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Common Mods

Optimization / Fixes

• AI Improvements - Optimizations related to mob AI
• Alternate Current - Redstone re-implementation that improves performance
• Clumps - Experience orbs merge to reduce lag and pickup time
• FastSuite - Improves recipe performance
• Feature NBT Deadlock Be Gone - Fixes freeze during worlgen
• FerriteCore - Reduces memory usage
• LazyDFU - Delays initialization of DataFixerUpper until needed
• Radium Reforged - Various optimizations
• Spark - Performance profiler

Utility / Tweaks

• Carry On - Allows picking up blocks (like chests) and entities to relocate them
• Global GameRules - Global gamerules that are applied on world load
• GoProne - Allows going prone / crawling using a keybind (default: C)
• KubeJS - Programmatically adjust things (such as recipes) using JavaScript
  • KubeJS Botania
  • KubeJS Create
  • KubeJS Immersive Engineering
  • KubeJS Thermal
  • LootJS
• Multi Mine - Block mining progress persists and can be shared between players
• Simple Voice Chat - Proximity voice chat with many features
• Universal Bone Meal - Bonemeal works on additional blocks

Balance / Combat

• OverpoweredMending - Mending is applied to most damaged tool in inventory first
• Tax Free Levels - Fixes experience costs to not punish you when having more levels

Various Content

• Comforts - Sleeping bags that don't set your spawn and hammocks that skip day
• Compost Bag - Stores bonemeal, composts items, and can apply bonemeal in-world
• Eccentric Tome - Book for storing other guide books
• Farmer's Delight - More crops, cooking utensils, food and meals with effects
  • Copper's Delight - Adds a copper knife
  • Corn Delight - Adds corn crop with extra food items
  • Farmer's Respite - Adds brewing mechanics as well as tea
  • Steel's Delight - Adds a steel knife
  • Twilight Delight - Knives from Twilight Forest's materials and more meals
• Storage Drawers - Compact and aesthetic storage solution
  • Drawers Tooltip - Shows what's contained in a drawer after picking it up
• TorchMaster - Blocks that control mob spawning
• Quark - Various content and gameplay improvements
  • Quark Oddities - Item pipes and totem of holding (captures items on death)
    • Curious Quark Oddities Backpack - Quark backpacks equippable in back slot
• Supplementaries - Various content and decoration
• Time in a bottle standalone - Accumulate time, then use it to speed up blocks

Decoration

• Adorn - Decorative furniture blocks
• Bedspreads - Apply banners to beds
• Cooking for Blockheads - Kitchen related storage blocks and quick food crafting
• Decorative Blocks - Various different decorative building blocks
• Every Compat - Craft certain modded blocks from additional modded materials

Equipment

• Air Hop - Boots enchantment for additional mid-air jumps
• Archer's Paradox - Various new arrows with different effects
• Artifacts - Rare equippable items with unique effects
• Backpacked - Customizable, enchantable backpacks for carrying more items
• Cosmetic Armor Reworked - Wear a different set of armor that's purely cosmetic
• Curio of Undying - Equip totem of undying in your charm slot
• Curious Elytra - Equip elytra in your back slot
• Ensorcellation - Various additional enchantments
• Grappling Hook Mod - Different grappling hooks, upgrades, and enchantments
• MrCrayfish's Gun Mod - Unique, customizable and enchantable weapons
• Slimy Stuff - More uses for slime such as tools and armor
• Tetra - Craft modular weapons and tools, then improve them with use
  • Tetra Pak - Makes more materials compatible with Tetra
• Tinkers' Construct - Customizable tools, smeltery and unique items
• Tool's Complement - More tool types and tools made from more materials

Mobs

• Alex's Mobs - Adds lots of mobs, both real and fictional
• Creeper Overhaul - Unique creepers for different biomes
• Domestication Innovation - Pet related items and enchantments
• Guard Villagers - Villages have guards and other defense improving changes
• More Axolotl Variants Mod - More flavors of axolotls, some gotten through breeding
• More MobGriefing Options - Allows configuring mobGriefing per entity
• Untamed Wilds - Expands on exploration with high-quality mobs and world generation
• Villager Names - Gives villagers random names

