TheBlockAcademy

A Creative Building Modpack for Multiplayer assembled for a new 2026+ community: The Block Academy

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TBA is a curated Fabric 1.21.1 modpack designed for creative multiplayer servers. Whether you're building elaborate structures, running a community server, or just want a polished vanilla+ experience with 189 carefully selected mods.

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🏆 Recognition System (Core Curriculum)

A unique recognition system that celebrates craft, teaching, and community — not grinding.

* /submit "Build Name" — Submit builds for AI-assisted review by slashAI (Claude Sonnet 4.5) * /titles — Browse and equip earned titles that display in chat * /nominate — Recognize peers for mentoring, teaching, and collaboration * /welcome — Multi-page onboarding for new players (auto-shows on first join, press H to reopen) * Custom TBA splash screen during game loading * HUD auto-hides during screenshot capture for clean submissions * Titles sync with Discord and display on the Honor Roll page

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📹 StreamCraft Live — Video Streaming in Minecraft

Real-time video communication powered by LiveKit WebRTC:

* Webcam streaming — See teammates face-to-face with fullbright billboards (visible even at night) * Screen sharing — Project onto StreamCraft Blocks with configurable size, distance, and horizontal offset * StreamCraft Blocks — Disguise as 11 different vanilla blocks (flower pot, planks, stone, bookshelves, and more) * Dynamic illumination — Active streams emit light level 12, lighting up the area around them * "Who can see me?" — Live viewer list in your HUD while streaming * Privacy-first — "How It Works" info modal with consent gate on first use * Proximity awareness — Server tracks who's nearby so you only stream to relevant players * 1080p capture — High-quality video at 8 Mbps bitrate

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🎬 Cinematics & Recording

* ReplayMod — Timeline-based recording with keyframed cameras and video export * Better Third Person — 360° orbit camera with independent rotation * Stable Cam — Smooth cinematic camera mode * Camera Utils — Freecam and camera controls * First-person Model — See your own body in first person * Not Enough Animations — Player animations for eating, map holding, and more * AutoHUD — Auto-hiding HUD for clean recordings * Camera Overhaul — Tilting and swaying camera effects

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🎨 Building & Decoration

Over 11,000 decorative block variants from Chipped, plus furniture and architectural pieces from:

* Macaw's Complete Suite — Doors, Windows, Bridges, Roofs, Fences, Trapdoors, Furniture, Lights, Paths & Pavings, Paintings, Holidays * Handcrafted — 250+ fantasy/medieval furniture pieces * Adorn — Chairs, sofas, tables, shelves, kitchen blocks * Supplementaries + Amendments — Jars, signs, pulleys, cages, wall lanterns, and 100+ utility items * Excessive Building — 100+ vanilla-style blocks with hammer/wrench tools * ReFramed — Copy any block's appearance onto stairs, slabs, fences * Enchanted Vertical Slabs — Place slabs vertically with enchantment support * Diagonal Fences + Diagonal Windows + Diagonal Walls — Full diagonal building support * Clutter, Little Joys, WindChime — Small ambient details for polished builds * Fetzi's Asian Decoration — Asian-themed decor blocks * Beautify, Dusty Decorations, Sooty Chimneys — Weathered and aged aesthetics * VerdantVibes — Decorative plants and vegetation * Continuity — Connected textures for glass panes, bookshelves, and more

Building Tools:

* Axiom — Modern all-in-one editor with real-time previews, terraforming, and sculpting * Litematica — Schematic display and building guides * Effortless Structure — Mirrors, arrays, and build modes * FallingTree — Chop the bottom log and the whole tree falls * Bridging Mod — Bedrock-style reach-around block placement * Easy Magic — Enchanting table QoL (no bookshelves needed to see enchants) * Trade Cycling — Cycle villager trades without breaking workstations

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🔊 Audio & Immersion

* Sound Physics Remastered — Realistic reverb and sound occlusion * AmbientSounds — Dynamic soundscapes based on biome, weather, and time * Presence Footsteps — Material-aware footstep sounds * Cool Rain — Material-specific rain sounds (wood, stone, metal) * Sounds — 170+ UI and interaction sounds * Visuality + Particle Rain + Falling Leaves — Enhanced ambient particles * Fabric Seasons — Four seasons with visual and gameplay changes * 3D Skin Layers — Renders skin layers with depth * Eating Animation — Visible eating and drinking actions

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⚡ Performance Optimized

Runs smoothly thanks to an enhanced performance stack:

* Sodium, Lithium, FerriteCore, ModernFix, Krypton — Core optimizations * C2ME — Multi-core chunk generation * ImmediatelyFast — Immediate mode rendering optimization * BadOptimizations — Micro-optimizations for various game systems * Entity Culling — Skip rendering off-screen entities * Enhanced Block Entities — Faster block entity rendering * Clumps — Merges XP orbs to reduce entity lag

Distant Horizons extends your view distance with LOD rendering — see terrain for miles without killing your FPS.

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🎮 Quality of Life

* REI — Recipe viewer and item browser * WTHIT — Block and entity tooltips * JourneyMap — Full-featured world map with waypoints * AppleSkin — Food and hunger visualization * ItemSwapper — Quick block palette switching * Carry On — Pick up and carry blocks, chests, and mobs * Sit — Right-click stairs and slabs to sit * InvMove — Move while inventory is open * Block Runner — Run faster on path blocks * Mouse Wheelie — Inventory scrolling, sorting, and refilling * Blur+ — GUI background blur effect * Smooth Swapping — Animated item movement in inventories * Status Effect Bars — Duration bars on status effect icons * Paginated Advancements — Better advancement screen with pagination * Stack to Nearby Chests — Terraria-style deposit items * Crash Assistant — Helpful GUI after game crashes * Leaf Me Alone — Ride through leaves on horses/boats * Leaves Be Gone — Quick leaf decay after tree chopping

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👥 Multiplayer Ready

* Proximity Voice — Simple Voice Chat with interaction support * Land Claims — Flan for protection * Live Web Map — BlueMap * Sleep Voting — Better Sleep * Discord Bridge — Fabricord + Discord RPC status * Lootr — Per-player loot in chests (no stealing!)

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🎁 Content & Farming

* Farmer's Delight + More Delight — Cooking and farming expansion * Let's Do Series — Bakery, Vinery, Brewery, Meadow, Beach Party, Farm & Charm * Storage Drawers — Compact item storage * Traveler's Backpack — Wearable backpacks with fluid storage * Joy of Painting — Paint custom pictures on canvases * Camerapture — Take in-game photos as decorations * WaterFrames — Display images and videos on screens * VinURL — Play audio from URLs on note blocks (YouTube, SoundCloud, direct links) * Immersive Paintings — Upload custom images as paintings * Genshin Instruments + Even More Instruments — Playable instruments with MIDI support * Friends and Foes — Mob vote mobs (Copper Golem, Mooblooms, and more) * Illager Invasion — New illager types and boss encounters * Do A Barrel Roll — Enhanced elytra flight control with roll mechanics * Naturally Trimmed + Trimmable Tools — Armor trims on mobs and tools

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🌈 Shaders Included

* BSL v10.0 (default) * Complementary Reimagined r5.6.1 * Photon v1.2a — Gameplay-focused with colored lighting * Solas Shader v3.1c — Fantasy stylized

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📋 Requirements

* Minecraft 1.21.1 (Java Edition) * Fabric Loader 0.18.3+ * 4GB RAM minimum, 6GB+ recommended

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