Ex Nihilo

Ex Nihilo adds various new mechanics to the game like sieving.

It allows players to get almost any item using just basic blocks like cobblestone, gravel, dirt and sand. It also adds the possibility to manually spawn rare mobs such as Endermen and Blazes by crafting either an Angry Doll or Creepy Doll and right clicking the doll inside a Barrel with witch water or lava inside it.

This mod is very useful for "skyblock" maps, like Sky Factory 1 and 2, Agrarian Skies: Hardcore Quest, or many others.

To start off, you need some organic materials like saplings, leaves, and most types of plants. Use six wooden planks and a wooden slab to craft a barrel. Fill up the barrel by holding right-click of it with organic materials (different things will take more items.
Ex: 8 saplings will fill a barrel, while it takes many more than 8 leaves to do the same. The barrel will say "composting" and takes a while to compost 100%. When this happens, take the dirt out of the barrel by right-clicking. Dirt is very valuable in "Skyblock" maps, so this can help a lot! There are many other things involved like sifters, cobblestone, or making soul sand, but these are quite complicated if you don't have a lot of dirt.




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Installation Instructions (without Modinstaller)

Forge Mods

1. Open the new launcher and make sure the version of Minecraft the mod requires is already installed.
2. Download the Forge-Auto-Installer compatible to your Minecraft version
3. Install the Minecraft Forge using the Auto-Installer
4. Download the Mod "" in the right column Forge here
5. Click "Edit Profile" in the Minecraft launcher, then open the game directory
6. Extract the downloaded zip file directly in the first game directory folder
7. Select the new profile "Forge" and the Minecraft version e.g. "1.7.10-Forge10.13..."
8. Login and play as normal.

Modloader Mods

1. Open the new launcher and make sure the version of Minecraft the mod requires is already installed.
2. Click "Edit Profile" in the launcher, then open the game directory
3. Go into the subfolder "versions".
4. Rename the folder for the version you require to something else. In this example, rename "1.7.10" to "1.7.10_Mods".
5. Open the "1.7.10_Mods" folder.
6. Rename "1.7.10.jar" to "1.7.10_Mods.jar".
7. Rename "1.7.10.json" to "1.7.10_Mods.json".
8. Open "1.7.10_Mods.json" with a text editor and replace "id":"1.7.10" with "id":"1.7.10_Mods", save the file and close it.
9. Open the class files from the mod with an archiver (7-Zip) and copy-paste the files into 1.7.10_Mods.jar. Do not close the archiver yet.
10. Delete META-INF and close the archiver.
11. Start the Minecraft launcher.
12. Click on "Edit Profile"
13. In "Use Version", select "1.7.10_Mods".
14. Click Save Profile.
15. Login and play as normal.