Technology

• Applied Energistics 2 - Digital item and fluid storage, auto-crafting and more
  • Applied Botanics Addon - Store mana digitally in Applied Energistics 2
• Create - Tools and blocks for building, decoration and aesthetic automation
  • Create Chunkloading - Chunkloader that works on moving Create contraptions
  • Create Confectionery - More Create style food items
  • Create Stuff Additions - Tools, armor and utility items from Create materials
• Immersive Engineering - Electricity based technology mod with nice aesthetics
• Little Logistics - Tugboats that can follow specific paths, move items and more
  • Little Contraptions - Create contraption support for Little Logistics
• Thermal Expansion - Dynamos and machines to process materials
  • Thermal Foundation - Adds base materials and various items for the Thermal Series mods
  • Thermal Innovation - Adds upgradable, powered tools
  • Thermal Integration - Integration with other mods
• TIS-3D - Program computer modules in ASM

Magic

• Ars Nouveau - Craft custom spells and create magical artifacts
  • Ars Arsenal - Elemental robes and source steel armor
  • Ars Creo - Allows casting spells from Create contraptions
  • Ars Elemental - Additions glyphs, tweaks, equipment and mobs
  • Ars Instrumentum - More items and other utility functions
  • Too Many Glyphs - Adds additional spell glyphs
• Botania - Tech and automation disguised as flowery magic mod, with lots of toys
• Malum - Dark magic mod centered around spirit magics
• Reliquary Reincarnations - Magical relics crafted from rare mob drops

World Generation

• Awesome Dungeon - Unique dungeons to explore, conquer and loot
  • Awesome Dungeon - Ocean Edition
  • Awesome Dungeon - Nether Edition
  • Awesome Dungeon - The End Edition
• Biomes O' Plenty - Expansive biome mod to add variety to the overworld and nether
  • Compat O' Plenty - Adds variants of various modded blocks made from BoP materials
• Chunk-Pregenerator - Pregenerates the world to avoid worldgen lag
• Dungeon Crawl - Tiered dungeons with loot that gets more difficult the deeper you go
• Dungeons Enhanced - Many new structures and dungeons to explore
• Enlightened End - Adds much needed content to the end
• Integrated Dungeons and Structures - Structures that use other mods' content
• Lootr - Per-player instanced loot chests
• Repurposed Structures - Vanilla structures, repurposed for other biomes
• Stalwart Dungeons - Special nether and end dungeons with unique loot
• Terralith - Overhauls world generation, new and improved Vanilla biomes
• The Twilight Forest - A whole magical dimension to explore and progress within
• When Dungeons Arise - Massive, unique and potentially dangerous dungeons
• YUNG's Mods - Improved and additional structures
  • YUNG's Better Desert Temples
  • YUNG's Better Dungeons
  • YUNG's Better Mineshafts
  • YUNG's Better Strongholds
  • YUNG's Better Witch Huts
  • YUNG's Extras

Client-side Mods

Essential

• Configured - Improved configuration menu
• Controlling - Improved controls menu
• Just Enough Items - Look up recipes and uses for items

Optimization / Fixes

• Rubidium (recommended) - Graphical performance improvements
• Starlight - Rewritten lighting engine for improved performance

Utility

• Better Mods Button - Better location for the "mods" button
• Catalogue - Improved, prettier mod list
• Inventory Essentials - Simple ways to move single / all items around
• Inventory Hotswap - Switch out hotbar items for another from your inventory quickly
• JEI Integration - Shows additional information in item tooltip (durability, enchantability)

Information

• AppleSkin - Display nutrition information of foods and player's hunger
• Better Recipe Book - Usability improvements to the Vanilla recipe book
• Chat Heads - Display player heads next to players' chat messages
• Detail Armor Bar - Display more information about equipped armor in armor bar
• Jade - Display information about blocks / entities looked add
  • Jade Addons - More mod support for Jade
• Light Overlay - Toggle display for hostile mob spawns (default: F7)
• Toast Control - Disables all tutorial and advancement toasts
• Xaero's Minimap - Display minimap and supports creating waypoints
• Xaero's World Map - Stores and display a map of the whole world

Visual

• Distant Horizons (optional) - See further in your world with far chunks rendered at lower detail
• Ears - Customize your skin with ears, snouts, muzzles, horns, wings, ...
• Loot Beams - Shows loot beams on dropped items
• Neko's Enchanted Books - Unique textures for enchanted books
• No More Night Vision Flashing! - Removes flashing effect when night vision is running out
• Pick Up Notifier - Shows a log of items and experience picked up by the player