This is the best pack I’ve ever played. While the mods are limited if you’re used to playing ATM type packs, the gameplay and enjoyment factors are super high. It can be frustrating at the start but I’d recommend watching a few YT playthroughs (CPT Sparklez was good) and once you get moving in the pack it is amazing to play.

This is the best pack I’ve ever played. While the mods are limited if you’re used to playing ATM type packs, the gameplay and enjoyment factors are super high. It can be frustrating at the start but I’d recommend watching a few YT playthroughs (CPT Sparklez was good) and once you get moving in the pack it is amazing to play.

Great. Devs put so much love in the pack, im wating for V6 V5.xxxx is good hope they launch it soon!

Sry for any errors english isn´t my first lang.

#Summary

DeceasedCraft is by far the most well-designed zombie-apocalipse modpack that there is available on any platform by now. Most of the other zombie-apocalypse modpacks lacks some realistic mechanics like corporal temperature and limbs health, but DeceasedCraft has everything, from engineering systems, to food nutrition, body heat, complex health system and amazingly beautiful gun textures. In the next sections, i’ll detail why DeceasedCraft is the best zombie apocalypse modpack that exists and why it has already surpassed or at least matched the quality of some actual well-made zombie games like Project Zomboid(Steam).

#Gameplay

The game features complex and diverse gameplay styles and a world/mechanics overall that turns minecraft into practically another game. It removes the necessity to mine ores for grinding some items since you can find them in the naturally-generated abandoned cities(The cities you see on the trailer and the images of the modpack are ALL procedurally generated, no one built them). It features health system that separates your health between all your limbs and gives you disadvantages if you have some of your limbs damaged(slow movement speed if you break your legs for example) instead of the classical 20 slots minecraft health bar. You will experience the TRUE hardcore survival with the health system plus the nutrition system, wich forces you to have a balanced diet(grains, sugars, protein, fat, etc.) in order to have better health conditions so you can survive the hordes. It also features temperature and drinking systems, allowing you to risk your life if you drink unboiled water, die with hypothermia, or hyperthermia, die of dehydration or having your health reduced drastically due to a bad diet. In DC, the zombies are just one of the dozen ways to die and to turn your life miserable, just like it would be in a apocalypse. It also features engineering mods like Create and Immersive Engineering, if you want to automate your survival using only your engineering expertise and intelligence. It also features gun mods with real-life models such as Glocks, Scars, and even automated turrets if you want to defend your base. The modpack is built for multiplayer pvp servers as long is well-built for singleplayer survival sessions, wich i’ll explain further.

#Dedicated minecraft server

DC has a dedicated minecraft server hosted in CluckMC, wich is added into the server list as you download the modpack. The server has 20 – 40 players active through the day, as for 17/03/2025(the day i’m writing this review), is the most active server of a zombie-apocalypse modpack. I’ve tested other zombie-apocalypse MC servers and they can’t even reach 20 players a day. The server has PVP and PVE lobbies, as for in PVP they feature even more mechanics: Homes, Claims, Factions, Teleport system, Player Auctionhouses and even a bounty system wich stimulates PVP between players in a healthy-way, without losing your whole base to a no-life player like it would be in Day-Z styled games.

#Textures, art and music

DeceasedCraft has a unique mod made by the modpack devs wich adds BIZARRE zombie-like creatures(similar to the old 1.12.2 Scape and Run Parasites Mod), wich are way more powerful than the zombies, and even features special Zombies such as Spore Zombies that makes you get nausea, and even Juggernaut zombies(like the ones in State of Decay), along with many other that i didn’t had the (un)luck to encounter in the survival mode yet.

Altough, Deceasedcraft don’t have a personal soundtrack and still uses minecraft vanilla soundtrack, and vanilla textures for most blocks, it doesn’t make any less enjoyable.

DeceasedCraft uses the mod Timeless and Classics Guns for 1.18(wich will likely be updated to TACZ in the patch 6.0, wich is a even better version of TAC), wich is a mod that adds realistic real-world guns, with animations that has the same quality as Call-of-Duty modern games, and a slightly more “squared” 3D model, to match Minecraft aesthetics as well as making the game runs smoothly.

#Performance and Stability

DeceasedCraft has a good performance, but it should be necessary to add some more optimization mods for lower-end PCs. My PC has the following specs:

Ryzen 3 3200g

XFX RX 6600 8gb

16gb RAM

128gb M.2 SSD

It runs in my pc with no problems, but it may encounter some performance problems in other PCs.

I play in the dedicated server for this reason. If you play in a server, your game will only render the visuals and all the entities and world processing will be made by the dedicated server, making the game runs even smoother.

#Upcoming v6.0 GIGA update

The DC dev team is preparing a GIANT update for 6.0 wich will likely solve all the of the “problems” the pack already have. It will be ported for 1.20.1 and it will likely solve much of the performance issues(because newer forge versions are WAAAAY more optimized nowadays), allowing the devs to puch more effort in the Aesthetics and Art part of the game, since much of the processing load will likely be eased.

It shows that the modpack isn’t abandoned like most good modpacks, it is STILL being updated with much hard-work, and the devs are promising a update so big that will add new cities, new vehicles, new systems, new everything to the point it will look like a completely new game.

#Final considerations – Better than actual zombie games? YES!

DC already has just as many system as games like Project Zomboid or even DayZ, and i consider it to be even better than Project Zomboid. The carefully curated mod list alongside with the infinite possibilities of minecraft world makes it just as better as many zombie/shooter games out there. You don’t find HALF of this mechanics and gameplay features in Project Zomboid, even Project Zomboid being a highly acclaimed game.

