Prehistoric Nature

Prehistoric Nature

Mod

Prehistoric Nature is a scientifically-accurate mod bringing to life the entire history of planet earth: hundreds of prehistoric animals, plants and other life. We also offer a range of dimension mods to travel to the past periods (search them up).

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v.62.01

by Aecht_Rob on Mar 25, 2025
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Hotfixes for main v.62 - see main mod v.62.0 for release note

v.62.0

by Aecht_Rob on Mar 21, 2025
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Change log v.62

Branchiosaur now named Melanerpeton and spawns restricted as appropriate

Palaeopedia now gives lists of biomes and data of spawns in PN biomes

Palaeopedia lists now list everything in all dimensions, not just the first dimension they appear in

Kalligrammatids now stay around Bennettites plants/flowers

Big refactor of various phialable eggs (some old blocks/items may vanish, and some old phials may no longer work)

“Progonoblattina” is now ”Progonblattina Roachoid”

The four Roachoids now drop egg items only

All other insects lay either in water or in moss/wood

Registry names of Pneumodesmus and Eoarthropleura changed to become nbt variants of a new Myriapod class

New Archive Sorter multiblock machine (no power required)

Microscope now requires RF (if that option is switched on)

Microscope now can be used to manually assign a “period” to a fossil or DNA which doesn’t have one

Submarine is now able to be equipped with storage (shulker - or others if you add to config) and has extended functionality for collecting blocks and mobs using that: see the Palaeopedia for details

You can use the Palaeopedia from within the submarine.

Palaeopedia is now opened with the “P” key (not shift/rightclick).

Addition of a raft

Plants:

Porongodendron

Doyleales

Liverwort

Girvanella (though people will think it’s a static!)

Moved Stromatolites and Thrombolites to plants as they are cyanobacteria

Beltanelliformis

Statics:

Bone worms

Brachiospongia

Choiid

Palaeodiphasia

Crumillospongia

Pirania sponge - retexture (shrink)

Arkarua - remodel

Conomedusites - remodel

Charnia - tidyup

Charniodiscus - tidyup

Hapsidophyllas - retexture

Haootia - tidyup

Parviscopa - remodel

Primocandelabrum - remodel

Micromitra Brachiopod

Eukaryotic Mat

Huainan Mat

Otavia

Lantianella

Piyuania

Xianchuania

Eocyathispongia

Fractofusus

Vendoconularia

Fedomia

Vaveliksia (replaces the actual block of the old Tribrachidium)

Yarnemia

Calyptrina

Auroralumina

Obamus

Nilpenia

Finkoella

Helicolocellus

Kuibisia

Rangea

Ernietta

Palaeopascichnid

Frondophyllas

Palaeophragmodictya

Thuchomyces

Paracharnia

Hylaecullulus

Gigarimaneta

These plants have been made 16x and/or retextured in the main mod:

(I’d like look one day at doing 32x textures for these in a respack though)

Adoketophyton

Archaefructus

Cooksonia

Foozia

Pertica

Psilophyton

Zosterophyllum

Vintage Lab Texturepack:

Updated microscope to show RF port

Added models/textures for other lab stuff (finally)

Precambrian:

Archean Desolation

Tonian Sea

Ediacaran Stromatolite Pavement

Ediacaran Shallow Reef

Ediacaran Sparse Sea

Proterozoic Rift

Ordovician:

Amendment to Bog biome to make it somewhat more plausible

NB. Prototaxites no longer occurs in Ordovician

Triassic:

Cool Temperate Forest Crags are now craggier

A new biome “Triassic Seasonal Bayou” now threads its way through the Cool Temperate Forest and Moss Meadows

Deco Mod:

Benches are now sittable

Added Doyleales blocks

Mob Content:

