Curated List Of Awesome Lists

The curated list of awesome things related to Minecraft.

Minecraft is a sandbox video game developed by Mojang. The game allows players to build with a variety of different blocks in a 3D procedurally generated world, requiring creativity from players. Other activities in the game include exploration, resource gathering, crafting, and combat.

Contents

- Websites - Wiki- Forums- Archives

- Performance- Skins And Capes- Maps- Items Management- Technology- Farming And Food- Energy- Utilities- General- Exploration- Building

- Servers- Libraries- Utilities- Launchers

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.

Forums

- Minecraft Forums - Official community forums, a great place to talk about the game.- Planet Minecraft - Creative community fansite.- Minecraft Chinese Forum - Largest Chinese players community of Minecraft.

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.- BetaCraft Archive - Archives some missing Minecraft server jars.- MCPC+ Archive - Archive with some MCPC+ versions.- CraftBukkit Archive - Archives many CraftBukkit versions.

Mod Loaders

- Minecraft Forge - 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 - Everything related to modding 1.9/1.10 snapshots in one place.- RopeMC - A lightweight, reflection based mod loader which aims to be user friendly and later version independent.

Mods

Performance

- Optifine - OptiFine is a Minecraft optimization mod.- BetterFps - BetterFps is a Minecraft mod that add a few performance improvements.- Sodium (for Fabric) - A Fabric mod designed to improve frame rates and reduce micro-stutter.- Iris (for Fabric) - A Fabric mod which is based upon Sodium to add Shader support.- OptiFabric - A Fabric mod to allow Optifine to run using Fabric loader.

Skins And Capes

- Custom Skin Loader - Custom Skin Loader for Minecraft.- Universal Skin Mod - A Minecraft Forge Mod allows players load custom skin & cape textures.

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.

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!

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 - 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 - 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 - 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).

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.

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 titan launcher for mc - A Minecraft Mod about Matter, Energy and using them to conquer the world.

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.

- TNTUtils - 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).

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.

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.

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 - 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.

Server Plugins

- AntiCheatReloaded - AntiCheatReloaded helps server admins easily identify and block malicious users by monitoring and analyzing the behaviour of their players.- ViaVersion - Allows the connection of newer clients to older server versions for Minecraft servers.- AdvancedKitsReloaded - 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 - 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 - 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.

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.- Faithful - Smooth textures for a furbished default look.- BetterVanillaBuilding - Adds loads of new blocks with connected textures in optifine.

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.

Web Applications

- Blessing Skin Server - A web application brings your custom skins back in offline Minecraft servers.- yoshino - A lite & fast Minecraft skin server, written in php. (Live Demo)- WorldEdit Golf - Challenge others in a competition to use WorldEdit in as few commands as possible.

Softwares

Servers

- Paper - Miscellaneous patches for Spigot and BungeeCord providing better performance and more configuration options.- Glowstone - Formerly known as Spout and BukkitContrib. Spigot Server alternative written from scratch with performance similar to Paper.- 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.- Mohist - A server implementing the Forge and Bukkit API.- Thermos - A server implementing the Forge and Bukkit API for 1.7.10.- KCauldron - A server implementing the Forge and Bukkit API for 1.7.10.- Cauldron - Formerly known as MCPC+. The original server implementing the Forge and Bukkit API.- PowerNukkit - A powerful fork of Nukkit.- Cloudburst/NukkitX/Nukkit - A Bedrock Edition Server providing support for plugins supporting the Nukkit API.- PocketMine - A Bedrock Edition Server providing support for basic plugins.

Libraries

- CraftLib - Complete Kotlin / Java library for wrapping the entire Minecraft codebase, including protocol, NBT, schematics, chat and more.- MCProtocolLib - A simple library for communicating with a Minecraft client/server, written in Java.- node-minecraft-protocol - A NodeJS library to parse and serialize minecraft packets, plus authentication and encryption.- go-mcproto - Minecraft server communication protocol implementation written in Go that allows you to program your own bots.

Utilities

- Minecraft Command Helper - A WPF Program about generate Minecraft Command (with NBT data). (Windows Only)- Minecraft Command Science - Several Minecraft vanilla JSON generators.- Amidst - Display an overview of a Minecraft world, without actually creating it.

Launchers

- MultiMC - A custom launcher for Minecraft that allows you to easily manage multiple installations of Minecraft at once.- HMCL - A powered Minecraft launcher that supports a lot of features.

Development

- FML Mod Development Tutorial - (Chinese) Minecraft 1.8.9 FML Mod Development Tutorial.- SchematicWebViewer - 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 - A rewrite of the Bearded Octo Nemesis project with support for ForgeGradle.- Bearded Octo Nemesis - Tool for deobfuscating with support for SRG mappings and especially the Mod Coder Pack.