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A curated list of resources and tools for Minecraft modding, including mods, mod loaders, skins, and servers.

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Awesome Minecraft / Websites / Wiki

Official Minecraft Wiki Minecraft Wiki is a complete resource for Minecraft, including gameplay, blocks, crafting, updates, events, mods, running a server, and resource packs
Chinese Minecraft Wiki The Chinese Minecraft Wiki is an official wiki of Minecraft, covering detailed tutorials on crafting, blocks, creatures and even PE versions
wiki.vg Technical Minecraft wiki

Awesome Minecraft / Websites / Forums

Minecraft Forums Official community forums, a great place to talk about the game
Planet Minecraft Creative community fansite

Awesome Minecraft / Websites / Indexes

MCDOC The Index of Minecraft Tools and Unlockers

Awesome Minecraft / Websites / Mod Libraries

Modrinth Open source Minecraft mod library with powerful filtering
CurseForge The largest repository for Minecraft mods

Awesome Minecraft / Websites / Archives

MCArchive Archives old, lost and forgotten Minecraft mods. Various other mods and stuff can be found on their Discord
Minecraft Archive Project Huge archive containing Minecraft mods, worlds, resource packs and many other resources (even forum posts!)
MCVersions Archives most Minecraft jars
MCPC+ Archive Archive with some MCPC+ versions
CraftBukkit Archive Archives many CraftBukkit versions

Awesome Minecraft / Mod Loaders

Minecraft Forge 6,939 6 days ago Modifications to the Minecraft base files to assist in compatibility between mods
Quilt A powerful fork of the Fabric project
Fabric A lightweight, experimental modding toolchain for Minecraft
liteloader A lightweight mod loader for Minecraft designed to provide simple, high-performance and reliable loader functionality for mods which don't need to modify game mechanics
Rift A Mod Loader for 1.13-1.13.2 (even Snapshots)
Meddle 31 over 8 years ago Everything related to modding 1.9/1.10 snapshots in one place
RopeMC 8 almost 6 years ago A lightweight, reflection based mod loader which aims to be user friendly and later version independent

Awesome Minecraft / Mods / Performance

Optifine OptiFine is a Minecraft optimization mod
BetterFps BetterFps is a Minecraft mod that add a few performance improvements
Sodium (for Fabric) 4,801 9 days ago A Fabric mod designed to improve frame rates and reduce micro-stutter
OptiFabric A Fabric mod to allow Optifine to run using Fabric loader

Awesome Minecraft / Mods / Skins And Capes

Custom Skin Loader 507 9 days ago Custom Skin Loader for Minecraft
Universal Skin Mod 26 over 8 years ago A Minecraft Forge Mod allows players load custom skin & cape textures

Awesome Minecraft / Mods / Maps

Journey Map Real-time mapping in game or in a web browser as you explore
VoxelMap Formerly known as Zan's Minimap, providing basic map and radar functionality

Awesome Minecraft / Mods / Items Management

Just Enough Items (JEI) JEI is an item and recipe viewing mod for Minecraft, built from the ground up for stability and performance
Bibliocraft Bibliocraft is a storage and organizational mod that began as a single bookcase and has expanded to so much more
/dank/null A storage mod of unreal proportions which nobody really gets. The max tier /dank/null object holds 54 slots of items which each can hold 2.14 billion items!

Awesome Minecraft / Mods / Technology

Tinkers Construct Tinkers' Construct is a mod about putting tools together in a wide variety of ways, then modifying them until they turn into something else
Immersive Engineering Immersive Engineering is a tech mod with a certain charm, based on the ideas and concepts, and with most assets created by Damien Hazard
Botania 1,282 8 days ago Botania is a tech mod in essence. The theme is natural magic
Thermal Foundation + Dynamics + Expansion A server-friendly and content-rich blend of magic and technology! Title is three different mod names, but of the same series and usually played together
Railcraft 511 about 1 year ago Greatly expand and improve the Minecart system in Minecraft
Actually Additions Actually Additions is a technology mod that adds various utilities like multitools, item magnets, atomic reconstructors and so on
Applied Energistics 2 1,445 7 days ago A Minecraft Mod about Matter, Energy and using them to conquer the world. Mainly focused on item storage
Draconic Evolution One of the best tech mod there is, but really overpowered in the late game. Adds things like a Draconic Power Core which no one has been able to fill yet
Ender IO A large ender themed mod, that just adds lots of new fun things
Galacticraft A mod that adds rockets and new planets to explore. Expandable with addons
OpenComputers OpenComputers is a mod that adds computers and robots into the game, which can be programmed in Lua 5.3
ComputerCraft Adds computers based on Lua (5.2 and 5.3) into Minecraft
WarpDrive Adds Star Trek and other franchise like ships, weapons, transporters and so on into the game. Also adds new planets (dimensions)

