The Solar Apocalypse
Modpackby SeriousFreezing
A very light modpack, featuring a solar catastrophe!
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Modpack
CurseForge Downloads
69,807
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Modrinth Downloads
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Last Updated
Sep 12, 2026
Description
Everything was in perfect balance — the flora thrived, the fauna followed their natural rhythm.
Until one day, the SUN began to act strangely. Each sunrise seemed brighter, hotter... BIGGER.
Why is the SUN changing? What should you do? Who will survive?
The Solar Apocalypse is a challenge-focused modpack designed to take you on a difficult and ever-evolving survival experience. Inspired by elements of Project Zomboid, it reimagines Minecraft with new threats, a harsher environment, and new behaviors that force you to adapt.
On day 5, the Sun ignites every surface block. By day 10, anything exposed begins to burn. From day 15 to 100, its heat consumes the world layer by layer—descending from height 100 until reaching layer 0. For versions below 27.0+beta, click here.
Discover a modpack built to challenge you, surprise you, and push your survival instincts to the limit. The Solar Apocalypse reshapes the familiar world of Minecraft with dangerous events, smarter creatures, and a SUN that becomes deadlier every day. If you want a modpack that feels fresh, intense, and carefully crafted, this is the one.
Challenge, Reinvented
- Designed for players who love danger and exploration.
- Creatures behave differently, and timed events escalate the challenge. Learn more.
Smooth as Butter
- Enjoy top-tier performance and convenience in one place.
- Hand-picked optimization mods, bug fixes, and in-game downloads for shaders, worlds, datapacks, and resource packs.
Always New, Always Solid
- Each major Minecraft update brings a fresh season with new mods, adventures, and discoveries.
- Still stable and reliable thanks to being fully open-source and comes with detailed documentation.
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Contained Mods (223)
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.
Fabric API
Core API library for the Fabric toolchain
AppleSkin
Adds some useful information about food/hunger to the HUD
GeckoLib
A 3D animation library for entities, blocks, items, armor, and more!
Architectury API
An intermediary api aimed to ease developing multiplatform mods.
Controlling
Adds a search bar to the Key-Bindings menu
Entity Culling Fabric/Forge
Using async path-tracing to hide BlockEntities/Entities that are not visible
Sodium
The fastest and most compatible rendering optimization mod for Minecraft. Now available for both NeoForge and Fabric!
Xaero's Minimap
Displays the nearby world terrain, players, mobs, entities in the corner of your screen. Lets you create waypoints which...
JourneyMap
Real-time map used for mapping in-game or your browser as you explore.
Jade 🔍
Shows information about what you are looking at. (Hwyla/WAILA fork for Minecraft 1.16+)
Collective
🎓 Collective is a shared library with common code for all of Serilum's mods.
Enchantment Descriptions
Adds in-game descriptions for enchantments to tooltips.
Balm
Abstraction Layer for Multi-Loader Mods
Xaero's World Map
Adds a fullscreen worldmap which shows you what you have explored in the world. Can work together with Xaero's Minimap.
ImmediatelyFast
Speed up immediate mode rendering in Minecraft
Puzzles Lib
Why is it called Puzzles? That's the puzzle.
Biomes O' Plenty
Adds 50+ unique biomes to enhance your world, with new trees, flowers, and more!
YetAnotherConfigLib
A builder-based configuration library for Minecraft.
Not Enough Animations
Bringing first-person animations to the third-person
![[EMF] Entity Model Features [Fabric & Forge]](https://media.forgecdn.net/avatars/983/284/638491564386011875.png)
[EMF] Entity Model Features [Fabric & Forge]
EMF is an, OptiFine format, Custom Entity Model replacement mod available for Fabric and Forge.
Lithium (Fabric/NeoForge)
An optimization mod for Minecraft which improves server performance significantly.
Storage Drawers
Interactive compartment storage for your workshops.
Resourceful Lib
Lib for Team Resourceful and more
Searchables
Searchables is a library mod that adds helper methods that allow for searching and filtering elements based on component...
Fabric Language Kotlin
Fabric language module for Kotlin
Sound Physics Remastered
A Minecraft mod that provides realistic sound attenuation, reverberation, and absorption through blocks.
TerraBlender (Forge)
A library mod for adding biomes in a simple and compatible manner!
Cooking for Blockheads
Adds a multiblock kitchen that shows recipes you can make with what ingredients you have available.
Lootr (Forge & NeoForge)
A mod that makes it so nobody misses out on Loot! All loot chests are instanced per player and visually unique.
Complementary Shaders - Unbound
Transforming the visuals of Minecraft with exceptional quality, detail, and performance.
