theArcadia
ModpackA comprehensive modpack designed to enrich the original game experience
Description
The Arcadia Project
⚠️ Under active development — new content is being added regularly.
Arcadia is a vanilla-friendly Minecraft modpack designed to keep the spirit of the original game intact.
With Arcadia, you get an experience close to vanilla Minecraft: no quests, no objectives, no restrictions — just pure sandbox freedom.
We hand-pick and integrate mods like Supplementaries, Quark, Amendments, and Additional Additions to expand gameplay depth and variety, while carefully preserving Minecraft's original art style and feel.
What's inside
| Category | Highlights |
|---|---|
| Vanilla+ | Supplementaries, Quark, Amendments, Spelunkery, Additional Additions — subtle enhancements that blend seamlessly |
| Living World | FarmersDelight & Kaleidoscope cooking, Sophisticated Backpacks & Storage, Tinkers' Construct, Storage Drawers, Waystones, Serene Seasons, Touhou Little Maid, CC: Tweaked, and more — 50+ mods for food, furniture, tools, and daily life |
| Create | Create 6.0 + 20+ addons including Aeronautics, Big Cannons, Power Grid, Diesel Generators, Copycats+, and Design 'n' Decor |
| Adventure | Twilight Forest, The Aether, Alex's Mobs & Caves, Iron's Spells 'n Spellbooks, Oh The Biomes We've Gone, Biomes O' Plenty, and 18+ new structure packs by YUNG's & Moog's |
| Tech | Applied Energistics 2 + 6 addons, Immersive Engineering |
| Compat | 8 cross-mod integration bridges ensuring everything works together |
Advanced client experience
30+ client mods deliver a polished, thoughtful experience — every pixel and interaction has been tuned.
UI & typography. ModernUI replaces the bitmap font with vector typesetting — crisp at any scale, CJK rendering correct. FrontierUI remasters every GUI screen with a consistent clean aesthetic. FancyMenu and Drippy Loading Screen make booting feel intentional, not like a progress bar from 2011.
Information, when you need it. Jade tells you what you're looking at without popups. EMI surfaces every recipe; JEI ensures no gaps. AppleSkin shows hunger and saturation inline on food. PickUpNotifier quietly logs inventory changes. TravelersTitles announces biomes with a subtle FromSoftware-style banner.
Character. Not Enough Animations adds weight to climbing, crawling, and ladder grabbing. Skin Layers 3D gives depth to hats and armor. Chat Animation makes multiplayer conversations feel alive.
Performance you feel. Sodium + Iris: shader visuals at high FPS on modest hardware. ModernFix + FerriteCore: fewer GC spikes, smooth chunk loading. Dynamic lights without the usual tax.
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Contained Mods (224)
Just Enough Items (JEI)
View Items and Recipes
Mouse Tweaks
Enhances inventory management by adding various functions to the mouse buttons.
AppleSkin
Adds some useful information about food/hunger to the HUD
GeckoLib
A 3D animation library for entities, blocks, items, armor, and more!
Architectury API
An intermediary api aimed to ease developing multiplatform mods.
Sodium
The fastest and most compatible rendering optimization mod for Minecraft. Now available for both NeoForge and Fabric!
Xaero's Minimap
Displays the nearby world terrain, players, mobs, entities in the corner of your screen. Lets you create waypoints which...
Jade 🔍
Shows information about what you are looking at. (Hwyla/WAILA fork for Minecraft 1.16+)
Waystones
Teleport from waystone to waystone or craft magical scrolls to warp.
Curios API (Forge/NeoForge)
A flexible and expandable accessory/equipment API for users and developers.
Enchantment Descriptions
Adds in-game descriptions for enchantments to tooltips.
ModernFix
All-in-one mod that improves performance, reduces memory usage, and fixes many bugs. Compatible with all your favorite p...
Balm
Abstraction Layer for Multi-Loader Mods
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.
FancyMenu
Customize Minecraft's menus with ease!
Konkrete
Just another boring library mod.
Puzzles Lib
Why is it called Puzzles? That's the puzzle.
Quark
A Quark is a very small thing. This mod is a collection of small things that improve the vanilla minecraft experience.
Sophisticated Backpacks
Yet another backpack mod this time with backpack you can place in world, color in different color combinations, upgrade...
Biomes O' Plenty
Adds 50+ unique biomes to enhance your world, with new trees, flowers, and more!
Farmer's Delight
A cozy expansion to farming and cooking!
Kotlin for Forge
Adds a Kotlin language loader and provides some optional utilities.
