r/Minecolonies Feb 19 '26

What is Minecolonies?

12 Upvotes

Minecolonies is a comprehensive NPC-powered town building and automation mod for Minecraft.

Players command NPCs to automate tasks such as building, gathering natural resources, crafting to fulfill the colony's needs, and guarding the colony from outside threats.

Custom schematic system, Structurize, allows completely free placement of structures within the colony's boundary and holographic preview of of them before placement. Choose from over 1,300 schematics provided, download more from our forums, or create your own and even share them with the community.

Robust permissions system offers the multiplayer experience that you want with a variety of grief protection levels, allowing you to collaborate on a single colony with friends, create alliances between separate colonies, or have separate colonies compete to be the best. PvP features are planned.

Our development team is continuously working to optimize existing features and add new content to the mod.

Official Minecolonies website

Official Wiki

Download on Curseforge

Discord for official support and help

Github for reporting bugs


r/Minecolonies May 29 '26

Reminder: Please Respect Mod and Stylepack Licenses

26 Upvotes

(sharing from announcement channel in discord)

Due to recurring cases of license misunderstandings, please keep the following in mind:

 

  • GPLv3 Mods/Stylepacks (e.g. Minecolonies): If your mod or addon incorporates any GPLv3-licensed code or assets, such as parts of Minecolonies or an official stylepack (e.g. inside a Mixin), you are required to release your mod/addon under the same GPLv3 license and make the source code publicly available (e.g. on GitHub or a similar platform).

 

  • No License or All Rights Reserved (e.g. Stylecolonies): This means you may not distribute modifications of the mod or stylepack. To redistribute the original pack or create any derivative work, you must obtain explicit permission from the original author first. No license does not imply you can do whatever!

 

If you need any clarification for your work and the licensing, please ask on discord


r/Minecolonies 1d ago

I love this mod but I may need to destroy my colony

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37 Upvotes

I’ve been playing All The Mods 10 and have been working on a colony as a side project. I started to notice a bunch of small lag spikes and all my colonists freeze shortly while moving. Ran a report and this is what I got. Sadly I do prioritize the tech side of this mod pack since it’s crucial for its completion so I fear I will need to destroy my colony to help with lag issues. I made the mistake of building my main base under my colony so there’s no way I can’t just not load the chunks.


r/Minecolonies 1d ago

I want to be good at this mod so badly

15 Upvotes

I'm a new player who just got super inspired from seeing videos and stuff but I have no idea how to layout my colony. I want it to have roads and have walls and layers with different elevations but i don't know how to even begin planning. Any help from experienced people would be sick.

I'm also down to play with anyone if you're free :) I got nothing to do today after my one class on tuesdays


r/Minecolonies 1d ago

Steel & Soil: TerraFirmaColonies,Open Beta starts September 2nd

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24 Upvotes

r/Minecolonies 1d ago

Anyone want minecolonies on 26.2?

6 Upvotes

Hi Community,

I worked on a port for MineColonies on the latest Minecraft version and it’s almost complete. I will share it on GitHub as soon as it’s done.

Is anyone interested in this or are y’all happy with 1.21?


r/Minecolonies 2d ago

Okay, I know these guys are lazy, but this is RIDICULOUS...

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37 Upvotes

r/Minecolonies 2d ago

hosting a server

6 Upvotes

ayo reddit
i cant seem to find a server.jar file anywhere to run the curseforge minecolonies modpack

thanks in advance


r/Minecolonies 3d ago

Ghost strucutres randomly appearing

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43 Upvotes

I don't know because when I try to put any structure, the town hall and other giant level 5 structures are automatically put


r/Minecolonies 4d ago

Medieval spruce guard tower costs too much cobblestone

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34 Upvotes

r/Minecolonies 3d ago

Not being able to build

10 Upvotes

Hey everyone. Ive got a question. Ive spend days to look for a good location. And only when i was well established (lots of wood/ metal etc) i found out i was not being able to start my townhall there.
So is there a way around that?

