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Explore and Grow

Modpack

by itsBeen

Explore vibrant biomes, cook delicious meals, and build your dream world.

Type

Modpack

CurseForge Downloads

350

CurseForge ID

1299202

Last Updated

Jul 4, 2026

Description

🌱 Explore and Grow – Forge 1.20.1 Modpack
Explore. Grow. Thrive.

Welcome to Explore and Grow, a rich and balanced modpack focused on immersive exploration, natural progression, flavorful cooking, and smooth performance. Whether you're venturing through vast new biomes, settling down to build your dream village, or cooking up your latest discovery from the garden or sea — this pack brings it all together in one seamless experience.

Built for players who love both adventure and atmosphere, this modpack encourages you to create your own story — at your own pace. Every mod has been hand-picked and fine-tuned to ensure compatibility, visual consistency, and optimal performance, even on mid-range systems.

🔍 Mod Highlights

🌍 World Generation & Exploration
Explore a vibrant and diverse world filled with lush biomes, mysterious structures, realistic trees, and countless new creatures. From the surface to deep cave systems, this pack brings the world alive with dynamic ecosystems and unforgettable sights.

Key Mods:
Biomes O’ Plenty, Structory, Towns and Towers, Dynamic Trees (with BOP, Quark & Alex’s Mobs support), Alex’s Mobs, Alex’s Caves, Naturalist

🍲 Farming, Food & Delight Expansion
Dive into a deeply rewarding cooking and farming system. Expand your culinary empire with themed Delight expansions that cover everything from coffee to seafood, and customize your storage and kitchen to match.

Key Mods:
Farmer’s Delight, Coffee Delight, Pizza Delight, Aquaculture Delight, Rustic Delight, Crabber’s Delight, Corn Delight, Fruits Delight, Egg Delight, Delightful, Storage Delight, Display Delight, Barbecue’s Delight

🏡 Building & Decoration
Design cozy cottages, detailed kitchens, rustic bridges, and majestic homes with a huge variety of blocks and decorations. This category blends creativity with function, enhancing both interiors and exteriors.

Key Mods:
Quark, Quark Oddities, Macaw’s Mods (Bridges, Furniture, Roofs, Windows, etc.), Supplementaries, SuppSquared, Cupboard

⚔️ Adventure, Loot & Gear
Uncover rare loot, discover ancient relics, and embark on a journey of magical upgrades and well-rewarded exploration. Enhanced loot tables and progression tools make every dungeon crawl worth the trip.

Key Mods:
Artifacts, Celestial Artifacts, Relics, Loot Integration

🛠️ Utility & Quality of Life
Enjoy a smoother, more intuitive Minecraft experience with modern UI features, keybinding tools, searchable containers, backpack systems, and more. Everything is designed to make your gameplay more convenient.

Key Mods:
JEI, JEED, JER, Sophisticated Backpacks, Mouse Tweaks, Controlling, Right Click Harvest, Default Options, Searchables

🚀 Performance Optimization
This pack includes powerful optimizations to improve FPS, reduce stuttering, and make even large modded worlds run more smoothly — perfect for lower-spec systems or high-detail builds.

Key Mods:
AI Improvements, Clumps, FerriteCore, ImmediatelyFast, ModernFix, Starlight, Embeddium, BetterFPSDist, GPUMemLeakFix

Who is this for?
For builders who love cozy towns and beautiful landscapes
For farmers and chefs seeking deep cooking mechanics
For explorers looking for new mobs, biomes, dungeons, and loot
For players with modest hardware who still want a smooth and immersive experience

Compatibility

Mod Loaders

Forge

Game Versions

1.20.1

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Just Enough Items (JEI)

Just Enough Items (JEI)

View Items and Recipes

Mod 656,750,407
GeckoLib

GeckoLib

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

Mod 434,990,635
Cloth Config API (Fabric/Forge/NeoForge)

Cloth Config API (Fabric/Forge/NeoForge)

Config Screen API for Minecraft

Mod 500,244,107
Architectury API

Architectury API

An intermediary api aimed to ease developing multiplatform mods.

