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.
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.
Compatibility
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Recommended Gear
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Mini PC for Self-Hosting
A low-power box that can sit in a cupboard and run a modded server around the clock.
Minecraft Enderman Character Plush
Enderman plush toys, and a reliable gift for a younger player.
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Contained Mods (183)
![[TaCZ] Timeless and Classics Zero Guns](https://media.forgecdn.net/avatars/1005/666/638527114344804635.png)
[TaCZ] Timeless and Classics Zero Guns
The most Immersive and Customizable modern FPS experience in Minecraft - A complete Remaster of the TaC gun mod by the o...
Moonlight Lib
Forge and Fabric lightweight library with utilities such as custom Villagers AI, data driven trades, global datapack, cu...
Oh The Trees You'll Grow
Tree library used by popular mods such as Oh The Biomes We've Gone.
ModernFix
All-in-one mod that improves performance, reduces memory usage, and fixes many bugs. Compatible with all your favorite p...
Cucumber Library
A library of shared code and functionality used by my mods.
FTB Quests (NeoForge)
Questing Mod by FTB
FTB XMod Compat
Official multi-mod integrations support for the FTB Mods
FTB Library (NeoForge)
Common code for all GUI stuff in FTB Mods
Just Enough Items (JEI)
View Items and Recipes
Just Enough Resources (JER)
A JEI addon that adds mob drops, ore gen, ..
Mantle
Shared code for Forge mods
Productive Bees
Get your resource fix from bees
FTB Teams (NeoForge)
Library for mods that can utilize team progression
Sophisticated Backpacks
Yet another backpack mod this time with backpack you can place in world, color in different color combinations, upgrade...
Sophisticated Core
Library mod for Sophisticated mods
Curios API (Forge/NeoForge)
A flexible and expandable accessory/equipment API for users and developers.
Ars Nouveau
Craft custom spells, summon magical servants, and make powerful wearables and tools!
The Twilight Forest
A realm basked in mystery and eerie twilight, you will overpower terrifying creatures and secure the adventure of a life...
Biomes O' Plenty
Adds 50+ unique biomes to enhance your world, with new trees, flowers, and more!
Chisels & Bits - For Forge
Create endless custom decorations using in game materials.
Waystones
Teleport from waystone to waystone or craft magical scrolls to warp.
Balm
Abstraction Layer for Multi-Loader Mods
MineColonies
Grow your Own Massive Colony with Automation, Defense Structures, Raids and more
GuideME
A guidebook toolkit for mods and modpack makers alike with comfortable markdown formatting, and live 3d scenes!
KubeJS
Edit recipes, add new custom items, script world events, all in JavaScript!
Domum Ornamentum
Millions of unique block variants and all stairs/slabs/walls/fence and more vanilla Minecraft forgot
FTB Chunks (NeoForge)
A mod that allows you to claim chunks to protect your blocks and view minimap / large map
Common Network
Forge and Fabric Unified Networking Solution
Data Anchor
Simple library mod with helpful data attaching and networking utilities including attaching data to entities, chunks, pl...
AllTheLeaks (Memory Leak Fix)
This mod fixes memory leaks of some mods, Neoforge and Minecraft until they implement their fixes.
Resourceful Lib
Lib for Team Resourceful and more
Applied Energistics 2
A Mod about Matter, Energy and using them to conquer the world..
Towns and Towers
Spice up your world with new villages, pillager outposts, and even new ships!
Icarus
Adds a bunch of colourful and unique wings that can be worn in the Trinkets/Curios Cape slot.
Relics
Just a mod about useful items with unique mechanics :3
Vampirism - Become a vampire!
Vampires are fast, strong and blood-thirsty entities, which do not like the sun, but don't fear the night, and the best...
Quark
A Quark is a very small thing. This mod is a collection of small things that improve the vanilla minecraft experience.
Structurize
Copy structures, paste structures, manipulate structures (100% GUI)
Mystical Agriculture
Adds resource crops for more than 130+ vanilla & modded materials!
Kobolds!
Adds a new underground civilization of tiny lizard people!
ShatterLib | OctoLib
Collection of shared code for Shatterbyte mods
Aquamirae (Forge)
Ship graveyard with terrible deep sea creatures!
