TheBlockAcademy

A Creative Building Modpack for Multiplayer assembled for a new 2026+ community: The Block Academy

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TBA is a curated Fabric 1.21.1 modpack designed for creative multiplayer servers. Whether you're building elaborate structures, running a community server, or just want a polished vanilla+ experience with 189 carefully selected mods.

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🏆 Recognition System (Core Curriculum)

A unique recognition system that celebrates craft, teaching, and community — not grinding.

• /submit "Build Name" — Submit builds for AI-assisted review by slashAI (Claude Sonnet 4.5)
• /titles — Browse and equip earned titles that display in chat
• /nominate — Recognize peers for mentoring, teaching, and collaboration
• /welcome — Multi-page onboarding for new players (auto-shows on first join, press H to reopen)
• Custom TBA splash screen during game loading
• HUD auto-hides during screenshot capture for clean submissions
• Titles sync with Discord and display on the Honor Roll page

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📹 StreamCraft Live — Video Streaming in Minecraft

Real-time video communication powered by LiveKit WebRTC:

• Webcam streaming — See teammates face-to-face with fullbright billboards (visible even at night)
• Screen sharing — Project onto StreamCraft Blocks with configurable size, distance, and horizontal offset
• StreamCraft Blocks — Disguise as 11 different vanilla blocks (flower pot, planks, stone, bookshelves, and more)
• Dynamic illumination — Active streams emit light level 12, lighting up the area around them
• "Who can see me?" — Live viewer list in your HUD while streaming
• Privacy-first — "How It Works" info modal with consent gate on first use
• Proximity awareness — Server tracks who's nearby so you only stream to relevant players
• 1080p capture — High-quality video at 8 Mbps bitrate

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🎬 Cinematics & Recording

• ReplayMod — Timeline-based recording with keyframed cameras and video export
• Better Third Person — 360° orbit camera with independent rotation
• Stable Cam — Smooth cinematic camera mode
• Camera Utils — Freecam and camera controls
• First-person Model — See your own body in first person
• Not Enough Animations — Player animations for eating, map holding, and more
• AutoHUD — Auto-hiding HUD for clean recordings
• Camera Overhaul — Tilting and swaying camera effects

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🎨 Building & Decoration

Over 11,000 decorative block variants from Chipped, plus furniture and architectural pieces from:

• Macaw's Complete Suite — Doors, Windows, Bridges, Roofs, Fences, Trapdoors, Furniture, Lights, Paths & Pavings, Paintings, Holidays
• Handcrafted — 250+ fantasy/medieval furniture pieces
• Adorn — Chairs, sofas, tables, shelves, kitchen blocks
• Supplementaries + Amendments — Jars, signs, pulleys, cages, wall lanterns, and 100+ utility items
• Excessive Building — 100+ vanilla-style blocks with hammer/wrench tools
• ReFramed — Copy any block's appearance onto stairs, slabs, fences
• Enchanted Vertical Slabs — Place slabs vertically with enchantment support
• Diagonal Fences + Diagonal Windows + Diagonal Walls — Full diagonal building support
• Clutter, Little Joys, WindChime — Small ambient details for polished builds
• Fetzi's Asian Decoration — Asian-themed decor blocks
• Beautify, Dusty Decorations, Sooty Chimneys — Weathered and aged aesthetics
• VerdantVibes — Decorative plants and vegetation
• Continuity — Connected textures for glass panes, bookshelves, and more

Building Tools:

• Axiom — Modern all-in-one editor with real-time previews, terraforming, and sculpting
• Litematica — Schematic display and building guides
• Effortless Structure — Mirrors, arrays, and build modes
• FallingTree — Chop the bottom log and the whole tree falls
• Bridging Mod — Bedrock-style reach-around block placement
• Easy Magic — Enchanting table QoL (no bookshelves needed to see enchants)
• Trade Cycling — Cycle villager trades without breaking workstations

