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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 656,750,407
JourneyMap

JourneyMap

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

Mod 352,928,927
Cloth Config API (Fabric/Forge/NeoForge)

Cloth Config API (Fabric/Forge/NeoForge)

Config Screen API for Minecraft

Mod 500,244,107
Architectury API

Architectury API

An intermediary api aimed to ease developing multiplatform mods.

Mod 415,175,090
Mouse Tweaks

Mouse Tweaks

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

Mod 509,471,698
AppleSkin

AppleSkin

Adds some useful information about food/hunger to the HUD

Mod 475,094,107
Balm

Balm

Abstraction Layer for Multi-Loader Mods

Mod 283,605,886
Jade 🔍

Jade 🔍

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

Mod 306,305,625
Bookshelf

Bookshelf

An open source library for other mods!

Mod 395,953,241
Waystones

Waystones

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

Mod 320,966,828
Curios API (Forge/NeoForge)

Curios API (Forge/NeoForge)

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

Mod 314,579,377
Controlling

Controlling

Adds a search bar to the Key-Bindings menu

Mod 414,530,291
Clumps

Clumps

Clumps XP orbs together to reduce lag

Mod 384,078,861
Sophisticated Backpacks

Sophisticated Backpacks

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

Mod 239,787,511
Collective

Collective

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

Mod 300,615,413
Puzzles Lib

Puzzles Lib

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

Mod 251,479,383
Placebo

Placebo

A library mod

Mod 315,132,431
Cupboard

Cupboard

Cupboard provides code, frameworks, and utilities for minecraft mods

Mod 185,424,140
Searchables

Searchables

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

Mod 191,906,014
Konkrete

Konkrete

Just another boring library mod.

Mod 265,820,064
Enchantment Descriptions

Enchantment Descriptions

Adds in-game descriptions for enchantments to tooltips.

Mod 305,784,657
Sophisticated Core

Sophisticated Core

Library mod for Sophisticated mods

Mod 203,083,001
FTB Library (NeoForge)

FTB Library (NeoForge)

Common code for all GUI stuff in FTB Mods

Mod 228,152,430
Kotlin for Forge

Kotlin for Forge

Adds a Kotlin language loader and provides some optional utilities.

Mod 224,465,886
Sodium

Sodium

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

Mod 317,725,708
Resourceful Lib

Resourceful Lib

Lib for Team Resourceful and more

Mod 192,306,351
Comforts

Comforts

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

Mod 252,807,736
Nature's Compass

Nature's Compass

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

Mod 304,928,264
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 233,040,556
FTB Teams (NeoForge)

FTB Teams (NeoForge)

Library for mods that can utilize team progression

Mod 204,010,313
Framework

Framework

A common library powering all of MrCrayfish's Mods

Mod 124,965,746
SuperMartijn642's Config Lib

SuperMartijn642's Config Lib

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

Mod 197,414,158
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 187,071,924
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 170,997,583
Rhino

Rhino

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

Mod 178,216,133
Create

Create

Aesthetic Technology that empowers the Player

Mod 219,100,833
KubeJS

KubeJS

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

Mod 170,203,519
ShatterLib | OctoLib

ShatterLib | OctoLib

Collection of shared code for Shatterbyte mods

Mod 95,641,714
Athena

Athena

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

Mod 101,615,317
Fusion (Connected Textures)

Fusion (Connected Textures)

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

Mod 107,270,424
Cosmetic Armor Reworked

Cosmetic Armor Reworked

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

Mod 189,522,637
Artifacts

Artifacts

Adds various treasure items that can be found through exploration

Mod 145,467,080
Caelus API

Caelus API

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

Mod 162,298,150
Toast Control

Toast Control

Control toasts, those popups in the corner!

Mod 183,487,807
No Chat Reports

No Chat Reports

Makes chat unreportable (where possible)

Mod 160,295,642
Configured

Configured

Automatic in-game configuration menus for every mod!

Mod 117,928,258
NetherPortalFix

NetherPortalFix

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

Mod 174,032,590
Lithium (Fabric/NeoForge)

Lithium (Fabric/NeoForge)

An optimization mod for Minecraft which improves server performance significantly.

Mod 195,267,977
Better Compatibility Checker

Better Compatibility Checker

Changes the default server compatability check to compare modpack versions

Mod 117,507,987
Chipped

Chipped

Every block deserves a friend.

Mod 138,495,440
Corpse

Corpse

Never lose your items again!

Mod 126,520,470
Just Enough Resources (JER)

Just Enough Resources (JER)

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

Mod 239,843,072
Sophisticated Storage

Sophisticated Storage

Storage mod with multiple tiers and functional upgrades

Mod 84,291,394
FastFurnace

FastFurnace

A performance upgrade for the furnace.

Mod 140,985,168
Create Crafts & Additions

Create Crafts & Additions

Electrifying the Create mod!

Mod 112,374,576
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 177,436,557
FTB Ultimine (Forge)

FTB Ultimine (Forge)

Harvest multiple blocks at once

Mod 109,062,974
Just Zoom

Just Zoom

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

Mod 73,963,122
FastWorkbench

FastWorkbench

A performance upgrade for the crafting table.

