Just Essential Survival modpack
ModpackA performance-first Fabric modpack with precision tools, built specifically for redstone survival.
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Modpack
Modrinth Downloads
271
Modrinth ID
uhX8v38R
Last Updated
Jul 17, 2026
Description
JES Modpack — Just Essential Survival
A lean, performance-first Fabric modpack built for redstone survival. No bloat. No gimmicks. Just the mods that actually matter.

JES is designed around a single question: what does a redstone survival player actually need?
The answer is a tight, curated set of mods that covers four pillars — performance, redstone tooling, survival quality-of-life, and visual polish — without a single mod that doesn't earn its place. Every mod in this pack was chosen because it solves a real problem. Nothing made the cut just because it was popular.
✦ What's Inside
⚡ Performance
Sodium + Lithium + FerriteCore form the core. Rendering is fast, game logic is fast, and memory usage is genuinely lower than vanilla. ImmediatelyFast handles UI rendering acceleration on top of that.
🔴 Redstone & Building
Carpet gives you full control over redstone mechanics and server-side statistics. Tweakeroo adds a suite of client-side utilities for precision play. MiniHUD keeps the information you need visible without cluttering your screen. Litematica handles schematic projection so your builds stay on-plan.
🎒 Survival & Utility
JEI for recipe lookup. Mouse Tweaks for faster inventory management. ViaFabricPlus so you can connect to servers running different Minecraft versions without swapping installs. An auto-fishing assistant for the long hauls. e4mc for instant LAN-over-internet with friends — no port forwarding, no extra software.
🎨 Visuals & Animations
Iris Shaders with Indium for full shader support alongside Sodium. Continuity for connected textures. Smooth Swapping for fluid inventory animations. GUI transitions and scroll behavior that feel polished rather than snappy.
✦ At a Glance
Category Mods Performance Sodium, Lithium, FerriteCore, ImmediatelyFast Redstone & Building Carpet, Tweakeroo, MiniHUD, Litematica Survival & Utility JEI, Mouse Tweaks, ViaFabricPlus, Auto Fishing, e4mc Visuals & Animations Iris, Indium, Continuity, Smooth Swapping✦ Requirements
- Minecraft: See version list on this page
- Mod Loader: Fabric
- RAM: 4 GB minimum, 4–6 GB recommended
- Launcher: Modrinth App or Prism Launcher recommended
✦ Shader Support
Iris Shaders is included out of the box. Load any compatible shader pack directly from Video Settings. No OptiFine needed.
✦ Multiplayer
The pack is multiplayer-ready. ViaFabricPlus lets you connect to servers on different versions. e4mc enables internet-accessible LAN worlds without port forwarding.
✦ Add Your Own Mods
This is an open Fabric pack. You're free to add any compatible Fabric mods on top of it.
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Contained Mods (92)
Just Enough Items (JEI)
View Items and Recipes
Cloth Config API (Fabric/Forge/NeoForge)
Config Screen API for Minecraft
Mouse Tweaks
Enhances inventory management by adding various functions to the mouse buttons.
Jade 🔍
Shows information about what you are looking at. (Hwyla/WAILA fork for Minecraft 1.16+)
ImmediatelyFast
Speed up immediate mode rendering in Minecraft
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...
Entity Culling Fabric/Forge
Using async path-tracing to hide Tiles/Entities that are not visible
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.
Searchables
Searchables is a library mod that adds helper methods that allow for searching and filtering elements based on component...
Fabric API
Core API library for the Fabric toolchain
Enchantment Descriptions
Adds in-game descriptions for enchantments to tooltips.
[EMF] Entity Model Features [Fabric & Forge]
EMF is an, OptiFine format, Custom Entity Model replacement mod available for Fabric and Forge.
YetAnotherConfigLib
A builder-based configuration library for Minecraft.
Sodium
The fastest and most compatible rendering optimization mod for Minecraft. Now available for both NeoForge and Fabric!
Iris Shaders
A modern shader pack loader for Minecraft intended to be compatible with existing OptiFine shader packs
FerriteCore
Memory usage optimizations
[ETF] Entity Texture Features
Emissive, Random & Custom texture support for entities in resourcepacks just like Optifine but for Fabric
3D Skin Layers
Render the player skin layer in 3d!
CreativeCore
a core mod
No Chat Reports
Makes chat unreportable (where possible)
Lithium (Fabric/NeoForge)
An optimization mod for Minecraft which improves server performance significantly.
AmbientSounds 6
#listentonature
Chat Heads
See who are you chatting with!
Forge Config API Port
NeoForge's & Forge's config systems provided to other modding ecosystems. Designed for a multiloader architecture.
Mod Menu
Adds a mod menu to view the list of mods you have installed.
Reese's Sodium Options
Alternative Options Menu for Sodium
Fabric Language Kotlin
Fabric language module for Kotlin
Continuity
A Minecraft mod that allows for efficient connected textures
Prickle
Prickle is a JSON based configuration file format brought to Minecraft.
