Ronin Frontiers
Modpackby PhonicSpider
A modpack for anyone looking to keep things simple with a touch of QoL
Description
Ronin Frontiers
Vanilla gameplay, refined where it matters.
About the Pack
Ronin Frontiers is a vanilla-focused Minecraft modpack designed for players who want the original survival experience with modern quality-of-life improvements, enhanced building options, and smooth performance—without introducing new progression systems or overhauling core mechanics.
This pack stays true to Minecraft’s identity while subtly expanding what’s already there. You’ll find larger and more varied villages, diagonal walls and fences, and additional building pieces that blend seamlessly with vanilla blocks. A basic inventory upgrade reduces friction without trivializing survival or automation.
To complete the experience, Ronin Frontiers includes lightweight visual enhancements that preserve Minecraft’s iconic style, along with backend performance and optimization mods to keep the game stable, responsive, and smooth—even in long-term worlds.
Key Features
- Vanilla-faithful survival gameplay
- Quality-of-life mods that feel natural and unobtrusive
- Expanded and more immersive villages
- Diagonal walls, fences, and improved building options
- Additional vanilla-style building pieces
- Basic inventory improvements
- Subtle visual upgrades that enhance atmosphere
- Performance and optimization-focused backend mods
This Pack Is
- ✔ Focused on vanilla gameplay
- ✔ Ideal for builders, explorers, and long-term survival worlds
- ✔ Lightweight and performance-friendly
- ✔ Compatible with a classic Minecraft playstyle
- ✔ Designed to feel like an official evolution of vanilla
This Pack Is Not
- ✖ A tech or magic modpack
- ✖ A progression-heavy or expert-style pack
- ✖ A complete gameplay overhaul
- ✖ A pack with new dimensions, mobs, or complex systems
- ✖ Intended for players looking for heavily modded experiences
Example Mods Include
- Comforts (so you can have a place to sleep wherever you go)
- Dungeons and Taverns (To give the world a little more depth and reward exploration)
- Falling Tree (So you don't have to spend half your time cutting wood)
- Clumps/Better F3/Gravestone Mod/Hide Hands (For those that a little bit cleaner world)
- Leaves Be Gone/Let Me Despawn (To help with un-needed particles and mobs that just take up space)
- And a whole lot more!!!
Why Ronin Frontiers?
If you want Minecraft to feel familiar but improved, simple but refined, and vanilla at its core, Ronin Frontiers offers a carefully curated experience that respects the game’s original design while smoothing out its rough edges.
Compatibility
Mod Loaders
Game Versions
Recommended Gear
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Contained Mods (104)
Just Enough Items (JEI)
View Items and Recipes
Let Me Despawn
Improves performance by tweaking mob despawn rules.
Tom's Simple Storage Mod
Simple vanilla style storage mod
Sodium
The fastest and most compatible rendering optimization mod for Minecraft. Now available for both NeoForge and Fabric!
[EMF] Entity Model Features [Fabric & Forge]
EMF is an, OptiFine format, Custom Entity Model replacement mod available for Fabric and Forge.
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Custom, Emissive and Varied mobs like Optifine and so much more.. +Player skin features!)
Collective
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Puzzles Lib
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Lithostitched
Library mod with new configurability and compatibility enhancements for worldgen
ImmediatelyFast
Speed up immediate mode rendering in Minecraft
Jade 🔍
Shows information about what you are looking at. (Hwyla/WAILA fork for Minecraft 1.16+)
Trade Cycling
Refresh villager trades without needing to break workstations.
Iron Chests
Iron Chest mod
Ok Zoomer - It's Zoom!
A Fabric/NeoForge/Forge zoom mod that is powerful, lean, and pretty customizable. The zoom is yours!
Inventory Essentials
The most essential inventory tweaks. Now with sorting!
GlitchCore
A library mod aimed at abstracting mod loaders and providing various utilities for our mods.
Storage Drawers
Interactive compartment storage for your workshops.
FallingTree
Break down your trees by only cutting one piece of it
Controlling
Adds a search bar to the Key-Bindings menu
Searchables
Searchables is a library mod that adds helper methods that allow for searching and filtering elements based on component...
Fantasy's Furniture
Adds Fantasy-Themed Furniture & Decorational blocks to the game
Entity Culling Fabric/Forge
Using async path-tracing to hide BlockEntities/Entities that are not visible
Xaero's World Map
Adds a fullscreen worldmap which shows you what you have explored in the world. Can work together with Xaero's Minimap.
Almanac Lib
A loader independent library containing shared code reused between mods and a fix for empty nbt issues.
Xaero's Minimap
Displays the nearby world terrain, players, mobs, entities in the corner of your screen. Lets you create waypoints which...
Open Parties and Claims
Adds the ability to claim chunks and make player parties, integrates with Xaero's Minimap and World Map
BetterF3
A mod that provides a highly customizable, more human-readable Debug HUD.
Extreme sound muffler - (Neo)Forge
Forget about those nasty sounds! - Clientside sound muffler.
Cooking for Blockheads
Adds a multiblock kitchen that shows recipes you can make with what ingredients you have available.
Balm
Abstraction Layer for Multi-Loader Mods
Double Doors
🚪 Multiple identical double doors, trapdoors and fence gates can be opened simultaneously.
