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RareLabs Colonies

Modpack

by RareDevil

A vanilla+ pack focused on MineColonies, light tech, and exploration. Build colonies, automate with Create and Immersive Engineering, gear up with Silent Gear, and explore dungeons — all while keeping the vanilla world feel intact.

Type

Modpack

CurseForge Downloads

1,877

CurseForge ID

1244315

Last Updated

Jun 26, 2026

Description

Description

Build, explore, automate, and thrive in a world that feels like vanilla — just better.
RareLabs Colonies is a vanilla+ modpack centered on MineColonies, enriched with light tech elements and a focus on adventure through handcrafted structures and dungeons.

Core Features:

  • MineColonies – Design and manage your own colony, assign roles, and grow from a small camp to a bustling settlement.
    Impact: Adds depth, progression, and strategic planning to your survival experience.
  • Create & Immersive Engineering – Build kinetic machines, automate systems, and explore early-game tech options with visual flair.
    Impact: Introduces creative automation and resource management without overwhelming complexity.
  • Adventure & Exploration – Discover new structures and dungeons scattered throughout the vanilla world.
    Impact: Enhances exploration with rewarding combat and loot, while keeping terrain familiar.
  • Silent Gear – Craft custom tools and armor with upgrade paths tailored to your playstyle.
    Impact: Offers meaningful gear progression beyond vanilla enchantments.
  • Sophisticated Backpacks & Storage – Expand your inventory and organize your colony life with ease.
    Impact: Supports bigger projects, longer adventures, and less inventory hassle.

Whether you’re a colony builder, an explorer, or a tinkerer of machines, RareLabs Colonies offers a grounded yet engaging sandbox that expands vanilla — without straying too far from its roots.

Compatibility

Mod Loaders

Neoforge

Game Versions

1.21.1

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Just Enough Items (JEI)

Just Enough Items (JEI)

View Items and Recipes

Mod 657,118,586
JourneyMap

JourneyMap

Real-time map used for mapping in-game or your browser as you explore.

Mod 353,035,365
Cloth Config API (Fabric/Forge/NeoForge)

Cloth Config API (Fabric/Forge/NeoForge)

Config Screen API for Minecraft

Mod 500,596,514
Architectury API

Architectury API

An intermediary api aimed to ease developing multiplatform mods.

Mod 415,405,472
Mouse Tweaks

Mouse Tweaks

Enhances inventory management by adding various functions to the mouse buttons.

Mod 509,680,055
AppleSkin

AppleSkin

Adds some useful information about food/hunger to the HUD

Mod 475,321,133
Balm

Balm

Abstraction Layer for Multi-Loader Mods

Mod 283,878,286
Jade 🔍

Jade 🔍

Shows information about what you are looking at. (Hwyla/WAILA fork for Minecraft 1.16+)

Mod 306,559,717
Bookshelf

Bookshelf

An open source library for other mods!

Mod 396,125,738
Waystones

Waystones

Teleport back to activated waystones. For Survival, Adventure or Servers.

Mod 321,164,325
Curios API (Forge/NeoForge)

Curios API (Forge/NeoForge)

A flexible and expandable accessory/equipment API for users and developers.

Mod 314,778,646
Controlling

Controlling

Adds a search bar to the Key-Bindings menu

Mod 414,672,393
Clumps

Clumps

Clumps XP orbs together to reduce lag

Mod 384,313,054
Sophisticated Backpacks

Sophisticated Backpacks

Yet another backpack mod this time with backpack you can place in world, color in different color combinations, upgrade...

Mod 239,969,735
Collective

Collective

🎓 Collective is a shared library with common code for all of Serilum's mods.

Mod 300,856,870
Puzzles Lib

Puzzles Lib

Why is it called Puzzles? That's the puzzle.

