Nomadic Realms

Summary

Nomadic Realms offers a primitive survival experience. Logs are tough, so use flint; but wood tools are extra weak. Chests, furnaces, and loot must be found with exploration. Death randomizes respawn, but the new Ender Chest is now vital for all valuables.

Details

In an effort to encourage exploration and adventure I have created a custom datapack.

As a nomadic wanderer you will travel the world and never stay in one place for very much time.

• Hoarding items in a chest could keep you tied down to one location so that is discouraged here. Chests and barrels can not be crafted in the early to mid game.

• Also, it is not realistic for wooden tools to break stone, so you will have to find a way to advance in the very early game.

• In addition to removing the crafting recipe for chests/barrels, I removed furnaces, and the wood hoe and wooden axe. (These still exist but are now very expensive to craft). Try to make a campfire to cook raw meats.

• Neither Stone nor Coal will drop with a wooden pickaxe, as you will need a stone pick at least to harvest these.

• Iron Ore requires at least an iron pickaxe to harvest it. Instead, go exploring to find iron in loot chests.

• Beds will spawn in villages so you can use those if you like, but this will NOT set your respawn point. You will respawn randomly in the world after death !

• Villages are now more rare, but when you do find one they will be about four times as large as normal. Larger more sparse villages encourage exploration and reward the nomadic wanderer.

• To save your most important items, use the new and improved Ender Chest, which is now easier to craft. Only 8 obsidian are needed, so you will NOT need an Eye of Ender ! The new "Ruined Portals" exist in the overworld and contain obsidian in loot chests.

You will have to explore the world to find iron and tools, and other important loot.

Wood logs and planks can NOT be harvested by hand. Try digging for gravel if you need some wood !! ;)

• Craft the new 2x2 "flint axe" recipe

The main goal is that exploration is the primary task during the early and mid-game phase.

So, find a good village or else a Buried Treasure Map. ;)

Once you obtain Silk Touch you will be able to harvest chests and furnaces in the world.

• New "Charcoal Kiln" recipe: Craft two charcoal from either five mud or clay blocks and 3 logs and 1 flint. This will help the player get that crucial first campfire a bit earlier, albeit still slightly tricky and expensive.

• Barrels, Blast Furnaces, and Smokers have been updated as well. See the full changelog for more details.

Try out this datapack today, on a new 1.21.10 world to discover all of the new gameplay mechanics which I have implemented !

• Advancements

FUTURE UPDATES:

I can imagine adding new custom recipes to increase difficulty of the early to mid game and to somehow reward players that continue to wander as a nomad in the late game.

Stay tuned ...

Let me know if you enjoy this pack and feel free to offer suggestions.

Thanks,
jasonrubik
CCK DwarfLord of Diamonyia (2011-2012)
Owner of the old NomadicRealms MC Server (2013-2015)

**** DISCLAIMER : Use this datapack on a brand new world and not on an existing world where you have established yourself as that would defeat the entire purpose.

Discord Discussion:

https://discord.gg/uGQpY3x7Mx

Reddit discussion here:

https://www.reddit.com/r/Minecraft/comments/bwv5jg/i_like_to_travel_and_explore_instead_of_building

Also hosted here, with more historical details:

https://www.planetminecraft.com/data-pack/nomadicrealms-datapack/ (check out my other creations)

Credit

Zaiux, LimEBoy, hanueh, MrKillin4fun, JakobLM, MichaelG1999, Demonator16, Xsnumas, MegaTrain

Compatibility

Minecraft 1.21