BetterTech 1
Modpackby KForge
A tech-focused Minecraft 1.20.1 modpack featuring Mekanism, Applied Energistics 2, Thermal Series, RFTools, Tinkers' Construct, and 170+ more mods.
Description
BetterTech is a tech-focused modpack for Minecraft 1.20.1 built around deep automation, power generation, and resource processing. With 175 mods carefully assembled on Forge 47.4.10, it offers a rich progression path from basic machinery all the way to end-game multi-block structures and beyond.
⚙️ Core Tech Mods
- Mekanism (+ Additions, Generators, Tools) — power, machines, gas processing
- Applied Energistics 2 (+ AdvancedAE, MEGA Cells, ExtendedAE) — deep storage and autocrafting
- Thermal Series — Expansion, Foundation, Dynamics, Cultivation, and more
- RFTools — Builder, Power, Dimensions, Storage, Control, and more
- Ender IO — conduits, machines, and power
- Draconic Evolution — late-game power and gear
- Project Red — redstone logic and circuits
- Flux Networks — wireless power transfer
🌍 World & Exploration
- Biomes O' Plenty — expanded world generation
- Ad Astra — space exploration
- MineColonies — NPC colony building
- Waystones — fast travel
- Tinkers' Construct — custom tool crafting
🛠️ Quality of Life
- JourneyMap — minimap and full map
- Just Enough Items (JEI) — recipe viewer
- Crafting Tweaks, Mouse Tweaks, Inventory Essentials
- Iron Chests, Sophisticated Storage/Backpacks
- AppleSkin, Jade — UI enhancements
- ModernFix — performance improvements
📋 Requirements
- Minecraft 1.20.1
- Forge 47.4.10
- Recommended RAM: 6–8 GB
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Contained Mods (207)
Just Enough Items (JEI)
View Items and Recipes
GuideME
A guidebook toolkit for mods and modpack makers alike with comfortable markdown formatting, and live 3d scenes!
Sophisticated Storage
Storage mod with multiple tiers and functional upgrades
Sophisticated Core
Library mod for Sophisticated mods
Rechiseled
Rechiseled allows you to chisel blocks into various decorative blocks with connected textures!
Forgified Fabric API
Fabric API implemented on top of NeoForge
KubeJS
Edit recipes, add new custom items, script world events, all in JavaScript!
Functional Storage
Your classic storage drawers but with more upgrades!
Biomes O' Plenty
Adds 50+ unique biomes to enhance your world, with new trees, flowers, and more!
SuperMartijn642's Core Lib
SuperMartijn642's Core Lib adds lots of basic implementations that allow for similar code between different Minecraft ve...
ImmediatelyFast
Speed up immediate mode rendering in Minecraft
Titanium
Library for Horizon Studio
Jade 🔍
Shows information about what you are looking at. (Hwyla/WAILA fork for Minecraft 1.16+)
Sophisticated Backpacks
Yet another backpack mod this time with backpack you can place in world, color in different color combinations, upgrade...
Iron Chests
Iron Chest mod
Applied Energistics 2 Wireless Terminals
An addon for Applied Energistics 2 that adds wireless versions of several Terminals
Tesseract
Tesseract allows you to transport Items, Fluid and Energy
Scannable
One scanner to find them, and with eye candy bind them.
Inventory Essentials
The most essential inventory tweaks. Now with sorting!
BlockUI
Easy to Use UI library for Forge mods
JourneyMap Integration
Adds some mod integrations for our favorite map mod
ExtendedAE
Adds some QoL contents for AE2
Curios API (Forge/NeoForge)
A flexible and expandable accessory/equipment API for users and developers.
GlitchCore
A library mod aimed at abstracting mod loaders and providing various utilities for our mods.
ModernFix
All-in-one mod that improves performance, reduces memory usage, and fixes many bugs. Compatible with all your favorite p...
Kotlin for Forge
Adds a Kotlin language loader and provides some optional utilities.
OpenBlocks Elevator
Port of OpenBlocks Elevator.
Architectury API
An intermediary api aimed to ease developing multiplatform mods.
Resourceful Config
Resourceful Config is a mod that allows for developers to make crossplatform configs
Advanced Loot Info
EMI/JEI/REI plugin for displaying advanced information about loot tables and villager trades
FTB Quests (NeoForge)
Questing Mod by FTB
MineColonies
Grow your Own Massive Colony with Automation, Defense Structures, Raids and more
Fusion (Connected Textures)
Fusion allows resource packs to use additional texture and model types such as connected textures!
Nature's Compass
Nature's Compass is an item that allows you to locate biomes anywhere in the world.
