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Chrono Dawn

by ksoichiro · for Minecraft

Adds Chrono Dawn, a time-themed dimension with custom portals, boss battles, and time-manipulating artifacts. Supports Fabric & NeoForge.

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About Chrono Dawn

From Modrinth

Adds Chrono Dawn, a time-themed dimension with custom portals, boss battles, and time-manipulating artifacts. Supports Fabric & NeoForge.

🕰️ Chrono Dawn - A Time-Manipulation Adventure

Explore a mysterious dimension where time stands still!

Chrono Dawn adds a brand new dimension to Minecraft, filled with unique biomes, powerful bosses, and time-bending artifacts. Master the power of time itself and conquer the challenges of a frozen world.


✨ Features

🌍 New Dimension: Chrono Dawn

  • 11 Unique Biomes: Forest, Plains, Desert, Mountain, Ocean, Snowy, Swamp, Dark Forest, Ancient Forest, Prairies, and Faded Plains — a withered wasteland with sun-faded grass and bare snags
  • Perpetual Twilight: A dimension frozen in time with stunning orange-gold skies
  • Time Distortion Effect: Hostile mobs move in slow motion while you move at normal speed
  • Custom Portal System: One-way portal travel that can be upgraded to bidirectional

🏛️ Epic Structures

  • Ancient Ruins (Overworld): Discover the secrets to enter Chrono Dawn
  • Forgotten Library (Chrono Dawn): Find the blueprints to stabilize the dimension
  • Desert Clock Tower (Chrono Dawn): Obtain Enhanced Clockstone and the Key to Master Clock
  • Guardian Vault (Chrono Dawn): Face the Chronos Warden boss
  • Clockwork Depths (Chrono Dawn): Challenge the Clockwork Colossus boss
  • Phantom Catacombs (Chrono Dawn): Navigate a maze to find the Temporal Phantom boss
  • Entropy Crypt (Chrono Dawn): Confront the Entropy Keeper boss
  • Master Clock (Final Dungeon): Face the ultimate challenge
  • Time Keeper Village (Chrono Dawn): A small settlement placed near where you first arrive, home to Time Keeper traders

👹 Powerful Boss Battles

  • Time Guardian: A mini-boss guarding the path to the Master Clock (drops Key to Master Clock)
  • 4 Mid-Bosses (required for Chrono Aegis crafting):
  • Chronos Warden: Stone guardian in the Guardian Vault
  • Clockwork Colossus: Mechanical giant in the Clockwork Depths
  • Temporal Phantom: Spectral enemy in the Phantom Catacombs maze
  • Entropy Keeper: Decay-themed boss in the Entropy Crypt
  • Time Tyrant: The final boss controlling the flow of time itself

⚔️ Ultimate Artifacts

Defeat bosses to craft legendary time-manipulating gear:

  • Chronoblade: A sword that can skip enemy attacks
  • Time Tyrant's Mail: Chestplate that can rewind time to avoid fatal damage
  • Echoing Time Boots: Boots that create decoy afterimages when sprinting
  • Chrono Aegis: An activated buff artifact crafted from 4 mid-boss drops that provides major advantages against Time Tyrant (right-click to activate)
  • Unstable Pocket Watch: Swap speed effects with enemies

🛡️ ChronoDawn Custom Shields (3 tiers)

A tiered line of shields that fit the time-themed dimension — independent from the Chrono Aegis artifact:

  • Clockstone Shield (T1): 400 durability, base tier
  • Enhanced Clockstone Shield (T2): 600 durability, adds Speed I on each successful block
  • Entropy Crystal Shield (T3): 800 durability, adds Time Echo that auto-blocks the next hit within 5 seconds after a successful block
  • All tiers halve incoming Slowness / Weakness / Mining Fatigue duration while held, and raise to block faster than a vanilla shield on MC 1.21.5+
  • Crafted via an upgrade chain using Time Wood plank variants (Time Wood → Dark Time Wood → Ancient Time Wood)

📖 Chronicle Guidebook

  • Chronicle of Chrono Dawn: An in-game guidebook automatically given when entering the dimension
  • Custom UI: Browse categories, entries, and detailed information about the mod
  • Progressive Discovery: Learn about biomes, structures, bosses, items, and progression steps
  • Built-in System: Fully integrated custom guidebook with no external dependencies

