Exploration, Food and Building

This page covers everything outside the tech chapters: exploring the world, staying fed and building a base worth coming home to. It follows the **Exploration** and **Farm to Table** quest chapters.

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Part 1: Exploration

Chapter: Exploration

Step 1: New biomes

Quest: Brave New Biomes

Biomes O' Plenty and Regions Unexplored add dozens of new biomes. Find one you've never seen and tick the quest.

See farther: Distant Horizons shows terrain far past your normal render distance, which makes spotting biomes and structures much easier. Turn it up or down in the video settings depending on your PC.

Step 2: Wildlife, loot and ruins

Quests: Wildlife Spotting · Finders Keepers · Ancient Remnants

Quest	What to do	Mod
Wildlife Spotting	Find a creature you've never seen	Alex's Mobs
Finders Keepers	Loot a dungeon chest	Lootr
Ancient Remnants	Explore a new structure	Ember's Ancient Remnants

> Lootr: Every player gets their own loot from each chest. You can't steal your friends' loot, and you don't need to race them to a dungeon.

Step 3: Treasure, villages and pillagers

Quests: Treasure Hunter · Village Watch · Pillagers Arise

Treasure Hunter: Bring back a saddle from a dungeon or ruin chest.
Village Watch (optional): Find a village protected by Guard Villagers. Guards fight off raids and mobs.
Pillagers Arise: Pillagers have upgraded their tech with Create: Pillagers Arise. Defeat 10 Pillagers. Bring good armor.

Easy Villagers lets you pick villagers up and carry them like items, which makes building a trading hall much less painful.

Step 4: The Nether

Quests: Into the Nether → Blaze Hunter + Eyes of Ender

Build a Nether portal and step through.
Blaze Hunter: Collect 8 Blaze Rods from a Nether Fortress. You need them for Create Blaze Burners and for Eyes of Ender.
Eyes of Ender: Craft 12 Eyes of Ender to find and activate the End portal.

Stargate builders: The Nether is the only place Red Crystal geodes generate. Grab some while you're there.

Step 5: The End

Quests: The End? → Dragon Slayer (finale)

Throw Eyes of Ender to find a stronghold, then fill the End portal and jump in.
Defeat the Ender Dragon. The finale gives 2,000 XP and a Netherite Ingot.

Stargate builders: The End is the only place Trinium Ore generates. Mine some for your Crystal Control Circuits, and keep that netherite ingot for your Capacitor Bank.

Part 2: Food

Chapter: Farm to Table

Step 1: Set up a kitchen

Quests: Sharp Start → Cutting Board + Stove → Cooking Pot

Item	What it does
Flint Knife	Slices food on the Cutting Board, and harvests straw from tall grass
Cutting Board	Place an item on it and use a knife to slice it
Stove	Cooks food placed on top, and heats a pot or skillet
Cooking Pot	Put it on a Stove to cook full meals and soups
Skillet (optional)	A frying pan that's also a weapon

Why cook? Farmer's Delight meals restore more hunger and give buffs like Comfort and Nourishment. AppleSkin shows exactly how much each food restores.

Step 2: Automate food with Create

Quests: Chocolate Factory · Say Cheese · Daily Bread · Brain Freeze · Fine Vintage → Open for Business

Quest	Addon
Chocolate Factory	Create More Chocolate or Create Chocolate Fountain
Say Cheese	Create: Cheese Factory
Daily Bread	Create: Bread and Beyond
Brain Freeze	Create: Ice Creams
Fine Vintage	Create: Winery
Open for Business (finale)	Create Cafe

Make something with each addon, then brew a drink with Create Cafe to finish the chapter. The finale gives 500 XP and 16 Golden Carrots.

Tip: Search an addon's name in JEI, for example @create_cheese, to see everything it makes.

Part 3: Building

There's no quest chapter for building. These mods give you thousands of decorative options:

Mod	What it does
Chipped	Workbenches that turn one block into dozens of decorative variants
Chisels and Bits	Carve blocks into tiny pieces for detailed builds
Handcrafted	Furniture: chairs, tables, beds, shelves and more
Create Deco	Industrial blocks, catwalks, doors and lamps
Create: Copycats+	Blocks that copy the look of any block you put in them
Domum Ornamentum	Blocks that mix two materials in one block
JSG: Decoration	Stargate-themed blocks for your gate room

Tip: FallingTree brings a whole tree down when you break the bottom log, and FTB Ultimine mines whole veins. Both save a lot of time when you're gathering building materials.

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