TK2 → TK3: what changed?

Beta 1.0 · Beyond the Forge · 8 November 2026

Towns & Kingdoms 3 moves from Minecraft 1.20.1 / Forge to Minecraft 1.21.1 / NeoForge, with Java 21. Create remains at the heart of the pack, alongside a new industrial route, character progression, more integrated adventures and a broader selection of farming and building mods.

This compares TK2 3.05 with TK3 Beta 1.0. The Beta 1.0 pack files define the complete current mod selection. Each category separates additions, removals and replacements. Mods listed as continuing were already part of TK2.

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RPG, character progression and loot

Added

• TnK Progression — character levels, activity progression, twenty origins with two perks each, titles and mob scaling.
• Pufferfish's Skills and Pufferfish's Attributes — the framework behind the rebuilt skill tree and its bonuses. The current tree has 588 nodes, with a 175-point budget for choosing a build.
• Unidentified Loot — equipment identification, rarity, discoveries and salvaging, including a Create-powered Mechanical Identifier.
• Iron's Gems 'n Jewelry and Reliquified Artifacts — more equipment and accessory interactions.

Replaced

Removed: Apothic Curios.

Continuing: Apotheosis, Artifacts and Relics. The RPG overhaul builds on these existing equipment systems.

Combat and equipment

Added

• Celestisynth — another weapon family for the equipment selection.
• Epic Fight Compat Suite, Epic Fight Curios Compat and Epic Fight X Relics + Artifacts + Curios.
• Iron's Spells X Epic Fight — connects spellcasting and action combat.
• Punchy!, Punchy! Moves and Combat Punchy — first-person and movement animations with automatic Epic Fight handoffs.
• Punchy! x Iron's Spells First-Person Animation Fix — a dedicated compatibility addon.

Removed: Samurai Dynasty, Immersive Armors, ParCool and its Epic Fight compatibility addons.

Continuing: Epic Fight, Weapons of Miracles, Simply Swords, Knight Quest and Knaves' Needs. The beta supplies additional item artwork through its pack resources.

World generation, biomes and wildlife

Added

• Wildshape — the new terrain direction for TK3.
• Streams Reflowing and Flow Control — flowing rivers and tools for working with them.
• Nature's Spirit and Autumnity — additional environments, trees and building materials.
• Let's Do WilderNature, Hybrid Aquatic and Modern Apple Cows — expand the wildlife selection.
• Leaves Be Gone — faster cleanup of unsupported leaves after tree harvesting.

Replaced

Removed: Oh The Biomes We've Gone, Oh The Trees You'll Grow, Project Vibrant Journeys, Ecospherical Expansion, Dense Ores Abundant, Enhanced Celestials and Nyf's Spiders.

Continuing: Biomes O' Plenty, Regions Unexplored and Upgrade Aquatic. Alex's Mobs and Alex's Caves also continue through their replacement ports.

Dimensions

Added: Deep Aether, Aether Villages, Amplified Nether and Jaden's Nether Expansion.

Replaced

Removed: Ad Astra and its space progression, Aether Redux, Aether Lost Content and Twilight Tweaks.

Continuing: The Aether, Twilight Forest and Deeper and Darker, alongside the expanded Nether and End. Deep Aether expands an existing destination; the Aether itself is carried over from TK2.

Access changed: Dimension Access Manager and TK2's blanket factory-stage dimension locks are removed. Exploration dimensions and the Wither remain outside mandatory factory progression. End Remastered and Twilight Forest retain their own access and progression rules.

Bosses, dungeons and structures

Added

• Archaion: Echoes of the Fallen — the Ancient Keep, its trials and the Last of Deepslate boss.
• Legendary Monsters and Bosses'Rise — additional encounters.
• Ancient Remnants: Monoliths — discoverable monuments and ancient powers.
• Integrated Cataclysm, Integrated Mowzie's Mobs and Integrated Seven Seas — more integrated encounter and structure content.
• YUNG's Better Mineshafts — a new addition to the structure selection.
• Epic Structures: Dungeons, Epic Structures: Jungle Temples and Epic Structures: Witch Huts — reworked landmarks and dungeon exploration.
• Universal Boss Respawner — rematch cages for supported bosses.

Replaced

Removed: Ice and Fire, Dragonseeker, The Graveyard, Structory, Medieval Buildings, Sky Villages, Explorations, YUNG's Bridges and Alex's Caves: Stuff & Torpedoes.

Continuing: Cataclysm, Mowzie's Mobs, Integrated Dungeons and Structures, Integrated Stronghold and Integrated Villages. YUNG's Desert Temples, Nether Fortresses, Ocean Monuments and End Island continue through their ports.

