The Minecraft Homestead modpack is one of the game's most beloved cozy experiences. It features tons of quests, vibrant landscapes from its custom world generation, new resources to gather, excellent support for building the base of your dreams, and plenty more. It's also rounding the corner to its next massive update, Homestead 2.0! Here's everything you need to know about the Minecraft Homestead 2.0 update.

Minecraft Homestead 2.0 Release Date

The Minecraft Homestead 2.0 release date is Friday, October 23rd, which means it's available now for all players!

Should You Start a New World for Homestead 2.0?

CozyStudios has "HIGHLY recommended" starting a new world for Homestead 2.0 so you can fully enjoy the new biome and world gen mods. But if you'd rather play on your existing world, back it up before you start the update and follow the development team's migration instructions to minimize the risk of losing progress or running into issues, and pay special attention to the storage mod instructions, as these can cause serious issues for existing worlds. You can find these migration instructions in their own section here. If you're playing on a BisectHosting server and have questions, reach out anytime via our 24/7 live chat for help with the update!

What is Coming in Minecraft Homestead 2.0?

Minecraft Homestead 2.0 will be the final content update for the beloved Minecraft modpack, Homestead. According to lead developer Tokimi, "After this, no more mods or content will be added or removed." But while it marks the end of new content additions, it's not the end of support for the modpack overall. "Homestead is not being abandoned, we'll still push out bug fixes and hotfixes whenever issues come up." Tokimi also announced that CozyStudios has another new pack in the works, expected within roughly 6 to 9 months, with more news later this year or next. So what does the Minecraft Homestead 2.0 update include?

Extended Day/Night Cycle

Homestead 2.0 introduces an extended day/night cycle thanks to the Better Days mod. Each full cycle now lasts 40 minutes, with 25 minutes of daytime and 15 minutes of nighttime. This gives players more time to farm, explore, and complete quests and activities during the day.

Overhauled End Dimension

The End dimension receives a major overhaul in Homestead 2.0, adding Echoes of the End structures and Endercon. These mods change world generation while offering new structures to discover and explore in The End. Eldritch End was also removed due to performance and compatibility problems.

Flowing Rivers (Streams Reflowing)

Prepare to hit the water, as rivers are getting a visual upgrade thanks to Streams Reflowing. This will introduce naturally flowing rivers that head toward oceans, ensuring world generation creates more immersive environments.

New Music Systems

Homestead 2.0 turns up the tunes with improvements for the Jukebox and the newly introduced Boombox for audio directly from YouTube video links, perfect for music. The Jukebox now also features a custom interface that lets players play, pause, skip, and even queue up music discs, and there will be 50+ new ambient sound discs.

Horse Overhaul

Horses are also being overhauled in Homestead 2.0, thanks to the Icy's Better Horses mod, with a new dedicated quest system to help introduce players to the changes.

New Bakery Content

The addition of the new mod Let's Do Bakery will add exciting baking content to Homestead 2.0, including its own questline for players to complete to truly master the art and earn that apron.

Enchanting Improvements

Homestead 2.0 introduces the Better Enchantment Bookshelf Placement mod, which will be a massive QOL improvement, making enchanting rooms more flexible than ever, allowing bookshelves to contribute to power from up to 16 blocks in any direction (within line of sight). Get level 30 enchantments without the headaches of design restrictions.

Quest System Overhaul

Quests are getting some big changes in Homestead 2.0, and not only just from the newly added questlines. The update will also include a visual overhaul of FTB Quests, and several existing questlines now feature sequential progression, which means players must work through them in order rather than unlocking them freely, unifying the questing experience.

Gameplay & World Improvements

Beyond the above, Homestead 2.0 also introduces many smaller gameplay and world improvements. Mystical berries can now be found in Lush Caves so players can tame Mystical Elk without relying on the Mystical Trader alone, springwater can now form infinite sources so players won't have to always travel to mountain areas, Farmer's Delight rich soil offers a stronger boost to growth, and the Eroded Borealis and Shattered Glacier biomes have been re-enabled.

Minecraft Homestead 2.0 Patch Notes (Full)

Now that we've gone over some of the highlight changes in Homestead 2.0, let's get into the full patch notes!