Acheronauta

Acherontiscus

Acrocanthosaurus

Aetheretmon

Albalophosaurus

Albanerpeton

Alienum

Amphicentrum

Anatosuchus

Anchura

Anderella

Andiva

Anfesta

Anhanguera

Ankylosphenodon

Anthracoceras

Anthracosaurus

Apateon

Aquilops

Araripesuchus

Arcestes

Archaeoniscus

Archeria

Arratiaelops

Ausktribosphenos

Australiceras

Australichthys

Bannykus

Berthasaura

Brannerion

Caerorhachis

Calamopleurus

Camanchia

Carbotubulus

Carduispongia

Caririsuchus

Cephalonega

Cladocyclus

Coeruleodraco

Commentrya

Cooyoo

Cratoamia

Cretoxyrhina

Crumillospongia

Cyanorus

Daidal

Dastilbe

Deinonychus

Diademodon

Dimitobelus

Discoserra

Dracoraptor

Drepanosaurus

Dugaldia

Edentosuchus

Egertonodus

Eldeceeon

Enchodus

Eocaecilia

Eocarcharia

Eocursor

Eoherpeton

Eoporpita

Eucritta

Eurynotus

Ezkutuberezi

Falcarius

Geragnostus

Giraffatitan

Gobiconodon

Goldringia

Gueragama

Haliskia

Hallidaya

Hamulina

Haplolepis

Hemiaster

Hexanchus

Hispanamia

Hoyasotes

Hyphalosaurus

Hypophylloceras

Hypsilophodon

Ichnusa

Ichthyemidion

Ichthyotringa

Iemanja

Ikaria

Ikechaoamia

Ikechosaurus

Illinichthys

Iyuku

Jinyunpelta

Kalops

Kannemeyeria

Karakhtia

Keretsa

Khoratamia

Knoetschkesuchus

Koolasuchus

Koonwarria

Lanxangichthys

Lepidasterella

Lepidohyas

Leptocleidus

Lesothosaurus

Lethiscus

Liaoceratops

Litargosuchus

Lobodiscus

Luskhan

Machimosaurus

Maiaspondylus

Mawsonia

Mesomyzon

Microbrachis

Mieridduryn

Moutoniceras

Muttaburrasaurus

Mythunga

Naraoia bertiensis

Naraoia spinosa

Nematoptychius

Neoceratodus

Nicrosaurus

Nigerpeton

Nigersaurus

Ningxiaplatysomus

Notopala

Onchopristis

Onychoselache

Ovatoscutum

Pachyamia

Palaeocambarus

Pambdelurion

Paraclupea

Pentecopterus

Pholidogaster

Pietraroiasuchus

Platysuchus

Plexus

Pliodetes

Podolimirus

Prestosuchus

Priscomyzon

Protechirus

Protopsephurus

Pseudonaraoia

Psilichthys

Psittacosaurus

Psittacosaurus sibiricus

Psittacosaurus sinensis

Ptychodus

Qianosuchus

Quaestio

Repenomamus

Rhacolepis

Rhadinosteus

Rhynchonkos

Rolfeia

Rugoconites

Sclerocephalus

Screbinodus

Segisaurus

Sericipterus

Shantungosuchus

Silvanerpeton

Sinamia

Solnhofenamia

Soomaspis

Sordes

Spinophorosaurus

Squalicorax

Stenamara

Tapejara

Tariccoia

Tealliocaris

Temnoxa

Teraterpeton

Terrestrisuchus

Tesnusocaris

Tessarolax

Tetrameroceras

Tetrapodophis

Teyujagua

Thaiodus

Thylacares

Tietasaura

Tomognathus

Toxolophosaurus

Tremaglaspis

Triadobatrachus

Tribodus

Tribrachidium (used to be a block)

Trilophosaurus

Triopus

Tristychius

Tropaeum

Tropidosuchus

Tuzoia

Tyrannotitan

Uighuroniscus

Uncus

Urasterella

Venustulus

Vidalamia

Vinctifer

Wardichthys

Wenzichthys

Westlothiana

Windermeria

Xeneichthys

Yanosteus

Tweaks to Existing Creatures:

Pholiderpeton - Remodel+Animations+1 new Idle

Ebenaqua - Remodel

Dorypterus - Remodel

Arthropleura - Remodel (for eyes)

Various fixes and lang support. Please see the main v.61.0 for the main release content note.

