[New Dimension] Lands of Icaria

Mod showcase by smperhero! Thanks very much!

Lands of Icaria is a Minecraft modification with a focus on ancient greek mythology.

It is developed by Axanthic Game Studios, the follow up team to the classic Minecraft modding team known as Team Melanistic from 2011 to 2015.

Over two years in the making, Lands of Icaria introduces a brand new layered dimension with a wide variety of flora and fauna to explore, as well as a number of new mechanics.
Discover all the secrets this unique dimension has to offer, learn to brew magic spells, loot abandoned villages packed with dangers.

Icaria is home to the Revenants, the remaining souls of an ancient civilisation that once roamed this dimension and even explored outside of it.

This project is still very much work in progress and we hope to expand our team and bring in new modders to help turn this ambitious vision into reality.

Please note that a small number of items currently have no use as a result of this, and some mechanics might be bugged!

A short summary of the features in this mod:

 • A new realm to survive in, explore and conquer.
 • 29+ new monsters and animals to fight or farm, all using high quality minecraft style 3D models.
 • A number of mini-bosses to fight.
 • Villages with road systems to explore and defeat monsters in to gather loot.
 • A unique concoction brewing system inspired by an obscure flash game as well as by the original Minecraft cauldron potion brewing system. Sequences of herbs will result in different concoctions with different effects.
 • 4 new crops and fertilizer to speed up the growth of plants.
 • Around 350 new blocks (and more variants) to build with.
 • Around 170 new items including various sets of tools and armor as well as many new food items, gems, ingots, nuggets and mob drops.
 • 7 new tree types with unique shapes, all with a full set of saplings, stairs, slabs, doors, hatches, ladders, workbenches, fences and more!
 • New special gameplay mechanics as well as nice visual features like glow-in-the-dark mobs, special gems and mobs with light effects and more!
 • A depth based mining progression system; the deeper you go, the harder the stone types you encounter. Each new stone type requires a new higher tier of tools to mine.
 • Most mobs have a low chance to drop their skulls for your private hunter’s collection!
 • A new food salting mechanic that enhances a food’s eating speed. (Only for meat, soups and vegetables.)

We recommend to use Apple Skin and Just Enough Items together with this mod, to check how much hunger food items fill up and to see crafting recipes respectively!

How to enter Icaria:

To enter Icaria, one must first make their way into the nether. There, a considerable quantity of Quartz must be obtained in order to construct a portal. Then the player needs to go find red pyromancer revenants in the nether and kill them to obtain greek fire grenades.
Once constructed, the portal can be activated with a greek fire grenade.

The portal frame does not require any specific bottom material - the bottom can even be left open like the top center!

Mining:

The mining progression of the mod is depth based, and vanilla tools aren’t very good in Icaria. While you can take your diamond pickaxe into the dimension to get started, it won’t help you get through the stronger stone types. From the top down, you encounter these materials:
Yellowstone, Silkstone, Sunstone, Baetyl and Voidshale.
Each stone type has its own subset of ores that can be found in and on them respectively. Also found on the sides and undersides of the Icarian layers are 4 types of crystals growing on the stone types, with more different crystals showing up the further down you go.

Workstations:

Icaria adds a small number of new workstations to the game. The Kettle is used to make concoctions. A Kiln is used to make glass, loam bricks and to fire storage vases. Forges serve as a workstation to smelt ores in and combine ingots into alloys. And finally the Grinder turns crystals into their powder form (if possible) and has some other uses as well.

Recipes for the Kettle can sometimes be found in the form of scrolls by breaking loot vases in ruins and villages.

Looting:

In the dimension, the player can find wilderness ruins as well as either damaged or ruined villages. Ruined villages offer little loot but are a lot safer to traverse than damaged villages, having only very few spawners in them. Damaged villages have a lot more loot, but also spawn a lot more revenants.

Farming:

There are 4 crops, 7 tree types and 3 mobs available for players to farm. The available crops are Physalis, Strawberry, Spelt and Onion. The tree types are Plane, Populus, Cypress, Fir, Olive, Laurel and Droughtroot. The farmable mobs are the Aeternae, the Catoblepas and the Sow.

Farmland can be prepared using scythes made from dimension materials. In order to increase your farmland’s efficiency, turn it into fertilized soil using calcite powder. This will double the growth speed of crops growing on it.

Combat:

Lands of Icaria embraces combat and offers a whole set of weapons and spells to allow players as many combat styles as possible. Bidents can be thrown, daggers have a faster attack speed than swords, and spells like the magic missile can deal magic damage over longer distances.
There are 5 sets of armor to craft with different protection levels, and in the future, special unique artifact armor pieces will be added as well alongside unique weapons, both directly inspired by ancient greek and egyptian mythology.

Greek fire grenades can also be crafted and used as ranged weapons against groups of enemies, setting the ground on fire. The throwing mechanic for them works the same as for bidents: it draws back as long as it is being held and when the key is released, flies accordingly.

Biomes:

Icaria currently consists of four biomes. A dry desert, a forest biome, steppes and scrubland, all of which have their own sets of trees and flowers only generating there. Different biomes also have different special decorations, like rock spikes and cacti in the desert and stone boulders in the scrublands.

Mobs:

The mobs in Lands of Icaria can be split into 5 categories

 • Fantastical mobs mostly serving as ambience
 • Arachnids and Insectoids
 • Forest Hags that really don’t like when you mess with trees
 • Animals and Predators
 • Revenants (remains of the once proud civilization of Icaria)

Indicator:

In case you are not playing Lands of Icaria in a modpack combined with a mod like Neat, this mod also offers you the option of enabling a custom indicator that will show you the stats of mobs you encounter in a panel in the top left corner of the screen (configurable).

Links:

Wiki: to be added

Planetminecraft Page: https://www.planetminecraft.com/mod/lands-of-icaria/

Minecraftforum Thread: https://www.minecraftforum.net/forums/mapping-and-modding-java-edition/minecraft-mods/3073255-lands-of-icaria

Recruitment Thread: to be added

Discord: https://discord.gg/CVhrCNRSYk

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