Ten modpacks are picking up downloads fast on CurseForge this week, based on our modpack download tracking. The picks run from ant dimensions and Naruto jutsu to horror survival, gambling, and a pack that smooths out your frame rate. Here is what each one offers, plus what to know before you put it on a server.
Integrated Boogaloo
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Integrated Boogaloo is a NeoForge pack for Minecraft 1.21.1 with over 150 mods, the add-ons that change the game. It centers on three ant dimensions, plus a King and a Queen to take on. Along the way you can build Iron Man suits and collect six stones for an Infinity Gauntlet. Lucky Blocks add more than 200 possible outcomes. An in-world ant computer called AntOS tells the story through mail, and you can ignore the story if you like. For a server, the author suggests about 1 GB of RAM, the server’s working memory, per active player, and never less than 6 GB.
Jerry.zip
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Jerry.zip is a Forge survival horror pack for Minecraft 1.20.1 about a companion you cannot trust. You wake up in a quiet world, and a friendly dog stays close. Then small things go wrong. The dog stands farther away than it should, and its behavior escalates from watching to following to hunting. Encounters are random, so no two worlds play out the same way. The pack is built on the Jerry.jar mod, which draws on LookOut2DD’s videos, and the author recommends playing in the dark with headphones.
Naruto Shinobi Legends
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Naruto Shinobi Legends brings the Naruto world to Minecraft 26.2 on NeoForge through the Naruto Destination mod. You gain levels as a shinobi, spend skill points, and learn more than 250 jutsu from a Nindo Tree, including Rasengan and Chidori. Dojutsu such as the Sharingan and Rinnegan unlock their own abilities. More than 20 modes and transformations, such as Tailed Beast Chakra Mode and Six Paths Sage Mode, push your power further. You can also pursue a Tailed Beast and become a Jinchūriki. CurseForge lists the pack as multiplayer.
Project Horror Escape
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Project Horror Escape is a Forge horror pack for Minecraft 1.20.1 where you hunt monsters with a camera. The pack has 18 monster targets to photograph, and you pin the photos to a Notice Board to track your progress. A Mission Radio operator guides you through the investigation, and story characters add dialogue along the way. Once you collect enough evidence, a GPS device calls in a helicopter, and you must survive 90 seconds under open sky. A creature drawn to your signal makes that harder. Normal and Hard difficulties set how many monsters you must photograph. The author says the pack is still in active development, with Chapter 2 now available.
Gambling Craft
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Gambling Craft turns Minecraft into a game of risk and reward on NeoForge 1.21.1. Progression runs on money, and chance-based mechanics decide whether you win rare items or lose it all. The goal on offer is to become the richest player. The screenshot shows an Item Upgrader that displays the odds of an upgrade before you commit. CurseForge lists the pack as multiplayer, with quests.
BelovodieCraft
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BelovodieCraft turns Minecraft 1.12.2 into a harder, beta-style survival game on Forge. Its goal is to expand and connect content that older versions left behind, while removing what the author sees as unnecessary. Blocks come in tiers, so tougher blocks need better tools. The pack also rebalances anvils and recipes, adds cauldron potion brewing, brings back the original Minecraft achievements, and offers original textures as an option. You are meant to discover most mechanics on your own. The author warns that it breaks all earlier saves, so start a new world. Players need OptiFine for custom entity models.
Cuboid Outpost
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Cuboid Outpost strands you on a barren planet and asks you to restart civilization. It is a Forge tech pack for Minecraft 1.16.5. It suits players new to modded Minecraft and anyone who wants something not too hard. It plays like skyblock without the skyblock: some mining, the Ex Nihilo Sequentia mod, odd recipes, and a lot of quests. New ores, items, and machines were made just for the pack. The author suggests 6 GB of RAM, though it may run on around 4 GB. This version was last updated in 2022. For Minecraft 1.20.1, the same author publishes Cuboid Outpost Luxury Edition as a separate pack.
MineCyberPunk
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MineCyberPunk drops you into a neon megacity in a Forge pack for Minecraft 1.20.1. The focus is advanced technology, automation, and energy systems, plus futuristic guns, cybernetic upgrades, and quests that structure your progress. You can explore dense urban districts and unfinished underground areas. The author builds the pack mainly in Spanish and releases English versions now and then, so look for the file marked EN. The city map is a converted version of ElysiumFire’s Cyberpunk Project Timelapse map, which was made for Minecraft 1.12.
How to Train Your Dragon: Rise of the Dragon Riders
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How to Train Your Dragon: Rise of the Dragon Riders is a Forge adventure pack for Minecraft 1.20.1 built around dragons. You find dragons in the world, tame them, train them, and ride them across islands, mountains, oceans, forests, and caves. On the ground, you build a Viking-style home with villages, docks, and fortresses, and you fight hostile creatures to improve your gear. The author calls the pack multiplayer friendly, so a group of friends can explore it together as Dragon Riders.
FPS Modpack Fork
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FPS Modpack Fork is a small Fabric pack built for smoother frame rates rather than new content. It forks the FPS Modpack by MIRRONAKE and adds four optimization mods: Lithium, FerriteCore, Entity Culling, and Dynamic FPS. Entity Culling and Dynamic FPS work client-side, which means they run in each player’s game, not on the server. In the author’s own benchmark, the pack averaged more than twice the frame rate of plain Minecraft. It has files for several versions from Minecraft 26.1 to 26.3.
Play These Modpacks on Apex Hosting
Three of this week’s picks are ready in our one-click modpack installer. They are Jerry.zip, Naruto Shinobi Legends, and How to Train Your Dragon: Rise of the Dragon Riders. Head towards your Apex server panel, open the Game File section, and search for the pack by name. You can browse every pack we support on our Modpack Server List. Check it before you order a server for another pack from this roundup.