Supplementaries
Vanilla+ additions: Jars, signposts, faucets, weather vanes spring launchers, sconces, planters, lights, decoration and...
Macaw's Biomes O' Plenty
A compatibility between Macaw's Mods and the different woods of Biomes O' Plenty
When Dungeons Arise - Forge!
Adds various elegant -and likely hostile- roguelike dungeons and structures that generate on your worlds!
Jade 🔍
Shows information about what you are looking at. (Hwyla/WAILA fork for Minecraft 1.16+)
Placebo
A library mod
Integrated API
The library mod for the Integrated Structures series
Applied Energistics 2 Wireless Terminals
An addon for Applied Energistics 2 that adds wireless versions of several Terminals
BlockUI
Easy to Use UI library for Forge mods
Stargate Journey
Journey through the Stargate to another world. In Minecraft!
GlitchCore
A library mod aimed at abstracting mod loaders and providing various utilities for our mods.
Oh The Biomes We've Gone
An astounding sequel to the original BYG mod for 1.20.1+ with over 50+ biomes ranging from the magical to the realistic...
CorgiLib
A library mod containing code used across Corgi Taco's mods.
Architectury API
An intermediary api aimed to ease developing multiplatform mods.
Ad Astra: Giselle Addon
Add things be more convenience, compatibility for Ad Astra!
Create: Enchantment Industry
Automatic Enchanting, with Create.
Create: Central Kitchen
Automatic Kitchen Work & Integration
Entity Culling Fabric/Forge
Using async path-tracing to hide BlockEntities/Entities that are not visible
Resourceful Config
Resourceful Config is a mod that allows for developers to make crossplatform configs
Apothic Attributes
A library mod providing Attributes and related things.
Corail Tombstone
Keeps safe your inventory items in graves on death with many features for better survivability and exploration, in a med...
FTB Essentials (Forge & Fabric)
Adds many essential utility commands for servers
SmartBrainLib (Forge/Fabric/Quilt)
A smarter brain system for Minecraft
Guard Villagers
Guards that help with village pest control
Nature's Compass
Nature's Compass is an item that allows you to locate biomes anywhere in the world.
Ars Elemental
Ars Nouveau addon focused on the 4 elemental schools. New glyphs and spell foci awaits
TerraBlender (Forge)
A library mod for adding biomes in a simple and compatible manner!
Apotheosis
All things that should have been.
Create Crafts & Additions
Electrifying the Create mod!
Macaw's Lights and Lamps
Adds vanila styled lamps, torches, street lamps, paper lamps, slabs... Make your worlds brighter!
Macaw's Furniture
Decorate your world with wardrobes, drawers, chairs, desks, tables, couches, sinks... and more!
Macaw's Roofs
Build roofs with actual roofs instead of stairs!
Macaw's Doors
Adds vanila doors with every wood color and new unique doors!
Macaw's Bridges
A simple mod that adds a lot of bridges!
Macaw's Fences and Walls
Adds new vanila styled fences, walls and gates!
Macaw's Windows
Adds lots of Windows, Mosaic Glass, Blinds, Shutters, Curtains and more..!
Macaw's Stairs
Adds new Vanilla styled Stairs, Handrails for Stairs and Balconies!
Macaw's Trapdoors
Adds vanila trapdoors in every plank variation, and some new trapdoors too!
Create: Ultimate Factory
An addon for the Create mod developed to increase automation possibilities, adding 30 (reasonably) balanced recipes to t...
Lootr (Forge & NeoForge)
A mod that makes it so nobody misses out on Loot! All loot chests are instanced per player and visually unique.
![Map Atlases [Forge]](https://media.forgecdn.net/avatars/878/615/638305506575137108.png)
Map Atlases [Forge]
A vanilla-friendly minimap / world-map mod using vanilla Maps, introducing the "Atlas".
Cloth Config API (Fabric/Forge/NeoForge)
Config Screen API for Minecraft
GeckoLib
A 3D animation library for entities, blocks, items, armor, and more!
Tinkers Construct
Modify all the things, then do it again!
Mouse Tweaks
Enhances inventory management by adding various functions to the mouse buttons.
Cristel Lib
A Library mod for easy structure config and runtime datapacks.
spark
spark is a performance profiler for Minecraft clients, servers and proxies.
