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Plants & Minecraft

Modpack

by Arthurow

Play PvZ in Modern Minecraft | QoL & Optimization

Type

Modpack

CurseForge Downloads

4,710

CurseForge ID

1523769

Last Updated

Jul 27, 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.

Category               Mods                                                                                           Core Content         Plants & Zombies, Universal Ores, Lootr, More Mobs                                             Visuals               Visuality, Continuity, 3D Skin Layers, Entity Model Features (EMF), Entity Texture Features (ETF) Animations           Not Enough Animations, Spawn Animations, Chat Animation                                         World & Environment   Particle Rain, Crops Love Rain, Snow Under Trees, Better Biome Blend                           UI & HUD             Just Enough Items (JEI), BetterF3, AppleSkin, Immersive Hotbar, Shulker Box Tooltip, Icons     Performance               Sodium, Lithium, FerriteCore, Dynamic FPS, Resourcify, Mod Menu                                

Check out Plants & Zombies by PopsicleNate & Joshxviii!

Credits to PopsicleNate.

*italic text is used for mod citations, except Plants & Zombies.

Compatibility

Mod Loaders

Fabric

Game Versions

26.1 26.1.1 26.1.2

Recommended Gear

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Mod 537,575,288
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Mod 506,574,028
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FancyMenu

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[ETF] Entity Texture Features - [Fabric & Forge]

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Mod 155,848,154
[EMF] Entity Model Features [Fabric & Forge]

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YetAnotherConfigLib

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Mod 250,674,098
Sodium

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The fastest and most compatible rendering optimization mod for Minecraft. Now available for both NeoForge and Fabric!

Mod 385,658,206
Iris Shaders

Iris Shaders

A modern shaders mod for Minecraft intended to be compatible with existing Optifine shaders

Mod 136,572,438
Framework

Framework

A common library powering all of MrCrayfish's Mods

Mod 139,319,990
Not Enough Animations

Not Enough Animations

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Better Advancements

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Packet Fixer

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Mod 139,546,826
Drippy Loading Screen

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Mod 143,915,773
Connectivity

Connectivity

Fix Login timeouts, Packet sizes errors, Payloads errors, ghostblocks and more.

Mod 162,992,477
Fzzy Config

Fzzy Config

Config API with automatic GUIs, powerful validation options, server-client sync, and more!

Mod 130,757,195
Euphoria Patches

Euphoria Patches

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Mod 120,479,999
No Chat Reports

No Chat Reports

Makes chat unreportable (where possible)

Mod 179,504,515
Configured

Configured

Automatic in-game configuration menus for every mod!

Mod 129,032,161
Default Options

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Chat Heads

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See who are you chatting with!

Mod 165,276,207
Skin Layers 3D

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Render the player skin layer in 3d!

Mod 114,759,394
TrashSlot

TrashSlot

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Mod 132,067,641
BadOptimizations

BadOptimizations

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fix GPU memory leak[Forge/Fabric]

fix GPU memory leak[Forge/Fabric]

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Mod 105,626,860
Forge Config API Port

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Mod 148,017,630
Mod Menu

Mod Menu

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Mod 229,006,698
Just Zoom

Just Zoom

Zoom by pressing a hotkey and adjust the zoom factor with your mouse wheel!

Mod 84,510,207
Just Enough Professions (JEP)

Just Enough Professions (JEP)

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Mod 114,288,853
FerriteCore (Fabric)

FerriteCore (Fabric)

Memory usage optimizations

Mod 75,626,804
Reese's Sodium Options

Reese's Sodium Options

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Mod 158,197,328
Fabric Language Kotlin

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Mod 205,885,166
Continuity

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Mod 137,601,798
Visual Workbench

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MidnightLib

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Mod 83,938,178
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Pick Up Notifier

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Be notified about all the things you've just collected.

Mod 97,065,999
Let Me Despawn

Let Me Despawn

Improves performance by tweaking mob despawn rules.

Mod 73,377,065
Particular ✨ Reforged

Particular ✨ Reforged

Particular is a mod that enhances Minecraft's ambience with many hand-crafted visual effects. Forge Port !

Mod 36,960,340
Resource Pack Overrides

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Mod 112,626,806
BaguetteLib

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A simple but powerful event library that gives mod developers the control they actually need.

Mod 34,890,552
JamLib

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Mod 75,223,597
BetterF3

BetterF3

A mod that provides a highly customizable, more human-readable Debug HUD.