Mod 251,699,091
Placebo

Placebo

A library mod

Mod 315,281,678
Cupboard

Cupboard

Cupboard provides code, frameworks, and utilities for minecraft mods

Mod 185,593,731
Searchables

Searchables

Searchables is a library mod that adds helper methods that allow for searching and filtering elements based on component...

Mod 192,109,660
Konkrete

Konkrete

Just another boring library mod.

Mod 266,033,776
Enchantment Descriptions

Enchantment Descriptions

Adds in-game descriptions for enchantments to tooltips.

Mod 305,964,841
Sophisticated Core

Sophisticated Core

Library mod for Sophisticated mods

Mod 203,270,996
FTB Library (NeoForge)

FTB Library (NeoForge)

Common code for all GUI stuff in FTB Mods

Mod 228,286,569
Kotlin for Forge

Kotlin for Forge

Adds a Kotlin language loader and provides some optional utilities.

Mod 224,655,572
Sodium

Sodium

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

Mod 318,228,069
Resourceful Lib

Resourceful Lib

Lib for Team Resourceful and more

Mod 192,476,037
Comforts

Comforts

Adds sleeping bags and hammocks for, respectively, portability and turning day to night, without setting new spawns. Com...

Mod 252,951,319
Nature's Compass

Nature's Compass

Nature's Compass is an item that allows you to locate biomes anywhere in the world.

Mod 305,084,319
Polymorph (Fabric/Forge/Quilt)

Polymorph (Fabric/Forge/Quilt)

No more recipe conflicts! Adds an option to choose the crafting result if more than one is available.

Mod 233,174,974
FTB Teams (NeoForge)

FTB Teams (NeoForge)

Library for mods that can utilize team progression

Mod 204,130,250
Framework

Framework

A common library powering all of MrCrayfish's Mods

Mod 125,084,966
SuperMartijn642's Config Lib

SuperMartijn642's Config Lib

Config Lib makes dealing with config files just a bit easier.

Mod 197,560,376
SuperMartijn642's Core Lib

SuperMartijn642's Core Lib

SuperMartijn642's Core Lib adds lots of basic implementations that allow for similar code between different Minecraft ve...

Mod 187,199,169
Lootr (Forge & NeoForge)

Lootr (Forge & NeoForge)

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

Mod 171,131,264
Rhino

Rhino

A fork of Mozilla's Rhino library, modified for use in mods

Mod 178,337,932
Create

Create

Aesthetic Technology that empowers the Player

Mod 219,248,541
KubeJS

KubeJS

Edit recipes, add new custom items, script world events, all in JavaScript!

Mod 170,320,548
ShatterLib | OctoLib

ShatterLib | OctoLib

Collection of shared code for Shatterbyte mods

Mod 95,760,056
Athena

Athena

A crossplatform (Forge/Fabric) solution to connected block textures for 1.19.4+

Mod 101,708,783
Fusion (Connected Textures)

Fusion (Connected Textures)

Fusion allows resource packs to use additional texture and model types such as connected textures!

Mod 107,377,779
Cosmetic Armor Reworked

Cosmetic Armor Reworked

This mod allows you to wear two sets of armor, one for display, one for function.

Mod 189,608,163
Artifacts

Artifacts

Adds various treasure items that can be found through exploration

Mod 145,563,469
Caelus API

Caelus API

A coremod and API to provide developers access to elytra flight mechanics through an entity attribute.

Mod 162,392,120
Toast Control

Toast Control

Control toasts, those popups in the corner!

Mod 183,560,502
No Chat Reports

No Chat Reports

Makes chat unreportable (where possible)

Mod 160,441,187
Configured

Configured

Automatic in-game configuration menus for every mod!

Mod 118,025,548
NetherPortalFix

NetherPortalFix

Ensures correct destinations when travelling back and forth through Nether Portals in Multiplayer.

Mod 174,140,654
Lithium (Fabric/NeoForge)

Lithium (Fabric/NeoForge)

An optimization mod for Minecraft which improves server performance significantly.

