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Vanilla for starters

Modpack

by 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

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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

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

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Tom's Simple Storage
adds storage to build off vanilla

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

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Sophisticated backpacks
For adventure and storage

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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 

Compatibility

Mod Loaders

Neoforge

Game Versions

1.21.8

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Contained Mods (123)

Just Enough Items (JEI)

Just Enough Items (JEI)

View Items and Recipes

Mod 656,932,942
JourneyMap

JourneyMap

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

Mod 352,980,458
GeckoLib

GeckoLib

A 3D animation library for entities, blocks, items, armor, and more!

Mod 435,198,075
Cloth Config API (Fabric/Forge/NeoForge)

Cloth Config API (Fabric/Forge/NeoForge)

Config Screen API for Minecraft

Mod 500,421,797
Architectury API

Architectury API

An intermediary api aimed to ease developing multiplatform mods.

Mod 415,290,253
Mouse Tweaks

Mouse Tweaks

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

Mod 509,573,211
AppleSkin

AppleSkin

Adds some useful information about food/hunger to the HUD

Mod 475,208,540
Balm

Balm

Abstraction Layer for Multi-Loader Mods

Mod 283,739,500
Jade 🔍

Jade 🔍

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

Mod 306,428,610
ImmediatelyFast

ImmediatelyFast

Speed up immediate mode rendering in Minecraft

Mod 266,194,437
Waystones

Waystones

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

Mod 321,060,149
Controlling

Controlling

Adds a search bar to the Key-Bindings menu

Mod 414,599,017
Clumps

Clumps

Clumps XP orbs together to reduce lag

Mod 384,191,525
Entity Culling Fabric/Forge

Entity Culling Fabric/Forge

Using async path-tracing to hide Tiles/Entities that are not visible

Mod 344,957,760
Sophisticated Backpacks

Sophisticated Backpacks

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

Mod 239,876,587
Collective

Collective

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

Mod 300,734,057
FerriteCore ((Neo)Forge)

FerriteCore ((Neo)Forge)

Memory usage optimizations

Mod 212,681,428
Puzzles Lib

Puzzles Lib

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

Mod 251,583,815
Searchables

Searchables

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

Mod 192,004,279
Konkrete

Konkrete

Just another boring library mod.

Mod 265,925,364
Sophisticated Core

Sophisticated Core

Library mod for Sophisticated mods

Mod 203,173,813
[ETF] Entity Texture Features - [Fabric & Forge]

[ETF] Entity Texture Features - [Fabric & Forge]

Custom, Emissive and Varied mobs like Optifine and so much more.. +Player skin features!)

Mod 139,749,999
Kotlin for Forge

Kotlin for Forge

Adds a Kotlin language loader and provides some optional utilities.

Mod 224,559,726
[EMF] Entity Model Features [Fabric & Forge]

[EMF] Entity Model Features [Fabric & Forge]

EMF is an, OptiFine format, Custom Entity Model replacement mod available for Fabric and Forge.

Mod 207,515,226
YetAnotherConfigLib

YetAnotherConfigLib

A builder-based configuration library for Minecraft.

Mod 208,527,048
Sodium

Sodium

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

Mod 317,987,544
Resourceful Lib

Resourceful Lib

Lib for Team Resourceful and more

Mod 192,388,359
Iris Shaders

Iris Shaders

A modern shaders mod for Minecraft intended to be compatible with existing Optifine shaders

Mod 120,370,138
CreativeCore

CreativeCore

a core mod

Mod 249,695,452
spark

spark

spark is a performance profiler for Minecraft clients, servers and proxies.

Mod 215,695,646
SuperMartijn642's Config Lib

SuperMartijn642's Config Lib

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

Mod 197,485,388
Not Enough Animations

Not Enough Animations

Bringing first-person animations to the third-person

Mod 223,470,413
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 187,134,007
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 171,060,999
Packet Fixer

Packet Fixer

A simple mod to solve various problems with packets, NBTs and timeouts.

Mod 122,378,207
Simple Voice Chat

Simple Voice Chat

A working voice chat in Minecraft!

