⚙️ Cogwork Continuum v1.7.3 – Knowledge, Witchcraft & Flavor

This update introduces fresh magic systems, immersive roleplay tools, and flavorful additions while keeping the steampunk-fantasy heart of Cogwork alive. Expect new reasons to explore, experiment, and even sit down for a card game.

⚠️ Note: This update includes worldgen changes (salt ores, witchcraft plants, new structures).
👉 For the best experience, a map reset is strongly recommended.

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✨ New Mods Added

📚 Scholar

• Enhances Minecraft’s book system with a two-page UI and smoother editing.
• Features: editable books on lecterns, colorful dyed books, bookshelf integration, and QoL tweaks like removing the enchanted glint.
• Perfect for storytellers, librarians, and lorekeepers.

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🧙 Enchanted: Witchcraft

• A large witchcraft & occult practices mod inspired by folklore.
• Features:
  • Herbology with new trees, herbs, and flowers
  • Circle magic with 45+ rites for cursing, protecting, and altering the world
  • Brewing with cauldrons & kettles
  • Puppetry for voodoo dolls and protective poppets
• Become a witch, a vampire, or a demon hunter — the choice is yours.

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🧂 Salt

• Adds rock salt generation, food salting, and new blocks.
• Improve food nutrition and taste, melt snow/ice with salt, and grow salt crystals.
• Fully configurable for balance.

A small mod with big seasoning.

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🎴 Mino++

• A Minecraft recreation of the popular card game Uno.
• Multiplayer-ready with table blocks, plus AI-controlled bot opponents.
• Rule variants supported: stacking, jump-in, and proper Wild Draw Four restrictions.
• Great for downtime fun on servers.

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🔮 Ars Additions

• Expands Ars Nouveau with new glyphs, rituals, and decorations.
• Examples: Retaliate (Form), Mark & Recall, Ender Source Jar, Warp Index, and more.
• Decorative lanterns, chains, and Sourcestone blocks for magical builds.
• Even includes automation options with Wixies.

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🍲 Ars Nouveau Culinary Expansion

• Adds 49+ magical food items crafted from Ars Nouveau ingredients.
• Includes feasts, pies, jellies, drinks, platters, and skewers.
• Special effects like mana regen, freezing damage, blast resistance, and more.
• Integrates with Farmer’s Delight cooking style.

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🔄 Updated Mods

⚖️ Apotheosis

• Rebalanced and nerfed down to remove overpowered armor and weapons.
• Goal: keep the pack challenging and balanced without game-breaking gear.

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🌟 Summary

• Richer storytelling with Scholar and expanded book mechanics
• Immersive witchcraft system with folklore-inspired rituals
• Salt mechanics for flavor and world interaction
• Mino++ card games for multiplayer fun
• Expanded Ars Nouveau with new glyphs, rituals, and foods
• Apotheosis balance changes for a fairer progression curve

Take your steampunk-fantasy journey further: write your stories, stir your cauldrons, season your meals, and even challenge your friends to a card game. ⚙️✨

⚠️ # Update is broken server-side

⚙️ Cogwork Continuum v1.7.3 – Knowledge, Witchcraft & Flavor

This update introduces fresh magic systems, immersive roleplay tools, and flavorful additions while keeping the steampunk-fantasy heart of Cogwork alive. Expect new reasons to explore, experiment, and even sit down for a card game.

⚠️ Note: This update includes worldgen changes (salt ores, witchcraft plants, new structures).
👉 For the best experience, a map reset is strongly recommended.

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✨ New Mods Added

📚 Scholar

• Enhances Minecraft’s book system with a two-page UI and smoother editing.
• Features: editable books on lecterns, colorful dyed books, bookshelf integration, and QoL tweaks like removing the enchanted glint.
• Perfect for storytellers, librarians, and lorekeepers.

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🧙 Enchanted: Witchcraft

• A large witchcraft & occult practices mod inspired by folklore.
• Features:
  • Herbology with new trees, herbs, and flowers
  • Circle magic with 45+ rites for cursing, protecting, and altering the world
  • Brewing with cauldrons & kettles
  • Puppetry for voodoo dolls and protective poppets
• Become a witch, a vampire, or a demon hunter — the choice is yours.

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🧂 Salt

• Adds rock salt generation, food salting, and new blocks.
• Improve food nutrition and taste, melt snow/ice with salt, and grow salt crystals.
• Fully configurable for balance.

