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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.
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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.
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 ratings are excluded). Add webhooks from project pages; manage, pause, test, or remove them from profile settings.
Projects
When a project ships a new file, it usually appears on ModDex within a few minutes. We scan both platforms continuously, and as soon as one reports an update, that project is re-synced in full.
Every project is also re-checked on a schedule even when nothing has changed. How often depends on download count and how recently the project shipped a file. Active, popular projects are re-checked every 12 hours, while projects that haven't updated in years may only be checked every 90 days.
Edits that don't ship a file, such as a rewritten description or new screenshots, are harder to catch. Neither platform announces them, so every few hours we compare every project's content against what we already have and pick up the differences ourselves. An edit with no new file usually appears within a few hours.
CurseForge descriptions are the exception. CurseForge serves them separately from the rest of a project's details, so we re-check them every few days for popular projects and on the schedule above for everything else.
Availability and detail level depend on each platform's API.
No. Every listing is built from metadata the author published through the official CurseForge and Modrinth APIs. ModDex operates the page, not the author, and ModDex hosts no project files.
Reviews and ratings on a listing are written by the ModDex community. It's possible an author may not read them, and is under no obligation to. If you have found a bug or need support, use the author's own issue tracker or their project page on CurseForge or Modrinth.
Authors can still verify themselves and have some control over their page. Connecting a Modrinth account that is listed as an author on the project unlocks tag control and public replies to reviews on that listing.
How author verification worksNo. 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 metadata from both platforms and merge projects when we're confident they're the same. Borderline matches may be reviewed manually.
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 deleted entirely, get in touch and we can handle that for you. If your deleted project has reviews, we can delete the project only after the 90-day window has passed, otherwise we can delete it immediately.
Contact usReviews
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).
Yes. How many you can attach to one review depends on your rank: 2 at Explorer, 3 at Contributor, 4 at Guide, 5 at Veteran, and 6 at Luminary. Captioning and reordering work the same at every rank.
Any review with screenshots goes to the moderation queue and stays hidden until a moderator approves it.
Votes help surface quality reviews. Helpful votes earn the author reputation points while unhelpful votes reduce them slightly. 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, unless they include screenshots or are flagged by our auto-moderation, those wait for a moderator first. 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.
Features
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.
Open Pack FinderPack 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.
Open Pack ComparisonThe 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 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 propose tags and vote on proposals. 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), and voting grants you reputation once the tag becomes active or is removed. 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 proposed or voted on.
Browse the tag directoryReputation & Ranks
Reputation comes from writing reviews, how the community votes on reviews, and community tags. Your reputation points can go down or up.
| What you do | Points |
|---|---|
| You publish a written review | +5 |
| Your review is manually rejected by a moderator | -10 |
| Someone marks your review helpful | +5 |
| Someone marks your review unhelpful | -3 |
| You vote on someone else's review | +1 |
| You suggest/vote on tags | See table below |
A rejected review also loses the helpful votes it collected, along with the points they granted.
Quick ratings grant nothing on their own. Upgrade one to a written review and it earns like any other review.
Proposing, upvoting, and downvoting tags all grant reputation, but only once that tag becomes active (if upvoted) or removed (if downvoted). You are notified when this happens.
| What you do | Reputation Points |
|---|---|
| You propose a tag and it becomes active | +2 |
| You vote a proposed tag up and it becomes active | +1 |
| You vote an active tag down and it gets removed | +1 |
As you rank up, your tag vote weight will increase, up to x5 at Luminary.
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.
Reputation points determine your rank, which comes with higher stack and draft limits, more review screenshots, and heavier tag vote weights.
| Rank | Points needed | Stacks & drafts | Review images | Tag vote weight |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Explorer | 0 | 3 | 2 | 1× |
| Contributor | 100 | 5 | 3 | 2× |
| Guide | 500 | 10 | 4 | 3× |
| Veteran | 1,500 | 15 | 5 | 4× |
| Luminary | 4,000 | 20 | 6 | 5× |
Verified Developers
A verified developer is a ModDex account holder who has linked their Modrinth account and is listed on a project's Modrinth team. Verification is per project: you get a Verified Developer badge on reviews of projects you are credited on, making it clear you actually worked on them.
Link your Modrinth account from your account settings. Once linked, ModDex checks whether your Modrinth username matches anyone on the Modrinth team of a project in the catalog. Wherever it matches, verified developer status is granted automatically for that project.
Verified Modrinth authors listed on a project can pin or remove genre, theme, and feature tags and turn community tag propose/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.
ModDex Team
Runs ModDex: builds and maintains the site, oversees moderation, and posts news and announcements.
CalaMariGold
Moderates flagged and pending content, enforces the reviewer guidelines, and keeps project pages accurate.
coolbot
CyclonX
KxttyKxt
nekomaster1000
Reviews community tag suggestions and keeps project genres, themes, and features accurate.
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Emma
Outra
No. Staff write reviews as players, and each one is that person's own opinion, not an official ModDex verdict. Staff reviews count toward ratings the same way, follow the same reviewer guidelines, and go through the same moderation as everyone else's.
A moderator note on a review is posted on behalf of the whole moderation team, so it is labelled ModDex staff rather than with a moderator's name.
Use the contact page. To flag a specific review or member, use Report on the review's page or their profile and a moderator or admin will look at it.
Developer API
Yes. Anyone can read ModDex project data, ratings, and reviews through the public API, with no signup. The documentation, with a live try-it-out console, recipes for common integrations, and an OpenAPI spec, is open to everyone.
View API documentationNo. The current API (v2) needs no key. A token from your account settings under API Tokens raises your rate limits; send it as a Bearer token in the Authorization header.
The older v1 API still requires a token. It is deprecated and will be switched off on April 24, 2027, so build on v2.