Mandaria 3

The backbone of the pack's stability. ModernFix cuts world-load and game-startup time, patches a long list of vanilla and Forge memory leaks, and compresses in-memory data structures so a heavily modded instance like this one uses noticeably less RAM.

A Forge port of the Sodium rendering engine. It rewrites how chunks are built and drawn, which is the single biggest reason Mandaria 3 holds a stable frame rate despite the number of blocks, entities, and shader effects on screen at once.

A Forge port of Iris. Oculus is the compatibility layer that lets Embeddium's rewritten renderer run modern Iris/OptiFine-format shader packs, which is what makes the shader packs later in this wiki possible at all.

Restructures how Minecraft stores block-state and other repeated data in memory. With this many mods adding block variants, FerriteCore's memory savings add up to a meaningful chunk of the pack's total RAM budget.

Server-side performance tuning: it trims tick-loop overhead, optimises entity and world-save handling, and generally keeps a multiplayer Mandaria world responsive as more players and machines come online.

Merges nearby experience orbs into a single clump before they're collected. A small change that stops big mob farms and mining sessions from tanking the frame rate with hundreds of individual XP entities.

Skips rendering entities that are fully hidden behind other blocks. Invisible to gameplay, but it matters a lot in a pack this dense with mobs, especially inside Alex's Caves' crowded cavern biomes.

Gives players a brief grace period on world join, so nobody takes fall damage, drowns, or gets hit by a mob in the split second before chunks and entities have finished loading in.

Classic inventory quality-of-life: click-and-drag to move stacks, right-click-and-drag to split them evenly. With the sheer number of items this pack adds, sorting chests without it would be painful.

Skips the artificial delay on the 'Saving world' screen when leaving a save, so quitting to the menu is instant instead of a multi-second wait.

Adds a resource-pack browser straight into the options menu, letting you search, preview, and install packs from CurseForge and Modrinth without leaving the game.

Rewrites Forge's blunt 'incompatible mod' warning screen into something readable, so if a version ever drifts out of sync it's actually clear which mod caused it.

A tightly scoped bugfix mod that corrects critical-hit detection edge cases, keeping combat damage calculations consistent across the pack's many combat-related additions.

A performance-friendly take on connected grass textures: the sides of grass blocks blend naturally into the block above without the heavier cost of a full connected-textures mod.

Reworks leaf textures across every wood type — vanilla and modded — into a fuller, rounder 'bushy' silhouette, giving Mandaria's forests and jungles a softer, less blocky read from a distance.

A cross-platform abstraction layer that lets mod developers write one codebase for Forge, Fabric, and NeoForge. Several mods in this pack depend on it purely as plumbing.

A shared framework for building in-game configuration screens. If a mod in Mandaria 3 has a nicely laid-out settings menu instead of a raw text file, there's a good chance Cloth Config is why.

Bundles the Kotlin runtime so mods written in Kotlin rather than Java can run on Forge at all. Purely a dependency — it adds no content of its own.

The original, still widely used framework for extra equipment slots — rings, belts, capes, trinkets — beyond vanilla's armor and hand slots. Several of Mandaria's accessory and artifact mods hook into it.

A newer, more flexible accessory-slot framework that runs alongside Curios in this pack, giving mod authors finer control over slot types, rendering, and stacking rules for wearable trinkets.

A shared utility and world-generation library for Corgi_Taco's mods, handling low-level data-driven world-gen registration that other content mods build biomes and features on top of.

An advanced animation engine used across modern Minecraft modding for complex, keyframed creature and item animations. It's the reason Mandaria's more elaborate mobs move as fluidly as they do.

sbom_xela's shared library, providing the entity-rendering and animation utilities that Alex's Mobs and Alex's Caves are both built on. A hard requirement for that whole family of mods.

MehVahdJukaar's shared library, supplying rendering, data-generation, and world-gen helpers that Supplementaries and the Target Dummy mod both rely on.

A small shared utility library for mickelus's mods, underpinning Tetra's item-model and networking code.