Not Enough Animations
Bringing first-person animations to the third-person
Supplementaries
Vanilla+ additions: Jars, signposts, faucets, weather vanes spring launchers, sconces, planters, lights, decoration and...
Polymorph (Fabric/Forge/Quilt)
No more recipe conflicts! Adds an option to choose the crafting result if more than one is available.
Create
Aesthetic Technology that empowers the Player
Sophisticated Core
Library mod for Sophisticated mods
spark
spark is a performance profiler for Minecraft clients, servers and proxies.
YUNG's API (Forge/NeoForge)
A library mod for YUNG's Minecraft mods
Melody
OpenAL-based library mod for playing background music.
Iceberg [Neo/Forge]
A modding library that contains new events, helpers, and utilities to make modder's lives easier.
TerraBlender (Forge)
A library mod for adding biomes in a simple and compatible manner!
playerAnimator
player animation library
Iris Shaders
A modern shader pack loader for Minecraft intended to be compatible with existing OptiFine shader packs
NetherPortalFix
Ensures correct destinations when traveling back and forth through Nether Portals in Multiplayer.
Sodium Extra
Features that shouldn't be in Sodium
Reese's Sodium Options
Alternative Options Menu for Sodium
FerriteCore
Memory usage optimizations
Artifacts
Adds various treasure items that can be found through exploration
Drippy Loading Screen
Addon for FancyMenu to customize the loading screen.
YUNG's Better Dungeons (Forge/NeoForge)
A complete redesign of Minecraft's dungeons!
oωo (owo-lib)
A general utility, GUI and config library for modding on Fabric and Quilt
Neat
Minimalistic Functional Unit Frames for the modern Minecrafter
YUNG's Better Strongholds (Forge/NeoForge)
A complete redesign of Minecraft's strongholds
Create Crafts & Additions
Electrifying the Create mod!
Serene Seasons
Seasons with changing colors, shifting temperatures, and more!
Blueprint
Library that implements the framework of all Abnormals mods!
Amendments
Cauldron Potion Mixing, Lanterns Animation, Carpeted Stairs, Candle Skulls, Double Cakes, Better Lilypads and much more
Lithostitched
Library mod with new configurability and compatibility enhancements for worldgen
Kiwi 🥝 (Neo/Forge)
Minecraft modding library
ShatterLib | OctoLib
Collection of shared code for Shatterbyte mods
CorgiLib
A library mod containing code used across Corgi Taco's mods.
Advancement Plaques [Neo/Forge]
Replace those boring advancement popups with something flashier.
YUNG's Better Ocean Monuments (Forge/NeoForge)
A complete redesign of Minecraft's ocean monuments!
YUNG's Better Nether Fortresses (Forge/NeoForge)
A complete redesign of Minecraft's Nether fortresses!
Sophisticated Storage
Storage mod with multiple tiers and functional upgrades
GlitchCore
A library mod aimed at abstracting mod loaders and providing various utilities for our mods.
Pick Up Notifier
Be notified about all the things you've just collected.
Item Highlighter [Neo/Forge]
Highlights newly picked-up items. Simple and convenient.
The Aether
The Aether Team presents: The original Aether mod!
Open Parties and Claims
Adds the ability to claim chunks and make player parties, integrates with Xaero's Minimap and World Map
YUNG's Better Witch Huts (Forge/NeoForge)
Adds overhauled witch huts to swamps!
YUNG's Better Desert Temples (Forge/NeoForge)
A complete redesign of Minecraft's desert temples!
YUNG's Bridges (Forge/NeoForge)
Adds beautiful naturally generated bridges throughout the world
CC: Tweaked
CC: Tweaked is a fork of ComputerCraft, adding programmable computers, turtles and more to Minecraft.
Zeta
Comprehensive Load-Bearing Library for Modular Mods
3D Skin Layers
Render the player skin layer in 3d!
YUNG's Better Jungle Temples (Forge/NeoForge)
A complete redesign of Minecraft's jungle temples!
EMI
Featureful and accessible modern item and recipe viewer with JEI compatibility
YUNG's Extras (Forge/NeoForge)
Extra structures, features, and vanilla+ content suitable for any modpack
Applied Energistics 2 Wireless Terminals
An addon for Applied Energistics 2 that adds wireless versions of several Terminals
Iron's Spells 'n Spellbooks
A magic mod bringing back the classic RPG spellcasting fantasy.
MVS - Moog's Voyager Structures
160+ structures made with vanilla blocks and entities bringing life to your world! Discover loot, enemies, & villagers a...
Relics
Just a mod about useful items with unique mechanics :3
Create: Enchantment Industry
Automatic Enchanting, with Create.
