Excalibur | Clarent Edition

As Excalibur forges ahead, Clarent preserves the past.

Clarent is a lightweight unofficial patch for Maffhew’s Excalibur v1.21.8. Clarent preserves the Excalibur experience by backporting features, fixing bugs, and maintaining compatibility across Minecraft versions. It also serves as the foundation of The Round Table — a growing collection of modular expansions that enhance and extend Excalibur’s reach.

What Clarent Brings to Your Adventure

Compatibility

• Full support for Excalibur 1.21.8
• Works with Minecraft 1.20.0 – 1.21.8
• Supports Excalibur | Fresh Animations (Results may vary until EFA updates)

  Recent Bug Fixes 

• Finally corrected all known Chest issues
• Backported new Bat model and texture
• Improved Item Model consistency when holding some Items
• Improved CIT support
• Improved backport support
• And more
• If you spot an issue, reporting it helps keep Clarent polished and strong!  

Mod Support 

Clarent includes visual improvements and compatibility patches for many popular mods:

• Better Mod List
• Cherished Worlds
• Dynamic Trees - minor compatibility fix
• Eating Animation
• Extended Drawers
• Fabric Skyboxes
• Falling Leaves
• Guard Villagers - Based on textures by TimothyWiggins
• Inventory Management
• Jade
• LambdaBetterGrass - Grassy Blocks and Fences
• RP Renames
• Subtle Effects
• Xaero’s Minimap / World Map
• and more

Mod support may vary slightly depending on Minecraft version and mod updates. 

Clarent Load Order

💡 Recommended Load Order for Best Compatibility:

1. Excalibur
2. Excalibur | Clarent Edition (required)
3. (Any other optional packs should load above Clarent.)

Important:

• Clarent must load directly above Excalibur.
• Other addons should load above Clarent.

About The Round Table

The Round Table is a gathering of resource packs crafted around Excalibur and expanded by GrandPappyJay, offering broader version compatibility, additional visual variants, and small touches of expansion — all designed to stay true to the heart of Excalibur’s world.

Minecraft Compatibility

1.20.0 – 1.20.1

• Clarent: Clarent_1218.4.A
• Echoes Through Time: Development versions available in Discord
• Fresh Animations Patch: EFA_215.4.a

1.20.2 – 1.21.2

• Clarent: Clarent_1218.4.B
• Echoes Through Time: Development versions available in Discord
• Fresh Animations Patch: EFA_215.4.b

1.21.3 – 1.21.8

• Clarent: Clarent_1218.4.B
• Echoes Through Time: Development versions available in Discord
• Fresh Animations Patch: EFA_215.4.b

Listen closely… echoes are stirring beyond the horizon.

Pack Versioning Explained

Each Clarent download follows this structure:

[ Excalibur Version ] . [ Pack Build ] . [ Support Variant ]

Example:
Clarent_1216.2.A.zip

📜 Part Breakdown

• 1216 — Excalibur Version Supported (Excalibur 1.21.6)
• 2 — Clarent Build Number (Second full release for this Excalibur version)
• A / B — Compatibility Variant (Pre/Post-Overlay MC Versions)

🔹 Compatibility Variants

• A — 1.20.0–1.20.1 (Pre-Overlay)
• B — 1.20.2–1.21.8 (Post-Overlay)

Choose your download based on your Minecraft version and any optional addon packs you are using.

Excalibur Community & Credits

Join the Community

Have a bug to report?
An idea to share?
Or just want to chat about Excalibur?

Join the Official Excalibur Discord Server

Adventure awaits — and every voice shapes the journey!

Credits

Special thanks to the amazing creators who made this addon possible:

• Maffhew – Creator of Excalibur
• TrinalDust – Inspiration and help in getting the project started

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• Maffhew — Modrinth   |   CurseForge
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• TeeCee — Modrinth   |   CurseForge
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Licensing

Clarent is a fan-made patch, shared under the terms of Excalibur’s license.

In accordance with Excalibur's licensing:

• You may not redistribute this pack and claim it as your own.
• You may not redistribute this pack without a link to this thread.
• You may not put money-making links such as adf.ly links with this work under any circumstances.
• You may not use this work for commercial purposes.
• You may not alter, transform, or build upon this work.
• You may use this pack as a part of any Minecraft-related video including those which are created for commercial purposes or are monetized by advertising.

Any of the above conditions can be waived if you get permission from Matthew (Maffhew) Dillow.

More updates coming soon…