Vanilla for starters
Modpackby Dev21
Under 200 mods This allows people that want to enjoy vanilla minecraft but also have some quality of life mods. Not to stray far from vanilla but a little into modded
Type
Modpack
CurseForge Downloads
581
CurseForge ID
1356899
Last Updated
Jun 26, 2026
Description
Welcome to Vanilla for Starters

This experiance is tailered to people that love the vanilla experiance but with a handful of helpful mods, waystones so you can teleport between spawn or your friends bases, backpack mod so you can explore without feeling the need to go back to base as much, simple storage mod so you can organize your loot better all without hurting the vanilla feel. This modpack gives you vanilla feel but with some quality of life mods, performance mods, waystones so its plugin friendly. It is a good foundation for those who want to play with friends to enjoy that 2 week minecraft phase.
Waystones
for exploring the lands

Friends&Foes
Brings back mobs that didn't make the cut in mob votes








Tom's Simple Storage
adds storage to build off vanilla

Only hammers
for the people that like to mine
mines a 3x3 area

Sophisticated backpacks
For adventure and storage

Mod list
Actually Harvest (right click and XP)
AmbientSounds 6
AppleSkin
Architectury API
Armor Poser
Balm
Better Third Person
BetterF3
Chat Heads
Clean Swing Through Grass
Client Sort
Client Tweaks
Cloth Config API (Fabric/Forge/NeoForge)
Clumps
Collective
Controlling
Cool Rain Reforged
Crafting Tweaks
CreativeCore
Dark Paintings
Distant Horizons: A Level of Detail mod
Double Doors
Durability Tooltip
Easy Anvils
Easy Magic
Entity Culling Fabric/Forge
Falling Leaves (NeoForge/Forge)
Faster Ladder Climbing
FerriteCore ((Neo)Forge)
Food Effect Tooltips [Fabric / NeoForge]
FPS Reducer
Freecam
Friends&Foes (Forge/NeoForge)
GeckoLib
GraveStone Mod
Held Item Tooltips
Hud Compass
Inventory Essentials
Jade 🔍
JourneyMap
Just Another Rotten Flesh to Leather Mod
Just Enough Items (JEI)
Just Enough Resources (JER)
Kotlin for Forge
LambDynamicLights
Lithium (Fabric/NeoForge)
Lootr (Forge & NeoForge)
Macaw's Paintings
MidnightLib
Mouse Tweaks
Not Enough Animations
Notes
Only Hammers
Ore Harvester
Packet Fixer
Pick Up Notifier
Puzzles Lib
Scribble
Searchables
Simple Voice Chat
Skin Layers 3D
Sodium
Sophisticated Backpacks
Sophisticated Core
spark
Stack Refill
SuperMartijn642's Config Lib
Tax Free Levels
Tom's Simple Storage Mod
TrashSlot
Tree Harvester
Villager Names
Waystones
Yeetus Experimentus
YetAnotherConfigLib
I do not own any of these mods, these are mods that I picked out from most downloads, if there are anymore mods you think I should add or remove let me know :) I hope this will become a forever world for my friends and I and maybe others
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Contained Mods (123)
Just Enough Items (JEI)
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A 3D animation library for entities, blocks, items, armor, and more!
Cloth Config API (Fabric/Forge/NeoForge)
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Mouse Tweaks
Enhances inventory management by adding various functions to the mouse buttons.
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Jade 🔍
Shows information about what you are looking at. (Hwyla/WAILA fork for Minecraft 1.16+)
ImmediatelyFast
Speed up immediate mode rendering in Minecraft
Waystones
Teleport back to activated waystones. For Survival, Adventure or Servers.
Controlling
Adds a search bar to the Key-Bindings menu
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Clumps XP orbs together to reduce lag
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Using async path-tracing to hide Tiles/Entities that are not visible
Sophisticated Backpacks
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Collective
🎓 Collective is a shared library with common code for all of Serilum's mods.
FerriteCore ((Neo)Forge)
Memory usage optimizations
Puzzles Lib
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Searchables
Searchables is a library mod that adds helper methods that allow for searching and filtering elements based on component...
Konkrete
Just another boring library mod.
Sophisticated Core
Library mod for Sophisticated mods
[ETF] Entity Texture Features - [Fabric & Forge]
Custom, Emissive and Varied mobs like Optifine and so much more.. +Player skin features!)
Kotlin for Forge
Adds a Kotlin language loader and provides some optional utilities.
[EMF] Entity Model Features [Fabric & Forge]
EMF is an, OptiFine format, Custom Entity Model replacement mod available for Fabric and Forge.
YetAnotherConfigLib
A builder-based configuration library for Minecraft.
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
Iris Shaders
A modern shaders mod for Minecraft intended to be compatible with existing Optifine shaders
CreativeCore
a core mod
spark
spark is a performance profiler for Minecraft clients, servers and proxies.
SuperMartijn642's Config Lib
Config Lib makes dealing with config files just a bit easier.
Not Enough Animations
Bringing first-person animations to the third-person
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.
Packet Fixer
A simple mod to solve various problems with packets, NBTs and timeouts.
Simple Voice Chat
A working voice chat in Minecraft!
Fusion (Connected Textures)
Fusion allows resource packs to use additional texture and model types such as connected textures!
Configured
Automatic in-game configuration menus for every mod!
Lithium (Fabric/NeoForge)
An optimization mod for Minecraft which improves server performance significantly.
oωo (owo-lib)
A general utility, GUI and config library for modding on Fabric and Quilt
AmbientSounds 6
#listentonature
Chat Heads
See who are you chatting with!
Skin Layers 3D
Render the player skin layer in 3d!
Just Enough Resources (JER)
A JEI addon that adds mob drops, ore gen, ..
TrashSlot
Adds a trash slot to the inventory screen that allows deletion of unwanted items.
Yeetus Experimentus
Yeetus Experimental Settings
Crafting Tweaks
