This guide is based on version 1.21.1. While most concepts apply to 1.20.1, there may be small differences due to mod updates.
| Mod Name | Addon For | Category | Description | Wiki |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BlockUI | Adventure & Exploration Mods | Easy to use UI library for Forge Mods | CurseForge | |
| When Dungeons Arise | Adventure & Exploration Mods | A massive dungeon generator that adds various dungeons and structures to the world for diverse adventures and challenges. | CurseForge | |
| Xptome | Adventure & Exploration Mods | Lets players store XP in a book for later use or safe keeping. | CurseForge | |
| Biomes 'O' Plenty | Adventure & Exploration Mods | Adds lots of new biomes. | CurseForge | |
| The Twilight Forest | Adventure & Exploration Mods | Adds a massive dimension filled with bosses, dungeons, and unique biomes. | CurseForge | |
| Waystones | Adventure & Exploration Mods | Adds Waystone teleporters for fast travel—supports bindings and visual effects. | CurseForge | |
| Create Crafts & Additions | Create | Building & Decoration | Electrifying the Create Mod! | CurseForge |
| Elytraslot + | Building & Decoration | Adds an elytra slot using the Curios or Trinkets API, allowing players to wear elytra without removing their chestplate. | CurseForge | |
| Macaws Bridges | Building & Decoration | Adds beautiful wooden and stone bridges for enhanced outdoor builds. | CurseForge | |
| Macaws Doors | Building & Decoration | Adds custom door styles and materials to match themed builds. | CurseForge | |
| Macaws Fences + Walls | Building & Decoration | Combines Macaw’s fences and doors into one mod for aesthetic variety. | CurseForge | |
| Macaws Fences and Walls | Building & Decoration | Adds aesthetic fence and wall blocks that pair with Macaw's other build mods. | CurseForge | |
| Macaw's Furniture | Building & Decoration | Adds functional and decorative furniture pieces to enhance interiors. | CurseForge | |
| Macaws Holidays | Building & Decoration | Adds christmas and halloween decorations, christmas tree, lights, garland, candy cane and more# | CurseForge | |
| Macaws Lights and Lamps | Building & Decoration | Adds functional and decorative lamps and light sources in different styles. | CurseForge | |
| Macaw's Painting | Building & Decoration | Adds customizable and thematic paintings for interior decoration. | CurseForge | |
| Macaws Paths and Pavings | Building & Decoration | Adds path blocks and pavings for landscaping and streets. | CurseForge | |
| Macaws Roofs | Building & Decoration | Introduces sloped roof blocks in various colors and styles for realistic home designs. | CurseForge | |
| Macaws Stairs | Building & Decoration | Adds stairs in decorative wood and stone variants. | CurseForge | |
| Macaws Trapdoors | Building & Decoration | Adds dozens of new trapdoor designs to match various wood types and aesthetics. | CurseForge | |
| Macaws Windows | Building & Decoration | Adds framed and decorative window blocks for building custom homes. | CurseForge | |
| Mcjtylib | Building & Decoration | A library mod by McJty required by mods like RFTools and Deep Resonance, providing common utilities and systems. | CurseForge | |
| Cable Facades | Building & Decoration | Façade support for all cables and blocks in the game | CurseForge | |
| Create | Building & Decoration | Offers a mechanical power system using rotational force, allowing for complex contraptions like automated farms, factories, and transportation systems. | Official Wiki | |
| Domum Ornamentum Snapshot Main | Building & Decoration | Provides skinnable blocks for building, supporting millions of unique block variants including stairs, slabs, walls, and fences. | CurseForge | |
| Aquaculture 2 | Food & Farming Mods | Spices up fishing with a number of new biome specific fish, recipes | CurseForge | |
| Corail Tombstone | Food & Farming Mods | Adds gravestones on death, with magic, soul-bound items, and teleportation features. | CurseForge | |
| FerriteCore | Food & Farming Mods | Reduces memory usage by optimizing game data structures. | CurseForge | |
