Ascension by void
ModpackAscension — A curated Fabric 1.20.1 modpack blending tech progression, magic systems, and combat overhaul into one balanced experience. 162 mods with optimized performance, stunning shaders, and a challenging late-game boss gauntlet.
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Modpack
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258
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Last Updated
Oct 11, 2026
Description
Ascension
Ascension is a curated Fabric 1.20.1 modpack designed to offer a highly optimized, feature-rich, and balanced experience. Packed with 162 mods, it combines high tech with deep magical progression and immersive exploration.
Features At A Glance
- Tech & Automation: Create , Tech Reborn , Applied Energistics 2 . Build complex factories and automation lines .
- Magic & Spells: Discover the art of the arcane with Botania, Hex Casting, Spell Engine and Electroblob’s Wizardry.
- Combat & World Generation: Explore massive dungeons and beautiful landscapes powered by Terralith and Biomes O' Plenty, finishing up with a difficult late-game boss gauntlet with Better Combat mechanics.
- Performance: Full optimization with Sodium, Iris shaders, Lithium and server-based optimizations for maximum FPS and stutter free gameplay
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Contained Mods (156)
Cloth Config API (Fabric/Forge/NeoForge)
Config Screen API for Minecraft
Mouse Tweaks
Enhances inventory management by adding various functions to the mouse buttons.
AppleSkin
Adds some useful information about food/hunger to the HUD
Fabric API
Core API library for the Fabric toolchain
GeckoLib
A 3D animation library for entities, blocks, items, armor, and more!
Architectury API
An intermediary api aimed to ease developing multiplatform mods.
Entity Culling Fabric/Forge
Using async path-tracing to hide BlockEntities/Entities that are not visible
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...
Waystones
Teleport from waystone to waystone or craft magical scrolls to warp.
Patchouli
Accessible, Data-Driven, Dependency-Free Documentation for Minecraft Modders and Pack Makers
ModernFix
All-in-one mod that improves performance, reduces memory usage, and fixes many bugs. Compatible with all your favorite p...
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.
Balm
Abstraction Layer for Multi-Loader Mods
ImmediatelyFast
Speed up immediate mode rendering in Minecraft
Puzzles Lib
Why is it called Puzzles? That's the puzzle.
CreativeCore
a core mod
Biomes O' Plenty
Adds 50+ unique biomes to enhance your world, with new trees, flowers, and more!
YetAnotherConfigLib
A builder-based configuration library for Minecraft.
Not Enough Animations
Bringing first-person animations to the third-person
[EMF] Entity Model Features [Fabric & Forge]
EMF is an, OptiFine format, Custom Entity Model replacement mod available for Fabric and Forge.
Mod Menu
Adds a mod menu to view the list of mods you have installed.
Lithium (Fabric/NeoForge)
An optimization mod for Minecraft which improves server performance significantly.
YUNG's API (Forge/NeoForge)
A library mod for YUNG's Minecraft mods
Resourceful Lib
Lib for Team Resourceful and more
Fabric Language Kotlin
Fabric language module for Kotlin
Sound Physics Remastered
A Minecraft mod that provides realistic sound attenuation, reverberation, and absorption through blocks.
TerraBlender (Forge)
A library mod for adding biomes in a simple and compatible manner!
Rhino
A fork of Mozilla's Rhino library, modified for use in mods
playerAnimator
player animation library
Lootr (Forge & NeoForge)
A mod that makes it so nobody misses out on Loot! All loot chests are instanced per player and visually unique.
KubeJS
Edit recipes, add new custom items, script world events, all in JavaScript!
Iris Shaders
A modern shader pack loader for Minecraft intended to be compatible with existing OptiFine shader packs
No Chat Reports
Makes chat unreportable (where possible)
Sodium Extra
Features that shouldn't be in Sodium
CoroUtil
Library Mod for Weather/Tropicraft/ZombieAwareness/etc
Botania
An innovative natural magic themed tech mod
AmbientSounds 6
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Reese's Sodium Options
Alternative Options Menu for Sodium
Artifacts
Adds various treasure items that can be found through exploration
Resourceful Config
Resourceful Config is a mod that allows for developers to make crossplatform configs
FerriteCore
Memory usage optimizations
Forge Config API Port
NeoForge's & Forge's config systems provided to other modding ecosystems. Designed for a multiloader architecture.
YUNG's Better Dungeons (Forge/NeoForge)
A complete redesign of Minecraft's dungeons!
Fzzy Config
Config API with automatic GUIs, powerful validation options, server-client sync, and more!
oωo (owo-lib)
A general utility, GUI and config library for modding on Fabric and Quilt
YUNG's Better Strongholds (Forge/NeoForge)
A complete redesign of Minecraft's strongholds
BadOptimizations
Optimization mod that focuses on things other than rendering
When Dungeons Arise - Forge!
Adds various elegant -and likely hostile- roguelike dungeons and structures that generate on your worlds!
Create Crafts & Additions
Electrifying the Create mod!
Dynamic FPS
Improve performance when Minecraft is in the background
Lithostitched
Library mod with new configurability and compatibility enhancements for worldgen
BetterF3
A mod that provides a highly customizable, more human-readable Debug HUD.
Zoomify
A zoom mod with infinite customizability.
Explorer's Compass
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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!
Reborn Core
Powering Team Reborn
LambDynamicLights
The most feature-complete and optimized dynamic lighting mod.
