Deliberate Dubiousness Pack

🏡 Deliberate Dubiousness Pack

A cozy, chaotic family modpack for Minecraft 1.21.1. Ride mammoths, run a family economy, roar through the ground with industrial quarries, keep critters in aquariums, and build with crystal-clear glass.

Built around our own mod, Deliberate Dubiousness, and filled out with about 160 hand-picked mods that get along. Shaders are switched on from the first launch.

🆕 New in 0.2.1

Riders sit on the saddle instead of inside the big animals, elephants and mammoths have babies, and the big animals have real voices. Every TNT of a size reaches the same distance, so you can blow a hole and fill it right back up, and Water TNT drops a sheet of real water. Two new mufflers quiet machines or animals, cows and bison graze, plant-eaters eat from hay bales, and Railcraft Reborn is gone from the pack. See Updates below for everything.

💥 TNT that builds as well as blasts

Our own charges, each in plain, Mega and Giga, and every charge of a size reaches the same distance: 7, 16 or 28 blocks.

• Sand and Dirt TNT fill the empty space around them instead of blowing it up.
• Water TNT breaks nothing: it puts out fires, turns lava to obsidian and dowses campfires, then spreads a flat sheet of water that falls onto whatever is below.
• Mega and Giga TNT blow out a perfect ball, 16 or 28 blocks out. Obsidian, bedrock and Reinforced Glass stay.

💡 TNT combo: blow a hole with Mega TNT, set a Mega Dirt TNT (or Sand) in the middle of it, and it fills the hole right back up. Giga works the same, 28 blocks out. Want a lake instead? Drop a Water TNT over the hole.

👨‍👩‍👧 Made for playing together

• Family Hearth. Mark your home and set the house rules: no hurting each other, keep inventory (per player), creeper-proof homes and no monsters spawning near the house.
• A starter kit. Every new player gets a Hearth, a Challenge Board, a Piggy Bank and a Shopkeeper to set up in the house.
• Family Coins. Feed the Piggy Bank anything, collect a daily allowance, then spend coins at the Shopkeeper on stacks of building blocks, ores and more.
• Challenge Board. Post chores and quests (“build a fishing hut!”) with item and coin rewards, then approve them when they’re done.
• A world that feels alive. Rainbows after the rain give a lucky buff, shooting stars drop a wish at night, and there’s a mailbox, a games table, a computer, pets and plushies.

🐘 Big animals and little critters

Tame and ride bison (carrots), moose (apples), elephants (sugar cane) and mammoths (sweet berries) with a Large Animal Saddle. Elephants carry three riders and mammoths two, a chest on a saddled animal becomes saddlebags, and tamed elephants and mammoths guard their owner. They breed with wheat (bison and moose), hay bales (elephants) or glow berries (mammoths), graze on grass, eat from hay bales, and have real voices: bison recorded in Yellowstone, moose calls, trumpeting elephants and rumbling mammoths.

Meet ruby, emerald and obsidian golems, and dinosaurs too. Catch small critters with a Critter Net and keep them in aquariums, paludariums, terrariums and flight enclosures (2×2 up to 8×8, and 2 to 4 blocks tall), made of streak-free clear glass. The critters wander, swim and flutter around inside. A Plush Heart wakes a plushie up as a pet.

⛏️ Quarries that look and sound like machines

Iron, gold and diamond quarries dig a 5×5 down to bedrock. A drill rides the gantry and drops down into the pit, sparks fly, the chimney smokes, and the screen glows green, amber or red. Mined blocks drop out of a chute onto your conveyor belts or into a hopper. Power them with coal or any power cable in the pack. Bigger tiers dig faster and use more power. They sound like a real quarry engine and rock drill.

Too loud? A Machine Muffler silences machines (quarries, furnaces, pistons and every machine in the pack), and an Animal Muffler silences animals. Right-click either for more range, sneak-right-click for less: 8 to 48 blocks.

🪟 Clear glass for building

Clear Glass has no streaks and joins seamlessly, so a whole wall reads as one big window. There are also panes, 16 clear colours, Frosted, Reinforced (blast-proof) and Glowing Glass.

⚔️ Adventure

• Weapons: Simply Swords, Epic Knights, Samurai Dynasty, Immersive Weapons, and Iron’s Spells ‘n Spellbooks and Ars Nouveau for magic.
• Bosses and monsters: L_Ender’s Cataclysm, Mowzie’s Mobs, Mutant Monsters, Friends & Foes.
• Places to go: The Aether and Deep Aether, The Twilight Forest, The Undergarden, Deeper and Darker, the YUNG’s structures, Dungeons and Taverns, Towns and Towers, Explorify.
• Worlds: Biomes O’ Plenty, Regions Unexplored and Galosphere caves; Incendium and Nether Depths Upgrade in the Nether; Nullscape and YUNG’s Better End Island in the End.

