By far, one of the most enjoyable features of a Minecraft server is that you can customize it past Vanilla. However, in order to customize the vanilla gameplay, you will need to utilize mods. Mods will change the aspect of Minecraft and give players an increase in options on how they interact with the world. With such a large selection of mods, the possibilities of enhancements are endless. These customizations added by mods can include features such as RPG elements, new worlds/dimensions, new mobs, blocks, items, NPCs that can be interacted with, and so much more. While the idea of these additional features sounds great, mods can be tricky to install if you have not done so before. Unlike plugins, mods must be installed both client-side and server-side. In order to add mods, both the players and the server must have Forge installed. This is why we have a Knowledgebase full of useful tutorials for a variety of popular mods that will teach you how to install, configure, and use each mod.
In Minecraft, food and saturation are pretty vague and unexplained. Not a lot of people are aware of the exact values, or even the purpose of the mechanics that surround this aspect of the game. What are hunger points? What determines how slowly...
While creating your magnificent castle or mansion in Minecraft, it can become tiresome to continuously place blocks. This may lead some players to find an easier building method, as spending too much time on it can be irritating. Instead of using cheats...
As you adventure through a Minecraft server, many players will eventually find their way into The End. Whether it’s to fight the dragon or to obtain loot, the land is barren with little excitement. Aside from the occasional End City or chorus plant, t...
In vanilla Minecraft, collecting and storing items is a primary feature. As you collect more items, you may find that constantly using the same storage methods become unconventional in both functionality and aesthetics. Introducing the BiblioCraft mod,...
Minecraft is a beautiful game with many biomes, and a large part of the appeal is how diverse the landscapes can really be. Dozens upon dozens of different environments end up in a truly varied experience. No world is similar to another, and it’s a s...
When you first spawn into a new Minecraft vanilla world, the first course of action is almost always to chop down a tree and gather wood. While this is fine in the early game, many may find it troublesome that after playing for hours and upgrading their...
Minecraft is a beautiful game. The varied landscapes and limitless building possibilities make for a rich and detailed experience that simply can’t be found anywhere else. But with all this beauty comes the stone-cold truth that plagues us all. M...
When playing vanilla Minecraft, building is a massive part of the gameplay. However after some time, you may find using the same materials monotonous and desire more to work with in order to have significantly more details. Introducing Chisels &...
When playing on your Minecraft Forge server, you or other players may have difficulty accessing ender chests or crafting tables in certain scenarios. When this situation arises, server owners may want to remotely access these features among other things....
When it comes to surviving in Minecraft, food is a resource that is non-negotiable. Whether it’s from fighting mobs or exploring the world, hunger will always be on your tail. While there are many food options and plenty of mods to add even more, keeping t...
When playing through vanilla Minecraft, many players choose to automate their gameplay so they can focus on alternative tasks. AFK farms, auto-smelters, and more are fun, but are often limited in their design. For others, more automation opportunities...
After playing vanilla Minecraft, you may become tired of the lack of proper decorations. There are ways to get creative and make your own using normal blocks, but they often lack functionality or looks. Look no further with DecoCraft, a mod dedicated...
As you play through Minecraft, efficiency is often the difference between tedious work and playing at your own pace. Throughout the game you may build mob farms, storage arrays, and much more to make life easier. These are often tricky, however, as the...
Food is a necessity in the world of Minecraft, allowing you to feed your character and keep exploring the world. No matter the source, a steady amount of food must be farmed to keep up with the demand, especially when playing with others. This can become...
Transport and weapons are a staple part of a vanilla Minecraft server, whether you use horses to explore vast distances or defend yourself with swords against creatures lurking in the dark. Many players feel that these options are too lackluster, however,...
Overview As you play through vanilla Minecraft, the endless gameplay loop can become tedious after a while. Many Minecraft servers deploy the use of plugins, which can add new commands and features to improve player interaction. This may become problematic...
As you play through vanilla Minecraft, you are sure to encounter some of the various available trades. Whether you hang out in a village or wait for a wandering trader, they can provide easy access to useful items. Many feel that the trades are not as...
