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Aug 12 - Aug 18, 2024

Websites / Indexes

• MCDOC - The Index of Minecraft Tools and Unlockers

Nov 13 - Nov 19, 2023

Server Plugins / Building

• LuckPerms - Manage permissions.

• CoreProtect (⭐609) - Log everything your players do. Literally 1984.

Softwares / Utilities

• Amulet (⭐1.7k) - Map viewer/editor.

• NBTEditor (⭐69) - Edit NBT from .dat files.

Sep 25 - Oct 01, 2023

Websites / Wiki

• Official Minecraft Wiki - Minecraft Wiki is a complete resource for Minecraft, including gameplay, blocks, crafting, updates, events, mods, running a server, and resource packs.

Aug 14 - Aug 20, 2023

Shader Packs / Building

• White Wolf Shader (⭐0) - Shader pack for Bedrock Edition focused on improving your gameplay experience.

Softwares / Launchers

• XMCL (⭐635) - X Minecraft Launcher (XMCL) is a modern Minecraft launcher that lets you manage your massive resources like modpacks, resource packs, mods and shader packs.

Aug 07 - Aug 13, 2023

Softwares / Launchers

• Prism - A fork of MultiMC, capable of downloading modpacks and other resources directly from CurseForge and FTB.

Jun 19 - Jun 25, 2023

Softwares / Servers

• Legendary-Java-Minecraft-Geyser-Floodgate (⭐146) - PaperMC server with out of the box Geyser and Floodgate support using docker.

• minecraft-docker (⭐1) - Fork of Legendary-Java-Minecraft-Geyser-Floodgate (⭐146) that embeds a discord bot for easy starting and stopping of the server.

Feb 06 - Feb 12, 2023

Softwares / Servers

• Minestom - Lightweight from-scratch server implementation.

Dec 05 - Dec 11, 2022

Server Plugins / Building

• Connect - Open shared Minecraft network for advertising public and local host servers.

Softwares / Servers

• Gate (⭐604) - A high performance & paralleled Minecraft proxy written in Go.

Oct 24 - Oct 30, 2022

Softwares / Servers

• Cauldron - Formerly known as MCPC+. The original server implementing the Forge and Bukkit API.

• Cloudburst/NukkitX/Nukkit - A Bedrock Edition Server providing support for plugins supporting the Nukkit API.

• Docker-Minecraft (⭐9k) - A self-hosted Minecraft server using Docker containers.

• KCauldron - A server implementing the Forge and Bukkit API for 1.7.10.

• Mohist - A server implementing the Forge and Bukkit API.

• Paper - Miscellaneous patches for Spigot and BungeeCord providing better performance and more configuration options.

Oct 10 - Oct 16, 2022

Mods / Technology

• ComputerCraft - Adds computers based on Lua (5.2 and 5.3) into Minecraft.

Jul 11 - Jul 17, 2022

Websites / Mod Libraries

• Modrinth - Open source Minecraft mod library with powerful filtering.

• CurseForge - The largest repository for Minecraft mods.

Feb 14 - Feb 20, 2022

Resource Packs / Building

• BetterVanillaBuilding - Adds loads of new blocks with connected textures in optifine.

Oct 04 - Oct 10, 2021

Mods / Performance

• OptiFabric - A Fabric mod to allow Optifine to run using Fabric loader.

Jun 21 - Jun 27, 2021

Mods / Performance

• Sodium (for Fabric) (⭐4.7k) - A Fabric mod designed to improve frame rates and reduce micro-stutter.

Jun 14 - Jun 20, 2021

Websites / Archives

• MCArchive - Archives old, lost and forgotten Minecraft mods. Various other mods and stuff can be found on their Discord.

• Minecraft Archive Project - Huge archive containing Minecraft mods, worlds, resource packs and many other resources (even forum posts!).

• MCVersions - Archives most Minecraft jars.

• MCPC+ Archive - Archive with some MCPC+ versions.

• CraftBukkit Archive - Archives many CraftBukkit versions.

Mod Loaders / Archives

• Quilt - A powerful fork of the Fabric project.