A small mod with big seasoning.

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🎴 Mino++

• A Minecraft recreation of the popular card game Uno.
• Multiplayer-ready with table blocks, plus AI-controlled bot opponents.
• Rule variants supported: stacking, jump-in, and proper Wild Draw Four restrictions.
• Great for downtime fun on servers.

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🔮 Ars Additions

• Expands Ars Nouveau with new glyphs, rituals, and decorations.
• Examples: Retaliate (Form), Mark & Recall, Ender Source Jar, Warp Index, and more.
• Decorative lanterns, chains, and Sourcestone blocks for magical builds.
• Even includes automation options with Wixies.

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🍲 Ars Nouveau Culinary Expansion

• Adds 49+ magical food items crafted from Ars Nouveau ingredients.
• Includes feasts, pies, jellies, drinks, platters, and skewers.
• Special effects like mana regen, freezing damage, blast resistance, and more.
• Integrates with Farmer’s Delight cooking style.

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🔄 Updated Mods

⚖️ Apotheosis

• Rebalanced and nerfed down to remove overpowered armor and weapons.
• Goal: keep the pack challenging and balanced without game-breaking gear.

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🌟 Summary

• Richer storytelling with Scholar and expanded book mechanics
• Immersive witchcraft system with folklore-inspired rituals
• Salt mechanics for flavor and world interaction
• Mino++ card games for multiplayer fun
• Expanded Ars Nouveau with new glyphs, rituals, and foods
• Apotheosis balance changes for a fairer progression curve

Take your steampunk-fantasy journey further: write your stories, stir your cauldrons, season your meals, and even challenge your friends to a card game. ⚙️✨

🛠 Cogwork Continuum v1.7.2 – Through the Lens

Lights, camera... action!

This update focuses on enriching your visual and gameplay experience, while adding a few powerful new challenges and toys to your steampunk toolbox. For the best experience, we strongly recommend a world reset, especially to take full advantage of new worldgen content and mechanics.

⚠️ Recommended: World Reset

Some of the newly introduced features — particularly those involving dungeons, worldgen, or boss mechanics — may require a new world to function as intended. If you're playing long-term or running a public server, starting fresh is advised to avoid missing content.

📸 New Mods & Gameplay Features

🎞️ Exposure

Take photography to the next level! Exposure adds an immersive analog camera system where you:

• Load film rolls, attach filters and lenses, and snap framed shots
• Sneak for settings like shutter speed, self-timers, and composition guides
• Develop and print your film using dyes, potions, and the Lightroom block
• Display your framed photographs or project them with the Interplanar Projector

Frame your adventures — literally.

🐉 Cataclysm

Prepare for challenging dungeons and intense boss fights inspired by Dark Souls and Minecraft Dungeons. Each boss has unique mechanics and deadly abilities — defeat them for powerful rewards and prove your might.

📚 Atlas’ Additions

An extension to Iron's Spells & Spellbooks:

• Adds elemental staves, new magical weapons, and themed curios
• Expands spell variety with lightning, nature, and eldritch-themed books

Perfect for spell-slingers looking to deepen their arsenal!

⚙️ Create Encased

Cosmetic upgrades for Create machinery!

Apply casings to shafts, cogwheels, and pipes for a seamless steampunk aesthetic

🧱 Carry On

Quality-of-life meets immersion:

Shift+Right-Click to carry chests, machines, and mobs — no tools required

Supports Tile Entities, modded blocks, and even players!

⚔️ Better Combat

Revamps the melee experience:

• Dynamic weapon animations
• Realistic attack arcs and collision
• Weapon combos and dual wielding

No more pixel-perfect clicking — just swing and cleave through foes.

🧭 Enjoy the journey...

From dark dungeons to tranquil forest clearings captured on film, Cogwork Continuum v1.7.2 invites you to tell your own story — one click of the shutter at a time. 🌄📷

🛠 Cogwork Patchlog – Survival & Companions Update

This update brings fresh survival mechanics and a dash of companionship to your journeys. Whether you’re braving deserts, taming critters, or cooking new meals, there’s plenty to discover.

🌱 New Mods & Gameplay:

Thirst Was Taken

Adds a thirst system with water purity, biome-dependent depletion, and Create-powered filtration. Stay hydrated or face the consequences.

Critters and Companions

Meet otters, ferrets, koi fish, red pandas, jumping spiders, and more. Tame, befriend, and adventure with them!

