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Minecraft: Java Edition
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Cognata
is a polished survival multiplayer modpack, with advanced progression, civilization building aspects, and warfare!
This modpack is recommended to play in multiplayer.
Cognata is designed in such a way where you can pretty much progress to any point anywhere just by using the materials around you, until you want to craft artifacts. This style of progression is great for multiplayer dynamics especially for anarchy and factions servers (Originally Cognata was played on a factions server).
📋 Tutorial
📚 When playing Cognata or Cognata Remaster, it's important to know that most of the recipes in the modpack can be found in the recipe book. Because of the difference from vanilla progression, certain parts of the modpack could be unintuitive for some.
📋 If you want a tutorial on the beginning of the modpack, there is one here:
Wooden Pickaxe Tutorial
For a quick start, first collect as many flowers as you can! These are used to craft straw and rope, which are used to craft many early-game tools. With enough flowers you can even make string.
Next, collect wood and use it to craft three things in your inventory:
- A campfire
- A crude wooden axe (also requires rope)
- A crude wooden tap
By right-clicking on a log with the tap, you can collect sap. The sap is then cooked on the campfire to create pitch glue, an early-game tool binding.
The next thing you'll want to focus on is making yourself a crafting table! Yes, that's right, you probably won't have one yet.
To do this you need leather or canvas. Depending on your situation the best choice here might differ, but I typically find that leather is more accessible because you can get it by cooking rotten flesh on a campfire. If you want to see the recipe for canvas, you can check the recipe book.
(Paper also works but you need a crafting table to make… this might be nice to keep in mind if you ever need to automate crafting tables for whatever reason)
Once you've gotten one of these two options there's one last thing you have to do before you can get crafting table. Use your crude axe from earlier to strip a log, and apply your leather or canvas by right-clicking. This will create a crafting table!
You can now use your wood, pitch glue, rope, and crafting table to create a wooden pickaxe.
This is pretty much the complexity of every age of progression in this modpack. (This is why it took me an entire month of playing to beat the dragon (though i'm not very good lol))
🗒️ Content
🛠️ Progress through many stages of materials, from primitive wooden tools bound with pitch glue to the precisely crafted gem age all the way to the fantasy-like metals of skysteel and shadowsteel alloys. Mods such as Create, Farmer's Delight, More Ores More Gems, and even Twigs have been integrated into progression and carefully attuned to complement each other in a polished-feeling way.
✈️ Cognata Remaster also integrates mods such as Immersive Aircraft and Waystones into its progression while keeping both methods of transport balanced with each other and other vanilla methods of transport.
🏠 As well as material progression, Cognata also introduces an alternate path with similar power having to do with creating your own civilization and cities! In Cognata, the player can literally "raise" a village from the soil. You can create villagers from clay and specialize them into warriors, farmers, archers, captains, miners, and much, much more. Cognata Remaster expands on this concept, improving on villager workstations by giving them new models and adding new Horde Moon events to defend your village from.
🌳 On top of these changes in progression, both world generation and entity behavior have changed! You can now find many new biomes across the world. Mobs are now smarter and are more formidable enemies. You might also notice that certain mob types have unique relationships with other mobs, giving the world a more natural feel.
🗺️ Exploration has been expanded by things like Antique Atlas 4 and Compass Coords. F3 menu no longer shows coordinates or similar information, making these methods of exploration much more useful.
❤️🩹 Healing has been made somewhat more difficult in favor of allowing the player to heal faster when nearby campfires or when sleeping.
🛠️ Also, yes, crafting now takes time. I know that sounds bad but it isn't very long and trust me when I say that it really adds to the genuine feel of the pack.
📊 Resources
You can find a guide/wiki page here: https://voxelparrot.dev/#cognata
Cognata was co-created by me and AkaashMinecraft
Most images in the Gallery were taken in real Cognata-running servers.