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ModDex is a review and discovery site for Minecraft mods and modpacks. We aggregate catalog data from CurseForge and Modrinth alongside community-written reviews so you can find, evaluate, and track content in one place.

You can browse without signing in. To leave ratings or written reviews, vote, manage your library, create stacks, follow projects, and receive notifications, create a free account and verify your email.

Writing reviews and spreading the word are the best ways to help the community grow. If you'd also like to support the site financially, donations go directly toward hosting costs and new features.

We collect the minimum needed to run the site and never sell or share your personal information. With your consent, we use cookieless PostHog analytics (EU instance) without advertising identifiers or cross-site tracking; analytics is off by default in the EU and UK until you opt in. You can export everything we have on you, or permanently delete your account, at any time from your settings.

Built to comply with GDPR, ePrivacy/PECR, and CCPA/CPRA, including data minimization, full data-subject rights (access, export, deletion, opt-out), and honoring Global Privacy Control signals.

Embed badges are small images that display a project's live ModDex rating and rating count. They update automatically whenever ratings change, so they're always current without any extra work.

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Open the project's Details tab and find the Embed Badge section. Pick a style, then copy the HTML snippet for pages that support it, or the Markdown snippet for README files and Markdown-based descriptions. No account is required.

Yes. Paste a Discord incoming webhook URL on any project page using the Discord Alerts button beside Follow. ModDex posts a rich embed when a new approved written review is published (quick star ratings are excluded). Add webhooks from project pages; manage, pause, test, or remove them from profile settings.

We sync metadata from CurseForge and Modrinth on a regular schedule so listings stay up to date. A project's sync schedule varies depending on a few factors, such as most recent file date and download count. Availability and detail level depend on each platform's API.

No. ModDex never hosts, stores, or redistributes any project files. Download buttons take you to the original platform where the author has published their work, so creators still receive download revenue.

We respect the intellectual property rights of every creator. ModDex is a review and discovery platform, not a distribution platform.

When the same mod or modpack exists on both CurseForge and Modrinth, we aim to show one ModDex listing with both platforms attached so reviews are consolidated.

The matching system is built to be thorough. We compare overlapping metadata from both catalogs and weigh them together behind the scenes. Obvious pairs merge when we are confident while borderline cases may be checked by hand.

It's a complicated problem in practice. The same project can look quite different on each platform with different names, links, authors, or file history, so mistakes can still happen. If you notice a bad merge or a missing link, use the 'Report a Matching Issue' button on the project page.

Open any project page and choose Report a matching issue in the Details sidebar. You can flag an incorrect CurseForge/Modrinth merge or suggest a project that should be linked. Our team triages these reports in the admin panel.

ModDex is directly synced with CurseForge and Modrinth, so there is no manual submission or removal process for projects. If a project is deleted on CurseForge or Modrinth, it is delisted on ModDex as soon as we resync it. Delisted projects are permanently deleted after 90 days, provided it has no reviews.

Delisted projects that have received reviews are kept hidden rather than permanently deleted, as removing community content outright opens up avenues of abuse and gaming the system. If your project has been deleted on CurseForge and/or Modrinth and you would like its ModDex listing removed once the 90-day window has passed, get in touch and we can handle that for you.

A quick rating is a star score you can leave without writing a full review. It counts toward the project's overall rating but has no title, body, or sub-ratings. Quick ratings do not earn reputation, do not notify project followers, and do not trigger Discord webhooks. You can upgrade one to a full written review later from the project page.

The default "Highest Ranking" order uses a weighted rating rather than a raw average. A project's own ratings are blended with a site-wide prior, so a project with a handful of perfect scores does not automatically outrank one with hundreds of strong reviews. As a project accumulates more ratings, its weighted score moves closer to its true average and its position settles. Projects with no reviews yet always sort after rated ones.

You can always re-sort the catalog by average rating, downloads, total ratings, most recently updated, and more using the sort menu. Each project page also shows its current rank overall and within its type (mod or modpack).

Image attachments require Contributor rank, which requires 100 reputation points. After reaching Contributor, you can upload multiple images per review, add captions, and reorder them.

Votes help surface quality reviews. Helpful votes earn the author reputation points while unhelpful votes reduce them slighty. Casting a vote earns you a small amount of rep. Vote counts are shown on each review. Your votes appear on your profile Activity tab unless you hide them in visibility settings.

