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New in Town | The Settler's Experience Data Pack

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New in Town | The Settler's Experience Data Pack Minecraft Data Pack

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New in Town is a multi-stage, story-driven, settler's experience Data Pack for Minecraft version 1.21. You are tasked with founding, building up, and defending a modular settlement from the forces of the Nether, then taking the fight to them as you construct your own Nether Fortress! It is partially inspired by the long-discontinued Tale of Kingdoms mod, and seeks to recreate and expand on the town-building gameplay it popularized.

Starting from humble beginnings -- a settler's wagon -- employ the help of your Town Planner's expertise to build new settlement sites, from Mines and Lumber Mills to the Wizard Tower and Bard's College. As your town grows, invaders from the Nether will emerge nearby, seeking to destroy you. Their attacks will grow more fierce, eventually culminating in the appearance of the Tyrant himself, a mighty Wither!

Attention:
This version of New in Town is compatible with 1.21.4, but not lower versions. However, you can download the last archived version that is compatible for those older versions from our Modrinth page.

New in Town: Dimensions is available now!
The Expansion Pack for the Settler's experience lets you explore four new dimensions to uncover a new foe's history and plot. Filled with unique and enchanting biomes, naturally generating structures, and new modular sites for the player to build including a fleet of ships and an underground mine, this data pack adds even more content to New in Town! Download at the link above!





Help New in Town grow by submitting your feedback at this link!
I'm always looking to improve the pack and bring it to more players. Please let me know what you think!



New in Town features the following:
  • Multiplayer compatibility; each player can found their own town or work as a group
  • A natural progression system that doesn't detract from normal Minecraft gameplay
  • Fully modular town, fortress, and city construction and layout, from what you build, where you build it, and in what order
  • Hours of side content in the form of quests, random events, and research tasks
  • More than 100 structures spread across three dimensions
  • Progressively more challenging attacks from the Nether
  • Randomly generated natural features to explore, from a floating island to an ancient drill
  • Taxes, resource gathering, and interaction with your villagers' economy
  • Advancements to provide interesting goals as well as story beats
  • Room to grow; more structures, natural features, and story beats may be added in the future
  • And more!

We have a Discord!
Our growing community now has a Discord server, where you are free to discuss with other New in Town players about all things Minecraft, report bugs, and share suggestions for the future of the settler's experience! Come take a look!

Videos and Let's Play series' featuring New in Town




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What to expect when you download New in Town:
  1. The Data Pack Zip File includes a Readme with helpful instructions for installing the data pack, as well as a strategy guide to help you get started and explain various time-and-progression mechanics, like Nether attacks.
  2. When you load your world with New in Town installed successfully, you'll receive the Town Charter when you collect a Log. (Any log can get you a Town Charter, but Oak Logs are the only type that will work for building town structures.) Click the text in that book, and your Wagon will generate around you.
  3. IMPORTANT: It is not recommended that you start your settlement near a large body of water, and especially not in the middle of an ocean. This can cause naturally generating features to generate very near or overwriting your Wagon, or not generate at all, as well as cause Nether attacks to destroy parts of your Wagon or town. You will receive a warning prompt if New in Town detects this as a risk.
Server Admin Information:
Due to being a data pack, New in Town is not compatible with Paper or Spigot. It is presumed incompatible with Bukkit. Reports indicate that it may be compatible with Forge, but this is not verified. As a result, support with any bugs related to New in Town in a Multiplayer setting may be limited to Vanilla and Fabric servers, but you are welcome to join our Discord and engage in discussion and possible workarounds for any problems you experience running this data pack on your server.
Do also ensure that Command Blocks are enabled on your server, as certain features and mechanics utilize them to run location-based functions.
For more information, it is highly recommended you read the "Server Admin Info.txt" file inside the New in Town zipped folder.

Uninstallation Instructions:
Before removing New in Town from your world, use "/function nitk:uninstall" to clean up excess entities. The villagers in towns, fortresses, and end cities, as well as the structures themselves, will remain, but all other features of New in Town will not work. The villagers will remain persistent, but players will become able to kill them if they choose. You will need to perform this action at all areas where New in Town features exist, including in each dimension, as New in Town does not forceload these areas.

