The Vanilla Experience | TVE

The Vanilla Experience is a lightweight vanilla+ modpack that adds configurable quality-of-life changes and gameplay tweaks while keeping worlds interchangeable with unmodded Minecraft saves, including saves that remain usable after removing the mods. Its everyday conveniences include opening nearby doors automatically, riding horses without saddles, crafting experience bottles, moving boats and minecarts without breaking them, and using quick-access functions for items such as beds, crafting tables, ender chests, and shulker boxes. Building and resource gathering are streamlined with ore-vein harvesting, instant tree and huge-mushroom harvesting with fast leaf decay and sapling placement, quick path creation, expanded sponge absorption, and easier placement of beacon and conduit bases. Other practical changes include configurable crop replanting, expanded bone-meal uses, recycling metal-containing items in furnaces, finding minerals in stone underground, and making kelp work as bone meal. World travel and survival gain options such as campfire-based respawn points with brief fire resistance, healing campfires, smaller Nether portals, underground beacons, craftable and movable End portals, and a ritual for stopping rain. The pack also changes encounters and creature behavior: bogged, breezes, cave spiders, husks, mooshrooms, giants, skeleton horses, strays, and zombie horses can spawn naturally, while flower mimics can turn into monsters at night and spiders can produce webs. Additional creature and loot tweaks include periodic ghast tears near players, respawning shulkers, configurable mob-head drops, and the option for piglins and hoglins to survive in the Overworld. For longer-term play, Pumpkillager's Quest offers a story with custom encounters, rewards, and a boss fight, while the Dragon can drop an elytra and players can protect their death items in a chest and armor stand. The collection also includes interface and multiplayer conveniences such as HUD clocks and compasses, GUI lists of nearby tamed followers, named regions with join and leave messages, randomized village names, and configurable starter gear for new players. The pack bundles 147 of Serilum's mods and the Collective library, and its included mods can be configured, with some behaviors offering adjustable settings such as despawn times, fire spread, and mob drops.