Modpack finder
Minecraft Modpack Finder
Find a modpack that fits how you play. Our modpack finder scores every pack on ModDex against your preferences: genres, themes, difficulty, and must-have mods.
How it works
Set your preferences below and we'll score every modpack against them, then show you the top matches ranked by fit.
- prefer Softly boosts a pack's score. Matching packs rank higher, non-matching packs still appear.
- must Hard requirement. Packs that don't match are excluded from results entirely.
- exclude Hard block. Packs with this are removed from results. Available on tags and mods.
- Click once for Prefer, again for Must-have. For tags only, click again for Exclude and once more to deselect. All fields are optional.
What Minecraft version do you want?
Most modpacks target one version. Newer doesn't always mean better!
Versions
Which mod loader are you using?
Each loader has their own pack ecosystem. For modpack players, this generally doesn't affect the experience.
What kind of adventure are you after?
Pick genres, themes, and features. Skip this if you're open to anything.
Includes a large focus on traversing worlds with enhanced world generation, structures, dungeons, and more for players to find unique loot.
Focuses on strategic base fortification and defense against PvE threats. Usually includes traps, turrets, enhanced enemy AI, and automation.
Centered around complex tech and/or magic where large-scale automation is necessary, often taking many hours to craft items and hundreds or thousands of hours to fully complete.
Includes a little of everything without sticking to any one particular type of gameplay or style.
Centers around fantasy elements such as spells, rituals, and magical energies, often involving personal empowerment and magical automation.
Used for mods with little to no gameplay elements.
Generally combat-focused with playthroughs split into short "runs," encouraging players to frequently restart to apply new knowledge or in-game skills and loot.
Features role-playing elements like character progression, quests, and story-driven gameplay.
Incorporates real-time strategy elements, including resource management and tactical combat.
Focuses on fast-paced combat, usually involving shooting mechanics.
Fast paced gameplay that involves guns, with a focus on combat.
Featuring a challenge world that gives the player limited starting starting area and resources typically a small island in a void world.
Featuring a challenge world that is entirely or mostly underground.
Centers on surviving in harsh conditions, managing resources, and fending off PvE threats.
Focuses on automation and resource processing through scientific and mechanical means, utilizing systems like electricity (RF/FE/etc), air pressure, or rotation.
Features content that solely expands on Vanilla mechanics and gameplay.
Features a central focus of farming and villages/ homesteading.
Inspired by anime series and other cultural phenomena, often featuring recognizable characters and settings.
Themed around underwater exploration, marine life, and oceanic environments.
Set in cold, snowy environments, usually with survival elements centered around extreme weather conditions.
Designed to be relaxing and comfortable with little challenge, often including elements like peaceful villages, farming, and gentle exploration.
Set in hot, arid environments, usually with unique survival challenges like managing heat and finding water.
Themed around magical elements, mythical creatures, and enchanted worlds, often inspired by fantasy literature and folklore.
Designed to be spooky or terrifying, often including dark environments, scary monsters, and survival horror mechanics.
Themed around heavy machinery, factories, and automation reminiscent of the Industrial Revolution.
Themed around castles, knights, medieval weapons, and magic from the Middle Ages.
Includes humorous, quirky, and often nonsensical elements.
Focuses on contemporary settings, including cities, urban infrastructure, and modern lifestyle.
Themed around various myths and legends, featuring gods, mythical creatures, and ancient lore.
Does not follow a specific thematic focus apart from vanilla Minecraft.
Reminiscent of older video games and Minecraft versions, often using old textures and mechanics.
Features strange, extraterrestrial environments and creatures, often with unique biomes and resources.
Set in a world after a major catastrophe, focusing on survival, scavenging, and rebuilding in a devastated landscape.
Themed around ancient times with dinosaurs, primitive technology, and survival elements in a prehistoric setting.
Themed around advanced technology, futuristic settings, and often alien worlds or advanced machinery.
Themed around space exploration, including traveling to other planets, building spaceships, and surviving in outer space environments.
Themed around Victorian-era technology (steampunk) or early 20th-century technology (dieselpunk) with a retro-futuristic twist.
Adventure & World
Contains handmade maps or world presets with adventure map features. Typically features highly detailed builds of larger scales than seen in procedural world generation.