Iris Shaders
A modern shader pack loader for Minecraft intended to be compatible with existing OptiFine shader packs
OpenBlocks Elevator
Port of OpenBlocks Elevator.
Reese's Sodium Options
Alternative Options Menu for Sodium
FerriteCore
Memory usage optimizations
![[ETF] Entity Texture Features - [Fabric & Forge]](https://media.forgecdn.net/avatars/983/279/638491557830728907.png)
[ETF] Entity Texture Features - [Fabric & Forge]
Custom, Emissive and Varied mobs like Optifine and so much more.. +Player skin features!)
Forge Config API Port
NeoForge's & Forge's config systems provided to other modding ecosystems. Designed for a multiloader architecture.
Continuity
A Minecraft mod that allows for efficient connected textures
Iris Shaders
A modern shaders mod for Minecraft intended to be compatible with existing Optifine shaders
Fzzy Config
Config API with automatic GUIs, powerful validation options, server-client sync, and more!
Macaw's Doors
Adds vanila doors with every wood color and new unique doors!
oωo (owo-lib)
A general utility, GUI and config library for modding on Fabric and Quilt
Macaw's Fences and Walls
Adds new vanila styled fences, walls and gates!
Dynamic FPS
Improve performance when Minecraft is in the background
Serene Seasons
Seasons with changing colors, shifting temperatures, and more!
Lithostitched
Library mod with new configurability and compatibility enhancements for worldgen
Visual Workbench
Items stay inside of crafting tables and are also rendered on top. It's really fancy!
Farming for Blockheads
Adds a customizable market, shipping bin, sprinklers and more farming utilities.
Skin Layers 3D
Render the player skin layer in 3d!
Just Enough Professions (JEP)
A JEI addon that adds profession workstations
Zoomify
A zoom mod with infinite customizability.
Macaw's Trapdoors
Adds vanila trapdoors in every plank variation, and some new trapdoors too!
LambDynamicLights
The most feature-complete and optimized dynamic lighting mod.
![[ETF] Entity Texture Features](https://cdn.modrinth.com/data/BVzZfTc1/af683d206d50b05258d865b0d6e4aa2f2cee12f2_96.webp)
[ETF] Entity Texture Features
Emissive, Random & Custom texture support for entities in resourcepacks just like Optifine but for Fabric
MoreCulling
A mod that changes how multiple types of culling are handled in order to improve performance
Macaw's Furniture
Decorate your world with wardrobes, drawers, chairs, desks, tables, couches, sinks... and more!
GlitchCore
A library mod aimed at abstracting mod loaders and providing various utilities for our mods.
Crash Assistant
Shows a GUI after Minecraft crashes, immediately showing and analyzing all affected logs.
Easy Magic
Enchanting tables as they always should have been! Items stay after closing, and easy re-rolls.
Valhelsia Core
API for the Valhelsia mods and friends.
Macaw's Lights and Lamps
Adds vanila styled lamps, torches, street lamps, paper lamps, slabs... Make your worlds brighter!
MidnightLib
Common library with a built-in configuration system
3D Skin Layers
Render the player skin layer in 3d!
Explorify – Dungeons & Structures
A simplistic, vanilla-friendly collection of new structures.
FerriteCore (Fabric)
Memory usage optimizations
Tom's Simple Storage Mod
Simple vanilla style storage mod
Debugify
Fixes Minecraft bugs found on the bug tracker
Resource Pack Overrides
Ensures important resource packs stay always active and helps clean up the pack selection screen.
Visuality
Little visual improvements by adding a bunch of new particles.
Double Doors
🚪 Multiple identical double doors, trapdoors and fence gates can be opened simultaneously.
Prickle
Prickle is a JSON based configuration file format brought to Minecraft.
Macaw's Paths and Pavings
Adds new vanila styled paths and pavings!
Your Options Shall Be Respected (YOSBR)
Your options shall be respected.
M.R.U
A library mod used by Cassian and IMB11's mods to function.
Mutant Monsters
The mutants are back! Face scary creatures and powerful beasts like never before.
Cardinal Components API
API for data-driven content
Tectonic
Terrain shaping brought to new heights, grander and more varied than ever before!
Macaw's Paintings
Adds lots of custom made paintings!
Formations (Structure Library)
Formations adds utilities for structure datapacks!
Incendium
New biomes and structures with the vanilla blocks! (1.18+)
Formations Nether
Formations Nether adds plenty of new structures to the nether!
Measurements
Allows measuring distance using a tape measure.
Repurposed Structures (Fabric)
Adds more variations of vanilla structures and features!
