RareLabs Colonies
Modpackby 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.
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Contained Mods (160)
Just Enough Items (JEI)
View Items and Recipes
JourneyMap
Real-time map used for mapping in-game or your browser as you explore.
Cloth Config API (Fabric/Forge/NeoForge)
Config Screen API for Minecraft
Architectury API
An intermediary api aimed to ease developing multiplatform mods.
Mouse Tweaks
Enhances inventory management by adding various functions to the mouse buttons.
AppleSkin
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Balm
Abstraction Layer for Multi-Loader Mods
Jade 🔍
Shows information about what you are looking at. (Hwyla/WAILA fork for Minecraft 1.16+)
Bookshelf
An open source library for other mods!
Waystones
Teleport back to activated waystones. For Survival, Adventure or Servers.
Curios API (Forge/NeoForge)
A flexible and expandable accessory/equipment API for users and developers.
Controlling
Adds a search bar to the Key-Bindings menu
Clumps
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Sophisticated Backpacks
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Collective
🎓 Collective is a shared library with common code for all of Serilum's mods.
Puzzles Lib
Why is it called Puzzles? That's the puzzle.
Placebo
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Cupboard
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Searchables
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Konkrete
Just another boring library mod.
Enchantment Descriptions
Adds in-game descriptions for enchantments to tooltips.
Sophisticated Core
Library mod for Sophisticated mods
FTB Library (NeoForge)
Common code for all GUI stuff in FTB Mods
Kotlin for Forge
Adds a Kotlin language loader and provides some optional utilities.
Sodium
The fastest and most compatible rendering optimization mod for Minecraft. Now available for both NeoForge and Fabric!
Resourceful Lib
Lib for Team Resourceful and more
Comforts
Adds sleeping bags and hammocks for, respectively, portability and turning day to night, without setting new spawns. Com...
Nature's Compass
Nature's Compass is an item that allows you to locate biomes anywhere in the world.
Polymorph (Fabric/Forge/Quilt)
No more recipe conflicts! Adds an option to choose the crafting result if more than one is available.
FTB Teams (NeoForge)
Library for mods that can utilize team progression
Framework
A common library powering all of MrCrayfish's Mods
SuperMartijn642's Config Lib
Config Lib makes dealing with config files just a bit easier.
SuperMartijn642's Core Lib
SuperMartijn642's Core Lib adds lots of basic implementations that allow for similar code between different Minecraft ve...
Lootr (Forge & NeoForge)
A mod that makes it so nobody misses out on Loot! All loot chests are instanced per player and visually unique.
Rhino
A fork of Mozilla's Rhino library, modified for use in mods
Create
Aesthetic Technology that empowers the Player
KubeJS
Edit recipes, add new custom items, script world events, all in JavaScript!
ShatterLib | OctoLib
Collection of shared code for Shatterbyte mods
Athena
A crossplatform (Forge/Fabric) solution to connected block textures for 1.19.4+
Fusion (Connected Textures)
Fusion allows resource packs to use additional texture and model types such as connected textures!
Cosmetic Armor Reworked
This mod allows you to wear two sets of armor, one for display, one for function.
Artifacts
Adds various treasure items that can be found through exploration
Caelus API
A coremod and API to provide developers access to elytra flight mechanics through an entity attribute.
Toast Control
Control toasts, those popups in the corner!
No Chat Reports
Makes chat unreportable (where possible)
Configured
Automatic in-game configuration menus for every mod!
NetherPortalFix
Ensures correct destinations when travelling back and forth through Nether Portals in Multiplayer.
Lithium (Fabric/NeoForge)
An optimization mod for Minecraft which improves server performance significantly.
Better Compatibility Checker
Changes the default server compatability check to compare modpack versions
Chipped
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Corpse
Never lose your items again!
Just Enough Resources (JER)
A JEI addon that adds mob drops, ore gen, ..
Sophisticated Storage
Storage mod with multiple tiers and functional upgrades
FastFurnace
A performance upgrade for the furnace.
Create Crafts & Additions
Electrifying the Create mod!
Crafting Tweaks
Allows you to rotate, balance or clear the crafting matrix by the press of a button, in any (supported) crafting window.
FTB Ultimine (Forge)
Harvest multiple blocks at once
Just Zoom
Zoom by pressing a hotkey and adjust the zoom factor with your mouse wheel!
FastWorkbench
A performance upgrade for the crafting table.
FTB Chunks (NeoForge)
A mod that allows you to claim chunks to protect your blocks and view minimap / large map
FTB Essentials (Forge & Fabric)
Adds many essential utility commands for servers
Fast Leaf Decay
Makes leaves decay faster when a tree is cut down.
Just Enough Professions (JEP)
A JEI addon that adds profession workstations
Prickle
Prickle is a JSON based configuration file format brought to Minecraft.
Immersive Engineering
A retro-futuristic tech mod!