Another Furniture
Another Furniture is a vanilla-styled furniture mod aiming to keep things simple while adding cute decoration!
Prickle
Prickle is a JSON based configuration file format brought to Minecraft.
Immersive Aircraft [Fabric/Forge]
A set of vanilla style, customizable and upgradable aircraft, from biplanes to airships
Traveler's Titles (Forge/NeoForge)
Epic, RPG-like titles when entering biomes & dimensions!
Ecologics
Simple vanilla biome updates, with fun mobs, blocks, and more!
Create Slice & Dice
Making automation for Farmers Delight more sensible
Paxi (Forge)
Global data & resource packs made easy.
YUNG's Better Caves (Forge/NeoForge)
Overhauled cave generation, underground lakes and rivers, lava oceans, and more!
Regions Unexplored
A stack of new biomes spread across the Overworld and Nether!
Create: Copycats+
All the copycats you've ever wanted, combined into a single mod!
Every Compat (Wood Good)
Universal Wood Compat: Quark, Twilight Forest, Twigs, Another Furniture, Farmers Delight, Macaw's, Valhelsia, Architect...
Oh The Biomes We've Gone
An astounding sequel to the original BYG mod for 1.20.1+ with over 50+ biomes ranging from the magical to the realistic...
Create Deco
Industrial decoration themed for the Create mod.
Observable
See what's lagging your server.
Oh The Trees You'll Grow
Tree library used by popular mods such as Oh The Biomes We've Gone.
Bookshelf
An open source library for other mods!
Upgrade Aquatic
Further upgrades the Update Aquatic with more aquatic additions!
Accessories
An extendable and data-driven Accessory Mod for Minecraft
GuideME
A guidebook toolkit for mods and modpack makers alike with comfortable markdown formatting, and live 3d scenes!
Just Enough Effect Descriptions (JEED)
JEI/REI/EMI plugin that displays information on all potion and status effects
Glodium
A codelib for render, registry and network stuff
Moonlight Lib
dynamic data pack and registration, villager activities, custom map marker and a lot more
MNS - Moog's Nether Structures
loads of structures made with vanilla blocks and entities bringing life to your world! Discover loot, enemies, & more al...
Vanilla Backport
Backports modern minecraft features to previous versions, trying to keep it as accurate as vanilla Minecraft
AEInfinityBooster
Added Infinity Range Card and Dimension Card to AE2
CustomSkinLoader
A Custom Skin Loader for Minecraft
Supplementaries Squared
The extra content of Supplementaries that doesn't necessarily fit in the base mod!
Create Stuff 'N Additions
🧲 Dominate your environment with Create technology
Moog's Structure Lib (moogs_structures)
This is a library mod for the Moogs Structure series
Chat Animation [Smooth Chat]
Makes chat messages appear with a smooth animation.
Platform
Cross-platform library mod based on Architectury to access both Forge and Fabric APIs.
Model Gap Fix
Fixes gaps in Block Models and Item Models
Buzzier Bees
Enhances and introduces various bee and honey related content!
Create Big Cannons
Artillery engineering comes to Create
Modern UI
Creates UI with smooth font, animations, emoji, blur effect, optimization, international text and many features
Atmospheric
Fills the world with fleshed out & diverse landscapes!
Immersive UI
Enhance your gameplay experience with animated UI components
Create: Connected
A Create mod add-on adding quality-of-life blocks that you wish existed in Create.
AdvancedAE
QoL features added to your AE System.
Reliquified Artifacts
Compatibility addon between Relics and Artifacts
Create: Dragons Plus
Provide convenient features to players and dev utilities for Create addon developers.
Deep Aether
An addon for the original Aether mod, aiming to show the deepest lands of a forgotten paradise.
Boatload
Provides alternative methods of sailing Minecraft's oceans!
YUNG's Cave Biomes (Forge/NeoForge)
Adds new vanilla+ cave biomes and underground content!
YUNG's Menu Tweaks (Forge/NeoForge)
A small, lightweight mod that makes browsing menus a lot easier
Abnormals Delight
Fills content gaps and ties together Abnormals mods and Farmer's Delight!
Create: Interiors
A functional suite of innovative and configurable utility blocks for the modern builder
MSS - Moog's Soaring Structures
Lots of awesome vanilla style floating islands full of loot, mobs and dungeons for you to explore!
Sophisticated Storage Create Integration
Full Featured Sophisticated Storage on Create Contraptions
Create: Diesel Generators
A Create addon that adds compact diesel generators (engines), simple industrial features and crude oil refinery
Autumnity
Introduces small autumn-themed biomes with seasonal content!
