Past Perfect
Modpackby StreetCaptain
Timeless classics and modern mainstays combine in this modpack designed to give a touch of nostalgia to the modern modded Minecraft experience.
Type
Modpack
CurseForge Downloads
324
CurseForge ID
1371838
Last Updated
Jun 7, 2026
Description
STILL IN DEVELOPMENT
You ever miss the classic modpacks of the golden age, but can't give up the more modern conveniences of mods like Create or Immersive Engineering? Hopefully you've found what you're looking for with...
PAST PERFECT
Past Perfect is a Forge 1.20.1 modpack that strives to celebrate the history of Minecraft modding while embracing its modern era. The result? A 'kitchen sink' style sandbox that serves to uphold nostalgia without losing the spark that drives innovation and creativity. Our goal is to deliver an experience that encompasses (as much as possible) classic mods - their continuations, their rewrites, and their reimaginings - with guides, tweaks, quests, and more, while keeping in touch with what makes today's titans so appealing.
Please enjoy our homage to the past - where factories were humming next to ritual altars, where dungeons and bosses dotted the landscape, and where there was always a new horizon to explore, with new stories to unfold. Each addition has been chosen for depth, stability, and cross-compatibility, creating a modded experience that feels both familiar and fresh.
Technology & Industry
Technology has always been at the forefront of Minecraft's modding history, and Past Perfect is no different. From bustling factories to humming computers, we have prepared a variety of mods to push technological progress.
- Create and Immersive Engineering will serve as your backbone from automation to transport and beyond.
- Applied Energistics for all of your mid-to-late-game storage needs, and Iron Chests and Sophisticated Backpacks to keep your items tidy until you get there.
- Mekanism to drive your technological advancement, with Extreme Reactors to solve your energy needs as you push to the stars and beyond.
- Utilize the metallurgy and crafting of Tinkers Construct to create massive smithies to forge powerful weapons and armor.
- ComputerCraft Tweaked will allow you to push the limits of automation with Lua scripting.
Magic & Mysticism
Discover arcane systems that evolve alongside technology rather than apart from it. Master the mystic arts, conduct strange, otherworldly rituals, and discover ultimate power.
- Ars Nouveau anchors the pack’s spellcrafting system, with Ars Creo, Ars Elemental, Ars Technica, and Ars Additions expanding it into automation, combat, and elemental mastery.
- Blood Magic allows the exchange of sacrifice for great power, with Tome of Blood adding new features that connect it with Ars Nouveau.
- Peer behind the veil with Enchanted: Witchery, using chalk circles, familiars, and more.
- Botania explores the magic of growth and nature, with serene fields of flowers and soothing mysticism.
- Apotheosis adds new ways to enchant and modify your equipment, with Relics giving you new ways to enhance your playstyle.
- Reject Humanity and become something greater with Vampirism and Werewolves - or become a Hunter and defend the natural order.
Exploration, Dungeons, & Dimensions
The world itself is as rich and varied as the systems that fill it. Whether delving into a dungeon, defending against a siege, or stumbling into a rift that shouldn’t exist, exploration always promises something new.
- YUNG’s Better Series, When Dungeons Arise, and Integrated Dungeons & Structures overhaul caves, ruins, strongholds, and more with huge variety and handcrafted detail.
- Classic dimensions return through The Twilight Forest and Dimensional Doors, offering portals to worlds both whimsical and unsettling.
- New, dangerous enemies from Born in Chaos and Creeper Overhaul expand the overworld’s challenges, while Waystones and Map Atlases help adventurers chart their discoveries.
- Biomes from Oh The Biomes We’ve Gone and Biomes O’ Plenty combine with TerraBlender for a seamless, natural landscape that feels vast but cohesive.
- Ad Astra and Stargate Journey offer a stepping stone to the stars and beyond.
In Progress & Upcoming Features
Past Perfect is an active work in progress. This means that what you see now is only the start - we plan on expanding into several more features as we approach the 1.0 release.
- Questlines & Progression:
A full questline to guide players through the progress of each mod, with side-quests and rewards. - Custom Recipes & Balance Tweaks:
Streamlined crafting and rebalanced progression to unify overlapping materials, reduce clutter, and tie tech and magic systems together more cohesively. - Custom Story & Lore Integration:
Narrative threads woven through exploration and questing — subtle worldbuilding, ancient texts, and hints toward a larger mystery connecting the modpack’s many worlds. - Additional Systems Under Consideration:
Enhanced achievements, optional difficulty scaling, and in-game documentation to help players learn through discovery rather than dependence on external guides.