Particle Rain
replaces the default weather with particle effects
MNS - Moog's Nether Structures
loads of structures made with vanilla blocks and entities bringing life to your world! Discover loot, enemies, & more al...
Friends&Foes (Fabric/Quilt)
Adds outvoted and forgotten mobs from the mob vote, expanding on their original concepts and adding new vanilla-like fea...
Concurrent Chunk Management Engine (Fabric)
A Fabric mod designed to improve the chunk performance of Minecraft.
Nullscape
Vanilla End expansion for Fabric and Forge. More varied terrain - same barren, unforgiving void.
Particular ✨ Reforged
Particular is a mod that enhances Minecraft's ambience with many hand-crafted visual effects. Forge Port !
Tech Reborn
Tech Reborn is a completely standalone tech mod including tools and machines to gather resources, process materials, and...
TerraBlender (Fabric)
A library mod for adding biomes in a simple and compatible manner!
Farmer's Delight Refabricated
Modern Fabric port of the cooking and farming mod, "Farmer's Delight"
BaguetteLib
A simple but powerful event library that gives mod developers the control they actually need.
Sounds
Adds a wide range of new and improved sound effects to Minecraft, letting you customize everything from block interactio...
Moog's Structure Lib (moogs_structures)
This is a library mod for the Moogs Structure series
Configured Defaults
Allows for providing defaults for files absent in .minecraft like configs. A quintessential modpack utility.
Controlify (Controller support)
Adds controller support to Minecraft!
Macaw's Stairs
Adds new Vanilla styled Stairs, Handrails for Stairs and Balconies!
YDM's Weapon Master
With this Mod your Hotbar items will be visible on your Character.
Tough As Nails
A difficult, survival-based mod that adds body temperature and thirst!
Macaw's Holidays
Adds Christmas & Halloween decorations, Christmas Tree, Lights, Garland, Candy cane and more!
Tom's Simple Storage Mod (Fabric)
Simple vanilla style storage mod for Fabric
Tiny Skeletons
Teeny, tiny skeletons, send shivers down your spine...
Lootr (Fabric)
A mod that makes it so nobody misses out on Loot! All loot chests are instanced per player and visually unique.
![Chisel Reborn [Forge/Fabric/NeoForge]](https://media.forgecdn.net/avatars/461/284/637740832557938621.png)
Chisel Reborn [Forge/Fabric/NeoForge]
Adds New Blocks!
MSS - Moog's Soaring Structures
Lots of awesome vanilla style floating islands full of loot, mobs and dungeons for you to explore!
Inventory Sorting
Quick, simple, and lightweight inventory sorting
![Traveler's Backpack [Fabric]](https://media.forgecdn.net/avatars/623/756/638018179443585069.gif)
Traveler's Backpack [Fabric]
Unique and upgradeable backpacks with customisation, Trinkets integration and more!
Advanced Loot Info
EMI/JEI/REI plugin for displaying advanced information about loot tables and villager trades
![Medieval Buildings [End Edition]](https://media.forgecdn.net/avatars/962/478/638459531663959626.png)
Medieval Buildings [End Edition]
New incredible medieval-style structures for the End!
Translations for Sodium
Unofficial translations for the Sodium Minecraft mod
Concurrent Chunk Management Engine
A Fabric mod designed to improve the chunk performance of Minecraft.
Traveler's Backpack
Unique and upgradeable backpacks with customisation, Curios API/Trinkets integration and more!
AdoraBuild: Structures
Adds over 100 new structures to enhance the world exploration
Deimos Lib
Config and datagen library based on midnight lib
Variants&Ventures
Adds multiple new mob variants seamlessly integrated into your Minecraft world.
Cryonic Config
Chill Minimal Config API
![Factory Blocks [Forge/Fabric/NeoForge]](https://media.forgecdn.net/avatars/566/597/637925796812131313.png)
Factory Blocks [Forge/Fabric/NeoForge]
Addon to Chisel Refabricated's Blocks to add Factory Blocks
Resourcify
In-game resource pack, data pack and shader browser and updater
![Laser Bridges & Doors [Fabric/Forge/NeoForge]](https://media.forgecdn.net/avatars/1195/185/638770736607588151.gif)
Laser Bridges & Doors [Fabric/Forge/NeoForge]
Adds laser sources that create laser platforms and doors when powered
Global XP
Adds a block to store XP that is accessible to all players
ModernFix-mVUS
A fork of ModernFix that adds minor version update support.
Better Block Entities
A Minecraft optimization mod for Fabric/Sodium that improves FPS / Block Entity Rendering by implementing a Hybrid Rende...
SeasonHud (Fabric)
Display the current season on the Hud or under the minimap
Underlay
Place any block (such as carpets) inside anything!
