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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

409

CurseForge ID

1299202

Last Updated

Jul 28, 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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Contained Mods (153)

Just Enough Items (JEI)

Just Enough Items (JEI)

View Items and Recipes

Mod 723,416,173
Cloth Config API (Fabric/Forge/NeoForge)

Cloth Config API (Fabric/Forge/NeoForge)

Config Screen API for Minecraft

Mod 567,381,481
Mouse Tweaks

Mouse Tweaks

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

Mod 547,309,420
AppleSkin

AppleSkin

Adds some useful information about food/hunger to the HUD

Mod 517,954,395
GeckoLib

GeckoLib

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

Mod 498,913,096
Architectury API

Architectury API

An intermediary api aimed to ease developing multiplatform mods.

Mod 458,780,056
Controlling

Controlling

Adds a search bar to the Key-Bindings menu

Mod 440,882,188
Entity Culling Fabric/Forge

Entity Culling Fabric/Forge

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

Mod 423,348,086
Bookshelf

Bookshelf

An open source library for other mods!

Mod 423,213,213
Clumps

Clumps

Clumps XP orbs together to reduce lag

Mod 419,621,729
Jade 🔍

Jade 🔍

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

Mod 352,736,170
Curios API (Forge/NeoForge)

Curios API (Forge/NeoForge)

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

Mod 349,089,747
Collective

Collective

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

Mod 341,142,081
Placebo

Placebo

A library mod

Mod 340,075,386
Enchantment Descriptions

Enchantment Descriptions

Adds in-game descriptions for enchantments to tooltips.

Mod 336,688,355
ModernFix

ModernFix

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

Mod 333,574,860
Balm

Balm

Abstraction Layer for Multi-Loader Mods

Mod 328,504,890
ImmediatelyFast

ImmediatelyFast

Speed up immediate mode rendering in Minecraft

Mod 328,182,881
Konkrete

Konkrete

Just another boring library mod.

Mod 294,479,045
Moonlight Lib

Moonlight Lib

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

Mod 293,184,503
Quark

Quark

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

Mod 285,030,165
CreativeCore

CreativeCore

a core mod

Mod 283,678,622
Comforts

Comforts

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

Mod 276,610,478
Biomes O' Plenty

Biomes O' Plenty

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

Mod 272,394,607
Sophisticated Backpacks

Sophisticated Backpacks

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

Mod 271,292,976
Farmer's Delight

Farmer's Delight

A cozy expansion to farming and cooking!

Mod 265,498,927
Supplementaries

Supplementaries

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

Mod 259,488,211
AttributeFix

AttributeFix

Removes arbitrary limits on Minecraft's attribute system.

Mod 257,484,706
Just Enough Resources (JER)

Just Enough Resources (JER)

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

Mod 251,601,409
Sophisticated Core

Sophisticated Core

Library mod for Sophisticated mods

Mod 234,816,409
Citadel

Citadel

A Lightweight Library

Mod 230,904,201
FerriteCore ((Neo)Forge)

FerriteCore ((Neo)Forge)

Memory usage optimizations

Mod 224,890,034
SuperMartijn642's Config Lib

SuperMartijn642's Config Lib

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

Mod 222,648,757
Searchables

Searchables

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

Mod 220,997,651
Cupboard

Cupboard

Cupboard provides code, frameworks, and utilities for minecraft mods

Mod 212,067,833
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 209,342,309
TerraBlender (Forge)

TerraBlender (Forge)

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

Mod 204,294,538
Default Options

Default Options

Ship default options or keybinds without having to overwrite an existing options.txt.

Mod 196,163,591
Embeddium

Embeddium

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

Mod 190,882,446
Caelus API

Caelus API

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

Mod 178,835,515
Alex's Mobs

Alex's Mobs

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

Mod 174,483,233
AI Improvements

AI Improvements

Performance and logic upgrades for mod AIs

Mod 173,225,076
Aquaculture 2

Aquaculture 2

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

Mod 168,242,750
Macaw's Bridges

Macaw's Bridges

A simple mod that adds a lot of bridges!

Mod 167,166,095
Connectivity

Connectivity

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

Mod 166,651,538
Artifacts

Artifacts

Adds various treasure items that can be found through exploration

Mod 162,656,825
Macaw's Doors

Macaw's Doors

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

Mod 137,081,124
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 135,718,437
Macaw's Windows

Macaw's Windows

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

Mod 133,179,405
Configured

Configured

Automatic in-game configuration menus for every mod!

Mod 132,320,101
Macaw's Fences and Walls

Macaw's Fences and Walls

Adds new vanila styled fences, walls and gates!

Mod 128,658,213
BadOptimizations

BadOptimizations

Optimization mod that focuses on things other than rendering

Mod 127,907,384
Blueprint

Blueprint

Library that implements the framework of all Abnormals mods!

