Civilization's Beginnings

Civilization's Beginnings is a datapack designed to transform the survival experience in Minecraft, slowing down progress and encouraging cooperation among players. Instead of facilitating individual advancement, this pack presents an environment where planning, teamwork, patience, and resilience are key.

Main features:

- 🧾 Slow pace: Recipes only appear in your book after you've crafted them manually. - 🌱 Slow pace: Random tick speed reduced to one-third of the vanilla rate, making plant growth noticeably slower. - 🌙 Slow pace: Instead of instantly skipping the night, they speed it up. - 😠 Slow pace: Even after killing you, they won't forget. - 💧 Slow pace: Water no longer duplicates itself from nearby sources. - ❄️ Slow pace: Snow layers can stack above full blocks, changing terrain subtly over time. - 🪦 Slow pace: Each death respawns you somewhere new, far from familiarity. - 🔥 Slow pace: Food and ores take 4 to 6 times longer, depending on the method. - 🏘️ Slow pace: Villages are smaller, rarer, and often plagued. Only 25% remain unzombified. - 🧱 Slow pace: Crafting tables now require flint and leather, furnaces bricks, and beds feathers and leather. - ⚒️ Slow pace: Added flint, copper, bronze, brass and steel tools and weapons. - 🌾 Slow pace: Crops now drop from specific plants. - 🥕 Slow pace: Each crop has a 10% chance of backfiring into a poisonous version. - 🌽 Slow pace: Farming-related blocks won't drop their full version unless they are broken with a hoe or intended tool. - 🪓 Slow pace: Crafting tools nor requires a handle (leather) and string. Metalic tools also require waxing (honeycomb, resin clumbs, slime or zinc ingots) - 🎲 Slow pace: Certain items will only drop if mined with the right tool (Eg. Logs) - 🍗 Slow pace: Make sure to eat nutrients, proteins and carbohydrates if you don't want to get debuffed or even die. But don't overdo it! - ⛏️ Slow pace: Added tin, sulfur and zinc ores - 🐢 Slow pace: Designed to play calmly and strategically.

This datapack is in alpha phase and will be updated with new mechanics that reinforce the theme of emerging civilization and collaboration.