Tide

Fishing is no longer the same: 60+ new fish, new rods, baits, and a fishing journal to track your catches.

Rustic Delight

Expands Farmer’s Delight with pancakes, coffee, calamari, bell peppers, cotton, and more.

✨ Highlights:

Survival is tougher and more immersive with thirst mechanics.

Companions and critters add life and variety to exploration.

Fishing is now a true pastime with depth and rewards.

Expanded cooking with Rustic Delight makes your homestead cozier than ever.

Adventure, survive, and thrive — with a cup of coffee in hand and a red panda by your side.

Update 1.6.9 — The Sea Freezes Over

The Continuum charts a new course into Aquamirae, an iced-over ocean biome packed with danger and discovery. Explore a surface maze and the frozen depths below; brave unique ambient effects and terrifying deep-sea foes; and challenge the Ghost of Captain Cornelia. Find new weapons, armor sets with set bonuses, consumables and decorations. Integrates with Farmer’s Delight via Aquamirae Delight.

Also new

Watut (What Are They Up To) – see when players are typing/idle with slick in-game visuals.

Incendium, MCEF, CoroUtil, Obscure API, Rubidium Extra for exploration, rendering, and performance/compatibility boosts.

Updated for stability & features

Waystones, Sophisticated Core / Storage / Backpacks, Steam Rails, Applied Energistics 2, Fabric API, Simple Voice Chat, Chat Notify. ** Forge ahead—mind the ice.**

This update for Cogwork brings improved performance, better long-distance exploration, and enhanced mod compatibility. We've introduced Oculus, a fork of Iris, to boost shader performance, and Distant Horizons, allowing you to see far beyond the usual render distance without sacrificing FPS. For Create fans, Guideme has been added to provide in-game guidance for complex contraptions. Alongside these new additions, over 40 mods have been updated to their latest versions, ensuring better stability, fresh features, and improved mod interactions across the board.

✨ New Mods Added

Oculus – A performance-enhanced fork of Iris for better shader support and smoother gameplay

Distant Horizons – See farther with terrain LODs, extending your view distance without lag

Guideme – Contextual guidance for Create mod mechanics, improves onboarding and UX

🔄 Mods Updated

Advanced Peripherals

Almost Unified

AmbientSounds

Applied Energistics 2

Ars Nouveau

Artifacts

Balm

Biomes O' Plenty

Chat Heads

Chat Notify

Citadel

Corpse

Create Crafts & Additions

Create Ore Excavation

Create Slice & Dice

Create: Enchantment Industry

Create: New Age

CreativeCore

Curious API

Default Options

Drippy Loading Screen

FancyMenu

Farmer's Delight

FramedBlocks

GeckoLib

Iron's Spells 'n Spellbooks

Just Enough Items (JEI)

Lootr

mutil

Not Enough Animations

Not Enough Crashes

Puzzles Lib

Relics

Simple Voice Chat

Sophisticated Backpacks

Sophisticated Core

Sophisticated Storage

Waystones

WTHIT

🚀 Overview

This update continues our drive for stability, compatibility, and expanded Create-driven possibilities. You’ll find core mods updated, a suite of fresh add-ons for Create and tech mods, performance boosts, and a handful of clean-up removals to keep the pack lean.

🔄 Mod Updates & Changes

✅ Updated Mods

CC: Tweaked → 1.116.1 (was 1.115.1)

Create → 6.0.6 (was 6.0.3)

❌ Removed Mods

Mekanism & Mekanism Generators (10.4.15.75)

Serene Seasons (9.1.0.1)

Ad Astra (1.15.20) and its Mekanism‐Astra ores bridge

Create Track Map

GTCE – CEu Modern (1.6.4)

NoMoWanderer (1.6.4)

