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Vanilla Forge Essentials

Modpack

by dreams01

Vanilla Minecraft with Forge and client-side mods that provides quality-of-life features.

Type

Modpack

CurseForge Downloads

37,960

CurseForge ID

287759

Last Updated

Jul 29, 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.

 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.

 

 

Compatibility

Mod Loaders

Forge

Game Versions

1.16.5

Recommended Gear

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Cloth Config API (Fabric/Forge/NeoForge)

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Mod 531,799,400
Architectury API

Architectury API

An intermediary api aimed to ease developing multiplatform mods.

Mod 435,488,037
Mouse Tweaks

Mouse Tweaks

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

Mod 526,898,218
AppleSkin

AppleSkin

Adds some useful information about food/hunger to the HUD

Mod 494,594,293
Bookshelf

Bookshelf

An open source library for other mods!

Mod 409,228,815
Controlling

Controlling

Adds a search bar to the Key-Bindings menu

Mod 426,752,049
Xaero's Minimap

Xaero's Minimap

Displays the nearby world terrain, players, mobs, entities in the corner of your screen. Lets you create waypoints which...

Mod 347,980,134
Clumps

Clumps

Clumps XP orbs together to reduce lag

Mod 402,165,102
Xaero's World Map

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.

Mod 304,086,035
Collective

Collective

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

Mod 319,343,086
Enchantment Descriptions

Enchantment Descriptions

Adds in-game descriptions for enchantments to tooltips.

Mod 320,437,890
Better Advancements

Better Advancements

Successor to BetterAchievements for the new advancements system in minecraft 1.12+

Mod 272,398,076
NetherPortalFix

NetherPortalFix

Ensures correct destinations when traveling back and forth through Nether Portals in Multiplayer.

Mod 182,540,562
AI Improvements

AI Improvements

Performance and logic upgrades for mod AIs

Mod 165,644,228
Just Enough Resources (JER)

Just Enough Resources (JER)

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

Mod 245,527,980
TrashSlot

TrashSlot

Adds a draggable trash slot to all inventory screens. Press T to toggle.

Mod 127,810,168
Crafting Tweaks

Crafting Tweaks

Allows you to rotate, balance or clear crafting grids by the press of a button.

Mod 182,948,439
FTB Ultimine (Forge)

FTB Ultimine (Forge)

Harvest multiple blocks at once

Mod 113,784,097
Fast Leaf Decay

Fast Leaf Decay

Makes leaves decay faster when a tree is cut down.

Mod 188,663,035
Villager Names

Villager Names

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

Mod 68,772,267
Ambient Environment

Ambient Environment

Adds more ambiance to a Minecraft world

Mod 45,378,902
Login Protection[Forge/Fabric]

Login Protection[Forge/Fabric]

Protects the player during login from any harm

Mod 44,123,921
Inventory Essentials

Inventory Essentials

The most essential inventory tweaks. Now with sorting!

Mod 51,266,490
Reap Mod

Reap Mod

Harvest crops with right clicking

Mod 24,798,676
ItemPhysic Lite

ItemPhysic Lite

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Mod 30,321,413
Better Biome Blend

Better Biome Blend

Improves and fixes biome color blending

Mod 35,373,390
Sound Filters

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.

Mod 47,208,431
Build Guide

Build Guide

A client-side only mod to project shapes like circles and spheres into the world. It works both in singleplayer and mult...

Mod 13,437,410
SwingThroughGrass

SwingThroughGrass

Kill mobs and players through grass

Mod 99,757,178
ReAuth

ReAuth

Fixes the Problem of having to restart your Client when your Session invalidates

Mod 113,173,724
ToroHealth Damage Indicators

ToroHealth Damage Indicators

Shows health and damage received for mobs, NPCs, and players

Mod 28,818,842
Light Overlay (Rift/Forge/Fabric)

Light Overlay (Rift/Forge/Fabric)

A simple mod to provide users with NEI-like light level overlay.

Mod 46,268,127
Areas

Areas

✍️ Create custom named regions/towns/zones with a radius using signs, with join/leave messages via GUI.

Mod 11,337,367
Enchanted Book Redesign

Enchanted Book Redesign

Better identify enchanted books

Mod 9,052,636
GUI Clock

GUI Clock

⏰ [Client] Shows the time/days played in the GUI/HUD with a clock in the inventory.

Mod 4,141,611
Performant

Performant

Lag begone! Increases Performance, less entity lag less rubberbanding, more players on the server

Mod 22,114,332
Inventory Tweaks Renewed

Inventory Tweaks Renewed

Inventory sorting, auto-refill, and some more!

Mod 24,150,819
No Potion Shift

No Potion Shift

Stops potion effects from moving guis to the right.

Mod 4,592,370
RandomPatches (Forge)

RandomPatches (Forge)

A bunch of miscellaneous patches for Minecraft, including configurable connection timeouts, player speed limits and othe...

Mod 79,656,292
StepUp

StepUp

[1.7.10-1.18.2] 3 options allow you to choose between no auto jump, Minecraft auto jump, and StepUp auto jump!

Mod 5,883,715
EzZoom

EzZoom

EzZoom is a mod that allows easy zooming inside minecraft, using a single button.

Mod 3,272,342
Ping

Ping

Inspired by Portal 2, this mod brings the Ping tool into Minecraft

Mod 9,068,026
Healing Campfire

Healing Campfire

🔥🩹 Creates an area around the (soul) campfire where players and passive mobs receive regeneration.

Mod 18,706,652
Smooth Boot (Forge)

Smooth Boot (Forge)

Tweak Java thread settings and prevent Minecraft from lagging your computer when loading up.

Mod 11,115,762
Path To Dirt

Path To Dirt

Simple mod that let you turn Path and Farmland back into Dirt

Mod 2,013,466
Server Tab Info

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

Mod 10,545,449
Shulker Tooltip

Shulker Tooltip

Move your mouse cursor over a shulker box to see what's inside.

Mod 1,322,443
Beenfo

Beenfo

Bee info - how many bees and how much honey is in a nest/hive?

Mod 2,353,192
Durability101 Forge/Fabric 1.12-1.21.11

Durability101 Forge/Fabric 1.12-1.21.11

A remake of Durability101 from RedBanHammer

Mod 4,949,549
Random Village Names

Random Village Names

🌆 All villages receive a randomized name, shown in the GUI via the Areas mod.

Mod 2,688,085
GUI Compass

GUI Compass

🧭 [Client] Shows direction and coordinates in the GUI/HUD with a compass in the inventory.

Mod 2,194,370
Grid

Grid

Show a grid overlay that helps counting when you're building, and optionally spawn locations depending on light level

Mod 219,174
Path Under Gates

Path Under Gates

Lets grass paths exist under fence gates.

Mod 2,070,702
Gotta Climb Fast!

Gotta Climb Fast!

Climb&descend with ease! With configurable speeds! FORGE & FABRIC!

Mod 546,969
EditSign

EditSign

Allow you to edit signs

Mod 1,198,636
VanillaDeathChest (Forge)

VanillaDeathChest (Forge)

Places chests (or shulker boxes) where players die that contain all of their items.

Mod 512,803
Optifine.net

Optifine.net

Optifine

Mod 6,805

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