License
By downloading New in Town ("The Pack"), you recognize and agree that you may not distribute the Pack on any platform, in whole or in part, in edited or modified form, without express written permission from kanokarob ("The Creator"). You are permitted to make modifications or changes to the Pack for your personal use. Personal use may include, but is not limited to, playing in a Singleplayer world, hosting or playing on a public Multiplayer server with an edited or unedited version of the Pack, and/or recording gameplay of the Pack in video or image format. You may upload video or image recordings of the Pack and its gameplay to any public platform, however a link to this page must be provided in a clear and accessible location, and you may not claim to have or have had any part in its creation or development.
CompatibilityMinecraft 1.21
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Update 2.21 : by kanokarob 06/17/2025 12:14:56 pmJune 17 @ 4:14 pm UTC

This update should be compatible with exiting worlds using New in Town v2.20, but as it is made for a new version of Minecraft, a backup is strongly recommended.

General:
  • Updated Pack format to 79 for Minecraft 1.21.6
Kingdoms:
  • Fixed a minor bug that caused links shared by the Town Planner to not work
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SirRobby
05/30/2025 10:15 am
Level 1 : New Collective
WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
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KingMidas865
05/24/2025 11:38 am
Level 1 : New Miner
nice data pack
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IcyFist_
03/15/2025 8:13 pm
Level 1 : New Miner
history
Hello, I am currently stuck in the end part of the pack, I have NIT + the aestethic pack + the Dragonkind Evolved pack, otherwise I'm playing 100% vanilla no other datapacks either, I have completed all of the overworld and nether parts of the pack, After I defeated the enderdragon I resummoned it before re-entering the end, the dragon that spawned was the sculk dragon, I unfortunately died during the refight and respawned in the overworld, I ran back and the tyrant general spawned in, Idk if the dragon killed him but I didn't, after the dragon fight I realised he had died as I picked up the eye drop, however I have no way of building a settlement in the end, as far as i understand he is meant to drop a book that let's you start an end settlement, however I have looked everywhere and cannot see that he dropped a book (maybe cause I didn't kill him directly?) was wondering if there is a debug command that gives me the book. Sry for the long message just wanted to give as many details as possible and thx for any future replies (Your datapacks are by far some of the best content I have come across btw :D <3)
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kanokarob
03/16/2025 11:51 am
Level 74 : Legendary Programmer
Tyrant Generals do not drop the book, you need to kill them to progress the invasion. Unfortunately if the invasion did not progress, even getting the book at this point won't be useful. You should search around for another Tyrant's General.
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kanokarob
03/16/2025 11:52 am
Level 74 : Legendary Programmer
And in the future, don't respawn an Ender Dragon before starting the invasion.
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Firecat1311
02/14/2025 6:33 pm
She/Her • Level 1 : New Explorer
One of my villagers was struck by lightning through a tiny hole in his roof (presumably burned by a separate lightning strike) and turned into a witch, breaking his NPC functionality and making him mortal.
Ironically, it was the adventurer, who was telling me to slay a witch, but killing him did not count for the quest
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kanokarob
02/15/2025 10:43 am
Level 74 : Legendary Programmer
Unfortunate! Yeah I think the quest is to specifically kill a Witch in a Witch Hut.

You can build a new Adventurer's Guild, and your active quest will be preserved.
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lly123
02/12/2025 6:52 am
Level 1 : New Miner
HI! This data pack is great! I am now piaying this data pack on 1.20.1 forge server,and I have two questions.
1 How can I get more permit to build my own end city?
2 My friends say they can't attack enderman,but the enderman can attack my friends after I build my end city.How can I fix this?
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kanokarob
02/12/2025 9:08 am
Level 74 : Legendary Programmer
history
The Endermen befriend you after you build an End City. In the 1.20.1 version, this also makes Endermen near you Invulnerable, which unfortunately affects other players who have not started an End City. You can have them join the team that makes the Endermen friendly towards them with /team join nitFriendEnd <player>
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lly123
02/12/2025 11:24 am
Level 1 : New Miner
I see.By the way,how to get more Tyrant's Locus?
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