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The Only Way to Play

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A vanilla enhancement with more variety, new dungeons, ores, dimensions, mobs and more!

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Large 241 mods
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MIT License
Latest Version
1.2.2
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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.

House built with items in the modpack.

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

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