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🔊 Audio & Immersion

• Sound Physics Remastered — Realistic reverb and sound occlusion
• AmbientSounds — Dynamic soundscapes based on biome, weather, and time
• Presence Footsteps — Material-aware footstep sounds
• Cool Rain — Material-specific rain sounds (wood, stone, metal)
• Sounds — 170+ UI and interaction sounds
• Visuality + Particle Rain + Falling Leaves — Enhanced ambient particles
• Fabric Seasons — Four seasons with visual and gameplay changes
• 3D Skin Layers — Renders skin layers with depth
• Eating Animation — Visible eating and drinking actions

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⚡ Performance Optimized

Runs smoothly thanks to an enhanced performance stack:

• Sodium, Lithium, FerriteCore, ModernFix, Krypton — Core optimizations
• C2ME — Multi-core chunk generation
• ImmediatelyFast — Immediate mode rendering optimization
• BadOptimizations — Micro-optimizations for various game systems
• Entity Culling — Skip rendering off-screen entities
• Enhanced Block Entities — Faster block entity rendering
• Clumps — Merges XP orbs to reduce entity lag

Distant Horizons extends your view distance with LOD rendering — see terrain for miles without killing your FPS.

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🎮 Quality of Life

• REI — Recipe viewer and item browser
• WTHIT — Block and entity tooltips
• JourneyMap — Full-featured world map with waypoints
• AppleSkin — Food and hunger visualization
• ItemSwapper — Quick block palette switching
• Carry On — Pick up and carry blocks, chests, and mobs
• Sit — Right-click stairs and slabs to sit
• InvMove — Move while inventory is open
• Block Runner — Run faster on path blocks
• Mouse Wheelie — Inventory scrolling, sorting, and refilling
• Blur+ — GUI background blur effect
• Smooth Swapping — Animated item movement in inventories
• Status Effect Bars — Duration bars on status effect icons
• Paginated Advancements — Better advancement screen with pagination
• Stack to Nearby Chests — Terraria-style deposit items
• Crash Assistant — Helpful GUI after game crashes
• Leaf Me Alone — Ride through leaves on horses/boats
• Leaves Be Gone — Quick leaf decay after tree chopping

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👥 Multiplayer Ready

• Proximity Voice — Simple Voice Chat with interaction support
• Land Claims — Flan for protection
• Live Web Map — BlueMap
• Sleep Voting — Better Sleep
• Discord Bridge — Fabricord + Discord RPC status
• Lootr — Per-player loot in chests (no stealing!)

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🎁 Content & Farming

• Farmer's Delight + More Delight — Cooking and farming expansion
• Let's Do Series — Bakery, Vinery, Brewery, Meadow, Beach Party, Farm & Charm
• Storage Drawers — Compact item storage
• Traveler's Backpack — Wearable backpacks with fluid storage
• Joy of Painting — Paint custom pictures on canvases
• Camerapture — Take in-game photos as decorations
• WaterFrames — Display images and videos on screens
• VinURL — Play audio from URLs on note blocks (YouTube, SoundCloud, direct links)
• Immersive Paintings — Upload custom images as paintings
• Genshin Instruments + Even More Instruments — Playable instruments with MIDI support
• Friends and Foes — Mob vote mobs (Copper Golem, Mooblooms, and more)
• Illager Invasion — New illager types and boss encounters
• Do A Barrel Roll — Enhanced elytra flight control with roll mechanics
• Naturally Trimmed + Trimmable Tools — Armor trims on mobs and tools

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🌈 Shaders Included

• BSL v10.0 (default)
• Complementary Reimagined r5.6.1
• Photon v1.2a — Gameplay-focused with colored lighting
• Solas Shader v3.1c — Fantasy stylized

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📋 Requirements

• Minecraft 1.21.1 (Java Edition)
• Fabric Loader 0.18.3+
• 4GB RAM minimum, 6GB+ recommended

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