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Mikeland

Modpack

A 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

Forge

Game Versions

1.20.1

Recommended Gear

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Just Enough Items (JEI)

Just Enough Items (JEI)

View Items and Recipes

Mod 696,599,460
GeckoLib

GeckoLib

A 3D animation library for entities, blocks, items, armor, and more!

Mod 473,768,572
Architectury API

Architectury API

An intermediary api aimed to ease developing multiplatform mods.

Mod 440,694,543
AppleSkin

AppleSkin

Adds some useful information about food/hunger to the HUD

Mod 499,700,478
ModernFix

ModernFix

All-in-one mod that improves performance, reduces memory usage, and fixes many bugs. Compatible with all your favorite p...

Mod 314,295,864
Balm

Balm

Abstraction Layer for Multi-Loader Mods

Mod 310,009,613
Jade 🔍

Jade 🔍

Shows information about what you are looking at. (Hwyla/WAILA fork for Minecraft 1.16+)

Mod 334,032,079
ImmediatelyFast

ImmediatelyFast

Speed up immediate mode rendering in Minecraft

Mod 302,002,147
Waystones

Waystones

Teleport from waystone to waystone or craft magical scrolls to warp.

Mod 339,958,664
Curios API (Forge/NeoForge)

Curios API (Forge/NeoForge)

A flexible and expandable accessory/equipment API for users and developers.

Mod 335,403,699
Controlling

Controlling

Adds a search bar to the Key-Bindings menu

Mod 429,933,213
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 353,851,995
Entity Culling Fabric/Forge

Entity Culling Fabric/Forge

Using async path-tracing to hide BlockEntities/Entities that are not visible

Mod 389,594,541
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 309,533,091
Sophisticated Backpacks

Sophisticated Backpacks

Yet another backpack mod this time with backpack you can place in world, color in different color combinations, upgrade...

Mod 258,580,102
Searchables

Searchables

Searchables is a library mod that adds helper methods that allow for searching and filtering elements based on component...

Mod 211,319,284
Konkrete

Konkrete

Just another boring library mod.

Mod 284,120,697
Sophisticated Core

Sophisticated Core

Library mod for Sophisticated mods

Mod 222,296,915
Farmer's Delight

Farmer's Delight

A cozy expansion to farming and cooking!

Mod 254,697,942
Comforts

Comforts

Adds sleeping bags and hammocks for, respectively, portability and turning day to night, without setting new spawns. Com...

Mod 267,554,380
FerriteCore

FerriteCore

Memory usage optimizations

Mod 148,668,120
Citadel

Citadel

A Lightweight Library

Mod 224,118,606
Simple Voice Chat

Simple Voice Chat

A working voice chat in Minecraft!

Mod 187,375,530
Alex's Mobs

Alex's Mobs

85+ New mobs with stylistic quality above the default game.

Mod 169,279,284
TerraBlender (Forge)

TerraBlender (Forge)

A library mod for adding biomes in a simple and compatible manner!

Mod 195,027,398
Corpse

Corpse

Never lose your items again!

Mod 134,646,615
Just Enough Resources (JER)

Just Enough Resources (JER)

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

Mod 247,082,514
Biomes O' Plenty

Biomes O' Plenty

Adds 50+ unique biomes to enhance your world, with new trees, flowers, and more!

Mod 263,897,041
GlitchCore

GlitchCore

A library mod aimed at abstracting mod loaders and providing various utilities for our mods.

Mod 90,900,384
Just Zoom

Just Zoom

Zoom by pressing a hotkey and adjust the zoom factor with your mouse wheel!

Mod 82,393,105
Model Gap Fix

Model Gap Fix

Fixes gaps in Block Models and Item Models

Mod 31,944,454
Storage Drawers

Storage Drawers

Interactive bulk storage solution

Mod 3,755,892
More Overlays Updated

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...

Mod 56,362,377
Armor Visibility

Armor Visibility

Let that skin show!

Mod 364,445
Low Fire

Low Fire

Lower your first-person fire to enhance visibility!

Resource Pack 7,121,417
Fresh Waystones Texture

Fresh Waystones Texture

Resource pack that will improve textures from the waystones mod.

Resource Pack 3,969,469
Another Furniture

Another Furniture

Another Furniture is a vanilla-styled furniture mod aiming to keep things simple while adding cute decoration!

Mod 64,442,276
Trade Cycling

Trade Cycling

Refresh villager trades without needing to break workstations.

Mod 37,709,596
FindMe

FindMe

Search for an item in nearby inventories

Mod 73,514,775
New Glowing Ores

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...

Resource Pack 7,145,672
Low Shield

Low Shield

Lower your shield for a visible view!

Resource Pack 4,774,132
Naturalist Lite

Naturalist Lite

Adds 47 animals *(and 66 variants)* to your world with immersive behaviors and drops.

Mod 65,050,200
Ash API

Ash API

An abstraction layer between Fabric, Forge, and Quilt's APIs.

Mod 31,600,557
Bulk Villager Trading

Bulk Villager Trading

Bulk Villager Trading. Automatically Re-Stocks the trade UI after shift-click.

Mod 5,309,805
Comforts Modernized

Comforts Modernized

Redone textures for the Comforts mod to make them look faithful to modern Minecraft

Resource Pack 4,278,057
Alex's Mobs - Naturalist Compat

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...

Mod 1,045,230

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