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A vanilla+ mod pack aimed at improving basic game play mechanics that reduce unnecessary grind and make the game feel more interesting.

Type

Modpack

Modrinth Downloads

59

Modrinth ID

29FVTy1A

Last Updated

Jun 17, 2026

Description

A Vanilla+ modpack with three goals in mind.

  1. Reduce needless grind in Minecraft. It isnt a fast track to the end game, but a reduction to some tedious repetitive aspects of the game that get annoying.
  2. Extra adventure. Addition structures, biomes, dimensions and resource packs that add to the experience.
  3. Keep that classic Minecraft feel. We know its modded, but this could be in the base game.

All the mods, data packs and resource packs will be listed in the below categories explaining their purpose for being included. Special thanks goes to Vanilla Tweaks for many features!

Reduce Needless Grind

Gameplay Changes

  • Quick Right-Click
    Place, use, break. Place, use... break. Place... use.. break. Tired of having to Place, use then break things out of your inventory? Well, now you can right click into the air with your crafting bench to use it! No placing necessary!
  • Gravestones
    Dying sucks, losing your items sucks worse and "keep inventory" is cheating. The solution, graves! Now when you fail to survive, a grave will spawn to keep your items safe for you to find them. You can also craft decorative ones for your pet graveyard.
  • Simple Voice Chat
    Communicate with each other right from inside minecraft! Location based voice communication is now possible.
  • Zoomify
    Yep... lets you see things further away with the C key. Get it "c"...
  • LambDynamicLights - Dynamic Lights
    Do we really always need to place down torches to see, and waste coal? Not with this mod! Just hold a torch or other glowy items in your hand!
  • Fortunate Ancient Debris
    What's the point in a fortune pickaxe if it doesn't work when gathering netherite? Well... now it does.
  • Trade Cycling
    Everyone rolls villagers to get the trades that they want. Placing, breaking and re-placing their workstations is a hassle. Now there is a button that does it for you!
  • Scaffolding Drops Nearby
    Do you hate that when you break scaffolding you have to run around and pick it all up? Well now, when you break it all the blocks will drop right where you are! No more running around playing "find the scaffolding".
  • Boat Item View
    Ever try and follow a map or compass while in a boat? Well, now you can continue to see them while the boat is moving! Congrats, you unlocked "holding things in your lap".
  • No Animal Tempt Delay
    Animals are no longer picky about their food! They will always follow you when you hold it, no more waiting for that cow to examine the wheat before deciding to follow you.
  • GravelMiner
    Strip mining and run into a section of gravel. Tired of using the "break block and quickly place torch" trick? Now breaking a block under falling gravel (or sand) will instantly break all the falling gravel (or sand) above it! No torch required.
  • AppleSkin
    Makes the food related HUD show you more information such as your saturation level, and how much hunger a piece of food will fill up.
  • Better Spawner Control
    Is there enough light to keep this mob spawner turned off? Well, guess no more! Places 5 torches on the spawner, four sides and the top, will disable the spawner. No more guess work so you can make your mob farms in peace.
  • Harvest With Ease
    Farming is difficult. First you have to break the crop.. then replant. What if there was a tool to make this easier? Your hoe is now upgraded! Right clicking a crop with a hoe will now harvest and replant the crop for you!
  • No Feather Trample
    Farming is difficult as it, why make walking hard? Now, if your boots have Feather Falling, you can no longer trample your crops!
  • Health Enchantment
    Want your late game gear to make you healthier? Well, now with this enchantment your gear can give you more hearts!
  • Cubes Without Borders
    Borderless fullscreen in minecraft. Now, when you tab to chrome to look up that cool restone tutorial, your full-screen minecraft window will still be visible!
  • Better Statistics Screen
    Now it's easier to find out how many times creepers have snuck up on you!
  • Vanilla Tweaks
    Lot's of useful additions from Vanilla Tweaks!

