Lands of Icaria is a Minecraft mod with focus on greek mythology
Lands of Icaria introduces a brand new layered dimension with a wide variety of flora and fauna to explore, as well as plenty of new mechanics.
Discover all the secrets of this unique dimension, learn to brew magic spells, and loot abandoned villages packed with dangers!
Icaria is home to the Revenants, the remaining souls of an ancient civilisation that once roamed there and even explored outside of it, even making it as far as the Nether.
It is developed and published by Axanthic Game Studios, the follow-up team to the classic Minecraft modding team known as Team Melanistic from 2011 to 2015.
This project is still very much work in progress and we hope to expand our team to help turn this ambitious vision into reality. If you are interested in contributing to the project, get in contact with us via our Discord.
A short summary of the features in this mod
- a new realm to survive in, explore, and conquer
- 30+ new mobs to admire, farm or fight, all using unique high quality models
- two new bosses to fight, the Captain Revenant and the Arachne
- a number of additional mini-bosses to defeat, the Scorpion, the Solifugae, and the Vinegaroon
- villages with new unique road systems, loot, and monsters
- a unique concoction brewing system, sequences of herbs brew different concoctions with different effects, find the scrolls for those recipes in village loot
- four new crops for your farming needs, and fertilizer to speed up the growth of plants
- over 400 new blocks to build with
- 170+ new items, including various sets of armor and tools as well as many new foods, gems, ingots, nuggets, and mob drops
- seven new tree types with unique shapes, all with a full set of planks, stairs, slabs, fences, gates, workbenches, doors, trapdoors, ladders, signs and more
- new special gameplay mechanics as well as nice visual features like glow-in-the-dark mobs, special gems and mobs with light effects and more
- a depth based mining progression system, the deeper you go, the harder the stone types you encounter, each new stone type requires a new higher tier of tools to mine
- most mobs have a low chance to drop their skulls for your private hunter collection
We recommend to use Apple Skin and Just Enough Items together with this mod, to check how much hunger food items fill up and to see crafting recipes respectively!
How to enter Icaria
To enter Icaria, one must first make their way into the Nether. There, the player needs to find a Revenant Pyromancer to obtain it's drop, a Greek Fire Grenade!
Next, the player must obtain roughly enough Quartz items to craft a total of 6 Quartz Pillars, 2 Quartz Pillar Heads and 6 Quartz Slabs (roughly one stack of Quartz needed).
To construct the portal, these must then be placed in the following order and lit with a Greek Fire Grenade thrown into the frame.
The portal frame does not require any specific bottom material, the bottom can even be left open just like the top center!
As you then pass through the portal, you will have finally made your way to Icaria!
Mining
The mining progression of the mod is depth based, and vanilla tools aren’t very good in Icaria. While you can take your Diamond Pickaxe into the dimension to get started, it won’t help you get through the stronger stone types. From the top down, you will encounter Yellowstone, Silkstone, Sunstone, Voidshale, and Baetyl. Each stone type has its own subset of ores that can be found within. Yellowstone requires a Chert Pickaxe to mine, Silkstone requires a Chalkos Pickaxe, Sunstone requires an Orichalcum Pickaxe, Voidshale requires a Vanadiumsteel Pickaxe, and Baetyl requires a Sideros Pickaxe.
Also found on the underside of each layer are four types of crystals, with different crystals showing up the further down you go.
Workstations
Icaria adds a small number of new workstations to the game. The Kettle is used to make concoctions. A Kiln is used to make glass and loam products. The Forge serves as a workstation to smelt ores in and produce alloys. The Grinder turns many materials into their powder form and has some other uses as well.
Recipes for the Kettle can sometimes be found in the form of scrolls by breaking Loot Vases in ruins and villages.
Looting
In the dimension, the player can find wilderness ruins as well as either eroded or ruined villages. Ruined villages have been taken over by Arachnes. They offer little loot but are a lot safer to traverse than eroded villages, having only very few spawners in them. Eroded villages have a lot more loot, but also host a local Revenant population. Ruined villages always spawn with an Arachne guarding it, whereas eroded villages always spawn with a Captain Revenant. As such, both types of villages function as a type of disjointed dungeon.
Farming
There are three mobs, four crops and seven tree types available for players to farm. The farmable mobs are the Aeternae, the Catoblepas, and the Sow. Aeternae and Catoblepas eat Spelt, while Sows prefer Onions. The available crops are Onions, Physalis, Spelt and Strawberries. The tree types are Cypress, Droughtroot, Fir, Laurel, Olive, Plane and Populus.
Farmland can be prepared using scythes made from dimension materials. In order to increase your Farmland efficiency, turn it into Fertilized Farmland using Calcite Powder. This will double the growth speed of any crops growing on it. You can also plant vanilla crops and crops from other mods on Icarian Farmland.
Combat
Lands of Icaria embraces combat and offers a whole set of weapons and spells to allow players as many combat styles as possible. Bidents can be thrown, Daggers have a faster attack speed but lower range than Swords, and spells like the Magic Missile can deal magic damage over long distances. There are five sets of armor to craft with different protection levels, and in the future, special unique artifact armor pieces will be added as well alongside unique weapons, both directly inspired by ancient greek and egyptian mythology.
Greek Fire Grenades can also be crafted and used as ranged weapons against groups of enemies, setting the ground on fire. The throwing mechanic for them works the same as for Bidents, it draws back as long as it is being held and when the key is released, is launched accordingly.
Biomes
Icaria currently consists of four biomes. A forest biome, scrublands, steppes and a dry desert. All of which have their own sets of trees and flowers only growing there. Different biomes also have different special decorations, like stone boulders in the scrublands and rock spikes in the desert.
Mobs
The mobs in Lands of Icaria can be split into five categories
- Fantastical mobs, mostly serving for ambience
- Arachnids and Insectoids
- Forest Hags, they really don’t like when you mess with trees
- Animals and Predators
- Revenants, remains of the once proud civilization of Icaria