Submitted written reviews are public immediately. Moderators check every review and will reject one that doesn't follow our guidelines, removing it from public view and no longer affecting that project's ratings. If your review is rejected, you'll receive an in-app notification (and optional email) with an explanation. Revise and resubmit to return it to the moderation queue; it stays hidden until a moderator approves it again. All moderation actions are logged internally for accountability.

Project developers who are not on the ModDex team have absolutely no say in the decision to remove reviews. If your review was removed, it was removed because it directly violated one or more of our guidelines. Developers of projects may report reviews, just as anyone can, however the ModDex team will ultimately decide if a review violates our guidelines. We remain neutral in most engagements and do not harbor any bias toward projects, developers, MC versions, mod loaders, etc. If you feel we could do better, use our Discord invite to reach the #reporting-and-community-issues channel and open a ticket.

Pack Finder walks you through preferences such as mod loaders, Minecraft version, and play style, then surfaces modpacks that fit. Open it from the Pack Finder link in the site navigation.

Pack Comparison shows multiple modpacks side by side on ratings, tags, loaders, and other catalog data. Add packs from project pages or open the comparison tool directly from the navigation.

The Library is a personal tracker for modpacks. You can log a play status (Playing, Completed, Plan to Play, Paused, Dropped) along with optional notes and dates. You can choose to make your library public or keep it private in your profile settings.

Stacks are user-created collections of projects, like a playlist or curated list. You can add per-project notes, reorder entries, and choose whether to make a stack public or private. The number of stacks you can create scales with your reputation rank.

Following a project subscribes you to in-app notifications about that project, with optional email per event in your notification settings. When you click Follow you can choose: new written reviews (quick star ratings excluded), new file releases, an optional Minecraft version filter for version alerts, and alerts when the project adds support for a Minecraft version it did not have before. Follow or unfollow from any project page or your profile. Your follows list can be public or private in profile visibility settings.

Projects carry community tags for genres, themes, and features. Signed-in users can suggest tags and vote on suggestions. Tags with enough votes will appear on the project as an "Active Tag". Your reputation rank increases the weight of your tag votes (see the ranks table below). Verified Modrinth authors on a project can pin or remove active tags, and can turn off community tag voting for the entire project. Moderators can ban a specific tag from a project, after which it can no longer be suggested or voted on.

Approved full written reviews earn +5 reputation points. Quick star ratings alone do not earn points until you upgrade to a written review. Helpful votes on your reviews earn you +5 points each; unhelpful votes cost -3. Casting a vote earns you +1 participation point. If a moderator rejects an approved review, approval points are revoked and a penalty applies. Your balance can fluctuate, but it reflects the value the community places on your contributions.

No. Ranks are lifetime achievements and only ever move upward. If your points drop below a rank's threshold, your rank stays where it is. You can only unlock new ranks going forward, never lose the ones you've already earned.

Reputation points determine your rank, which comes with higher stack, draft limits, and tag vote weights. Reaching Contributor rank also enables image attachments on your reviews.

A verified developer is a ModDex account holder who has linked their Modrinth account and is confirmed as an author of one or more projects on ModDex. Verified developers receive a badge when reviewing their own project, making it clear they are the real creator.

Link your Modrinth account from your account settings. Once linked, ModDex checks whether your Modrinth username matches a Modrinth author on any projects in the catalog. If a match is found, verified developer status is granted automatically.

Verified Modrinth authors listed on a project can pin or remove genre, theme, and feature tags and turn community tag suggest/vote participation on or off. The Modrinth project owner (when team role metadata is available) can post a public developer response on reviews for that project. Other verified team members keep the verified badge when reviewing their own work but cannot post owner responses unless they hold the Owner role.

Verification works by having you sign in with the platform so ModDex can confirm your identity. Modrinth provides OAuth, which makes this flow possible. CurseForge does not currently offer OAuth for third-party applications, so we have no way to securely verify CurseForge authorship at this time. We'll add CurseForge verification if that changes.

Yes. ModDex exposes a REST API for reading project data, reviews, tags, and more. Full interactive documentation, including a live try-it-out console and OpenAPI/Postman exports, is available at the link below.

Yes. All public v1 API endpoints require authentication. Generate a Sanctum API token from your account settings under API Tokens, then pass it as a Bearer token in the Authorization header of every request.