Mod 415,175,090
Mouse Tweaks

Mouse Tweaks

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

Mod 509,471,698
AppleSkin

AppleSkin

Adds some useful information about food/hunger to the HUD

Mod 475,094,107
ModernFix

ModernFix

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

Mod 285,001,927
Balm

Balm

Abstraction Layer for Multi-Loader Mods

Mod 283,605,886
Jade 🔍

Jade 🔍

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

Mod 306,302,083
ImmediatelyFast

ImmediatelyFast

Speed up immediate mode rendering in Minecraft

Mod 266,018,177
Bookshelf

Bookshelf

An open source library for other mods!

Mod 395,953,241
Moonlight Lib

Moonlight Lib

Forge and Fabric lightweight library with utilities such as custom Villagers AI, data driven trades, global datapack, cu...

Mod 265,829,088
Curios API (Forge/NeoForge)

Curios API (Forge/NeoForge)

A flexible and expandable accessory/equipment API for users and developers.

Mod 314,577,908
Controlling

Controlling

Adds a search bar to the Key-Bindings menu

Mod 414,530,291
Clumps

Clumps

Clumps XP orbs together to reduce lag

Mod 384,078,861
Entity Culling Fabric/Forge

Entity Culling Fabric/Forge

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

Mod 344,767,256
Sophisticated Backpacks

Sophisticated Backpacks

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

Mod 239,787,511
Collective

Collective

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

Mod 300,615,413
FerriteCore ((Neo)Forge)

FerriteCore ((Neo)Forge)

Memory usage optimizations

Mod 212,646,027
Placebo

Placebo

A library mod

Mod 315,132,431
Cupboard

Cupboard

Cupboard provides code, frameworks, and utilities for minecraft mods

Mod 185,424,140
Searchables

Searchables

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

Mod 191,906,014
Konkrete

Konkrete

Just another boring library mod.

Mod 265,820,064
Enchantment Descriptions

Enchantment Descriptions

Adds in-game descriptions for enchantments to tooltips.

Mod 305,782,883
Sophisticated Core

Sophisticated Core

Library mod for Sophisticated mods

Mod 203,083,001
Farmer's Delight

Farmer's Delight

A cozy expansion to farming and cooking!

Mod 237,086,951
Comforts

Comforts

Adds sleeping bags and hammocks for, respectively, portability and turning day to night, without setting new spawns. Com...

Mod 252,806,365
Embeddium

Embeddium

A powerful, mod-friendly, FOSS client performance mod for NeoForge

Mod 168,233,998
Supplementaries

Supplementaries

Vanilla+ additions: Jars, signposts, faucets, weather vanes spring launchers, sconces, planters, lights, decoration and...

Mod 233,478,321
CreativeCore

CreativeCore

a core mod

Mod 249,597,213
SuperMartijn642's Config Lib

SuperMartijn642's Config Lib

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

Mod 197,414,158
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 187,071,924
AttributeFix

AttributeFix

Removes arbitrary limits on Minecraft's attribute system.

Mod 235,002,199
ShatterLib | OctoLib

ShatterLib | OctoLib

Collection of shared code for Shatterbyte mods

Mod 95,641,714
Citadel

Citadel

A Lightweight Library

Mod 212,513,790
Connectivity

Connectivity

Fix Login timeouts, Packet sizes errors, Payloads errors, ghostblocks and more.

Mod 150,519,788
Crash Assistant

Crash Assistant

Shows a GUI after Minecraft crashes, immediately showing and analyzing all affected logs.

Mod 69,803,492
Alex's Mobs

Alex's Mobs

85+ New mobs with stylistic quality above the default game.

Mod 160,408,344
Amendments

Amendments

Cauldron Potion Mixing, Lanterns Animation, Carpeted Stairs, Candle Skulls, Double Cakes, Better Lilypads and much more

Mod 106,178,376
Artifacts

Artifacts

Adds various treasure items that can be found through exploration

Mod 145,467,080
Caelus API

Caelus API

A coremod and API to provide developers access to elytra flight mechanics through an entity attribute.

