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The Essential Mods

The best modpack for you, and your friends. Optmized and full of the essential quality of life mods!

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Quick answer

Which The Essential Mods release should I use?

Updated 1 year ago
Latest stable file The Essential Mods 1.1.8
Game version 1.21.4
Loader Fabric 0.16.14

The Essential Mods 1.1.8 is a complete pack release for 1.21.4 with Fabric 0.16.14. Install it as its own launcher instance. If the creator publishes a separate server file, make sure it names this exact pack release. 58 mods in this pack file.

Pack setup

How should I set up The Essential Mods for players and a server?

Use The Essential Mods 1.1.8 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.

Client instance Install The Essential Mods 1.1.8
Dedicated server setup Match The Essential Mods 1.1.8
Pack loader Fabric 0.16.14

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.

Referenced mods 58
Client only 28
Server only 0
Not labelled 30

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 The Essential Mods?

The Essential Mods 1.1.8. Change the pack release and its contents or setup may change too.

58 mods in this pack file

The selected pack release is The Essential Mods 1.1.8. That file is for Minecraft 1.21.4 with Fabric 0.16.14. It contains 58 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 The Essential Mods?

The best optimization Modpack!

Including a bunch of optimization mods, resource packs, shaders, but with that taste of vanilla Minecraft!

Modpack features

- Optimization

T.E.M. is made with the best optimization mods, such as:

- Fabric

T.E.M. is built using the Fabric mod loader, a loader that is lightweight, fast and full of mods.

- Optifine

T.E.M. supports most of the Optifine Features, such as:

  • Dynamic Light: Dynamic Light is a feature that is famous from, example, holding the torch in one hand and lighting the way.
  • Connected Textures: Its famous from having connected glass, connected sand, etc; due to the Continuity mod, made by PepperCode1, and a few resource packs that i put (check Resource Packs area).
  • Custom Entity/Texture models: T.E.M. has the [EMF] and [ETF] mods. Both of those mods provides Optifine features, such as:
    • Custom Entity Model: CEM is an optifine feature that allows mods or resource packs to use custom entity models.
    • Entity Texture Features: [ETF] mod adds more entity texture features, such as entity and player skin features.

In-Game Features:

  • Dynamic Lights: T.E.M. is made using the LambDynamicLights, a mod made by LambdAurora, which adds dynamic lights into the game. A good example is when you're holding a torch in your hand and lighting the way.

  • Zoom: T.E.M. has a zoom feature, thanks to the WI Zoom mod, made by Alexander01998, that when pressing the "V" key, will give you a zoom.

  • Shaders Compatibility: T.E.M has the Iris Shaders mod, made by coderbot, which can load shaders from Optifine, being also, very customizable.

  • Download Resource Packs, shaders and worlds inside minecraft: We have installed Resourcify, made by DeDiamondPro, a mod that lets you download resource packs, shaders, and even worlds inside minecraft. When downloading resource packs or shaders, the main providor will be modrinth, but when downloading worlds, the main providor is CurseForge. But you can change the platform that you're going to use inside the download pages.

  • Resource pack tweaks: T.E.M. already comes with 12 resource pack, being 11 of them really good Quality of life resource packs. It comes with New Glowing Ores, Default Dark Mode, Vanilla Animated Food, and also, we have VanillaTweaks resource packs installed. In total, we have 23 features, and each category of them can be changed in the resource packs part. I recommend you take a look first at the resource pack especifications at the end of this page. It will help you decide which resource you'd like to keep or not.

⚠️Bugs⚠️

If you have any bug related to optimization or crashes, click here to report any issues!

Mods:

In 1.21.5, 2 mods are incompatible. Even though in 1.21.4 it has 59 mods, (and 1.21.5 has 53) one of the mods on 1.21.4 is Memory leak Fix, which was added via an override. SInce Memory Leak Fix is an override, its not counted as an incompatible mod
Obviously other mods were added via override, but Memory Leak Fix is not any compatible with 1.21.5

1.21.5 (53 mods)
1.21.4 (59 mods)

Resource Packs:

1.21.5 (12 Resource Packs)
  • 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 ore.

  • Translations For Sodium - Unnoficial translations for the Reese's Sodium Options mod.

  • Default Dark Mode - The Dark Mode Resource Pack for Minecraft: Java Edition.

  • Vanilla Animated Food - A resource pack that adds animations to eating food without any mods using the new resource pack features.

  • Vanilla Tweaks: For the ones who dont know, VanillaTweaks is a website that has a lot of features for vanilla, especially Resource Packs. I selected some features that make the game look more beautiful, and at the same time help us in certain ways. Features present in my modpack:

    Terrain:

    • Lower Grass. - Lowers the side of grass to provide a smoother and greener landscape.
    • Lower Mycelium. - Lowers the side of Mycelium to provide a smoother and mushroomier landscape.
    • Lower Crimsom Nyliuim. - Lowers the side of Crimson Nylium to provide a smoother and redder landscape.
    • Lower Snow. - Lowers the side of snow to provide a smoother and whiter landscape.
    • Lower Podzol. - Lowers the side of Podzol Blocks to provide a smoother and more consistent landscape.
    • Lower Paths. - Lowers the side of paths.
    • Lower Warped Nylium. - Lowers the side of Warped Nylium to provide a smoother and bluer landscape.
    • Darker Oak Leaves. - Makes Dark Oak leaves darker than Oak leaves.
    • Brighter Nether - Brightens the texture of block commonly found in the Nether.