Mod 176,450,323
FTB Chunks (NeoForge)

FTB Chunks (NeoForge)

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

Mod 122,588,591
FTB Essentials (Forge & Fabric)

FTB Essentials (Forge & Fabric)

Adds many essential utility commands for servers

Mod 97,199,815
Fast Leaf Decay

Fast Leaf Decay

Makes leaves decay faster when a tree is cut down.

Mod 184,364,413
Just Enough Professions (JEP)

Just Enough Professions (JEP)

A JEI addon that adds profession workstations

Mod 106,848,641
Prickle

Prickle

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

Mod 51,569,718
Immersive Engineering

Immersive Engineering

A retro-futuristic tech mod!

Mod 189,920,422
Torchmaster

Torchmaster

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

Mod 161,277,024
Rechiseled

Rechiseled

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

Mod 69,864,578
Clean Swing Through Grass

Clean Swing Through Grass

Hit your Enemies even in Grass

Mod 49,882,971
Loot Integrations

Loot Integrations

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

Mod 74,393,754
Building Gadgets

Building Gadgets

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

Mod 148,036,721
Cooking for Blockheads

Cooking for Blockheads

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

Mod 192,458,587
Extreme sound muffler - (Neo)Forge

Extreme sound muffler - (Neo)Forge

Forget about those nasty sounds! - Clientside sound muffler.

Mod 82,800,833
Relics

Relics

Just a mod about useful items with unique mechanics :3

Mod 59,715,744
Iron Furnaces

Iron Furnaces

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

Mod 98,664,189
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 125,106,959
Just Enough Breeding (JEBr)

Just Enough Breeding (JEBr)

JEI/REI/EMI plugin that displays breeding information

Mod 54,833,038
Connected Glass

Connected Glass

Connected Glass adds new types of glass with connecting textures!

Mod 68,945,699
BaguetteLib

BaguetteLib

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

Mod 27,002,687
Goblin Traders

Goblin Traders

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

Mod 83,681,113
Jade Addons (Neo/Forge)

Jade Addons (Neo/Forge)

Jade 🔍's additional mod supports for Neo/Forge

Mod 63,051,141
Tool Belt

Tool Belt

A utility belt that holds your tools

Mod 86,512,208
Corpse x Curios API Compat

Corpse x Curios API Compat

Adds Curios API support to Corpse

Mod 24,509,773
Colorful Hearts

Colorful Hearts

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

Mod 46,406,586
Double Doors

Double Doors

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

Mod 56,752,706
Max Health Fix

Max Health Fix

Fixes a bug with max health in Minecraft.

Mod 54,894,041
Silent Lib (silentlib)

Silent Lib (silentlib)

Library to make writing and maintaining mods easier.

Mod 102,256,009
FTB Ranks (NeoForge)

FTB Ranks (NeoForge)

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

Mod 72,424,934
Cobweb

Cobweb

Crystal Nest API

Mod 34,109,834
XP Tome

XP Tome

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

Mod 84,464,399
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 53,076,221
Dungeon Crawl

Dungeon Crawl

Generates large underground dungeon structures in the overworld.

Mod 83,158,708
Simple Magnets

Simple Magnets

Simple Magnets adds Magnets that pickup items around the player!

Mod 59,887,049
Reliquified Artifacts

Reliquified Artifacts

Compatibility addon between Relics and Artifacts

Mod 24,932,604
Durability Tooltip

Durability Tooltip

Durability Tooltip shows you the durability of an item!

Mod 55,044,783
Multi-Piston

Multi-Piston

Multi-directional Piston Block

Mod 43,748,106
Overloaded Armor Bar

Overloaded Armor Bar

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

Mod 62,187,472
Sophisticated Storage Create Integration

Sophisticated Storage Create Integration

Full Featured Sophisticated Storage on Create Contraptions

Mod 18,448,434
TownTalk

TownTalk

Minecolonies Addon for more Voice Lines

Mod 30,174,369
BlockUI

BlockUI

Easy to Use UI library for Forge mods

Mod 51,189,730
Domum Ornamentum

Domum Ornamentum

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

Mod 52,647,343
Structurize

Structurize

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

Mod 73,019,961
Charging Gadgets

Charging Gadgets

A simple mod for charging with ForgeEnergy

Mod 49,709,400
Sophisticated Backpacks Create Integration

Sophisticated Backpacks Create Integration

Sophisticated Backpacks on create contraptions

Mod 16,118,418
MonoLib

MonoLib

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

Mod 27,919,166
MineColonies

MineColonies

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

Mod 85,351,854
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 21,896,965
LaserIO

LaserIO

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

Mod 45,419,009
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 21,732,774
Apothic Spawners

Apothic Spawners

Allows moving and modifying Mob Spawners

Mod 20,545,788
Silent Gear

Silent Gear

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

Mod 52,209,719
More Dragon Eggs

More Dragon Eggs

Every kill gives an Egg

Mod 44,359,871
YUNG's API (NeoForge)

YUNG's API (NeoForge)

A library mod for some of YUNG's Minecraft mods

Mod 23,189,485
Rechiseled: Create

Rechiseled: Create

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

Mod 29,277,227
Inventory Tweaks - ReFoxed

Inventory Tweaks - ReFoxed

Inventory Tweaks for NeoForge

Mod 25,448,416
Fuel Goes Here

Fuel Goes Here

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

Mod 31,825,807
Dis-Enchanting Table

Dis-Enchanting Table

Recover enchantments from enchanted weapons or books!

