CurseForge · Minecraft modpack
Minecraft Upgrade
True Vanilla+ Modpack with Overhauled Survival and Progression.
Quick answer
Which Minecraft Upgrade release should I use?
Minecraft Upgrade 4.0.zip is a complete pack release for 1.20.1 with Forge 47.3.22. Install it as its own launcher instance. If the creator publishes a separate server file, make sure it names this exact pack release. 95 mods in this pack file.
Pack setup
How should I set up Minecraft Upgrade for players and a server?
Use Minecraft Upgrade 4.0.zip as the pack version. Install the pack as its own launcher instance. The creator’s listing does not name a separate server file, so check the release notes before setting up a dedicated server. Do not upload the ordinary client folder blindly.
A pack is a matched client and server setup, not one mod with an install-side label. Keep its release, loader, manifest and overrides together.
These numbers come from the pack file you chose. “Not labelled” means we don’t know which side it belongs on—not that it is safe everywhere. The file count is not a RAM estimate.
What are the server requirements for Minecraft Upgrade?
Minecraft Upgrade 4.0.zip. Change the pack release and its contents or setup may change too.
The selected pack release is Minecraft Upgrade 4.0.zip. That file is for Minecraft 1.20.1 with Forge 47.3.22. It contains 95 mod projects. The creator’s listing does not name a separate server file. Check their notes before using one, and do not upload an ordinary client folder or rebuild the pack mod by mod. A file count cannot tell us the right RAM, CPU or storage; size the server for the players and world you actually run.
About this project
What kind of pack is Minecraft Upgrade?

Tired of kitchen-sinky RPG modpacks and grindy tech modpacks? Can't find a proper vanilla+ modpack that isn't just another typical collection of vanilla+ mods that are badly integrated and unconsistent? Craving a better survival challenge but think the available mods and modpacks (TerraFirmaCraft, RLCraft, temperature and thirst mods, Better Than Wolves, beta-Minecraft modpacks …) are overdoing it? Look no further!
This modpack has a unique take on this genre of modpack (that is, the vague vanilla+ genre), in addition to being stricter in staying true to the vanilla style, this modpack focuses on restoring the survival challenge to the game, which has been ignored (and even harmed) with each official update, while still improving on the fun creative sandbox aspect of the game.
In a sense, this modpack tries to create what Minecraft could have been. The design choices of the modpack (though not necessarly implemented to the fullest) can be summerized in:
- focusing on the lacking and boring features and aspects of the game by giving them more purpose.
- implementing relevant features instead of bloating the pack with novelties and gimmicks.
- making sure everything fits well together and stays close to vanilla mechanics, without being too conservative.
- changing the meta, to re-create the nostalgic feeling that you get when you experience a game for the first time.
- being stingy with QOL features, they can be overpowered and spoil the feeling of reward that follows effort.
- favorising a deep experience with multi-purpose features and nifty mechanics.
- keeping the vanilla aesthetics, from low block details to rigid animations, as well as the art style.
- making survival harder and progression slower, without both being an annoyance, by the end game survival should be more relaxed, allowing the sandbox part of the game to take over
STARTER GUIDE:
- break gravel and leaves for flint and sticks
- craft a flint axe and chop a tree for logs
- craft a flint knife and cut grass for straw
- craft a crafting table then a flint pickaxe
- mine copper ores and cobblestone
- find sugar cane to craft paper then a match box
- set fire to logs to make charcoal
- craft a campfire and use it to smelt copper
- craft a furnace and a copper pickaxe
- mine iron and coal ores
- smelt iron then craft shears
- find a sheep and shear it to craft a bed
- craft a blast furnace to smelt higher tier ores
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Project description from CurseForge.
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Minecraft Upgrade by Minecraft version and loader
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