| Cooking for Blockheads | Food & Farming Mods | Adds a multiblock kitchen that shows recipes you can make with what ingredient you have available. | CurseForge | |
| Better Fluid Pipes | Gameplay Tweaks | This mod adds realistic fluid pipes that show the fluid flowing inside the pipe | CurseForge | |
| Chisels & Bits | Gameplay Tweaks | Allows you to cut large blocks into smaller bits and place them back down in any way you like, enabling detailed custom block designs. | CurseForge | |
| CodeChicken Lib | Gameplay Tweaks | A library mod for Chicken-Bones mods, containing various libraries for 3D math and transformations, rendering, networking, configs, and more. | CurseForge | |
| Ender IO | Gameplay Tweaks | Combines tech and magic to provide conduits for item, fluid, and energy transport, along with machines for processing and automation. | CurseForge | |
| Entity Culling | Gameplay Tweaks | Hides entities not visible to the player to improve performance. | CurseForge | |
| Modonomicon | Gameplay Tweaks | A Thaumonomicon-style in-game documentation mod. Designed for modpack makers to create structured, interactive guides inside Minecraft. | CurseForge | |
| Refined Storage | Gameplay Tweaks | Provides a network-based storage system for managing items and fluids, featuring a user-friendly interface and automation capabilities. | Official Wiki | |
| Sereneseasons | Gameplay Tweaks | Adds seasonal changes including weather, crop growth stages, and visuals. | CurseForge | |
| Smartbrainlib | Gameplay Tweaks | AI utility library used to power advanced entity behaviors. | CurseForge | |
| Towntalk | Gameplay Tweaks | Likely related to NPC dialogue or village management. (More info needed). | CurseForge | |
| AppleSkin | Gameplay Tweaks | Shows detailed food values and saturation information in the HUD. | CurseForge | |
| Carry On | Gameplay Tweaks | Cary on allows you to pick up Tile Entities and mobs and carry them around. | CurseForge | |
| Enchantment Descriptions | Gameplay Tweaks | Shows in-game descriptions of enchantments for better clarity. | CurseForge | |
| Projecte | Gameplay Tweaks | A remake of Equivalent Exchange 2, ProjectE introduces transmutation tables, EMC, energy condensers, and alchemical tools for advanced automation. | CurseForge | |
| Treeharvester | Gameplay Tweaks | Enables trees to be chopped down by breaking only one block. | CurseForge | |
| Ring of Teleport | Gear & Combat Mods | Teleports player to a stored location upon use. | CurseForge | |
| Ring of the Miner | Gear & Combat Mods | Clears non-ore blocks (vein mining effect) while mining. | CurseForge | |
| Searchables | Gear & Combat Mods | Allows blocks like bookshelves to store and search for books. | CurseForge | |
| Ring of Growth | Gear & Combat Mods | A ring that accelerates crop growth in a configurable radius. | CurseForge | |
| Forgeendertech | Interface & Inventory Enhancements | A shared library required for all Endertech mods, such as Advanced Finders and Pollution of the Realms. Provides common functionalities for these mods. | CurseForge | |
| Guideme | Interface & Inventory Enhancements | A guidebook toolkit for mods and modpack makers, offering comfortable markdown formatting and live 3D scenes to create in-game guides and tutorials. | CurseForge | |
| Ironjetpacks | Interface & Inventory Enhancements | Adds customizable Forge Energy-powered jetpacks to Minecraft. Jetpacks are fully customizable and compatible with various energy systems. | CurseForge | |
| Jade Addons (Neo/Forge) | Jade | Interface & Inventory Enhancements | Adds extended mod support for Jade, integrating with mods like Create, Tinkers' Construct, SecretRoomsMod, and more to enhance information display. | CurseForge |
| JadeColonies | Jade | Interface & Inventory Enhancements | A Jade addon that adds support for MineColonies and Domum Ornamentum, displaying building names, levels, and material variants in tooltips. | CurseForge |
| JourneyMap | Interface & Inventory Enhancements | Provides a real-time map of your world, including waypoints and minimap. | CurseForge | |