Mod 195,515,195
Better Compatibility Checker

Better Compatibility Checker

Changes the default server compatability check to compare modpack versions

Mod 117,575,562
Chipped

Chipped

Every block deserves a friend.

Mod 138,590,894
Corpse

Corpse

Never lose your items again!

Mod 126,616,265
Just Enough Resources (JER)

Just Enough Resources (JER)

A JEI addon that adds mob drops, ore gen, ..

Mod 239,912,961
Sophisticated Storage

Sophisticated Storage

Storage mod with multiple tiers and functional upgrades

Mod 84,368,779
FastFurnace

FastFurnace

A performance upgrade for the furnace.

Mod 141,051,791
Create Crafts & Additions

Create Crafts & Additions

Electrifying the Create mod!

Mod 112,446,118
Crafting Tweaks

Crafting Tweaks

Allows you to rotate, balance or clear the crafting matrix by the press of a button, in any (supported) crafting window.

Mod 177,552,163
FTB Ultimine (Forge)

FTB Ultimine (Forge)

Harvest multiple blocks at once

Mod 109,116,702
Just Zoom

Just Zoom

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

Mod 74,046,025
FastWorkbench

FastWorkbench

A performance upgrade for the crafting table.

Mod 176,514,132
FTB Chunks (NeoForge)

FTB Chunks (NeoForge)

A mod that allows you to claim chunks to protect your blocks and view minimap / large map

Mod 122,647,830
FTB Essentials (Forge & Fabric)

FTB Essentials (Forge & Fabric)

Adds many essential utility commands for servers

Mod 97,252,506
Fast Leaf Decay

Fast Leaf Decay

Makes leaves decay faster when a tree is cut down.

Mod 184,425,262
Just Enough Professions (JEP)

Just Enough Professions (JEP)

A JEI addon that adds profession workstations

Mod 106,927,150
Prickle

Prickle

Prickle is a JSON based configuration file format brought to Minecraft.

Mod 51,647,904
Immersive Engineering

Immersive Engineering

A retro-futuristic tech mod!

Mod 189,966,863
Torchmaster

Torchmaster

Adds a special torch which prevents mob spawning in a configurable radius

Mod 161,322,628
Rechiseled

Rechiseled

Rechiseled allows you to chisel blocks into various decorative blocks with connected textures!

Mod 70,033,704
Clean Swing Through Grass

Clean Swing Through Grass

Hit your Enemies even in Grass

Mod 49,940,066
Loot Integrations

Loot Integrations

Allows loot from loottables to be integrated into other lootables, inherently adds better dungeon loot to a few structur...

Mod 74,448,000
Building Gadgets

Building Gadgets

A collection of Gadgets to make building large structures a little bit easier!

Mod 148,088,790
Cooking for Blockheads

Cooking for Blockheads

Adds a multiblock kitchen that shows recipes you can make with what ingredients you have available.

Mod 192,505,829
Extreme sound muffler - (Neo)Forge

Extreme sound muffler - (Neo)Forge

Forget about those nasty sounds! - Clientside sound muffler.

Mod 82,848,899
Relics

Relics

Just a mod about useful items with unique mechanics :3

Mod 59,761,786
Iron Furnaces

Iron Furnaces

Inspired by cpw's Iron Chests, this mod introduces a variety of new furnaces to the game.

Mod 98,705,350
Elytra Slot

Elytra Slot

Adds curio support to the elytra so you can fly and wear chest armor at the same time. Formerly known as Curious Elytra.

Mod 125,171,308
Just Enough Breeding (JEBr)

Just Enough Breeding (JEBr)

JEI/REI/EMI plugin that displays breeding information

Mod 54,882,591
Connected Glass

Connected Glass

Connected Glass adds new types of glass with connecting textures!

Mod 68,981,159
BaguetteLib

BaguetteLib

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

Mod 27,065,909
Goblin Traders

Goblin Traders

Adds goblins that you can find underground with unique and useful trades!