Mod 111,972,375
Starter Kit

Starter Kit

📦 Give all new players joining the world configurable starter gear, items and/or potion effects. It can overwrite the i...

Mod 88,342,390
RightClickHarvest

RightClickHarvest

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Mod 73,464,810
Easy Magic

Easy Magic

Enchanting tables as they always should have been! Items stay after closing, and easy re-rolls.

Mod 89,259,629
Easy Anvils

Easy Anvils

Overhauled anvils with stored items, fairer costs, and no more frustrating repair penalties.

Mod 83,070,929
Dynamic FPS

Dynamic FPS

Improve performance when Minecraft is in the background

Mod 119,167,432
Particle Core

Particle Core

Particle optimizations: Culling, rendering optimizations, configurable particle-type-specific spawn reduction, and potio...

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Leaves Be Gone

Leaves Be Gone

Quick leaf decay from cutting down trees. Built for fast performance and mod compat!

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CraftPresence

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Completely Customize the way others see you play in Discord!

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Trade Cycling

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Refresh villager trades without needing to break workstations.

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FlickerFix

FlickerFix

Disables nightvision flickering

Mod 44,998,937
M.R.U

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Mod 52,289,958
Forgiving Void

Forgiving Void

Makes the void hate you a little less (and vice-versa). Fall down and come back out on top.

Mod 61,165,706
LambDynamicLights

LambDynamicLights

The most feature-complete and optimized dynamic lighting mod.

Mod 104,339,607
UniLib

UniLib

A common set of Utilities, designed for over 50 versions of Minecraft!

Mod 35,851,082
Particle Rain

Particle Rain

replaces the default weather with particle effects

Mod 40,146,011
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Konkrete [Fabric] [MOVED TO NEW PAGE]

Just another boring library mod.

Mod 55,461,076
Snow Under Trees

Snow Under Trees

Adds snow under trees in snowy biomes

Mod 54,306,101
Visuality

Visuality

Little visual improvements by adding a bunch of new particles.

Mod 71,049,293
Falling Leaves (Fabric)

Falling Leaves (Fabric)

Makes leaf particles fall from leaf blocks

Mod 39,778,971
Debugify

Debugify

Fixes Minecraft bugs found on the bug tracker

Mod 73,013,453
Sound​s

Sound​s

Adds a wide range of new and improved sound effects to Minecraft, letting you customize everything from block interactio...

Mod 35,400,975
Cubes Without Borders

Cubes Without Borders

A mod that allows you to play Minecraft in a borderless fullscreen window.

Mod 43,061,740
Client Sort

Client Sort

Versatile and easy inventory sorting.

Mod 19,189,186
Tax Free Levels

Tax Free Levels

Flattens the ever-increasing anvil and enchantment costs and makes renaming items always cost 1 level

Mod 13,698,514
Cut Through

Cut Through

Cleanly swing through transparent blocks like tall grass to hit mobs without breaking said block.

Mod 39,916,737
Particle Effects

Particle Effects

Visual Mod that adds unique textured particles for every effect in vanilla Minecraft!

Mod 15,488,430
Complementary Shaders - Reimagined

Complementary Shaders - Reimagined

Preserving the elements of Minecraft with exceptional quality, detail, and performance.

Shader 243,485,103
BSL Shaders

BSL Shaders

Shaderpack for Minecraft: Java Edition. It's bright, colorful, and distinct.

Shader 117,909,155
Better Biome Blend

Better Biome Blend

Improves and fixes biome color blending

Mod 36,052,132
Chat Animation [Smooth Chat]

Chat Animation [Smooth Chat]

Makes chat messages appear with a smooth animation.

Mod 34,839,784
Lootr (Fabric)

Lootr (Fabric)

A mod that makes it so nobody misses out on Loot! All loot chests are instanced per player and visually unique.

Mod 26,563,537
Fresh Animations

Fresh Animations

Make your game like the trailers! Dynamic animated entities to freshen your Minecraft experience.

Texture Pack 100,155,463
Bobby

Bobby

Allows for render distances greater than the server's view-distance setting.

Mod 40,996,968
Language Reload

Language Reload

Reduces load times and adds fallbacks for languages

Mod 72,247,206
Better Mount HUD

Better Mount HUD

Improves the ingame HUD while riding a mount

Mod 44,917,904
ModMenu Badges Lib

ModMenu Badges Lib

More badge!!!