Mod 162,298,150
TerraBlender (Forge)

TerraBlender (Forge)

A library mod for adding biomes in a simple and compatible manner!

Mod 181,357,545
Server Performance - Smooth Chunk Save[Forge/Fabric]

Server Performance - Smooth Chunk Save[Forge/Fabric]

Enables lag-free continuous chunk saving, increasing server TPS

Mod 112,863,486
AllTheLeaks (Memory Leak Fix)

AllTheLeaks (Memory Leak Fix)

This mod fixes memory leaks of some mods, Neoforge and Minecraft until they implement their fixes.

Mod 63,808,993
Sodium/Embeddium Dynamic Lights

Sodium/Embeddium Dynamic Lights

Multiloader port of LambDynLights that adds Sodium/Embeddium settings support

Mod 87,711,875
Configured

Configured

Automatic in-game configuration menus for every mod!

Mod 117,928,258
Cristel Lib

Cristel Lib

A Library mod for easy structure config and runtime datapacks.

Mod 105,494,031
Default Options

Default Options

A way for modpacks to ship a default (key) configuration without having to include an options.txt file.

Mod 179,373,322
Sodium/Embeddium Options API

Sodium/Embeddium Options API

Config API for adding Sodium/Embeddium options with a better categories menu

Mod 85,863,764
AI Improvements

AI Improvements

Performance and logic upgrades for mod AIs

Mod 158,751,109
Just Enough Resources (JER)

Just Enough Resources (JER)

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

Mod 239,843,072
Biomes O' Plenty

Biomes O' Plenty

Adds 50+ unique biomes to enhance your world, with new trees, flowers, and more!

Mod 250,518,244
Quark

Quark

A Quark is a very small thing. This mod is a collection of small things that improve the vanilla minecraft experience.

Mod 266,861,183
GlitchCore

GlitchCore

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

Mod 80,100,604
FastSuite

FastSuite

A performance upgrade for the JSON recipe system.

Mod 89,850,631
BadOptimizations

BadOptimizations

Optimization mod that focuses on things other than rendering

Mod 99,952,856
Aquaculture 2

Aquaculture 2

Spices up fishing with a number of new biome specific fish, recipes, and more!

Mod 157,531,043
Towns and Towers

Towns and Towers

Spice up your world with new villages, pillager outposts, and even new ships!

Mod 107,260,845
Macaw's Bridges

Macaw's Bridges

A simple mod that adds a lot of bridges!

Mod 155,048,075
fix GPU memory leak[Forge/Fabric]

fix GPU memory leak[Forge/Fabric]

A mod that fixes memory leaks on the client

Mod 96,403,503
Load My F***ing Tags

Load My F***ing Tags

Prevents Incorrect Tag Entries from breaking an entire Tag

Mod 73,619,954
Just Zoom

Just Zoom

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

Mod 73,963,122
Blueprint

Blueprint

Library that implements the framework of all Abnormals mods!

Mod 115,136,079
Macaw's Fences and Walls

Macaw's Fences and Walls

Adds new vanila styled fences, walls and gates!

Mod 117,360,951
Zeta

Zeta

Comprehensive Load-Bearing Library for Modular Mods

Mod 70,654,903
Better Fps - Render Distance[Forge]

Better Fps - Render Distance[Forge]

Better fps for 1.16+ minecraft, improved render distances

Mod 81,963,488
Trash Cans

Trash Cans

Trash Cans adds trash cans which can be used to void items, liquids, and energy!

Mod 102,059,623
Macaw's Doors

Macaw's Doors

Adds vanila doors with every wood color and new unique doors!

Mod 125,959,243
Fast Paintings

Fast Paintings

Fixes and optimizes painting performance by making them blocks. Also allows customizing their model

Mod 73,602,798
Macaw's Windows

Macaw's Windows

Adds lots of Windows, Mosaic Glass, Blinds, Shutters, Curtains and more..!

