Roguelike Adventures and Dungeons 2

What sets it apart

Roguelike Adventures and Dungeons 2, known as RAD2, is an exploration and combat pack by dreams01 for Minecraft 1.16.5 on Forge. The author calls it a spiritual successor to the original RAD, rebuilt for newer Minecraft versions.

The pack is about traveling, looting and fighting, not factories. The CurseForge page lists over 250 mods, more than 100 new biomes, 12 or more dimensions, dozens of dungeons and over 1,500 quests. Characters grow through skill leveling, relics and trinkets, while mob difficulty scales up over time.

Mods named on the project page include The Twilight Forest, The Undergarden, Blue Skies, Tropicraft, Atum 2, Ars Nouveau, Ice and Fire, Alex’s Mobs, Mowzie’s Mobs, Dungeon Crawl, Project MMO and Apotheosis.

Who it suits

It suits players who want an RPG-style world with many dimensions to clear and gear to collect, and who do not mind dying along the way.

Players looking for tech automation will find little of it here. The mod list on the project page is weighted toward mobs, structures, dimensions and magic.

Before you install

The author does not publish a client RAM recommendation on the project page or in the FAQ. The only memory figures there appear in hosting promotions, so they are not treated as requirements here.

The pack is still maintained. CurseForge shows a main file and a matching server pack dated October 1, 2026. Note the file naming: the pack’s own version number is 1.18, but the Minecraft version remains 1.16.5.

The project page asks people not to reupload the pack and says the author’s official packs are only on CurseForge. The wiki has install, common issues and FAQ pages that the author asks players to read before asking for help.

Playing with friends

An official server pack is published on the CurseForge project. The FAQ says there is no official public RAD2 server and suggests the server adverts channel on the author’s Discord for finding one. The project page also says LAN play is allowed.

The wiki has a page aimed at multiplayer users. It describes a known client display bug: some of the pack’s tweaked item stats and effects apply correctly on the server but are not shown to clients, and loading a single player world first sometimes fixes the display. It also notes that some items only stack with shift-click in multiplayer.

The FAQ says servers should keep online-mode set to true, because the money shop relies on player UUIDs and can crash in offline mode. It also explains that the Chunk Claim Block protects a chunk, with up to six claims active at once, but does not keep it loaded.