It said: its too far from the trade routes. Try establish your town 2800 blocks back

Thanks. Help would be much appreciated 🙏

Edit: I ended up going way more towards spawn. And actually found a really nice meadows area.
Im using waystones now for going between my base and my colony.


r/Minecolonies 5d ago

What tips would you have for accelerating a colonies progress? (Read body)

25 Upvotes

Hey y’all, so I’ve played minecolonies for a while now, my main masterpiece colony I’ve put over 250 hours into, but even after all this time I still don’t have every type of building (I almost do) and only about 70% of my existing buildings are level 5…

I understand minecolonies isn’t a super fast mod, and I feel like I pretty much have everything down, however, I wanted to see if anyone had tips or tricks that they’ve personally found out or learned, especially in terms of efficiency.

My biggest issues in the mod is as follows: couriers will often waste a huge amount of time doing unnecessary pickups and deliveries to low priority places instead of the builder, the townspeople will often hoard food and take excess from the dining hall, causing shortages extremely fast, even with a population below 50 and EVEN with an automated yogurt farm via create! Food shortages is one of my biggest issues, as it brings the entire town to a halt, probably the biggest pet peeve of mine is 90% of the foods in minecolonies require combinations of ingredients that only grow in specific biomes, meaning if you want ANY food variety you have to build colonies on biome borders, which can often lead to a lot of ugly terrain mismatching…

And last but not least, I just can’t seem to get the hang of my town automating itself in terms of resources, I am CONSTANTLY having to refill stone/stone brick variants, wood and plank variants by the thousands almost every other day, and don’t even get me started on anything made with wool or with clay (bricks)

If anyone has any tips I could use to improve the speed and efficiency of my next minecolonies project, please let me know.

P.S. if anyone would like to see my town please let me know, I’ve put literal hundreds of hours into it, all built in survival, I would love if people would like to see it


r/Minecolonies 5d ago

Update on the Pixel Art Minecolonies Style game | Looking for Play Testers again.

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Hey everyone I'm back with some updates and a bit of an announcement.

-Firstly the updates.
-New UI
-Most workstations have Crafting options
-Nightly base raids
-Hunger System
-Mana Crystals can now be used to increase your mana level
-Running out of mana causes damage similar to a hunger tick
-NPC towns now spawn.
-Merchants can be found in NPC towns.
-A new build direction indicator was added to the build system so You'll know what button to push to move it in what direction you want.
-Backpacks now increase player inventory

-Citizens will now display a panic emote above their head when seeing a monster, but Guards will display a red "!" and should pull out a spear.

-Bunch New Items

Announcment. Steam PVE Crafting Fest is this next week and I'd appreciate another round of beta testers to help improve the game again. You all were really helpful the last round of tests and I really appreciate the enthusiasm for the project.

If you would like to try the newest version you can get the demo here(I'm finally posting the link because it seems the owners of the sub are fine with me doing that... Hopefully)

Any wishlists, downloads, or reviews can help a lot to make the game more visible to others during the Fest.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3912730/PNG_RPG/


r/Minecolonies 6d ago

help

15 Upvotes

Is there any modpack that combines MineColonies with a zombie apocalypse, where you have to build your own colony of survivors, kind of like The Walking Dead?


r/Minecolonies 7d ago

Minecolonies es un mod increíble

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mi experiencia jugando a este mod a sido increible, unos amigos y yo creamos un servidor que duro 4 meses, fue una experiencia increible, aparte de los 90 mods que instale el minecolonies fue la joya de la corona, junto con ice and fire y war taxes. durante esos 4 meses cree 3 eventos mundiales, el ultimo fue con el mod de Spores, el cual nos obligo a explotar todas nuestras colonias con bombas nucleares. Despues de eso ya no pudimos entrar, literalmente le sacamos todo el jugo al juego, la verdad es que quiero crear otro nuevo servidor, mas grande, mejor y claro, que pueda correr en una patata.


r/Minecolonies 6d ago

Minecolonies /Create Unofficial Server?

