Vanilla Forge Essentials
Modpackby dreams01
Vanilla Minecraft with Forge and client-side mods that provides quality-of-life features.
Type
Modpack
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37,920
CurseForge ID
287759
Last Updated
Jul 4, 2026
Description

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This modpack consist of essential mods that doesn't add new blocks, items or worldgen but provides great quality-of-life features. Player will experience the regular vanilla gameplay the way it should be with all small tweaks, features and enhanced optimization. Immerse into the world while playing well-known game on old map(you don't need to create new map) or create a brand new world. Modpack will be useful for those who play vanilla, providing small features that you even never thought about and for creative builders, who just love to build, making videos and timelapses. Again, this modpack don't add new blocks or items, so you can change minecraft versions easily, delete mods or join servers without fear to lose anything.
You can also use this pack as a template for building your modpack.![]()
- NO new items, blocks or terrain generation;
- World map and mini-map(Y - for settings, M - world map); [pic]
- advancements window is now fullscreen;
- key wizards will help you manage your keybindigs and avoid conflicts(key - F7);
- 'Just enough items' mod will show you all the items in-game and their recipes; [pic]
- leaves decaying much faster(this works only in singleplayer);
- tweaks for inventory(inventory sorting) and mouse(drag item to place them to chest etc);
- light level overlay(key - F8); [pic]
- move your mouse over the shulkerbox item to display what's inside it; [pic]
- damage indicators to see how much damage you do to creatures; [pic]
- after death there will be chest with all you items so they won't despawn;
- more info about bees in beehives; [pic]
- player protection from any harm during login;
- trashslot for deleting items; [pic]
- faster ladder climbing;
- villagers now has names;
- dropped items look better;
- you can now create paths under gates and convert dirt to path;
- sign editing;
- mod for builders to project shapes like circles and spheres into the world; [pic]
- ability to display a grid-like overlay over the world, with configurable spacing; [pic]
- easy zooming inside minecraft, using a single button; [pic]
- JEI addon that adds mob drops, ore gen, etc.
- configurable stepup with 3 mods.
- performance improvement mod such as Performant and SmoothBoot;
- gui for compass and clock;
- small random fixes.
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Vanilla-1.16.5 - 1.3
- AI Improvements (by QueenOfMissiles)
- Ambient Environment (by Jaredlll08)
- AppleSkin (by squeek502)
- Architectury API (Forge) (by shedaniel)
- Areas (by Serilum)
- Beenfo (by Giselbaer)
- Better Advancements (by way2muchnoise)
- Better Biome Blend (by FionaTheMortal)
- Bookshelf (by DarkhaxDev)
- Build Guide (by brentmaas)
- Cloth Config API (Forge) (by shedaniel)
- Clumps (by Jaredlll08)
- Collective (by Serilum)
- Controlling (by Jaredlll08)
- Crafting Tweaks (by BlayTheNinth)
- Durability101 (by ShayBox)
- EditSign (Forge&Fabric) (by RakSrinaNa)
- Enchanted Book Redesign (by tfarecnim)
- Enchantment Descriptions (by DarkhaxDev)
- EzZoom (by JTK222)
- FTB Ultimine (Forge) (by FTB)
- Fast Leaf Decay (by olafskiii)
- GUI Clock (by Serilum)
- GUI Compass (by Serilum)
- Gotta Climb Fast! (by Rongmario)
- Grid (by Giselbaer)
- Healing Campfire (by Serilum)
- Inventory Essentials (by BlayTheNinth)
- Inventory Tweaks Renewed (by David1544)
- ItemPhysic Lite (by CreativeMD)
- Just Enough Items (JEI) (by mezz)
- Just Enough Resources (JER) (by way2muchnoise)
- Light Overlay (Rift/Forge/Fabric) (by shedaniel)
- Login Protection (by someaddon)
- Mouse Tweaks (by YaLTeR)
- NetherPortalFix (by BlayTheNinth)
- No Potion Shift (by mezz)
- Path To Dirt (by Insane96MCP)
- Path Under Gates (by cyberslas)
- Performant (by someaddon)
- Ping (by Girafi)
- Random Village Names (by Serilum)
- RandomPatches (Forge) (by TheRandomLabs)
- ReAuth (by TechnicianLP)
- Reap Mod (by henkelmax)
- Server Tab Info (by black_dog20)
- Shulker Tooltip (by ZephaniahNoah)
- Smooth Boot (Forge) (by UltimateBoomer)
- Sound Filters (by Tmtravlr)
- StepUp (by NotTooManyItems)
- SwingThroughGrass (by exidex)
- ToroHealth Damage Indicators (by ToroCraft)
- TrashSlot (by BlayTheNinth)
- VanillaDeathChest (Forge) (by TheRandomLabs)
- Villager Names (by Serilum)
- Xaero's Minimap (by xaero96)
- Xaero's World Map (by xaero96)
Some features from mods such as FastLeafDecay\etc will not work on servers.
