# Announcing Enigmatic Skies!
### **The Enigmatica Team is proud to present Enigmatic Skies, our new expert style sky block experience! Join us in the blue for a breath of fresh air!**
Venture to the edge of the blue in Enigmatica’s new twist on an old classic: Sky Block. Enigmatic Skies is a progression-based modpack with one simple goal. Getting there will be anything but simple, however, as you struggle to survive in this frigid void with limited water.
In a world devoid of monsters, the only real threat is the cold itself; keeping yourself warm will be an ongoing challenge as you progress. Use your alchemical knowledge to bring to life villagers who will assist in your endeavor through custom trades. Transmute living creatures, from the mundane to the monstrous, to create the materials you’ll need for building complex machinery and accessing more powerful magics.
Finally, you’ll harness the very powers of creation as your efforts converge on your final goal, creating the World Seed.
Features:
* Environmental heating and cooling mechanics using **Cold Sweat**. Stay warm or die trying!
* Feed your villagers complex meal kits to access their fully **custom trades** for goods available nowhere else.
* Enjoy **automated villager trading**: keep those villagers fed to keep their supplies flowing.
* Harness powerful spells with **Ars Nouveau** to create items to trade with your friendly Alakarkinos.
* Perform **custom monster transmutations** using **Occultism**, **Malum**, **Genetics**, and **Ender IO**.
* Build complex power infrastructure with **Modern Industrialization**; from simple steam boilers to fantastical fusion power.
* Produce **water** from **clouds**, **melons**, and even **recycled waste** to feed your power infrastructure and resource production.
### Good luck and have fun 🥳
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# Announcing Enigmatica 9: Expert!
The Enigmatica Modpacks Team is pleased to present Enigmatica 9: Expert!
Come along with us to lands both familiar and new in the next installment in the Enigmatica Expert series.
The Tree of Life has been a font of magical energy in these lands since time immemorable. As magic begins to wane, it has become clear that the Druids of the Wilden Grove, whose stewardship has kept the tree healthy all these eons, have gone missing. Your Coven has sent you to set things right once more.
Begin your trek in the Twilight Forest, a somber land in decline, and face off against the creatures that now dwell there. Prove yourself, forge alliances with what amicable Fae remain, and restore the Tree of Life to its former glory.
#### Features:
• Experience a world where magic rules all, where all power is generated from Potions using a unique combination of Natures Aura, Ars Nouveau, and Enigmatic Unity.
• Prepare to delve deep into the earth, excavating ore and refining it through a fully customized and tiered ore processing system which blends aspects from multiple mods together for an exceptionally rewarding experience.
• Summon forth an army of friendly familiars to do everything from moving items and potions around, to defending you in combat.
• Fend off custom Apotheosis bosses, mini-bosses, and other deadly creatures to explore dungeons overflowing with custom loot to assist your quest.
• Pit yourself against waves of deadly creatures and customized bosses using Occultism rituals to summon custom rifts from Gateways to Eternity.
### Good luck and have fun!
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## Release on 11 August 2023
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# Release of Enigmatica 9!
### Enigmatica 9 is now available, at long last :smile:
We hope you'll check it out!
We're keeping the modpack slim(-ish) this time around, to give ourselves time to really work with the content mods we've chosen.
Work on Enigmatica 9: Expert has begun, but there's still a ton left to do.
In my [last blog post](/minecraft-1.19) I stated that E8 would go out of support as soon as E9 dropped, but I've since then reconsidered. E8 will receive at least one more update before we stop development on it.
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# Minecraft 1.19
Now that Minecraft 1.19 is out I thought I'd make an announcement regarding our plans for the future versions. The release of Minecraft 1.19 kinda caught me off guard to be honest, I didn't think it'd be ready so soon but here we are :sweat\_smile:
We will begin working on Enigmatica 9 for Minecraft 1.19 as soon as a handful of good mods are available.
When we begin on E9, we will sadly stop development on Enigmatica 8. It's likely that [the update we've been working on](/the-state-of-enigmatica-8) will never be released, but we'll see.
Enigmatica 6 will remain supported of course, and will receive updates whenever needed.
Thanks for reading.
\- Niller
# The State of Enigmatica 8
Hey folks, since Enigmatica 8 hasn't been updated in quite a while I thought I'd give an update on where it's at, and what I'm planning.
I've been struggling to find time for modpack development ever since my family expanded 6 months ago. :sweat\_smile: The little time I could muster up I focused on Enigmatica 6: Expert, at the expense of E8 sadly.
But now that the active development phase of E6E is slowly dwindling down, I thought I'd jump back into E8 and try to bring it some new life.
I began working on Enigmatica 8 v2.0.0 today, updating it to Minecraft 1.18.2 and making a bunch of changes in the process. This update will **not be compatible with old worlds.**
My aim for E8 v2 is to make it focused on exploring and adventuring, with a wide range of dungeon and worldgen mods. It will of course also include a nice selection of tech and magic mods, as the Enigmatica packs always do. :grin:
Thanks for your continued patience. and thanks for reading!
\- Niller
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At the moment there are no plans to make an expert mode for Enigmatica 8, as we simply won't have the time to make it before Minecraft 1.19 is released and we begin on Enigmatica 9.
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# E6E Release
Enigmatica 6: Expert is now officially released, and available on the CurseForge App!
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# Announcing Enigmatica 6: Expert!
The next great Expert experience has arrived and you are cordially invited to join in the adventure!
The Enigmatica Modpacks Team is pleased to present, Enigmatica 6: Expert!
#### Features:
• Experience a finely tuned pack with mods that have been carefully chosen and painstakingly integrated with custom recipes and lovingly crafted art assets that create a cohesive experience of mods playing well together. As well as a highly rewarding quest book that will bring even a novice player up to speed on some of the finest mods 1.16 has to offer.
• Progress through a hand-built mod progression that interweaves magic and technology in unique and unexpected ways, featuring massive custom Masterful Machines, thousands of modified recipes, and separate quest lines to guide the way.
• Delve into magical reactors run by spirits of the Otherworld and dangerous fission reactors kept running by your ingenuity alone as a fully re-tuned and re-balanced energy system will leave your machines hungry for more.
• Fend off custom Apotheosis bosses and other dangerous critters to explore numerous dungeons overflowing with custom loot to help you on your way.
• Prepare for epic battles with the ancient Pharaohs of Atum, the flesh devouring Masticator of Undergarden, and the Wilden Chimera, all in the name of regaining the lost knowledge of the ancients necessary to master the arcane arts.
• Find and breed custom Resourceful Bees whose delicious gifts will be vital in your ultimate quest.
### Good luck and have fun!
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## Release on 11. March 2022
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