Mod 125,016,902
Server Performance - Smooth Chunk Save[Forge/Fabric]

Server Performance - Smooth Chunk Save[Forge/Fabric]

Enables lag-free continuous chunk saving, increasing server TPS

Mod 124,907,152
Amendments

Amendments

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

Mod 123,814,246
Cristel Lib

Cristel Lib

A Library mod for easy structure config and runtime datapacks.

Mod 123,285,488
Towns and Towers

Towns and Towers

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

Mod 123,191,984
ShatterLib | OctoLib

ShatterLib | OctoLib

Collection of shared code for Shatterbyte mods

Mod 115,435,883
Macaw's Roofs

Macaw's Roofs

Build roofs with actual roofs instead of stairs!

Mod 113,920,242
Macaw's Trapdoors

Macaw's Trapdoors

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

Mod 113,674,607
Trash Cans

Trash Cans

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

Mod 110,894,385
fix GPU memory leak[Forge/Fabric]

fix GPU memory leak[Forge/Fabric]

A mod that fixes memory leaks on the client

Mod 108,327,945
Sodium/Embeddium Options API

Sodium/Embeddium Options API

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

Mod 102,822,473
FastSuite

FastSuite

A performance upgrade for the JSON recipe system.

Mod 102,437,483
Sodium/Embeddium Dynamic Lights

Sodium/Embeddium Dynamic Lights

Multiloader port of LambDynLights that adds Sodium/Embeddium settings support

Mod 99,921,048
Structory

Structory

An atmospheric structure mod for Fabric/Forge/Quilt.

Mod 99,911,057
Macaw's Furniture

Macaw's Furniture

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

Mod 99,866,847
GlitchCore

GlitchCore

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

Mod 99,088,534
Crash Assistant

Crash Assistant

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

Mod 94,479,048
Better Fps - Render Distance[Forge]

Better Fps - Render Distance[Forge]

Better FPS Render Distance is a mod which adds a few performance improvements to increase fps.

Mod 89,592,226
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 88,387,142
Just Zoom

Just Zoom

Lots of new features and improvements for the Spyglass, plus a standalone zooming mode!

Mod 87,785,664
Load My F***ing Tags

Load My F***ing Tags

Prevents Incorrect Tag Entries from breaking an entire Tag

Mod 85,707,356
Fast Paintings

Fast Paintings

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

Mod 84,998,074
Loot Integrations

Loot Integrations

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

Mod 82,831,149
Zeta

Zeta

Comprehensive Load-Bearing Library for Modular Mods

Mod 82,734,557
Nether's Delight

Nether's Delight

Nether addon for Farmer's Delight

Mod 80,870,156
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 78,924,649
JamLib

JamLib

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

Mod 78,042,282
RightClickHarvest

RightClickHarvest

Allows you to harvest crops by right clicking

Mod 75,871,562
Let Me Despawn

Let Me Despawn

Improves performance by tweaking mob despawn rules.

Mod 74,854,581
JEI Integration

JEI Integration

Providing Integrations & Tooltips - Forge 1.10+

Mod 71,633,361
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 71,398,962
Noisium (archived)

Noisium (archived)

Optimises worldgen performance for a better gameplay experience.

Mod 70,074,337
Relics

Relics

Just a mod about useful items with unique mechanics :3

Mod 67,853,742
Naturalist Lite

Naturalist Lite

Adds 47 animals *(and 66 variants)* to your world with immersive behaviors and drops.

Mod 67,809,787
Macaw's Paths and Pavings

Macaw's Paths and Pavings

Adds new vanila styled paths and pavings!

Mod 64,806,850
Dynamic Trees

Dynamic Trees

Trees that grow... Forests that spread.

Mod 62,906,815
Starlight (Forge)

Starlight (Forge)

Rewrites the light engine to fix lighting performance and lighting errors

Mod 61,366,377
Structory: Towers

Structory: Towers

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

Mod 59,734,665
Item Collectors

Item Collectors

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

Mod 55,896,584
Delightful

Delightful

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

Mod 51,752,321
Macaw's Paintings

Macaw's Paintings

Adds lots of custom made paintings!

Mod 51,631,658
Almanac Lib

Almanac Lib

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

Mod 50,830,162
Alex's Delight

Alex's Delight

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

Mod 48,630,338
Ender's Delight

Ender's Delight

🍇A Farmer's Delight which add ender themed food

Mod 46,875,042
Alex's Caves

Alex's Caves

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

Mod 46,233,522
Just Enough Effect Descriptions (JEED)

Just Enough Effect Descriptions (JEED)

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

Mod 43,450,431
FLIB

FLIB

FutureLIBrary mod to speed up porting and developing new content

Mod 41,335,459
Supplementaries Squared

Supplementaries Squared

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

Mod 38,362,649
Quark Oddities

Quark Oddities

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

Mod 37,154,965
Macaw's Stairs

Macaw's Stairs

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

Mod 32,559,954
Do a Barrel Roll

Do a Barrel Roll

Microsoft flight simulator for Minecraft elytras.

