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Essential Mods Nuck

Modpack

by MrNuck

This is another "Vanilla Plus" modpack focused on client and server optimization with minimal but not zero gameplay impact.

Type

Modpack

CurseForge Downloads

1,133

CurseForge ID

1178672

Last Updated

Jul 3, 2026

Description

  • Welcome to the Vanilla Plus Modpack! Immerse yourself in an enhanced Minecraft experience that retains the charm of the original game while introducing exciting new features and quality-of-life improvements. This modpack is perfect for players who love the essence of vanilla Minecraft but crave a little extra flair.
  • Enhanced Biomes: Explore beautifully revamped biomes with richer landscapes, diverse flora, and new environmental sounds to make your adventures even more immersive.
  • Quality of Life Improvements: Enjoy intuitive inventory management, improved crafting systems, and new user interface elements that streamline your gameplay without overwhelming you.
  • New Mobs and Creatures: Encounter a variety of new animals and monsters that seamlessly integrate into the game, adding depth and challenge to your survival experience.
  • Extended Crafting Options: Discover new crafting recipes and tools that allow for more customization and creativity while keeping the game's balance intact.
  • Visual and Audio Enhancements: Experience stunning graphics and enhanced soundscapes that breathe new life into the Minecraft world, making every moment feel more dynamic.

Compatibility

Mod Loaders

Fabric

Game Versions

1.21.4

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JourneyMap

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

Mod 352,944,499
Cloth Config API (Fabric/Forge/NeoForge)

Cloth Config API (Fabric/Forge/NeoForge)

Config Screen API for Minecraft

Mod 500,296,508
Architectury API

Architectury API

An intermediary api aimed to ease developing multiplatform mods.

Mod 415,209,707
Mouse Tweaks

Mouse Tweaks

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

Mod 509,499,765
AppleSkin

AppleSkin

Adds some useful information about food/hunger to the HUD

Mod 475,128,556
ModernFix

ModernFix

All-in-one mod that improves performance, reduces memory usage, and fixes many bugs. Compatible with all your favorite p...

Mod 285,046,511
Jade 🔍

Jade 🔍

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

Mod 306,341,784
ImmediatelyFast

ImmediatelyFast

Speed up immediate mode rendering in Minecraft

Mod 266,072,044
Controlling

Controlling

Adds a search bar to the Key-Bindings menu

Mod 414,551,438
Collective

Collective

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

Mod 300,652,048
Searchables

Searchables

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

Mod 191,936,421
Fabric API

Fabric API

Core API library for the Fabric toolchain

Mod 419,024,151
Sodium

Sodium

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

Mod 317,805,502
Iris Shaders

Iris Shaders

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

Mod 120,324,615
CreativeCore

CreativeCore

a core mod

Mod 249,627,848
Sound Physics Remastered

Sound Physics Remastered

A Minecraft mod that provides realistic sound attenuation, reverberation, and absorption through blocks.

Mod 179,533,645
Framework

Framework

A common library powering all of MrCrayfish's Mods

Mod 124,984,032
SuperMartijn642's Config Lib

SuperMartijn642's Config Lib

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

Mod 197,432,819
Not Enough Animations

Not Enough Animations

Bringing first-person animations to the third-person

Mod 223,403,044
Carry On

Carry On

Carry On allows you to pick up Tile Entities and Mobs and carry them around!

Mod 227,770,928
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 187,090,864
Cristel Lib

Cristel Lib

A Library mod for easy structure config and runtime datapacks.

Mod 105,509,657
Lithium (Fabric/NeoForge)

Lithium (Fabric/NeoForge)

An optimization mod for Minecraft which improves server performance significantly.

Mod 195,306,174
oωo (owo-lib)

oωo (owo-lib)

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

Mod 113,320,116
AmbientSounds 6

AmbientSounds 6

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Mod 151,060,685
GlitchCore

GlitchCore

A library mod aimed at abstracting mod loaders and providing various utilities for our mods.

Mod 80,115,131
Forge Config API Port

Forge Config API Port

NeoForge's & Forge's config systems provided to other modding ecosystems. Designed for a multiloader architecture.

Mod 128,852,117
MrCrayfish's Furniture Mod: Refurbished

MrCrayfish's Furniture Mod: Refurbished

The next generation of MrCrayfish's Furniture Mod, redesigned from the ground up with new models, sounds, and more!

Mod 47,299,868
Fabric Language Kotlin

Fabric Language Kotlin

Fabric language module for Kotlin

Mod 174,120,492
Terralith

Terralith

A 1.18+ overworld expansion for Fabric and Forge, with tons of new biomes and caves!

Mod 87,977,209
Sodium Extra

Sodium Extra

Features that shouldn't be in Sodium

Mod 146,711,936
Structory

Structory

An atmospheric structure mod for Fabric/Forge/Quilt.

Mod 90,452,341
JamLib

JamLib

The platform-agnostic, Architectury based library used in all of JamCoreModding's mods

Mod 66,475,720
RightClickHarvest

RightClickHarvest

Allows you to harvest crops by right clicking

Mod 65,954,287
Accessories

Accessories

An extendable and data-driven Accessory Mod for Minecraft

Mod 33,592,683
Double Doors

Double Doors

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

Mod 56,760,273
FallingTree

FallingTree

Break down your trees by only cutting one piece of it

Mod 64,729,482
Inventory HUD+

Inventory HUD+

Adds your main inventory, potion effects and your equipments to your HUD. And few other features.

Mod 84,039,896
Villager Names

Villager Names

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

Mod 66,324,063
Item Collectors

Item Collectors

Item Collectors adds Collectors which collect items in a specified range!