Cataclysm and Mowzie's Mobs were already in TK2; their Integrated addons are the additions here.

Magic and spellcasting

Added

• Just Another Witchery Remake — a separate witchcraft path.
• Ars Elemental, Ars Creo and Create: Wizardry — expand Ars Nouveau and its connections with machinery.
• Resonant Arcana, Cataclysm: Spellbooks and Legendary Spellbooks — expand the spell selection.
• Reliquified Iron's Spells and Apotheosis x Iron's Spellbooks Compat — connect spellcasting to accessories and equipment.

Replaced

Removed: Botania, MythicBotany, Malum, Reliquary Reincarnations and T.O Tweaks.

Continuing: Ars Nouveau and Iron's Spells 'n Spellbooks. Both already existed in TK2 and receive a larger integration role in TK3.

Enchanting and equipment upgrades

Added: Tons Of Enchants, Apothic Enchanting, Apothic Spawners and Apothic Compats.

Apothic Enchanting and Apothic Spawners are part of Apotheosis's newer modular setup. Their appearance as separate mods does not mean enchanting and spawner upgrades are entirely new to the pack.

Removed: Ensorcellation and Neko's Enchanted Books.

Continuing: Apotheosis, Apothic Attributes and Create: Enchantment Industry. Apotheosis station recipes now fit into the pack's manufacturing tiers.

Create, industry and power

Added

• Immersive Engineering — heavy industry, electrical wiring, the Crusher, Arc Furnace and Excavator.
• Create Nuclear — nuclear engineering within the Create selection.
• Create: Applied Kinetics — more connections between Create and AE2.
• Create: Rubberworks — the sap and rubber route used by early manufacturing.
• Create: Aquatic Ambitions, Create: Dragons Plus and Create Slice & Dice.
• Alchemical Lasers — lens-based processing used throughout the new production route.

Replaced

Removed

• Thermal Foundation, Thermal Expansion, Thermal Dynamics, Thermal Innovation and Thermal Cultivation.
• Create: The Factory Must Grow, Create: Dreams & Desires and Create: Stuff & Additions.
• Create: Oppenheimered, Create: Confectionery, Create: Bitterballen and Petrol's Parts.

Continuing: Create, Create: Crafts & Additions, Create Diesel Generators, Create: Enchantment Industry, Create: Central Kitchen and Create Deco. Diesel Generators was already present in TK2 and remains the selected fuel-production mod.

Storage, transport and travel

Added

• ExtendedAE — expands the existing AE2 network and storage options.
• Pretty Pipes — pipe-based item routing alongside the Create and AE2 logistics options.
• Create Aeronautics and Create: Hypertubes — new transport projects.
• Create Aeronautics: FTB Chunks — claim integration for Aeronautics.
• Angel Ring — a crafted flight option later in progression.
• Sophisticated Backpacks Create Integration, Sophisticated Storage Create Integration and Yukami's Sophisticated Backpack Tab.
• Waystones / FTB Chunks Compatibility and Waystones: Sable — support the current travel and moving-build setup.

Replaced

Removed: Create: Steam 'n' Rails, JourneyMap, JourneyMap Integration, Paragliders, Elytra Slot, Beyond Mines: Falling, Carry On, Corpse, Trash Cans and Inventory Sorter.

Continuing: Applied Energistics 2, Sophisticated Storage, Sophisticated Backpacks, Waystones and FTB Chunks. Create trains remain part of Create; the Steam 'n' Rails addon is the removal.

Questing, trading and multiplayer

Added

• TnK Workshop — the Quest Projector, construction tools, cages, mirrors and Trading Hub.
• Create: Trading Floor and wd's Selling Bin — new trading and selling options.
• Certain Questing Additions, ExtraQuests and Quests Kill Task Tweaks — support the rebuilt questbook.

Removed: Create: Numismatics, Create: Missions, QuestsAdditions, Starter Kit and Simple Voice Chat.

Continuing: FTB Quests, FTB Teams, FTB Ranks, FTB Essentials, FTB Chunks, Lootr and PVP Flagging.

Also replaced: Simple Discord RPC's presence role moves into TnK Workshop.

The questbook is being rebuilt around Town Square, Forging Ahead, Crafts & Curiosities, Realms & Relics and Seasonal Tales. Ten production chapters sit alongside Tutorial, Progression, Market, Useful Items, Bulletin Board, Exploration, Bosses, The Eyes and mod-specific branches. The target is at least 1,500 useful quests; the beta's book remains in progress.

The Trading Hub is a directory for player shops and other destinations, with search, icons and Waystones travel. Players conduct trades at the destinations they visit.