Includes a custom backstory, written world-building, or narrative writing within the project or through external content.
Includes quests that drive progression, whether through a quest book, NPC, or other in world source.
Includes gameplay revolving around space travel and planets.
Includes a structured narrative with plot progression and story-driven gameplay elements.
Building
Includes creation and management of cities and towns.
Enhances farming mechanics and introduces new crops and livestock.
Combat & Entities
Emphasizes combat mechanics and fighting gameplay.
Adds dinosaur mobs and related content.
Features dragon mobs, items, and often dragon-taming mechanics.
Enhances or adds content related to Illagers, such as new types and behaviors.
Introduces new magical creatures and beasts.
Adds parasitic or alien creatures with unique behaviors.
Focuses on or is balanced for player versus player combat and competition.
Focuses on zombie mobs, often with new types and mechanics.
Magic & Fantasy
Features gameplay themed around shamans, nature magic, and spiritual practices.
Features a blend of magic and tech themes in a more Sci-Fi style, either in a "magic like tech" or "tech indistinguishable from magic" setting.
Features gameplay themed around the various forms of occultism and paganism associated with witches.
Miscellaneous
A project that is no longer receiving updates.
A project that is still being actively developed and unfinished.
A project that is fully completed, usually only receiving updates for bug fixes.
Includes systems for trading and managing economies.
Includes educational content aimed towards newer modded Minecraft players, usually guiding the player through specific mods.
Inspired by or including content related to the game Factorio.
Emphasizes quick gameplay and fast action.
Adds or expands fishing mechanics, gear, fish, or aquatic gathering.
Focuses on cooking, recipes, and food-related mechanics.
Includes themes or content related to the furry community.
Features a progression system with stages or gates that must be unlocked.
Includes genetic manipulation and biological systems.
Includes themes and content related to the LGBTQIA+ community.
Features small, self-contained games within Minecraft.
Offers different gameplay modes or settings.
Inspired by or including content related to the Pokemon franchise.
Introduces lifelike mechanics and detailed enhancements to create a more believable and engaging experience.
A reimagined or remade version of an existing mod or modpack.
Designed or encouraged for speedrunning, with mechanics to support quick playthroughs and time tracking.
Inspired by or including content related to the game Terraria.
Designed to be compatible with virtual reality headsets.
Multiplayer
Works well on servers with a large amount of players, often adding social features, economy, trading, etc.
Not intended for multiplayer: does not support dedicated servers, lacks a server pack, or is known to break in multiplayer.
Generally has one or more public servers available hosted by the community or developers.
Ideal for small groups of players or cooperative gameplay.
Enhances social interactions and roleplaying elements, ideal for servers and communities.
Players & Gear
Introduces modern weaponry and combat mechanics.
Introduces player leveling systems with skills and abilities.
Adds skill trees or abilities for character progression.
QoL & Utility
Adds features to make the game more accessible and comfortable to play.
Includes quality of life improvements and small tweaks to enhance and customize gameplay.
Tech
Features complex tech, often requiring intricate setups and resources.
Features machines that process raw materials or automation processes.
Heavily focused around the Create mod, known for its unique mechanical systems and contraptions.
Features gameplay revolving around building and managing factories, assembly lines, and industrial processing.
Related to the GregTech mod, known for its extremely complex and challenging tech progression, usually requiring thousands of hours of gameplay.
Features a method of a programmable language system, ranging from pictographs to real programming languages.
Includes a minimal amount of tech, usually small tech features with the purpose of QoL or basic automation/transport.
Features tech with a primitive, prehistoric, or medieval theme, reminiscent of machines from pre 15th century eras.
How difficult, and how long?
Based on average completed hours from reviews and library entries.
Not enough playtime data yet. This filter will be available once more players log their hours.
No preference
Open to anything
Average
A few weekends
Long
Weeks of content
Immense
1000+ hours
How many mods do you want?
Small packs run faster. Giant packs have more to explore.
Any mods that must (or must not) be included?
Require a must-have mod or exclude mods you dislike.
No mods selected yet, search above to add some.
Any quality or popularity preferences?
Ratings are based on ModDex community reviews. Popularity is based on total download counts.
Select any tiers; packs matching at least one count as a match.