I would also recommend adding Optifine for better experience and graphics. Pack was tested with version OptiFine HD U G7.
For shaders Enhanced Default;
Resourcepack: Unity and Dark Modern Guis.
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Contained Mods (58)
Just Enough Items (JEI)
View Items and Recipes
Cloth Config API (Fabric/Forge/NeoForge)
Config Screen API for Minecraft
Architectury API
An intermediary api aimed to ease developing multiplatform mods.
Mouse Tweaks
Enhances inventory management by adding various functions to the mouse buttons.
AppleSkin
Adds some useful information about food/hunger to the HUD
Bookshelf
An open source library for other mods!
Controlling
Adds a search bar to the Key-Bindings menu
Xaero's Minimap
Displays the nearby world terrain, players, mobs, entities in the corner of your screen. Lets you create waypoints which...
Clumps
Clumps XP orbs together to reduce lag
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.
Collective
🎓 Collective is a shared library with common code for all of Serilum's mods.
Enchantment Descriptions
Adds in-game descriptions for enchantments to tooltips.
Better Advancements
Successor to BetterAchievements for the new advancements system in minecraft 1.12+
NetherPortalFix
Ensures correct destinations when travelling back and forth through Nether Portals in Multiplayer.
AI Improvements
Performance and logic upgrades for mod AIs
Just Enough Resources (JER)
A JEI addon that adds mob drops, ore gen, ..
TrashSlot
Adds a trash slot to the inventory screen that allows deletion of unwanted items.
Crafting Tweaks
Allows you to rotate, balance or clear the crafting matrix by the press of a button, in any (supported) crafting window.
FTB Ultimine (Forge)
Harvest multiple blocks at once
Fast Leaf Decay
Makes leaves decay faster when a tree is cut down.
Villager Names
🧑🌾 Gives all villager entities a default or custom name to liven up the world.
Ambient Environment
Adds more ambiance to a Minecraft world
Login Protection[Forge/Fabric]
Protects the player during login from any harm
Inventory Essentials
The most essential inventory tweaks. Now with sorting!
Reap Mod
Harvest crops with right clicking
ItemPhysic Lite
#spinning
Better Biome Blend
Improves and fixes biome color blending
Sound Filters
A client-side mod that adds reverb to caves, and mutes sounds when you're underwater or when the sound is behind a wall.
Build Guide
A client-side only mod to project shapes like circles and spheres into the world. It works both in singleplayer and mult...
SwingThroughGrass
Kill mobs and players through grass
ReAuth
Fixes the Problem of having to restart your Client when your Session invalidates
ToroHealth Damage Indicators
Shows health and damage received for mobs, NPCs, and players
Light Overlay (Rift/Forge/Fabric)
A simple mod to provide users with NEI-like light level overlay.
Areas
✍️ Create custom named regions/towns/zones with a radius using signs, with join/leave messages via GUI.
Enchanted Book Redesign
Better identify enchanted books
GUI Clock
⏰ [Client] Shows the time/days played in the GUI/HUD with a clock in the inventory.
Performant
Lag begone! Increases Performance, less entity lag less rubberbanding, more players on the server
Inventory Tweaks Renewed
Inventory sorting, auto-refill, and some more!
No Potion Shift
Stops potion effects from moving guis to the right.
RandomPatches (Forge)
A bunch of miscellaneous patches for Minecraft, including configurable connection timeouts, player speed limits and othe...
StepUp
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EzZoom
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Ping
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Healing Campfire
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Smooth Boot (Forge)
Tweak Java thread settings and prevent Minecraft from lagging your computer when loading up.
Path To Dirt
Simple mod that let you turn Path and Farmland back into Dirt
Server Tab Info
A client and/or server mod that gives nice a way to view the mean tick time and ticks per second (TPS) of the game
Shulker Tooltip
Move your mouse cursor over a shulker box to see what's inside.
Beenfo
Bee info - how many bees and how much honey is in a nest/hive?
Durability101 Forge/Fabric 1.12-1.21.11
A remake of Durability101 from RedBanHammer
Random Village Names
🌆 All villages receive a randomized name, shown in the GUI via the Areas mod.
GUI Compass
🧭 [Client] Shows direction and coordinates in the GUI/HUD with a compass in the inventory.
Grid
Show a grid overlay that helps counting when you're building, and optionally spawn locations depending on light level
Path Under Gates
Lets grass paths exist under fence gates.
Gotta Climb Fast!
Climb&descend with ease! With configurable speeds! FORGE & FABRIC!
EditSign
Allow you to edit signs
VanillaDeathChest (Forge)
Places chests (or shulker boxes) where players die that contain all of their items.
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