![Medieval Buildings [Nether Edition]](https://media.forgecdn.net/avatars/1298/851/638844140602022118.webp)
Medieval Buildings [Nether Edition]
New incredible medieval-style structures for the Nether!
Valhelsia Furniture
Decorate your home better with furniture!
Library Ferret - Fabric
Shared lib for the mods of jtorleon-studios-team
Camerapture
Take pictures using a working camera, show them to other players and hang them on your wall in picture frames!
Hang Glider
Soar through the skies and explore the world's beauty with your brand-new hang glider!
Reactive Music
Refactors Minecraft's music to be dynamic and reactive, including new fantasy and celtic tracks to give an air of advent...
Translations for Sodium
Unofficial translations for the Sodium Minecraft mod
Polymer
Library for creating better server side content!
Extreme sound muffler - Fabric
Forget about those nasty sounds! - Clientside sound muffler.
YDM's Weapon Master
With this Mod your Hotbar items will be visible on your Character, with a unique location for a Shield and Banner.
Universal Ores (Fabric)
💎 Patches missing ores blocks to Minecraft.
Construction Wand (Fabric)
Unofficial Fabric Port of Construction Wand.
Extreme sound muffler
Extreme sound muffler is a client side mod that allows you to muffle sounds selectively.
Spiky Spikes
Don't step on it! Hurts almost as much as stepping on LEGO... ouch
Eternal Nether
New structures, mobs, and many Nether adventures await! A continuation of Bygone Nether by Izofar.
Simple Menu
🖼️ Adds some basic functionality to edit the style and buttons of Minecraft's main menu, change the window title and set...
Underground Worlds
Adds underground biomes and underground dungeons, as well as some above ground structures, in a modular and configurable...
FrozenLib
FrozenBlock's Giant Library of Shelves
Classic Pipes
An item and fluid transport mod inspired by old versions of Buildcraft and Logistics Pipes, built from scratch to stylis...
Universal Ores
Adds ores variants for andesite, diorite, granite and tuff
Awesome Dungeon Nether edition - Fabric
Add awesome dungeon in your Nether !
Echo Chest
A unique chest that collects all items dropped nearby. Very useful!
Naturally Trimmed
Minecraft mod that applies armor trims to naturally generated armor and equipment from mobs, loot tables and trades
Ender Zoology
Vanilla themed monsters to add some difficulty to the game. A remake of Ender Zoo.
Awesome Dungeon The End edition - Fabric
Add a structure in your dimension the END !!!
Optimised Block Entities
A client-side optimization mod to make block entities render faster
Little Joys
Small rewarding events such as Dig Spots, Fishing Spots, Fallen Stars and more.
Wabi-Sabi Structures (Fabric)
A collection of unique, quality structures based on the Japanese concept of "Wabi-Sabi"
Underground Villages, Stoneholm (Fabric/Forge/NeoForge)
((✓ Forge, ✓ Neoforge and ✓ fabric ) Stoneholm is a Forge & Fabric mod adds underground villages to the world. Inspired...
Plushables
Bring cute plushies into your home
ElevatorMod
Simple port of the elevator from OpenBlocks to 1.8+
Portable Hole
Where did the walls go?
Storage Delight
Extra furniture for Farmer's Delight that makes your kitchen or any space look better.
Only Hammers And Excavators
A simple mod that adds various type of hammers & excavators, that mine 3x1 area
Deimos
Configuration and data generation library
Wabi-Sabi Structures
A collection of unique, quality structures based on the Wabi-Sabi philosophy
Immersive Ores
Immersive Ores a fully configurable mod that adds new sets of tools, weapons, ores, and sets of armor with special abili...
qraftyfied
This pack adds many well built structures to your minecraft world that invite you to explore them. Now with TERRALITH s...
Lios Hobbit Hill Village
Adds a cozy, hidden hill village with a grassy rooftop and expansive underground homes
Mineral Chance
💎 Players can find minerals inside stone-type blocks when mining!
Creeper Overhaul
A resource pack based on the Creeper Overhaul mod!
Pet Names
🐈 Gives tamable baby animals a pre-defined name.
More Mobs
Humanoid mobs get new variants through over 85 custom player heads or unused vanilla mobs! No Resource Pack needed!
Better Library
This is just a simple lib for config, 1st join message and live message
Create Fly
Higher version Create mod porting to Fabric
EMF Compat: Core
Shared framework for the EMF Compat family.
Storage Delight (Fabric)
Extra furniture for Farmer's Delight that makes your kitchen or any space look better. Vanilla style.
Spider Overhaul
A mod that improves Minecraft's spiders!
