Exploring the Top 10 Best Minecraft Mods
Vanilla Minecraft is great, but if you’re not exploring the world of mods then you’re really missing out on some of the most fun gaming experiences out there. From huge RPG-themed experiences to futuristic worlds with amazing technology, there is a universe of new gaming experiences inside our favourite block-based adventure. To showcase some of our favourite mods, we’ve created this guided to some of our top Minecraft mods to help you find something new to try. We’re sure we’ve missed lots of awesome choices, but at the moment these are some of our best mods.
Thaumcraft
Thaumcraft is a unique mod which is all about drawing magic from physical objects in the form of essential and reshaping it to form miracles. This mod is brilliantly crafted with a beautiful esthetic that doesn’t clash with the game, but rather adds to it and in an impressive way.
JEI
It’s an absolutely essential mod at this point in its incredible usability and utility, JEI has an entire G UI which serves to inform the user on crafting recipes on items and a search bar which allows you to find anything.
HWYLA
HWYLA or Here’s What You’re Looking At is another absolutely essential mod to have. Unlike JEI, this mod should be included in vanilla Minecraft. The sole functionality is to provide information to user based on what you’re looking at, whether it’s an entity and or it’s their health bar or a modded item along with its mod of origin.
Biomes O’ Plenty
Biomes O’ Plenty is a beautifully crafted mod which adds in dozens of biomes to create variety in Minecraft’s world generation. Although it’s extremely intense performance wise, your world is going to benefit greatly from all the colorful and shaped biomes in this mod.
Waystones
Waystones is a simple, yet effective mod that adds a new block called Way Stones. These function identically to fast travel points in any other game and allow you to teleport between them across your world.
Nature’s Compass
Nature’s Compass is another simple mod which serves a single function, but it’s incredibly useful by itself. It adds a simple item, a nature’s compass, that allows you to track down any specific biome that you may be looking for, including integration with modded biomes.
Ice and Fire
Ice and Fire is a mod that’s inspired by Lord Of The Rings and Game of Thrones. You might get overwhelmed by the sheer amount of content that is in this mod. Not only is it beautifully made, but it is a labor of love.
Iron Chests
Iron Chests is a mod that expands on chests and improves the storage capacity of them. There’s even shulker boxes that can be upgraded as well.
Mowzie’s Mobs
Mowzie’s Mobs brings a few interesting mods into the game that all have high quality animations, sound design, mechanics, and more. After you defeat them, you can acquire useful weapons and armor themed around the mobs that you slay.
Create
Create introduces one of the most creative mods in Minecraft. This tech mod with a steampunk esthetic brings numerous blocks, machines, tools, and structures that have amazing functionality and utility in the game.
At the end of the day, all of these mods are fun and interesting to play around with. You’re bound to find more just like them on Forge or some other website. If you need help with installation, make sure to check out our mod installation guide, which is going to show you how to properly install all of these fun time passers. In any case, we hope you enjoyed this article and as always, we hope you have lots of fun exploring the world of Minecraft mods!