Castoreum: A yellow oil secreted from the castor sacs located above the anus of adult beavers. Beavers mix this secretion with their urine to mark their territory but the substance has become known for its vanilla-like scent which has made it an ingredient in many foods and fragrances.!

What is this pack?

Castoreum was originally a vanilla+ modpack I created for a private SMP server sometime before the release of Minecraft 1.16 in 2019. Over the years, I would release the modpack under multiple names, multiple modloaders, first on CurseForge and now for the first time on Modrinth. In this time many of the mods have changed but the philosophy has always stayed the same, although the beavers are relatively new:

This modpack seeks to improve the core Minecraft experience without losing the original feel of the game. Improves performance significantly, provides quality of life changes, visually and auditorily updates the game with new particles, textures, shader effects and sound effects. When available, I also like to add a cinema mod so you can watch videos in game with your friends (not currently available on 26.1). My general aim is to make the pack as pretty and immersive as possible while adding quality of life changes that don't feel like they lose the plot of Minecraft Survival Mode.

I designed this pack to be quickly updateable so that the pack can stay up to date with Minecraft updates. Due to this, mods often flow in and out of the modpack. I unfortunately cannot guarantee the continuation of any mod in this pack in future releases as its continuence depends on the speed of the lovely modders to keep their mods up to date with recent versions of Minecraft. In truth there are actually two mods this modpack waits for: Sodium and Iris, but this is almost never an issue. This modpack is also designed to be fully removable without harming your world, feel free to throw your old vanilla world into this and see if you like it or not.

Here's Most of What's in the Pack:

HUD Mods:

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• Borderless Fullscreen
• Mini Map
• Random Villager Names
• Numerical Server Ping
• Longer Chat History
• Armor Bar Reflects The Armor You're Wearing
• View Maps in Inventory
• Where Is It (Click "Y" on an item to find it in nearby chests, works with JEI too)
• Areas (Give your areas names!)
• Easier Resource Pack Managment (Drag and drop resource packs)
• Screenshots Copy to Clipboard
• Ingame Screenshot Gallery
• See Your Hunger While on Horseback
• View All Contents of a Shulkerbox in the Inventory
• See What Dimension a Player is in by Holding Tab
• Right Click on Beehives to See How Many Bees it Has
• /shrug in chat: ¯_(ツ)_/¯
• Access Any Item in a Bundle No Matter How Many Different Items You Have
• Ping Things in the Distance with Middle Mouse
• Just Enough Items

Gameplay Mods:

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• Items Dropped on Death Never Despawn
• Items Dropped on Death Teleport to Last Safe Block (No more losing items to void or lava)
• All Dropped Items Are Resistant to Explosions
• Lose Less Experience on Death (20%)
• NetherPortalFix (Always come back through the same Nether portal)
• Hit Through Grass
• Totem of Undying Works From Inventory
• Restore Anvils with Iron Ingots
• Revive Fallen Players
• Cycle Villager Trades with the Click of a Button
• Pickaxes Break Glass Quicker
• Lapis Stays in Enchanting Table
• Accurate Block Placement (Place blocks quicker and more accurately)
• Ride Horses Through Leaf Blocks
• Open Shulker Boxes Without Placing Them, Place Them with Shift+Right Click
• No Shield Delay
• Mending Works on Items in Your Inventory
• Use a Lead on Anything
• Attach Mobs Together with Leads with Shift+Right Click
• Quick Swap to Similar Items, Blocks and Tools by Holding "R" with it in Hand.
• Feed a Happy Ghast Sugar, Honey or Dragon's Breath and its Speed Will Increase for 20s (Sugar=Speed I, Honey=Speed II, Dragon's Breath=Speed III)
• Phantoms Don't Spawn, Get Membranes From Bats Instead
• Blocks and Tools Auto Refill When They Run Out or Break
• Right Click on a Player With Food to Feed Them
• Rapidly Crouch by a Player to Give Em a Smooch
• Sit Down by Pressing "X"
• Two People Can Now Ride A Horse, Similar to a Boat

Graphics Mods/Packs:

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• Complementary Shaders
• Not Enough Animations (New player animations)
• Euphoria Patches (Advanced shader effects like auroras)
• Small Visual Effects & Changes: Subtle Effects, Particular ✨ Reforged, Particle Effects, Visuality, FootprintParticles, Snow Imprints
• Dynamic Lighting (Torches glow in hand)
• Inventory Particles
• 3D Armor
• Fancy World Animations (Animations for opening doors, flipping levers, etc.)
• Animated Items Pack (Animated item sprites)
• Various New But Vanillesque Textures (Some 3D textures too, check resource packs)
• Theone's Eating Animation Pack (First person eating animations)
• Cozy Beds (Working blankets for beds)
• Bushy Grass and Leaves
• Wavey Capes
• Arrows Stick to All Mobs, Not Just Players
• Particle Birds Fly in the Distance (Explains the bird chirping ambience)
• Your Weapons & Tools Are Displayed on Your Back & Sides
• New Animations for All Mobs (Fresh Animations)

Sound Mods/Packs:

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• Sound Physics Remastered (Reworks how sound works in Minecraft)
• Sounds (Adds lots of small sound effects to the world and even inventory)
• AmbientSounds 6 (Adds ambience)
• Disable Specific Sounds, Like Allay Cries
• More Frequent Music
• Creative Music in Survival
• Queue Specific Songs by Hitting "M"
• Rain Sound Effects Changes Based on What Material the Rain Landed On (Cool Rain)

Important Notes & Keybinds:

Important Notes:

• This modpack can and will get you banned on vanilla servers! Some of these mods are considered cheating by most servers' anticheats.
• This modpack uses the mod Euphoria Patches to specifically work with Complementary Shaders, if you're not using Complementary Shaders it is best to disable Euphoria Patches as well.
• If there are any changes I have made to the game that you do not appreciate you can probably turn it off. Almost everything can be turned off or configured through video settings, Mod Menu settings or at worst through config files in /config.

Unique Keybinds:

• Click "Y" on an Item in Your Inventory/Hand/JEI to Find it in Nearby Chests
• Create Map Waypoint: "B"
• Open Fullscreen Map: "J"
• Show/hide Mini Map: "]"
• "Right Click" on Beehives to See How Much Honey/Bees it Has
• /shrug in chat: ¯_(ツ)_/¯
• "Right Click" with Shulker Boxes in Hand to Open Them Without Placing Them
• Fully Place Shulker Boxes with "Shift+Right Click"
• Attach Mobs Together with Leads with "Shift+Right Click"
• Quick Swap to Similar Items, Blocks and Tools by Holding "R" with it in Hand
• Queue Specific Songs by Hitting "M"
• Ping Things in the Distance with the Middle Mouse Button
• Right Click on a Player With Food to Feed Them
• Give a Player a Kiss by Rapidly Crouching
• Sit Down by Pressing "X"

Disclaimer: This modpack does not contain any beavers or their secretions. No beavers were harmed in the making of this modpack.