EnhancedTooltips
A mod that overhauls tooltips, and adds some extra information.
![More Mobs [Server] [Fabric/Quilt/Forge/NeoForge]](https://media.forgecdn.net/avatars/873/497/638293560340755507.png)
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!
Balkon's WeaponMod: Legacy
Throw a spear in a zombie's head! Cut a skeleton in half with your brand new halberd! Shoot some slimes in pieces with a...
Cave Spider Spawn
🕷️ Adds a chance for cave spiders to spawn naturally underground instead of a spider.
Simple Resource Loader
Simple global / modpack resource pack and data pack loader. No configuration, just few folders.
Neutral Animals
This mod makes chickens, cows, pigs, rabbits, sheep, and villagers fight back!
OhMyMeteors
A modern mod about Meteors and meteorites that fall from the sky!
Kaleidoscope Cookery Refabricated
The unofficial fabric port made for Kaleidoscope Cookery mod
Linked Chests
Effortless linked storage — access the same inventory from any chest, any place, any time!
Display Delight Fabric
Allows to place every food item in Farmer's Delight in 3D
Underground Village, Stoneholm
Adding in sprawling mazes of underground halls and floors Stoneholm fills the world with a new type of village.
Not Enough Trials
A completely overhauled trial chambers
Silkier Touch
⛏️✨ Extends Silk Touch functionality! Dragon eggs, spawners, cake, farmland and more!
Open Together
Open matching double doors, trapdoors, and fence gates with a single click.
Tool Trims Mod
Fabric port of JoeFly's Tool Trims datapack
Laser Bridges & Doors
Adds Laser Source Block which when powered creates laser platforms and doors
Upgraded Mobs
Adds new attacks and abilities to a variety of mobs.
Trailier Tales
Overhauls the Trails & Tales update, adding features and improving existing ones.
Just Enough Guns New
An unofficial fork from just enough guns. It can run on Neoforge&Fabric. Follows GPL3.0
Tom's Metal Storage
A Unique take on the Tom's Simple Storage mod
Solar Apocalypse: Refabricated
This mod starts a Solar Apocalypse.
Just Enough Guns New
A fork from just enough guns. It can run on neoforge/fabric
Skniro's Nether and End Ores
A simple mod add Nether and End Ores. It will generation in nether and end and make nether survival is easy then vanilla...
Glide Away!
Get your Hang Glider and glide away from the dangers!
Nemo's Creatures
Add new mobs to Minecraft!
Solar Apocalypse
This mod starts a Solar Apocalypse.
The Copperier Age
Expends and enhances the theme of The Copper Age drop. New blocks and mechanics, many tweaks, and awesome optional retex...
KhazodaCore
Library for Khazoda's mods containing lots of useful code
Web
A Spider Overhaul aimed to make the Spider a more difficult foe, while also adding new content.
Superior Stonecutter
Adds additional vanilla-style balanced recipes for woodcutting, advanced recycling, and more. Includes built-in extensio...
Simple Structures: Caves
Adds structure to vanilla-style caves
Cave World Remastered.
Brings back the Old Cave World type but Better and More Improved.
Create: EMF Compat (Skyhook and Grabbing Physics)
Pauses Player animations from EMF packs while riding on rope and chain from Create!
Reliable Recount
A mod that changes the item count numbers to those from Create mod
EMF Compat: Create
Makes Create animations work correctly with animated EMF player models.
More Than Apples
This mod adds new apples and carrot and some unique effects that grant stronger buffs than normal golden foods and It al...
Simple Mob Buff System
Makes mobs rarely spawn with buffs and drop rewards based on how strong they are
Linked Chests
Effortless linked storage — access the same inventory from any chest, any place, any time!
Ore Crystals
A Minecraft Mod which adds crystals...
Xander's Sodium Options: Continued
Replaces the Sodium options GUI with Vanilla-style alternatives.
Creeper Overhaul RP
A resource pack that brings the Creeper Overhaul creepers into vanilla Minecraft!
Web
A Spider Overhaul aimed to make the Spider a more difficult foe, while also adding new content.
Blade's Dungeons
A New Vanilla-Styled Type of Dungeon with 100% Randomly Spawning Rooms
Calibrated Spawners Expanded
A mod that let you calibrate and customize mob spawners.
Tom's Metal Storage
A Unique take on the Tom's Simple Storage mod
Tech Extensions
An add-on for Tech Reborn that adds new useful tools, mainly for mid/end game.
Spiders 2.0 polymerized
Serverside port of the Spiders 2.0 mod by TheCyberBrick
Spiders 2.0 polymerized
Serverside port of the Spiders 2.0 mod by TheCyberBrick