Mod 51,492,578
Cryonic Config

Cryonic Config

Chill Minimal Config API

Mod 16,878,450
YDM's Weapon Master

YDM's Weapon Master

With this Mod your Hotbar items will be visible on your Character.

Mod 25,608,116
libIPN

libIPN

Gui/Config Libarary for Inventory Profiles Next and related mods

Mod 70,107,734
Chisel Reborn [Forge/Fabric/NeoForge]

Chisel Reborn [Forge/Fabric/NeoForge]

Adds New Blocks!

Mod 22,391,016
Visuality

Visuality

Little visual improvements by adding a bunch of new particles.

Mod 64,401,208
Incendium

Incendium

New biomes and structures with the vanilla blocks! (1.18+)

Mod 41,917,343
Roughly Enough Items Fabric/Forge/NeoForge (REI)

Roughly Enough Items Fabric/Forge/NeoForge (REI)

Clean and Customizable. An easy way to browse recipes. Alternative to JEI Just Enough Items.

Mod 55,772,938
Dungeons and Taverns

Dungeons and Taverns

an Vanilla styled structure mod

Mod 30,301,202
ItemPhysic Lite

ItemPhysic Lite

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Mod 28,735,917
MakeUp - Ultra Fast | Shaders

MakeUp - Ultra Fast | Shaders

High performance shaders. Gameplay oriented. Lightweight.

Shader 46,664,498
Animal Feeding Trough [Fabric | Forge | Quilt | NeoForge]

Animal Feeding Trough [Fabric | Forge | Quilt | NeoForge]

Mobs self feed with feeding trough

Mod 22,656,284
Cardinal Components API

Cardinal Components API

API for data-driven content

Mod 48,527,446
Traveler's Backpack [Fabric]

Traveler's Backpack [Fabric]

Unique and upgradeable backpacks with customisation, Trinkets integration and more!

Mod 22,321,245
Fresh Animations

Fresh Animations

Make your game like the trailers! Dynamic animated entities to freshen your Minecraft experience.

Texture Pack 91,432,046
Blur+

Blur+

Spice up the boring vanilla blur effect – featuring animations, colors and lots of customizability!

Mod 22,153,949
Inventory Profiles Next

Inventory Profiles Next

Take control over you inventory. Sort. Move matching Items. Throw all. Locked slots. Gear sets! And much more.

Mod 68,426,069
Grind Enchantments

Grind Enchantments

Disenchant and transfer enchantments using a grindstone.

Mod 11,631,021
Super Duper Vanilla Shaders

Super Duper Vanilla Shaders

A shader pack created to convey the style of the cancelled Super Duper Graphics Pack and other popular Minecraft titles.

Shader 15,605,204
Enhanced Block Entities

Enhanced Block Entities

Improve FPS with block entities, and make them customizable with resource packs

Mod 15,434,367
Detail Armor Bar [Fabric]

Detail Armor Bar [Fabric]

Show more details of armors in Armor bar!

Mod 9,060,328
Motschen's Better Leaves

Motschen's Better Leaves

Improves the appearance of leaves with high mod compatibility and performance!

Texture Pack 29,765,921
Unique Dark

Unique Dark

Dark GUI with unique textures for functional blocks. Dark mode support for 79 mods

Texture Pack 4,613,642
Hopo Better Mineshaft

Hopo Better Mineshaft

More and better mineshafts to explore

Mod 9,795,194
DnT Stronghold Overhaul

DnT Stronghold Overhaul

This is the Standalone split off version from Dungeons and Taverns Stronghold Rework. It adds 417 Rooms, Unique Strongho...

Mod 4,171,202
DnT Jungle Temple Overhaul

DnT Jungle Temple Overhaul

Overhauls Jungle Temples with 4 Variants using new loot tables alongside the Vanilla Loot Table and can have archeology...

Mod 1,656,743
[Retired] DnT End Castle Standalone

[Retired] DnT End Castle Standalone

Retired, we decided to retire this project since keeping it up becomes too much of a technical challange for something t...

Mod 1,508,016
Mine Spawners

Mine Spawners

Get spawners using a silk touch pick

Mod 2,482,306
Seraphic Shaders

Seraphic Shaders

High Performance, Best Quality Shaderpack

Shader 494,168
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 3,946,414
Biome Particle Weather

Biome Particle Weather

Replaces the old weather rendering with particles while spicing it up by adding new effects!

Mod 3,583,033
Visual Overhaul

Visual Overhaul

Enhance the visual representation of interactable blocks.

Mod 2,222,323
Default HD 128x

Default HD 128x

Minecraft, but in sharp, clean HD! 128x

Texture Pack 5,866,015
Blue's Better Monsters

Blue's Better Monsters

New models and animations, shapeshifting creepers, dismemberment and more!

Texture Pack 1,282,373
ChicknTurtle's 3D Tools

ChicknTurtle's 3D Tools

Gives tools some depth, while keeping the vanilla style!

Texture Pack 53,767
Better Ores 3D

Better Ores 3D

This resource pack allows you to have 3D and glowing ores.

Texture Pack 596,398
Crops 3D Reforged

Crops 3D Reforged

Makes all the crops 3D in the default style of Minecraft.

Texture Pack 424,131
Ethereal Shaders

Ethereal Shaders

High Performance, Best Quality Shaderpack

Shader 300,472
Foods 3D

Foods 3D

Remakes most food items in 3D

Texture Pack 70,097
Jaiz Mod

Jaiz Mod

A collection of Vanilla+ Additions that improve elements of minecraft such as biome upgrades, new mobs, and more!

Mod 6,417
Sneak To Edit

Sneak To Edit

Allows interaction with blocks behind item frames and signs. Client-side only.

Mod 2,238

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