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Collector's Caravan February 2026 Newsletter
February is here! and with its start, a new update is dropping off today. After around a month of not updating, the Collector's Caravan team has been busy adding new and exciting things to the mod.
IMPORTANT NOTE:
This update comes with lots of new things to see, but it is a groundwork for future updates at the same time. Lots of new items, a couple of mobs and achievements were added, but there's a lot more to come!
What's new?
Among all the cool collectibles you can find... now some of them (2 so far) have the description of "This item can be used to make a sample" in yellow text.
"Moa feather" and "Great Auk feather" are new items that have this special mark, and you can now take them to the new "Sample extractor".
This new block lets you extract the DNA from items with the sample mark and it gives you a DNA tube. The DNA tubes can taken to the sample infuser and be turned into the new eggs!
These new eggs come in block form, they can be placed down and remain in block form until you decide to break them open. If you break these eggs, the mob will come out.
If you did all this then CONGRATULATIONS, you now have an extinct species!
Conclusions
This was a huge update, but most importantly it lays the groundwork for lots of future updates. With the introduction of the extractor and infuser, there are a lot of possibilities for the mod. So far, update 9.0.0 is in very early stages of development, but what I can say now is that dinosaurs will be ability in the update!
Projects on Modrinth are automatically available through a Maven repository for use with JVM build tools such as Gradle. To learn more about the Modrinth Maven API, click here.
Note: When available, you should use the creator's maven repo instead as it will have transitive dependency information that the Modrinth Maven API does not. You may also end up with duplicate dependencies if you use a mix of Modrinth and non-Modrinth Maven repositories for your dependencies, because the group identifier will be different when served through the Modrinth Maven API.
Maven coordinates:
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build.gradle:
repositories {
exclusiveContent {
forRepository {
maven {
name = "Modrinth"
url = "https://api.modrinth.com/maven"
}
}
// forRepositories(fg.repository) // Uncomment when using ForgeGradle
filter {
includeGroup "maven.modrinth"
}
}
}
// Standard Gradle dependency
dependencies {
implementation "maven.modrinth:AF7VX19e:bAXtUvJQ"
}
// Legacy Loom dependency
dependencies {
modImplementation "maven.modrinth:AF7VX19e:bAXtUvJQ"
}