Mod 83,727,977
Jade Addons (Neo/Forge)

Jade Addons (Neo/Forge)

Jade 🔍's additional mod supports for Neo/Forge

Mod 63,097,676
Tool Belt

Tool Belt

A utility belt that holds your tools

Mod 86,545,498
Corpse x Curios API Compat

Corpse x Curios API Compat

Adds Curios API support to Corpse

Mod 24,554,630
Colorful Hearts

Colorful Hearts

A client side mod that replaces multiple vanilla heart rows with a single row using colored hearts

Mod 46,435,088
Double Doors

Double Doors

🚪 Multiple identical double doors, trapdoors and fence gates can be opened simultaneously.

Mod 56,810,849
Max Health Fix

Max Health Fix

Fixes a bug with max health in Minecraft.

Mod 54,936,619
Silent Lib (silentlib)

Silent Lib (silentlib)

Library to make writing and maintaining mods easier.

Mod 102,291,220
FTB Ranks (NeoForge)

FTB Ranks (NeoForge)

Adds ranking system that lets you give certain players permissions, username formatting, etc.

Mod 72,458,559
Cobweb

Cobweb

Crystal Nest API

Mod 34,144,027
XP Tome

XP Tome

Adds a book that can store a configurable amount of XP.

Mod 84,495,857
More Overlays Updated

More Overlays Updated

Adds NEI-like light overlay for mob spawns, a chunk border overlay and a JEI item search overlay. (updated for 1.16.5, 1...

Mod 53,105,627
Dungeon Crawl

Dungeon Crawl

Generates large underground dungeon structures in the overworld.

Mod 83,190,519
Simple Magnets

Simple Magnets

Simple Magnets adds Magnets that pickup items around the player!

Mod 59,910,719
Reliquified Artifacts

Reliquified Artifacts

Compatibility addon between Relics and Artifacts

Mod 24,960,196
Durability Tooltip

Durability Tooltip

Durability Tooltip shows you the durability of an item!

Mod 55,077,840
Multi-Piston

Multi-Piston

Multi-directional Piston Block

Mod 43,769,297
Overloaded Armor Bar

Overloaded Armor Bar

Allows the armor bar to wrap and change color with better than diamond armor

Mod 62,209,482
Sophisticated Storage Create Integration

Sophisticated Storage Create Integration

Full Featured Sophisticated Storage on Create Contraptions

Mod 18,474,432
TownTalk

TownTalk

Minecolonies Addon for more Voice Lines

Mod 30,194,563
BlockUI

BlockUI

Easy to Use UI library for Forge mods

Mod 51,214,307
Domum Ornamentum

Domum Ornamentum

Millions of unique block variants and all stairs/slabs/walls/fence and more vanilla Minecraft forgot

Mod 52,673,423
Structurize

Structurize

Copy structures, paste structures, manipulate structures (100% GUI)

Mod 73,045,470
Charging Gadgets

Charging Gadgets

A simple mod for charging with ForgeEnergy

Mod 49,737,772
Sophisticated Backpacks Create Integration

Sophisticated Backpacks Create Integration

Sophisticated Backpacks on create contraptions

Mod 16,145,275
MonoLib

MonoLib

A non-invasive library mod for Fabric, Forge, and NeoForge.

Mod 27,955,024
MineColonies

MineColonies

Grow your Own Massive Colony with Automation, Defense Structures, Raids and more

Mod 85,376,273
Rechiseled: Chipped

Rechiseled: Chipped

Let's you quickly craft Chipped block variants using the Rechiseled chisel. Also adds a few QoL features to Rechiseled.

Mod 21,919,216
LaserIO

LaserIO

Route Items, Fluids, and Energy around your world - with Lasers!