👾 Custom Creatures

Chrono Dawn features unique mobs that replace vanilla spawns in the dimension:

  • Timeline Strider: Replaces Enderman - a time-distorted entity
  • Secondhand Archer: Replaces Skeleton - precise temporal marksman
  • Paradox Crawler: Replaces Spider - phase-shifting predator
  • Epoch Husk: Replaces Zombie - time-worn undead
  • Moment Creeper: Replaces Creeper - explosive time anomaly
  • Forgotten Minute: Flying hostile mob with unique AI
  • Chronal Leech: Hostile mob that drains time energy
  • Ticking Sheep: Replaces Sheep - shearable for light blue wool, wool regrows after eating grass
  • Chrono Bovine: Friendly cow-equivalent that drops cookable Chrono Bovine Meat
  • Chrono Ursid: Neutral polar-bear-equivalent sized to match vanilla polar bears
  • Temporal Caprid: Goat-equivalent mob
  • Timebound Rabbit: Small wildlife found in Plains and Faded Plains
  • Pulse Hog: Passive boar-like mob that can be bred
  • Secondwing Fowl: Chicken-based mob
  • Chrono Turtle: Friendly water creature
  • Glide Fish: Fish with cookable food items
  • Clockwork Sentinel: Armored construct that shrugs off Time Distortion. Drops Ancient Gears and sometimes Enhanced Clockstone
  • Temporal Wraith: Hostile spirit whose hits apply Slowness II
  • Floq: Slime-like hopper that lurks in the dark
  • Hourglass Golem: Rare heavy hitter that attacks when stared at or provoked, teleports when hurt, and drops Time Hourglasses
  • Time Keeper: Peaceful trader. Sells Time Compasses tuned to each dungeon for Clockstone and Time Crystals, plus Ender Pearls and saplings for Enhanced Clockstone

Read the full description on Modrinth →

Highlights

From source data

Game versions

Supports 14 Minecraft versions, the newest being 26.3.

Loaders

Runs on Fabric, Forge and NeoForge.

Footprint

Rated a light load on a server.

Chrono Dawn on Nxeon

From our catalogue
One-click install
Supported on Nxeon Minecraft servers. We download it from Modrinth, place it, and restart the server.
Server side
Required on the server
Server type needed
Fabric, Forge, NeoForge
Server load
light
Smallest plan we suggest
Minecraft — 2 GB (2 GB RAM). This follows our own load rating above, not a benchmark.
Latest build
0.15.0, released 2026-10-26

Game versions by loader

LoaderGame versionsNewest
NeoForge1.21.11 to 26.3 (4 versions)26.3
Fabric26.1.2 to 26.3 (3 versions)26.3

From 30 recorded builds of Chrono Dawn.

Recent builds

BuildReleasedGame versionsLoaders
0.15.02026-10-2626.3NeoForge
0.15.02026-10-2626.3Fabric
0.15.02026-10-2626.2NeoForge
0.15.02026-10-2626.2Fabric
0.15.02026-10-2626.1.2NeoForge
0.14.02026-10-2126.3NeoForge

Dependencies

  • Required: modrinth project lhGA9TYQ (modrinth, not in our catalogue)

Declared by the newest build that lists any. Required ones are installed with it on one-click installs.

Run Chrono Dawn on a Minecraft server

Pick a server or deploy a new one above; it is installed in one click.

What kind of mod it is

From the catalog
Listed on Modrinth as “Mods”

Creatures & NPCs

Adds or changes creatures, NPCs and how they behave.

Runs on your server

From source side support

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

Compatibility

Game
Minecraft
Loaders
FabricForgeNeoForge
Runs on
Serverrequired on the server
Game versions
26.3 and 13 earlier

Verified at the source

  • ✓ModrinthOfficial listing, checked 2026-10-27Open ↗
  • ✓Authorksoichiro, as published on Modrinth
  • ✓LicenseLGPL-3.0-onlyFree

Chrono Dawn, answered

Generated from the mod’s own source data.

Do my players need to install Chrono Dawn?

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

Which loaders does it support?

Fabric, Forge and NeoForge.

Is it free?

Yes. Chrono Dawn is free to download from Modrinth. Its license is LGPL-3.0-only.

How do I add it to my Nxeon server?

Use “Add to a server” on this page, or open NxLabs from your dashboard. We install it, restart your server and switch it on.

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Run Chrono Dawn on a Minecraft server.

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