Mod 121,774,029
Almanac Lib

Almanac Lib

A loader independent library containing shared code reused between mods and a fix for empty nbt issues.

Mod 43,417,331
Structory

Structory

An atmospheric structure mod for Fabric/Forge/Quilt.

Mod 90,445,316
Loot Integrations

Loot Integrations

Allows loot from loottables to be integrated into other lootables, inherently adds better dungeon loot to a few structur...

Mod 74,393,754
Relics

Relics

Just a mod about useful items with unique mechanics :3

Mod 59,715,744
Let Me Despawn

Let Me Despawn

Improves performance by tweaking mob despawn rules.

Mod 68,183,122
Elytra Slot

Elytra Slot

Adds curio support to the elytra so you can fly and wear chest armor at the same time. Formerly known as Curious Elytra.

Mod 125,106,959
Macaw's Furniture

Macaw's Furniture

Decorate your world with wardrobes, drawers, chairs, desks, tables, couches, sinks... and more!

Mod 89,926,406
Ocean's Delight

Ocean's Delight

Ocean's Delight is an addon mod for Farmer's Delight based around adding culinary content to the ocean!  

Mod 63,797,846
Macaw's Trapdoors

Macaw's Trapdoors

Adds vanila trapdoors in every plank variation, and some new trapdoors too!

Mod 104,649,688
JamLib

JamLib

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

Mod 66,465,673
RightClickHarvest

RightClickHarvest

Allows you to harvest crops by right clicking

Mod 65,945,877
Macaw's Lights and Lamps

Macaw's Lights and Lamps

Adds vanila styled lamps, torches, street lamps, paper lamps, slabs... Make your worlds brighter!

Mod 79,511,536
Macaw's Roofs

Macaw's Roofs

Build roofs with actual roofs instead of stairs!

Mod 104,539,570
Macaw's Paths and Pavings

Macaw's Paths and Pavings

Adds new vanila styled paths and pavings!

Mod 57,215,320
Structory: Towers

Structory: Towers

Adds immersive, biome-themed towers to the world, for Fabric/Forge/Quilt.

Mod 53,046,275
Alex's Delight

Alex's Delight

Adds compatibility between Alex's Mobs and Farmer's Delight

Mod 44,565,922
Reliquified Artifacts

Reliquified Artifacts

Compatibility addon between Relics and Artifacts

Mod 24,932,604
FLIB

FLIB

FutureLIBrary mod to speed up porting and developing new content

Mod 38,120,311
Item Collectors

Item Collectors

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

Mod 51,489,292
Alex's Caves

Alex's Caves

Explore five new rare cave biomes hidden under the surface of the Overworld...

Mod 39,673,235
Nether's Delight

Nether's Delight

Nether addon for Farmer's Delight

Mod 76,483,836
Macaw's Stairs

Macaw's Stairs

Adds new Vanilla styled Stairs, Handrails for Stairs and Balconies!

Mod 26,926,894
Naturalist Lite

Naturalist Lite

Adds 24 animals *(not including variants!)* to your world with immersive behaviors and drops.

Mod 61,043,742
Macaw's Paintings

Macaw's Paintings

Adds lots of custom made paintings!

Mod 47,592,543
Supplementaries Squared

Supplementaries Squared

The extra content of Supplementaries that doesn't necessarily fit in the base mod!

Mod 34,170,553
Starlight (Forge)

Starlight (Forge)

Rewrites the light engine to fix lighting performance and lighting errors

Mod 55,202,748
Ender's Delight

Ender's Delight

🍇A Farmer's Delight which add ender themed food

Mod 42,098,633
Just Enough Effect Descriptions (JEED)

Just Enough Effect Descriptions (JEED)

JEI/REI/EMI plugin that displays information on all potion and status effects

Mod 38,912,108
Delightful

Delightful

Configurable Farmer's Delight addon with compat features and immersive new foods.

Mod 48,469,143
Display Delight

Display Delight

Place all foods from Farmer's Delight in 3D!

