Essentials Mods [FORGE] - 1.21 RELEASE!: Minecraft Modpack

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About

Essentials Mods is a customizable collection of foundational and quality-of-life mods, intended both as a ready-to-play experience and as a base for players building their own modpacks. It adds ambient and visual touches through mods such as AmbientSounds, Ambient Environment, Falling Leaves, Visuality, and Visual Workbench, alongside over a hundred animals from Alex’s Mobs and exploration content including Alex’s Caves. World generation and exploration are expanded with structures from YUNG’s, Medieval Buildings, and Additional Structures, while Better Archeology, Better Advancements, and Better Burning provide examples of its vanilla-focused improvements. Practical additions include Inventory HUD+, FallingTree, Jade, Polymorph, and Not Enough Animations, and the pack also includes multiplayer-oriented options such as Simple Voice Chat, Security Craft, and YDM’s Weapon Master. Oculus and Xenon support shader use, and Complementary Shaders - Unbound is included as a recommended shader option.

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Content of this pack234 of 234 checked

The mods of its newest release (Minecraft 26.1.2 · NeoForge, 26 Sep 2026). Each check result is for the latest files of that mod, which may not be the version in this pack.

ProjectGradeSecurity

Just Enough Items (JEI)Mod · 725.1M downloadsAPassed

Cloth Config APIMod · 569.3M downloadsAPassed

Mouse TweaksMod · 548.3M downloadsAPassed

AppleSkinMod · 519.2M downloadsAPassed

GeckolibMod · 500.6M downloadsAPassed

BookshelfMod · 473M downloadsAPassed

Architectury APIMod · 460M downloadsAPassed

ControllingMod · 441.6M downloadsAPassed

Entity CullingMod · 425.1M downloadsAPassed

ClumpsMod · 420.4M downloadsAPassed

SodiumMod · 412.7M downloadsAPassed

JourneyMapMod · 371.8M downloadsAPassed

WaystonesMod · 354M downloadsAPassed

Jade 🔍Mod · 354M downloadsAPassed

Curios APIMod · 350M downloadsAPassed

CollectiveMod · 342.5M downloadsAPassed

PlaceboMod · 340.7M downloadsAPassed

Enchantment DescriptionsMod · 337.5M downloadsAPassed

Iris ShadersMod · 337.4M downloadsAPassed

Moonlight LibMod · 336.8M downloadsAPassed

ModernFixMod · 334.2M downloadsAPassed

Nature's CompassMod · 332.6M downloadsAPassed

ImmediatelyFastMod · 329.5M downloadsAPassed

BalmMod · 329M downloadsAPassed

FancyMenuMod · 299.4M downloadsAPassed

Changes since the previous release · 109 added, 35 removed

Compared with the release of 8 May 2026 for the same platform, Minecraft version and loader. We do not compare the versions of the projects yet.