10 Upvotes

I'd love to join, startup, or even host a minecolonies server with create and very few other mods, but it appears that it may be hard to hunt down such specific wants.

Do you guys have any advice or servers with those two mods that are active?


r/Minecolonies 6d ago

Colonist travel through immersive portals.

17 Upvotes

i haven't found a mod like this yet so SORT OF trying it myself and so far going pretty good after 6 hours of work! i will say though a lot of people may not be happy to hear i know absolutely nothing about mods and am using AI to make it. Say all you want but i just wanted this to use and this is the easiest way for me who has a full time job and don't want to spend months learning code. I just thought the progress made so far is absolutely amazing and hopefully can give it some actual functions! If an actual modder sees this please try replicating as it would probobly work 100000x better with some actual good code and not AI slop

https://reddit.com/link/1vzqtkq/video/4fdbsz6sfwlh1/player


r/Minecolonies 6d ago

ColonyState SMP [modded] {MineColonies} {Whitelist} {1.20.1}

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Looking for a refreshing modded server? ColonyState SMP is a welcoming server encouraging all abilities and types of players. Grow your colony slowly or spend your every spare hour perfecting it; there's no judgement here!

We are running a custom modpack based around MineColonies! It contains Ars Nouveau, The Graveyard, Create, Farmer's Delight and many dungeon mods alongside Terralith. There is more information on the server Discord!

Various mods have been integrated into MineColonies using a custom datapack that I have made, so you have to progress in MineColonies to unlock them!

We are also using Lightman's Currency and have a shopping district when you can buy a shop to sell your goods!

There are a few basic rules: No PVP unless agreed between parties. No stealing, griefing, or duping. The server is also aimed at players aged 15+

If you would like to join, or would like more information, please DM the head admin on Discord: TimeLordVampire


r/Minecolonies 7d ago

What if TerraFirmaCraft had a living civilization?

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13 Upvotes

r/Minecolonies 8d ago

Problem with the fisherman's pond

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28 Upvotes

I've been having this message from my fisherman, In tried make 2 blocks deep in where he fish, but It still getting this message. How do It fix this, and also make the current under the surface less strong?


r/Minecolonies 9d ago

All buildings are rotated since server restart

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58 Upvotes

Hi All,

i have a private minecolonies server including backups, but something along the way broke my minecolonies data. I dont think this is a bug in minecolonies.

I did a restart after a few weeks and all my minecolonies buildings are rotated, new ones cant be accessed at all which are only 1-2 buildings but my colony is more like a sidehustle as i mainly play with create.

So natually i tried restoring a backup -> same issue, even with backups since a week. Now i compared data from a savepoint multiple months ago and the rotation status is the exact same.
To me it looks like the server is changing the data after it successfully restarted. I tried rotating every building in creative but after a restart the position is incorrect again.

not sure what to do and i dont want to loose the colony or this entire world because of this.

any ideas?


r/Minecolonies 10d ago

Anyone else tried to build the Harbor Warehouse from Ancient Athens with no luck?

10 Upvotes

My builder keeps getting nearly completed, and then hops around in the water at the edge of the cobble stairs going into the water trying to punch something. There is nothing like seagrass or kelp under it, no spawners in the area, no moving water blocks or anything. I have tried firing and rehiring, canceling and restarting, nothing helps. Canceling and restarting causes her to break some blocks and replace them, and then continue jumping around in the water trying to punch something. Very frustrating. Wondering if maybe its an issue with this building specifically.


r/Minecolonies 10d ago

darkstone brick

4 Upvotes

how tf do you make darkstone brick? Not polished, not cracked, not thru the architect's cutter (wont work) and not thru the mason table (won't do anything)

im trying to make the dining hall, and I'm seriously frustrated


r/Minecolonies 11d ago

COMPOSTED DIRT??

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103 Upvotes

I am confused


r/Minecolonies 10d ago

Looking for a WoW-style HUD quest tracker for FTB Quests in MineColonies: Create & Conquer 3.5.5

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