Awesome Minecraft / Mods / Farming And Food

Pam's HarvestCraft Pam's HarvestCraft is a mod for Minecraft that currently adds many kinds of crops and food
AgriCraft A mod that adds a more sophisticated crop system, like the ability to have genetic mutations and also adds more crops
Bonsai Trees Adds essentially mini tree farms which are one block big
Ex Nihilo: Creatio A great mod for skyblocks, it filters things like sand and gravel for useful resources like iron and diamond, compatible with lots of mods

Awesome Minecraft / Mods / Energy

RFTools RFTools is a mod containing various tools that are related to RF (Redflux) or technology in general
Extreme Reactors Adds nuclear reactors with the fictional fuel 'yellorium'. A carry on of the original Big Reactors
Zetta Industries A mod which adds the main multiblock of a big battery
Applied Energistics 2 1,445 7 days ago A Minecraft Mod about Matter, Energy and using them to conquer the world

Awesome Minecraft / Mods / Magic

AbyssalCraft AbyssalCraft is a magic mod centered around exploration
Astral Sorcery This is a magic mod based on the stars, and harnessing the powers of starlight and the constellations
Avaritia Avaritia is a mod with a really long progression tree, but really overpowered in the late game. Its soul purpose is to drag the endgame gameplay to extreme lengths
Blood Magic This is a magic mod based on blood. Beware, you die a lot

Awesome Minecraft / Mods / Utilities

TNTUtils 8 almost 7 years ago More control over explosions in Minecraft
Akashic Tome A mod based on Morph-o-Tool, which mainly gives the ability to merge different mods' documentation books
AppleSkin This mod does not change any existing mechanics, but simply makes the existing hunger saturation and exhaustion levels visible in the default GUI
Attribute Fixer This mod fixes the attribute system in Minecraft which handles things like armour points, because many other mods are inadvertantly affected by a limit in this system
Diet Hopper This mod modifies the way Minecraft calculates the collision boxes of the hopper, so that you can access any visible blocks behind it
FoamFix Fixes various aspects of the Minecraft code, generally making the game faster
WTHIT Shows the block currently looked at (Newer version of Hwyla)
Hwyla Shows the block currently looked at (Newer version of Waila)
WorldInfo Shows the block currently looked at (Waila for Rift)
Waila Shows the block currently looked at (The original Waila project)
Block Helper Shows the block currently looked at (Legacy alternative of Waila for older Minecraft versions than 1.6)

Awesome Minecraft / Mods / General

ArmorPlus This mod literally adds tons of armors to the game, and different ways of crafting them
Baubles This mod adds seven new slots to the player inventory which can be fitted with various items like amulets, belts, rings and so on added by other mods

Awesome Minecraft / Mods / Exploration

Aroma1997's Dimensional World This mod adds one extra dimension, with the intended purpose of mining, meaning the Overworld will not be filled up with things like Buildcraft quarry holes anymore etc
Twilight Forest Adds a new twilight forest dimension with new sturctures, bosses, and quests to complete

Awesome Minecraft / Mods / Building

Carpenter's Blocks This mod adds new blocks such as slants and corners which can be made to look like any other block in the game! Extremely useful for artistic builds. (For 1.12+ see BlockCraftery)
Chisel This mod adds multiple new textures to lots of blocks in the game, adding a wide variety of textures. (For editing units smaller than blocks see Chisel and Bits.)
WorldEdit 3,120 12 days ago WorldEdit is an open source in-game map editor available for Bukkit, Forge, MinecraftEdu, and many other platforms
FAWE Stands for Fast Async WorldEdit. Based upon WorldEdit, it is simply faster, and adds lots more tools (i.e. brushes) to work with

Awesome Minecraft / Server Plugins

AntiCheatReloaded 105 6 months ago AntiCheatReloaded helps server admins easily identify and block malicious users by monitoring and analyzing the behaviour of their players
ViaVersion 1,250 10 days ago Allows the connection of newer clients to older server versions for Minecraft servers
AdvancedKitsReloaded 10 over 2 years ago AdvancedKitsReloaded is a Kit managing plugin for Minecraft servers which runs Bukkit, CraftBukkit, Spigot and Paper (>1.8). With this plugin you can easily create/edit/delete your kits and you can customize it as much as you'd like
WorldGuard 827 12 days ago WorldGuard lets you and players guard areas of land against griefers and undesirables, as well as tweak and disable various gameplay features of Minecraft
CraftBook 304 25 days ago CraftBook lets you create magically extending bridges, compact Redstone circuits, complex Minecart mechanics, and much more — all without a client mod and fully customizable by the server
Connect Open shared Minecraft network for advertising public and local host servers
LuckPerms Manage permissions
CoreProtect 664 16 days ago Log everything your players do. Literally 1984

