Better Than Minecolonies Getting Started (BTMCGS)
ModpackMinecolonies Getting Started with more tech and magic.
Mod grades
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About
Better Than Minecolonies Getting Started expands a MineColonies-focused starting experience with additional technology and magic content. Alongside building and developing a colony, players can pursue advanced technology or experiment with Primal Magick, and use Applied Energistics 2, CC: Tweaked, and other tech-oriented additions. The pack also supports home-building and decoration with furniture and mirrors, and adds practical household details such as a toilet, while MineColonies’ Domum Ornamentum provides a further building-focused component. For everyday play, the pack includes conveniences such as Sophisticated Backpacks, Waystones, Nature’s Compass, Biomes O’ Plenty, and JourneyMap.
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Mods in this pack
The mods of its newest release (Minecraft 1.17.1 · Forge, 11 May 2022). Each check result is for the latest files of that mod, which may not be the version in this pack.
Just Enough Items (JEI)Mod · 725.1M downloadsAPassed
Mouse TweaksMod · 548.3M downloadsAPassed
AppleSkinMod · 519.2M downloadsAPassed
Architectury APIMod · 460M downloadsAPassed
ControllingMod · 441.6M downloadsAPassed
JourneyMapMod · 371.8M downloadsAPassed
WaystonesMod · 354M downloadsAPassed
Curios APIMod · 350M downloadsAPassed
CollectiveMod · 342.5M downloadsAPassed
PlaceboMod · 340.7M downloadsAPassed
Nature's CompassMod · 332.6M downloadsAPassed
BalmMod · 329M downloadsAPassed
FancyMenuMod · 299.4M downloadsAPassed
KonkreteMod · 295.2M downloadsAPassed
Better AdvancementsMod · 284.7M downloadsAPassed
CreativeCoreMod · 284.6M downloadsAPassed
Biomes O' PlentyMod · 272.8M downloadsAPassed
Sophisticated BackpacksMod · 272.2M downloadsAPassed
PolymorphMod · 256.9M downloadsAPassed
Applied Energistics 2Mod · 236M downloadsAPassed
Iron ChestsMod · 224.2M downloadsAPassed
Default OptionsMod · 196.6M downloadsAPassed
Fast Leaf DecayMod · 193.4M downloadsCPassed
Crafting TweaksMod · 189.5M downloadsAPassed
Caelus APIMod · 179.3M downloadsCPassedChanges since the previous release
Compared with the release of 10 Dec 2021 for the same platform, Minecraft version and loader. We do not compare the versions of the mods yet.
- Added
Kreezxil's Compressed Blocks, 
Better With Minecolonies and 
BisectHosting Server Integration Menu- Removed
Desired Servers- Share graded A or B
- unchanged
Details
- Creator
- kreezxil
- License
- Not known
- Downloads
- 21K
- Created
- 17 Oct 2019
- Official page
- CurseForge
Security
No harmful code found in its mods
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How we checked
- Its projects75 mods
- Files in the pack itself160 settings files, 23 other files, no mod jars.
Privacy
3 mods send something about you
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How we checked
- Go online onlyTheir code contacts a web address, for example to check for updates. We found nothing it sends about you.4 mods
- Send nothingTheir code contacts no web address.68 mods
AI
AI used in 4 of the 58 mods we checked
We found an AI tool in them, or their authors declared AI content.
17 mods are not checked yet.
No sign so far that AI was used to make the pack itself
We looked for AI tools in its texts and found none.
We have not read its files and images yet.
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How we checked
- Author on ModrinthThe disclosure form on Modrinth. Since 13 Aug 2026, Modrinth's rules require it when a substantial part of the code is AI output, when an asset is mainly AI output, or when the project or its page relies on generative AI.Not on Modrinth.
- Description and changelogsThe description, project page and newest changelogs: sentences saying an AI tool was used, and text pasted from an AI chat.Nothing found2 of 40 changelogs read
- Its filesFiles that AI coding tools leave behind (like AGENTS.md), and the texts inside the files you download.Not read yet
- Images in its filesHidden data in the images of the files you download, where AI image tools write their name and settings.Not read yet
Compatibility
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