Veilworks – The Confluence Engine

The Veil between worlds is wearing thin. Maren Ashgrove, the last Veilwright, got here first. She built a camp called the Foothold, started building the Confluence Engine to hold the seam together, and left her journal for whoever came next. That’s you.

Veilworks – The Confluence Engine is a story-driven kitchen-sink pack for Minecraft 1.21.1 (NeoForge): 113 mods and 19 shader packs, one original quest line, and an ending you have to build.

The quest book

• 2,187 quests in 76 chapters, written around Maren’s journal and followed by her practical advice. Every page is one tree that reads from its first quest outward; nothing waits on a quest hidden in another chapter.
• A cast that grows as you go: Pell, her factory-loving apprentice; Hessa, an old farmer with a saying for everything; Ysolde the archivist; Brannoc the smith; Tamsin the tracker; and Warden Hale, who runs the Bounty Board.
• Illustrated chapter banners, item renders, and 3D portraits of the creatures you hunt.
• A Bounty Board of hunting warrants, from zombies at the gate to the Cataclysm titans.
• Every quest pays XP: 20 in the starting areas up to 200 in the Titan and Convergence areas; Bounty Board contracts pay 50 to 200 and boss kills 60 to 600.
• Five loot crates (Camp, Workshop, Realm, Titan, Warden’s Bounty) on the last quest of every chapter, every boss kill and every Bounty Board contract. About one monster in twenty-five drops one too; every boss does.
• Each of the fourteen areas ends with a choice reward: pick one of three, so read all three first.
• Nothing hands out a Confluence Engine component or a boss-only material. Those are earned.

Build the Confluence Engine

Eight pieces, each from a different corner of the pack:

• Industrial Power Cell: Mekanism factories and ore processing.
• Fusion Ruby: fission, fusion and antimatter.
• Verdant Binding: Mystical Agriculture’s essence gardens.
• Arcane Crystal: Iron’s Spells ‘n Spellbooks.
• Skywing Membrane: the Aether.
• Twilight Core: the Twilight Forest.
• Cataclysm Core: the titans of L_Ender’s Cataclysm.
• Wayfarer’s Resin: treasures from the deep dark, the sea, the Nether and the End.

The Engine is crafted, never given.

Material Arsenal

Veilworks’ own weapon and armor mod, made for this pack. Every item keeps vanilla handling and gains an effect, with the numbers in its tooltip:

• Black Quartz knife, sword and axe for the early game: iron-grade damage, repaired with Nether Quartz, and they make things bleed.
• Bleeding shows on your health bar as slashed hearts and stacks to three. Skeletons, golems, slimes, blazes, the Wither and other bloodless mobs are immune. Eating does not cure it.
• Bandages (paper, any wool and string make two): hold one for a moment and it heals for three seconds at the natural rate and stops Bleeding. Each extra Bandage adds three seconds, up to fifteen. Taking damage cancels the heal, the same way a hit interrupts eating.
• The Energized Steel longsword calls lightning on about one hit in ten. Nitro spear, trident and arrows burst into shrapnel that hurts creatures, never blocks. Starfall arrows pierce every mob in a line and slow them. The Cosmic Warhammer opens a short vortex. Astral Verdict dashes through enemies with a crit, a bleed and armor piercing.
• Full armor sets charge up and burst: an expanding particle ring, a rising tone and a hotbar message give nearby players two seconds to dodge.

Along the way

• Tech: Create, Applied Energistics 2, Mekanism with Additions, Generators and Tools, AllTheOres unified by Almost Unified so every metal resolves to one ingot.
• Magic and loot: Iron’s Spells ‘n Spellbooks, Apotheosis with Apothic Enchanting and Spawners, Relics, Artifacts.
• Creatures and bosses: Ice and Fire dragons, Mowzie’s Mobs, L_Ender’s Cataclysm, the Twilight Forest, the Aether.
• Worlds: Biomes O’ Plenty, Dungeons and Taverns, Towns and Towers, Explorify, Supplementaries.
• Farm and kitchen: Farmer’s Delight, Croptopia, Ocean’s and End’s Delight, Let’s Do Vinery, Cooking for Blockheads.
• Quality of life: Sophisticated Backpacks and Storage, Storage Drawers, Waystones, Lootr (everyone gets their own loot), Carry On, FTB Ultimine, GraveStone, Xaero’s maps, JEI with Just Enough Resources, Simple Voice Chat, Hats Renewed.
• Looks: menus, loading and multiplayer screens built from 25 in-game scenes shot in the pack, loading-screen tips, and a shader library from BSL, Complementary, Photon and Sildur’s down to light packs for low-end PCs. Sodium, Iris, Lithium and ModernFix keep it running.

Made for families and friends

• A story of exploration, engineering and a world in peril, built for small groups. FTB Teams shares quest progress; crates and items are claimed once per team, XP goes to each player.
• A conflict-free keymap for new profiles: K quest book, B backpack, G accessories, V cast and R spell wheel, C X Alt to ride dragons, M U for maps and waypoints, N Mekanism mode. Options > Controls shows everything.
• New profiles start at 12 render and 8 simulation distance; raise them if your machine keeps up.
• The server pack installs itself: the start script downloads NeoForge on first run. FTB Essentials ships with homes and TPA off and /rtp landing 10,000 to 20,000 blocks out.

Requirements

• Minecraft 1.21.1, NeoForge 21.1.265, Java 21.
• Allocate 6 GiB (6144 MB) of Java heap to the profile, leaving RAM for Java and the operating system.
• Use matching Veilworks versions on clients and servers; back up worlds and profiles before upgrading. The changelog ships inside every archive.

Credits

• Made by IN3RT1A.
• The art for the Engine pieces and Material Arsenal was generated with PixelLab. The quest text was written with help from AI tools.
• Every mod keeps its own license; see the mod list on this page.