Torchmaster
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Rechiseled
Rechiseled allows you to chisel blocks into various decorative blocks with connected textures!
Clean Swing Through Grass
Hit your Enemies even in Grass
Loot Integrations
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Building Gadgets
A collection of Gadgets to make building large structures a little bit easier!
Cooking for Blockheads
Adds a multiblock kitchen that shows recipes you can make with what ingredients you have available.
Extreme sound muffler - (Neo)Forge
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Relics
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Iron Furnaces
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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.
Just Enough Breeding (JEBr)
JEI/REI/EMI plugin that displays breeding information
Connected Glass
Connected Glass adds new types of glass with connecting textures!
BaguetteLib
A simple but powerful event library that gives mod developers the control they actually need.
Goblin Traders
Adds goblins that you can find underground with unique and useful trades!
Jade Addons (Neo/Forge)
Jade 🔍's additional mod supports for Neo/Forge
Tool Belt
A utility belt that holds your tools
Corpse x Curios API Compat
Adds Curios API support to Corpse
Colorful Hearts
A client side mod that replaces multiple vanilla heart rows with a single row using colored hearts
Double Doors
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Max Health Fix
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Silent Lib (silentlib)
Library to make writing and maintaining mods easier.
FTB Ranks (NeoForge)
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Cobweb
Crystal Nest API
XP Tome
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Dungeon Crawl
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Simple Magnets
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Reliquified Artifacts
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Durability Tooltip
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Multi-Piston
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Overloaded Armor Bar
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Sophisticated Storage Create Integration
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TownTalk
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BlockUI
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Domum Ornamentum
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Structurize
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Rechiseled: Create
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Inventory Tweaks - ReFoxed
Inventory Tweaks for NeoForge
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Dis-Enchanting Table
Recover enchantments from enchanted weapons or books!
Inventory Essentials
The most essential inventory tweaks. Now with sorting!
YUNG's Better Nether Fortresses (NeoForge)
A complete redesign of Minecraft's Nether fortresses!
JourneyMap Integration
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YUNG's Better Mineshafts (NeoForge)
A long-awaited and much-needed abandoned mineshaft overhaul!
Just Enough Immersive Multiblocks
Immersive Engineering addon that adds JEI support for multiblocks.
Harvest with ease
Don't break crops, right click them!
CleanView
CleanView is a minecraft client mod that removes potion particles from your viewpoint
Sophisticated Storage in Motion
A Sophisticated Storage add on which allows using storage blocks with minecarts and in the future with other entities
YUNG's Better Strongholds (NeoForge)
A complete redesign of Minecraft's strongholds
YUNG's Better Dungeons (NeoForge)
A complete redesign of Minecraft's dungeons!
YUNG's Better End Island (NeoForge)
An overhaul of the main End Island where the dragon fight takes place!
Redstone Pen
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Bibliocraft Legacy
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Snad
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Better With Minecolonies
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YUNG's Better Witch Huts (NeoForge)
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YUNG's Better Jungle Temples (NeoForge)
A complete redesign of Minecraft's jungle temples!
YUNG's Better Ocean Monuments (NeoForge)
A complete redesign of Minecraft's ocean monuments!
Better Days
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Bow Infinity Fix (Forge/Fabric)
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No Farmland Trample
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Enchanting Infuser
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YUNG's Better Desert Temples (NeoForge)
A complete redesign of Minecraft's desert temples!
YUNG's Extras (NeoForge)
Extra structures, features, and vanilla+ content suitable for any modpack
JER Integration
Add more computability to Just Enough Resources (JER)
JadeColonies
A Jade addon for MineColonies and Domum Ornamentum
Lighty
The Light Overlay Mod with a twist!
Corail Woodcutter
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Loot Integrations: Dungeon Crawl
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YUNG's Bridges (NeoForge)
Adds beautiful naturally generated bridges throughout the world
Byzantine Styles Pack for Minecolonies
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Freecam
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Anvil Never Too Expensive
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Just Another Rotten Flesh to Leather Mod
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End Villager Trader
Adds a new villager trader in the End, offering End-related items, including a new Shulker Armor
Horses can Swim
Makes horses swim through water when ridden by players
Curios API Continuation [Frozen]
A flexible and expandable accessory/equipment API for users and developers [Frozen]
Followers Teleport Too
🐺 Whenever a player is teleported via a command, pets will be teleported alongside them.
Modular Angel Ring
Tweak an Angel Ring to your liking with modules !
Dense Ores - Abundant!
Ores that drop more materials!
Dungeons Enhanced Lootintegrations Addon
Adds better loot to dungeons enhanced structures, an addon to the lootintegration mod
Sophisticated Backpack/Storage Emerald Upgrade
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Portable Tanks
Portable Tanks adds fluid tanks which keep their contents when picked up.
Stone Refined!
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