Essential TerraFirmaCraft (TFC)
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Curious about TerraFirmaCraft and want to play a curated modpack with just TFC? This modpack is for you!
Designed for the beginner TerraFirmaCraft player in 1.18/1.20/1.21, planned as a modpack that someone can just recommend for new arrivals to the TFC TNG community.
I've selected a few content addons and my favorite Quality of Play mods, while only adding shaders in 1.21 or large content changes.
TerraFirmaCraft addons:
Barrels 2012 - Allows large items and lanterns in the back slot
Water Flasks - leather and iron flasks with durability
TFCGyres-OreHints - adds hint rocks for all mineral veins, buffs veins a lot in 1.18, just adds mountain iron in 1.20
QoL(Quality of Life) Mods:
Jade - for in-game display of items, critical in TFC to know what you're looking at!
JEI - all kinds of recipe questions
Xaero's mini-map and world map - because making over 100 waypoints is not unusual in TFC gameplay
Controlling - because custom keybinds make me happy
Performance Mods:
Embeddium/Extras/Dynamic Lights - Improves graphical performance and adds dynamic lighting
Ferrite Core - Improves memory usage
Dependencies:
Patchouli - for TFC, provides the in-inventory book
Curios API - for back slot access
Version specific notes:
In 1.18, rock layer sizes are essentially the same as in 1.7, which are too big for single-player or small server use. I added my TFCGyres-RockLayerSize mod to decrease rock layer sizes by 50%.
In 1.20, worldgen and rock layer sizes are very different, and quite acceptable, so this is not needed.
1.20 adds the "Searchables" library mod, a required dependency for Controlling. It allows keybind searching by mod, which is super helpful!
1.20 also adds the ModernFix performance mod for several bugfixes and enhancements.
1.21 adds several other mods for QoL and appearance.
For support, come to the TFC discord: https://discord.gg/PRuAKvY in the #content forum post for this modpack.
- Edition: Minecraft Java
- File type: .jar
- Minecraft versions listed: 1.20.1, 1.21.9, 1.18.2
- 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.
- Downloads as Essential-TFC-1.0.0.zip
- Download size: 3 KB
- Download link checked 28 Aug 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.