[ETF] Entity Texture Features
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Terralith
A 1.18+ overworld expansion for Fabric and Forge, with tons of new biomes and caves!
Better Third Person
Improves third-person camera view.
GlitchCore
A library mod aimed at abstracting mod loaders and providing various utilities for our mods.
Indium
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Alternate Current
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YUNG's Better Witch Huts (Forge/NeoForge)
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MidnightLib
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YUNG's Better Desert Temples (Forge/NeoForge)
A complete redesign of Minecraft's desert temples!
CC: Tweaked
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YUNG's Better Jungle Temples (Forge/NeoForge)
A complete redesign of Minecraft's jungle temples!
Krypton
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Trinkets (Fabric)
A data-driven accessory mod
EMI
Featureful and accessible modern item and recipe viewer with JEI compatibility
libIPN
Gui/Config Libarary for Inventory Profiles Next and related mods
Inventory Profiles Next
Take control over you inventory. Sort. Move matching Items. Throw all. Locked slots. Gear sets! And much more.
Create: Steam 'n' Rails
Adding depth to Create's rail network & steam system
Tom's Simple Storage Mod
Simple vanilla style storage mod
Debugify
Fixes Minecraft bugs found on the bug tracker
Text Placeholder API
Placeholder and Text manipulation library for your Minecraft mods.
Presence Footsteps
An overly complicated sound mod
Noisium (archived)
Optimises worldgen performance for a better gameplay experience.
Naturalist Lite
Adds 47 animals *(and 66 variants)* to your world with immersive behaviors and drops.
Geophilic – Vanilla Biome Overhauls
A subtle-ish overhaul of vanilla Overworld biomes! Reworked!
ServerCore
A mod that aims to optimize the minecraft server.
Simply Swords [Fabric & Forge]
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Modonomicon
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Shulker Box Tooltip [Fabric/Forge/NeoForge]
What's in my shulker box?
Aquamirae (Forge)
Ship graveyard with terrible deep sea creatures!
MemoryLeakFix
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Mutant Monsters
The mutants are back! Face scary creatures and powerful beasts like never before.
Cardinal Components API
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Tectonic
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bad packets
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Immersive Armors [Fabric/Forge]
A lot of unique and vanilla-faithful armor sets.
Zombie Awareness
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Repurposed Structures (Fabric)
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🪄 Data driven magic library
Spell Power Attributes
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Better Beds
Changes the renderer of the bed to use json models instead of a block entity renderer!
Enhanced Block Entities
Reduce block entity FPS lag with almost no compromises, and improve their visuals
Let Me Despawn
Improves performance by tweaking mob despawn rules. Say bye to pesky unintentional persistent mobs.
Inventory Sorting
Quick, simple, and lightweight inventory sorting
Iron Chests: Restocked
Iron Chests provide multiple variants of chests that increase in size and have different properties
Powah!
Generators, Solar panels, Energy Cells, Cables, Reactors, wireless energy ... and more!
Dungeons and Taverns
A Structure Datapack adding dungeons, taverns and other structures to find while you explore the world.
Almanac
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Traveler's Backpack
Unique and upgradeable backpacks with customisation, Curios API/Trinkets integration and more!
YUNG's Better Mineshafts
A long-awaited and much-needed abandoned mineshaft overhaul!
WTHIT
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Ksyxis
Speed up your world loading by removing unneeded chunks.
Better Combat
⚔️ Easy, spectacular and fun melee combat system from Minecraft Dungeons.
Sophisticated Core (Unofficial Fabric port)
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Archon
Sorcery, Necromancy, Bosses, and More!
Fragmentum (Forge)
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Sophisticated Backpacks (Unoffical Fabric port)
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FakerLib
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ThreadTweak
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PAUCAL
Petrak@'s Assorted, Useful Collection of Assistance Library.
Malum
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Effective
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Applied Energistics 2
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Cinderscapes
A biome mod expanding the life of The Nether
Extreme sound muffler
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You're in Grave Danger
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Better Combat Particle
Just some slash particle addon to better combat.
Spectrum
A full-feature mod about harnessing the powers of color
Odyssey Quests
A tree-style questing mod, allowing pack makers to make and include completable quests for their players
StutterFix
Reduce stuttering when generating new chunks
Inline
a mod for inline text rendering
Bento Box
A modular library for expressive GUIs and declarative configs
Boss Checklist
Adds a convenient list of bosses with brief information about them.
Lodestone
A collection of code used throughout projects under the Lodestar team.
Mace Port
Vanilla friendly Backport of the 1.21 Mace weapon! Available on both Forge and Fabric (finally)
Ultris: Boss Expansion
Explore 8 new and exciting bosses to take on across your world, with new structures, items, and stories for you to unrav...
Cave Dweller Fabric
Fabric port of the cave dweller mod by Gargin.
Hex Casting
Powerful programmable stack-based spellcasting
QuickBench
Crafting table optimisations.
Porting Lib
A collection of utilities for porting mods from Forge to Fabric.
Rekindled Combat
A fork of Better Combat created to be Vanilla Friendly. Includes attack animations, dual wielding, improved weapon hitbo...
Flux Networks [Fabric]
Wireless energy networks - Fabric port
Bossbar Expansion
This data pack/Mod add bossbar to minibosses in the game like Warden, Elder Guardian and Evoker.
Elemental Wizardry
Are u tired of vanilla's combact system? Here some spells that add a new way to kill you enemies.