Shirecraft — Vanilla+ Survival (26.2 Paper)

Vanilla 26.2 server (Paper) with curated plugins, custom-built systems, and a strong focus on quality-of-life improvements. We use paid plugins like compressy, Lands, and offerings, plus Underwood-built gameplay (alloys, rituals, anchors, Just Fab It), and a large suite of datapacks — Terralith/Terratonic worldgen, explorify, geophilic, crop & kettle, furnicraft, graves, and more.

Lands provides a full land‑claim, protection, and nation‑building system designed for modern survival servers. It replaces old shovel‑based claim plugins with a polished, GUI‑driven, MMO‑style territory system that gives players real control over their builds, communities, taxes, and wars.

With Offerings, Shirecraft Menus, and ShireSell, players get a personal hub GUI for fast access to common actions, rewards, and the crate-based economy.

Fishing has been overhauled with Fishing Expansion and PenguinStudios' Penguin Fishing Plugin is on the docket to replace that after they release an update to fix their plugin completely replacing vanilla fishing loot tables (it breaks all datapacks/mods/plugins that use vanilla fishing loot tables [no more cooking or advancements for example]).

Finally, we have custom UIs and screens thanks to Nexo, BetterHUD, and a few other plugins. Not all chest GUIs have been customized yet but we do have AureliumSkills, AxTrade, and a custom UI HUD to show you dynamic localized (raycasted) body health, player stats, and overall better look and feel.

We Have

• shirecraft menus (custom) — HUB GUI for quick access to travel, economy, progression, rituals, anchors, and voice chat
• shiresell (custom) — crate-based buying & selling system
• lands — land claims, nations, taxes, and wars
• offerings — flexible offering & interaction system with GUI triggers
• compressy — high-tier block compression and storage utility
• alloys (custom) — ten fantasy metals with gear, passives, and optional Paper plugin GUI
• rituals (custom) — totem rituals, fire sacrifice, and Soul Embodiment integration with Alloys tools
• anchors (custom) — inventory slot & item anchoring for sorting, trading, and automation safety
• just fab it (custom) — region-captured structure fabs with placement GUIs and flexible costs
• tally — +10,255 advancements & rewards as a progression datapack (+ companion plugin)
• fishing expansion — full fishing overhaul with progression, loot, and tutorials

Custom & Progression Datapacks

• alloys — ten fantasy metals, bonus ore fragments, full gear, and passive traits (resource pack required)
• rituals — mystical totem rituals, fire sacrifice, and progression tiers
• tally — massive advancement overhaul with themed categories and rewards

Worldgen & Biomes

• terralith — expansive overworld biome and terrain overhaul
• terratonic — Terralith + Tectonic-style terrain combined
• nullscape — end dimension biome and structure overhaul
• geophilic — subtle vanilla overworld biome detail pass
• explorify — small structures and exploration points across the overworld
• gorify — gorilla-themed mob and biome additions

Structures & Dungeons

• dungeons and taverns — large library of vanilla-style structures and dungeons
• dungeons+ — additional dungeons, camps, and exploration sites
• portfolio — painter-themed structures and decorative builds

Plugins & Gameplay Systems

• leveledmobs — dynamic mob leveling and scaling difficulty
• aura skills — RPG-style skill trees, stats, and passive abilities
• essentialsx — core commands, homes, warps, chat, and utilities
• advanced enchantments — hundreds of custom enchantments and effects
• bodyhealth — locational damage and injury system
• gsit — sit, lay, and pose on blocks and entities
• interaction visualizer — visual feedback for chests, crafting, and interactions
• veinminer — configurable vein mining (companion to Juix vein picks)
• uber enchant — custom enchantment mechanics and upgrades
• disenchantment — recover materials from enchanted gear

Economy & Trade

• vault — economy, permissions, and plugin integration layer
• salary — scheduled income and server-defined pay cycles
• gold economy — physical gold ingot banking alongside coin economy
• axtrade — secure player-to-player trade GUI
• axauctions — server auction house
• backpack plus — virtual backpacks and expandable inventory slots
• shire-sell — custom-made economy plugin with automatic, and configurable, market hot/cold rotations with dynamic variations
  • includes custom blocks to sell and buy things producing a positive feedback loop with anti-abuse measures built-in

Quality of Life & Map

• axgraves — death graves that store your items safely until retrieval
• bluemap — live web map of the server world available at mcmap.idling.app
• haul — expanded hauling loot tables and catch variety
• simple voice chat — proximity voice chat (server-side; client mod required)
• imageframe — place images and maps on item frames at scale
• betterhud — custom HUD overlays and layouts

