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Primitive Start

by ISenseHostility · for Minecraft

Primitive Start aims to make the start of the game a bit more interesting.

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About Primitive Start

From Modrinth

Primitive Start aims to make the start of the game a bit more interesting.

 

 

Primitive Start adds a few features to spice up the standard tree-punching start of a new Minecraft world. Instead of immediately sprinting to your nearest tree and punching it, you now have to start with sprinting to your nearest animal. After murdering these poor, innocent animals for their bones, you can gather some sticks by breaking leaves.

You'll need quite a few sticks, because you need to craft some planks using them. Alternatively, you can explore for structures made of wooden planks, such as villages, to make a crafting table. Combine your bones and sticks to craft bone tools, which are on par with the incredible wooden toolset.

Before venturing into a cave, you might want a better weapon. If you are able to make a bow, you can now craft bone arrows for it, using some leftover bones from before instead of flint. If you find it difficult to gather enough feathers, you can now pluck them off of chickens using shears. This should give you quite a bit of ammo to survive the caves.

You can now make stone tools, however, stone isn't as strong as you'd like it to be, and it sadly can't mine iron. You can mine a different metal though, copper. You can use copper to make a smithing table, which can then be used to reinforce your bone tools. Reinforced bone tools are on par with iron tools, so you can now continue into the midgame as normal.

  •  You can't destroy logs without an axe
  •  Animals drop bones.
  •  Bone tools
  •  Bone arrows.
  •  You can't mine iron ore with stone tools or below.
  •  Smithing table craftable with copper.
  •  Reinforced bone tools.

 

 

Highlights

From source data

Game versions

Supports 3 Minecraft versions, the newest being 1.20.1.

Loaders

Runs on Forge.

Footprint

Rated a light load on a server.

What kind of mod it is

From the catalog
Listed on Modrinth as “Mods”

Gameplay & overhauls

New mechanics, content and overhauls that change how the game plays.

Runs on your server

From source side support

Modrinth lists Primitive Start as required on the server. Check its Modrinth page to see whether players need it too.

Compatibility

Game
Minecraft
Loaders
Forge
Runs on
Serverrequired on the server
Game versions
1.20.1 and 2 earlier

Verified at the source

  • ✓ModrinthOfficial listing, checked 2026-10-01Open ↗
  • ✓AuthorISenseHostility, as published on Modrinth
  • ✓LicenseLicenseRef-All-Rights-ReservedFree

Primitive Start, answered

Generated from the mod’s own source data.

Do my players need to install Primitive Start?

Modrinth lists Primitive Start as required on the server. Check its Modrinth page to see whether players need it too.

Which loaders does it support?

Forge.

Is it free?

Yes. Primitive Start is free to download from Modrinth. Its license is LicenseRef-All-Rights-Reserved.

How do I add it to my Nxeon server?

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