📥 Newly Added Mods

🛠️ Performance & Optimization

FerriteCore – Better memory use, lower RAM footprint

Fast Leaf Decay – Speeds up leaf cleanup

Modern Industrialization – New machines & processing chains

🎭 Immersion & UI Enhancements

ModMenu – Improved in-game mod listing & search

Chat Notify – Keyword alerts for chat messages

NightConfig Core – Underpins nicer config GUIs

🔊 Audio & Visual Tweaks

Plonk – Richer sound layering

CopyCats – Enhanced audio context & mixing

🔮 Tech & Automation

CC:CB Bridge – Scripting bridge between CC:Tweaked & Create

Occurrence – Core library updates for pack compatibility

RARCompat – Rarity JSON compat for JEI & UIs

🏗️ Create Add-Ons

Create Food – Edible processing mods

Create Jetpack – Jetpack flight within Create

Create Ore Excavation Plus – Bulk ore harvesting

Create Tweaked Controllers – Advanced machine GUIs

Steam Rails – Steam-powered rails for your contraptions

🎯 Focus of v1.6.4

Stability & Compatibility: Core mods refreshed, config libs improved

Performance: Memory & tick-rate‐friendly tweaks

Expanded Automation: New Create power-ups and tech trees

Streamlined Pack: Removed less-used tech and world mods for clarity

Enjoy the tweak-tastic improvements—happy crafting! 🔧⚙️

Cogwork Continuum v1.6.0 - Major Release

🚀 Overview

This update marks a major milestone for Cogwork Continuum, introducing new mods, significant improvements, and refinements to enhance both performance and gameplay. The focus is on server performance, adventure & exploration, and expanding the steampunk aesthetic.

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🔄 Mod Updates & Changes

✅ Updated Mods

• Updated all existing mods to their latest versions for improved stability and compatibility.

❌ Removed Mods

• Create: Steam 'n' Rails – Removed due to incompatibilities.
• Ars Creo – Removed for better balance and mod synergy.

📥 Newly Added Mods

🛠️ Performance & Optimization

• FerriteCore – Improves memory management and reduces RAM usage.
• ServerCore – Enhances multiplayer performance and tick rates.

🎭 Immersion & Visual Enhancements

• First Person Model – Improves first-person animations.
• Not Enough Animations – Adds more fluid animations for players and interactions.

🌍 Exploration & World Expansion

• Biomes O' Plenty – Expands the variety of biomes, enriching world generation.
• Serene Seasons – Introduces dynamic seasonal changes that affect survival and visuals.
• The Aether – Adds a new dimension filled with floating islands and adventure.

🔊 Enhanced Multiplayer Experience

• Simple Voice Chat – Enables proximity-based voice communication.
• Chat Heads – Displays avatars when players talk, making in-game chat more interactive.

🔮 Magic & Technology Enhancements

• GregTechCEu Modern – Adds high-tech progression with a steampunk touch.
• Ars Nouveau & Ars Énergistique Updates – Expands magical capabilities.
• Ad Astra – Introduces space exploration mechanics.

🏗️ New Create Add-ons

• Create: New Age – Adds more complex automation features.
• Create: Bells & Whistles – Enhances decorative automation.
• Create Slice & Dice – Expands contraption possibilities.

🎒 Quality of Life Improvements

• Sophisticated Backpacks – Adds advanced backpack functionality.
• Sophisticated Storage – Improves inventory management options.
• Lootr – Enhances loot mechanics for a better adventure experience.

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🎯 Focus of v1.6.0

• Better Server Experience – Improved performance, enhanced chat and voice systems.
• More Exploration – Expanded world generation, new biomes, and environmental effects.
• Deeper Steampunk Aesthetic – More advanced technology, automation, and immersive features.
• Stronger RPG Elements – More magic, new dimensions, and refined balance.

⚙️ Final Thoughts

This major release makes Cogwork Continuum more immersive, better optimized, and feature-rich for both solo and multiplayer play.

Enjoy the new frontier of steampunk exploration! 🔧⚙️

Added mods and modified config

Removed: Occultism Blood Magic Tome of Blood Chisels Reborn Forbidden Arcanus

Added: The aether Lootr Relics Artifacts Sophisticated Storage

Added Performance and QoL Mods, and modified the config: ServerCore Chisel Reborn Canary

General Update

• Updated all mods to their latest versions for stability and compatibility.
• Removed:
  • Create: Steam 'n' Rails – Due to incompatibility issues.
  • Ars Creo – Removed for similar compatibility reasons.
• Mod Management Improvements:
  • Moved additional mods from the override folder to the Modrinth downloader for easier updates.
• Performance Enhancements:
  • Added FerriteCore to optimize memory usage and improve server performance.
• Enhanced Visuals & Immersion:
  • Added First Person Model for a more immersive experience.
  • Added Not Enough Animations to bring more life to player movement.

Improved Server Experience

• Better Multiplayer Communication:
  • Added Simple Voice Chat for in-game voice communication.
  • Added Chat Heads, making conversations more intuitive by displaying speaking players’ avatars.