🚂 Getting around

MineCoasters roller coasters with loops, Immersive Aircraft planes and airships, Paraglider, Moving Elevators and Waystones.

⚙️ Machines, farms and building

• Machines: Mekanism and Mekanism Generators, Immersive Engineering, Industrial Foregoing (conveyor belts!), Applied Energistics 2, Iron Furnaces, Immersive Machinery.
• Farming: Farmer’s Delight, Mystical Agriculture and Aquaculture 2.
• Building: all of Macaw’s, Handcrafted, Chipped, Rechiseled, FramedBlocks, Prefab instant houses, Construction Wand, Just Hammers and Only Excavators.
• Looks: Complementary shaders on by default, plus Subtle Effects (fireflies, cave dust, steam), Particle Rain, Snow! Real Magic!, AmbientSounds and Sound Physics.

📖 Getting started

• Craft the guide book (a book and a ruby). It explains every Deliberate Dubiousness feature.
• JEI shows every recipe. The One Probe tells you what you’re looking at.
• Allocate 6-8 GB of RAM in the CurseForge app (Settings → Minecraft → Java Settings).

📝 Updates

FarFetchedFoReal is fixing things and adding more as our family plays. Here’s what’s new.

0.2.1

• Riders sit on top of the big animals instead of inside them, each on the saddle.
• Elephants and mammoths can have babies. They were too big to get close enough before.
• Real animal voices: bison grunt and bellow (recorded in Yellowstone National Park), moose call, elephants trumpet, and mammoths rumble like African elephants with a deeper trumpet.
• The moose’s jaw stays on, its antlers tilt up, and the elephants’ and mammoths’ ears sit on their heads.
• Every TNT of a size reaches the same distance (7, 16 or 28 blocks). Mega and Giga TNT now blow out a perfect ball, so a Sand or Dirt TNT of the same size fills the hole right back up.
• Water TNT makes water: after putting out fires and cooling lava it spreads a flat sheet of water out as far as it reaches, and the sheet falls onto whatever is below. In the Nether the water boils away.
• Quarries sound like real machines: a quarry engine’s hum and a rock drill biting into stone.
• Two new mufflers with a range you change by right-clicking (8 to 48 blocks): the Machine Muffler silences machines and the Animal Muffler silences animals. The Machine Muffler replaces the old Sound Muffler, and old ones turn into it.
• Cows and bison graze on grass like sheep, and plant-eaters eat from hay bales nearby, which they like better than grass.
• Paintings have proper icons, and every icon fits in its slot (the TV was too big).
• Railcraft Reborn removed from the pack.

0.2.0

• Our own TNT, with all-new art. Sand, Dirt and Water TNT, each in plain, Mega and Giga, plus Mega and Giga TNT.
• Furniture breaks quickly with any tool (axe, pickaxe, shovel or hoe).
• The desk computer sits properly on the desk, with the mouse no longer hanging off the edge.
• The rainbow is one smooth arc that hangs in the sky as you move, instead of two halves sliding apart.
• The old one-block enclosures are retired. Any you still have turn into the new sizes, critters and all.
• Every recipe double-checked in JEI.

0.1.9

• The in-game guide book is rewritten to match the mod, with new chapters for family life, critters and enclosures, and clear glass.

0.1.8

• Enclosures come from 2×2 up to 8×8, and 2, 3 or 4 blocks tall.
• Critters wander, swim and fly around their enclosure instead of sitting in the scenery, and the water no longer flickers.
• Removed Serene Seasons and the old 1.12 textures.
• Added Subtle Effects for fireflies, cave dust, steam and sparks.

🎵 Sound credits

Mammoth rumbles: African elephant recordings from King, Soltis, Douglas-Hamilton, Savage and Vollrath (2010), PLoS ONE 5(4): e10346, used under CC BY 2.5. Bison: Yellowstone National Park sound library (public domain). Moose and elephant: Wikimedia Commons (public domain and CC0). Quarries: Freesound users ecfike and felix.blume (CC0).

❤️ Support us

If you enjoy the pack, you can donate with PayPal or use the Donate button on this page. Thank you!

Made for playing together as a family. Have fun, and be a little dubious. 💛