The Pioneers
ModpackA modpack for exploring, building, crafting machines, and practicing magic.
- Security
- Partly checked
- Privacy
- 8 send data
- Loaders
- Forge
- Minecraft versions
- Up to 1.20.1
Mod grades
How grades workModpacks get no grade of their own, so we show the grades of its mods. Of its 373 graded mods, 275 are graded A or B, 81 C and 17 D to F. Its last update came out 7 months ago, for Minecraft 1.20.1. See the mods
About
The Pioneers is a broad, customizable modpack that brings technology, magic, exploration, combat, building, and food together, with mods and recipes adjusted to work well as a collection. Its technology options include Create and its machinery-focused addons, alongside Industrial Foregoing, Forestry, Refined Storage, and TIS-3D. For magic, players can explore Ars Nouveau and its addons, Botania, and Iron’s Spells ’n Spellbooks. Exploration spans dimensions and varied terrain, including the Aether, Alex’s Caves, and Regions Unexplored, with expanded dungeons, temples, mineshafts, fortresses, and other structures. Combat and creature-focused play feature dragons from Ice and Fire, mutant monsters, bosses, mounts, and firearms through Timeless and Classics Zero and its gun packs. The pack also supports colony building with MineColonies and offers tools and materials for construction, decoration, and storage, including Building Gadgets, LittleTiles, and Sophisticated Storage. Food and farming additions include Aquaculture 2, Farmer’s Delight and its themed addons, Cooking for Blockheads, and Overweight Farming. Complementary shaders are included, with performance, shader-support, and interface enhancements also among the pack’s quality-of-life features.
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Content of this pack
The mods of its newest release (Minecraft 1.20.1 · Forge, 8 Apr 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 · 725.9M downloadsAPassed
Cloth Config APIMod · 570.7M downloadsAPassed
Mouse TweaksMod · 548.9M downloadsAPassed
AppleSkinMod · 520.1M downloadsAPassed
GeckolibMod · 501.3M downloadsAPassed
Architectury APIMod · 460.8M downloadsAPassed
ControllingMod · 441.9M downloadsAPassed
Entity CullingMod · 427.6M downloadsAPassed
JourneyMapMod · 371.8M downloadsAPassed
Jade 🔍Mod · 354.6M downloadsAPassed
Curios APIMod · 350.3M downloadsAPassed
CollectiveMod · 343.1M downloadsAPassed
PatchouliMod · 341.5M downloadsAPassed
PlaceboMod · 340.8M downloadsAPassed
Moonlight LibMod · 338.7M downloadsAPassed
ModernFixMod · 335.9M downloadsAPassed
BalmMod · 330.4M downloadsAPassed
FancyMenuMod · 299.8M downloadsAPassed
KonkreteMod · 295.6M downloadsAPassed
Puzzles LibMod · 292.9M downloadsAPassed
CreativeCoreMod · 285.1M downloadsAPassed
Better AdvancementsMod · 284.9M downloadsAPassed
ComfortsMod · 277.4M downloadsAPassed
Sophisticated BackpacksMod · 272.9M downloadsAPassed
YetAnotherConfigLib (YACL)Mod · 268.3M downloadsAPassedChanges since the previous release
Compared with the release of 28 Jan 2026 for the same platform, Minecraft version and loader. We do not compare the versions of the projects yet.
- Added
Fzzy Config
Ice And Fire Patcher
CFM Refurbished: Watt About Power?
Exposure: Polaroid
Gnetum
Create: Mobile Packages
Exposure: Expanded
Create: Hypertubes
Ixeris
Create: Transmission!
Boss Checklist
Starcatcher
Colony Guards & Pets - Ice n Fire Optional
IaFHippoPatch
Create: Sound of Steam: Tuning Wrench
[TaCZ] Refined Ammo Box
TarotCards: Remastered
Iron's Lib
Ice and Fire
AttributeFixCurios API
Armor Poser
Naturalist
Tameable Beasts
Ice and Fire: Dragon Finder- Removed
Uranus
IceAndFire Community Edition
Jupiter
Pathfinding Edition for MineColonies
CastLib
Certain Questing Additions
IAFCE - JourneyMap Support
FTB Quests (NeoForge)
FTB Library (NeoForge)
FTB Teams (NeoForge)
Create Questing
Tarot Cards
e4mc
Achievements Optimizer- Share graded A or B
- unchanged
Details
- Creator
- BBoldt
- License
- Not known
- Downloads
- 218K
- Created
- 4 Feb 2016
- Official page
- CurseForge
Security
No harmful code found in the projects we checked
We checked 376 of its 378 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 projects378 projects
- Not checked yet2 projects
- Files in the pack itself1,883 settings files, 4 scripts, 1 resource, shader or data pack, 33 other files, no mod jars.
Privacy
8 mods send something about you
We read the code of 374 of its 376 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.27 modsCollectivePlaceboMoonlight Lib
Supplementaries
Citadel
Rhino
KubeJS
Botania
Blueprint
Kiwi 🥝
Ars NouveauIce and Fire
BisectHosting Server Integration Menu
The Aether
Minecolonies
[TaCZ] Timeless and Classics Zero
Alex's Caves
Exposure
Ribbits
ChalkIron's Lib
Aether Addon: Protect Your Moa
Scholar
Json Things
One Enough Lib
Actually Subtractions
ChatImage - Crash reports or usage dataTheir author declares crash reports or usage data on Modrinth, or such a service is named in their files. Reading their code did not show it.3 mods
- Send nothingTheir code contacts no web address.339 mods
- Not read yetWe have not read their code yet.2 mods
AI
AI used in 2 of the 314 mods we checked
We found an AI tool in them, or their authors declared AI content.
18 other mods show AI use only from after this release (8 Apr 2026), so it does not apply to the versions in this pack.
62 mods are not checked yet.
Made with AI: not checked yet
We have not looked for AI tools in the pack itself 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.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 found in the descriptionChangelogs not read yet
- 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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