Plants & Minecraft
Modpackby Arthurow
Play PvZ in Modern Minecraft | QoL & Optimization
Type
Modpack
CurseForge Downloads
3,900
CurseForge ID
1523769
Last Updated
Jun 19, 2026
Description
Plants & Minecraft is a Fabric modpack that blends strategic base defense with a complete survival overhaul. Built around the Plants & Zombies mod, this pack challenges you to defend your world against zombies using a variety of plants, while improving the atmosphere, performance, and visual of the base game.
Whether you are building a massive garden defense or exploring the new plants, every aspect of the game has been polished to feel more responsive and immersive.



New Fresh Combat: Center your gameplay around the Plants & Zombies mechanics. make a base to kill zombies.
Immersion: The world feels alive thanks to Particle Rain, Crops Love Rain, and Snow Under Trees. Environmental effects like Make Bubbles Pop and Explosive Enhancement add of physical feedback to your actions.
Visual Polish: Everything from your character to the items you hold has been upgraded. 3D Skin Layers, Not Enough Animations, and Fresh Food/Flowers textures provide a modern aesthetic without losing the Minecraft feel
Refined Interface: A clean, informative HUD powered by Immersive Hotbar, Status Effect Bars, and AppleSkin ensures you have all the data you need without cluttering your screen.


This pack is built on the Fabric loader, specifically optimized for high frame rates and stability.
Optimization: Utilizing Sodium, ImmediatelyFast, and FerriteCore, the pack is designed to run smoothly at times with many entities on screen.
Utility Tools: Mods like Zoomify, Mouse Tweaks, and Shulker Box Tooltip are included to streamline inventory management and exploration.
Visual Control: Full support for Iris Shaders is included, along with LambDynamicLights for real-time lighting from held torches and glowing plants.
Focus: The only mod that adds content is Plants & Zombies. This ensures a balanced and original gameplay feel.


Check out Plants & Zombies by PopsicleNate & Joshxviii!