Jade Addons (Neo/Forge)
Jade 🔍's additional mod supports for Neo/Forge
TerraBlender (Forge)
A library mod for adding biomes in a simple and compatible manner!
Applied Energistics 2
A Mod about Matter, Energy and using them to conquer the world..
MonoLib
A non-invasive library mod for Fabric, Forge, and NeoForge.
JourneyMap
Real-time map used for mapping in-game or your browser as you explore.
RFTools Builder
RFTools addon mod adding the builder, shield system and much more
Balm
Abstraction Layer for Multi-Loader Mods
GraveStone Mod
Places a gravestone with your inventory items inside when you die
Applied Flux
store energy in ME network
Trash Cans
Trash Cans adds trash cans which can be used to void items, liquids, and energy!
Structurize
Copy structures, paste structures, manipulate structures (100% GUI)
Bookshelf
An open source library for other mods!
SuperMartijn642's Config Lib
Config Lib makes dealing with config files just a bit easier.
FTB Library (NeoForge)
Common code for all GUI stuff in FTB Mods
Macaw's Lights and Lamps
Adds vanila styled lamps, torches, street lamps, paper lamps, slabs... Make your worlds brighter!
Macaw's Doors
Adds vanila doors with every wood color and new unique doors!
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..!
Just Enough Resources (JER)
A JEI addon that adds mob drops, ore gen, ..
Better Advancements
Successor to BetterAchievements for the new advancements system in minecraft 1.12+
Dark Utilities
Expansive content mod which adds a little bit of everything.
Resourceful Lib
Lib for Team Resourceful and more
Carry On
Carry On allows you to pick up Tile Entities and Mobs and carry them around!
Waystones
Teleport from waystone to waystone or craft magical scrolls to warp.
Cherished Worlds
Favorite/pin/bookmark certain worlds, which will always be at the top of the list and cannot be deleted.
Pig Pen Cipher
Adds the pigpen cipher to Minecraft
HammerLib
Library used by all of DragonForge team's mods.
Runelic
A runic font for Minecraft.
Glassential Renewed
Various types of glass to aid in your building. Updated to new MC.
EdivadLib
Just a common library for all my mods
Cloth Config API (Fabric/Forge/NeoForge)
Config Screen API for Minecraft
GeckoLib
A 3D animation library for entities, blocks, items, armor, and more!
Mouse Tweaks
Enhances inventory management by adding various functions to the mouse buttons.
Sound Physics Remastered
A Minecraft mod that provides realistic sound attenuation, reverberation, and absorption through blocks.
Accelerated Decay
Speeds up the leaf decaying process
RightClickHarvest
Allows you to harvest crops by right clicking
JamLib
The platform-agnostic, Architectury based library used in all of JamCoreModding's mods
FTB XMod Compat
Official multi-mod integrations support for the FTB Mods
AppleSkin
Adds some useful information about food/hunger to the HUD
Just Enough Professions (JEP)
A JEI addon that adds profession workstations
Clumps
Clumps XP orbs together to reduce lag
Crafting Tweaks
Allows you to rotate, balance or clear crafting grids by the press of a button.
Cupboard
Cupboard provides code, frameworks, and utilities for minecraft mods
Continuity
A Minecraft mod that allows for efficient connected textures
Ad Astra
Live long and prosper, Ad Astra!
Structure Gel API
An API for simplifying the developer end of creating generated structures.
Pipe Connector
A tool that places pipes automatically along a selected route, with the option to set the depth. Useful for building org...
Ender IO
Ender IO
LibX
LibX is a library mod with a lot of code that is shared between mods.
Mantle
Shared code for Forge mods
ME Requester
Keep items and fluids in your Applied Energistics 2 ME-System in stock.
Draconic Evolution
Draconic Evolution is a mod that adds some extremely expensive high tier items to the game.
FTB Chunks (NeoForge)
A mod that allows you to claim chunks to protect your blocks and view minimap / large map
Domum Ornamentum
Millions of unique block variants and all stairs/slabs/walls/fence and more vanilla Minecraft forgot
Farmer's Delight
A cozy expansion to farming and cooking!
UtilitiX
A lot of items, nice to have
Clean Swing Through Grass
Hit your Enemies even in Grass
Silent Gear
Upgradeable tools, weapons, and armor. Custom materials system!
Cable Facades
Facade support for all cables and blocks in the game!
FTB Teams (NeoForge)
Library for mods that can utilize team progression
Sinytra Connector
Lets you play Fabric mods on NeoForge
AdvancedAE
QoL features added to your AE System.
