Anachronistic Wilds FAQ

You need to craft a Paleontology Toolkit and the Paleonomicon guidebook to begin excavating fossils and learning about the mod's mechanics.

You locate buried fossils and complete a timed excavation minigame using specialized excavation tools before the timer runs out.

Time Fractures are naturally spawning space-time rifts that unleash dangerous hostile abominations into the Overworld, which you must defeat to collect ritual components.

You construct a summoning altar block structure using ritual components gathered from defeated abominations, then perform a time ritual at the altar to bring ancient creatures into the world.

Yes, if you summon a second creature of the same species, you can tame, house, and breed them to repopulate extinct species in your own wildlife sanctuary.

The mod features ancient marine life like Trilobites and Anomalocaris, land beasts like Dodos and Borealopelta, flightless birds like Elephant Birds, and ancient plants such as Calamites and Prototaxites fungi.