Essentials Mods
ModpackA starter pack of essential mods to build on.
Mod grades
How grades workModpacks get no grade of their own, so we show the grades of its mods. Of its 201 graded mods, 190 are graded A or B, 11 C and none D to F. Its last update came out 2 days ago, for Minecraft 26.1.2. See the mods
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About
Essentials Mods is a lightweight foundation for other modpacks and personal customizations, while also aiming to provide a more enjoyable Minecraft experience on its own. It adds immersive ambience and visual touches through mods such as AmbientSounds, Ambient Environment, Falling Leaves, and Visuality, alongside quality-of-life tools including Inventory HUD+, FallingTree, Jade, and Polymorph. For exploration and new content, the pack includes more than a hundred animals through Alex’s Mobs and adds structures from YUNG’s mods, Medieval Buildings, and Additional Structures. It also brings vanilla-focused improvements such as Better Archeology, Better Advancements, and Better Burning, and supports shaders through Oculus and Xenon, with Complementary Shaders - Unbound included as a recommendation. Multiplayer-oriented additions include Simple Voice Chat, Security Craft, and YDM’s Weapon Master.
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Content of this pack
The mods of its newest release (Minecraft 26.1.2 · NeoForge, 13 May 2026). 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
Cloth Config APIMod · 569.3M downloadsAPassed
Mouse TweaksMod · 548.3M downloadsAPassed
AppleSkinMod · 519.2M downloadsAPassed
ControllingMod · 441.6M downloadsAPassed
ClumpsMod · 420.4M downloadsAPassed
SodiumMod · 412.7M downloadsAPassed
JourneyMapMod · 371.8M downloadsAPassed
Jade 🔍Mod · 354M downloadsAPassed
CollectiveMod · 342.5M downloadsAPassed
Enchantment DescriptionsMod · 337.5M downloadsAPassed
Iris ShadersMod · 337.4M downloadsAPassed
ModernFixMod · 334.2M downloadsAPassed
Nature's CompassMod · 332.6M downloadsAPassed
ImmediatelyFastMod · 329.5M downloadsAPassed
BalmMod · 329M downloadsAPassed
FancyMenuMod · 299.4M downloadsAPassed
KonkreteMod · 295.2M downloadsAPassed
Puzzles LibMod · 291.5M downloadsAPassed
CreativeCoreMod · 284.6M downloadsAPassed
[ETF] Entity Texture FeaturesMod · 272.2M downloadsAPassed
YetAnotherConfigLib (YACL)Mod · 266.4M downloadsAPassed
AttributeFixMod · 258.1M downloadsAPassed
Complementary Shaders - ReimaginedShader · 253.4M downloadsAPassed
[EMF] Entity Model FeaturesMod · 252.9M downloadsAPassedDetails
Security
No harmful code found in its projects
We checked all 129 projects and the files in the pack itself, without running them.
Why we show this: a modpack installs the files of its mods, and each mod runs on your computer like any program. Our checks look for known signs of harm. They cannot prove that a file is harmless. In the grade: a modpack has no grade of its own, and each mod's result counts in that mod's grade.
How we checked
- Its projects129 projects
- Files in the pack itself327 settings files, 351 other files, 20 mod jars.
- Author on ModrinthThe disclosure form on Modrinth, where the author declares that the project reads or edits things on your system outside the game. Since 13 Aug 2026, Modrinth's rules require it when this applies.Nothing declared about your system outside the game.
Privacy
5 mods send something about you
We read the code of all 117 of its mods, without running it.
Why we show this: a modpack runs the code of its mods, and a mod can send things about you over the internet, like your player name or your login. Contacting an address to check for updates or download files sends nothing about you. Not in the grade: sending data can be normal for what a mod does.
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.108 mods
AI
AI used in 20 of the 117 mods we checked
We found an AI tool in them, or their authors declared AI content.
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.
Why we show this: some players and servers avoid projects made with AI, and AI in the game can send what you write to an online service. Not in the grade: using AI does not tell whether a project works well or is kept up to date.
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.No AI content declared.
- Description and changelogsThe description, project page and newest changelogs: sentences saying an AI tool was used, and text pasted from an AI chat.Nothing found14 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
See all 14 filesPoint at or tap a version to see its loaders.