Better Adventure & Exploration

• Seasons & Environmental Immersion:
  • Added Serene Seasons, introducing dynamic seasonal changes that affect weather, crops, and survival.
• More Biome Variety:
  • Added Biomes O' Plenty, greatly expanding the world’s biome diversity with unique environments to explore.

Update Focus

This update enhances server gameplay and adventure/exploration, making multiplayer sessions more engaging and the world more dynamic.

Updated Forge and added mods

Forge Update

• Updated all Mods
• Moved the following Mods from Override to Modrinth Downloader: sophisticated backpacks sophisticated core nomowanderer framedblocks rats citadel

Update Highlights

• In this update, we've made some important changes to improve your gameplay experience. We've updated our current mods and introduced several new ones to expand your Minecraft adventure.

Mod Updates

• We've updated our existing mods to ensure they function optimally and deliver the best experience.

New Mods Added

FramedBlocks

• FramedBlocks adds blocks of various shapes that can be made to look like almost any other block in the game. Customize your world with diverse building options!
• FramedBlocks on CurseForge

Blood Magic

• Blood Magic is an arcane art practiced by mages who harness the power of forbidden material: blood. While it grants immense power, be warned that every action with this volatile magic carries a deadly risk.

Tome of Blood: Rebirth

• Tome of Blood: Rebirth adds compatibility between Ars Nouveau and Blood Magic, introducing new spellbooks and equipment to enhance your magical adventures.

With these updates and new additions, we aim to provide you with a more diverse and immersive Minecraft experience. Enjoy the update!

Update Highlights

• In this update, we've made some important changes to improve your gameplay experience. We've updated several mods and introduced a new one, "Iron's Spells 'n Spellbooks."

Mod Updates

• We've updated various mods to enhance performance and gameplay.

New Mod Added

• Iron's Spells 'n Spellbooks: Dive into the world of magic with this enchanting mod! Inspired by classic RPG games, it brings the timeless art of spellcasting to your Minecraft adventures. Embark on a journey of progression as you gain power by facing formidable wizards, exploring diverse structures, conquering dungeons, gathering valuable resources, and discovering potent magical artifacts.

With these updates and the addition of "Iron's Spells 'n Spellbooks," we aim to provide you with an even more immersive and magical Minecraft experience. Enjoy the update!

Update Highlights

• We've made significant updates and additions to enhance your gameplay experience.

Updated Mods

• Mekanism: Updated for improved functionality.
• Resourceful Lib: Updated for enhanced compatibility.
• Create Enchantment Industry: Updated to provide a more enchanting experience.
• Mekanism Generators: Updated for better power generation.
• CreativeCore: Updated to support new features.
• Comforts: Updated for added comfort.
• AmbientSounds: Updated to immerse you further.
• Handcrafted: Updated for a handier experience.
• Applied Energistics 2 Wireless Terminals: Updated for wireless convenience.
• Curios API: Updated to expand customization.
• Ars Elemental: Updated for elemental excitement.
• Citadel: Updated for fortified adventures.
• Sophisticated Backpacks: Updated for stylish storage.
• Sophisticated Core: Updated to support sophistication.

New Mods Added

• Create: Interiors: Discover new possibilities for interior design.
• Too Many Glyphs: Uncover a plethora of mystical symbols.
• NoMoWanderer: Put an end to aimless wandering.

Changes

• Main Menu Scaling: We've modified the Main Menu to address a scaling issue for a better user experience.
• New Main Menu Banner: Enjoy a fresh look with the addition of a new banner to the Main Menu.

Small Fix for Chunk Protection

Major Overhaul - Exciting New Additions!

We've elevated the challenge levels in the End, Nether, and Deep Dark. Brace yourselves for a surprising encounter with the Wither!

Mod Updates:

Rubidium Replaced:

We've replaced Rubidium with Embeddium to resolve instability issues in chunk rendering, which were causing client-side crashes.

Simple Voice Chat Removal:

We've removed Simple Voice Chat since it no longer serves a practical purpose in the age of Discord. It might make a return in the future if it becomes relevant again.

New Mods Added:

• Cadmus
• Argonauts
• Deeper and Darker
• Construction Wand
• Enlightened
• Bygone Nether
• Create: Bells & Whistles
• Create Slice & Dice
• Create Track Map
• Chipped
• Athena
• Embeddium
• Kotlin for Forge

Mods Removed:

• Simple Voice Chat