Best in Pack

Which food, armor, weapon, tool and fuel is the best in your modpack?

Press B and see every item from every mod, ranked by its real stats.

Big modpacks add hundreds of swords, chestplates, foods and fuels – and nothing tells you which one is actually better. Best in Pack reads the real stats of every item in your game and puts them in sortable tables.

Features

• Four tabs – Food, Armor, Weapons & Tools, Fuel – with every item from every mod, sorted by what matters (DPS, armor and toughness, hunger and saturation, burn time…). Click any column to sort by it.
• Search by name, @mod to show one mod, -word to leave things out.
• Details shows every stat, including special bonuses like flight or damage immunity.
• Have shows only the items in your inventory – items you have are green in every list.
• Shift tooltip rank – hold Shift over any item: Best in Pack: #2 of 14 weapons (by DPS).
• Jump to an item – hover an item in your inventory, JEI or REI and press B to open its row.
• JEI and REI – click a row to see how to craft it.
• Only real items – only items from the creative inventory are ranked (the same list JEI shows), so debug and technical items stay out.
• Client-only – works on any server, nothing to install there.
• Fabric, Forge and NeoForge, every Minecraft version from 1.20 to 26.3.

More screenshots – Weapons & Tools, Food, Fuel, Details and Have – are in the Gallery.

Which file do I need?

Pick the file for your loader and Minecraft version – the file name says both, for example BestInPack-neoforge-1.21-1.21.1-0.9.4.jar

Fabric needs Fabric API. JEI and REI are optional.

Settings and modpacks

Everything lives in config/bestinpack/ – bestinpack.json is explained in the README.txt next to it.

• Different default key for your modpack: "openKey": "N" (also "F6", "left alt", "none"). It is used by new installs and by "Reset" in Controls; players can still change their key in Minecraft's Controls.
• welcomeMessage / keyConflictWarning switch off the two chat messages.
• hiddenMods / hiddenItems leave things out of the rankings; items hidden in JEI/REI are left out too.
• onlyCreativeItems: false ranks every registered item instead of only the creative-inventory ones.

You are welcome to include Best in Pack in any modpack.

Bugs, ideas and source code

• Found a bug or have an idea? Open an issue on GitHub – there are short forms for bug reports and for ideas. For a crash, please attach logs/latest.log or the crash report; for a wrong ranking, name the item and the modpack.
• Source code: github.com/Pokatocz/best-in-pack (MIT license)

Known limitations

• 26.3, multiplayer: Minecraft 26.3 computes some fuel burn times on the server only, so the Fuel tab shows a note instead of guessing. In single player everything works.
• 1.21.2 – 26.2, Fuel tab: burn times come from the world you are in, so the Fuel tab fills in after joining.