Mods/Aesthetic
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| Aesthetic and Functional Mods | |||||||
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| Name | Description | Version | Link | Latest Release | Requires API | Author | SMP compatible |
| AutoSwitch | Automatically switches to the correct tool when mining a block and automatically switches to the best weapon when attacking a mob or player, taking into account multiple things such as tool/weapon strength, enchantments, and damageability. It also switches back when you are done for easy building. Works in SSP and SMP. Supports items and blocks added by mods and enchantments. | 4.3.0 | 1.7.2 | N/A | Thebombzen | Yes | |
| BetterSnow | BetterSnow improves vanilla snow in various ways such as increasing the number of levels, making snowfall build up snowdrifts, and causing snow to slow down mobs walking through it. | 1.6.4c | 1.6.4 | N/A | acomputerdog | N/A | |
| Better World Generation 4 | Improved customizable default generator, new biomes, Old world generation (beta, alpha, infdev and indev), farlands without lag, infinite indev worlds, better dungeon loot and cage dungeons, a realistic worldtype, survival island and skyland, skyblock survival, sky dimension (with nether skylands) and bigger rivers. | 1.1.9 | 1.6.4 | N/A | ted80 | Yes | |
| BuddyCam | View your friends "View" in SMP. Works only if he's near you (140 Blocks) and if he allows it. | 1.6.2 | 1.6.2 | N/A | romibi | Yes | |
| Camera Studio | This mod is addressed to anyone who wants to make a video in-game and have an in depth control over the camera displacement. It allows you to create a path that the player will automatically follow. Useful for creating impressive Timelapses and Showcases. | 2.9 | 1.6.4 | No | Sushen | Yes | |
| ChatLog | Want to store all chat on a server without having to take screenshots all the time? This mod automatically logs all chat, with colors, to the hard drive. | 1.4.0.46 | 1.8.4 | N/A | bilde2910 | Yes | |
| Click Mining Fix Fix | Speed up all mining everywhere! | 1.6.2 | 1.6.2 | No | IDontEvenKnow | N/A | |
| Condensed Blocks | Adds store Blocks for nearly all blocks, with them you can store 46656 - 419904 Blocks in one slot! | 3.6.0 | 1.6.4 | N/A | Fenrir00 | Yes | |
| Death Chest | If you have a chest in your inventory when you die, it will be placed where you die, or in the closest available spot. The chest will be filled with as many items as possible. Any excess that won't fit in the chest will be dropped. | 1.6.2 | 1.6.2 | N/A | Risugami | No | |
| Dragon Mounts | Lets you hatch and ride an Ender Dragon in Minecraft! The dragon has features such as custom sounds, health and it follows you around when tamed! | r33 | 1.6.4 | N/A | BarracudaATA | Yes | |
| Dynamic Lights | Adds "shiny" attribute to items, allowing handheld or thrown light sources. | 1.7.2 | 1.7.2 | N/A | AtomicStryker | Yes | |
| Enchanting Plus | It's no fun to spend a long time grinding experience, only to spend it all on a worthless enchantment you didn't want to begin with. Better Enchanting fixes that. | 1.16.2 | 1.6.2 | N/A | Qizzok (maintained by xkyouchoux) | N/A | |
| EnchantView | This shows what the enchantment table will give you BEFORE you click on the enchantment. Just move your mouse over the enchantment and a little box will pop up telling you what item you will get if you click it. | 3.12.0 | 1.6.4 | N/A | Thebombzen | N/A | |
| FpsPlus(FPS++) | This mod increases the frames per second(FPS) by shrinking Minecraft's Sin and Cos look-up tables to a reasonable size. | 1.6.2 | 1.6.2 | No | abandenz(Original-Fishtaco) | Yes | |
| Hit Splat Damage Indicators | This mod shows a Mob portrait preview with current health when you mouse over mobs as well as damage indicators when attacking mobs. | 3.0.5 | 1.7.2 | N/A | rich1051414 | Yes | |
