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Essentially Essential
The modpack with only the most esssential mods!. Free Minecraft Java modpack for 1.21.1.
⬇ Download on ModrinthEssentially Essential is a no-nonsense modpack for Fabric and NeoForge 1.21.1 that includes everything you actually want and nothing you don't.
Just pure performance improvements and essential QoL, the stuff that should honestly just be in the base game.
Performance mods handle the better FPS, less memory usage, faster loading and smoother chunk rendering.
QoL mods add the small things everyone always ends up installing anyway. Recipe viewer, zoom, inventory tweaks and food stats.
That's it. That's the whole pack. Essentially essential.
All versions include:
- AppleSkin
- Cloth Config
- Clumps
- Dynamic FPS
- EntityCulling
- FerriteCore
- ImmediatelyFast
- Jade
- Just Enough Items
- Lithium
- ModernFix
- More Culling
- Mouse Tweaks
- Sodium
Fabric only:
- Fabric API
- Fabric Language Kotlin
- Mod Menu
- Placeholder API
- YetAnotherConfigLib
- Zoomify
NeoForge only:
- Just Zoom
- Konkrete
Verified by MCModsHub
- Downloads as Essentially Essential Neoforge.mrpack
- Download size: 3 KB
- Download link checked 20 Aug 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.