Essentials
Modby Technomancer_isTaken
Expands Vanilla style automation
Type
Mod
CurseForge Downloads
5,384,010
CurseForge ID
293752
Last Updated
Apr 13, 2026
Description
Essentials

Essentials expands automation and redstone in a balanced and vanilla style.
While there's full ingame documentation with Patchouli installed (strongly recommended), here's a few highlights:
• A single block chest that remembers item types for each slot
• Farmland that self-replants
• Simple and cheap item transport and sorting
• Single block redstone circuits that can do logic or math
• And more...
Essentials has no worldgen, no balance destroying features, has ingame documentation (through the Essentials Guidebook with Patchouli), and is highly configurable. It can be dropped into a modpack without issues.
Mod Spotlight:
Mod Tutorial (warning: long):
Join the Essentials Discord here
Report bugs/make suggestions here
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