Added Mods & Datapacks

• Better Days
• Dyed End
• Better End Rod
• Echoes of The End (Structures)
• Endercon
• Streams Reflowing
• SpawnFilter
• Soundscape
• The Ultimate Compat Mod
• Let's Do: Bakery
• Colored Water
• Enchant Descriptions Compat
• Farmer's Delight Cutting Compat
• Supplementaries Compat
• No Chat Restrictions
• Icy's Better Horses
• Fast Noise
• BEBPM
• Tokimi's Boatyard

Removed Mods & Datapacks

• Eldritch End
• Extra Thicc Packets
• WATUT
• Iron Chests: Restocked
• Ksyxis
• Storage Drawers
• FastQuit
• Copper Age Backport (Vanilla Backport now covers Trial Chambers and the rest of that Minecraft drop. ⚠️ Game-breaking: any Copper Age Backport blocks or items in your world will disappear when you update. There's no way to save them, just a heads up so you're not surprised.)

Added

• Added a brand new questline for the new overhaul of horses from the Icy's Better Horses mod
• Added a brand new questline pertaining to Let's Do: Bakery called Bread & Butter
• Added a brand new "Whats New?/Game Breaking Changes" page for the update
• Added a whole new theme to FTB Quests to match the theme of the pack
• Added a Global Background to all FTB Quests lines to make them stand out more and add to the new theme
• Added some easter eggs for a future project in the Roots Take Hold book from questline #1 (completely changed the writing as well as it was junk filler)
• Added the Funny Looking Gummy song as a music disc in the pack for the tokimi community <3
• Added a fun little easter egg with a certain particular plushie
• Added a brand new creator plushie <3
• Added some more creator plushies!
• Added some more community member plushies
• Added some new secret variant plushies
• Added all the plushies into the wandering plushie trader's trades
• Added a custom Essence Infusion JEI tab for the Squish mod so you can see the recipes for all of the essences
• Added a CraftTweaker script to add recipes for the impossible-to-get colored birch saplings (you are welcome lol)
• Added a Warped Milk recipe to make it easier to get
• Added a custom recipe for Warped Wool
• Added a custom recipe for Sunflower seeds
• Added all Let's Do: Vinery Wine Racks to the Carry On config for forbidden pickups
• Added sophisticatedstorage:*, sophisticatedbackpacks:*, and sophisticatedcore:* to the blacklist of the CarryOn config file to remove all the lost items/disappearing enchants bug it caused
• Added the Let's Do: Brewery brewingstations to the CarryOn config for forbidden pickups as it caused duplication issues
• Added the Booze boss from Let's Do: Brewery to the Tranquil Lantern immune tag so it doesn't get killed by a nearby lantern
• Added some more tips to the tips page of the quest book including Clutter elytras, wireless terminal from Tom's Simple Storage, and the compat workbench
• Added more tips to the tips page explaining the Mob Griefing Gamerules and the Tool Manual from Tokimi's Toolshed
• Added some more tips to the tips page

Quest Book Translations

Huge thank you to the community translators who contributed to this update. Added:

• Hungarian (Thank you T1TAN)
• Bulgarian (Thank you LotusDeicide)
• Russian (Thank you Kel)
• Ukrainian (Thank you prOFFix)

On the way in future updates:

• Spanish
• Portuguese
• German
• French
• Chinese
• Japanese

Changed

• Revamped Hexalia Questline
• Updated the CozyStudios Core mod Tips page with all the new info on all things brand new there
• Updated the Welcome to Homestead book
• Edited the Welcome Screen
• Updated alot of the old skins of the team members plushies
• Updated the Hardcore hearts color to not match normal vanilla hearts in the Homestead GUI resource pack
• Extended the day/night cycle (daytime now lasts 25 minutes, and nighttime lasts 15 minutes)
• Adjusted the Stutter Fix settings to make it have more CPU headway to help with stuttering on mid-high end devices while also keeping low end devices at a good spot
• The First Sprout, The Heart of the Homestead, Seasoned and Settled, Tidy Corners, and The Portable Life quests are now (again) connected in a way where you have to work your way through the quests. Not just unlock them at any time. It was this way in the beginning, I reverted it due to some hate, but I want to keep the identity/theme of the pack the way it was supposed to be.
• Made Mystical Berries a part of world gen so that they are now findable in the world and you aren't only dependent on the mystical trader spawning to be able to tame the Mystical Elk. Find them in Lush Caves as a rare berry!
• Spring Water is now possible to be an infinite source, no more needing to travel back and forth to mountains to get a bunch of it
• Added more durability to the Winemaker gear from Let's Do: Vinery and also turned down its durability usage for the bonemeal effect down to 1 per to make it feel more useful
• Made hat bags more rare from both mobs and chest loot as they cluttered inventory quite a bit, and were too easy to get
• Tweaked Farmers Delight Rich Soil boost from 0.2 to 0.8 in config so it feels more rewarding to use rich soil over normal dirt
• Changed the spark config default for backgroundProfiler to false to stop crashing on Mac/Linux devices (thank you ayrcs.)
• Turned the Amendments config values for Jukebox to false due to our Soundscape mod
• Changed FTBQuests config detection_delay from 20 to 0
• Changed MoreCulling Mod Compatibility config off for Hexalia, was causing some invisible block stuff
• Changed the RightClickHarvest config value hungerLevel to NORMAL
• Turned sugi_and_stratified_pillars config value for Natures Spirit to false
• Turned off Sulfur Cube spawning in the Vanilla Backport config since they were causing a massive lag spike (waiting on the mod dev for a proper fix before turning them back on)
• Changed Unlimited Fullscreen Zoom-out and Unlimited Fullscreen Zoom-in to ON in Xaero's World Map config settings
• Turned back on the Eroded Borealis and Shattered Glacier biomes from OTBWG
• Cleaned up all old configs out of the modpack

Removed

• Removed Hexalia CraftTweaker scripts/kubejs scripts
• Removed Mythic Upgrades custom CraftTweaker scripts due to the mod making things like 10000x better
• Removed some kubejs custom items and recipes due to Obsidian Equipment Reworked making the diamond, obsidian, netherite progression canon
• Removed the End Ocean of the Dimensional Tears as it caused massive lag in the end
• Removed the RAM lines on the loading screen as Fancy Menu kinda broke it
• Removed Rubber rings from loot tables to stop confusion on when they are found and disappear from players hands (cozystudios core mod)
• Removed key_key.inventoryhud.toggle as default keybind

Fixed

• Fixed AlcoCraft Keg Shader issue (thank you itzme1on)
• Fixed Discord and Github links on Main Menu page
• Fixed the Trowel tip on the Tip page in the QuestBook
• Fixed the Excavators tip on the Tip page in the QuestBook
• Fixed all of the Mythic Upgrades quests to line up with the new mod update
• Fixed the flour CraftTweaker script to line up with the Hexalia changes
• Finally fixed all compat between all crops/foods to all work cohesively between one another between Farmers Delight and Farm & Charm
• Finally fixed all compat between all the duplicate woods
• Fixed all Farm & Charm quests to line up with the fixes on compatibility between crops/foods
• Fixed the issue of spawning on top of trees
• Fixed the Echoes of the Void quest that gave an unknown item from betterend (mod was removed very early on, missed the quest reward)
• Fixed all quests that had to do with the removed items/blocks due to the compat mod fixing it all
• Fixed the all-time JEI-Questbook-View Recipe-Bug! (fixed within the cozy core mod)
• Fixed some Amendments compatibility within the Soundscape mod (amendments was overriding alot of Jukebox stuff)
• Fixed Tomato seeds/other crops not being able to be planted on modded dirt farmland (cozystudios core mod)
• Fixed the Farm & Charm Sprinkler to work on the modded farmlands as well (cozystudios core mod)
• Fixed Clutter Kiwi trees not spawning (now they do!)
• Fixed Clutter planks not being able to craft sticks (now they do!)
• Fixed pause menu text being cut off from the Fancy Menu update
• Fixed carry on config to not pick up any Hexalia items as shift is needed
• Fixed the Construction Wands config value ShiftOpt to true to stop the shift issue
• Fixed the quests having to do with Obsidian equipment due to the mod making the features innate and no longer through custom kubejs stuff
• Fixed some plushies with some missing arms/pixels
• Fixed some more Create Deco recipes that were missing from the mod
• Fixed broken Hexalia, Incendium, and Towns and Towers loot tables
• Fixed the Imbued logs from OTBWG to be broken with the tree when falling
• Fixed an issue with Chipped loot tables being duplicated by explosions
• Fixed the Sophisticated Storage packing tape double chest duplication glitch (FINALLY)
• Fixed a Brewery issue where the Booze wouldn't spawn naturally when brewing beer wrong (it finally spawns now)
• Fixed Squish Essence from Squish not being shown as a valid recipe in JEI when searching
• Fixed some biomes from RU and OTBWG that were broken with a datapack
• Fixed the Realistic Bees beehive crash (was caused by Incendium)
• Fixed the Black Ice xray hack bug from OTBWG
• Fixed some recipes from Let's Do: Bakery Farm & Charm Compat because the Glaze Cookies were un-gettable
• Fixed some typos in the questbook descriptions