Inventory Management

  • Mouse Tweaks
    Inventory management is a pain. This at least makes it a little more bearable. Using your scrollwheel while hovering over items, will now move them into and out of open inventories!
  • ItemSwapper
    Doing a lot of building, with a lot of different blocks? Wish you could easily swap tools/weapons without having to open your inventory? Well now you can! Hold down the R key to open an interface that allow you to swith the block/tool/weapon in your hand from another in your inventory. With intuitive groups, stone blocks will show other stone like blocks in your inventory. Tools with show tools, etc.
  • Bundles Beyone
    Bundles are very useful! However, only being able to see the first 12 items in them... that isn't. Now you can see everything in the bundle. You're welcome.
  • Peek
    Placing down a shulker box to see what's in it is boring. Now you can however over it in the inventory! Also, why walk around opening a bunch of boxes to see what's in them, now an item or name is displayed on the box in the world, so you can get an idea of what's inside!
  • Sort It Out!
    Sorts your inventory, so you don't have to!
  • Inventory Totem
    Totem's of undying no longer need to be held in your hand to work! Now you can keep holding your pickaxe and your torches!
  • Stack Refill
    Placing a bunch of blocks and constantly needing to open the inventory to get more? Well not anymore! Once you use the last block, if more of it exists in your inventory it will automatically appear in your hand!
  • Bundled Arrows
    Have different types of arrows? Or infinity and only need one? Why take up inventory space! If you have any arrows put them in bundles, you can use them with your bow or crossbow without having to take them out first!

Now.. Where is that again?

  • Xaero's World Map and Xaero's Minimap
    See what the world looks like around you, see where you died, find your dog and locate players.
  • Locator Heads
    The player locator bar is great... except that you can't tell whose dot belongs to who. Well... Now we put their heads on the bar! It's not morbid it's useful!
  • Death Locator
    Adds your recent death locations to the locator bar. Paired with the minimap, you will never forget the last place you failed to stay alive.
  • Locator Lodestones
    So... you use lodestones and compasses to keep track of locations. Now you have a bundle of compasses. Wouldn't it be nice if you didn't have to dig through them? Well now, if you carry them on you, they will all appear on your locator bar! Even from within bundles! Hold down tab.. and the name of the compass appears so you can see what it is!

New Useful Items

  • Jake's Build Tools
    Useful tools for building and exploration!
  • Tree Axes By Juix
    Hate cutting down trees? Well, craft an axe with blocks instead of ingots to get an axe powerful enough to cut down the entire tree at once!
  • Hammers by Juix
    Digging tunnels, it's important but time consumming. Let these hammers help! Make a "pickaxe" with blocks instead of ingots, and now you can crush blocks in a 3x3 area. Who needs a tunnel bore, when you can be the tunnel bore!
  • Trading Post
    We all enslav... I mean employ... villagers. Walking around to each one to train takes up valuable time. Now with the Trading Post you can trade with all nearby villagers from one spot!
  • Teleporters
    Ender pearl statis chambers are easy to build, however choosing which one to activate requires complicated redstone. Teleporters remove that grind.
  • Animal Feeding Trough
    Wish animals were smart enough to feed themselves? Well now they can! Put down a feeding trough, and fill it with food. Animals will eat and multiply on their own as long as the trough has food. Farming is now simpler than ever!
  • Invisible Frames
    Now item frames can be made invisible without commands! Allowing for decorating or organizing storage rooms.

Adventure!