    Connected Textures:

    • Connected Polished Stones. - Creates a seemless connection between Polished Stones.
    • Connected Iron Blocks. - Creates a seemless connection between Iron Blocks.
    • Connected Lapis Blocks. - Creates a seemsless connection between Lapis blocks.

    Suspicious Sand & Gravel:

    • Suspicious Sand and Gravel Borders. - Places a border around suspicious gravel and sand for easier visibility.

    Unobstrusive:

    • Unobstrusive Rain. - Reduces the ammount of rain particles for easier vision.
    • Unobstrusive Snow. - Reduces the ammount of rain particles for easier vision.
    • Lower Fire. - Lowers fire when burning for easier vision.
    • No Pumpkin Overlay. - Disables the blur that covers your screen when using a pumpkin.
    • Lower Shield. - Lowers the shield for better visibility.

    GUI:

    • Ping Color Indicator. - changes the color of the ping bars depending on your connection.
    • Numbered Hotbar. - Makes your hotbar numbered.

    Fixxes and Consistency:

    • Nicer fast Leaves. - Replaces solid balcks parts in leaves with a darker green color when using fast graphics.
    • Consistent Smooth Stone. - Makes the smooth stone more consistent.
    • No Bowl Particles. - Don't eat the bowl!!!!
    • Proper Break Particles. - Changes some blocks' breaking particles to properly reflect their textures.

    variation:

    • Variated Grass. - Grass will be randomized using a selection of 16 textures.
    • Variated Moss. - Randomly rotates moss blocks and moss carpets to break up ugly grid patterns.
    • Variated Mycelium. - Mycelium will be randomized using a selection of 16 textures.
    • Variated Gravel. - Randomly rotates gravel to break ugly grid patterns.
    • Variated Mushroom Blocks. - Red mushrooms block will be randomized using a selection of 12 textures.
    • Variated Stone. - Stone will be randomized using a selection of 16 textures.
    • Variated Terracota. - Terracota will be randomized using a selection of 16 textures.

    Bookshelves:

    • Variated Bookshelves. - Bookshelves will be randomized using a selection of 7 textures.
    • Connected Bookshelves. - Creates a seemless connection between bookshelves.
1.21.4 (11 Resource Packs)
  • 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 ore.

  • Translations For Sodium - Unnoficial translations for the Reese's Sodium Options mod.

  • Default Dark Mode - The Dark Mode Resource Pack for Minecraft: Java Edition.

  • Vanilla Animated Food - A resource pack that adds animations to eating food without any mods using the new resource pack features.

  • Vanilla Tweaks: For the ones who dont know, VanillaTweaks is a website that has a lot of features for vanilla, especially Resource Packs. I selected some features that make the game look more beautiful, and at the same time help us in certain ways. Features present in my modpack:

    Terrain:

    • Lower Grass. - Lowers the side of grass to provide a smoother and greener landscape.
    • Lower Mycelium. - Lowers the side of Mycelium to provide a smoother and mushroomier landscape.
    • Lower Crimsom Nyliuim. - Lowers the side of Crimson Nylium to provide a smoother and redder landscape.
    • Lower Snow. - Lowers the side of snow to provide a smoother and whiter landscape.
    • Lower Podzol. - Lowers the side of Podzol Blocks to provide a smoother and more consistent landscape.
    • Lower Paths. - Lowers the side of paths.
    • Lower Warped Nylium. - Lowers the side of Warped Nylium to provide a smoother and bluer landscape.
    • Darker Oak Leaves. - Makes Dark Oak leaves darker than Oak leaves.
    • Brighter Nether - Brightens the texture of block commonly found in the Nether.

    Connected Textures:

    • Connected Polished Stones. - Creates a seemless connection between Polished Stones.
    • Connected Iron Blocks. - Creates a seemless connection between Iron Blocks.
    • Connected Lapis Blocks. - Creates a seemsless connection between Lapis blocks.

    Suspicious Sand & Gravel:

    • Suspicious Sand and Gravel Borders. - Places a border around suspicious gravel and sand for easier visibility.

    Unobstrusive:

    • Unobstrusive Rain. - Reduces the ammount of rain particles for easier vision.
    • Unobstrusive Snow. - Reduces the ammount of rain particles for easier vision.
    • Lower Fire. - Lowers fire when burning for easier vision.
    • No Pumpkin Overlay. - Disables the blur that covers your screen when using a pumpkin.

    GUI:

    • Ping Color Indicator. - changes the color of the ping bars depending on your connection.
    • Numbered Hotbar. - Makes your hotbar numbered.

    Fixxes and Consistency:

    • Nicer fast Leaves. - Replaces solid balcks parts in leaves with a darker green color when using fast graphics.
    • Consistent Smooth Stone. - Makes the smooth stone more consistent.

    Bookshelves:

    • Variated Bookshelves. - Bookshelves will be randomized using a selection of 7 textures.
    • Connected Bookshelves. - Creates a seemless connection between bookshelves.

If you want to see how each of those features look like, click on this link that will take you to a document with the description and an example image of every feature.

You are allowed to use this modpack as base to your own modpack, but you dont have the permition to publish this online on Modrinth or any other website.

Project description from Modrinth.

Mods in The Essential Mods 1.1.8

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