• Rift - A Mod Loader for 1.13-1.13.2 (even Snapshots).

Mods / Maps

• VoxelMap - Formerly known as Zan's Minimap, providing basic map and radar functionality.

Mods / Utilities

• WTHIT - Shows the block currently looked at (Newer version of Hwyla).

• Hwyla - Shows the block currently looked at (Newer version of Waila).

• WorldInfo - Shows the block currently looked at (Waila for Rift).

• Waila - Shows the block currently looked at (The original Waila project).

• Block Helper - Shows the block currently looked at (Legacy alternative of Waila for older Minecraft versions than 1.6).

Resource Packs / Building

• BDCraft - Various comic-style resource and sound packs, even for many mods, Bedrock Edition, and Terraria!

• LB Photo Realism Reload - Successor of the LB Photo Realism texture pack making Minecraft look more realistic.

• Default Dark Mode - Dark Mode for the default Minecraft UIs!

• Cyber Optics - Sci-Fi resource pack.

• Soartex - Smooth resource pack with mod support.

Shader Packs / Building

• Continuum - A realistic shader pack.

• Chocapic13 - A realistic and configurable shader pack.

• Sonic Ether - Pathracing and other realistic shader packs.

• Sildur - Shader packs even implementing Minecraft 1.16's built-in API.

• Potato - A very lightweight shader pack for older or restrained PCs.

• ESBE 2G - A shader pack for Bedrock Edition.

Softwares / Servers

• Glowstone - Formerly known as Spout and BukkitContrib. Spigot Server alternative written from scratch with performance similar to Paper.

• Spigot - CraftBukkit's successor providing support for the Bukkit API.

• Sponge - Minecraft Server providing support for the Sponge API and is extensible to the Forge API and Bukkit API.

• Thermos - A server implementing the Forge and Bukkit API for 1.7.10.

Development / Launchers

• Tabula - Minecraft Mod that faciliates creating 3D Models.

• Mod Coder Pack - Tool for properly decompiling Minecraft.

• BON 2 (⭐182) - A rewrite of the Bearded Octo Nemesis project with support for ForgeGradle.

• Bearded Octo Nemesis (⭐128) - Tool for deobfuscating with support for SRG mappings and especially the Mod Coder Pack.

Jun 07 - Jun 13, 2021

Softwares / Libraries

• go-mcproto (⭐43) - Minecraft server communication protocol implementation written in Go that allows you to program your own bots.

Jul 27 - Aug 02, 2020

Softwares / Libraries

• CraftLib (⭐83) - Complete Kotlin / Java library for wrapping the entire Minecraft codebase, including protocol, NBT, schematics, chat and more.

• MCProtocolLib (⭐718) - A simple library for communicating with a Minecraft client/server, written in Java.

• node-minecraft-protocol (⭐1.2k) - A NodeJS library to parse and serialize minecraft packets, plus authentication and encryption.

Jun 22 - Jun 28, 2020

Softwares / Utilities

• Amidst (⭐2.1k) - Display an overview of a Minecraft world, without actually creating it.

Apr 13 - Apr 19, 2020

Mod Loaders / Archives

• Fabric - A lightweight, experimental modding toolchain for Minecraft.

Mods / Performance

• BetterFps - BetterFps is a Minecraft mod that add a few performance improvements.

Mods / Items Management

• Bibliocraft - Bibliocraft is a storage and organizational mod that began as a single bookcase and has expanded to so much more.

• /dank/null - A storage mod of unreal proportions which nobody really gets. The max tier /dank/null object holds 54 slots of items which each can hold 2.14 billion items!

Mods / Technology

• Thermal Foundation + Dynamics + Expansion - A server-friendly and content-rich blend of magic and technology! Title is three different mod names, but of the same series and usually played together.

• Actually Additions - Actually Additions is a technology mod that adds various utilities like multitools, item magnets, atomic reconstructors and so on.

• Draconic Evolution - One of the best tech mod there is, but really overpowered in the late game. Adds things like a Draconic Power Core which no one has been able to fill yet...

