Vanilla Forge Essentials
ModpackVanilla Minecraft with Forge and client-side mods that provides quality-of-life features.
Mod grades
How grades workModpacks get no grade of their own, so we show the grades of its mods. Of its 54 graded mods, 35 are graded A or B, 6 C and 13 D to F. Its last update came out 5.5 years ago, for Minecraft 1.16.5. See the mods
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About
Vanilla Forge Essentials is a client-side quality-of-life modpack that keeps ordinary Minecraft gameplay intact, adding no new blocks, items, or world generation and allowing players to continue on existing worlds. It combines a minimap and world map with a light-level overlay, configurable grid, zoom, and tools for finding ore generation and viewing mob drops and block drops. Everyday interface and inventory features include a fullscreen advancements screen, keybind management, item sorting and mouse-based inventory moves, sign editing, a trash slot, and tooltips that reveal shulker-box contents. JEI displays items and recipes, while its companion information tools provide details such as enchantment descriptions, mob drops, and ore generation. Builders can project shapes such as circles and spheres into the world, view a configurable grid, and use small terrain and building conveniences such as paths under gates and converting dirt to path blocks. Other practical tweaks include faster leaf decay in singleplayer, faster ladder climbing, named villagers, bee information for beehives, damage indicators, and a death chest that keeps a player's items from despawning. The pack also includes performance-oriented tweaks and small fixes, and can serve as a template for people building their own modpacks.
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Mods in this pack
The mods of its newest release (Minecraft 1.16.5 · Forge, 6 May 2021). 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
BookshelfMod · 473M downloadsAPassed
Architectury APIMod · 460M downloadsAPassed
ControllingMod · 441.6M downloadsAPassed
ClumpsMod · 420.4M downloadsAPassed
Xaero's MinimapMod · 377.5M downloadsBPassed
CollectiveMod · 342.5M downloadsAPassed
Enchantment DescriptionsMod · 337.5M downloadsAPassed
Xaero's World MapMod · 330.9M downloadsBPassed
Better AdvancementsMod · 284.7M downloadsAPassed
Just Enough Resources (JER)Mod · 251.9M downloadsAPassed
Fast Leaf DecayMod · 193.4M downloadsCPassed
NetherPortalFixMod · 192.1M downloadsAPassed
Crafting TweaksMod · 189.5M downloadsAPassed
AI Improvements: Performance TuningMod · 173.6M downloadsAPassed
TrashSlotMod · 135.8M downloadsAPassed
FTB Ultimine (NeoForge)Mod · 119.5M downloadsAPassed
ReAuthMod · 114M downloadsDPassed
SwingThroughGrassMod · 100.7M downloadsCPassed
Villager NamesMod · 83.9M downloadsAPassed
RandomPatches (Forge)Mod · 80.1M downloads-Passed
Inventory EssentialsMod · 54.3M downloadsAPassed1 file not listed: no matching project found.
Details
- Creator
- dreams01
- License
- Not known
- Downloads
- 38K
- Created
- 20 Feb 2018
- Official page
- CurseForge
Security
No harmful code found in its mods
We checked all 57 mods 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 projects57 mods
- Files in the pack itself54 settings files, no mod jars.
Privacy
3 mods send something about you
We read the code of all 57 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.5 mods
- Send nothingTheir code contacts no web address.49 mods
AI
AI used in 2 of the 39 mods we checked
We found an AI tool in them, or their authors declared AI content.
18 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.
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 found2 of 16 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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