Independent development across games, mods, modpacks, music and technology.
Extra Special Studio is an independent creative studio. Minecraft mods and modpacks are one pillar. Music (Parallel Horizons) sits beside them. Software — Extra Special Web and other tools — is how we reuse what we build. Technology in Minecraft (ESL, ESN, ESC, ESH) stays on Mods.
Mods
Minecraft mods and the Extra Special stack, plus Skills of Ashenfall for RuneScape: Dragonwilds.
Modpacks
Creatopia Unbound and C.ideas on CurseForge.
Music
Parallel Horizons. Albums and singles as they exist — no filler catalogues.
Shop
Prints and goods, printed to order. Payment stays on the shop.
Games
Games will be listed here when there is something public to show.
Software
Extra Special Web and other studio tools. Not Minecraft mods.
Studio prints
Quiet prints and goods, printed to order. No ads — just the catalogue on the studio site.
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Latest
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Dead Air 3.0.1 and Radio Towers 1.3.1
Forge 1.20.1 and NeoForge 1.21.1. Dead Air 3.0.1 drops the unused Simple Voice Chat soft-dep and ships with Radio Towers 1.3.1. Radio Towers 1.3.1 fixes NeoForge loading (lobby listeners subscribe to concrete ESL lobby events). Also: Lootr Liaison 1.3.0 Forge 1.18.2 / 1.19.2 jars reuploaded with correct Lootr / Artifacts ranges, and WhatLIB? 1.0.1 is now on Forge 1.16.5.
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WhatLIB? 1.0.1 ports
WhatLIB? 1.0.1 across the ESS loader matrix, including Forge 1.16.5. Live on CurseForge for Forge 1.16.5 / 1.18.2 / 1.19.2 / 1.20.1 / 1.20.4 and NeoForge 1.20.6 / 1.21.1 / 1.21.4 / 1.21.10 / 1.21.11 / 26.1 / 26.2 / 26.3. Needs ESL + ESC; ESH optional for F9 → UTILITY.
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Lootr Liaison 1.3.0 ports
Lootr Liaison 1.3.0 ports where Lootr ships. Live on CurseForge across the matrix, including corrected Forge 1.18.2 and 1.19.2 jars (Lootr / Artifacts version ranges match those Minecraft lines). Still needs Lootr; Artifacts stays optional for the mimic gate.
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Dead Letters 1.1.0
Forge 1.20.1 and NeoForge 1.21.1. Compatible with AzureLib 3.2.0. Still needs Extra Special Core, Lootr, and Lootr Liaison 1.3+.
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Dead Air 3.0.0
Forge 1.20.1 and NeoForge 1.21.1. The Listener, Signal Breaker, Emergency Broadcasts, survivors with party HUD, and camp décor. Soundtrack expansion packs work on dedicated servers. Needs ESL 1.2.0+, ESC 2.1.0+, and RadioTowers 1.3.0+. Trailer: https://youtu.be/a8XrjZXm2S0
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Dead Air stations on NeoForge 1.21.1
After Hours FM, Block Beats FM, Broken Youth Radio, Frontline FM, Iron Rain FM, and Wayfarer Radio 1.1.1, plus Zero Gravity 1.0.1, are on CurseForge for NeoForge 1.21.1. Dead Air stays optional. Pip-Boy Radio Conversion is not in this upload.
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ESL 1.2.0, ESC 2.1.0, Radio Towers 1.3.0
Forge 1.20.1 and NeoForge 1.21.1. ESL 1.2.0 can keep a site chunk loaded. ESC 2.1.0 adds a hold-to-aim action wheel other mods can register. Radio Towers 1.3.0 adds Boss Mode and Endless Mode tabs on Call Airdrop, locked until Dead Air reports Listener progress, and grounded wrecks sit nose-down.
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Skills of Ashenfall for Dragonwilds
Our first RuneScape: Dragonwilds mods are out. Historian 1.0.0 is the first original custom skill in Dragonwilds: levels 1 to 25, trained by collecting lore scraps, journals and place records. Horticulture 1.0.0 opens at Historian 25 and Farming 25 and lets you graft cuttings onto crops and trees, so yes, you can grow potatoes in an ash tree. Both run on ESL:DragonWilds 1.0.0, which also adds an Action Wheel (hold Z). All three are on CurseForge and GitHub.
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Studio prints on the site
The Extra Special Studio shop is live on the site: quiet prints, pillows, throws, and small goods, printed to order. Browse by theme — vintage geometric, calm home, under £10 — then pay on the till.
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Airdrop lobby
Radio Towers 1.2.4 adds an optional shared-server lobby: invite, ready, countdown, then Go. Solo lever calls are unchanged. Lobbied crates are members-only. ESL 1.1.0 holds the session. ESN carries the packets and is optional — without it, solo still works.
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ESL 1.1.0
Lobby sessions are now part of Extra Special Lib: reusable server-side parties with no packets or GUI. Forge 1.20.1 and NeoForge 1.21.1. First consumer is the Radio Towers airdrop lobby.
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ESN 1.0.1
Extra Special Network is public on CurseForge for Forge 1.20.1 and NeoForge 1.21.1. 1.0.1 does not change the packet API. Lobby sessions stay in ESL.
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Dead Air 2.1.5
Forge 1.20.1 no longer fails to launch from an unused item mixin. NeoForge 1.21.1 is version-matched. Both are on CurseForge and GitHub.
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Extra Special Network (ESN)
ESN joins the Extra Special stack as the reusable multiplayer networking fabric — channels, packets, and fan-out with no feature types. Pair with ESL for sessions. First reference: Radio Towers airdrop lobby.
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Extra Special Tracker (EST)
New studio software: local Windows app for CurseForge + Modrinth downloads, GitHub issues, and Modrinth inbox. Tokens stay encrypted on your PC.
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Studio Discord
Extra Special Studio has a public Discord — modpack chat, mod help, and announcements. Same invite on CurseForge and Modrinth.
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Dead Letters 1.0.4
Forge 1.20.1 rebuild for Extra Special Core 2.x, plus NeoForge 1.21.1 port. Download on CurseForge or Modrinth.
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Modpacks on the studio site
Creatopia Unbound and C.ideas are listed under Modpacks, with CurseForge as the download page.
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Studio site is live
extraspecialstudio.co.uk is the public home for Extra Special Studio — games, mods, music, and the people behind them.
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Source on GitHub
Minecraft mods ship from the Extra Special Studio GitHub organisation. Radio Towers is a companion to Dead Air, not an Extra Special Studio mod.
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Extra Special hub stack
ESL, ESC, and ESH are the shipped hub layers. ESN is the networking fabric in development. ESG is still in development. ESB is planned, not released.