Mod 45,441,049
Yung Structures Addon for Loot Integrations

Yung Structures Addon for Loot Integrations

Adds better loot to yung mods structures, an addon to the lootintegrations mod

Mod 21,754,260
Apothic Spawners

Apothic Spawners

Allows moving and modifying Mob Spawners

Mod 20,565,474
Silent Gear

Silent Gear

Upgradeable tools, weapons, and armor. Custom materials system!

Mod 52,231,129
More Dragon Eggs

More Dragon Eggs

Every kill gives an Egg

Mod 44,379,520
YUNG's API (NeoForge)

YUNG's API (NeoForge)

A library mod for some of YUNG's Minecraft mods

Mod 23,222,924
Rechiseled: Create

Rechiseled: Create

Rechiseled: Create adds new decorative variants of blocks in Create!

Mod 29,311,191
Inventory Tweaks - ReFoxed

Inventory Tweaks - ReFoxed

Inventory Tweaks for NeoForge

Mod 25,475,925
Fuel Goes Here

Fuel Goes Here

Fuel should go to the fuel slot even when there's a smelting recipe for it.

Mod 31,844,101
Dis-Enchanting Table

Dis-Enchanting Table

Recover enchantments from enchanted weapons or books!

Mod 20,216,969
Inventory Essentials

Inventory Essentials

The most essential inventory tweaks. Now with sorting!

Mod 48,744,538
YUNG's Better Nether Fortresses (NeoForge)

YUNG's Better Nether Fortresses (NeoForge)

A complete redesign of Minecraft's Nether fortresses!

Mod 16,236,839
JourneyMap Integration

JourneyMap Integration

Adds some mod integrations for our favorite map mod

Mod 38,566,566
YUNG's Better Mineshafts (NeoForge)

YUNG's Better Mineshafts (NeoForge)

A long-awaited and much-needed abandoned mineshaft overhaul!

Mod 17,052,064
Just Enough Immersive Multiblocks

Just Enough Immersive Multiblocks

Immersive Engineering addon that adds JEI support for multiblocks.

Mod 17,759,890
Harvest with ease

Harvest with ease

Don't break crops, right click them!

Mod 33,817,413
CleanView

CleanView

CleanView is a minecraft client mod that removes potion particles from your viewpoint

Mod 15,495,962
Sophisticated Storage in Motion

Sophisticated Storage in Motion

A Sophisticated Storage add on which allows using storage blocks with minecarts and in the future with other entities

Mod 12,363,652
YUNG's Better Strongholds (NeoForge)

YUNG's Better Strongholds (NeoForge)

A complete redesign of Minecraft's strongholds

Mod 16,860,879
YUNG's Better Dungeons (NeoForge)

YUNG's Better Dungeons (NeoForge)

A complete redesign of Minecraft's dungeons!

Mod 16,663,795
YUNG's Better End Island (NeoForge)

YUNG's Better End Island (NeoForge)

An overhaul of the main End Island where the dragon fight takes place!

Mod 16,206,005
Redstone Pen

Redstone Pen

Adds a pen to draw Redstone selectively and optimized, as well as signal repeating relays, and a Redstone logic controll...

Mod 19,247,750
Bibliocraft Legacy

Bibliocraft Legacy

Bibliocraft Legacy is a port of the original BiblioCraft Minecraft mod by Nuchaz. It adds various pieces of decorative a...

Mod 12,183,254
Snad

Snad

Finally, sand that actually makes sugarcane grow faster.

Mod 52,731,157
Better With Minecolonies

Better With Minecolonies

Recipes that allow you to get hard to acquire blocks with slightly less difficulty. Great for level 2 schematics that wa...

Mod 5,740,143
YUNG's Better Witch Huts (NeoForge)

YUNG's Better Witch Huts (NeoForge)

Adds overhauled witch huts to swamps!

Mod 14,911,196
YUNG's Better Jungle Temples (NeoForge)

YUNG's Better Jungle Temples (NeoForge)

A complete redesign of Minecraft's jungle temples!

Mod 15,527,308
YUNG's Better Ocean Monuments (NeoForge)

YUNG's Better Ocean Monuments (NeoForge)

A complete redesign of Minecraft's ocean monuments!