  • True Ending - Ender Dragon Overhaul
    The Ender Dragon just got stronger! New attacks, more health and end crystals guarded by phantoms! Now this is a fight... wait.. is that Boss Music!
  • Incendium
    The nether update enhanced! With new biomes, structures, items, and mobs including a new boss!
  • Deeper Dark
    The warden's home is now open for exploration!
  • Dungeons And Taverns
    A mod that adds a bunch of vanilla like structures around the world to discover, as well as 17 new enchantments found in structures that can be located by trading with Librarian villagers found throughout the world!
  • Structory
    A pack that adds structures through the world, some of which have a focus on storytelling!
    Also includes is the addon Structory Towers.
  • Luki's Grand Capitals
    Makes default minecraft villages and related structures more appealing!
  • Luki's Crazy Chambers
    Minecraft's trial chambers are amazing! This adds even more fun and trial to them! Watch out for the lava.
  • AdoraBuild: Structures
    Add's over 100 new biome specific structures to discover, and some new advancements!
  • Hopo Better Underwater Ruins
    Makes exploring the oceon fun! New underwater ruins to discover including underwater cities and fossils! More chances for archeology.
  • Hopo Better Mineshaft
    Who needs to strip mine when there are already mineshafts to explore! More than 50 different rooms across different variants of mineshafts to discover. With mobs to fight and loot to obtain.
  • Hopo Better Ruined Portals
    Piglins didn't just build portals! Find other ruins and structures left behind by when they invaded the overworld in the past.
  • Dungeons+
    Makes minecrafts default dungeons feel less boring! Also adds new dungeons to explore... and turn into farms.
  • Moog's End Structures
    More structures to discover while exploring the end! Some of them bring additional challenges to overcome.
  • Trek
    Adds over 150 custom structures to discover and explore! From simple campires to floating water islands and mansions, you will always have something new to discover.
  • Explorify
    A small collection of vanilla like structures to discover all throughout your minecraft world.
  • Immersive Structures
    More awesome vanilla like structures to find throughout the world!

Because It's Pretty

  • Fresh Animations and Fresh Animations: Extensions
    Make the game feel more lively by overhauling the mob's with new looks and way better animations. Is that villager giving you the side eye... why yes, they can do that now.
  • Armor Statues
    Armor stands are now posable, can have arms and even be made invisible! Now this is decorating.
  • 3D Skin Layer's
    Makes skins look cleaner.
  • Continuity
    Connected textures.
  • Recolourful Containers GUI + HUD
    Each container or useable block such as a crafting table now gets a makeover! Easily tell what you are interacting with.
  • [ETF] Entity Texture Features
    Emissive, Random & Custom texture support for entities in resourcepacks.
  • [EMF] Entity Model Features
    Allows for custom entity models, which makes all the cool animations possible!
  • Geophilic
    Couldn't decide if this went here or under adventure. It's a mod that modifies the vanilla terrain in subtle ways to give it more character while staying true to minecrafts roots.
  • Unnamed Desert
    Adds 8 structure types / 35 total variants to the desert and badlands biomes to enhance the feel of vanilla world generation. Again, could have also gone under adventure.
  • Unnamed Sea
    Adds 4 structure types / 16 total variants to the oceans and beach biomes to enhance the feel of vanilla world generation. Again, could have also gone under adventure.
  • Distant Horizons
    Creates and stores LOD's which are lower detailed terrain chunks. This allows the minecraft world to be visible much farther away, without turning your PC into a space heater!
  • Even Better Enchants
    Now it's possible to tell enchanted books apart when you buy them from villagers! Each enchantment get's it's own aesthetic book design.
  • Scholar
    Books are now easier to write in, and format! Text can now be bold or italic. Books themselves can be dyed different colors!
  • Vanilla Tweaks
    Lot's of changes from Vanilla Tweaks that just make sense!

Resource Pack's for Mods

These packs are included so that tools, weapons and items added by mods or datapacks can display properly.

Make Minecraft go Vroom (Performance Mods)

  • Krypton
    Optimize minecrafts networking infastructure.
  • Sodium
    "Sodium is a powerful optimization mod for the Minecraft client, which greatly improves frame rates and micro-stutter, while fixing many graphical issues in Minecraft."
  • FerriteCore
    Help reduce minecrafts memory usage.
  • Particle Core
    Optimize how minecraft handles particles.
  • Alternate Current
    Makes minecrafts redstone more optimized. As a side affect, strange "location based" redstone quirks are remmoved. Meaning redstone always updates and functions as expected.
  • Entity Culling
    If you can't see it, the game shouldn't render it.
  • Clumps
    XP orbs are everywhere. Too many of them creates lag. This clumps them together into bigger chunks for less lag.
  • Lithium
    Makes minecraft work better. More details on the mod page, it's really amazing!
  • Concurrent Chunk Management Engine
    Better chunk generation.

Credits:

Vanilla Tweaks: https://vanillatweaks.net/

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Mod Loaders

Fabric

Game Versions

1.21.11

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