*italic text is used for mod citations, except Plants & Zombies.
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Contained Mods (125)
Just Enough Items (JEI)
View Items and Recipes
Cloth Config API (Fabric/Forge/NeoForge)
Config Screen API for Minecraft
Mouse Tweaks
Enhances inventory management by adding various functions to the mouse buttons.
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Adds some useful information about food/hunger to the HUD
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Speed up immediate mode rendering in Minecraft
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Adds a search bar to the Key-Bindings menu
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Clumps XP orbs together to reduce lag
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Customize Minecraft's menus with ease!
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Custom, Emissive and Varied mobs like Optifine and so much more.. +Player skin features!)
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YetAnotherConfigLib
A builder-based configuration library for Minecraft.
Sodium
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Iris Shaders
A modern shaders mod for Minecraft intended to be compatible with existing Optifine shaders
Framework
A common library powering all of MrCrayfish's Mods
Not Enough Animations
Bringing first-person animations to the third-person
Better Advancements
Successor to BetterAchievements for the new advancements system in minecraft 1.12+
Packet Fixer
A simple mod to solve various problems with packets, NBTs and timeouts.
Drippy Loading Screen
Addon for FancyMenu to customize the loading screen.
Connectivity
Fix Login timeouts, Packet sizes errors, Payloads errors, ghostblocks and more.
Fzzy Config
Config API with automatic GUIs, powerful validation options, server-client sync, and more!
Euphoria Patches
Euphoria Patches is an add-on for Complementary Shaders, extending it with more optional features and settings.
No Chat Reports
Makes chat unreportable (where possible)
Configured
Automatic in-game configuration menus for every mod!
Default Options
A way for modpacks to ship a default (key) configuration without having to include an options.txt file.
Chat Heads
See who are you chatting with!
Skin Layers 3D
Render the player skin layer in 3d!
TrashSlot
Adds a trash slot to the inventory screen that allows deletion of unwanted items.
BadOptimizations
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fix GPU memory leak[Forge/Fabric]
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Forge Config API Port
NeoForge's & Forge's config systems provided to other modding ecosystems. Designed for a multiloader architecture.
Mod Menu
Adds a mod menu to view the list of mods you have installed.
Just Zoom
Zoom by pressing a hotkey and adjust the zoom factor with your mouse wheel!
Just Enough Professions (JEP)
A JEI addon that adds profession workstations
FerriteCore (Fabric)
Memory usage optimizations
Reese's Sodium Options
Alternative Options Menu for Sodium
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Fabric language module for Kotlin
Continuity
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Visual Workbench
Items stay inside of crafting tables and are also rendered on top. It's really fancy!
MidnightLib
Common library with a built-in configuration system
Almanac Lib
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Shoulder Surfing Reloaded
Shoulder Surfing Reloaded is a highly configurable third person camera mod for Minecraft
Pick Up Notifier
Be notified about all the things you've just collected.
Let Me Despawn
Improves performance by tweaking mob despawn rules.
Particular ✨ Reforged
Particular is a mod that enhances Minecraft's ambience with many hand-crafted visual effects. Forge Port !
Resource Pack Overrides
Ensures important resource packs stay always active and helps clean up the pack selection screen.
Cherished Worlds
Favorite/pin/bookmark certain worlds, which will always be at the top of the list and cannot be deleted.
BaguetteLib
A simple but powerful event library that gives mod developers the control they actually need.
JamLib
The platform-agnostic, Architectury based library used in all of JamCoreModding's mods
BetterF3
A mod that provides a highly customizable, more human-readable Debug HUD.
Starter Kit
📦 Give all new players joining the world configurable starter gear, items and/or potion effects. It can overwrite the i...
RightClickHarvest
Allows you to harvest crops by right clicking
Easy Magic
Enchanting tables as they always should have been! Items stay after closing, and easy re-rolls.
Easy Anvils
Overhauled anvils with stored items, fairer costs, and no more frustrating repair penalties.
Dynamic FPS
Improve performance when Minecraft is in the background
Particle Core
Particle optimizations: Culling, rendering optimizations, configurable particle-type-specific spawn reduction, and potio...
Leaves Be Gone
Quick leaf decay from cutting down trees. Built for fast performance and mod compat!
CraftPresence
Completely Customize the way others see you play in Discord!
Trade Cycling
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FlickerFix
Disables nightvision flickering
M.R.U
Mineblock's Repeated Utilities
Forgiving Void
Makes the void hate you a little less (and vice-versa). Fall down and come back out on top.
LambDynamicLights
The most feature-complete and optimized dynamic lighting mod.
UniLib
A common set of Utilities, designed for over 50 versions of Minecraft!
Particle Rain
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Snow Under Trees
Adds snow under trees in snowy biomes
Visuality
Little visual improvements by adding a bunch of new particles.
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Makes leaf particles fall from leaf blocks
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Fixes Minecraft bugs found on the bug tracker
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Adds a wide range of new and improved sound effects to Minecraft, letting you customize everything from block interactio...
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A mod that allows you to play Minecraft in a borderless fullscreen window.
Client Sort
Versatile and easy inventory sorting.
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Preserving the elements of Minecraft with exceptional quality, detail, and performance.
BSL Shaders
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Better Biome Blend
Improves and fixes biome color blending
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Makes chat messages appear with a smooth animation.
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Bobby
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Language Reload
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ModMenu Badges Lib
More badge!!!
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Disable warnings for outdated resource/data packs
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Placeholder and Text manipulation library for your Minecraft mods.
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What's in my shulker box?
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A library for my mods
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Config menus for resource packs
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Music Notification
Configure visual notifications when music is played in-game
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Snow Under Trees (Fabric)
1.19+ continuation of Snow Under Trees (Fabric)
Universal Ores (Fabric)
💎 Patches missing ores blocks to Minecraft.
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Smooth animation when opening GUI for Minecraft.
Fresh Animations: Player Extension
Animates players in Fresh Animations' style. An official FA extension.
Resourcify
In-game resource pack, data pack and shader browser and updater
Explosive Enhancement
Makes the explosion animation look cooler.
Status Effect Bars
Adds customizable bars to the status effects overlay to show the remaining duration of effects.
Gamma Utils (Fullbright)
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Fresh Animations: Emissive
Makes some Fresh Animations' textures emit light. An official FA extension.
Nord's Leaf Me Alone
Allows any rideable entity with controlling it passenger to move trough leaves
Spawn Animations [Server] [Fabric/Quilt/Forge/NeoForge]
Hostile mobs dig out of the ground or poof into existence when they spawn!
Shrimp's Immersive Interfaces
A complete graphical revamp of Minecraft's GUI, brings variety and charm to the previously grey boxes.
More Mobs [Server] [Fabric/Quilt/Forge/NeoForge]
Humanoid mobs get new variants through over 85 custom player heads or unused vanilla mobs! No Resource Pack needed!
Plants & Zombies
A Plants Vs. Zombies mod for Minecraft
Breaking Place
Adds satisfying block destruction particles every time you place a block.