Building in Minecraft is a relaxing experience, possibly even the most important part of the game, but as fun as it is, placing blocks one by one can easily become tedious. Large structures have hundreds, if not thousands of blocks in them, and putting...
Minecraft has a lot of flowers, but they don’t have a lot of uses. It’s nice to be able to dye your bed or give a poppy to your favorite golem, but it would be nice if they could be used for more. This is where mods like Botania come in to help budding bot...
Minecraft has had a basic magic system that has been very slowly growing since it was first introduced. It is possible to find vestiges of magic at enchanting tables, or by crossing an illusioner. Unfortunately, many players find the magic systems native...
With each passing update, Minecraft is often adding new items and features to the game. Oftentimes, players will desire features that are not yet added or the base game is missing. Many mods exist to add new features, but do not focus as much on the vanilla-like...
Transportation is a staple part of the Minecraft server experience in both survival and creative game modes. Whether it is traveling by minecart, crossing the seas in a boat, or soaring with an elytra, this movement is both fun and useful. While there...
In the vast world of vanilla Minecraft, animals and mobs are found almost everywhere. From the fish in the oceans to the cows on land, each animal has their own use in your survival adventure. While mobs are often added throughout the game’s various u...
Those who explore the world of vanilla Minecraft are used to finding various structures. These can range from simple villages to loot-filled pyramids. While these are extremely beneficial to find, they can be tough to track down. This often becomes tedious,...
As you play through vanilla Minecraft, you become overly familiar with each task that must be completed to advance your gameplay. Whether it’s making mob farms, mining, or growing food, these tasks are often simple enough but become repetitive. Many m...
As you play throughout a Minecraft world, animals are a wandering resource for food and other items. It can become pretty boring to constantly breed and kill the animals, especially if a player wants to run a proper farm. Introducing Animania, a Minecraft...
Biomes make up the entirety of Minecraft, constantly changing and waiting to be explored. Whether you are in the depths of the Nether or building an overworld base, there are tons of biomes to be found with their own quirks. In some cases, you may need...
Since Minecraft was first released, the community and developers have worked together to improve the game. The developers try to include the most popular requests, but some suggestions get left behind. Luckily Minecraft’s active modding community works h...
In the vast world of Minecraft, there are tons of blocks and items to use and explore. While there are additions across each main update, many players turn to mods to satiate their desire for more experiences. There are many mods that achieve this, but...
Playing vanilla Minecraft can be very entertaining for most players, but many will forget the sheer size of the world. We become so accustomed to the building and combat mechanics that we begin to take it for granted. This is no longer the case with ViveCraft,...
Vanilla Minecraft is no stranger to survival gameplay, especially considering it is the game’s core premise. While new features are constantly added, the early game has remained relatively unchanged, constantly having players perform the same tasks t...
Simple Voice Chat is a proximity chat mod and plugin that allows you to chat with other nearby players without having to join a discord server or voice channel. This mod gives an extra level of immersion to the game and is a must have for any server....
When playing through a vanilla Minecraft world, challenging the Ender Dragon is often the final test of your strength. Ever since that point, players often desire a way to tame and use their own dragons. While many mods and plugins have existed to achieve...
Playing on your Minecraft world involves resource management and organization, as collecting items takes up inventory slots. This can quickly become overwhelming for some players, especially if they are in mid-combat against enemies. Luckily, if you use...
Whether you are playing vanilla or modded Minecraft, there is always the risk of losing track of your position. This can become more troublesome the further you travel and the more locations to discover. Trying to write down coordinates can be tedious...
As you play through a Minecraft world, recipes are crucial to create any block or tool that you’ll need to use. This is especially true when playing with mods, as learning new recipes can be confusing for unfamiliar players. While searching for crafting i...
Oh, the beauty of 3rd party launchers. Ever since who knows when, Minecrafters have been using 3rd party launchers to play their favorite block game with extra features, better optimization, more settings, and much more. But why should you use...
As you play through a Minecraft Server, many players enjoy building in elevated areas such as mountains. Alongside this, many choose to construct bridges to navigate the heights safely, but vanilla blocks are often not considered detailed enough. This...