| Just Enough Resources | JEI | Interface & Inventory Enhancements | A JEI Addon that adds mob drops, ore gen to JEI | CurseForge |
| KubeJS | Interface & Inventory Enhancements | Edit recipes, add new custom items, script world events, all in JavaScript | CurseForge | |
| KubeJS Actually Additions | KubeJS | Interface & Inventory Enhancements | KubeJS Plugin for Actually Additions | CurseForge |
| KubeJS Mekanism | KubeJS | Interface & Inventory Enhancements | Adds scripting support for Mekanism machines: crushing, enriching, smelting, combining, purifying, injecting, sawing, infusing, crystallizing, dissolution, energy conversions, etc. | CurseForge |
| Kubejsprojecte | KubeJS | Interface & Inventory Enhancements | Provides KubeJS integration for ProjectE, enabling scripting access to EMC values, transmutation, and ProjectE mechanics. | CurseForge |
| LootJS: KubeJS Addon | KubeJS | Interface & Inventory Enhancements | Add functionality for packdevs to modify global loot modifications through KubeJS | CurseForge |
| Macaws Biomes'O'Plenty | Interface & Inventory Enhancements | A compatibility between Macaw's Mods and the different woods of Biomes'O'Plenty | CurseForge | |
| More Industrial Foregoing Addons | Industrial Foregoing | Interface & Inventory Enhancements | Introduces higher tiers of efficiency, processing, and speed addons, along with detailed tooltips | CurseForge |
| Mystical Aggraditions | Mystical Agriculture | Interface & Inventory Enhancements | Adds tier 6 crops, tinkers' support, Paxels and more to Mystical Agriculture | CurseForge |
| Rhino | Interface & Inventory Enhancements | A JavaScript engine used for mods like KubeJS. Allows scripting support through ECMAScript. | CurseForge | |
| Yungsbetterdungeons | Interface & Inventory Enhancements | Overhauls dungeon generation with new layouts and challenges. | CurseForge | |
| Inventory Sorter | Interface & Inventory Enhancements | Provides quick inventory sorting options. | CurseForge | |
| Just Enough Professions | JEI | Interface & Inventory Enhancements | Integrates villager profession info into JEI, showing required workstations and mod origins. | CurseForge |
| KubeJS EnderIO | KubeJS | Interface & Inventory Enhancements | Provides KubeJS integration for EnderIO, allowing script creators to access and modify EnderIO features. | CurseForge |
| Rftoolspower | RFTools | Interface & Inventory Enhancements | An RFTools add-on that focuses on power generation and management including coal generators and other energy systems. | CurseForge |
| Structurize | Interface & Inventory Enhancements | Provides building tools and structure management used by MineColonies. | CurseForge | |
| Architectury API | Library & Backend Mods | An intermediary API aimed to ease developing multiplatform mods | CurseForge | |
| Better Advancements | Library & Backend Mods | Successor to BetterAchievements for the new advancements system | CurseForge | |
| Bookshelf | Library & Backend Mods | An open source library for other mods! | Official Wiki | |
| Bridging Mod | Library & Backend Mods | Reacharound Placement (Bedrock Bridging) for Forge, Fabric, & Quilt | CurseForge | |
| Clumps | Library & Backend Mods | Clumps XP orbs together to reduce lag. | CurseForge | |
| Cyclopscore | Library & Backend Mods | A library mod required by mods like EvilCraft and Integrated Dynamics. It allows the declaration of custom recipes via XML and provides shared functionalities for other mods. | CurseForge | |
| Glitchcore | Library & Backend Mods | A library mod aimed at abstracting mod loaders and providing various utilities for mods developed by Glitchfiend, such as Biomes O' Plenty and Serene Seasons. | CurseForge | |
| Placebo | Library & Backend Mods | A library mod by Shadows_ that includes tweaks and utilities used across his mods. It also includes configurable features like stack size changes and potion tweaks. | CurseForge | |
| Prickle | Library & Backend Mods | Likely a small mod or library; details limited. Possibly adds gameplay mechanics related to cactus-like damage or custom entities. (Needs confirmation) | CurseForge | |
