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Mods

Best Minecraft mods

117 of the most-loved Minecraft mods, shader packs and modpacks, sorted by what they do. Each one has a plain-English description, the loaders and versions it supports, and a link to download it from the official page. New to mods? Start with how to install Minecraft mods.

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Essential Minecraft mods

The mods almost everyone installs first.

Sodium

Mod by jellysquid3

Rebuilds how Minecraft draws the world. Most players see far higher, steadier frame rates, and it is the base of almost every performance setup.

  • Fabric
  • NeoForge
  • Quilt
  • MC 1.16.3 to 26.3
  • 257M downloads
DetailsModrinthCurseForge

Lithium

Mod by jellysquid3

Speeds up the game logic behind mobs, redstone, physics and chunks without changing how anything behaves. Great on servers and in single-player.

  • Fabric
  • NeoForge
  • Quilt
  • MC 1.16.2 to 26.3
  • 145M downloads
DetailsModrinthCurseForge

Xaero's Minimap

Mod by thexaero

A minimap in the corner of your screen with waypoints, cave mode and nearby players and mobs.

  • Fabric
  • Forge
  • NeoForge
  • Quilt
  • MC 1.7.10 to 26.3
  • 123M downloads
DetailsModrinthCurseForge

VeinMiner

Mod by Miraculixx

Mine one block of ore or a log and the whole connected vein or tree comes with it.

  • Fabric
  • Forge
  • NeoForge
  • Quilt
  • MC 1.17 to 26.3
  • 105M downloads
DetailsModrinthCurseForge

AppleSkin

Mod by squeek502

Shows exactly how much hunger and saturation food restores, right on the hunger bar.

  • Fabric
  • Forge
  • NeoForge
  • Quilt
  • MC 1.10.2 to 26.3
  • 101M downloads
DetailsModrinthCurseForge

Jade

Mod by Snownee

Shows a small tooltip about whatever you are looking at: block name, mob health, furnace progress and the mod it comes from.

  • Fabric
  • Forge
  • NeoForge
  • Quilt
  • MC 1.16.4 to 26.3
  • 75M downloads
DetailsModrinthCurseForge

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All the Mods 10

Modpack by ATMTeam

A huge kitchen-sink pack with hundreds of mods and a final goal of crafting the Star. One of the most played packs on CurseForge.

  • NeoForge
  • MC 1.21.1
DetailsCurseForge

Java mods or Bedrock add-ons?

Everything on this page is for Minecraft: Java Edition on PC. Bedrock (consoles, phones and Windows Bedrock) uses add-ons instead of mods. See how to install Bedrock add-ons, and if you are not sure which edition you have, read Java vs Bedrock.

How to install mods

The easy way is a modding launcher such as the CurseForge app, the Modrinth App or Prism Launcher: create an instance, pick your Minecraft version and loader, and install mods with a click. Prefer doing it by hand? Our mod install guide walks through Fabric, Forge and NeoForge step by step.

Are Minecraft mods free and safe?

Almost every mod is free. Mods are programs that run on your computer, so download them only from Modrinth, CurseForge or the mod's own official site, which is where every link on this page goes. A real mod is a .jar file; never run an .exe that claims to be one.

Do mods work in Minecraft Education?

No. Java mods only run on Java Edition. Minecraft Education is built on Bedrock and is managed by schools, so it has its own lessons, worlds and Code Builder instead of mods.

Loaders, versions and download counts from Modrinth API (https://api.modrinth.com) plus project pages on CurseForge, checked 30 October 2026. xarmo is not affiliated with these projects; every link goes to the official page.