MrCrayfish's shared library for networking, GUI, and rendering utilities, required by Backpacked and its cosmetic addons.

A small shared library for jamalam360's mods, providing common utilities that RightClickHarvest is built on.

LazrProductions' shared library, supplying common code for their gameplay mods, including Cuffed.

A shared utility library for Project8gbDeRam's compatibility mods, underpinning the GraveStone x Curios compatibility patch.

Obscuria's shared library, providing the world-gen and structure tooling that Aquamirae and Fragmentum both build their custom dimensions and biomes on.

A lightweight, dependency-free configuration library used by several smaller mods in the pack to expose their settings in a consistent format.

SSKirillSS's shared library, providing common item, effect, and data infrastructure that Relics and its various compatibility addons are all built on.

A shared library from ElocinDev, supplying utility code used by their other mods in the pack, including the X-Ray detection tool.

A shared physics and networking library for handling complex projectiles — the ballistics groundwork that Create Big Cannons' shells and rockets are built on.

The centrepiece of this whole category, and one of the pillars of Mandaria 3. Create adds a physically simulated system of rotational power — waterwheels, windmills, gearboxes, mechanical presses and mixers — that lets you build factories and moving contraptions out of visible, animated machinery rather than hidden logic.

Adds steam locomotives, custom track pieces, signalling, and a proper railway-management layer on top of Create's train system, turning cross-Mandaria transport into its own engineering project.

A broad content addon that fills gaps in Create's crafting tree with new mechanical components, materials, and recipe paths.

Adds encased, insulated variants of Create's core machine casings, giving builders more material and colour options to match the rest of a factory's aesthetic.

Extends Create's rotational-power philosophy into artillery: craft, load, and fire large-scale cannons built from real in-world components, built on Ritchie's Projectile Library for the ballistics.

Brings enchanting into Create's automation loop, with machinery that lets you apply and manage enchantments as part of an assembly line instead of a manual enchanting-table trip.

Connects Create's mechanical automation to Biomancy's organic, flesh-based technology, letting the two very different tech trees interact.

Takes Create's contraption system to the water, adding ships, boats, and marine machinery you can build, power, and pilot using Create's mechanics.

A dedicated compatibility patch that resolves overlaps between Create: Aquatic Ambitions and Create: Ultimate Factory so both addons' content coexists cleanly.

Expands Create's late-game automation with additional factory-scale machines for players who've outgrown the base mod's processing options.

A small addon focused on Create's train experience — decorative and functional whistles, bells, and other cosmetic touches for a proper railway.

A dedicated performance patch for Create itself, optimising the rendering of its many moving, rotating parts so large contraptions don't tank the frame rate.

Makes sure Create's more unusual recipe types — mixing, pressing, sequenced assembly — display correctly and legibly inside JEI's recipe viewer.

Bridges Create's machinery with materials and resources from Alex's Caves, so items found deep underground have a place in Create's crafting and processing chains.

Adds dozens of new creatures spanning realistic (grizzly bears, elephants, gazelles) and fantastical (the Cosmic Cod, the Enderiophage) — one of the pillars of Mandaria's wildlife and world-feel.

An entire underground expansion: new deep-cave biomes like the Abyssal Chasm and Primordial Caves, each with its own hostile mobs, resources, and structures to find beneath Mandaria's surface.

An addon that layers in additional structures and adventure content across Alex's Caves' biomes, giving explorers more to find on the way down.

Adds new items and weaponry themed around Alex's Caves' world, including torpedoes for dealing with what lives in its deeper, wetter biomes.

Adds cross-mod interactions for Alex's Mobs creatures — new taming, feeding, or combat behaviours that connect them to items and mechanics from other mods in the pack.

A compatibility patch that ties Relics' artifact system into Alex's Mobs, giving some of its creatures a role in how certain relics are found or crafted.

The equivalent patch for Alex's Caves, connecting its unique resources and biomes into Relics' artifact progression.