Mod 31,893,816
Reliquified Artifacts

Reliquified Artifacts

Compatibility addon between Relics and Artifacts

Mod 29,246,707
Village Artifacts

Village Artifacts

Tools and magic items to help or mess with villagers

Mod 25,880,303
Crabber's Delight

Crabber's Delight

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

Mod 23,223,643
Mysterious Mountain Lib

Mysterious Mountain Lib

a library for MMF-Group's mod

Mod 20,170,968
Cultural Delights

Cultural Delights

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

Mod 19,564,911
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 18,656,445
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 18,354,681
Miner's Delight +

Miner's Delight +

Farmer's Delight add-on for miners

Mod 17,827,249
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 16,379,262
Corn Delight[Forge]

Corn Delight[Forge]

A Corn Addon for Farmer's Delight, Forge Version

Mod 15,740,668
Dynamic Trees - Quark

Dynamic Trees - Quark

Compatibility Mod between Dynamic trees and Quark

Mod 14,853,988
Display Delight

Display Delight

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

Mod 13,092,424
AddonsLib

AddonsLib

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

Mod 11,823,197
Dynamic Trees - Biomes O' Plenty

Dynamic Trees - Biomes O' Plenty

Compatibility Mod between Dynamic Trees and Biomes O' Plenty

Mod 11,613,316
Relics: Alex's Mobs Compat

Relics: Alex's Mobs Compat

Compatibility addon between Relics and Alex's Mobs

Mod 10,260,038
Easy Elytra Takeoff

Easy Elytra Takeoff

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

Mod 10,213,574
Rustic Delight

Rustic Delight

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

Mod 9,892,272
Quark Delight

Quark Delight

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

Mod 9,538,726
Fruits Delight

Fruits Delight

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

Mod 8,840,089
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 8,473,551
Butcher's Delight

Butcher's Delight

This is a mod that complements animal processing

Mod 8,286,866
Relics: Alex's Caves Compat

Relics: Alex's Caves Compat

Compatibility addon between Relics and Alex's Caves

Mod 7,840,807
Vintage Delight

Vintage Delight

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

Mod 5,844,834
Curios Quark Oddities Backpack

Curios Quark Oddities Backpack

Add Curios support for Quark Oddities Backpack

Mod 5,593,571
Farmer's Cutting: Biomes O' Plenty

Farmer's Cutting: Biomes O' Plenty

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

Mod 4,468,297
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 3,946,322
Alex's Caves Delight

Alex's Caves Delight

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

Mod 3,719,784
Loot Integrations: Towns and Towers

Loot Integrations: Towns and Towers

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

Mod 3,550,225
Haunted Harvest

Haunted Harvest

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

Mod 3,539,840
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 3,064,281
Loot Integrations: Structory & Towers

Loot Integrations: Structory & Towers

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

Mod 2,785,790
Celestial Artifacts

Celestial Artifacts

84+ Artifacts with various effects assisting player in combat

Mod 2,569,168
Coffee Delight

Coffee Delight

Make coffee in Minecraft!

Mod 2,417,742
Celestial Core

Celestial Core

Library mod for Celestial mods

Mod 2,173,413
Seed Delight

Seed Delight

Added a variety of seeds-related foods and drinks.

Mod 2,070,571
Alex's Caves: Trimmed!

Alex's Caves: Trimmed!

Makes several Alex's Caves resources valid trim materials!

Mod 1,769,655
VMinus

VMinus

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

Mod 1,754,050
Alex's Mobs Interaction

Alex's Mobs Interaction

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

Mod 1,453,613
Farmer's Cutting: Quark

Farmer's Cutting: Quark

Adds Farmer's Delight cutting recipes for Quark

Mod 1,315,670
Egg Delight

Egg Delight

Adds foods made from Egg

Mod 1,162,139
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 1,121,743
Delightful Burgers

Delightful Burgers

Adds New Burgers for the Farmers Delight Mod!

Mod 1,034,629
Artifacts Crafting

Artifacts Crafting

Implements crafting recipes for Artifacts mod

Mod 749,996
Macaw's Quark

Macaw's Quark

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

Mod 715,766
RightClickHarvest Supplementaries Compat

RightClickHarvest Supplementaries Compat

Adds compatibility between RightClickHarvest and Supplementaries

Mod 616,494
Berries & Cherries Delight

Berries & Cherries Delight

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

Mod 569,256
Naturalist Delight

Naturalist Delight

Creates compatibility between Farmer's Delight and Naturalist

Mod 544,397
Pizza Delight

Pizza Delight

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

Mod 499,814
Dynamic Trees - Alex's Mobs

Dynamic Trees - Alex's Mobs

Compatibility Mod between Dynamic trees and Alex's Mobs

Mod 254,207
Alex's Herps

Alex's Herps

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

Mod 51,938

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