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Matriochka

Every block can hold a world.

Matriochka is a progression mod for Minecraft Java Edition 26.1.2, 26.2 and 26.3 on Fabric, made by achedon12. Ten worlds are nested inside blocks, like the dolls the mod is named after. You craft a Seed, plant it on tilled World Soil and give it water; every later world opens with its own object and rite. The block that hatches holds a whole world, with its own rule, creatures, crafting station and boss. Beat the boss, take its core, and the way into the next world becomes possible.

The mod is in alpha (0.4.0). All ten worlds and World 0, their rules, creatures, bosses, stations and progression, the three endings and the New Cycle are playable, with the mod's own sounds and adaptive music. Since 0.4.0 the Trials and their leaderboard, world events, talent trees, new gear, station automation, comfort options, cinematics, the light of each world and translations into Spanish, German and Brazilian Portuguese are in too. Models and textures are painted by code, in the vanilla style. See the Roadmap for what is missing.

Quick links

• New player: Getting started, then Core loop.
• Stuck on a world: open its page below.
• Fighting a boss: Bosses, and every attack's tell in Boss attacks.
• Growing stronger: Equipment classes, Talents, New gear.
• After the last boss: Hidden Dolls, World 0, Endings and the New Cycle, then the Trials.
• Running a server: Commands, Configuration, Multiplayer and groups, World events.
• Setting up the game: Modpack, Compatibility, Accessibility and comfort, Translations, Visuals.
• Want to help: Contributing.

The ten worlds

World	Tier	Rule	Station	Boss
World 1: Toxic Jungle	Learning	Toxin	Spore Vat	Spore Queen
World 2: Giant Veins	Learning	Heat	Ash Foundry	Ash Titan
World 3: Endless Dungeon	Learning	Locks	Jailer's Table	Grand Jailer
World 4: Storm Archipelago	Mastery	Wind	Lightning Forge	Storm King
World 5: Lightless Deep	Mastery	Noise	Dark Altar	Light Eater
World 6: Upside Realm	Mastery	Gravity	Inverter	Your Double
World 7: Pressure Ocean	Expertise	Oxygen	Abyssal Press	Pressure Leviathan
World 8: Hastened Seasons	Expertise	Season	Time Workshop	Master of Seasons
World 9: Restless Ground	Expertise	Tremor	Terrain Anchor	Heart of the Terrain
World 10: The Giant Workshop	Final exam	Synthesis	Final Loom	The Unfinished

Before World 1 there is the Surface, your normal Minecraft world, guarded by the Block Guardian. After World 10, the ten hidden dolls open World 0, the smallest doll, and the three endings close the story.

What is in the mod

Content	Amount
Worlds (dimensions)	10, plus World 0 and the Refuge Doll's room
Creatures	50 mobs, 2 kinds of harmless sea wildlife and 12 bosses (the Artisan's Shadow of World 0 included)
Peoples	10 trading peoples, one per world, plus the Doll Peddler
Crafting stations	13
Structures	110 in the worlds (eleven per world), plus the Guardian's Sanctuary on the Surface
Quests	70, all optional
Achievements	100, one advancement tab per world, plus 4 in the Endings tab
Journal pages	50, five per world
Trials	11: one per world and the Gauntlet of the eleven bosses, with a server leaderboard
Talents	72, three branches of four for each of the six classes
World events	Invasions, 10 surges and 10 travelling merchants
Languages	English, French, Spanish, German and Brazilian Portuguese

Links

• Source code and releases: github.com/achedon12/matriochka
• Website: achedon12.github.io/matriochka