Mod 10,355,713
Crabber's Delight

Crabber's Delight

Crabber's Delight is an addon for the popular food mod, Farmer's Delight

Mod 21,080,816
Dynamic Trees

Dynamic Trees

Trees that grow... Forests that spread.

Mod 57,200,879
Do a Barrel Roll

Do a Barrel Roll

Microsoft flight simulator for Minecraft elytras.

Mod 27,648,318
Noisium (archived)

Noisium (archived)

Optimises worldgen performance for a better gameplay experience.

Mod 66,088,873
JEI Integration

JEI Integration

Providing Integrations & Tooltips - Forge 1.10+

Mod 70,157,603
Relics: Alex's Mobs Compat

Relics: Alex's Mobs Compat

Compatibility addon between Relics and Alex's Mobs

Mod 9,201,108
Miner's Delight +

Miner's Delight +

Farmer's Delight add-on for miners

Mod 16,104,805
Relics: Alex's Caves Compat

Relics: Alex's Caves Compat

Compatibility addon between Relics and Alex's Caves

Mod 6,805,811
Aquaculture Delight (A Farmer's Delight Add-on)

Aquaculture Delight (A Farmer's Delight Add-on)

Adds Aquaculture and Farmer's Delight compatibility. Vanilla style.

Mod 15,628,857
Easy Elytra Takeoff

Easy Elytra Takeoff

🛫 Allows easy takeoff by elytra/colytra with a firework from the ground without jumping.

Mod 9,485,421
Butcher's Delight

Butcher's Delight

This is a mod that complements animal processing

Mod 7,642,063
Alex's Caves Delight

Alex's Caves Delight

Adds compatibility between Alex's Caves and Farmer's Delight. Vanilla style.

Mod 3,359,526
Celestial Artifacts

Celestial Artifacts

84+ Artifacts with various effects assisting player in combat

Mod 2,239,019
Celestial Core

Celestial Core

Library mod for Celestial mods

Mod 1,678,876
Macaw's Biomes O' Plenty

Macaw's Biomes O' Plenty

A compatibility between Macaw's Mods and the different woods of Biomes O' Plenty

Mod 17,093,959
AddonsLib

AddonsLib

A library to facilitate registration between mods, in particular macaw's bridges/roofs/fences/etc...

Mod 9,836,321
Vintage Delight

Vintage Delight

Pickling, farming and cheese, a feature packed farmers delight expansion.

Mod 5,115,145
Rustic Delight

Rustic Delight

A cozy add-on for Farmer's Delight that adds Pancakes, Cotton, Coffee, Bell Peppers, fried foods and more!

Mod 8,340,207
Village Artifacts

Village Artifacts

Tools and magic items to help or mess with villagers

Mod 25,463,679
Large Meals (An Add-on for Farmer's Delight)

Large Meals (An Add-on for Farmer's Delight)

A Farmer's Delight addon that adds new and creative recipes to the game.

Mod 7,411,695
Dynamic Trees - Quark

Dynamic Trees - Quark

Compatibility Mod between Dynamic trees and Quark

Mod 13,071,026
Dynamic Trees - Biomes O' Plenty

Dynamic Trees - Biomes O' Plenty

Compatibility Mod between Dynamic Trees and Biomes O' Plenty

Mod 11,129,230
Cultural Delights

Cultural Delights

A Farmer's Delight addon that adds food systems from around the world.

Mod 17,999,140
Quark Oddities

Quark Oddities

An addon to Quark containing thoughtfully designed features for players to build around

Mod 35,958,313
Mysterious Mountain Lib

Mysterious Mountain Lib

a library for MMF-Group's mod

Mod 19,260,173
Corn Delight[Forge]

Corn Delight[Forge]

A Corn Addon for Farmer's Delight, Forge Version

Mod 15,049,308
Loot Integrations: Towns and Towers

Loot Integrations: Towns and Towers

Adds better loot to Towns and Towers chests, including modded loot

Mod 2,785,567
Barbeque's Delight [Forge/NeoForge]

Barbeque's Delight [Forge/NeoForge]

Grill skewers in minecraft, with several kinds of seasoning to make them taste better!

