





Not Quite Vanilla is a vanilla-ish modpack that expands the original game, with a focus on exploration, creativity and community.
This modpack comes with multiple server-related mods which makes it perfect for survival multiplayer servers (SMPs), but is also a blast to play on its own!
Exploration
Not Quite Vanilla comes with tons of vanilla+ style biomes, structures and even mobs!
- Terralith, a datapack designed to fundamentally overhaul the overworld with new biomes and caves.
- Tectonic, a world generation project that aims to transform how terrain is shaped.
- BetterEnd, which new biomes into the End. Each biome has its own atmosphere, resources and mobs.
- Fish of Thieves, a mod that adds all the fish from Sea of Thieves, fish fer ye pirate!
Creativity
With tons of new blocks and features, you can let your creativity go wild!
- Joy of Painting, which lets you paint your own pictures and hang them on a wall like the vanilla paintings.
- Twigs, a mod all about building, adding new and interesting materials, as well as new renditions of vanilla blocks!
- Chipped, a block that adds over 9000 unique building blocks
Community

Quick facts
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft version listed: 1.20.1
- How to install: Install the matching mod loader (Forge, Fabric or NeoForge) for your Minecraft version. → Download the .jar. → Put it in the .minecraft/mods folder and launch that loader profile.
- Where to get it: Opens on Modrinth — not every file is mirrored on our own servers.
Install steps are the general flow for this file type — How to install Minecraft Java mods & modpacks walks through it step by step.
Verified by MCModsHub
- Downloads as Not Quite Vanilla 1.1.3.mrpack
- Download size: 50.5 MB
- Download link checked 30 Aug 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.