The Mods
29 mods. All picked to add life and atmosphere without needing a wiki open. If you've played vanilla before, you'll feel right at home.
Seasons
Serene Seasons
Four actual seasons. Spring, summer, autumn, winter. Crops grow differently by season, leaves change colour, snow falls in winter. The lighting shifts too. It just makes everything feel alive in a way vanilla never quite pulls off.
Animals & Creatures
Critters and Companions
Otters in rivers. Koi fish in ponds. Ferrets in forests. Red pandas in bamboo. Dumbo octopi and sea bunnies in the ocean. None hostile, all adorable.
Naturalist
Deer, bears, rhinos, butterflies, snails, robins. The world feels like it has an actual ecosystem.
Cooking & Farming
Farmer's Delight
The biggest gameplay addition. Cutting boards, skillets, cooking pots. Loads of new crops and recipes. Stews, salads, roasts, pastries. Meals give buffs but mostly they're just fun to make. All recipes in REI (press R).
Let's Do: Bakery
Ovens, bread, croissants, cakes, buns. A whole bakery system. You can set up a proper bakehouse.
Let's Do: Candlelight
Restaurant-style table settings, candles, typewriter for leaving notes. More ambiance than gameplay, but gorgeous for a cosy kitchen.
Building & Decoration
Handcrafted
Actual furniture. Sofas, armchairs, tables, shelves, cabinets, stools, benches. All craftable. Your house can look like somewhere a person lives.
Supplementaries
Hanging lanterns, bird feeders, rope, display cases, bells, candelabras, jars, flags. You find something new every time you open the recipe book.
Amendments
Companion to Supplementaries. Extra block variants and tweaks. Won't notice it until you need it.
Fairy Lights
String lights in loads of styles and colours. Hang them everywhere. Exactly what they sound like.
Comforts
Sleeping bags (skip night without resetting spawn) and hammocks (skip to day). Both craftable early.
Art & Expression
Joy of Painting
Craft a canvas and palette, mix colours, paint pixel art in-game. Hang it on the wall when you're done.
Exploration & Travel
Waystones
Craftable stone obelisks you can name and teleport between. Drop one at your base. Right-click any waystone to see the full network.
Multiplayer QoL
Simple Voice Chat
Proximity voice. Hear people when you're near them in-game. Press V to set it up. Completely optional.
Sleep To Night
One person sleeping skips the night for everyone. No more waiting around.
Essential Commands
/home, /tpa, /spawn, /warp, and more. Just work, no setup.
REI (Recipe Viewer)
Press R on any item for its recipe. Press U for what it makes. You'll use this constantly.
Visuals & Performance
Complementary Reimagined Shaders
Pre-loaded. Golden light, soft shadows, reflective water, fog. Lowest setting by default. Turn off at Options > Video Settings > Shader Packs if needed.
Sodium + Iris + Indium
The performance stack. Way faster renderer, shader support, compatibility bridge. You don't touch these directly.
Presence Footsteps
Footstep sounds that match the surface. Grass, stone, wood, snow. Tiny detail, huge difference.
Dynamic Surroundings
Ambient sounds. Birdsong, crickets, wind, rain on leaves. The world isn't silent anymore.
Blur+
Blurs the background when a menu is open. Nice polish.
Zoomify
Hold C to zoom. Good for scouting terrain.
Under the Hood
Libraries and plumbing. No in-game presence, just required by the mods above.
| Mod | What it does |
|---|---|
| Fabric API | Core API, basically everything needs it |
| Cloth Config | Config system used by loads of mods |
| Architectury API | Cross-platform mod library |
| Moonlight Lib | Needed by Supplementaries and Amendments |
| Let's Do API | Shared library for Bakery and Candlelight |
| GeckoLib | Animation library for the animal mods |
| Resourceful Lib | Needed by Handcrafted |
| GlitchCore | Needed by Serene Seasons |
| Balm | Needed by Waystones |
| Fabric Language Kotlin | Kotlin runtime for Zoomify |
| YACL | Config UI library for Zoomify |
| Lithium | Server-side performance boost |
| FerriteCore | Uses less memory |
Want to know what all of this changes vs vanilla? Check out What's Different.