Mod 166,458,199
Fusion (Connected Textures)

Fusion (Connected Textures)

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

Mod 107,322,499
Configured

Configured

Automatic in-game configuration menus for every mod!

Mod 117,974,151
Lithium (Fabric/NeoForge)

Lithium (Fabric/NeoForge)

An optimization mod for Minecraft which improves server performance significantly.

Mod 195,395,143
oωo (owo-lib)

oωo (owo-lib)

A general utility, GUI and config library for modding on Fabric and Quilt

Mod 113,359,720
AmbientSounds 6

AmbientSounds 6

#listentonature

Mod 151,103,512
Chat Heads

Chat Heads

See who are you chatting with!

Mod 146,396,098
Skin Layers 3D

Skin Layers 3D

Render the player skin layer in 3d!

Mod 105,361,190
Just Enough Resources (JER)

Just Enough Resources (JER)

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

Mod 239,877,719
TrashSlot

TrashSlot

Adds a trash slot to the inventory screen that allows deletion of unwanted items.

Mod 121,113,113
Yeetus Experimentus

Yeetus Experimentus

Yeetus Experimental Settings

Mod 87,265,772
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 177,520,536
Just Zoom

Just Zoom

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

Mod 74,002,213
MidnightLib

MidnightLib

Common library with a built-in configuration system

Mod 71,548,118
Clean Swing Through Grass

Clean Swing Through Grass

Hit your Enemies even in Grass

Mod 49,909,685
Pick Up Notifier

Pick Up Notifier

Be notified about all the things you've just collected.

Mod 88,615,917
Extreme sound muffler - (Neo)Forge

Extreme sound muffler - (Neo)Forge

Forget about those nasty sounds! - Clientside sound muffler.

Mod 82,820,026
Connected Glass

Connected Glass

Connected Glass adds new types of glass with connecting textures!

Mod 68,962,822
BetterF3

BetterF3

A mod that provides a highly customizable, more human-readable Debug HUD.

Mod 101,024,008
Better Third Person

Better Third Person

Improves third-person camera view.

Mod 87,469,240
Easy Magic

Easy Magic

Enchanting tables as they always should have been! Items stay after closing, and easy re-rolls.

Mod 83,167,839
Easy Anvils

Easy Anvils

Overhauled anvils with stored items, fairer costs, and no more frustrating repair penalties.

Mod 74,252,325
Tom's Simple Storage Mod

Tom's Simple Storage Mod

Simple vanilla style storage mod

Mod 66,138,260
Double Doors

Double Doors

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

Mod 56,780,675
Falling Leaves (NeoForge/Forge)

Falling Leaves (NeoForge/Forge)

Falling Leaves from trees

Mod 64,357,308
Durability Tooltip

Durability Tooltip

Durability Tooltip shows you the durability of an item!

Mod 55,061,429
Villager Names

Villager Names

🧑‍🌾 Gives all villager entities a default or custom name to liven up the world.

Mod 66,333,476
Bridging Mod

Bridging Mod

Reacharound Placement (Bedrock Bridging) for Forge, Fabric, & Quilt

Mod 31,959,554
LambDynamicLights

LambDynamicLights

The most feature-complete and optimized dynamic lighting mod.

Mod 88,364,934
GraveStone Mod

GraveStone Mod

Places a gravestone with your inventory items inside when you die

Mod 99,300,705
Distant Horizons: A Level of Detail mod

Distant Horizons: A Level of Detail mod

Increase view distance without harming performance.

Mod 24,102,203
Macaw's Paintings

Macaw's Paintings

Adds lots of custom made paintings!

Mod 47,604,321
Concurrent Chunk Management Engine

Concurrent Chunk Management Engine

A Fabric mod designed to improve the chunk performance of Minecraft.

Mod 16,021,352
Friends&Foes (Forge/NeoForge)

Friends&Foes (Forge/NeoForge)

Adds outvoted and forgotten mobs from the mob vote, expanding on their original concepts and adding new vanilla-like fea...

Mod 43,182,655
FPS Reducer

FPS Reducer

Reduce GPU and CPU usage automatically when no user operation exists.