| Inventory Tweaks | Allows to sort your inventory and your chests, and replace any broken tools and emptied stacks by others from your inventory. Fully customizable, and works in both single and multiplayer. | 1.56 | 1.6.2 | N/A | Jimeowan | Yes | |
| iPixeli's Female Gender Option Mod | Being for minecraft girls, this mod has the option to turn the player into a female and sticks to the minecraft-y style. The female default (Steve equivalent) is called "Steph" (short for Stephanie). The mod comes with different female models and the female voice. You can choose which model you want to use, and what you want the others to be. As well as adding the female gender, this mod adds a 'male' gender that isn't as gruff as Steve. | 1.6.4 | 1.6.4 | N/A | iPixeli | Yes | |
| LumberJack | LumberJack mod allows you to cut down entire trees with one swing of your axe! | 1.6.4c | 1.6.4 | N/A | acomputerdog | N/A | |
| Material Detector | Shows the surrounding environment with possibility to indicate the position of some specific materials like diamond or iron (or whatever you want). Useful to search and dig efficiently some rare materials. | 3.1 | 1.7.4 | N/A | Ellian | Yes | |
| MAtmos | This mod is a sound atmosphere generator. Whenever you play on any multiplayer server or in singleplayer, it scans your surroundings and generates natural noises as a soundscape, such as birds chirpling in the forest, rumbling noises near a lava lake or wind gusts on a hilltop. This mod fills out the perpetual silence of Minecraft. | r25 | 1.6.2 | N/A | Hurricaaane | Yes | |
| MineCapes | Unified cape directory & mod - Trying to bring (HD) capes to the masses | 2.0 | 1.6.2 | N/A | DerFlash | Yes | |
| MineTunes | MineTunes plays music with vanilla blocks. Jam with BlockTunes, MIDI SignTunes, enhanced Noteblocks, and MIDI BookTunes. Works in LAN and SMP on vanilla servers. (Previously MCDitty) | 3.7.00 | 1.6.4 | N/A | fenceFoil | N/A | |
| Minecraft Capes! | Everybody wants a cape and now you can get one! Create an account in ten seconds and login, upload a cape image or choose one from the gallery! All you have to do now is copy one small changed file into your minecraft.jar file and then you can see it on your character! | 1.7.2 | 1.7.2 | N/A | cjz__ | N/A | |
| Minecraft Comes Alive | Say goodbye to those annoying and ugly Testificates! Minecraft Comes Alive (MCA) aims to give Minecraft's villagers an actual use within the game. | 3.5.4 | 1.6.4 | N/A | WildBamaBoy | N/A | |
| MobAura | Creates a toggle-able aura around you so mobs within 6 blocks of you are repeatedly attacked by your current item until they die. It also tries to hit away ghast fireballs. Works in both Single and Multiplayer. MobAura can be set to interact with mobs instead of attacking them, so you can shear sheep, milk cows, feed pigs, etc. | 2.5.0 | 1.6.4 | N/A | Thebombzen | Yes | |
| (Mob) Spawner Gui | This mod gives you the ability to mine and program mob spawners. | 1.6.2 | 1.6.2 | N/A | Risugami | No | |
| More Health Enhanced | Complete overhaul of the health system. You can gain more health (hearts) with heart containers crafted from 4 heart pieces (found in most chests and dropped by bosses!) and/or gain health through levels (exp). You can completely customize your starting hearts (set it at 3 for Zelda nostalgia!) and max hearts (caps at 30 hearts!). In addition, you can customize the level ramp, which included the levels you earn hearts at. Finally, you can choose to turn the heart items mode and RPG mode on or off. | 5.0 | 1.6.4 | N/A | nohero | Yes | |
| More Stackables | Makes food and buckets stackable, but unusable when stacked. It also makes doors, signs, saddles, minecarts, and trees stackable. | 1.6.2 | 1.6.2 | N/A | Risugami | No | |