Mod 15,046,319
Better Days

Better Days

Gives you control over the passage of time by allowing you to customize the length of the day-night cycle and alters the...

Mod 10,748,178
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 17,071,548
No Farmland Trample

No Farmland Trample

Disables farmland trampling

Mod 14,603,085
Enchanting Infuser

Enchanting Infuser

An all-new enchanting table for choosing your enchantments at fair prices without the randomness.

Mod 25,222,202
YUNG's Better Desert Temples (NeoForge)

YUNG's Better Desert Temples (NeoForge)

A complete redesign of Minecraft's desert temples!

Mod 13,992,450
YUNG's Extras (NeoForge)

YUNG's Extras (NeoForge)

Extra structures, features, and vanilla+ content suitable for any modpack

Mod 12,669,931
JER Integration

JER Integration

Add more computability to Just Enough Resources (JER)

Mod 13,204,263
JadeColonies

JadeColonies

A Jade addon for MineColonies and Domum Ornamentum

Mod 5,314,397
Lighty

Lighty

The Light Overlay Mod with a twist!

Mod 6,843,432
Corail Woodcutter

Corail Woodcutter

A sawmill for wooden recipes similar to the StoneCutter, with default support for Biomes O' Plenty, Twilight Forest, Qua...

Mod 28,802,343
Loot Integrations: Dungeon Crawl

Loot Integrations: Dungeon Crawl

Adds better loot to Dungeon Crawl chests, including modded loot

Mod 3,066,668
YUNG's Bridges (NeoForge)

YUNG's Bridges (NeoForge)

Adds beautiful naturally generated bridges throughout the world

Mod 5,021,697
Byzantine Styles Pack for Minecolonies

Byzantine Styles Pack for Minecolonies

Byzantine Styles Pack for Minecolonies 1.20+ (Byzantine/Shogun/Nile)

Mod 12,239,518
Freecam

Freecam

A simple, standalone freecam mod.

Mod 13,889,325
Anvil Never Too Expensive

Anvil Never Too Expensive

Removes the level cap in the Anvil GUI

Mod 6,604,609
Just Another Rotten Flesh to Leather Mod

Just Another Rotten Flesh to Leather Mod

Lets you smelt Rotten Fleh to Leather.

Mod 17,337,165
End Villager Trader

End Villager Trader

Adds a new villager trader in the End, offering End-related items, including a new Shulker Armor

Mod 543,145
Horses can Swim

Horses can Swim

Makes horses swim through water when ridden by players

Mod 1,635,548
Curios API Continuation [Frozen]

Curios API Continuation [Frozen]

A flexible and expandable accessory/equipment API for users and developers [Frozen]

Mod 4,200,447
Followers Teleport Too

Followers Teleport Too

🐺 Whenever a player is teleported via a command, pets will be teleported alongside them.

Mod 1,464,981
Modular Angel Ring

Modular Angel Ring

Tweak an Angel Ring to your liking with modules !

Mod 262,846
Dense Ores - Abundant!

Dense Ores - Abundant!

Ores that drop more materials!

Mod 2,168,189
Dungeons Enhanced Lootintegrations Addon

Dungeons Enhanced Lootintegrations Addon

Adds better loot to dungeons enhanced structures, an addon to the lootintegration mod

Mod 765,409
Sophisticated Backpack/Storage Emerald Upgrade

Sophisticated Backpack/Storage Emerald Upgrade

Enhance your Sophisticated Backpacks/Storage with the Emerald Upgrade! This upgrade boosts storage capacity beyond Nethe...

Mod 176,047
Portable Tanks

Portable Tanks

Portable Tanks adds fluid tanks which keep their contents when picked up.

Mod 1,151,388
Stone Refined!

Stone Refined!

Adds various vanilla-friendly crafting improvements to stone related items.

Mod 2,616

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