Mikeland
ModpackA lightweight vanilla+ Forge modpack with expanded wildlife, biomes, cooking, backpacks, maps, voice chat, and performance improvements.
Type
Modpack
Modrinth Downloads
74
Modrinth ID
KXCBKT3t
Last Updated
Jul 30, 2026
Description
A vanilla+ Forge modpack focused on food, wildlife, exploration, building, and quality-of-life improvements.
This pack expands the normal survival experience without changing Minecraft into a completely different game. It is designed for players who want more animals, more biomes, better cooking, easier exploration, and useful performance improvements while keeping the overall vanilla feel.
Main features
- Farmer's Delight adds cooking, new foods, kitchen blocks, and expanded farming.
- Alex's Mobs adds new animals and creatures with extra drops, mechanics, and encounters.
- Naturalist adds more ambient wildlife to make the world feel more alive.
- Biomes O' Plenty adds new overworld biomes for more varied exploration.
- Sophisticated Backpacks adds expandable portable storage for mining, farming, and travel.
- Xaero's Minimap and Xaero's World Map make navigation and exploration easier.
Quality of life
- Jade shows useful information about blocks, mobs, and containers.
- AppleSkin improves food and hunger information.
- Corpse helps with item recovery after death.
Performance
The pack includes optimization mods intended to improve performance and reduce unnecessary client-side load:
- ModernFix
- ImmediatelyFast
- Entity Culling
- Model Gap Fix
Intended experience
This modpack is for players who want a simple vanilla+ survival experience with more wildlife, better food systems, expanded exploration, useful storage, and smoother gameplay.
Compatibility
Mod Loaders
Game Versions
Recommended Gear
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Contained Mods (46)
Just Enough Items (JEI)
View Items and Recipes
GeckoLib
A 3D animation library for entities, blocks, items, armor, and more!
Architectury API
An intermediary api aimed to ease developing multiplatform mods.
AppleSkin
Adds some useful information about food/hunger to the HUD
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
Jade 🔍
Shows information about what you are looking at. (Hwyla/WAILA fork for Minecraft 1.16+)
ImmediatelyFast
Speed up immediate mode rendering in Minecraft
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.
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 BlockEntities/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.
Sophisticated Backpacks
Yet another backpack mod this time with backpack you can place in world, color in different color combinations, upgrade...
Searchables
Searchables is a library mod that adds helper methods that allow for searching and filtering elements based on component...
Konkrete
Just another boring library mod.
Sophisticated Core
Library mod for Sophisticated mods
Farmer's Delight
A cozy expansion to farming and cooking!
Comforts
Adds sleeping bags and hammocks for, respectively, portability and turning day to night, without setting new spawns. Com...
FerriteCore
Memory usage optimizations
Citadel
A Lightweight Library
Simple Voice Chat
A working voice chat in Minecraft!
Alex's Mobs
85+ New mobs with stylistic quality above the default game.
TerraBlender (Forge)
A library mod for adding biomes in a simple and compatible manner!
Corpse
Never lose your items again!
Just Enough Resources (JER)
A JEI addon that adds mob drops, ore gen, ..
Biomes O' Plenty
Adds 50+ unique biomes to enhance your world, with new trees, flowers, and more!
GlitchCore
A library mod aimed at abstracting mod loaders and providing various utilities for our mods.
Just Zoom
Zoom by pressing a hotkey and adjust the zoom factor with your mouse wheel!
Model Gap Fix
Fixes gaps in Block Models and Item Models
Storage Drawers
Interactive bulk storage solution
More Overlays Updated
Adds NEI-like light overlay for mob spawns, a chunk border overlay and a JEI item search overlay. (updated for 1.16.5, 1...
Armor Visibility
Let that skin show!
Low Fire
Lower your first-person fire to enhance visibility!
Fresh Waystones Texture
Resource pack that will improve textures from the waystones mod.
Another Furniture
Another Furniture is a vanilla-styled furniture mod aiming to keep things simple while adding cute decoration!
Trade Cycling
Refresh villager trades without needing to break workstations.
FindMe
Search for an item in nearby inventories
New Glowing Ores
Makes ores glow to make them more visible, and also adds connected outlines to them so you don't miss a single block. Mo...
Low Shield
Lower your shield for a visible view!
Naturalist Lite
Adds 47 animals *(and 66 variants)* to your world with immersive behaviors and drops.
Ash API
An abstraction layer between Fabric, Forge, and Quilt's APIs.
Bulk Villager Trading
Bulk Villager Trading. Automatically Re-Stocks the trade UI after shift-click.
Comforts Modernized
Redone textures for the Comforts mod to make them look faithful to modern Minecraft
Alex's Mobs - Naturalist Compat
Remove duplicate items and entities with the goal of integrating both Alex's Mobs and Naturalist so they work as if they...