Restless Atlas turns ordinary Minecraft survival into a journey toward a place you can finally call home. The land grows hostile when you remain at one camp for too long, forcing you to travel, adapt, and earn the right to build a permanent settlement.
The first five minutes at each camp are safe. After that, exhaustion begins to rise through three stages. Mining Fatigue appears after five minutes, Hunger and Weakness follow after ten minutes, and Slowness is added after fifteen minutes.
Travel at least 256 blocks away from your current camp to establish a new one. Relocating resets your camp timer, clears all exhaustion effects, and grants a short burst of Speed and Saturation to help you continue the journey.
Every third relocation—at journeys 3, 6, and 9—rewards you with a route cache containing cooked beef, torches, and a fresh map.
Complete twelve relocations to fulfill the nomad's oath. You will unlock the Founding Rights challenge, receive a beacon, and permanently end the land's pressure for your character. From that moment onward, you are free to choose a location and build your lasting home.
FEATURES
- Individual progress tracking for every player
- Three exhaustion stages after 5, 10, and 15 minutes at one camp
- Camp relocation after traveling 256 blocks
- A short travel boost after every successful relocation
- Supply caches at journeys 3, 6, and 9
- A beacon and permanent freedom from exhaustion after journey 12
- A useful action-bar display showing camp age, exhaustion stage, and journey progress
- Support for both singleplayer worlds and dedicated servers
- No mod loader or external dependencies required
- No chunk scanning, persistent summoned entities, or forced chunk loading
COMPATIBILITY
- Minecraft Java Edition 1.20.1
- Datapack format 15
- Vanilla singleplayer and dedicated servers
Teleportation and dimension travel count as movement. Compatibility with individual teleportation mods has not been tested separately.
INSTALLATION
Place the ZIP archive in the /datapacks folder, then restart the world or run /reload. Use /datapack list to confirm that Restless Atlas is enabled.
