Description

A Creative Building Modpack for Multiplayer assembled for a new 2026+ community: The Block Academy

TBA is a curated Fabric 1.21.1 modpack designed for creative multiplayer servers. Whether you're building elaborate structures, running a community server, or just want a polished vanilla+ experience with 189 carefully selected mods.

🏆 Recognition System (Core Curriculum)

A unique recognition system that celebrates craft, teaching, and community — not grinding.

/submit "Build Name" — Submit builds for AI-assisted review by slashAI (Claude Sonnet 4.5)
/titles — Browse and equip earned titles that display in chat
/nominate — Recognize peers for mentoring, teaching, and collaboration
/welcome — Multi-page onboarding for new players (auto-shows on first join, press H to reopen)
Custom TBA splash screen during game loading
HUD auto-hides during screenshot capture for clean submissions
Titles sync with Discord and display on the Honor Roll page

📹 StreamCraft Live — Video Streaming in Minecraft

Real-time video communication powered by LiveKit WebRTC:

Webcam streaming — See teammates face-to-face with fullbright billboards (visible even at night)
Screen sharing — Project onto StreamCraft Blocks with configurable size, distance, and horizontal offset
StreamCraft Blocks — Disguise as 11 different vanilla blocks (flower pot, planks, stone, bookshelves, and more)
Dynamic illumination — Active streams emit light level 12, lighting up the area around them
"Who can see me?" — Live viewer list in your HUD while streaming
Privacy-first — "How It Works" info modal with consent gate on first use
Proximity awareness — Server tracks who's nearby so you only stream to relevant players
1080p capture — High-quality video at 8 Mbps bitrate

🎬 Cinematics & Recording

ReplayMod — Timeline-based recording with keyframed cameras and video export
Better Third Person — 360° orbit camera with independent rotation
Stable Cam — Smooth cinematic camera mode
Camera Utils — Freecam and camera controls
First-person Model — See your own body in first person
Not Enough Animations — Player animations for eating, map holding, and more
AutoHUD — Auto-hiding HUD for clean recordings
Camera Overhaul — Tilting and swaying camera effects

🎨 Building & Decoration

Over 11,000 decorative block variants from Chipped, plus furniture and architectural pieces from:

Macaw's Complete Suite — Doors, Windows, Bridges, Roofs, Fences, Trapdoors, Furniture, Lights, Paths & Pavings, Paintings, Holidays
Handcrafted — 250+ fantasy/medieval furniture pieces
Adorn — Chairs, sofas, tables, shelves, kitchen blocks
Supplementaries + Amendments — Jars, signs, pulleys, cages, wall lanterns, and 100+ utility items
Excessive Building — 100+ vanilla-style blocks with hammer/wrench tools
ReFramed — Copy any block's appearance onto stairs, slabs, fences
Enchanted Vertical Slabs — Place slabs vertically with enchantment support
Diagonal Fences + Diagonal Windows + Diagonal Walls — Full diagonal building support
Clutter, Little Joys, WindChime — Small ambient details for polished builds
Fetzi's Asian Decoration — Asian-themed decor blocks
Beautify, Dusty Decorations, Sooty Chimneys — Weathered and aged aesthetics
VerdantVibes — Decorative plants and vegetation
Continuity — Connected textures for glass panes, bookshelves, and more

Building Tools:

Axiom — Modern all-in-one editor with real-time previews, terraforming, and sculpting
Litematica — Schematic display and building guides
Effortless Structure — Mirrors, arrays, and build modes
FallingTree — Chop the bottom log and the whole tree falls
Bridging Mod — Bedrock-style reach-around block placement
Easy Magic — Enchanting table QoL (no bookshelves needed to see enchants)
Trade Cycling — Cycle villager trades without breaking workstations

🔊 Audio & Immersion

Sound Physics Remastered — Realistic reverb and sound occlusion
AmbientSounds — Dynamic soundscapes based on biome, weather, and time
Presence Footsteps — Material-aware footstep sounds
Cool Rain — Material-specific rain sounds (wood, stone, metal)
Sounds — 170+ UI and interaction sounds
Visuality + Particle Rain + Falling Leaves — Enhanced ambient particles
Fabric Seasons — Four seasons with visual and gameplay changes
3D Skin Layers — Renders skin layers with depth
Eating Animation — Visible eating and drinking actions

⚡ Performance Optimized

Runs smoothly thanks to an enhanced performance stack:

Sodium, Lithium, FerriteCore, ModernFix, Krypton — Core optimizations
C2ME — Multi-core chunk generation
ImmediatelyFast — Immediate mode rendering optimization
BadOptimizations — Micro-optimizations for various game systems
Entity Culling — Skip rendering off-screen entities
Enhanced Block Entities — Faster block entity rendering
Clumps — Merges XP orbs to reduce entity lag

Distant Horizons extends your view distance with LOD rendering — see terrain for miles without killing your FPS.

🎮 Quality of Life

REI — Recipe viewer and item browser
WTHIT — Block and entity tooltips
JourneyMap — Full-featured world map with waypoints
AppleSkin — Food and hunger visualization
ItemSwapper — Quick block palette switching
Carry On — Pick up and carry blocks, chests, and mobs
Sit — Right-click stairs and slabs to sit
InvMove — Move while inventory is open
Block Runner — Run faster on path blocks
Mouse Wheelie — Inventory scrolling, sorting, and refilling
Blur+ — GUI background blur effect
Smooth Swapping — Animated item movement in inventories
Status Effect Bars — Duration bars on status effect icons
Paginated Advancements — Better advancement screen with pagination
Stack to Nearby Chests — Terraria-style deposit items
Crash Assistant — Helpful GUI after game crashes
Leaf Me Alone — Ride through leaves on horses/boats
Leaves Be Gone — Quick leaf decay after tree chopping

👥 Multiplayer Ready

Proximity Voice — Simple Voice Chat with interaction support
Land Claims — Flan for protection
Live Web Map — BlueMap
Sleep Voting — Better Sleep
Discord Bridge — Fabricord + Discord RPC status
Lootr — Per-player loot in chests (no stealing!)

🎁 Content & Farming

Farmer's Delight + More Delight — Cooking and farming expansion
Let's Do Series — Bakery, Vinery, Brewery, Meadow, Beach Party, Farm & Charm
Storage Drawers — Compact item storage
Traveler's Backpack — Wearable backpacks with fluid storage
Joy of Painting — Paint custom pictures on canvases
Camerapture — Take in-game photos as decorations
WaterFrames — Display images and videos on screens
VinURL — Play audio from URLs on note blocks (YouTube, SoundCloud, direct links)
Immersive Paintings — Upload custom images as paintings
Genshin Instruments + Even More Instruments — Playable instruments with MIDI support
Friends and Foes — Mob vote mobs (Copper Golem, Mooblooms, and more)
Illager Invasion — New illager types and boss encounters
Do A Barrel Roll — Enhanced elytra flight control with roll mechanics
Naturally Trimmed + Trimmable Tools — Armor trims on mobs and tools