The Only Way to Play
A vanilla enhancement with more variety, new dungeons, ores, dimensions, mobs and more!
The Only Way to Play
A Vanilla+ Experience
The Only Way to Play
This Minecraft 1.21.1 modpack aims to stay true to the core vanilla experience while offering enhancements that make the game feel like a refined sequel. It introduces new biomes, mobs, structures, and quality-of-life improvements that blend seamlessly with the base game. The modpack adds subtle changes to crafting, exploration, and combat without overwhelming the player with overly complex mechanics, ensuring that the core gameplay remains intuitive.
Overall, it provides a balanced expansion that feels like an official extension of Minecraft, keeping the essence of the original while refreshing it for seasoned players.

Modlist:
QOL:
Animal Feeding Trough Better Climbing Better Nether Map Blasting Smelts Glass *Added in 1.2 Bridging Mod Carry On Classic GOD Apple Recipe Cut Through Cycle Paintings Dis-Enchanting Table Dismount Entity Do a Barrel Roll Drop Ladders (Vanilla Refresh) EMI Easy Anvils Easy Magic Essential Mod FallingTree Health Indicators (By default, Target Mode: 3 blocks) Jump Over Fences Leaf Me Alone Leave Us In Peace Lootr Monsters in the Closet Nemo's Woodcutter *Added in 1.2 Path Sprinting (Vanilla Refresh) Ping Wheel Portable Crafting Reinforced Barrels Reinforced Chests Reinforced Shulker Boxes RightClickHarvest (By default, no hoe required!) Shoulder Surfing (>> Default F5) Simple Uncrafting Table Smarter Farmers Terrastorage Totems work in voids (Vanilla Refresh) Trash Cans Traveller's Backpack Xaero's Minimap (Disabled by default, used for Waypoints) Xaero's Worldmap (Cave mode (overworld) disabled by default)
UI QOL:
Apple Skin Better Advancements Better Mount HUD Better Stats Screen BetterF3 Blur+ Chat Animations Chat Heads Client Sort *Added in v1.1 Continue Button Controlling + Searchables Dark Loading Screen Day Counter (Vanilla Refresh) Detail Armor Bar Dynamic Crosshair Effect Descriptions Enchantment Descriptions GUI Clock GUI Compass Held Item Tooltips Inventory Essentials Jade Mob Health bar - Hotbar (Vanilla Refresh) Mod Menu Mouse Tweaks Pick Up Notifier Polymorph RPGTitles Status Effect Bars TalkBubbles Tiny Item Animations
COMBAT:
Better Combat Guarding
DECORATION:
Additional Lanterns Amendments Armor Stand Poses (Vanilla Refresh) Beautify: Refabricated Builders Dream Connected Glass *Added in 1.2 Connectible Chains Handcrafted Horse Armor Stand Just a Baguette Macaw's Doors Macaw's Fences Macaw's Fences - Biomes O' Plenty Macaw's Furniture Macaw's Furniture - Biomes O' Plenty Macaw's Lights and Lamps Macaw's Paths and Pavings Macaw's Trapdoors More Barrel Variants More Chest Variants More Composter Variants More Feeding Trough Variants More Furnaces Variants More Ladders More Nemo's Woodcutter Variants *Added in 1.2 Nemo's Mossy Blocks New Slab Variants NiceMod - New Blocks Plushie Mod Stoneworks Tool Rack (Vanilla Refresh)
IMMERSION:
3D Skin Layers Animated Doors Better Archeology Better Babies Bushy Leaves (Vanilla Refresh) ChickensShed Continuity Dynamic Lights *Added in v1.1 Elytra Physics Entity Model Features Entity Sound Features Entity Textures Features Explosive Enhancement Farmer's Cutting: Biomes O' Plenty Farmer's Cutting: Oh The Biomes We've Gone Farmer's Delight: Refabricated Farmer's Delight: Pumpkin Pie Fog Geckolib Head in the Clouds HerdsPanic ImmersiveThunder Iris Shaders Make Bubbles Pop Motschen's Puddles Sitting (Vanilla Refresh) Snow under Trees Sound Physics Remastered Sounds Vanilla Fireflies Villager Names Visual Workbench Visuality Wakes Wavey Capes What Are They Up To (WATUT)
EXPANSIONS:
Advanced Netherite Horseshoes Knight Quest Mythic Upgrades Simple Netherite Horse Armor Small Ships
MOBS (EXPANSIONS):
Barklings *Added in 1.2.1 Desert Scourge Eldritch Mobs Enchanted Mobs Fish of Thieves Friends & Foes Friends & Foes - Beekeeper Hut Luna Slimes More Mobs Nemo's Creatures Snow Pigs Snuffles
DIMENSIONS (EXPANSIONS):
AdventureZ Deeper and Darker Eternal Starlight The Bumblezone
WORLD GENERATION (EXPANSIONS):
BetterEnd BetterNether Biomes O' Plenty Explorify Geophilic Katters Structures Moyai Oh The Biomes We've Gone Oh The Trees You'll Grow Skeleton Horse Spawn Sky Villages Structurify *Added in 1.2 Tidal Towns Towns and Towers Variants & Ventures Villagers & Pillages: Season 1 Wilder Wild Zombie Horse Spawn
OPTIMSATION:
Better Beds Cull Leaves *Added in 1.2 Enhanced Block Entities Entity Culling Fast Paintings Indium Let Me Despawn Lithium Sodium Sodium Extras
RESOURCE PACKS:
Animated Doors Better Animations Blue's Better Monsters Blue's Better Zombies Fresh Animations Fresh Animations Extensions Fresh Animations Fix for Horse Armor Stand Mod Nautilus 3D Vanilla Experience+ (Not included but highly recommended: https://modrinth.com/resourcepack/vanilla-exp)
SHADERS:
BLISS (https://modrinth.com/shader/bliss-shader) NOBLE OPAL