Prominence II (2) Fabric Minecraft 1.20.1 Getting Started

Prominence II is one of the most popular mod packs on CurseForge. It's a full mod pack, meaning that it's got exploration, magic, combat, and technology. Since it's on Fabric, the tech mods are quite different than Forge packs. We'll cover those below.

The first thing you'll notice is that you have Roughly Enough Items (REI) for managing crafting recipes and many add-ons like Roughly Enough Professions and Roughly Enough Trads which add more information to the REI interface, Xaero's world maps (hit M to view) and a mini map (hit Y to configure).

What do to

There's a quest system in Prominence II. When you start the game you'll get a quest book in your inventory that you can open, but you don't need it. In the upper left of the screen, when you open your inventory is a quest book icon to open the book. You can also bind a key to open this book.

The best part of this modpack is that there's a story line.

Here's how it goes...

There's the creator named S'Kellak. They maintain balance though all the dimensions and has fought countless battles to keep the world going.

But they're getting weak from all these battles and needs our help! There's a world ending force called "The Void" who is planning an invasion of all the dimensions. They're corrupting what were once peaceful creatures and turning in to deadly foes.

So here we have Chapter 1 where The Void has corrupted peaceful creatures. And we need to defeat them save the world.

There are a number of quests that take us through the different dimensions. First a Lich (once the protective King of Chorbia) in the Overworld, then the Gauntlet (once a peaceful watcher of the Nether), then the End Dragon (who was once named "Jane"!) and more…

Wow! I love a story that ties all the dimensions together! This sounds amazing.
And the pack devs promise more content every month.

The other quests at the time of this post are focused primarily on the different dimensions in this pack, starting with the Overworld and the Nether, there are a number of quests you can complete and get rewarded. But first do the getting started quests to become familiar with the quest system.

You can use the quest book to learn about some of the different mods in the pack. The list is not comprehensive yet, but you can get started on some of the important ones like Applied Energistics 2, Ad Astra, Industrial Revolution, and Rune Magic.

Where to go Next?

This is a difficult question to answer. There's so much to do! Definitely check out the story line in the quest book. Some things that you'll want to focus on at some point...

Set up Storage. You can Use Tom's Simple Storage which is easier early game, or go fully into Applied Energistics 2

Automate with the Create mod or Industrial Revolution. Go to Space with Ad Astra! Get power for AE2 with the Powah! Mod

The End Remastered mod has changed how you get into the end. You need 12 unique eyes. The mod adds 16, plus the Eye of Ender counts as one. You can check out the End Remastered curseforge page for details, or check out my video on it where I talk about how to get all of the eyes. This is part of my let's play series, watch it from the start!

There are many boss battles along the way. I've made videos for each of those. Check them out here:

• Night Lich Boss Fight
• Nether Gauntlet Boss Fight
• Blackstone Golem Boss Fight
• Conjunctivius Boss Fight
• The Fallen Icon Boss Fight
• The Obsidilith Boss Fight
• The Eye Boss Fight (same video as the Obsidilith)

There's lots of things to do along the way. As you progress, each boss battle gets tougher and tougher and you'll want to get yourself some OP Armor and weapons, level up your skills where you choose a path of Magic, Rogue, Healer, Archer, or Fighter. Honestly, going the fighter path is easiest if you just want to tank these bosses. Even so, you'll need a very strong armor setup (and backups if they are destructible).

Watch my entire Prominence II Let's Play Series to get a real feel for everything!

Shader Support

This pack has iris and sodium included which allows shader support. All you need to do is go into the video settings, click Shader Packs and choose one of the pre-installed shaders. My favorite is Complementary Reimagined, though there's also Insanity and Pastel.

Notable Mods in the pack

There are hundreds of mods in Prominence II, way too many to list out, but here are the ones that I think are notable and give a good feeling for what gives the shape to this pack.

Mobs and Bosses

• AdventureZ
• Deeper and Darker
• Bosses of Mass Destruction
• Creeper Overhaul
• Mutant Monsters
• Mythic Mobs
• Mythic Mounts

Tech Mods

• Applied Energistics 2
• CC: Tweaked
• Dark Utilities
• Industrial Revolution
• Modern Industrialization
• Oxidized
• Powah!
• Tech Reborn
• Tom's Simple Storage - Inventory storage sorting and filtering

Magic Mods

• Archon
• Bewitchment
• Wizards

Combat Mods

• Better Combat
• Combat Roll
• Wizards

New Blocks, Tools, Armor, and Weapons

• Artifacts
• Chipped
• Comforts - sleeping bags and hammocks
• Croptopia
• Fabric Waystones - waystones for teleporting around the world
• Farmer's Delight - new crops and ways to cook them
• Immersive Armors
• Iron Chests
• Lootr
• Marium's Soulslike Weaponry
• MC Dungeons Armors
• MC Dungeons Weapons
• Simply Swords
• Supplementaries
• Traveler's Backpack

New Biomes and WorldGen

• Aquamirae
• Better End
• Better Nether
• Dungeons and Taverns
• Ecologics
• End Remastered
• Explorations
• Explorify
• Regions Unexplored
• Repurposed Structures
• Simply Houses
• Sky Villages
• Small Ships
• The Graveyard
• Towns and Towers
• When Dungeons Arise
• Yung's Better Desert Temples, Dungeons, Mineshafts, Ocean Monuments, and Strongholds, End Island, Jungle Temples, Nether Fortresses

New Dimensions

• Ad Astra
• The Bumblezone
• The Otherside (Deeper and Darker mod)
• Mine Cells - Dead Cells Mod

Multiplayer Support

If you're playing on a server with friends, you'll want to become familiar with the Open Parties and Claims mod. This allows players on your server to set up parties and claim chunks on the map. Here are the commands this mod uses:

/openpac player-config ... - player config commands
/openpac-claims ... - everything claim-related
/openpac-parties ... - everything party-related
/opm - shortcut for the party chat

Play with Friends! Need a server?

Check out my instructions to Install your own Prominence II RPG Server for Free!

Or go the easy route and get a server on a Minecraft hosting provider. My top choice is Apex Hostong. You'll want an 8GB Server for this pack.

Check here for my Prominence II RPG Let's Play Series

Here's a slightly older First look video