These features will roll out gradually, focusing on cohesion, replayability, and a stronger sense of purpose within Past Perfect.
A Tribute to Modding History
Past Perfect is more than just a loose collection of mods - it is our genuine attempt at rekindling the flame that drove us to fall in love with this game.
From redstone contraptions to reactors, from Thaumcraft-era mysticism to the spellcraft of Ars Nouveau, it honors the legacy of what came before while showcasing how far the community has come.
Build, explore, automate, and ascend - past, present, and future, all in one world.
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Contained Mods (183)
Just Enough Items (JEI)
View Items and Recipes
Tinkers Construct
Modify all the things, then do it again!
GeckoLib
A 3D animation library for entities, blocks, items, armor, and more!
Cloth Config API (Fabric/Forge/NeoForge)
Config Screen API for Minecraft
Architectury API
An intermediary api aimed to ease developing multiplatform mods.
Mouse Tweaks
Enhances inventory management by adding various functions to the mouse buttons.
AppleSkin
Adds some useful information about food/hunger to the HUD
ModernFix
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Balm
Abstraction Layer for Multi-Loader Mods
Jade 🔍
Shows information about what you are looking at. (Hwyla/WAILA fork for Minecraft 1.16+)
Waystones
Teleport back to activated waystones. For Survival, Adventure or Servers.
Moonlight Lib
Forge and Fabric lightweight library with utilities such as custom Villagers AI, data driven trades, global datapack, cu...
Curios API (Forge/NeoForge)
A flexible and expandable accessory/equipment API for users and developers.
Entity Culling Fabric/Forge
Using async path-tracing to hide Tiles/Entities that are not visible
Sophisticated Backpacks
Yet another backpack mod this time with backpack you can place in world, color in different color combinations, upgrade...
FerriteCore ((Neo)Forge)
Memory usage optimizations
Placebo
A library mod
Sophisticated Core
Library mod for Sophisticated mods
Farmer's Delight
A cozy expansion to farming and cooking!
FTB Library (NeoForge)
Common code for all GUI stuff in FTB Mods
playerAnimator
player animation library
Patchouli
Accessible, Data-Driven, Dependency-Free Documentation for Minecraft Modders and Pack Makers
Resourceful Lib
Lib for Team Resourceful and more
Comforts
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Nature's Compass
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Embeddium
A powerful, mod-friendly, FOSS client performance mod for NeoForge
Polymorph (Fabric/Forge/Quilt)
No more recipe conflicts! Adds an option to choose the crafting result if more than one is available.
FTB Teams (NeoForge)
Library for mods that can utilize team progression
Supplementaries
Vanilla+ additions: Jars, signposts, faucets, weather vanes spring launchers, sconces, planters, lights, decoration and...
spark
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Lootr (Forge & NeoForge)
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FTB Quests (NeoForge)
Questing Mod by FTB
Rhino
A fork of Mozilla's Rhino library, modified for use in mods
Create
Aesthetic Technology that empowers the Player
KubeJS
Edit recipes, add new custom items, script world events, all in JavaScript!
ShatterLib | OctoLib
Collection of shared code for Shatterbyte mods
Citadel
A Lightweight Library
Resourceful Config
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FTB XMod Compat
Official multi-mod integrations support for the FTB Mods
YUNG's API (Forge/NeoForge)
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Alex's Mobs
85+ New mobs with stylistic quality above the default game.
YUNG's Better Mineshafts (Forge/NeoForge)
A long-awaited and much-needed abandoned mineshaft overhaul!
Artifacts
Adds various treasure items that can be found through exploration
Caelus API
A coremod and API to provide developers access to elytra flight mechanics through an entity attribute.
TerraBlender (Forge)
A library mod for adding biomes in a simple and compatible manner!
AllTheLeaks (Memory Leak Fix)
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Toast Control
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Just Enough Resources (JER)
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Biomes O' Plenty
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Quark
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GlitchCore
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FTB Essentials (Forge & Fabric)
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Immersive Engineering
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When Dungeons Arise - Forge!
