeking a slower survival-first experience where every choice carries weight.
Stone tools now require Deepslate. This pushes you deeper into the world for basic progression, making the transition out of the "Wood Age" a conscious, physical descent.
Torches require Iron Nuggets. Lighting up spaces permanently is no longer a "spam" mechanic, but a strategic decision.
- Primitive Lighting: Right-clicking most blocks with sticks has a chance to create temporary fire.
- No Free Lunch: Campfires are crafted unlit.
Standard furnaces only yield Nuggets. Smelting full ingots is gated behind the Blast Furnace, giving a clear purpose to mid-tier machinery and technological progression.
Beds require String and drop Wool when broken. Setting a spawn point is now an investment, not a convenience you can easily relocate every night.
Hostile mobs feature randomized RNG attributes. Attributes scale with your world's age, making every encounter unpredictable.
- Mercy: Items dropped upon death emit a glowing outline when you are nearby.
Foundations closes the loop of the Minecraft experience by following the ancient Wuxing (Five Phases) scheme. Every mechanic is interconnected:
- ๐ต Exploration (ๆฐด - Water): You find yourself with few to no resources. To sustain yourself, you must flow into the world: braving forests, deep caves, and distant lands to acquire new materials.
- ๐ข Building (ๆจ - Wood): You modify the world. You settle down, build farms, storage systems, and beds to secure your progress. This is the phase of expansion and decoration.
- ๐ด Time (็ซ - Fire): Construction and routine consume time. As you spend hours perfecting your builds, the "heat" of the world rises. Time is the fuel for what comes next.
- ๐ก Evolution (ๅ - Earth): The environment "hardens". Just like how safe days naturally turn into dangerous nights, as time accumulates, so does the threats. Dynamic Hostility is the long-term natural response to your presence.
- โช Crafting (้ - Metal): As mobs evolve, your current gear becomes obsolete. You are forced into upgrading your equipment to maintain your footing against the new level of danger, depleting your resources by the costs of combat/repairs and equipment upgrades.
For detailed stats, mob scaling tables, and interactive crafting recipes, visit our interactive manual: ๐ lluckymou.github.io/foundations/
- Download the latest Release.
- Drop the
.zipfile into your world'sdatapacksfolder. - Use
/reloadin-game. Also compatible as a global mod if placed in the.minecraft/modsfolder with NeoForge/Fabric.
Thoughtfully designed by lluckymou ๐ฑ
Foundations is not affiliated with Mojang Studios.