Building, decoration and settlements

Added

• Arts & Crafts, Block Pack, Biomes O' Plenty: Chipped and Rechiseled: Chipped.
• Let's Do Furniture, Let's Do Lili's Pottery, Let's Do Hearth & Timber, Let's Do Camping and Let's Do Alpine Whispers.
• Construction Sticks — construction tools taking over the previous Construction Wand role.
• TnK Workshop's Measuring Pencil, Builder's Satchel, Builder's Brush and Quest Projector add practical tools for player-built towns.

Removed

• MineColonies, TownTalk, StyleColonies, the Byzantine style pack, Domum Ornamentum, Structurize and Multi-Piston — the previous colony-management selection.
• Another Furniture, Beautify, Dawn of Time, Handcrafted and Refurbished Furniture.
• Create: Bells & Whistles and Create: Interiors.
• Construction Wand, Visual Workbench and Immersive Melodies.

Continuing: Chipped, Rechiseled, Architect's Palette, Supplementaries, Amendments, Quark, Create Deco, Create: Copycats+, Diagonal Fences, Torchmaster and Etched. Town building now centres on player-built settlements, shared infrastructure and shops.

Farming, food and fishing

Added

• Croptopia and Farmer's Delight Croptopia.
• Corn Delight, Veggies Delight, Fruits Delight, Nature's Delight and Hybrid Delights.
• Let's Do Farm & Charm and Let's Do Smoker.
• Starcatcher, Hybrid Aquatic and their compatibility addon — the new fishing and aquatic selection.
• Spice of Life: Carrot Edition — food-variety progression.

Replaced

Removed: Ender Crop, Harvest With Ease, Let's Do Meadow, Let's Do Candlelight and Let's Do NetherVinery.

Continuing: Farmer's Delight, Create: Central Kitchen, Let's Do Vinery, Let's Do HerbalBrews, Let's Do BloomingNature and Let's Do Beachparty.

Interface, visuals and recipe discovery

Added: BetterF3, Better Advanced Tooltips, Fancy Tab Sections, Obscure Tooltips, Simply Tooltips, Particular Reforged, Subtle Effects, Vanilla Backport, Polytone and GuideME.

Camera and atmosphere additions: Shoulder Surfing Reloaded, Do a Barrel Roll, Reach Behind, Biome Music and Windy: Configurable.

Jade integrations added: Jade / Farmer's Delight Compatibility, Jade Sable Compat and Sophisticated Backpacks / Jade Compatibility.

Replaced: Blur → Blur+; Traveler's Titles → its NeoForge port.

Removed: Better Advancements, Client Tweaks, Durability Tooltip, Legendary Tooltips, More Overlays Updated, Falling Leaves, Visuality Reforged, Enhanced Block Entities, Continuity, Forge CIT, Entity Model Features, Entity Texture Features, Immersive UI, Catalogue, Server Tab Info and Remove Chat Bracket.

Recipe browsing changes: JEI stays, with named search groups, clearer item information and 97 custom Ponder lessons. Just Enough Resources, Nature's Compass, Polymorph and Polymorphic Energistics are removed.

Continuing: Jade, Jade Addons, Colorful Hearts, Overloaded Armor Bar, Raw's Visual Keybinder, Medieval Music and Ponder for KubeJS. The beta also bundles its own interface, item and quest artwork through the pack resources.

Performance and compatibility

Replaced

Added: AllTheLeaks, Concurrent Chunk Management Engine, Create: Catalyst, Entity Culling, ImmediatelyFast, Lithium, MoreCulling, ScalableLux, GPUBooster Reforged, Ixeris, YAMO and No Structure Overlap.

Removed: Adaptive Performance Tweaks, AI Improvements, Achievements Optimizer, Embeddium++, CullLessLeaves Reforged, Farsight, FastWorkbench, Get It Together Drops, Let Me Despawn, Mobtimizations, No See No Tick, Saturn, Smooth Chunk Save, Structure Essentials, FTB Quests Optimizer, Does It Tick, DEUF, Detected setBlock Be Gone and SerializationIsBad.

Continuing: ModernFix, FerriteCore, Dynamic FPS, Connectivity, Observable and spark.

The change to NeoForge also replaces several supporting libraries. Forgified Fabric API remains in Beta 1.0; Sinytra Connector is removed. The complete project comparison includes the dependency and support-tool changes.

The main gameplay reworks

The mod changes support a new factory-to-adventure loop:

Detailed recipes and controls belong in the progression guide, character guide and Workshop guide.

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Replacement ports keep their gameplay families in the pack: Alex's Caves, Alex's Mobs, BetterEnd, BetterNether, Loot Journal, Traveler's Titles and the continuing YUNG's structures remain through their newer projects.