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Zeta
Comprehensive Load-Bearing Library for Modular Mods
Apotheosis
All things that should have been.
Cucumber Library
A library of shared code and functionality used by my mods.
Macaw's Doors
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Macaw's Windows
Adds lots of Windows, Mosaic Glass, Blinds, Shutters, Curtains and more..!
Ars Nouveau
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Mekanism
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Relics
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Iron Furnaces
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Macaw's Furniture
Decorate your world with wardrobes, drawers, chairs, desks, tables, couches, sinks... and more!
Mekanism Generators
Advanced energy generation for Mekanism.
Macaw's Trapdoors
Adds vanila trapdoors in every plank variation, and some new trapdoors too!
Oh The Trees You'll Grow
Tree library used by popular mods such as Oh The Biomes We've Gone.
Create: Enchantment Industry
Automatic Enchanting, with Create.
Applied Energistics 2 Wireless Terminals
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Almost Unified
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Creeper Overhaul
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Pehkui
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Create: Hypertubes
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Applied Mekanistics
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Mekanism Tools
Powerful tools and armor for Mekanism.
Mantle
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Create: Copycats+
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Extreme Reactors
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Botarium
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Multi-Piston
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Akashic Tome
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ZeroCore 2
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Ice and Fire: Dragons
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Corail Tombstone
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Tempad
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Chisels & Bits - For Forge
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Born in Chaos
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Icarus
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Common Network
Forge and Fabric Unified Networking Solution
Applied Botanics Addon
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Ad Astra: Giselle Addon
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Iron Chests: Restocked
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Ad Astra
Live long and prosper, Ad Astra!
Spice of Life: Apple Pie Edition
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Origins: Classes (Forge)
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Origins (Forge)
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Werewolves - Become a Beast!
Werewolf addon for Vampirism - Become a vampire!
Vampirism - Become a vampire!
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Rats
Adorable little pests that can be tamed and trained in combat, automation, resource gathering, cooking, and more.
TaCZ addon
An expansion mod for TaCZ about better attachment managing.
Blood Magic
An arcane art for ultimate power
Tome of Blood: Rebirth
Ars Nouveau Integration for Blood Magic.
Stargate Journey
Journey through the Stargate to another world. In Minecraft!
Tinkers' Levelling Addon
Tinkers' Construct addon that adds tool leveling system.
Tropicraft
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Map Atlases [Forge]
A vanilla-friendly minimap / world-map mod using vanilla Maps, introducing the "Atlas".
Medieval Origins Revival
Origins inspired by mythology, fantasy, and the medieval era.
Mekanism Additions
Additions module for Mekanism, contains things that don't quite fit in the other modules.
Psi
Psi is a mod about spell programming, inspired by Mahouka
Mysterious Mountain Lib
a library for MMF-Group's mod
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Corn Delight[Forge]
A Corn Addon for Farmer's Delight, Forge Version
Aquamirae x Better Combat Compatibility
Adds compatibility between aquamirae and better combat, including two custom weapon behaviors
Ice and Fire Dragons X Better Combat
Adds compatibility between Ice and Fire and Better Combat
Enchanted: Witchcraft
A magic and sorcery mod for all things witchcraft
StateObserver
A library for observing state changes.
Mekanism: Ad Astra Ores
Adds Mekanism ores on Ad Astra planets.
Create: Ad Astra Compatibility
Adds crushed ores from Ad Astra's ores to work as Crushed variants from Create
Macaw's Oh The Biomes You'll Go / We've Gone
A compatibility between Macaw's Mods and the different woods and stones of Oh The Biomes You'll Go / We've Gone
DimensionalDoors
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Create: TaCZ Automation
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Mermod (NeoForge)
Adds a necklace that gives players mermaid tails upon contact with water.
Vampiric Ageing - A Vampirism Addon
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Blood N' Particles Mod
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Origins: Backgrounds [Forge]
Adding another layer to your Origins Experience
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Origins: More Backgrounds [FORGE]
Adding a new level to your Origins Experience, again!
Twilight Tweaks
Adds a very configurable final boss among other config options.
Markdown Manual
Library mod for creating in-game manuals.
Ad Astra : Distant Horizons
An addon for Ad Astra, which add new sets of blocks, items, and the most important : PLANETS !