Adds a simple, sturdy training dummy entity that displays the damage it takes — a practical tool for testing weapons against all of Mandaria's new combat mods.

The foundation of the pack's whole food system: new crops, a cooking pot, a stove, and dozens of hearty recipes that make food a genuine part of Mandaria's progression instead of an afterthought.

Extends Farmer's Delight into the Nether, with heat-resistant crops, ingredients, and dishes built around the Nether's hostile ingredients.

A community bugfix patch addressing recipe and registration issues in My Nether's Delight, keeping it stable alongside the rest of the pack.

The seafood chapter of the Delight family — fishing-based ingredients and recipes that give Mandaria's oceans and Aquamirae's waters a reason to be fished, not just sailed.

Brings Farmer's Delight-style cooking to the End dimension, with Endstone-and-chorus-themed crops and dishes for players who make it that far.

A festive addon adding seasonal ingredients and holiday dishes to the Farmer's Delight cooking system, purely for flavour and fun.

Adds a chef villager profession that trades using Farmer's Delight's ingredients and dishes, giving the cooking system a place in Mandaria's villages.

Adds grapevines, wine presses, and a full wine-making process — plantable vineyards that turn into a genuine drink-crafting chain.

Expands farming with new crops, rustic cooking equipment, and cosy farmhouse-style decoration to match, rounding out Mandaria's agricultural side.

A compatibility patch that connects the Let's Do Brewery drink-brewing content with Farm & Charm's crops and equipment.

An ocean-focused dimension overhaul, adding new sea biomes, structures, and creatures for players who want their exploration to go underwater instead of underground.

A fractured, dungeon-like dimension full of custom structures to explore, built on the same Obscure API framework as Aquamirae.

Adds unique, hand-crafted magical artifacts — each with a powerful effect and a real drawback to balance it — that reward exploring the rest of the pack's dimensions and biomes to find them.

An addon that folds items from the Artifacts mod into Relics' progression system, giving them Relics-style bonus effects and acquisition methods.

Adds wearable accessory trinkets — rings, amulets, and charms — each with a single focused magical effect, worn via the Curios/Accessories slot system.

A modular tool and weapon system: build gear piece by piece from separate components, then repair and improve it over time rather than replacing it outright when it wears down.

An organic, flesh-based tech tree — weapons and tools grown and mutated from creature parts rather than forged, with its own distinct progression from Create's mechanical one.

Adds a set of nature-themed weapons that fit Mandaria's more organic, wild aesthetic alongside its heavier industrial gear.

Adds craftable handcuffs for restraining players or mobs — a small, roleplay-and-PvP-friendly gear addition.

Wearable backpacks with real, animated inventory space on your back — a visible, practical upgrade to the vanilla inventory grid.

A cosmetic addon for Backpacked, adding turtle-shell-themed skins for the backpack model.

A compatibility patch that adapts Backpacked's backpacks to work correctly alongside TerraFirmaCraft-style survival mechanics.

A general compatibility patch resolving conflicts between Backpacked and other mods in the pack.

Lets you pick up and carry whole blocks and even small mobs in your hands, rather than mining and re-placing them — genuinely changes how you move builds and animals around.

Extends Carry On's support to additional blocks and entities from the pack's other mods that wouldn't be carriable by default.

Adds a separate set of cosmetic armor slots, so you can wear the stats you need while looking like the armor you actually want.

Adds a large library of purely cosmetic hats to wear on top of your armor, for players who want to express a bit of personality.

A huge grab-bag of small, functional decoration — flags, lanterns, notice boards, bellows, and dozens more — the kind of detail blocks that make a build feel finished.

Adds a full set of furniture blocks — tables, chairs, shelves, cabinets — for interior decoration across every wood type.

A decoration mod with a calm, garden-inspired aesthetic, adding blocks that suit quieter, zen-styled builds.

Generates new hand-crafted structures across Mandaria's world — dungeons to raid and taverns to stumble into, adding proper points of interest to exploration.