Datapacks — GM4 & Utility

• crossbow cartridges — specialized crossbow ammunition types
• healing bed — regenerate health while sleeping in bed

Datapacks — Fishing

• fishing expansion — expanded fishing loot tables and catch variety

Datapacks — Decor, Crafting & Adventure

• crop & kettle — farming crops, cooking, and kettle recipes
• storage pots — pottery-style storage containers with small inventories
• pk racks — placeable storage racks for organizing items visually
• pk waystones — craftable waystones for fast-travel networks
• mine treasure — mining-based treasure events and rare underground loot
• hero's journey — story-driven progression with quests and exploration goals
• jake's build tools — builder utilities and placement helpers
• master cutter — precision block cutting and shaping tools
• better vanilla mobs — enhanced vanilla mob variants and behaviors

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Recommended Resourcepacks

General

• Enchantment Outlines — clearer enchantment glints and outlines
• Fancy Crops — improved crop visuals and plant models
• Icon Fresh — icon set integrating Xaero’s maps with Fresh Animations style
• Low Shield — lower-profile shield model for better visibility
• OS's Colorful Grasses — varied grass colors for more vibrant biomes
• Vocal Villagers — enhanced villager sounds and voices
• Legendary Tooltips — stylized item tooltips for rarities and special items

Alloys (server resource pack — bundled in server resource pack automatically)

• alloys resource pack — required textures for Alloys ingots, fragments, tools, and armor (download from the Alloys Modrinth supplementary files)

Whimscape

• whimscape — whimsical, painterly visual style for blocks and items

Ashen

• Ashen Emissive Ores — glowing emissive ore textures
• Ashen Appleskin Support — UI and hunger overlay support for Appleskin in Ashen style
• Ashen 16x Custom Font — custom pixel font matching Ashen aesthetics
• Ashen Custom Mobs — redesigned mob textures in Ashen style
• Ashen Custom Mobs x Fresh Animations — Ashen mob textures integrated with Fresh Animations
• Ashen 16x⭐ — full 16x Ashen resourcepack for cohesive visuals

Fresh Animations

• Fresh Animations — enhanced mob animations and movement
• Fresh Animations: Extensions — extra animation support for more mobs and addons

Recommended Shaderpacks

• solas shader⭐⭐ — bright, stylized lighting and atmospheric effects
• photon shader⭐ — performance-friendly lighting and shadows
• bliss shader — soft, cinematic visuals and color grading
• insanity shader — dramatic, high-impact visual effects and lighting

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Modded client experience is not guaranteed to work; use at your own risk.

Modding

Known Issues

Do not use mods that present recipes to the player (e.g., Roughly Enough Items, Just Enough Items). They do not use the same recipe API as vanilla Minecraft and will cause disconnects on dynamic recipes.

Recommended Modpack

• Fabulously Optimized for 26.2 — lightweight performance and QoL-focused modpack for Fabric

Advised Additions

• Just Enough Book — in-game book for documenting custom recipes and info
• xaeros minimap — minimap with waypoints and terrain overview
• appleskin — hunger and saturation HUD overlays
• xaeros world map — full-screen world map with exploration tracking
• not enough animations — extra player animations (climbing, sitting, etc.)
• 3dskinlayers — 3D outer skin layers for more depth to skins
• jade — block/entity info HUD (WAILA-style)
• simple voice chat — proximity voice chat integration
• zoomify — configurable zoom key with smooth zoom
• mouse tweaks — improved inventory mouse controls and drag behavior
• chat heads — player heads shown next to chat messages
• sound physics remastered — realistic sound occlusion and reverb
• sounds — additional ambient and interaction sounds
• ambientsounds — richer ambient soundscapes per biome
• bobby or distant horizons (DH) — client-side distant chunk rendering without server view-distance changes with bobby having no LOD support. the server is not a modded one and so does not have any server-side DH functionality
• advancements fullscreen — fullscreen advancements UI
• keepthatmusic — keeps music playing more consistently
• visuality — extra particle and visual effects for interactions
• particular reforged — advanced particle customization and effects
• particle interactions — particles reacting to entities and environment
• physics mod — physics-based block/entity destruction and ragdolls (client-side aesthetics here)
  • the server does not use collapse mode, this is client-side aesthetics only
• client sort — client-side sorting of servers and lists