While Minecraft is all about exploring and gathering resources, many players will need a place to call home. While some may only add the bare minimum to their base, lots of others will decorate their house to add furniture and more. While this is fun,...
Modded servers are such a fragile side to Minecraft. They require so many plugins or mods to optimize the absolute heck out of em’ to relative success. Despite this, when a lot of players are running around having fun, entities tend to stack up. Server v...
When playing modded Minecraft, you may eventually find yourself with way too many keybinds. Oftentimes, mods will use the same key with different uses, making it difficult to find conflicts. In addition, when you have tons of mods, you may find difficulty...
Vanilla Minecraft has always been very straightforward with its tools and armor, very rarely providing new tiers to unlock and work towards. To combat this, many mods will add new items and blocks, but they are often replaced as someone gathers new ores....
While playing on a Minecraft world, you may run out of space in your ender chest despite having shulker boxes inside them. This restricted storage can pose issues to you or other players since it limits how many items you can bring when exploring or making...
When playing on a Minecraft server, there are often commands that are available to the players. While plugins like EssentialsX provide new commands and settings, Forge servers do not have easy access to these features. This problematic situation is resolved...
Ever since redstone was introduced to Minecraft, players have been wanting to build bigger and better machines in the game. Being able to automate everything has become a popular pastime for redstone engineers. Immersive Engineering augments this aspect...
Items and storage are a huge part of Minecraft. To put it bluntly, items add up. Your inventory fills, stuff starts hovering on the ground rather than being picked up. You feel the need to make a storage room of sorts, which inevitably turns into...
Exploring your Minecraft world to find hidden treasures such as shipwrecks or temples can take a long time, leading to a desire for alternatives. There are other structures containing rare equipment or materials, but are even harder to find in-game and...
Throughout Minecraft, locating or constructing villages can be an entertaining pastime for both aesthetics or to feel a sense of completion. Normally, you would be responsible for constructing all of the buildings yourself and the villagers would act...
Minecraft is a complex game, featuring hundreds of different items and recipes making it very easy to get lost in keeping track of all of them. Add Minecraft mods on top of that, and it becomes downright unwieldy. The in-game recipe viewer can be of help,...
As the name suggests, mining is a massive part of Minecraft, allowing you to obtain ores to further your arsenal. After some time, you may find the process of looking for ores to be time consuming, which is perpetuated when adding mods to your game. When...
When you spawn into your world in Minecraft, you always start out the same. You’re just a dude. A simple Steve who has nothing but the ambitions and drive for the future, which is cool and all, but haven’t you ever wished for more? What if I t...
Whether you are playing vanilla or modded Minecraft, you may eventually become overrun with the amount of items you have. The more chests that you create, the more disorganized that you may become, desiring a new method to organize your items. Introducing...
Tools and weapons are a huge part of Minecraft, in that they are how most of us get anything done. Whether it’s breaking blocks, fighting monsters, or tiling farmland, they’re the conduit for which our character interacts with the world. Although thi...
Minecraft has an ever-expanding world with beautiful landscapes, awesome biomes, amazing structures, deep caves, and more. Sadly, not all of those are in the same place all the time. In fact, it’s fairly typical they’re as far away from each other as ...
If you don’t know what Shaders are, they’re basically a new way of rendering light and shadows to mimic realistic lighting in a better way. Minecraft has a simple design that we can all appreciate, but if you ever want to experience the iconic blocky gam...
In vanilla Minecraft, mobs build the atmosphere of the world, whether they are peaceful animals or hostile creatures in the dark. Many of these mobs, especially bosses, are fun to fight but lack a substantial reward for doing so. This issue is solved...
When playing vanilla minecraft for a long time, you may become tired of using vanilla blocks to try getting basic furniture. Introducing MrCrayfish’s Furniture Mod, a mod designed to add many new furniture blocks to your world, many of which are fully f...
When playing vanilla minecraft, a large part of the gameplay is travelling to other dimensions for exploration. But after some time, the burning Nether and sprawling End may become boring, leading you to want something new to explore. Introducing MystCraft,...