| MovePlus | Adds more movement styles to the game. | 2.3 | 1.6.4 | N/A | Corosus | Yes | |
| Not Enough Items | Based on the popular mod, TooManyItems, this mod adds all the features of TMI and more! New features include recipies, Forge Ore Dictionary support, modular settings, style settings, and more! | 1.6.1.5 | 1.6.4 | No | chicken_bones | Yes | |
| OptiFine | This mod adds support for HD textures and a lot of options for better looks and performance. Doubling the FPS is common. Moves fog away, adds mipmaps, chunk loading control (mod CAF), Smooth FPS, time control, VSync, Better Grass, Clear Water, Far View, Zoom, and many other. | 1.7.5 HD U D1 | 1.7.5 | No | sp614x | Yes | |
| Presence Footsteps | This mod is an overly complicated footstep sound enhancement mod for Minecraft. It changes the way footstep sounds are produced, in addition to a whole new set of sounds. | r3 | 1.7.2 | N/A | Hurricaaane | Yes | |
| Rei's Minimap | Shows a minimap in the corner of the screen with configurable waypoints and other options. Useful if you always get lost. | 3.4_01 | 1.6.2 | No | ReiNFSK | Yes | |
| Sign Tags | Adds tags to signs - type [time] to show an in-game clock, [light] to show the light level where the sign is, and [x], [y], and/or [z] to show coordinates, based on the sign's position. [a|b] acts as an input option, where 'a' is shown when the sign is powered, and 'b' is shown otherwise. [biome], [temp], and [humid] tell you the biome, temperature, and humidity of where the sign was placed. Tide ("~") followed by a hexadecimal number makes the writing coloured. | 1.6.2 | 1.6.2 | N/A | Risugami | N/A | |
| Single Player Commands | Single Player Commands is a mod that adds commands to your single player worlds. Includes WorldEdit - a powerful tool that assists you in building, fixing, and undoing griefing incidents. | 4.9 | 1.6.2 | No | simo_415 | No | |
| SkyZone | World generator (and Nether generator) for a minimalistic "SkyBlock" type map where knowledge of renewable resources is key to succeeding. All vanilla Minecraft achievements are possible with worlds generated with this mod. | 2.1 | 1.6.2 | N/A | King Korihor | No | |
| Smart Moving | Gives a new wide range of movement options for your Minecraft! | 14.5 | 1.6.4 | N/A | Divisor | Yes | |
| SoundControl | This mod allows one to control the volume of each sound effect individually. | 1.6.2 | 1.6.2 | N/A | Vazkii | Yes | |
| StatusEffectHUD | Shows your active potion/debuff effects without opening your inventory. | v1.21 | 1.7.2 | N/A | bspkrs | Yes | |
| TabbyChat | SMP Chat Overhaul: GUI improvements, chat tabs, custom filters, notifications, timestamps, logging, highlighting, chat history, and more | 1.9.02 | 1.6.4 | N/A | RocketMan10404 | Yes | |
| Timber! | Makes all the logs in a tree break when you hit the bottom block of the tree with an axe of any type. | 1.6.2 | 1.6.2 | N/A | TehKrush | No | |
| TooManyItems | The mod allows the player to visually choose and get directly in his inventory any object (blocks or items) from the game without the need to type any command | 2014-01-13 | 1.7.4 | N/A | Marglyph | Yes | |
| TukMC | This HUD is a mod based off of the WoW UI mod, TukUI. It aims to mimic the visual appearance of that HUD in a way which can be attained without losing visual elements of the vanilla minecraft HUD. | 3.2.5 | 1.6.4 | N/A | maxpowa | Yes | |
| What's My Light Level | Displays light level and other useful information in the upper left corner of the screen. | Stable 57 | 1.6.4 | No | iPeer | Yes | |
| WorldAndGenerationTweaks | Various assorted tweaks related to world generation. | 1.6.0 | 1.6.4 | N/A | Thebombzen | Yes | |
| World Downloader | Copies parts of a multiplayer world from a server to your singleplayer worlds folder. | 1.7.2 | 1.7.2 | No | nairol | Yes | |