Sodium Extra
Features that shouldn't be in Sodium
Text Placeholder API
Placeholder and Text manipulation library for your Minecraft mods.
InventoryHUD+
Adds your main inventory, potion effects and your equipments to your HUD. And few other features.
Dynamic Crosshair
A mod that hides or changes the crosshair dependent on context
Better Statistics Screen
A Minecraft mod that improves the statistics screen and makes it more useful.
Smooth Scrolling
Customize the scrolling smoothness or speed in various places like chat, hotbar, creative screen...
Dynamic FPS
Improve performance when Minecraft is in the background
Zoomify
A zoom mod with infinite customizability.
Better Tab
Better Tab improves the player list, making it scrollable and adding numerical ping.
MoreCulling
A mod that changes how multiple types of culling are handled in order to improve performance
LambDynamicLights
The most feature-complete and optimized dynamic lighting mod.
Translations for Sodium
Unofficial translations for the Sodium Minecraft mod
GugleCarpetAddition
Gugle's Carpet Addition
IMBlocker
A mod for Minecraft helping control Input Methods
Locator Heads
Show player heads on the locator bar and other usefull settings.
e4mc
Open a LAN server to anyone, anywhere, anytime.
Paginated Advancements & Custom Frames
Better advancements screen
Chat Reporting Helper
An educational tool that explains chat reporting in a simple and neutral way.
Debugify
Fixes Minecraft bugs found on the bug tracker
Cubes Without Borders
A mod that allows you to play Minecraft in a borderless fullscreen window.
Delete Worlds To Trash
Deleted worlds are gone forever, right? Not anymore! Simply restore them from your recycle bin.
Ixeris
Buffered raw input and threaded event polling
Presence Footsteps
An overly complicated sound mod
Language Reload
Reduces load times and adds fallbacks for languages
More Chat History
Increases the size of the chat history.
Skyboxify
A skybox mod that allows you to use OptiFine skies in Fabric 1.21+
Better Mount HUD
Improves the ingame HUD while riding a mount
Sodium Shadowy Path Blocks
Reintroduces vanilla-like smooth lighting to non-full blocks (e.g. dirt paths and how they have dark shading when direct...
Main Menu Credits
Adds a way of adding information to the user's title screen.
Config Manager
A minecraft mod that allows modpack developers to ship configuration file in the most user-friendly way possible
BetterGrassify
Gamers can finally touch grass!? OptiFine's Fancy and Fast better grass implemented on Fabric and NeoForge!
Puzzle
Adds resourcepack features and a GUI to more conveniently configure OptiFine alternatives.
Cape Provider
Provides you with capes! You can choose from various providers or add your own
OptiGUI
Blazing fast custom GUI textures on Fabric and Quilt with built-in OptiFine custom GUI resource pack support
Remove Reloading Screen
Makes resource packs load in the background, allowing you to do other things while waiting!
MaLiLib
A library mod required for masa's client-side mods
No Resource Pack Warnings
Disable warnings for outdated resource/data packs
Litematica Printer
This fork adds the missing printing functionality for Litematica
Nemo's Inventory Sorting
Automatically sort your inventory with just a button!
Carpet Org Addition
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Carpet Extra Extras
Even more features for the carpet mod.
Syncmatica
Share litematics with your Servermates easily
Immersive Hotbar
Adds animations to the hotbar to make it more immersive
TCDCommons API
TheCSDev's personal library mod for the Minecraft modding enviroment.
Litematica
A modern schematic mod written for Fabric (and LiteLoader on 1.12.x), with extra features for Creative mode work
Controlify (Controller support)
Adds controller support to Minecraft!
Smooth Gui
Smooth animation when opening GUI for Minecraft. GUI fades up when opened.
Better Block Entities
A Minecraft optimization mod for Fabric/Sodium that improves FPS / Block Entity Rendering by implementing a Hybrid Rende...
Notes
A clientside mod that provides a fully functional in-game notepad.
Gamma Utils (Fullbright)
Fully client side Gamma / Brightness / Night Vision mod, making it easy to see in the dark. Basically Fullbright for Fab...
Tweakeroo
Various client-side tweaks, such as hand restock, hotbar swap/cycle, flexible/fast block placement etc.
Carpet
Take full control over your vanilla game.
In-Game Account Switcher
This mod allows you to change your logged in account in-game, without restarting Minecraft
ViaFabricPlus
Minecraft Fabric mod which allows you to join EVERY Minecraft server version (Classic, Alpha, Beta, Release, April Fools...
Visible Traders
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MiniHUD
A "mini F3" HUD mod, with light level, spawn & slime chunk overlays etc.
XPlus Autofish (Fabric / Forge / NeoForge)
Automatically reel in and recast the fishing rod when fish bites. Including useful options and bugfixs.
Fast Trading
Adds a button to the villager trading GUI to repeat the current trade until it's no longer available again. (Fork of Spe...
Carpet TIS Addition
A carpet mod extension with more features
Animatica Refabricated
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Crystal Carpet Addition
Crystal0404's Carpet(fabric-carpet) Extension!