Ever been frustrated by the static nature of your builds, wish you could have a vibrant and dynamic flooring/roofing/anything material.
That is the purpose of the Game Of Life Blocks. These blocks are white initially however can be 'activated' and will turn green. Once activated, every 20 ticks (usually 1 second) the blocks will interact with those around them to decide which ones will remain activated, activate themselves or die.
The rules for the killing of activating of these blocks follows Conways Game of Life:
- Any active block with fewer than two active neighbours dies, as if caused by under-population.
- Any active cell with two or three active neighbours lives on to the next generation.
- Any active cell with more than three active neighbours dies, as if by overcrowding.
- Any dead cell with exactly three active neighbours becomes a live cell, as if by reproduction.
Another feature is that by applying a redstone signal to any block will prevent it from changing its state.
Future updates will add many more features such as configurable colours.
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- How to install: Install the matching mod loader (Forge, Fabric or NeoForge) for your Minecraft version. → Download the .jar. → Put it in the .minecraft/mods folder and launch that loader profile.
- Where to get it: Opens on CurseForge — not every file is mirrored on our own servers.
Install steps are the general flow for this file type — How to install Minecraft Java mods & modpacks walks through it step by step.
- Ships as tnkchem2-0.0.1.jar — drop this file into the mods folder
- Download size: 30 KB
- Download link checked 23 Sept 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.