Awesome Minecraft / Resource Packs

BDCraft Various comic-style resource and sound packs, even for many mods, Bedrock Edition, and Terraria!
LB Photo Realism Reload Successor of the LB Photo Realism texture pack making Minecraft look more realistic
Default Dark Mode Dark Mode for the default Minecraft UIs!
Cyber Optics Sci-Fi resource pack
Soartex Smooth resource pack with mod support
BetterVanillaBuilding Adds loads of new blocks with connected textures in optifine

Awesome Minecraft / Shader Packs

Continuum A realistic shader pack
Chocapic13 A realistic and configurable shader pack
Sonic Ether Pathracing and other realistic shader packs
Sildur Shader packs even implementing Minecraft 1.16's built-in API
Potato A very lightweight shader pack for older or restrained PCs
ESBE 2G A shader pack for Bedrock Edition
White Wolf Shader 0 about 1 year ago Shader pack for Bedrock Edition focused on improving your gameplay experience

Awesome Minecraft / Web Applications

Blessing Skin Server 849 6 months ago A web application brings your custom skins back in offline Minecraft servers
WorldEdit Golf Challenge others in a competition to use WorldEdit in as few commands as possible

Awesome Minecraft / Softwares / Servers

Cauldron Formerly known as MCPC+. The original server implementing the Forge and Bukkit API
Cloudburst/NukkitX/Nukkit A Bedrock Edition Server providing support for plugins supporting the Nukkit API
Docker-Minecraft 9,543 10 days ago A self-hosted Minecraft server using Docker containers
Glowstone Formerly known as Spout and BukkitContrib. Spigot Server alternative written from scratch with performance similar to Paper
KCauldron A server implementing the Forge and Bukkit API for 1.7.10
Legendary-Java-Minecraft-Geyser-Floodgate 157 5 months ago PaperMC server with out of the box Geyser and Floodgate support using docker
minecraft-docker 4 11 months ago Fork of that embeds a discord bot for easy starting and stopping of the server
Minestom Lightweight from-scratch server implementation
Mohist A server implementing the Forge and Bukkit API
Paper Miscellaneous patches for Spigot and BungeeCord providing better performance and more configuration options
Spigot CraftBukkit's successor providing support for the Bukkit API
Sponge Minecraft Server providing support for the Sponge API and is extensible to the Forge API and Bukkit API
Thermos A server implementing the Forge and Bukkit API for 1.7.10
Gate 657 9 days ago A high performance & paralleled Minecraft proxy written in Go

Awesome Minecraft / Softwares / Libraries

CraftLib 86 almost 2 years ago Complete / Java library for wrapping the entire Minecraft codebase, including protocol, NBT, schematics, chat and more
MCProtocolLib 731 14 days ago A simple library for communicating with a Minecraft client/server, written in Java
node-minecraft-protocol 1,233 7 days ago A NodeJS library to parse and serialize minecraft packets, plus authentication and encryption
go-mcproto 46 over 2 years ago Minecraft server communication protocol implementation written in Go that allows you to program your own bots

Awesome Minecraft / Softwares / Utilities

Minecraft Command Helper 25 over 2 years ago A WPF Program about generate Minecraft Command (with NBT data). (Windows Only)
Minecraft Command Science Several Minecraft vanilla JSON generators
Amidst 2,149 about 2 months ago Display an overview of a Minecraft world, without actually creating it
Amulet 1,777 28 days ago Map viewer/editor
NBTEditor 70 6 months ago Edit NBT from .dat files

Awesome Minecraft / Softwares / Launchers

MultiMC 4,312 4 months ago A custom launcher for Minecraft that allows you to easily manage multiple installations of Minecraft at once
Prism A fork of MultiMC, capable of downloading modpacks and other resources directly from CurseForge and FTB
HMCL 6,961 6 days ago A powered Minecraft launcher that supports a lot of features
XMCL 728 19 days ago X Minecraft Launcher (XMCL) is a modern Minecraft launcher that lets you manage your massive resources like modpacks, resource packs, mods and shader packs

Awesome Minecraft / Development

FML Mod Development Tutorial (Chinese) Minecraft 1.8.9 FML Mod Development Tutorial
SchematicWebViewer 64 3 months ago A JavaScript/TypeScript library for rendering and viewing Minecraft schematic files on the web
Tabula Minecraft Mod that faciliates creating 3D Models
Mod Coder Pack Tool for properly decompiling Minecraft
BON 2 182 about 2 years ago A rewrite of the Bearded Octo Nemesis project with support for ForgeGradle
Bearded Octo Nemesis 128 about 1 year ago Tool for deobfuscating with support for SRG mappings and especially the Mod Coder Pack

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