Welcome To The Fossils Mod!
The Fossils Mod is a museum-building mod that adds over 500 highly detailed fossils that vary in size from individual fossil slabs to large skeletons that require many pieces to make. Currently, we have fossils representing every time period from the Ediacaran to the present, representing 580 million years of life's history in Minecraft. From the small Protozoea to the famous Tyrannosaurus, we are excited to see your museums and what you decide to fill it with!
Getting Started
In order to get started, get an iron pickaxe and mine the various fossil ores that will generate throughout the overworld, each corresponding to a different time period. Once you get a fossil, you can place it down in your world. Depending on color will determine how many pieces of that fossil you will need to complete it— Either 5, 10, 15, or 20 pieces. If you want to rotate a fossil, you can right click with an empty hand to turn it clockwise, or shift left click to turn it counter-clockwise. If you want to support your skeletons, you can also left click a skeleton with iron bars to generate supports.
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- Entity Culling
(Performance enhancements when placing many skeletons.) - Prehistoric Fauna
(Friend of our mod, useful for making time-accurate dioramas.) - Better Advancements
(Useful for navigating the large advancement trees of our mod.)
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There are 14 ores that generate throughout the world, the deeper you go, the older in time the ores will be
some of the 1 piece fossil "slabs" you can find in-game!
All of the fossils can be waterlogged!
You get an advancement every time you complete a skeletal. The advancements show the translation of each animal.
A collection of the mods stegosaurs
One example of what you can do with the fossils.
One Example of what you can do with the Fossils!
A lovely way to display fossils is with a museum
A selection of our Jurassic and Early Cretaceous pterosaurs on a rocky outcrop in the sea
a resting Olorotitan looking out the coast
the Pequod had an unfortunate encounter with a Livyatan
A Zarafasaura couple breaching for air along a rocky coast
Find the intruder; one's not like the others
Every fossil and slab has a unique texture to help tell apart your finds at a glance!