Essentials
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Essentials
Essentials expands automation and redstone in a balanced and vanilla style.
While there's full ingame documentation with Patchouli installed (strongly recommended), here's a few highlights:
• A single block chest that remembers item types for each slot
• Farmland that self-replants
• Simple and cheap item transport and sorting
• Single block redstone circuits that can do logic or math
• And more...
Essentials has no worldgen, no balance destroying features, has ingame documentation (through the Essentials Guidebook with Patchouli), and is highly configurable. It can be dropped into a modpack without issues.
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- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft versions listed: 1.21, 1.21.1, 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 CurseForge — 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.
- Ships as essentials-1.18.1-2.13.3.jar — drop this file into the mods folder
- Download size: 1.1 MB
- Download link checked 27 Aug 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.