Change log v.61

Various worldgen support for Early Cretaceous dimension work Xenacanthus moved from Carb-Triassic to Carb-Permian Added Rogersia Added Shizaea Added Raw Sulphur blocks (creative only currently) Guano has decay mechanic: Guano balls dropped by mobs will form a pile but will be tagged to decay Mob-dropped guano will not build layers up to a full block, but will stop at 7 layers When a decayable pile receives a random tick, one layer will decay If a decayable pile is added to by a player (or Guano Golem), it will become non-decayable. Brown Clay:plus suite of smelted brick item, bricks block, stairs and slabs Pebblestone blocks plus suite of slab, wall and stairs, with mossy variants Submarine now has an enhanced battery option for greater speed Sodium ingot/block/nugget (for the purposes of crafting the enhanced battery) Two new glass doors A whole bunch of bugs fixed and omissions patched

Mob Content: Lusovenator Lusotitan Romerodus Srianta Gregorius Obruchevodus Chondrenchelys Orestiacanthus (Male and Female) Goodrichthys Gansuselache (Male and Female) Archaeothyris Eustreptospondylus (Can fish, but does not produce raw fish) Mooreodontus (can generate Block Eggs) Hagenoselache Diplodoselache (can generate block Eggs) Stenokranio (Mostly Terrestrial) Idmonarachne (lays eggs in logs) Gondwanarachne (Lays eggs in logs) Cricosaurus Schoenesmahl (When 2 Schoenesmahl meet each other, they may dance) Westrichus Caridosuctor Rhabdoderma Phanerorhynchus Dearc (Has a unique relaxation animation, and a preening animation) Germanodactylus (Male and Female) Harpactognathus Lagosuchus (Unique Idles)

Tweaks to Existing Creatures: Lebachacanthus - small accuracy tweak Xenacanthus - full remodel Paradoxides - full remodel Acadoparadoxides - full remodel Trimerus - full remodel Acanthodes - full remodel, can also filter feed! Belantsea - minor remodel Megactenopetalus - minor remodel Pikaia - full remodel Selenopeltis - full remodel

A few more small bug fixes - please see previous files for the release notes

A few more small bug fixes - please see the main release note under the main v.60.0 file

Some minor bugfixes - please see the main release note under the main v.60.0 file

Sphenopteris renamed Crossotheca and world gen dimensions/biomes adjusted
New Sphenopteris Fern and Sphenopteris Seed-plant added
Dryland Cordaites added and original Cordaites rebranded as Wetland Cordaites
Both Cordaites now do not produce block cones - but more realistic strobili
Synchysidendron (lycopod) added
Archaeocalamites added
Angiopteris fern added
Nemejcopteris remodelled
Symplocopteris remodelled
Old Symplocopteris (tree fern) rebranded as Scolecopteris
Old Scolecopteris rebranded as Dizeugotheca
Carboniferous biomes overhaul and additions
Calamites and Arthropitys logs remodelled
Arthropitys now has spreadable rhizome like Calamites
Added Calamopitys
Added Sturdy Sphenophyllales (inspired by Trizygia)
Added Paracalamites
Added Glossopteris ampla tree
Added Glossopteris duocaudata tree
Old Glossopteris renamed Glossopteris angustifolia and retextured leaves
Old Gangamopteris retextured
Added Calathospermum
Added Arborispongia
Added Neomariopteris
Added Titusvilia
Added Jurassic Forested Island biome
Added Shikamaia
Added Monanthesia
Added Grey Sand all associated blocks
Added Arlenea
Added Vojnovskyales
Added Ancient Rose
Added Sapindopsis
Added Permian Wetland Hummocks biome
Tempskya remodel
Added Retiophyllia
Added Triassic Reef biome and redid Volcanic Island generation to go with it
Added Paradoxopteris
Changed mobs ageing every tick to every 100 ticks
Reworked Jurassic Mudflats biome
Added Sea Pens
Precambrian Jellyfish renamed as Ghost-Like Ancient Jellyfish and is now Ordovican-Permian
Other Ancient Jellies are also now Ordov-Permian
Modern jellies now generate in periods they belong to only (i.e. none yet!)
Added Twiggy Cypress
Pangaean Sands and associated blocks now called “orange sand” etc
Slimy algae can now be laid into like mosses
Added Scarburgia and Rissikia trees (early Podocarps to replace the generic one from Permian-Jurassic)
Tooltips on meat items to identify which have not got taxidermy ready yet
Added modded flowerpots to replace vanilla ones widening their scope
Added Small Angiosperm Organic Ground and Small Angiosperm Ground Cover Plants