Glodium
A codelib for render, registry and network stuff
LootJS: KubeJS Addon
Add functionality for packdevs to modify global loot modifications through KubeJS
Project Red - Integration
Integration module for the Project Red series
Project Red - Illumination
Illumination module for the Project Red series
Project Red - Fabrication
Redstone enthusiasts' one-stop-shop. Fabrication module for Project Red.
Project Red - Exploration
Exploration module for the Project Red series
Project Red - Expansion
Expansion module for Project Red series
Project Red - Core
Core module for the Project Red series
CodeChicken Lib 1.8.+
Contains various tools to make modding easier.
Recipe Essentials[Forge/Fabric]
Essential fixes and improvements around recipes and crafting
Rhino
A fork of Mozilla's Rhino library, modified for use in mods
Dis-Enchanting Table
Recover enchantments from enchanted weapons or books!
Ranged Pumps
Ranged Pumps is a simple mod that adds a pump that pumps liquids in a range.
AddonsLib
A library to facilitate registration between mods, in particular macaw's bridges/roofs/fences/etc...
Patchouli
Accessible, Data-Driven, Dependency-Free Documentation for Minecraft Modders and Pack Makers
Industrial Foregoing
A collection of machines to make your minecraft builds easier to automate
Super Factory Manager ( SFM )
A supercharged logistic mod for high precision, high throughput resource movement
Iron Furnaces
Inspired by cpw's Iron Chests, this mod introduces a variety of new furnaces to the game.
RFTools Control
Automation and logic computer addon for RFTools
RFTools Storage
RFTools Storage addon
RFTools Power
RFTools addon for all power generator/storage
RFTools Utility
General RFTools blocks that don't fit in a more specific category
RFTools Dimensions
This is an addon mod for RFTools which handles creation of dimensions
RFTools Base
RFTools Base: base mod for all McJty tech mods
McJtyLib
Companion mod for all mods by McJty (RFTools, XNet, Deep Resonance, Not Enough Wands, SignTastic, ...))
Civillis
Build more, spawn less. Hostile mobs naturally avoid civilized areas.
Uncraft Everything
Crafted wrong item? Uncraft everything with this mod!
Almost Unified
Unify all resources.
Athena
A crossplatform (Forge/Fabric) solution to connected block textures for 1.19.4+
KubeJS Thermal
KubeJS Thermal Expansion integration
LaserIO
Route Items, Fluids, and Energy around your world - with Lasers!
Powah! (Rearchitected)
A tech mod that adds various ways to generate, store and transmit Energy.
MEGA Cells
ME Greater Accumulation: For when kilobytes just won't do.
Silent Lib (silentlib)
Library to make writing and maintaining mods easier.
Crafting Station: J/EMI Edition Updated
Adds a crafting station with JEI support !
Mekanism Tools
Powerful tools and armor for Mekanism.
Mekanism Generators
Advanced energy generation for Mekanism.
Mekanism Additions
Additions module for Mekanism, contains things that don't quite fit in the other modules.
Mekanism
High-tech machinery, powerful energy generation, fancy gadgets and more. Now on Curse!
Project Red - Transmission
Transmission module for the Project Red series
CB Multipart
An opensource library for having multiple things in the one block space
Deep Aether
An addon for the original Aether mod, aiming to show the deepest lands of a forgotten paradise.
World Play Time
Displays the world's play time in the world selection menu.
FerriteCore ((Neo)Forge)
Memory usage optimizations
KubeJS EnderIO
KubeJS integration for EnderIO.
Hole Filler Mod
Automatically Fills in Holes!
Rechiseled: Chipped
Let's you quickly craft Chipped block variants using the Rechiseled chisel. Also adds a few QoL features to Rechiseled.
Productive Bees
Get your resource fix from bees
ZeroCore 2
Utility mod and multiblock API
Applied Mekanistics
The official Mekanism support addon for AE2
AE2: Crafting Tree
give Applied Energistics 2 add a crafting tree
Brandon's Core
This is the core mod that will be used by most of my mods from now on
Multi-Piston
Multi-directional Piston Block
Rechiseled: AE2
Rechiseled variants of blocks from Applied Energistics 2
The Aether
The Aether Team presents: The original Aether mod!
