Auren — a gold roundel of a wolf howling at a rising sun over an island river

Hope · Kinship · Together we rise

Nineteen winters deep, the island still holds. Kingdom, workshop and college pull three different ways at the same failing harvest. Auren is a small private world for people who like being asked what they'd trade.

Modrinth pack · version 0.2.0

AUREN-0.2.0.mrpack

  • MC 1.20.1
  • Forge 47.4.10
  • Java 17
  • Heap 8 GB
  • Mods 104
  • Players 4–8
Download the pack

SHA-1  0d5922f282debda21369e2d66132b8b252c13a3c

From link to in-game

  1. Get the Modrinth App or Prism Launcher

    The vanilla launcher will not open a .mrpack.

  2. Open the .mrpack

    The launcher reads it and builds the instance for you — mods, configs and all.

  3. Set memory to 8192 MB

    And Java 17, not 21. Forge 1.20.1 will not start on 21.

  4. Add the server

    minecraft.auren-rp.xyz

The premise

The nineteenth winter is the one that doesn't end. Not a cold snap — a slope. Every winter sits a little lower than the last, and every spring gives back a little less than it took.

The granaries still open. The bells still ring. Nobody has said the word failure out loud, and that restraint is starting to cost more than the frost does. You come ashore with a charter, a season's grace, and no particular loyalty yet.

Three answers, none of them free

The Crown

Curia, Horreum, the Steward's rotation.

Order, walls, a shared capital, and citizens who will starve politely if you plan badly.

MineColonies · Tinkers' Construct · Epic Knights

The Cogwright Concern

Ledger, gauge, gear.

If the land won't give more, take the labour out of it. Automate the harvest, price the surplus, sell the difference.

The full Create stack · Numismatics

The Verdant College

Ask the ground what it wants.

Slower, stranger, and the only faction that treats the winter as a question rather than a logistics problem.

Ars Nouveau

❖Three endings❖

Furnace

Burn through it.

Wheel

Out-produce it.

North

Go and find out why.

They are not flavour text on the same finish line — they resolve the crisis differently, down at the config layer, and the world is a different place afterwards.

Before you launch
  • 8 GB is the number. More is not better here; less will thrash.
  • Shaders are optional and off by default.
  • The winter is real. Cold-season farming is a solved problem in three different ways, and you have to pick one.