| Ring of Ascent | Library & Backend Mods | Grants flight/floating (2 min), no fall damage while in inventory; wall-climbing when held. | CurseForge | |
| Stitch | Library & Backend Mods | A crossplatform (Forge/Fabric) solution to connected block textures for 119.4+ | CurseForge | |
| The Aether | Library & Backend Mods | The aether team presents the original aether mod | CurseForge | |
| Toolbelt | Library & Backend Mods | Adds a toolbelt item for quick access to tools while exploring or building. | CurseForge | |
| Yungsapi | Library & Backend Mods | Library mod required by YUNG’s structure generation mods. | CurseForge | |
| AddonsLib | Library & Backend Mods | A library to facilitate registration between mods, in particular macaws | CurseForge | |
| Caelus | Library & Backend Mods | A coremod and API to provide developers access to elytra flight mechanics through qan entity attribute. | CurseForge | |
| Collective | Library & Backend Mods | Collective is a shared library mod containing common code for all of Serilum's mods. It centralizes data and functions to streamline maintenance across different mod loader versions, including Fabric, Forge, and NeoForge. | CurseForge | |
| Controlling | Library & Backend Mods | Adds a search bar to the key-bindings menu for easier control management. | CurseForge | |
| Curios API | Library & Backend Mods | Adds extra equipment slots — often used for magical artifacts and trinkets (especially Reliquary, Forbidden & Arcanus, etc.). | CurseForge | |
| Geckolib | Library & Backend Mods | An animation and rendering engine supporting complex 3D keyframe-based animations, concurrent animation support, sound and particle keyframes, and more. | CurseForge | |
| Patchouli | Library & Backend Mods | Essential for in-game guidebooks for magic systems (many of these mods support it). | CurseForge | |
| Terrablender | Library & Backend Mods | Used by mods like Biomes O' Plenty to blend new biomes with vanilla world generation. | CurseForge | |
| Titanium | Library & Backend Mods | Library mod by Buuz135 required for Industrial Foregoing and other mods. | CurseForge | |
| Yet Another Config Lib | Library & Backend Mods | Configuration framework used by several Forge mods. | Official Wiki | |
| Zerocore2 | Library & Backend Mods | Library mod used by mods like Extreme Reactors and Bigger Reactors. | CurseForge | |
| Apotheosis | Magic Mods | Enhances the enchantment system with new mechanics and powerful enchantments. | CurseForge | |
| Apothic Attributes | Apotheosis | Magic Mods | A library mod providing attributes and related things | CurseForge |
| Apothic Enchanting | Apotheosis | Magic Mods | Expands enchanting with new options and powerful enchantments. | CurseForge |
| Apothic Spawners | Apotheosis | Magic Mods | Customizes mob spawners with configurable spawn behavior. | CurseForge |
| Ars Additions | Ars Nouveau | Magic Mods | An Ars Nouveau addon focused on immersion and quality of life improvements | CurseForge |
| Ars artillery | Ars Nouveau | Magic Mods | An addon for Ars Nouveau that adds new decorative blocks and deployable defensive turrets | CurseForge |
| Ars Controle | Ars Nouveau | Magic Mods | Addon for Ars Nouveau focused on increasing control | CurseForge |
| Ars Creo | Ars Nouveau | Magic Mods | Integrates Ars Nouveau with Create for magical automation. | CurseForge |
| Ars Elemental | Ars Nouveau | Magic Mods | Ars Nouveau addon focused on the 4 elemental schools. New glyphs and spell foci awaits | CurseForge |
| Ars energistique | Ars Nouveau | Magic Mods | Bringing magic to the digital age. (ars Nouveau + AE2) | CurseForge |
| Ars Nouveau | Magic Mods | Craft custom spells, summon magical servants, and create powerful wearables and tools. | Official Wiki | |
| Ars Ocultas | Ars Nouveau | Magic Mods | Ars Nouveau integration for Occultism | CurseForge |
| Balm | Magic Mods | Abstraction layer for multiplatform mods | Official Wiki | |
| Mystical Agriculture | Magic Mods | Adds resource crops for more than 130+ vanilla & modded materials, allowing players to grow their resources. | CurseForge | |