• Ender IO - A large ender themed mod, that just adds lots of new fun things.

• Galacticraft - A mod that adds rockets and new planets to explore. Expandable with addons.

• OpenComputers - OpenComputers is a mod that adds computers and robots into the game, which can be programmed in Lua 5.3.

• WarpDrive - Adds Star Trek and other franchise like ships, weapons, transporters and so on into the game. Also adds new planets (dimensions).

Mods / Farming And Food

• AgriCraft - A mod that adds a more sophisticated crop system, like the ability to have genetic mutations and also adds more crops.

• Bonsai Trees - Adds essentially mini tree farms which are one block big.

• Ex Nihilo: Creatio - A great mod for skyblocks, it filters things like sand and gravel for useful resources like iron and diamond, compatible with lots of mods.

Mods / Energy

• Extreme Reactors - Adds nuclear reactors with the fictional fuel 'yellorium'. A carry on of the original Big Reactors.

• Zetta Industries - A mod which adds the main multiblock of a big battery.

Mods / Magic

• AbyssalCraft - AbyssalCraft is a magic mod centered around exploration.

• Astral Sorcery - This is a magic mod based on the stars, and harnessing the powers of starlight and the constellations.

• Avaritia - Avaritia is a mod with a really long progression tree, but really overpowered in the late game. Its soul purpose is to drag the endgame gameplay to extreme lengths.

• Blood Magic - This is a magic mod based on blood. Beware, you die a lot.

Mods / Utilities

• Akashic Tome - A mod based on Morph-o-Tool, which mainly gives the ability to merge different mods' documentation books.

• AppleSkin - This mod does not change any existing mechanics, but simply makes the existing hunger saturation and exhaustion levels visible in the default GUI.

• Attribute Fixer - This mod fixes the attribute system in Minecraft which handles things like armour points, because many other mods are inadvertantly affected by a limit in this system.

• Diet Hopper - This mod modifies the way Minecraft calculates the collision boxes of the hopper, so that you can access any visible blocks behind it.

• FoamFix - Fixes various aspects of the Minecraft code, generally making the game faster.

Mods / General

• ArmorPlus - This mod literally adds tons of armors to the game, and different ways of crafting them.

• Baubles - This mod adds seven new slots to the player inventory which can be fitted with various items like amulets, belts, rings and so on added by other mods.

Mods / Exploration

• Aroma1997's Dimensional World - This mod adds one extra dimension, with the intended purpose of mining, meaning the Overworld will not be filled up with things like Buildcraft quarry holes anymore etc.

• Twilight Forest - Adds a new twilight forest dimension with new sturctures, bosses, and quests to complete.

Mods / Building

• Carpenter's Blocks - This mod adds new blocks such as slants and corners which can be made to look like any other block in the game! Extremely useful for artistic builds. (For 1.12+ see BlockCraftery)

• Chisel - This mod adds multiple new textures to lots of blocks in the game, adding a wide variety of textures. (For editing units smaller than blocks see Chisel and Bits.)

• FAWE - Stands for Fast Async WorldEdit. Based upon WorldEdit, it is simply faster, and adds lots more tools (i.e. brushes) to work with.

Nov 11 - Nov 17, 2019

Mods / Building

• WorldEdit (⭐3.1k) - WorldEdit is an open source in-game map editor available for Bukkit, Forge, MinecraftEdu, and many other platforms.

Server Plugins / Building

• WorldGuard (⭐818) - WorldGuard lets you and players guard areas of land against griefers and undesirables, as well as tweak and disable various gameplay features of Minecraft.

• CraftBook (⭐302) - CraftBook lets you create magically extending bridges, compact Redstone circuits, complex Minecart mechanics, and much more — all without a client mod and fully customizable by the server.

Web Applications / Building

• Blessing Skin Server (⭐824) - A web application brings your custom skins back in offline Minecraft servers.

• WorldEdit Golf - Challenge others in a competition to use WorldEdit in as few commands as possible.