Mod 3,392,926
Loot Integrations: Structory & Towers

Loot Integrations: Structory & Towers

Adds better loot to Structory and Structory: Towers chests, including modded loot

Mod 2,222,357
Fruits Delight

Fruits Delight

Adds fruits, jelly, juice, and fruit-based food in Farmer's Delight style

Mod 6,569,134
Storage Delight (Forge & Neoforge)

Storage Delight (Forge & Neoforge)

Extra furniture for Farmer's Delight that makes your kitchen or any space look better. Vanilla style.

Mod 14,183,810
RightClickHarvest Supplementaries Compat

RightClickHarvest Supplementaries Compat

Adds compatibility between RightClickHarvest and Supplementaries

Mod 481,551
Haunted Harvest

Haunted Harvest

Pumpkin Carving, Corn food and Halloween Trick or Treating for villagers. Farmers Delight and Autumnity compatibility. N...

Mod 3,055,008
Farmer's Cutting: Biomes O' Plenty

Farmer's Cutting: Biomes O' Plenty

Adds Farmer's Delight cutting recipes for Biomes O' Plenty

Mod 3,833,021
Macaw's Quark

Macaw's Quark

A multiple compability for Quark with Macaw's Mods like Bridges/Roofs/or Fences.

Mod 496,099
Quark Delight

Quark Delight

Adds Quark and Farmer's Delight compatibility. Vanilla style.

Mod 8,999,801
Coffee Delight

Coffee Delight

Make coffee in Minecraft!

Mod 2,246,943
Curios Quark Oddities Backpack

Curios Quark Oddities Backpack

Add Curios support for Quark Oddities Backpack

Mod 5,461,998
Farmer's Cutting: Quark

Farmer's Cutting: Quark

Adds Farmer's Delight cutting recipes for Quark

Mod 1,134,008
Seed Delight

Seed Delight

Added a variety of seeds-related foods and drinks.

Mod 1,915,669
Egg Delight

Egg Delight

Adds foods made from Egg

Mod 1,038,519
Berries & Cherries Delight

Berries & Cherries Delight

Adds various berries, cherries and fruit to Farmer's Delight

Mod 492,836
Alex's Mobs Interaction

Alex's Mobs Interaction

An addon that adds tons of new features specifically for the mod Alex's Mobs

Mod 1,244,986
Alex's Caves: Trimmed!

Alex's Caves: Trimmed!

Makes several Alex's Caves resources valid trim materials!

Mod 1,622,290
Alex's Mobs - Naturalist Compat

Alex's Mobs - Naturalist Compat

Remove duplicate items and entities with the goal of integrating both Alex's Mobs and Naturalist so they work as if they...

Mod 944,947
VMinus

VMinus

Edit, Replace, and Remove Items, Blocks, Entities and more with Configs / Datapacks!

Mod 1,417,889
Delightful Burgers

Delightful Burgers

Adds New Burgers for the Farmers Delight Mod!

Mod 949,478
Farmer's Delight Compat

Farmer's Delight Compat

Remove duplicate items and blocks with the goal of integrating Farmer's Delight and other similar mods so they work as i...

Mod 1,878,139
Naturalist Delight

Naturalist Delight

Creates compatibility between Farmer's Delight and Naturalist

Mod 336,788
Artifacts Crafting

Artifacts Crafting

Implements crafting recipes for Artifacts mod

Mod 517,078
Dynamic Trees - Alex's Mobs

Dynamic Trees - Alex's Mobs

Compatibility Mod between Dynamic trees and Alex's Mobs

Mod 217,384
Pizza Delight

Pizza Delight

An addon mod for Farmer's Delight focused on pizza!

Mod 417,281
Alex's Herps

Alex's Herps

An addon for Alex's Mobs with over 15 new insects and reptiles

Mod 44,898

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