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-# modfest-1-17
-The official ModFest 1.17 modpack!
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+Transportation, Construction, Myths!<br/>
+A collaboration between 38 modders, as hosted by <a href="https://modfest.net">ModFest</a>.
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+**ModFest 1.17** was a mod development jam that ran from June 18th through July 4th, 2021.
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+This modpack contains all submissions, as well as a showcase world built by participants to show off their mods!
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+**Key Features**:
+- Witness the dawn of 31 mods, including **Automobility**, **Lovely Snails**, **Barren Isles**, and **Bing Bing Wahoo**!
+- Explore dense vanilla terrain with mod "booths" down the street, around the corner, and just a zip away!
+- Traverse the map via main roads, interchanges, bridges, ramps, and ziplines!
+- Find up to 103 collectable "taters" scattered around the map 
+- Hop between each of the booths via the underground mod hub!
+- Get stuck in traffic!
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+<img width="50%" alt="airfield preview" src="https://cdn.modrinth.com/data/J8ZigqmW/images/6011594712c08665ec8e8ad984ac83748bb8154c.png"/><br/>
+<i>Born to mod, forced to race... have fun!</i>
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+ModFest is made possible by the modding community.<br/>
+A full list of credits for each submitted mod can be found on the [submissions page](https://modfest.net/1.17/submissions).
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+This modpack and world was originally showcased on a multiplayer server in the summer of 2021.</br>
+Check out the [ModFest website](https://modfest.net) to see more events, or join [our discord](https://discord.gg/gn543Ee) to tour or participate in the next event live!