| Mystical Extended Tier | Mystical Agriculture | Magic Mods | Adds Tier 7 to 10, Tinkers support and More! | CurseForge |
| Mysticalcustomization | Mystical Agriculture | Magic Mods | An addon for Mystical Agriculture that adds support for custom crops and tweaks through datapacks or scripting. | CurseForge |
| Nature's Compass | Magic Mods | Helps locate specific biomes by pointing towards them. | CurseForge | |
| Ars Unification | Ars Nouveau | Magic Mods | Standardizes mana across magic mods using Ars Nouveau’s system. | CurseForge |
| Just Enough Items (JEI) | Navigation & Mapping Mods | Displays crafting recipes and item uses within the game interface. | CurseForge | |
| Netherportalfix | Navigation & Mapping Mods | Ensures correct return portals when traveling between dimensions, preventing the player from ending up in unexpected or incorrect locations. | CurseForge | |
| AE2 JEI Integration | Applied Energistics 2 | Tech Mods | Reintroduces Just Enough Items (JEI) compatibility layer for Applied Energistics 2 removed in version 1.21, includes machine recipes, ingredient autofill, ghost recipe placement, and synchronized search between terminal and JEI. | CurseForge |
| Applied Energistics 2 | Tech Mods | Implements a digital storage network using ME systems, allowing for efficient item storage, crafting automation, and resource management. | Official Wiki | |
| Cloth Config API | Tech Mods | Config screen API for minecraft | CurseForge | |
| Create Stuff'N'Additions | Create | Tech Mods | Adds decorative and functional blocks for Create, including new kinetic components. | CurseForge |
| Cucumber | Tech Mods | Cucumber is a shared code library used by several mods. It adds tooltips for blocks and items, displaying their tags and NBT data when advanced tooltips are enabled. | CurseForge | |
| Enderstorage | Tech Mods | Provides universal and cross-dimensional storage using Ender Chests and Ender Pouches. Items stored are accessible from anywhere, with color codes to manage different storage networks. | Official Wiki | |
| farmers Delight | Tech Mods | A cozy expansion to farming and cooking# | CurseForge | |
| Immersive Engineering | Tech Mods | Focuses on realistic power generation and distribution with multiblock structures, offering a visually immersive tech experience. | CurseForge | |
| Industrial Foregoing | Tech Mods | A modern reimagining of MineFactory Reloaded, featuring machines for resource processing, farming automation, and mob management. | CurseForge | |
| Industrial Foregoing Extra Upgrades | Industrial Foregoing | Tech Mods | A comprehensive industrial automation mod inspired by MineFactory Reloaded. It introduces modern machinery and tools to automate farming, resource processing, and more. | CurseForge |
| Industrial Foregoing Souls | Industrial Foregoing | Tech Mods | Use wardens souls to accellerate your machines. | CurseForge |
| Integrated Dynamics | Tech Mods | A mod to take full and automated control of your appliances | CurseForge | |
| Jade | Tech Mods | Displays information about blocks and entities the player is looking at. | CurseForge | |
| Minecolonies | Tech Mods | A town-building mod allowing you to create a fully functioning colony with NPC workers, buildings, and management systems. | CurseForge | |
| Mouse Tweaks | Tech Mods | Enhances inventory management with improved mouse controls. | CurseForge | |
| Rftoolsbase | Tech Mods | Provides the base code and shared content for all RFTools-related mods. Required dependency. | CurseForge | |
| Ring of Attraction | Tech Mods | A Curios-powered ring acting as an item magnet. | CurseForge | |
| Ring of Blink | Tech Mods | (Possibly part of "Rings of Ascension"–style; hard to confirm—please provide exact name.) | CurseForge | |
| Ring Of Flight | Tech Mods | A simple mod that grants creative flight while equipped. | CurseForge | |
| Ring of Repair | Tech Mods | Adds a magical ring that automatically repairs worn equipment over time. | CurseForge | |