New Mobs and Mob Notes:
Plesiosaurus
Ichthyosaurus
Nimbia
Ediacaria
Cyclomedusa
Burgessomedusa
Cordubia
Thaumactena
Eldonia
Ctenorhabdotus
Discophyllum
Pseudodiscophyllum
Bertratis
Rotaciurca
Paropsonema
Palaeoctenophora
Archaeocydippida
Daihuoides
Octomedusa
Prothysanostoma
Medusina
Tarracodiscus
Heliobranchia
Eulithota
Semaeostomites
Hydrocraspedota
Rhizostomites
Banksiops
Pampaphoneus
Hypuronector
Longisquama
Hughmilleria
Eramoscorpius
Praearcturus
Orcanopterus
Stoermeropterus
Waptia
Isoxys
Strobilopterus
Capinatator
Hadranax
Timorebestia
Mobulavermis
Burgessia
Saperion
Thulaspis
Urokodia
Titanokorys
Eryma
Parioscorpio
Nesonektris
Tanaocrossus
Eochondrosteus
Liaosteus
Kichkassia
Brazilichthys
Conchopoma
Surcaudalus
Bethesdaichthys
Psychroptilus
Namurotypus
Erasipteroides
Leptoteuthis
Lufengosaurus
Monolophosaurus
Megalichthys
Mamulichthys
Senekichthys
Heteropetalus
Climacograptus
Phyllograptus
Bowengriphus
Gosfordia
Sargodon
Hydropessum
Phylloceras
Polysentor
Harpagofututor
Thalattosuchus
Debeerius
Wodnika
Sarcoprion
Pseudoangustidontus
Dipteronotus
Heterostrophus
Flagellopantopus
Akasakiella
Waaganella
Foordella
Chippewaella
Pliosaurus
Leedsichthys
Deuterosaurus
Caihong
Dracopelta
Attenborites

All spawns reworked

Statics:
Essexella
Brown Conulariid
Magenta Conulariid
Archaeoconularia
Shankouclava
Cotyledion
Orthograptus
Shikamaia
Arborispongia
Titusvillia
Gangtoucunia

Mob Remodels and Other Tweaks:
Nipponomaria Remodel

Sauropod lag fix Various other small fixes

Release note for v.59.0

IMPORTANT!!! IF YOU WANT TO RETAIN YOUR BENCHES, BRIDGES, LITTERBINS AND/OR ROPE BARRIERS, YOU NEED THE DECORATION ADD-IN FROM NOW ON: https://www.curseforge.com/minecraft/mc-mods/prehistoric-nature-decorations

Added new Jurassic dimension support (see the Jurassic Dimension mod itself for the download)

Functional changes:

Removed rope-barriers, bridges, benches and litterbins (blocks which can be "trimmed") into their own seperate addin mod to save on performance for the main mod Fishing in dimensions now returns correct creatures Taxidermies now no longer need a mount - just place them Addition of digsite structures in the overworld Bats and pterosaurus now produce guano Fig logs now produce latex Fossil filter distinguishes vertbrates from invertebrates Resin extractor now also extracts latex and shows an animation when it is working Adddition of rubber boots which stop you getting stuck in PN mud Portals now connect to reverse-direction portals (i.e. to go from dimensionX to dimensionY you always use a dimensionY portal) Fixed some spawns in Cambrian Reef biome Improved portal textures Various bug fixes