Mod 69,237,701
Tree Harvester

Tree Harvester

🌲 Harvest full trees and huge mushrooms instantly with an axe. Includes fast leaf decay and sapling placement. Also wor...

Mod 36,133,925
Inventory Essentials

Inventory Essentials

The most essential inventory tweaks. Now with sorting!

Mod 48,728,618
Cubes Without Borders

Cubes Without Borders

A mod that allows you to play Minecraft in a borderless fullscreen window.

Mod 35,242,819
Dark Paintings

Dark Paintings

Adds new paintings to Minecraft

Mod 53,418,188
Client Sort

Client Sort

Versatile and easy inventory sorting.

Mod 16,061,028
Complementary Shaders - Unbound

Complementary Shaders - Unbound

Transforming the visuals of Minecraft with exceptional quality, detail, and performance.

Shader 164,942,177
Tax Free Levels

Tax Free Levels

Flattens the ever-increasing anvil and enchantment costs and makes renaming items always cost 1 level

Mod 11,746,618
Krypton Reno

Krypton Reno

Provides powerful network optimization capabilities for all mainstream systems.

Mod 11,322,395
Complementary Shaders - Reimagined

Complementary Shaders - Reimagined

Preserving the elements of Minecraft with exceptional quality, detail, and performance.

Shader 215,880,494
BSL Shaders

BSL Shaders

Shaderpack for Minecraft: Java Edition. It's bright, colorful, and distinct.

Shader 106,930,497
Client Tweaks

Client Tweaks

There, I fixed Minecraft for you. Various optional tweaks to improve Minecraft Quality of Life.

Mod 82,435,137
Stack Refill

Stack Refill

📚 Automatically refills the player's hand when using the final item if a replacement exists.

Mod 15,551,627
Chunk Loaders

Chunk Loaders

Chunk Loaders allows you keep chunks loaded with different tiers of chunk loaders!

Mod 18,063,415
Colourful Containers Dark Mode GUI

Colourful Containers Dark Mode GUI

Adds a new look to all the boring GUI's

Texture Pack 6,566,602
Better Lanterns

Better Lanterns

Improves lanterns and chains models with an enhanced 3D look for a more immersive experience.

Texture Pack 6,513,895
Cool Rain Reforged

Cool Rain Reforged

Creates ambient sounds for certain blocks during rain

Mod 2,996,521
Fresh Animations: Extensions

Fresh Animations: Extensions

A combination of offical extension packs for Fresh Animations

Texture Pack 19,811,857
Sildur's Vibrant shaders

Sildur's Vibrant shaders

Very optimized shaderpack for MC: Java edition, around since 2012! Runs on any hardware and supports every MC version si...

Shader 36,143,886
Better Cats

Better Cats

Introduces new cat breeds while updating the existing ones to look more realistic (Optifine/Fabric support)

Texture Pack 2,338,024
Faster Ladder Climbing

Faster Ladder Climbing

Quickly climb up or down ladders by looking in the direction you want to go.

Mod 15,010,855
Freecam

Freecam

A simple, standalone freecam mod.

Mod 13,881,133
Armor Poser

Armor Poser

Adds a GUI for armor stands in which you can configure it's pose and other properties

Mod 5,144,120
Just Another Rotten Flesh to Leather Mod

Just Another Rotten Flesh to Leather Mod

Lets you smelt Rotten Fleh to Leather.

Mod 17,335,602
Scribble

Scribble

Expertly edit your books with rich formatting options, page utilities and more!

Mod 3,039,880
[ Java ] Human Era: Villagers & Illagers X Fresh Animations

[ Java ] Human Era: Villagers & Illagers X Fresh Animations

[ Java Port ] Replaces Villagers & Illagers into humans, Please read description on how to apply Fresh Animations!

Texture Pack 1,454,223
Actually Harvest (right click and XP)

Actually Harvest (right click and XP)

An actual working right click harvest without dependencies. XP from harvest feature as well. Automatically adds modded f...

Mod 1,451,505
Notes

Notes

A clientside mod that provides a fully functional in-game notepad.

Mod 8,023,330
Fusion Connected Glass

Fusion Connected Glass

Makes glass textures connect

Texture Pack 674,179
Held Item Tooltips

Held Item Tooltips

See item enchantments, potion effects, shulker box contents and much more directly above your hotbar.