Mob Grinding Utils
A Mod that adds fun ways to make mob farms
The Aether: Redux
An addon for the Aether, adding various improvements and changes
Simply Jetpacks 2
RF powered, tier based Jetpacks
Sodium/Embeddium Dynamic Lights
Multiloader port of LambDynLights that adds Sodium/Embeddium settings support
Sodium/Embeddium Options API
Config API for adding Sodium/Embeddium options with a better categories menu
KubeJS Additions
[NEW] Custom JEI Categories & Jade Integration
Ender Storage 1.8.+
linked color coded ender chests
Embeddium
A powerful, mod-friendly, FOSS client performance mod for NeoForge
Flux Networks
Wireless Energy Networks, compatible with FE/EU/RF/TESLA/AE
Bigger Reactors
Official Continuation of Erogenous Beef's Big Reactors
Phosphophyllite
Library for the BiggerSeries of mods.
Chicken Chunks 1.8.+
Chunk load all the chunks with the power of chicken!
AeroBlender
AeroBlender is a library mod dependent on TerraBlender, for adding biomes in a simple and compatible manner with Aether'...
Almost Unify Everything
Almost Unified addon which unifies block drops.
Chipped
Every block deserves a friend.
TownTalk
Minecolonies Addon for more Voice Lines
AE2 Things [Forge]
Introduces a new Cell type, advanced inscriber and crystal growth chamber
Botarium
A crossplatform API for devs that makes transfer and storage of items, fluids and energy easier, as well as some other h...
Thermal Foundation
The Foundation of a Thermally Expanding World!
Thermal Integration
Thermal integrates with others!
CoFH Core
Contains Core Functionality for all Team CoFH mods. Also does some really cool stuff on its own!
Thermal Innovation
Thermal Technology marches on. Adds Thermal-style tools and equipment!
Thermal Expansion
Expanding Minecraft Thermally! A server-friendly and content-rich blend of magic and technology!
Thermal Dynamics
Thermal gets Dynamic! Adds ducts - transportation for Redstone Flux, Fluids, and Items!
Thermal Cultivation
Thermal gets Agrarian - provides options for farming and related activities!
Thermal Locomotion
The Rails Module of the Thermal Series!
Thermal Endergy
Adding more of the balanced content you love to Thermal
JEI Integration
Providing Integrations & Tooltips - Forge 1.10+
Aether: Lost Content Addon
A mod that brings back a lot of scrapped, unused, and even concepted content, from Aether I, and Aether Legacy.
Item Filters
Item Filters is a library mod that is used by mods like FTB Quests. It adds several filter items that let you precisely...
Timberjack
The Timberjack Mod for Minecraft allows players to quickly chop down entire trees by breaking just one block at the base...
SFM Thermal Compat
Improved compatibility between SFM and Thermal Series.
Functional Chemical
Mekanism chemical drawer storage
AE2 Generators
A simple energy solution for Applied Energistics 2
Ender Shards ( Craft Ender Pearls )
Craft ender pearls by collecting ender shards from mob drops.
EnderIO-SilentGear Compatibility
Adds Ender IO metals to Silent Gear
Applied KubeJS
A powerful AE2 ↔ KubeJS bridge for modpack developers that adds scriptable AE2 recipes, network monitoring, storage/craf...
Bigger Reactors Compat
A compat mod that adds new fluid transitions, so you can use more fluids as reactor coolant in Bigger Reactors.
Mystian Apiary
A multiblock apiary expansion for Productive Bees!
Ender Chest On A Stick - Portable Ender Chest
Adds a portable hand-held ender chest (on a stick) that you can open by right-clicking with it in your hand.
Aethersteel
Better than netherite
Civillis Minecolonies Compatibility
Creates civilized areas to deter monster spawning around Colonies dynamically.
Civillis Technology Compatibility
Adds compatibility between Civilis and various tech mods.
Dense Mekanism
Dense ores for Mekanism ores!
Aether Addon: Overworld Ores
Implements new naturally generating Holystone variants of various vanilla and modded ores.
Dense Ores - Abundant!
Ores that drop more materials!
Simple Quarry
Adding simple quarry to mine area of blocks
SilentGear Compat
Adding SilentGear compatability for several mods and new unique materials!
Tweaks addon for MineColonies
Tweak your minecolonies experience. Custom Tools for citizen, more configuration etc...
Compatibility addon for MineColonies
Add compatibility contents between MineColonies and other mods.
AE2 MEGA Things
AE2 MEGA Things adds DISK Cells (1k to 256M) with no type restrictions, supporting items, fluids, and Chemicals.
Trenzalore
Small Util Mod with a few tweaks
JAMD
Just Another Mining Dimension
Nether Ores Plus+
Adds 3 New Variants of Ores to the Nether, Netherrack, Basalt and Blackstone with each having different amount of drops
KubeJS Mekanism UNOFFICIAL
Unofficial port of KJS Mekanism to 1.20.1
Quartz
Quartz rendering library