AppleSkin
Adds some useful information about food/hunger to the HUD
![Better Combat [Fabric & Forge]](https://media.forgecdn.net/avatars/566/413/637925434672465483.png)
Better Combat [Fabric & Forge]
⚔️ Easy, spectacular and fun melee combat system from Minecraft Dungeons.
Botania
An innovative natural magic themed tech mod
YUNG's API (Forge/NeoForge)
A library mod for YUNG's Minecraft mods
Ad Astra
Live long and prosper, Ad Astra!
Tropicraft
This is Tropicraft, the utopian idyllic getaway that you have been waiting for!
Polymorph (Fabric/Forge/Quilt)
No more recipe conflicts! Adds an option to choose the crafting result if more than one is available.
YUNG's Better Strongholds (Forge/NeoForge)
A complete redesign of Minecraft's strongholds
YUNG's Better Mineshafts (Forge/NeoForge)
A long-awaited and much-needed abandoned mineshaft overhaul!
YUNG's Better Nether Fortresses (Forge/NeoForge)
A complete redesign of Minecraft's Nether fortresses!
YUNG's Better Dungeons (Forge/NeoForge)
A complete redesign of Minecraft's dungeons!
Create: Copycats+
All the copycats you've ever wanted, combined into a single mod!
Artifacts
Adds various treasure items that can be found through exploration
Psi
Psi is a mod about spell programming, inspired by Mahouka
Farmer's Delight
A cozy expansion to farming and cooking!
Create: Steam 'n' Rails
Adding depth to Create's rail network & steam system
Create Stuff 'N Additions
🧲 Dominate your environment with Create technology
Medieval Origins Revival
Origins inspired by mythology, fantasy, and the medieval era.
Enhanced Celestials - Blood, Blue, & Harvest (Super) Moons
A mod adding new Lunar Events like blood moons and harvest moons!
Deeper and Darker
Deep Dark expansion mod adding new mobs, items, blocks and a new dimension.
Create: Hypertubes
Travel arround the world with tubes!
Blood Magic
An arcane art for ultimate power
Rhino
A fork of Mozilla's Rhino library, modified for use in mods
Citadel
A Lightweight Library
AddonsLib
A library to facilitate registration between mods, in particular macaw's bridges/roofs/fences/etc...
Patchouli
Accessible, Data-Driven, Dependency-Free Documentation for Minecraft Modders and Pack Makers
DimensionalDoors
Mazes, puzzles and traps. Doors and portals that can teleport you anywhere. Envious, malevolent eyes looking at you from...
Vampirism Integrations
Integration mod for Vampirism, handles cross-mod integrations
Iron Furnaces
Inspired by cpw's Iron Chests, this mod introduces a variety of new furnaces to the game.
Comforts
Adds sleeping bags and hammocks for, respectively, portability and turning day to night, without setting new spawns. Com...
Create Big Cannons
Artillery engineering comes to Create
FTB Filter System
FTB Filter System (aka FFS) is a powerful item filtering mod with friendly GUI editing
Applied Botanics Addon
mana through ae2, what could go wrong
Toast Control
Control toasts, those popups in the corner!
Born in Chaos
Adds a lot of aggressive mobs, with their unique properties that can diversify and complicate your survival. Also adds n...
Integrated Dungeons and Structures
Integrated Dungeons and Structures (aka IDAS) is a mod that adds heavily detailed structures using blocks and mobs from...
![Corn Delight[Forge]](https://media.forgecdn.net/avatars/495/216/637808184516946624.png)
Corn Delight[Forge]
A Corn Addon for Farmer's Delight, Forge Version
Ars Creo
An addon for Ars Nouveau and Create
Almost Unified
Unify all resources.
Enchanted: Witchcraft
A magic and sorcery mod for all things witchcraft
Zeta
Comprehensive Load-Bearing Library for Modular Mods
Create
Aesthetic Technology that empowers the Player
Create Deco
Industrial decoration themed for the Create mod.
Tinkers Integrations and Tweaks
Balanced Mod integrations and Tweaks for Tinkers' Construct for Modpacks
Mekanism Tools
Powerful tools and armor for Mekanism.
Mekanism Generators
Advanced energy generation for Mekanism.