Allows you to rotate, balance or clear the crafting matrix by the press of a button, in any (supported) crafting window.
Just Zoom
Zoom by pressing a hotkey and adjust the zoom factor with your mouse wheel!
MidnightLib
Common library with a built-in configuration system
Clean Swing Through Grass
Hit your Enemies even in Grass
Pick Up Notifier
Be notified about all the things you've just collected.
Extreme sound muffler - (Neo)Forge
Forget about those nasty sounds! - Clientside sound muffler.
Connected Glass
Connected Glass adds new types of glass with connecting textures!
BetterF3
A mod that provides a highly customizable, more human-readable Debug HUD.
Better Third Person
Improves third-person camera view.
Easy Magic
Enchanting tables as they always should have been! Items stay after closing, and easy re-rolls.
Easy Anvils
Overhauled anvils with stored items, fairer costs, and no more frustrating repair penalties.
Tom's Simple Storage Mod
Simple vanilla style storage mod
Double Doors
🚪 Multiple identical double doors, trapdoors and fence gates can be opened simultaneously.
Falling Leaves (NeoForge/Forge)
Falling Leaves from trees
Durability Tooltip
Durability Tooltip shows you the durability of an item!
Villager Names
🧑🌾 Gives all villager entities a default or custom name to liven up the world.
Bridging Mod
Reacharound Placement (Bedrock Bridging) for Forge, Fabric, & Quilt
LambDynamicLights
The most feature-complete and optimized dynamic lighting mod.
GraveStone Mod
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Distant Horizons: A Level of Detail mod
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Macaw's Paintings
Adds lots of custom made paintings!
Concurrent Chunk Management Engine
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FPS Reducer
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Tree Harvester
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Inventory Essentials
The most essential inventory tweaks. Now with sorting!
Cubes Without Borders
A mod that allows you to play Minecraft in a borderless fullscreen window.
Dark Paintings
Adds new paintings to Minecraft
Client Sort
Versatile and easy inventory sorting.
Complementary Shaders - Unbound
Transforming the visuals of Minecraft with exceptional quality, detail, and performance.
Tax Free Levels
Flattens the ever-increasing anvil and enchantment costs and makes renaming items always cost 1 level
Krypton Reno
Provides powerful network optimization capabilities for all mainstream systems.
Complementary Shaders - Reimagined
Preserving the elements of Minecraft with exceptional quality, detail, and performance.
BSL Shaders
Shaderpack for Minecraft: Java Edition. It's bright, colorful, and distinct.
Client Tweaks
There, I fixed Minecraft for you. Various optional tweaks to improve Minecraft Quality of Life.
Stack Refill
📚 Automatically refills the player's hand when using the final item if a replacement exists.
Chunk Loaders
Chunk Loaders allows you keep chunks loaded with different tiers of chunk loaders!
Colourful Containers Dark Mode GUI
Adds a new look to all the boring GUI's
Better Lanterns
Improves lanterns and chains models with an enhanced 3D look for a more immersive experience.
Cool Rain Reforged
Creates ambient sounds for certain blocks during rain
Fresh Animations: Extensions
A combination of offical extension packs for Fresh Animations
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Better Cats
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Faster Ladder Climbing
Quickly climb up or down ladders by looking in the direction you want to go.
Freecam
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Armor Poser
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[ Java ] Human Era: Villagers & Illagers X Fresh Animations
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A clientside mod that provides a fully functional in-game notepad.
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Makes glass textures connect
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See item enchantments, potion effects, shulker box contents and much more directly above your hotbar.
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⛏️ Harvest entire ore veins instantly and drop ore items at the initial block position. An updated alternative to the ve...
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Hud Compass
Shows a compass at the top of the screen with waypoints
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Adds Tooltips to food that gives Status Effects when eaten
Trailer Player Animations
Make your player look like in the trailers! Dynamic animated player inspired by Fresh Animations resource pack.
AL's Skeletons Revamped x Fresh Animations
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AL's Scorpions & Crabs x Fresh Animations
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Better Cats x Fresh Animations
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Wild Wolves x Fresh Animations
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Fresh Animations: Objects
Animates non-mob entities in Fresh Animations' style. An official FA extension.
AL's Piglins Revamped x Fresh Animations
A pack that makes AL's Piglins Revamped compatible with Fresh Animations by Fresh_LX!
Creeper Overhaul x Fresh Animations
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Better 3D Craft
Better 3D Craft texture adds diverse 3D block and item models to your game
Disenchant Anvil
Disenchant items and split books with an anvil drop, Obsidian or Crying Obsidian required as floor block.
Low Fire Texture
his pack reduces the height of the fire animation, ensuring that it doesn't obstruct your view when your character is on...
Reimagined | Fresh Animations Patch
Makes Reimagined compatible with Fresh Animations!
Fresh Food
A Minecraft resource pack that adds 3D food models and eating animations!
Better Horses x Fresh Animations
A Fresh Animations Add-on for Better Horses!
AL's Skeleton Quivers
A pack that gives Skeletons Quivers!
Fresh Flowers and Plants
A Minecraft resource pack that adds 3D plant and flowers models!