Added mobs:

Adeopapposaurus Allosaurus Anchiornis Anchisaurus Anuorgnathus Apatosaurus Archaeopteryx Batrachognathus Brachiosaurus Camarasaurus Camptosaurus Cascocauda Chilesaurus Compsognathus Cumnoria Dendrorhynchoides Dicraeosaurus Dilophosaurus Dimorphodon Diplodocus Dorygnathus Dubreuillosaurus Elaphrosaurus Gargoyleosaurus Glacialisaurus Guanlong Guano Golem (!) Heterodontosaurus Jeholopterus Limusaurus Mamenchisaurus Miragaia Mymoorapelta Ornitholestes Proceratosaurus Pterodactylus Rhamphorhynchus Shunosaurus Sinomacrops Sinraptor Tianyulong Torvosaurus Uteodon Wukongopterus Yangchuanosaurus Yi

Added plants:

Birdsnest Fern Burnished Treefern Callianthus Doratophyllum Erdtmanithecales Jianchangia Lophosoria Mesodescolea Onychiopsis Pseudoctenis Salvinia Sanfordiacaulis Santaniella Shrubby Cycad Sinocarpus Sinoherba Thinnfeldia Ticoa Todea Welwitschia Welwitschiophyllum

Adjustment to Alethopteris and Macroneuropteris strobilus

Remodelled, re-animated or improved-AI mobs:

Aegirocassis Amplectobelua Cotylorhynchus Desmatosuchus Diictodon Eosimops Gerarus Herrerasaurus Inostrancevia Plateosaurus Platyhystrix Prosictodon Robertia Temperoceras Varialepis Yunguisaurus

Removal of a bunch of items and replacing with nbt-treatment to make the mod more streamlined. You will see a message about around 250 missing entries when you update: this is fine, although you might experience some missing items in chests or inventories: sorry about that if so.

Addition of:

Creature traps Submarine More advanced and interesting AI for some creatures Some creatures now herd and many young follow adults now Various creature re-animations and remodels Creature diets and spawns changed: creatures now target prey based on a proper diet Breeding items are now the same as diet items Diet data and habitat spawning data are now accurately displayed in the Palaeopedia (which will update itself if you provide custom spawns) Conceptual division of mobs into vertebrates and invertebrates Fossil sorter enhancement for sorting invertebrates Glass cases and jars now will be used only for land invertebrates/insects Display plinth has been discontinued (use a standard mount on the now-purely-decorative plinth) Various metal fences, sheets, doors and gates Improved placement mechanic for glass tiles New config option to only spawn plants in the overworld which still exist French and Japanese language support A gazillion bug fixes, qol improvements, tweaks, gentle massages, acupuncture sessions and regression therapy

Overworld:

Addition of Olive Grove biome

Precambrian dimension mod:

Addition of Hadean Creater Fields biome

Carboniferous dimension mod:

Addition of Cool Woodland biome and slight "greening" of the Steppe biome

Permian dimension mod:

Addition of Stony Lands and Depressions biomes Reconfiguring of Glossopteris biome concepts in a Temperate and Cold division

Triassic dimension mod:

Addition of Woodland, Sphenopteris and Polje biomes

Plants/Statics:

Actinidea Amborella Anemone Arid Pine Aristolochia Atli Banyan Bellendena Bisonia Botrychiopsis Buckthorn Buttercup Calycanthus Cedar Chestnut Chiropteris Chloranthus Daisy Dechellyia Drewria Drimys Elatocladus Embothrium Eoginkgoites Fig Frondose Archaic Algae [inspired by Tuanshanzia] Gansufructus Glass Sponge Golden Larch Gordonopteris Gunnera Hedera Hemp Hirmeriella Hops Hordyskia Hornwort Hydrangea Ilicium Irania Jerseyanthus Ktalenia Laurus Liquidambar Lomatia Microvictoria Mosacaulus Nataligma Nehvizdyella Nuphar Olive Orites Orontium Pagiophyllum Palissya Pandan Pelourdea Potamogeton Protognetum Rattan Palm Rehezamites Rhacopteris Seagrass Telopea Thuja Vitis Voltzia Yam Zingiberopsis