Mekanism Additions
Additions module for Mekanism, contains things that don't quite fit in the other modules.
Mekanism
High-tech machinery, powerful energy generation, fancy gadgets and more. Now on Curse!
Mysterious Mountain Lib
a library for MMF-Group's mod
FerriteCore ((Neo)Forge)
Memory usage optimizations
Akashic Tome
The Book of Books. Store every documentation book in one.
Ars Additions
An Ars Nouveau addon focused on immersion and quality of life improvements
Ritchie's Projectile Library
A Minecraft modding library for better projectiles.
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
playerAnimator
player animation library
StateObserver
A library for observing state changes.
Extreme Reactors
This is a port of the Big Reactors mod by Erogenous Beef to the current Minecraft versions
ZeroCore 2
Utility mod and multiblock API
Applied Mekanistics
The official Mekanism support addon for AE2
Obscure API (Forge)
Auxiliary Library
Multi-Piston
Multi-directional Piston Block
Blood N' Particles Mod
This Mod consists of adding a touch of immersion to the game, adding blood and particles every time you receive damage
Create: TaCZ Automation
Allows many items from Tac zero to be crafted automatically with create
Caelus API
A coremod and API to provide developers access to elytra flight mechanics through an entity attribute.
Immersive Engineering
A retro-futuristic tech mod!
Tempad
Create a portal to any location from any location!
Mekanism: Ad Astra Ores
Adds Mekanism ores on Ad Astra planets.
Embeddium
A powerful, mod-friendly, FOSS client performance mod for NeoForge
Creeper Overhaul
A mod which overhauls the vanilla creepers!
Ice and Fire Dragons X Better Combat
Adds compatibility between Ice and Fire and Better Combat
Rats
Adorable little pests that can be tamed and trained in combat, automation, resource gathering, cooking, and more.
Alex's Mobs
85+ New mobs with stylistic quality above the default game.
TownTalk
Minecolonies Addon for more Voice Lines
Ice and Fire: Dragons
Dragons and Mythical creatures in minecraft.
Botarium
A crossplatform API for devs that makes transfer and storage of items, fluids and energy easier, as well as some other h...
Pehkui
Allows resizing of most entities, shrinking their scale smaller or growing their size larger
Origins (Forge)
This is an unofficial forge port of the Origins mod for fabric
Markdown Manual
Library mod for creating in-game manuals.
Origins: Classes (Forge)
An unofficial Forge port for Origins: Classes
Iron Chests: Restocked
Iron Chests provide multiple variants of chests that increase in size and have different properties
Spice of Life: Apple Pie Edition
Rewards players for cooking large and diverse meals.
Ars Technica
A Create-centered addon mod for Ars Nouveau
Werewolves - Become a Beast!
Werewolf addon for Vampirism - Become a vampire!
![[TACZ] LesRaisins Tactical Equipements](https://media.forgecdn.net/avatars/1288/107/638837633740557792.png)
[TACZ] LesRaisins Tactical Equipements
An addon for tacz, with extra support about throwable, melee weapons for gun packs
TaCZ addon
An expansion mod for TaCZ about better attachment managing.
Tome of Blood: Rebirth
Ars Nouveau Integration for Blood Magic.
Tinkers' Levelling Addon
Tinkers' Construct addon that adds tool leveling system.
Aquamirae x Better Combat Compatibility
Adds compatibility between aquamirae and better combat, including two custom weapon behaviors
Create: Ad Astra Compatibility
Adds crushed ores from Ad Astra's ores to work as Crushed variants from Create
Mermod (NeoForge)
Adds a necklace that gives players mermaid tails upon contact with water.
Vampiric Ageing - A Vampirism Addon
Expand your vampiric, hunting or werewolf powers with new mechanics and abilities
![Origins: Backgrounds [Forge]](https://media.forgecdn.net/avatars/1089/568/638632633029013388.png)
Origins: Backgrounds [Forge]
Adding another layer to your Origins Experience
![Origins: More Backgrounds [FORGE]](https://media.forgecdn.net/avatars/1170/660/638741819187343968.png)
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.
Ad Astra : Distant Horizons
An addon for Ad Astra, which add new sets of blocks, items, and the most important : PLANETS !