Brewin' And Chewin'
Fermenting addon for Farmer's Delight
Incubation
Lays down a dozen of egg-related features!
YUNG's Better Mineshafts
A long-awaited and much-needed abandoned mineshaft overhaul!
Environmental
Enhances the Overworld with new foliage and wildlife and introduces some simple biomes!
Sophisticated Backpacks Create Integration
Sophisticated Backpacks on create contraptions
Amplified Nether
256-tall nether with 3D biomes, mountains and more!
Sodium Dynamic Lights
Multiloader port of LambDynLights that adds Sodium options integration
Eternal Starlight
A minecraft mod that adds the magical and mysterious starlight dimension.
Touhou Little Maid
A mod featuring maids and Touhou Project, adding Touhou Project style maid models.
Neapolitan
Serves up six different flavors of ice cream with quirky effects!
Woodworks
Adds wood variants for many decoration blocks and introduces some more types of blocks!
Iron's Lib
Provides common functionality and content for Iron's mods
Create Aeronautics
Build anything from airships to planes and cars!
Create: Design n' Decor
A Create addon focused on QOL decoration features that expand on the base decoration ability of Create whilst focusing o...
Clayworks
Introduces a new furnace type and several building blocks!
Create : Misc & Things
🔧 Add useful and fun things to Create
Accessories Compatibility Layer
Modifies commonly used Accessory API's to work with Accessories, unifying a modpack under one Accessory API
Sable
A library mod for interactive moving block structures, or "sub-levels"
LDLib
A libarary for rendering, gui, basic stuff, etc
Lychee (Neo/Forge)
Define in-world crafting & interactions using JSON recipes. item interaction, burning, touching fluid, anvil, crushing,...
MES - Moog's End Structures
Lots of Vanilla styled structrues to fill up the end dimension with life!
ChoiceTheorem's Overhauled Village
Enhances and creates new villages and pillager outposts, that perfectly fit into your Minecraft world.
Pet Cemetery
Allows for the respawn of your fallen pets as undead versions!
Gallery
Adds icons for all painting variants, a painting selector, and some more painting tweaks!
Rustic Delight
A cozy add-on for Farmer's Delight that adds Pancakes, Cotton, Coffee, Bell Peppers, fried foods and more!
Spelunkery
A mining progression overhaul plus tools and utilities
Etched
A new form of entertainment
Berry Good
Improves berries in simple ways, like placement and usage!
Kaleidoscope Cookery
Immersive cooking and planting
Applied Energistics 2
AE2: A popular automation and storage mod
Jade Addons (Neo/Forge)
Jade 🔍's additional mod supports for Neo/Forge
Create: Tweaked Controllers
A Create mod Addon that adds a way of controlling contraptions using an advanced controller.
Immersive structures
Additional structure packs
Twilight Delight
More Delicious Food in the Twilight Forest!
Biolith
A biome placement mod focusing on configurability and consistent distribution of modded biomes
Eternal Nether
New structures, mobs, and many Nether adventures await! A continuation of Bygone Nether by Izofar.
Storage Drawers
Interactive bulk storage solution
Ritchie's Projectile Library
A Minecraft modding library for better projectiles.
Create: Integrated Farming
Integrated farming automation for Create
Create: Power Grid
Providing electricity to a world near you
Immersive Engineering
Retrofuturism, industry and multiblocks!
Create: Dreams & Desires
A mod that adds random stuff & that may try to fit within creates theme!
Create: Applied Kinetics
Applied Kinetics's integration with Create
KaleidoscopeChineseFood
Adds more Chinese dishes to Kaleidoscope Cookery.
Held Item Tooltips
See item enchantments, potion effects, shulker box contents and much more directly above your hotbar.
Mystic's Biomes
Explore a world full of color.
Kaleidoscope Doll
Use the lottery machine to draw various dolls!
Petrol's Parts for Create
Unique aesthetic and functional components for Create like Corner Shafts, Pneumatic Tubes and Coaxial Cogwheels
Touhou Little Maid: Spell
Touhou Little Maid now can use spell books to cast spells
Moog's Glow Up
I thought glow ink was pretty cool but didn't have enough uses, so I added a bunch of vanilla-feeling features that make...
Create: Prismatic Shine
A remake version of Create: Crystal Clear, adds glass casings and illumination casings to create
MTR - Moog's Temples Reimagined
Discover large, rare temples filled with challenging encounters, valuable loot, and exciting exploration that will test...
Kaleidoscope End
Brought an expansion about the End to Kaleidoscope Cookery.
Waystones: Sable (Create Aeronautics Addon)
A compatibility mod that allows Waystones to work properly within Sable's SubLevel system. Fixes teleportation, validati...
