HexCraft

A hardcore, post-apocalyptic dark fantasy modpack.

Civilization has collapsed into folklore. What remains is a world that resists you at every level: your body, your environment, and the systems you rely on to stay alive.

🌒 Survival Is the Core System

Gameplay stays close to vanilla at the start—movement, tools, and exploration feel familiar—but survival systems are expanded. Players must manage:

• Thirst
• Temperature
• Sanity
• Limb damage and injury

📖 Progression

Your story begins with nothing.

Survive the wilderness. Manage thirst, temperature, injury, and hunger while scavenging the remains of a forgotten civilization.

Establish a safe settlement. Earn the trust of villages, explore dangerous ruins, and uncover fragments of lost knowledge.

Master engineering and ritual craft. Build machines, automate production, and construct the vehicles needed to cross vast distances.

Venture into reclaimed dimensions. Gather the twelve Forgotten Eyes and uncover the path to the End.

Face horrors buried beneath the world, embrace curses and transformations, and decide what parts of your humanity are worth preserving.

The farther you travel, the stranger the world becomes.

🗺️ The World Pushes Back

Villages and settlements are persistent systems, not loot hubs. Stealing affects NPC behavior over time. Many containers are locked and require lockpicking. Reputation and aggression have consequences.

⚙️ Engineering the Impossible

The old world is gone.

What remains are fragments of forgotten science, broken machinery, and a mysterious ore known as Wanderlite—a substance capable of binding physical laws to blocks.

Using the Wanderwand, players can infuse structures with motion, lift, force, and momentum.

There are no vanilla boats. No convenient vehicles. No easy way across oceans, mountains, or the endless wilderness. Movement must be engineered.

Build steam-powered ships capable of crossing entire seas. Construct massive airships suspended beneath balloons. Create mobile bases, mechanical elevators, railways, factories, and automated production networks.

With Create, Clockwork, Valkyrien Skies, and dozens of supporting systems, the world becomes an engineer's playground where entire cities can move, factories can think, and transportation becomes a challenge to overcome rather than a convenience granted.

The farther you wish to go, the more ambitious your creations must become.

🌌 Reclaimed Dimensions

The Nether and End are no longer transitional spaces.

Each dimension has been reworked into a fully realized environment with its own progression, threats, and pacing.

The End is no longer a boss rush
Access requires 12 unique Forgotten Eyes
Progression is gated and intentional

🪄 Ritual Magic, Alchemy & Transformation

Magic is no longer a system of spells or instant power.
It is slow, deliberate, and often irreversible.
Built primarily around Hexerei, magic takes the form of ritual, preparation, and practical craft rather than raw force.

🩸 Blood and Curses

Not all magic is controlled.
Some paths lead to transformation—states that blur the line between ability and affliction.

Vampires and werewolves roam the land...join their ranks, and your new abilities are paired with restrictions, dependencies, and vulnerabilities.

🍎 An Apple A Day...

The world did not fall to war, dragons, or demons...It fell to infection.

The Virus consumed the old world, leaving only ruins and the undead that wander them. Those infected do not truly die—their minds remain trapped inside bodies they no longer control. If you are infected with this virus, make haste to cure if or be trapped within a zombified body that you cannot control.

Golden Apples can cure the infection and revive your recently dead friends if fed to their corpse.

Enchanted Golden Apples can restore flesh and blood to those reduced to living skeletons.

In a dying world, an apple may be worth more than a kingdom.

☠️ Death Is Not the End

Death is only another path.

When you die, your soul leaves your body and becomes a wandering spirit. If you can manage to find and possess one of the inert skeletal corpses littering the world, you can continue your journey in a skeletal form with all of its advantages and drawbacks...or ascend high into the sky to be reincarnated far elsewhere in the world.

However, be advised that death leaves scars. Die in the Nether and your soul becomes corrupted. Die in The End and you will be permanently warped — a fate not even an Enchanted Golden Apple can reverse.

🩸 Horror That Creeps, Not Jumps

Not every threat rushes toward you.

Some creatures stalk from the darkness. Some emerge only under specific conditions. Others wait patiently for a careless mistake.

The world is not merely dangerous.

It is haunted.

🕯️ Sculk Is No Longer Contained

The Deep Dark is no longer a buried ruin - it is alive. Sculk spreads beyond the ancient cities, reclaiming caves, structures, and entire underground ecosystems. Disturb infected regions long enough, and the world itself begins to react: wildlife becomes corrupted, darkness grows unsafe, and strange events begin occurring far from where the infection first started. Some creatures hunt by sound. Others seem to hunt by you. What was once sealed beneath the world is beginning to return.

🎮 Controller Support

Full gamepad support makes this modpack perfect for gaming on your TV. Open multiple instances, connect a gamepad, and play with a friend!

Click here for a list of useful default controls. You can always customize them to your liking.

TAB — Radial Menu

E — Open Inventory

R (When in Inventory) — Show Uses for Item (In Inventory)

T (When in Inventory) — Show Recipe (In Inventory)

T — Chat

Left Shift — Sneak / Descend While Flying / Context Actions / Create Ponder

Left Ctrl — Sprint

Space — Jump / Wing Flap / Flight Mobility

Left Click — Attack / Mine / Cannon Fire

Right Click — Use Item / Interact / Ability Usage

F — Swap Offhand Item

Q — Drop Item

X — Sit / Lay

Shift + X — Crawl

Shift + Space — Flight Descent / Hover Control depending on form or species

R — Primary Power Ability (used for supernatural powers, breath attacks, relic abilities, magic skills, etc.)

G — Secondary Ability / Mobility Skill

V — Transformation Ability / Shift Form / Whisper

B — Leap Ability (Werewolves)

Z — Open Cyberware Menu

F2 — Screenshot

F3 — Debug Menu

F5 — Toggle Perspective

F11 — Fullscreen Toggle

R is intentionally used as the universal “Power Key” throughout the pack for consistency

🤝 Community, Cooperation & Multiplayer: HexCraft is designed for shared risk:

• Carry injured players
• Positional voice chat and radios
• Rescue-focused mechanics
• Trinkets like heartstones and voodoo dolls
• The Essential mod, allows quick and easy multiplayer - No server setup required.

🌐 Hosting a World Through Essential

1️⃣ Add Your Friends

Once inside your world:

Press Start / Esc
On the right side of the pause menu, open the Essential social panel
Add friends using their Minecraft username

Once accepted, they’ll appear in your friends list.

2️⃣ Invite Friends To Your World

While inside your world:

Press Start / Esc
Use the Essential panel on the right side
Click Invite Friends
Select the friends you want to invite

Your singleplayer world will now function as a multiplayer session.

⚠️ Important Tips

HexCraft is a large, demanding modpack.

View Advancements as a "Guide" to Hexcraft and its various mods.
(Accessed by pressing L key)

For smoother multiplayer:

Allocate at least 6–8 GB RAM
Use shaders cautiously in multiplayer
Avoid hosting if your PC already struggles in singleplayer