Adds coastal village structures along Mandaria's shorelines, giving fishing and boat travel somewhere to actually arrive at.

A server-side tool for managing how generated structures behave and persist, keeping the pack's many new structure mods well-behaved on a shared world.

Adds craftable, physically simulated aircraft you can build and pilot, opening up genuine air travel across Mandaria's world.

Lets you craft and place playable musical instruments in the world, for anything from ambience to an actual in-game performance.

Adds a craftable in-world camera that takes real photographs of your surroundings, which can then be displayed on a wall like a painting — a nice way to document a Mandaria playthrough.

Adds wind-reactive mechanics — weather vanes, sails, and similar — that respond to in-world wind, giving weather a small but visible physical effect.

Lets you cycle a placed block through its related variants with a keybind, instead of breaking and replacing it to change wood type or colour.

Lets you right-click a ripe crop to harvest and instantly replant it, instead of breaking the whole plant — a small change that saves a lot of repetitive farming clicks.

Mines an entire connected vein of the same ore in one go, turning a Mandaria mining trip into far less repetitive block-breaking.

A full home-security toolkit: cameras, reinforced doors, keypads, alarms, and mines, for players who want to genuinely fortify a base rather than just hide it.

Extends SecurityCraft's protection system to cover more vanilla and modded blocks that weren't protectable by default.

Places a marked grave containing your items and experience when you die, instead of scattering them on the ground — with this many valuable items in the pack, a genuinely important safety net.

Ensures items worn in Curios accessory slots are correctly captured in a GraveStone grave on death, instead of being lost.

Lets players and admins claim and protect land areas from griefing, giving builds a defined, defensible boundary on shared servers.

Logs block changes across the world so that any griefing or accidental destruction can be traced back and, if needed, rolled back.

A server-side administration toolkit bundling a range of small anti-grief and quality-of-life fixes for server operators.

Monitors mining patterns for the statistical signature of X-ray texture pack use, flagging suspicious activity to server staff.

A server-side administration and stability tool that helps keep a Mandaria server running smoothly under load.

Collects basic system and environment information to make crash reports and bug reports more useful when tracking down issues in a pack this large.

A modpack-maintenance tool that lets the pack remove specific items, blocks, or recipes cleanly — used behind the scenes to keep Mandaria 3's content list intentional.

A collection of small, data-driven tweaks and fixes to vanilla mechanics that don't fit neatly into any other mod, but smooth out rough edges across the pack.

The standard recipe-viewing mod for modded Minecraft. With well over a hundred mods worth of crafting, smelting, and processing recipes in Mandaria 3, JEI is essential rather than optional.

Shows a small info tooltip for whatever block or entity you're looking at — contents, health, or state — without opening a menu.

An in-game documentation framework used by several mods in the pack to provide readable, illustrated guide books instead of relying on external wikis.

Adds exact saturation and food-value numbers to the HUD, taking the guesswork out of Mandaria's much bigger Farmer's Delight-driven food system.

A compact, customisable minimap in the corner of the screen for quick orientation, waypoints, and death markers.

The full-screen companion to Xaero's Minimap, giving a zoomable overview of everywhere you've explored across Mandaria's dimensions.

A stylised, slightly softer take on Complementary's realistic lighting model — strong performance with a lot of visual polish for the cost.

The higher-fidelity sibling to Reimagined, pushing further into realistic lighting, shadows, and reflections for players with the hardware to spare.

A lightweight shader pack focused on atmospheric, natural lighting without a heavy performance cost — a good middle ground for weaker machines.

Another performance-conscious pack, aiming for clean, natural lighting that stays close to Minecraft's original look and feel.

One of the most established shader packs in the whole Minecraft scene — vibrant colours, strong water and cloud effects, and a long track record of reliability.

A softer, muted shader pack for players who want atmosphere without Mandaria's world looking oversaturated.

A more dramatic, high-contrast pack, leaning into moody lighting for a more intense visual tone, especially underground in Alex's Caves.