If any of this doesn’t hype you to play the game for a long run, you should at least give it a little try, and surely the practical gameplay will convince you.

#Summary

DeceasedCraft is by far the most well-designed zombie-apocalipse modpack that there is available on any platform by now. Most of the other zombie-apocalypse modpacks lacks some realistic mechanics like corporal temperature and limbs health, but DeceasedCraft has everything, from engineering systems, to food nutrition, body heat, complex health system and amazingly beautiful gun textures. In the next sections, i’ll detail why DeceasedCraft is the best zombie apocalypse modpack that exists and why it has already surpassed or at least matched the quality of some actual well-made zombie games like Project Zomboid(Steam).

#**Gameplay**

The game features complex and diverse gameplay styles and a world/mechanics overall that turns minecraft into practically another game. It removes the necessity to mine ores for grinding some items since you can find them in the naturally-generated abandoned cities(The cities you see on the trailer and the images of the modpack are ALL procedurally generated, no one built them). It features health system that separates your health between all your limbs and gives you disadvantages if you have some of your limbs damaged(slow movement speed if you break your legs for example) instead of the classical 20 slots minecraft health bar. You will experience the TRUE hardcore survival with the health system plus the nutrition system, wich forces you to have a balanced diet(grains, sugars, protein, fat, etc.) in order to have better health conditions so you can survive the hordes. It also features temperature and drinking systems, allowing you to risk your life if you drink unboiled water, die with hypothermia, or hyperthermia, die of dehydration or having your health reduced drastically due to a bad diet. In DC, the zombies are just one of the dozen ways to die and to turn your life miserable, just like it would be in a apocalypse. It also features engineering mods like Create and Immersive Engineering, if you want to automate your survival using only your engineering expertise and intelligence. It also features gun mods with real-life models such as Glocks, Scars, and even automated turrets if you want to defend your base. The modpack is built for multiplayer pvp servers as long is well-built for singleplayer survival sessions, wich i’ll explain further.

#Dedicated minecraft server

DC has a dedicated minecraft server hosted in CluckMC, wich is added into the server list as you download the modpack. The server has 20 – 40 players active through the day, as for 17/03/2025(the day i’m writing this review), is the most active server of a zombie-apocalypse modpack. I’ve tested other zombie-apocalypse MC servers and they can’t even reach 20 players a day. The server has PVP and PVE lobbies, as for in PVP they feature even more mechanics: Homes, Claims, Factions, Teleport system, Player Auctionhouses and even a bounty system wich stimulates PVP between players in a healthy-way, without losing your whole base to a no-life player like it would be in Day-Z styled games.

#Textures, art and music

DeceasedCraft has a unique mod made by the modpack devs wich adds BIZARRE zombie-like creatures(similar to the old 1.12.2 Scape and Run Parasites Mod), wich are way more powerful and challenging than the zombies, and even features special Zombies such as Spore Zombies that makes you get nausea, and even Juggernaut zombies(like the ones in State of Decay), along with many other that i didn’t had the (un)luck to encounter in the survival mode yet.

Altough, Deceasedcraft don’t have a personal soundtrack and still uses minecraft vanilla soundtrack, and vanilla textures for most blocks, it doesn’t make any less enjoyable.

DeceasedCraft uses the mod Timeless and Classics Guns for 1.18(wich will likely be updated to TACZ in the patch 6.0, wich is a even better version of TAC), wich is a mod that adds realistic real-world guns, with animations that has the same quality as Call-of-Duty modern games, and a slightly more “squared” 3D model, to match Minecraft aesthetics as well as making the game runs smoothly.

#Performance and Stability

DeceasedCraft has a good performance, but it should be necessary to add some more optimization mods for lower-end PCs. My PC has the following specs:

Ryzen 3 3200g

XFX RX 6600 8gb

16gb RAM

128gb M.2 SSD

It runs in my pc with no problems, but it may encounter some performance problems in other PCs.

I play in the dedicated server for this reason. If you play in a server, your game will only render the visuals and all the entities and world processing will be made by the dedicated server, making the game runs even smoother.

#Upcoming v6.0 GIGA update

The DC dev team is preparing a GIANT update for 6.0 wich will likely solve all the of the “problems” the pack already have. It will be ported for 1.20.1 and it will likely solve much of the performance issues(because newer forge versions are WAAAAY more optimized nowadays), allowing the devs to puch more effort in the Aesthetics and Art part of the game, since much of the processing load will likely be eased.

It shows that the modpack isn’t abandoned like most good modpacks, it is STILL being updated with much hard-work, and the devs are promising a update so big that will add new cities, new vehicles, new systems, new everything to the point it will look like a completely new game.

#Final considerations – Better than actual zombie games? YES!

DC already has just as many system as games like Project Zomboid or even DayZ, and i consider it to be even better than Project Zomboid. The carefully curated mod list alongside with the infinite possibilities of minecraft world makes it just as better as many zombie/shooter games out there. You don’t find HALF of this mechanics and gameplay features in Project Zomboid, even Project Zomboid being a highly acclaimed game.

If any of this doesn’t hype you to play the game for a long run, you should at least give it a little try, and surely the practical gameplay will convince you.

Simplesmente fiquei viciado nesse modpack, não consigo esperar pela versão 6.0, tudo parece muito bem feito e conectado. Sem dúvidas jogar com os amigos vai te render umas quantas horas de diversão.