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Getting Started

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Getting Started

Prominence II: Hasturian Era is a hardcore-leaning fantasy RPG modpack built on Minecraft 1.20.1 (Fabric). The core loop: quest → level up → pick talents & gear for your build → beat the recommended-level boss → unlock the next campaign tier → repeat, with tech/magic automation as parallel long-term goals.

The quest book calls you a “flameborn” — created and sent by S’kellak into the Overworld with a purpose to uncover. That framing matters later: S’kellak, the Cinderstone city of Vaaz, and the eldritch King in Yellow (Hastur) are the spine of the campaign.

First hour checklist

  • Eat well early — hunger matters more than vanilla; grab fruits/vegetables (Croptopia adds a huge range). The very first quest literally asks you to find a fruit or vegetable.
  • Craft a Chest, then upgrade it — chests are upgradeable. Mine copper and combine a Blank Chest Upgrade with it to make a copper upgrade. Storage is a progression track of its own — see Storage & Inventory Mods.
  • Grab a backpack early — Traveler’s Backpacks equip via the Equip icon in the backpack menu, then open with B. Search @traveler in the REI/EMI search bar (bottom of your inventory) to see every variant; special backpacks hide in loot chests.
  • Find or craft a Waystone — generates in villages, also craftable. Right-click to bind/teleport. This is the intended fast-travel system.
  • Open the Quest Book and follow it (FTB Quests) — it’s the pack’s built-in tutorial, gating and explaining every system as you go. Click the book icon at the top-left of your inventory. Left side of a quest = tasks; right side = rewards. See Quality-of-Life & UI Mods.
  • Multiplayer: claim your land and join/create a Party early so quest progress and teleports work together (details below).

Keybinds & UI you actually need

  • Quest Book — book icon, top-left of inventory.
  • N — Talent Tree (the most important build menu; see Talent Tree & Fate Talents).
  • M — World Map. B — open equipped backpack.
  • R / U — while hovering any item, show its Recipe / Uses in the recipe viewer.
  • Player Level shows top-left of the inventory screen; it is not the green vanilla XP bar (see Progression & Level Caps).

Multiplayer setup (do this before you build anything shared)

  • Claim land: press M, right-click a chunk, choose Claim Selected. Servers can set lower claim limits, so don’t over-claim. Land claims protect against grief and mob damage.
  • Make a party (so quest/teleport progress lines up): /openpac-parties create, then /openpac-parties member invite <Name>.
  • PvP inside a party is off by default; every player who wants it runs /opacpvp (it must be enabled by both sides).

A concrete first session

  1. Punch trees, eat a fruit, complete the “First Steps / How To: Questing” quests.
  2. Craft a chest + a backpack; mine copper, make a copper chest upgrade.
  3. Kill a few mobs to reach Player Level 2–3 → you earn your first talent point (1 per 2 levels). Press N, spend it toward a rough archetype.
  4. Craft an Anvil and try the Reforging tab on a tool with a Limestone Chunk (Gear Rarity & Reforging).
  5. Set a Waystone home, claim your base chunks, and start following Main Story.

Common early mistakes

  • Ignoring the New Mechanics chapter. It’s mostly reading, but it’s the real tutorial for combat, stats, damage families and every build — skimming it is why most new players feel lost. See Combat & Stats.
  • Grinding for levels too early. You’re hard-capped at level 10 until you clear the first campaign boss — grinding past it is impossible (Progression & Level Caps).
  • Spreading gear/talents across many builds. Pick a direction early; committed builds crush split ones.
  • Treating vanilla XP as your “level.” They’re two separate bars.

Quest Book chapters seen in this install

Getting Started, Main Story, Hasturian Era, The Scarred Night, Mastering Fate, New Mechanics (tutorial), Spell Books, Enchanting, Simply Swords, Soulslike Weaponry, Create, Tech Reborn, Modern Industrialization, Powah, Applied Energistics 2, Botania, Bewitchment, Deeper & Darker, The Bumblezone, The Nether, To The End, Planets & Space, Reforging/Artifact Reforging, Transmogrification, Collectibles/Trophies.

Follow Main Story / Hasturian Era for the campaign; the rest are opt-in content tracks.

Where the deepest detail lives

Three things always beat any written guide for exact specifics:

  1. The in-game Quest Book — walks you through everything chapter by chapter.
  2. The official wiki: rpg.prominence.wiki (the quest book flags it as 10+ hours of deeper guides; the in-game link isn’t clickable, type it in a browser).
  3. Recipe viewer (JEI/EMI/REI) — hover any item and press R/U to see how to make/use it.

Anticipated questions

Where’s the quest book? I closed it. Click the small book icon at the top-left of your inventory, or find it in your hotbar/inventory as an item.

How do I fast travel? Waystones — right-click one to bind it, then open any bound Waystone to teleport. They spawn in villages and are craftable.

Why is my “level” stuck / not rising from mining? Player Level only comes from combat, and it’s story-capped. Mining/smelting fill the separate green vanilla XP bar. See Progression & Level Caps.

How do I open my backpack? Press B once it’s equipped (equip it from the Equip icon in the backpack screen).

How do I find a recipe for a weird modded item? Hover it in the recipe viewer and press R (recipe) or U (uses).

Do my friends need anything special to join? They need the same modpack client-side (1.20.1 Fabric) plus Distant Horizons 3.2.0-b if the server shares LOD terrain. Claim land and party up together so quest progress syncs.

Is there a wiki? Yes — rpg.prominence.wiki. It’s the single most detailed source and expands over time.

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