GraveStone Mod
Places a gravestone with your inventory items inside when you die
Dungeons and Taverns
an Vanilla styled structure mod
Simple Backups
A simple mod to create scheduled backups.
Iris Shaders
A modern shaders mod for Minecraft intended to be compatible with existing Optifine shaders
Connectivity
Fix Login timeouts, Packet sizes errors, Payloads errors, ghostblocks and more.
Macaw's Lights and Lamps
Adds vanila styled lamps, torches, street lamps, paper lamps, slabs... Make your worlds brighter!
Macaw's Paintings
Adds lots of custom made paintings!
Macaw's Furniture
Decorate your world with wardrobes, drawers, chairs, desks, tables, couches, sinks... and more!
Macaw's Roofs
Build roofs with actual roofs instead of stairs!
Macaw's Doors
Adds vanila doors with every wood color and new unique doors!
Macaw's Bridges
A simple mod that adds a lot of bridges!
Macaw's Fences and Walls
Adds new vanila styled fences, walls and gates!
Macaw's Windows
Adds lots of Windows, Mosaic Glass, Blinds, Shutters, Curtains and more..!
Macaw's Stairs
Adds new Vanilla styled Stairs, Handrails for Stairs and Balconies!
Macaw's Trapdoors
Adds vanila trapdoors in every plank variation, and some new trapdoors too!
Distant Horizons: A Level of Detail mod
Massively increase render distance without harming performance.
Just Enough Resources (JER)
A JEI addon that adds mob drops, ore gen, ..
FancyMenu
Customize Minecraft's menus with ease!
Tectonic
Terrain shaping brought to new heights, grander and more varied than ever before!
Enchantment Descriptions
Adds in-game descriptions for enchantments to tooltips.
Better Animations Collection
Changing the in-game models to allow for better animations and subtle effects.
Leaves Be Gone
Quick leaf decay from cutting down trees. Built for fast performance and mod compat!
Farming for Blockheads
Adds a customizable market, shipping bin, sprinklers and more farming utilities.
Reese's Sodium Options
Alternative Options Menu for Sodium
Prickle
Prickle is a JSON based configuration file format brought to Minecraft.
Visual Workbench
Items stay inside of crafting tables and are also rendered on top. It's really fancy!
Diagonal Fences
Fences connecting diagonally? Wait. That's illegal.
Diagonal Windows
Now windows are connecting diagonally, too?! This is getting out of hand!
Cloth Config API (Fabric/Forge/NeoForge)
Config Screen API for Minecraft
Diagonal Walls
The missing diagonal blocks are here! After all these years. Finally, you have them all.
Torchmaster
Adds a special torch which prevents mob spawning in a configurable radius
Forge Config API Port
NeoForge's & Forge's config systems provided to other modding ecosystems. Designed for a multiloader architecture.
Serene Seasons
Seasons with changing colors, shifting temperatures, and more!
Mouse Tweaks
Enhances inventory management by adding various functions to the mouse buttons.
Packet Fixer
A simple mod to solve various problems with packets, NBTs and timeouts.
Not Enough Animations
Bringing first-person animations to the third-person
Common Network
Forge and Fabric Unified Networking Solution
Drippy Loading Screen
Addon for FancyMenu to customize the loading screen.
Melody
OpenAL-based library mod for playing background music.
Konkrete
Just another boring library mod.
fix GPU memory leak[Forge/Fabric]
A mod that fixes memory leaks on the client
AppleSkin
Adds some useful information about food/hunger to the HUD
Just Enough Professions (JEP)
A JEI addon that adds profession workstations
Skin Layers 3D
Render the player skin layer in 3d!
Clumps
Clumps XP orbs together to reduce lag
ServerCore
A mod that aims to optimize the minecraft server.
TrashSlot
Adds a draggable trash slot to all inventory screens. Press T to toggle.
Default Options
Ship default options or keybinds without having to overwrite an existing options.txt.
Client Tweaks
There, I fixed Minecraft for you. Various optional tweaks to improve Minecraft Quality of Life.
NetherPortalFix
Ensures correct destinations when traveling back and forth through Nether Portals in Multiplayer.
Cupboard
Cupboard provides code, frameworks, and utilities for minecraft mods
Sodium Extra
Features that shouldn't be in Sodium
BadOptimizations
Optimization mod that focuses on things other than rendering
Complementary Shaders - Reimagined
Preserving the elements of Minecraft with exceptional quality, detail, and performance.
ChoiceTheorem's Overhauled Village
Enhances and creates new villages and pillager outposts, that perfectly fit into your Minecraft world.
Clean Swing Through Grass
Hit your Enemies even in Grass
Chunky (Forge/NeoForge)
Pre-generates chunks, quickly, efficiently, and safely
Comforts
Adds sleeping bags and hammocks for, respectively, portability and turning day to night, without setting new spawns. Com...
Hide Hands
🙌 [Client] Hide your offhand and/or main hand in first person, optionally while holding specific items like a torch, to...
Nemo's Backpacks
Add colorful backpacks to Minecraft!
Fantasy's Furniture - Nordic
Adds Nordic Themed Furniture blocks to the game
ApexCore
Library Mod required by all of ApexStudios' mods
Actually Harvest (right click and XP)
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SpiffyHUD
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Drippy Early Loading Module
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Only Hammers And Excavators
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FerriteCore ((Neo)Forge)
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Spellbound Weapons
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Clean Tooltips
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