From stone to stars

A Minecraft 1.21.1 modpack. Start with bare hands in the Stone Age and earn your way through eight ages, all the way to space.

BetaVersion 0.6.0 · November 7, 2026

8ages to earn
289quests
227mods
5worlds in space

How to install

Play the modpack

  1. Download the modpack. Keep it zipped.
  2. CurseForge app: go to Minecraft, click Create Custom Profile, then Import, and pick the zip.
    Prism Launcher: Add Instance, then Import.
  3. Give Minecraft at least 8 GB of memory (10 GB or more is better) and press Play. The first start takes a while.

Project Ages is also on CurseForge, if you'd rather install it from there.

Host a server

  1. Download the server pack and unzip it.
  2. Windows: double-click Project Ages Server.
    Linux or Mac: run ./panel/start.sh.
  3. The control panel opens in your browser. It gets Java if needed and downloads the mods (about 800 MB) on the first start.

The panel runs backups and restarts, moves the server to new versions with one click, and makes invite files that set up the pack for your friends.

What's new in 0.6.0

Project Ages 0.6.0

New

  • A farm and a ranch (Age I): [Let's Do] Meadow (cow, sheep and goat breeds, milking, cheese) and [Let's Do] Farm & Charm (feeding troughs, sprinklers, scarecrows, carts and farmhouse cooking). Its foods share Farmer's Delight's: one tomato, one onion, one bacon.
  • Pets and wildlife (Age I): Doggy Talents Next (dogs that level up and learn talents; a whistle gives them commands), Critters and Companions (otters, ferrets, red pandas, koi, dragonflies), and ducks and geese.
  • Home comforts (Age I): sleeping bags and hammocks (Comforts), small touches to vanilla blocks (Amendments), more Supplementaries decor (Supplementaries Squared), strings of lights, garlands and bunting (Fairy Lights), and the Mega Torch that keeps monsters away from your base (TorchMaster).
  • A new End: Enderscape fills the End with the Celestial Grove, the Veiled Woodlands, the Magnia Crags, the Corrupt Barrens and floating void islands, with new creatures, sounds and sky, and its own End cities.
  • A new Nether: Incendium brings ash barrens, volcanic deltas, the weeping valley and places to raid: piglin villages, a forbidden castle, the sanctum. Nether Depths Upgrade puts fish and plants in the lava seas; catch them with a lava fishing rod.
  • Cooking with the End: End's Delight adds chorus pies, chorus tea, and shulker and dragon dishes to Farmer's Delight.
  • Middle-click sorting: middle-click a chest or your own inventory to sort it (Inventory Sorter). The sort buttons stay too.
  • Quality of life: what you pick up shows at the side of the screen (Pick Up Notifier), an optional over-the-shoulder camera on F5 (Shoulder Surfing; the game starts in first person), and leaves that drift down and rain that falls as particles (Falling Leaves, Particle Rain).
  • 330 quests: new ones for all of it in The Kitchen, Hearth and Home, and Survival and Exploration.

Changed

  • No more thirst. Tough As Nails is gone: no thirst bar, canteens, juices or thermometer. Its items disappear from existing worlds when you update, and its five optional water quests are gone too.
  • Far terrain keeps its shape. Distant Horizons now draws real chunks only, so far-off floating islands no longer show as pillars down to the void. Far land fills in a little slower.
  • Boss quests count. Killing a boss now ticks off its Bosses and Glory quest for everyone nearby (before, none of them ever did). The chapter also says the other eight bosses join in Age VII.
  • Recipes that made nothing or the wrong thing:
    • Silent Gear's paint mixer: an iron ingot in the middle (it came out empty)
    • Fairy Lights' skull light: three iron over a bone; craft it with a dye to colour it (it came out empty)
    • item shelves: three slabs in a row again (most woods made wood plates or drying racks)
    • Handcrafted's wood plate: two slabs with a gap; Twilight Forest's drying racks: a slab between two sticks
    • Handcrafted's sheets: three wool in a row (they took the sleeping bags)
    • Meadow's big flower pot: dirt in the middle (it took AlcoCraft's mug)
    • Farm & Charm's cleavers: three across over a stick (they took Kaleidoscope Cookery's knives)
  • Missile silos no longer crash servers. A Ballistix silo on an assembled airship crashed the server when it fired or was broken: silos don't keep their chunk loaded any more (a silo works while someone is nearby). Launch platforms and the VLS say they launch from the ground, not airships.
  • Keys: with Shoulder Surfing, Shift+F5 swaps shoulders, Alt + arrows move the camera and holding Left Alt looks around. With a dog whistle in hand, Shift+1 to 4 give its commands.

For server owners

  • The multiplayer list tells you what's running (with one address): running servers in green, the others greyed out, and "Starting up" when none is; joining then says to try again in a minute. /survival and the other server commands only show for servers that are running.
  • Everyone joins on the first server (set join=last in proxy/plugins/projectages/settings.properties to send players back where they left), and /servers lists only the running servers.
  • Updates keep your Distant Horizons thread settings.
  • New server packs use simulation distance 6 (was 8): machines and crops run within 96 blocks of a player, for less lag on busy servers.

Eight ages to earn

Each age stays locked until you've earned the one before it, and its items and recipes stay hidden until you get there. There's always a next thing to chase.

Age 0The Stone Age

Bare hands, no crafting table, and trees won't fall to your fists. Everything starts with flint and stone.

Age IBronze

Clay, fire and metal. Your first real tools, and farming and cooking that finally matter.

Age IIMedieval and Ritual

Magic arrives. Spells, starlight or blood: the path is yours.

Age IIIThe Twilight

A haunted forest full of bosses, and a sky realm above the clouds.

Age IVSteam

Create and its add-ons: machines, trains and airships.

Age VIndustry

Electricity, digital storage, pressure and oil.

Age VIAdvanced Tech

Mekanism and the power of the atom.

Age VIISpace

Fly Ad Astra's rockets or build your own, land on five worlds, and reach a finale worth the climb.

What makes it different

Playing with friends

Play in single-player or on a server. Everyone needs the same pack version, and each player climbs the ages at their own pace.

No server? In your world press Esc, then Open to LAN: you get an address friends can paste into Multiplayer, Direct Connect.

What you need

  • Minecraft: Java Edition. The CurseForge app or Prism installs Minecraft 1.21.1 and NeoForge for you.
  • At least 8 GB of memory for the game (10 GB or more is better).
  • A computer that can run shaders, or turn them off in Video Settings.

Found a bug?

In game, type /bugreport. Or use this form: no account needed, and you can report anonymously. Everyone whose report gets something fixed is thanked in the changelog, unless they'd rather not be.

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