Added: Yung Structures Addon for Loot Integrations Peaceful Hunger | UPDATED Elemental Maces Beautiful Enchanted Books [MOD EDITION]BisectHosting Server Integration Menu [NEOFORGE]AddonsLib Better Pickaxe Trims Longer Following Time GuideME Adorable Eggs Beautiful Potions [MOD EDITION]Custom Nether Portal Happy Ghasts Boost Unlocked Typing Better Swords Trims Better Crossbows Realistic Ores 3D Realistic Redstone 3D Auto Feed Animals Animated Spawn Eggs MezzConfig NightLib Applied Energistics 2 Storage Drawers MmmMmmMmmMmm Dynamic Lights Bookshelf Iron Furnaces Wither Skeleton Tweaks PlayerRevive Toast Control Better Advancements Carry On Comforts Sit Placebo Emojiful Serene Seasons Building Gadgets Kiwi 🥝Curios API Hunter's Return Traveler's Backpack Better Animations Collection Dungeon Crawl Snowballs Freeze Mobs Despawning Eggs Hatch Snow Under Trees Tom's Simple Storage Mod Connected Glass Geckolib Chunk Loaders Just Enough Professions (JEP)Architectury API Jump Over Fences MakeUp - Ultra Fast Not Enough Animations SuperMartijn642's Config Lib FramedBlocks Animal Feeding Trough Entity Culling RightClickHarvest SuperMartijn642's Core Lib Easy Magic Limited Chunkloading - Chunk cleanup Falling Leaves (NeoForge/Forge)Advanced Netherite Advancement Plaques Moonlight Lib Iceberg 3D Skin Layers Item Highlighter Macaw's Biomes O' Plenty Spyglass Improvements Dark Mode Everywhere Easy Shulker Boxes Aquaculture 2 JamLib ChoiceTheorem's Overhauled Village Complementary Shaders - Reimagined Powah! (Rearchitected)No Chat Reports SecurityCraft Explorify Visuality: Reforged Chunk Sending Better Archeology Permanent Sponges Fusion (Connected Textures)More Beautiful Torches SuperOreBlock Bagus Lib AutoMessage Golden Foods!Exclusive Weapons, Armor and Tools Fast Paintings New Shield Variants Stackable Stew and Soup More Bows and Arrows Just Enough Archaeology Illager Invasion New Slab Variants Sparse Structures Euphoria Patches Healthy Water Lithostitched Crab Claws Cobweb More Useful Copper
Removed: Fzzy Config Subtle Effects Particular ✨ Reforged Underwater Village BaguetteLib Beautiful Potions Moog's Structure Lib (moogs_structures)ItemPhysic Artifacts FallingTree Kotlin for Forge Backpacked Sodium Extra Measurements Stylish Effects Forge Config API Port ServerCore Trade Cycling Crafting on a Stick Sophisticated Storage Towns and Towers MVS - Moog's Voyager Structures YetAnotherConfigLib (YACL)Better Statistics Screen Just Hammers TCDCommons API Stoneworks Cristel Lib Nether Chested Chat Animation [Smooth Chat]MES - Moog's End Structures Macaw's Holidays MNS - Moog's Nether Structures Beautiful Enchanted Books Variants&Ventures
Share graded A or B: down 4 points

Details

Creator: Lupin
License: Not known
Downloads: 545K
Created: 24 Jun 2021
Official page: CurseForge

Security

No harmful code found in its projects

We checked all 234 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 · All 234 projects checked

Its projects
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234 projects
Files in the pack itself
669 settings files, 2 resource, shader or data packs, 1,202 other files, no mod jars.

Privacy

9 mods send something about you

We read the code of all 220 of its mods, without running it.

Entity CullingCrash reports

JourneyMapSystem details

CollectivePlayer ID

FancyMenuCrash reports

[ETF] Entity Texture FeaturesPlayer name

Not Enough AnimationsCrash reports

sparkUnknown data

3D Skin LayersCrash reports

Chunk LoadersPlayer ID

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How we checked · All 220 mods read

AI

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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Compatibility

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Includes234 projects, listed in the Overview tab.

Speed of updatesIt has no file for Minecraft versions newer than 26.1.2. Many recently updated mods still support 26.1.2.

242 releases

26.1.2NeoForge2.0.0Beta26 Sep 2026Passed

1.21.1NeoForge40.0.026 Sep 2026Not checked

1.21.1NeoForge39.0.09 Aug 2026Not checked

1.21.1NeoForge38.1.028 Jun 2026Not checked

1.21.1NeoForge38.0.031 May 2026Not checked

26.1.2NeoForge1.1.0Beta8 May 2026Not checked

26.1.2NeoForge1.0.0Beta1 May 2026Not checked

1.21.1NeoForge37.1.01 May 2026Not checked

1.21.1NeoForge37.0.015 Apr 2026Not checked

1.21.1NeoForge36.1.01 Mar 2026Not checked

1.21.1NeoForge36.0.08 Feb 2026Not checked

1.21.1NeoForge35.0.021 Jan 2026Not checked

1.21.1NeoForge34.0.026 Dec 2025Not checked

1.21.1NeoForge33.1.021 Nov 2025Not checked

1.20.1Forge89.1.021 Nov 2025Not checked

1.21.1NeoForge32.0.027 Oct 2025Not checked

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1.20.1Forge88.0.09 Oct 2025Not checked

1.21.1NeoForge30.0.021 Sep 2025Not checked

1.21.1NeoForge29.0.022 Aug 2025Not checked