Updated / Downgraded Mods

• • 3D Skin Layers → 1.11.4
  • AlcoCraft+ → 2.1.1
  • AmbientSounds → 6.3.11
  • Balm → 7.3.44
  • Beautify: Refabricated → 3.0.0
  • Chat Heads → 0.15.7
  • Collective → 8.40
  • Colorwheel → 1.3.0
  • Common Network → 1.0.6
  • Complimentary Reimagined Shaders → r5.9.3
  • C2ME → 0.2.0+alpha11.18
  • Construction Wand → 2.1.3
  • CozyStudios Core → 2.7
  • Crate Delight → 26.07.01
  • CraterLib → 3.1.3
  • Create: Copycats+ → 3.0.10
  • Create: Steam 'n' Rails → 1.7.3
  • CreativeCore → 2.12.41
  • Decorative Lamps → 1.8.1
  • Default Options → 18.0.6
  • Drippy Loading Screen → 3.1.5
  • Entity Culling → 1.11.3
  • Euphoria Patches → 1.10.5
  • Fabric → 0.19.5
  • Fabric API → 0.92.12
  • Fabric Language Kotlin → 1.14.1
  • Fairy Lights → 1.1.5
  • FancyBeds → 4.2
  • FancyMenu → 3.9.14
  • Fetzi's Asian Decoration → 1.8.2.1
  • Friends&Foes → 5.0.3
  • FroglightsReimagined → 1.0
  • Fzzy Config → 0.7.7
  • Geophilic → 3.7
  • Hexalia → 1.3.8.1
  • ImmediatelyFast → 1.5.5
  • Immersive Furniture → 0.3.3
  • Jade → 11.13.3
  • Jade Addons → 5.5.2
  • JamLib → 1.3.6-patch.1
  • JEBr → 3.0.1
  • JEI → 15.56.0.205
  • Macaw's Paths and Pavings → 1.1.2
  • MCPitanLib → 4.0.9
  • Mob Explosion Griefing Gamerule → 2.1.0
  • Moonlight Lib → 2.16.37
  • Mouse Wheelie → 1.16.3
  • Mythic Upgrades → 5.1.1
  • Neruina → 3.3.3

• No Chat Reports → 2.2.3
• Obsidian Equipment Reworked → 1.0
• OTBWG → 1.8.2
• Oh The Trees You'll Grow → 1.7.3
• Open Parties and Claims → 0.31.6
• Particle Rain → v4.0.2
• Platform → 1.4
• PneumonoCore → 1.3.1
• Repurposed Structures → 7.1.25
• Sawmill → 1.4.11
• SereneShrubbery → 1.2.1
• Simple Discord RPC → 4.1.4
• Simple Voice Chat → 2.6.22
• Squish → 1.1
• Starter Kit → 8.1
• Subtle Effects → 1.15.1-hotfix.1
• Sun and Moon Celestial Configuration → 1.1.2
• Tidal Towns → 2.0
• Tokimi's Toolshed → 1.8
• Tooltip Overhaul → 2.0.6
• Umbrellas → 1.4.4
• Vanilla Backport → 1.2
• Villages&Pillages → 2.0.0
• Xaero's Minimap → 26.5.0
• Xaero's World Map → 1.46.0