Minecraft 1.21 Mods
75 of the 117 mods here have a build for Minecraft 1.21. One number off and the 1.21 jar stays unloaded. 43 of these 1.21 files are hosted here. The game itself stands at 26.2 while 1.21 keeps its own builds.
55 makers publish something for 1.21. 1.21 has a separate build per loader, so pick both. 62 are rated beginner on 1.21, 5 advanced. Sodium is the most followed mod with a 1.21 build.
- Mods for this version
- 75 of 117 documented here
- Loaders
- Forge 70 · Fabric 66 · NeoForge 66 · Quilt 18
- Biggest groups
- Utility 20 · Library 13 · Performance 8
- Download here
- 43 files on our own server
The core API module for Fabric mods providing essential hooks and utilities required by nearly all Fabric mods.
The most essential recipe viewing mod for modded Minecraft, showing all items and their crafting recipes in an overlay.
A configuration screen API that provides a standardized way for mods to display and edit their settings in-game.
A real-time mapping mod that renders explored terrain as a minimap and fullscreen map with waypoints and mob tracking.
A cross-platform modding API that allows developers to write mods compatible with both Forge and Fabric from a single codebase.
A mod focused on creating compact, powerful, and automated storage solutions using ME networks and matter-energy conversion.
An animation library for Minecraft mods that enables complex entity animations created in Blockbench.
A data-driven in-game documentation and guide book system used by many mods to provide players with mod documentation.
A tooltip mod that shows information about what you are looking at, including block details, entity info, and mod data.
The leading rendering optimization mod for Fabric, dramatically improving frame rates through a rewritten rendering engine.
One of the most popular biome mods, adding over 50 new biomes with unique terrain, vegetation, and atmosphere to world generation.
A lightweight minimap mod with entity radar, waypoint management, cave maps, and a customizable display position.
Tech mod with advanced ore processing, energy generation, digital storage, and high-tech tools and armor.
Enhances inventory management with improved mouse dragging behaviors for faster item manipulation.
A fullscreen world map companion to Xaero's Minimap showing explored terrain with waypoints and cave layer navigation.
Adds a search bar and conflict detection to the keybinding settings screen, essential for modpacks with many keybinds.
Adds hunger and saturation information overlays to the HUD and tooltips, showing food value before eating.
A cross-loader abstraction library used by Waystones, Cooking for Blockheads, and other mods by BlayTheNinth.
Adds placeable waystones that players can attune to and teleport between, providing a convenient fast-travel system.
A server-side optimization mod that improves game logic performance including entity AI, world gen, and block ticking.
A shader mod for Fabric that allows OptiFine shader packs to be used alongside Sodium for maximum performance.
A recipe viewer and item browser for Fabric and Forge, serving as a feature-rich alternative to JEI with plugin support.
A compact tech mod known for its conduit system that allows multiple types of transport in a single block space.
A farming and cooking expansion mod that adds new crops, food preparation tools, and a rich cooking system with plated meals.
A modding library required by Alex's Mobs and Ice and Fire providing animation systems, entity utilities, and data tools.
A storage mod adding compact drawer blocks that display their contents visually, with upgrades for capacity and features.
Adds a multiblock kitchen with a recipe book that shows all food you can cook from your available ingredients.
A memory optimization mod that reduces RAM usage by optimizing block state storage and other internal data structures.
A resource-growing mod that lets players farm any material by growing essence crops, from iron to diamonds and mod resources.
A quest and progression system for modpacks, allowing pack makers to create guided questlines with rewards and chapters.
A vanilla-style decoration mod adding functional and aesthetic blocks like signs, jars, flower boxes, and redstone gadgets.
A programmable computers mod adding Lua-powered computers, turtles, monitors, and networking peripherals.
Groups XP orbs together into a single entity, reducing lag from large numbers of orbs in mob farms and grinders.
A shared library required by all YUNG's Better mods, providing structure generation utilities and jigsaw helpers.
A massive farming mod adding hundreds of crops, fruit trees, and recipes for an extensive food production system.
A shared library for Supplementaries, Every Compat, and other mods by MehVahdJukaar providing dynamic resources and utilities.
A shared library for Mystical Agriculture and other mods by BlakeBr0 providing base classes and crafting tools.
Chunk claiming and protection mod that lets players protect their builds, with a built-in minimap and force-loading.
The Fabric equivalent of Curios API, adding data-driven accessory slots for rings, necklaces, and other equipment.