Minecraft is well known for its many passive and hostile mobs, with some having more health than others. This can be inconvenient while players fight them, as there isn’t a way to see their HP. Solving this problem will make combat easier since you’d be ...
As you explore or build in vanilla Minecraft, biomes make up the entirety of the world. From vast deserts to tall forests, each one is unique and has its own charm. As you gain years of experience, however, the existing biomes become predictable and monotonous....
Minecraft, from a technical standpoint, is a marvel. Infinite world generation, complex cave ecosystems, dimensions, flying, and much more. While it seems simple enough, coding these sorts of features is an immense and challenging task and optimizing...
Minecraft mods can add a wide variety of features and custom items to what is already a very expansive game. Many players enjoy custom tech mods or even mods that add brand new dimensions to the game for exploration. One other very popular category of...
Minecraft has many different items to collect, which can easily fill up your inventory. Managing what types of materials you’ve gathered can become overwhelming, especially if you’re mining. This may lead players to search for solutions to the scenario, whi...
Many players and server owners alike try to introduce magic in Minecraft, likely with mods. Most of the time, these changes are from modpacks, a large collection of modifications. All of these addons can easily become overwhelming to people looking for...
Exploring your Minecraft world reveals countless unique structures across its many biomes, with some being more desirable than others. Unfortunately, most of these are biome-specific and will not generate in different ones. This can make the world appear...
As each player experiences a Minecraft server, everyone has their own playstyle. Whether you brew potions, farm for crops, or decorate houses, there are many paths to choose from. Aside from small changes here and there, each of these play styles have...
The Walking Dead, The Last of Us, The Mist. One of our worst fears as humans revolve around the concept of a parasitic, malformed recreation of living creatures. It haunts us, to say the least. Scape and Run: Parasites incarnates this fear in the form...
As you play through vanilla Minecraft, your home base will often become a place of vital importance. Whether it’s because of the valuables stored inside or due to the effort to create it, most players will want to protect their home from mobs and enemy p...
Tall grass is such an odd thing in Minecraft. You can walk through it, yet you can’t swing through it. Since the dawn of time, my inability to swipe my blade through somewhat tall grass has been the bane of my existence, especially when trying t...
Exploring in Minecraft leads players on unique adventures, especially in servers with others. Whether you’re surviving in the Nether or flying around in The End, these areas offer a wide variety of activities to enjoy. However, over the years the game c...
Minecraft is a vast world, covered in interesting structures, dangerous mobs, and loot. These can be fun to explore, but the generic world may become boring after a while. Many mods exist to quell this issue and add new places, but many do not replicate...
Flying in Minecraft has been around for years, especially with newer versions due to elytras. However, players in 1.7.10 don’t have the luxury of flight, as cheating is the only viable way to achieve it. This can be problematic for some, as cheating t...
Creating redstone machines on your Minecraft world allows for many unique creations, but there aren’t too many available options. This leads to a desire to locate more possibilities so you may develop custom machinery or technological items. Thermal...
Tools and weapons are the lifeblood of Minecraft survival gameplay and are responsible for all of the obtainable progress. Whether it’s mining for ores or cutting down enemy mobs, they are indispensable. Many believe that they can be expanded even further, w...
Players in Minecraft will likely notice the abundance of items and materials to collect when joining their world. While there may be good ones to loot, sadly a common scenario is gathering many useless blocks, filling up your inventory slots. This may...
In vanilla Minecraft, part of the fun is travelling to other dimensions such as the end to fight the dragon and explore. However after this, there is little to do in these areas. Introducing The Twilight Forest, a mod that aims to add a whole new dimension...
Within vanilla Minecraft, there are many structures that can be found scattered throughout your world. While this is the case, very few provide a dungeon-like feel, aside from strongholds and end fortresses. After prolonged gameplay, players may turn...
While traveling throughout your Minecraft world, there are many regions that remain unexplored and could contain useful items or the perfect spot to make a base. Locating these can be challenging without knowledge of the coordinates or prior experience...