| Ring of Return | Tech Mods | Adds a single item, the Ring of Return, which allows players to teleport back to their bed spawn point upon right-clicking and holding. | CurseForge | |
| Ring of the Enderchest | Tech Mods | Adds a ring that allows easy access to the player's Ender Chest. Right-click to use. This is a standalone version from the Gobber 2 mod. | CurseForge | |
| Ring of the Unseen | Tech Mods | Provides a ring that, when held in the main hand with an empty off-hand, renders the player unseen by many mobs. When in inventory, only phantoms will ignore the player. | CurseForge | |
| Sophisticated Core | Sophisticated Backpacks | Tech Mods | Core mod required by Sophisticated Backpacks and other mods. | CurseForge |
| Torchmaster | Tech Mods | Prevents hostile mob spawns using Mega Torches and other gadgets. | CurseForge | |
| Actually Additions | Tech Mods | Fan-favourite magitech mod full of fun and useful gadgets | CurseForge | |
| Chunk Loaders | Tech Mods | Keeps chunks loaded with different tiers of chunk loaders. Individual chunks can be loaded through a map, and the chunk loaders can load chunks in up to a 7 by 7 area. | CurseForge | |
| Extremereactors | Tech Mods | Allows building large multiblock machines to generate energy efficiently. Supports the Forge Energy system and offers flexibility in power generation setups. | CurseForge | |
| Immersive Aircraft | Tech Mods | Introduces flyable aircraft like planes and helicopters with immersive controls and fuel systems. | CurseForge | |
| Mekanism | Tech Mods | Introduces a comprehensive tech suite with machines for ore processing, energy generation, and a universal power system compatible with other mods. | CurseForge | |
| Sophisticated Backpacks | Tech Mods | Yet another backpack mod this time with backpack you can place in world, color in different color combinations, upgrade with more. | CurseForge | |
| Commoncapabilities | Gameplay Tweaks | This mod provides standard capabilities useful for various mods, enhancing mod interactions through Forge's capability system. | CurseForge | |
| Deep Aether | Aether | Adventure & Exploration Mods | An Addon for the original Aether Mod, aiming to show the deepest lands of a forgotten paradise | CurseForge |
| Deep Dark | Adventure & Exploration Mods | Enhances the Deep Dark biome by adding new features and a dimension called the Otherside. Introduces new items and exploration opportunities. | CurseForge | |
| ImmediatelyFast | Library & Backend Mods | Speeds up immediate mode rendering in Minecraft. | CurseForge | |
| Not Enough Animations | Gameplay Tweaks | Restores third-person animations like eating, blocking, and others that are missing from vanilla third-person view. | CurseForge | |
| Occultism | Magic Mods | Inspired by the world of Jonathan Stroud's Bartimaeus, this mod allows players to summon entities from the "Other Side" to perform magic. | CurseForge | |
| Occultism KubeJS | KubeJS | Interface & Inventory Enhancements | KubeJS Plugin for Occultism | CurseForge |
| Openloader | Library & Backend Mods | Provides a way to load data packs, resource packs, and custom advancements automatically from specific directories within a modpack. | CurseForge | |
| Oritech | Tech Mods | A tech mod that introduces machinery, automation, and resources centered around a fictional ore called Orite. (Limited documentation available) | CurseForge | |
| Owo Lib | Library & Backend Mods | A utility library for Minecraft mods that simplifies GUI development, networking, and data syncing. Frequently used in Fabric mods. | CurseForge | |
| Smithing Template Viewer | Interface & Inventory Enhancements | Displays smithing templates in a user-friendly interface. | CurseForge | |
| Supermartijnconfiglib Neoforge Mc | Library & Backend Mods | Library for creating mod configuration screens and managing config files. | CurseForge | |
| Supermartijncoreliba Neoforge Mc | Library & Backend Mods | Core utility mod used by SuperMartijn's mods like Chunk Loaders. | CurseForge | |
| Trashcans | Gameplay Tweaks | Adds customizable trash cans for items, fluids, and energy with filters. | CurseForge |