Grypania remodel Tawuia remodel

Mobs:

Abrigramma Adamanteryon Aetheogramma Anaethalion Angelina Angustidontus Apochrysogramma Archaboilus Archocyrtus Athenaegis Bavariscyllium Bellinympha Belonostomus kochii (Jurassic) Belonostomus sp. (Cretaceous) Bishanopliosaurus Bobosaurus Cancrinos Carolinites Caryosyntrips Castorocauda Celtedens Cenoceras Ceratosaurus Cervifurca Chasmataspis Chunerpeton Ciurcopterus Clarkeiteuthis Clarkina Coccoderma Congophiopsis Congopycnodus Cordaticaris Cowielepis Cretapsychops Criocephalosaurus Cryolophosaurus Dakosaurus Daohugoucossus Decacuminaster Dendrocystites Dicranurus Docodon Dragonfly Duslia Echinochimaera Elasmodectes Elephantoceras Eocarcinus Eunotosaurus Eurhinosaurus Europasaurus Euspira Gasosaurus Geosaurus Gephyrostegus Gigantocapulus Gigantspinosaurus Grammolingia Greererpeton Guiyu Gyrodus Gyrosteus Hadronector Haldanodon Haplophrentis Harpacanthus Harpagodes Helenodora Hindeodus Homoeosaurus Hoplitaspis Horodyskia Hovasaurus Huayangosaurus Huiyingogramma Hupehsuchus Hurdia Iowacystis Iowagnathus Isanichthys Ischyodus Ithigramma Jamoytius Jeholotriton Kalligramma Kayentatherium Kaykay Kleptothule Kootenayscolex Kosmoceras Kulindadromeus Laccosmylus Laidleria Lepidaster Leviathania Liassopsychops Libys Lichenipolystoechotes Ligulella Macrosemius Makarkinia Marmolatella Marmorerpeton Mazothairos Mecochirus Megamastax Meganeurites Megistaspis Meioneurites Mesturus Metopacanthus Microcleidus Misikella Morrolepis Murex Myriacantherpestes Nerinea Olenellus Onychopterella Ophiopsis Ophthalmothule Oregramma Oreochima Orthocormus Ostenocaris Ozarkodina Palaeocarcharias Panacanthocaris Papilionichthys Paracestracion Paradapedium Paramblypterus Parameteoraspis Parnaibaia Passaloteuthis Perisphinctes Pezopallichthys Phialaspis Phillipsia Phlebolepis Phlegethontia Phorcynis Phytophilaspis Piatnitzkysaurus Platypeltoides Plectronoceras Polybranchiaspis Pricyclopyge Proconodontus Promexyele Propterus Proteroctopus Proterosuchus Protospinax Pseudorhina Psychopyge Pycnophlebia Quasimodichthys Rainerichthys Rhenocystis Rhinopteraspis Rhomaleosaurus Rutgersella Saccocoma Sanctacaris Saurostomus Scheenstia Sclerodus Shaihuludia Sibyrhynchus Siderops Slimonia Sokkaejaecystis Songaichthys Sophogramma Spathobatis Spiroceras Squaloraja Stahleckeria Stanocephalosaurus Stegosaurus Steurbautichthys Strombus Strudops Sylvohymen Symphysops Syringocrinus Tamisiocaris Tanycolagreus Tanyrhinichthys Tauraspis Temnodontosaurus Thalassiodracon Thanahita Trachymetopon Tribrachiodemas Triops Tritylodon Tuojiangosaurus Typhloesus Uarbryichthys Ursactis Utatsusaurus Vadasaurus Vampyronassa Villebrunaster Viviparus Yuxisaurus Zenaspis

First Modrinth release


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