Mod 3,086,322
No Resource Pack Warnings

No Resource Pack Warnings

Disable warnings for outdated resource/data packs

Mod 16,177,733
Text Placeholder API

Text Placeholder API

Placeholder and Text manipulation library for your Minecraft mods.

Mod 15,394,156
Bow Infinity Fix (Forge/Fabric)

Bow Infinity Fix (Forge/Fabric)

Removes need to have an arrow in your inventory to use the Infinity enchant on your bow or crossbow

Mod 18,143,075
Fresh Animations: Extensions

Fresh Animations: Extensions

A combination of offical extension packs for Fresh Animations

Texture Pack 21,877,261
Make Bubbles Pop [Client] [Forge/Fabric/Quilt]

Make Bubbles Pop [Client] [Forge/Fabric/Quilt]

Client-side mod that makes bubble particles pop and lets them rise realistically to the water surface.

Mod 10,826,003
Visual Traveler's Titles

Visual Traveler's Titles

Visual titles when entering dimensions!

Texture Pack 12,730,572
Shulker Box Tooltip [Fabric/Forge/NeoForge]

Shulker Box Tooltip [Fabric/Forge/NeoForge]

What's in my shulker box?

Mod 57,980,856
Cursors Extended

Cursors Extended

Configurable Minecraft-themed cursors

Mod 6,834,445
Icons

Icons

Adding icons to several aspects of the game

Texture Pack 3,139,152
LibJF

LibJF

A library for my mods

Mod 20,234,666
Respackopts

Respackopts

Config menus for resource packs

Mod 15,069,804
Immersive Hotbar

Immersive Hotbar

Adds animations to the hotbar to make it more immersive

Mod 4,334,133
Raise Sound Limit Simplified

Raise Sound Limit Simplified

A mod that improves sound engine performance and raises Minecraft sound sources limit in a simple way

Mod 3,998,560
Held Item Info

Held Item Info

Shows information (like enchantments) about the held item under its name

Mod 9,662,997
MossyLib

MossyLib

Library with basic utilities for Mossy projects.

Mod 5,658,031
Music Notification

Music Notification

Configure visual notifications when music is played in-game

Mod 10,296,405
First Join Message

First Join Message

💬 Sends players who join a world for the first time a configurable message.

Mod 10,702,200
Snow Under Trees (Fabric)​

Snow Under Trees (Fabric)​

1.19+ continuation of Snow Under Trees (Fabric)

Mod 10,604,623
Universal Ores (Fabric)

Universal Ores (Fabric)

💎 Patches missing ores blocks to Minecraft.

Mod 6,823,007
Smooth Gui

Smooth Gui

Smooth animation when opening GUI for Minecraft. GUI fades up when opened.

Mod 5,041,670
Fresh Animations: Player Extension

Fresh Animations: Player Extension

Animates players in Fresh Animations' style. An official FA extension.

Texture Pack 3,149,492
Resourcify

Resourcify

In-game resource pack, data pack and shader browser and updater

Mod 16,125,534
Explosive Enhancement

Explosive Enhancement

Makes the explosion animation look cooler.

Mod 8,091,584
Status Effect Bars

Status Effect Bars

Adds customizable bars to the status effects overlay to show the remaining duration of effects.

Mod 11,353,800
Gamma Utils (Fullbright)

Gamma Utils (Fullbright)

Fully client side Gamma / Brightness / Night Vision mod, making it easy to see in the dark. Basically Fullbright for Fab...

Mod 16,766,494
Fresh Animations: Emissive

Fresh Animations: Emissive

Makes some Fresh Animations' textures emit light. An official FA extension.

Texture Pack 1,165,190
Nord's Leaf Me Alone

Nord's Leaf Me Alone

Allows any rideable entity with controlling it passenger to move trough leaves

Mod 540,880
Spawn Animations [Server] [Fabric/Quilt/Forge/NeoForge]

Spawn Animations [Server] [Fabric/Quilt/Forge/NeoForge]

Hostile mobs dig out of the ground or poof into existence when they spawn!

Mod 1,566,133
Shrimp's Immersive Interfaces

Shrimp's Immersive Interfaces

A complete graphical revamp of Minecraft's GUI, brings variety and charm to the previously grey boxes.

Texture Pack 4,072,853
More Mobs [Server] [Fabric/Quilt/Forge/NeoForge]

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!

Mod 656,530
Plants & Zombies

Plants & Zombies

A Plants Vs. Zombies mod for Minecraft

Mod 283,594
Breaking Place

Breaking Place

Adds satisfying block destruction particles every time you place a block.

Mod 3,795

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