Mod 20,190,986
Inventory Essentials

Inventory Essentials

The most essential inventory tweaks. Now with sorting!

Mod 48,713,193
YUNG's Better Nether Fortresses (NeoForge)

YUNG's Better Nether Fortresses (NeoForge)

A complete redesign of Minecraft's Nether fortresses!

Mod 16,216,306
JourneyMap Integration

JourneyMap Integration

Adds some mod integrations for our favorite map mod

Mod 38,555,528
YUNG's Better Mineshafts (NeoForge)

YUNG's Better Mineshafts (NeoForge)

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

Mod 17,030,933
Just Enough Immersive Multiblocks

Just Enough Immersive Multiblocks

Immersive Engineering addon that adds JEI support for multiblocks.

Mod 17,748,175
Harvest with ease

Harvest with ease

Don't break crops, right click them!

Mod 33,807,071
CleanView

CleanView

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

Mod 15,483,779
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 12,278,333
YUNG's Better Strongholds (NeoForge)

YUNG's Better Strongholds (NeoForge)

A complete redesign of Minecraft's strongholds

Mod 16,841,595
YUNG's Better Dungeons (NeoForge)

YUNG's Better Dungeons (NeoForge)

A complete redesign of Minecraft's dungeons!

Mod 16,645,115
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 16,184,390
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 19,236,962
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 12,122,189
Snad

Snad

Finally, sand that actually makes sugarcane grow faster.

Mod 52,723,246
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 5,721,642
YUNG's Better Witch Huts (NeoForge)

YUNG's Better Witch Huts (NeoForge)

Adds overhauled witch huts to swamps!

Mod 14,893,174
YUNG's Better Jungle Temples (NeoForge)

YUNG's Better Jungle Temples (NeoForge)

A complete redesign of Minecraft's jungle temples!

Mod 15,508,326
YUNG's Better Ocean Monuments (NeoForge)

YUNG's Better Ocean Monuments (NeoForge)

A complete redesign of Minecraft's ocean monuments!

Mod 15,027,660
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 10,732,117
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 17,015,210
No Farmland Trample

No Farmland Trample

Disables farmland trampling

Mod 14,549,106
Enchanting Infuser

Enchanting Infuser

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

Mod 25,153,678
YUNG's Better Desert Temples (NeoForge)

YUNG's Better Desert Temples (NeoForge)

A complete redesign of Minecraft's desert temples!

Mod 13,975,676
YUNG's Extras (NeoForge)

YUNG's Extras (NeoForge)

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

Mod 12,657,497
JER Integration

JER Integration

Add more computability to Just Enough Resources (JER)

Mod 13,201,386
JadeColonies

JadeColonies

A Jade addon for MineColonies and Domum Ornamentum

Mod 5,310,009
Lighty

Lighty

The Light Overlay Mod with a twist!

Mod 6,815,652
Corail Woodcutter

Corail Woodcutter

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

Mod 28,799,091
Loot Integrations: Dungeon Crawl

Loot Integrations: Dungeon Crawl

Adds better loot to Dungeon Crawl chests, including modded loot

Mod 3,064,246
YUNG's Bridges (NeoForge)

YUNG's Bridges (NeoForge)

Adds beautiful naturally generated bridges throughout the world

Mod 5,016,464
Byzantine Styles Pack for Minecolonies

Byzantine Styles Pack for Minecolonies

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

Mod 12,230,190
Freecam

Freecam

A simple, standalone freecam mod.

Mod 13,875,317
Anvil Never Too Expensive

Anvil Never Too Expensive

Removes the level cap in the Anvil GUI

Mod 6,601,097
Just Another Rotten Flesh to Leather Mod

Just Another Rotten Flesh to Leather Mod

Lets you smelt Rotten Fleh to Leather.

Mod 17,333,829
End Villager Trader

End Villager Trader

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

Mod 537,927
Horses can Swim

Horses can Swim

Makes horses swim through water when ridden by players

Mod 1,625,009
Curios API Continuation [Frozen]

Curios API Continuation [Frozen]

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

Mod 4,199,167
Followers Teleport Too

Followers Teleport Too

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

Mod 1,462,439
Modular Angel Ring

Modular Angel Ring

Tweak an Angel Ring to your liking with modules !

Mod 262,367
Dense Ores - Abundant!

Dense Ores - Abundant!

Ores that drop more materials!

Mod 2,167,339
Dungeons Enhanced Lootintegrations Addon

Dungeons Enhanced Lootintegrations Addon

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

Mod 765,021
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 175,503
Portable Tanks

Portable Tanks

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

Mod 1,150,638
Stone Refined!

Stone Refined!

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

Mod 2,616

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