Modern World Creation in FTB Skies 2

Modern World Creation is a quality-of-life mod that gives the Create World screen a makeover. It replaces Vanilla's Create World screen with a more modern looking one, so the first screen you see when starting a new world feels fresher.^[1]

This pack includes version 2.0.1, the NeoForge build for Minecraft 1.21.1.^[2]

What you get

• Smooth hover animations on the game mode buttons.^[1]
• Full keyboard control with the arrow keys and Tab, which makes the screen more accessible.^[1]
• A few visual settings you can tweak: the small info icon in the top-right corner of the game mode buttons, the button border thickness, and the button border color.^[1]

Who it's for

It's for anyone who wants a cleaner, easier-to-navigate world creation screen, especially if you like moving through menus with the keyboard. It adds no items, blocks or machines, so it doesn't change how you play once your world is loaded.^[1]

Customizing it

The settings live in the file config/modernworldcreation/config.txt. The keys are show_gamemode_info (set it to false to hide the info icon), button_border_thickness and button_border_hex_color. You need to restart the game after changing the config.^[1]

Unverified The sources don't show whether this pack changes any of the mod's config defaults, so check your own config file for the actual values.

Unverified The sources show no quests for this mod and no place for it on the ATM Star path, so it doesn't appear to be part of the pack's progression.

Modern World Creation is a visual mod. It replaces Vanilla's Create World screen with a more modern looking one, so the first place you meet it is when you set up a new world, before you play at all.^[1]

What you'll see on the Create World screen

• The game mode buttons have smooth hover animations.^[1]
• You can control the whole screen with the arrow keys and the Tab key, which makes it easier to use without a mouse.^[1]
• There is a little info element in the top-right corner of the game mode buttons.^[1]

That is all you need to know to get started. Pick your game mode, set up your world as usual, and you're on your way.^[1]

This mod doesn't add machines, multiblocks, power, fluids or item automation, so there are no processing systems to learn. The only thing it does is replace Vanilla's Create World screen with a more modern-looking one.^[1]

What the mod changes

• The game mode buttons on the Create World screen get smooth hover animations.^[1]
• The screen can be controlled fully with the arrow keys and the tab key, which is meant to make it as accessible as possible.^[1]

Visual settings

The mod lets you customize a few visual aspects of the Create World screen. Its project page says the settings live in a file at config/modernworldcreation/config.txt, and that you need to restart the game after changing anything in it.^[1]

• Setting show_gamemode_info to false hides the little info icon in the top-right corner of the game mode buttons.^[1]
• The button_border_thickness value changes how thick the game mode button borders are.^[1]
• The button_border_hex_color value changes the border color of the game mode buttons. Set it to any HEX color you like.^[1]

Unverified No config file for this mod was found in the pack, so the default values and whether the file is generated on first launch are unconfirmed. The settings above come from the mod's project page, not from the pack's files.

FTB Skies 2 1.22.0 ships Modern World Creation 2.0.1, the NeoForge build for Minecraft 1.21.1. The mod has been in the pack since FTB Skies 2 1.0.1 or earlier, so it has been there from the start of the releases I can see.^[2]

Unverified The itemised changes between Modern World Creation versions could not be confirmed, because the mod changelog text was not available when this section was written. No pack changelog entries for this mod were available either, so I can't tell you whether the pack changed anything about it between releases.