Mod 2,027,995
Ore Harvester

Ore Harvester

⛏️ Harvest entire ore veins instantly and drop ore items at the initial block position. An updated alternative to the ve...

Mod 3,948,470
Only Hammers

Only Hammers

A simple mod that adds various type of hammers, that mine 3x1 area

Mod 1,268,332
AL's Enderman Revamped x Fresh Animations

AL's Enderman Revamped x Fresh Animations

A pack that makes AL's Enderman Revamped compatible with Fresh Animations by Fresh_LX!

Texture Pack 89,588
Hud Compass

Hud Compass

Shows a compass at the top of the screen with waypoints

Mod 406,374
Food Effect Tooltips [Fabric / NeoForge]

Food Effect Tooltips [Fabric / NeoForge]

Adds Tooltips to food that gives Status Effects when eaten

Mod 505,667
Trailer Player Animations

Trailer Player Animations

Make your player look like in the trailers! Dynamic animated player inspired by Fresh Animations resource pack.

Texture Pack 863,253
AL's Skeletons Revamped x Fresh Animations

AL's Skeletons Revamped x Fresh Animations

A pack that makes AL's Skeletons Revamped compatible with Fresh Animations by Fresh_LX!

Texture Pack 267,578
AL's Scorpions & Crabs x Fresh Animations

AL's Scorpions & Crabs x Fresh Animations

A pack that makes AL's Scorpions & Crabs compatible with Fresh Animations by Fresh_LX!

Texture Pack 68,557
AL's Spiders Revamped x Fresh Animations

AL's Spiders Revamped x Fresh Animations

A pack that makes AL's Spiders Revamped compatible with Fresh Animations by Fresh_LX!

Texture Pack 474,106
Better Dogs

Better Dogs

Updates tamed wolves to look like actual dogs (41 dog breeds w/ 130+ textures)

Texture Pack 3,599,467
Assorted Allays x Fresh Animations

Assorted Allays x Fresh Animations

For all the Freshly Animated Allays you'll ever need!

Texture Pack 635,384
Better Cats x Fresh Animations

Better Cats x Fresh Animations

A Fresh Animations Add-on for Better Cats!

Texture Pack 172,116
Wild Wolves x Fresh Animations

Wild Wolves x Fresh Animations

A Fresh Animations Add-on for Wild Wolves

Texture Pack 47,800
Fresh Animations: Objects

Fresh Animations: Objects

Animates non-mob entities in Fresh Animations' style. An official FA extension.

Texture Pack 389,691
AL's Piglins Revamped x Fresh Animations

AL's Piglins Revamped x Fresh Animations

A pack that makes AL's Piglins Revamped compatible with Fresh Animations by Fresh_LX!

Texture Pack 158,413
Creeper Overhaul x Fresh Animations

Creeper Overhaul x Fresh Animations

A Fresh Animations addon for the Creeper Overhaul RP

Texture Pack 366,806
Better 3D Craft

Better 3D Craft

Better 3D Craft texture adds diverse 3D block and item models to your game

Texture Pack 111,096
Disenchant Anvil

Disenchant Anvil

Disenchant items and split books with an anvil drop, Obsidian or Crying Obsidian required as floor block.

Mod 6,794
Low Fire Texture

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...

Texture Pack 62,745
Reimagined | Fresh Animations Patch

Reimagined | Fresh Animations Patch

Makes Reimagined compatible with Fresh Animations!

Texture Pack 311,565
Fresh Food

Fresh Food

A Minecraft resource pack that adds 3D food models and eating animations!

Texture Pack 259,307
Better Horses x Fresh Animations

Better Horses x Fresh Animations

A Fresh Animations Add-on for Better Horses!

Texture Pack 63,265
AL's Skeleton Quivers

AL's Skeleton Quivers

A pack that gives Skeletons Quivers!

Texture Pack 3,279
Fresh Flowers and Plants

Fresh Flowers and Plants

A Minecraft resource pack that adds 3D plant and flowers models!

Texture Pack 83,134

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