A compass that can locate any biome in the world, displaying distance and direction to help players find specific biomes.
Lets players pick up and carry blocks, tile entities, and even mobs by shift-right-clicking, and place them elsewhere.
A vanilla-style biome overhaul using only vanilla blocks, adding dramatic terrain features and over 85 new biomes.
A Forge/NeoForge port of Sodium providing the same dramatic rendering performance improvements for the Forge ecosystem.
Adds a wide variety of aesthetically designed doors and trapdoors in multiple wood types and styles for building.
Solves recipe conflicts in modpacks by letting players choose which result to craft when multiple recipes share the same inputs.
A spell-crafting magic mod where players compose custom spells from modular glyphs, with familiars and enchanting systems.
Adds rare accessory items found in dungeon loot chests that grant unique passive abilities when equipped in Curio slots.
An advanced inventory management mod with auto-sorting, auto-refill, profile saving, and locked slots.
Adds sloped roof blocks, gutters, attic walls, and skylight blocks for building realistic rooftops in every material.
An animation library enabling mods to add custom player animations, required by Better Combat and other combat mods.
Enhances melee combat with weapon-specific attack animations, swing arcs, combos, and dual-wielding support.
Optimizes immediate-mode rendering used by HUDs, GUIs, text, and item displays for a notable FPS boost.
A shared library for Better End and Better Nether providing biome registration, structure tools, and common utilities.
Adds thousands of block variants through specialized workbenches, turning vanilla blocks into dozens of decorative options.
Adds a variety of bridge components including supports, stairs, railings, and rope bridges in multiple wood types.
An upgradeable backpack mod with tiered capacity, auto-pickup, magnet, smelting, and many other functional upgrades.
A structure mod that generates massive, elaborate dungeon structures throughout the world with unique architecture and loot.
Replaces vanilla dungeons with hand-crafted designs featuring multiple rooms, varied layouts, and improved loot.
An apiculture mod expanding the vanilla bee system with specialized bees that produce resources, breed, and work in advanced hives.
A collection of performance fixes targeting memory usage, load times, and runtime overhead in large modpacks.
Prevents Minecraft from fully closing on a crash, returning to the title screen instead and showing a detailed crash report.
A furniture mod adding chairs, tables, desks, drawers, wardrobes, and other home furnishings in every wood type.
Automatically generates wood variants for modded blocks, ensuring that furniture and decoration mods work with all wood types.
Overhauls vanilla mineshafts with nine biome-specific variants, larger layouts, and improved loot placement.
A furniture mod adding stylish couches, tables, chairs, shelves, and other home furnishings in multiple material variants.
A featherweight recipe viewer with a focus on being fast, clean, and easy to use, supporting recipe trees and crafting resolution.
A massive biome overhaul adding over 200 new biomes with detailed terrain features, custom trees, and improved vanilla landscapes.
Completely overhauls vanilla strongholds with sprawling layouts, grand libraries, armouries, and prison cells.
Expands the Nether with new biomes, vegetation, materials, and structures, adding depth and variety to the hostile dimension.
A farming mod adding 58 crops, 26 fruit trees, and over 250 food items with balanced recipes and biome-specific spawning.
Replaces vanilla ocean monuments with larger, more complex structures containing multiple wings, puzzles, and better loot.
A spirit-summoning magic mod where players bind demons and djinn to perform tasks like mining, crafting, and transporting items.
A terrain overhaul mod that generates dramatically larger mountains, deeper valleys, and more varied continent-scale landforms.
Generates massive multi-level dungeon towers below the surface with varied rooms, traps, spawners, and loot.
A dark underground dimension mod filled with bioluminescent flora, unique creatures, and progression-gated bosses.
Frequently asked questions
How many mods work on Minecraft 1.21?
75 of the 117 mods documented here ship a 1.21 build, from 55 makers. They split as Forge 70, Fabric 66, NeoForge 66, Quilt 18.
Which loader should I use on 1.21?
Forge carries the most here on 1.21, 70 mods. A mod is built per loader and per version, so the file has to match both. One profile runs one loader.
Is a 26.2 jar fine on 1.21?
No. A jar is compiled against one game version. A build for 26.2 will not load on 1.21, and the other way round it fails too. The mod page names every version its maker signed off.
Is the 1.21 download from the maker?
43 of the 1.21 files sit on our own server, unchanged, with the checksum of the maker's build beside them. The rest link to the maker because his licence keeps every right with him.