Every Compat (Stone Zone)
Universal Stone Compat: Supports Create, Rechiseled, and Others...
Additional Additions
A mod that expands on parts of Minecraft that feel incomplete, with additions that feel like they should already be part...
Personality
Introduces sitting, crawling, and various 'gamefeel' enhancements!
Kaleidoscope Tavern
Focused on tavern-themed content, adding a complete brewing system along with a rich selection of decorative blocks to b...
Allurement
Adds and tweaks enchantments, most of which break up the base game meta!
Extended AE
Turbo-boosts Applied Energistics 2 with fan-favorite QoL blocks!
Kaleidoscope Compat
Provide compatibility for Kaleidoscope.
Create: Dynamic Lights
Add dynamic lights to the Create mod.
BetterEnd Neoforge
An unofficially maintained continuation of BetterEnd for Fabric and NeoForge, bringing the latest BetterEnd content to e...
WorldWeaver Neoforge
An unofficially maintained continuation of the BetterX Team's utility library for Fabric and NeoForge, designed to strea...
BCLib Neoforge
An unofficially maintained continuation of BCLib for Fabric and NeoForge, providing core utilities and shared functional...
WunderLib Neoforge
An unofficially maintained continuation of WunderLib for Fabric and NeoForge, providing automated configuration screens,...
Kaleidoscope Nether
Brought an expansion about the Nether to Kaleidoscope Cookery.
Create: Blocks & Bogies
A mod that adds way too many types of wheelsets to choose from within Create
Create: Escalated
A mod to add functional, aesthetic, and rotation-powered escalators to Create.
BetterNether Neoforge
An unofficially maintained continuation of BetterNether for Fabric and NeoForge, bringing the latest BetterNether conten...
Petrolpark's Library
A library of shared features and utilities for my mods
Create Aeronautics: Compatability
Adds compatibility for mods that don't work with Aeronautics
Create: Deployer API
A create library for addon-developers to simplify logistics
Create: Extra Gauges
A Create child library + mod incentrated on Factory Gauges
MBS - Moog's Bountiful Structures
A vanilla style structure mod adding ~150 structures built for the Biomes O' Plenty mod
Alex's Mobs (Unofficial Port)
85+ New mobs with stylistic quality above the default game.
Citadel (Unofficial Port)
A Lightweight Library
AE2 Lightning Tech
An AE2 addon that introduces a lightning energy system, advanced machines, and overloaded network components.
Applied Create
An add-on connects AE2 and Create.
Advanced Peripherals
Advanced Peripherals is a mod that adds many useful extensions for CC:Tweaked(Computercraft).
New Visual Keybing
NewVisualKeybing is a visual key binding management mod for Minecraft. It presents keyboard and mouse layouts so players...
Create: Gears and Tavern
A addon mod for Create and Kaleidoscope Tavern to make it easy for players to automate their taverns.
Alex's Caves (Unofficial Port)
Explore five new rare cave biomes hidden under the surface of the Overworld...
Mino++
Recreation of a certain popular card game in Minecraft!
EmiAccelerator
Caches the EMI item stack list to disk and defers search index building to a background thread, drastically reducing EMI...
Iris Veil Compat
Bridges Veil shader rendering through Iris shaderpacks so that mods using Veil's shader infrastructure (such as Create:...
Create: CC Better Recipes
Balances ComputerCraft by making its recipes require Create materials!
Patched
Allows data/resource packs to modify parts of json files instead of completely replacing them.
Kaleidoscope Twilight
Brought an expansion about the The Twilight Forest to Kaleidoscope Cookery.
Create:FluidLogistic
Integrate fluid transportation with Create's logistics system
Neo Eco AE Extension
Neo ECO AE Extension is an addon for Applied Energistics 2, Provides higher-performance components
Ponder For Kaleidoscope Cookery
Added Ponder scenes for functional blocks from Kaleidoscope Cookery, including pot , stockpot , steamer , etc.
KaleidoscopeCookery-Automation
A addon mod for Kaleidoscope Cookery and Create to make it easy for players to automate their kitchens.
Youkai's Homecoming-unofficial-port
Unofficial 1.21.1 port of Youkai's Homecoming. Original by lcy0x1, ported by yinyuze. Contains essentially all 1.20.1 co...
Etched-Extension
Add meting-api and Netease Music support for Etched
EMI Patternizer
Automatically Encoding Patterns from the EMI Recipe Tree.
Applied Schematics
Allow Schematicanon access AE network efficiently, adapted from Beyond Dimensions
FrontierUI
a modified ver. of OreUI for Everyone