Development / Launchers

• SchematicWebViewer (⭐62) - A JavaScript/TypeScript library for rendering and viewing Minecraft schematic files on the web.

May 06 - May 12, 2019

Softwares / Utilities

• Minecraft Command Science - Several Minecraft vanilla JSON generators.

Mar 04 - Mar 10, 2019

Mod Loaders / Archives

• RopeMC (⭐8) - A lightweight, reflection based mod loader which aims to be user friendly and later version independent.

Jan 28 - Feb 03, 2019

Mods / Technology

• Railcraft (⭐510) - Greatly expand and improve the Minecart system in Minecraft.

Mods / Utilities

• TNTUtils (⭐8) - More control over explosions in Minecraft.

Sep 03 - Sep 09, 2018

Websites / Wiki

• Chinese Minecraft Wiki - The Chinese Minecraft Wiki is an official wiki of Minecraft, covering detailed tutorials on crafting, blocks, creatures and even PE versions.

• wiki.vg - Technical Minecraft wiki.

Mod Loaders / Archives

• Meddle (⭐31) - Everything related to modding 1.9/1.10 snapshots in one place.

Mods / Skins And Capes

• Custom Skin Loader (⭐491) - Custom Skin Loader for Minecraft.

Mods / Maps

• Journey Map - Real-time mapping in game or in a web browser as you explore.

Mods / Items Management

• Just Enough Items (JEI) - JEI is an item and recipe viewing mod for Minecraft, built from the ground up for stability and performance.

Mods / Technology

• Tinkers Construct - Tinkers' Construct is a mod about putting tools together in a wide variety of ways, then modifying them until they turn into something else.

• Immersive Engineering - Immersive Engineering is a tech mod with a certain charm, based on the ideas and concepts, and with most assets created by Damien Hazard.

• Botania (⭐1.3k) - Botania is a tech mod in essence. The theme is natural magic.

Mods / Energy

• Applied Energistics 2 (⭐1.4k) - A Minecraft Mod about Matter, Energy and using them to conquer the world.

• RFTools - RFTools is a mod containing various tools that are related to RF (Redflux) or technology in general.

Mods / Farming And Food

• Pam's HarvestCraft - Pam's HarvestCraft is a mod for Minecraft that currently adds many kinds of crops and food.

Server Plugins / Building

• AntiCheatReloaded (⭐105) - AntiCheatReloaded helps server admins easily identify and block malicious users by monitoring and analyzing the behaviour of their players.

• ViaVersion (⭐1.2k) - Allows the connection of newer clients to older server versions for Minecraft servers.

• AdvancedKitsReloaded (⭐10) - AdvancedKitsReloaded is a Kit managing plugin for Minecraft servers which runs Bukkit, CraftBukkit, Spigot and Paper (>1.8). With this plugin you can easily create/edit/delete your kits and you can customize it as much as you'd like.

Jul 30 - Aug 05, 2018

Softwares / Launchers

• MultiMC (⭐4.2k) - A custom launcher for Minecraft that allows you to easily manage multiple installations of Minecraft at once.

• HMCL (⭐6.7k) - A powered Minecraft launcher that supports a lot of features.

May 21 - May 27, 2018

Websites / Forums

• Minecraft Forums - Official community forums, a great place to talk about the game.

• Planet Minecraft - Creative community fansite.

Mod Loaders / Archives

• Minecraft Forge (⭐6.8k) - Modifications to the Minecraft base files to assist in compatibility between mods.

• liteloader - A lightweight mod loader for Minecraft designed to provide simple, high-performance and reliable loader functionality for mods which don't need to modify game mechanics.

Mods / Performance

• Optifine - OptiFine is a Minecraft optimization mod.

Mods / Skins And Capes

• Universal Skin Mod (⭐26) - A Minecraft Forge Mod allows players load custom skin & cape textures.

Softwares / Utilities

• Minecraft Command Helper (⭐25) - A WPF Program about generate Minecraft Command (with NBT data). (Windows Only)

Development / Launchers

• FML Mod Development Tutorial - (Chinese) Minecraft 1.8.9 FML Mod Development Tutorial.