








Welcome To The Fossils Mod!

The Fossils Mod is a museum-building mod that adds over 500 highly detailed fossils that vary in size from individual fossil slabs to large skeletons that require many pieces to make. Currently, we have fossils representing every time period from the Ediacaran to the present, representing 580 million years of life's history in Minecraft. From the small Protozoea to the famous Tyrannosaurus, we are excited to see your museums and what you decide to fill it with!
Getting Started
In order to get started, get an iron pickaxe and mine the various fossil ores that will generate throughout the overworld, each corresponding to a different time period. Once you get a fossil, you can place it down in your world. Depending on color will determine how many pieces of that fossil you will need to complete it— Either 5, 10, 15, or 20 pieces. If you want to rotate a fossil, you can right click with an empty hand to turn it clockwise, or shift left click to turn it counter-clockwise. If you want to support your skeletons, you can also left click a skeleton with iron bars to generate supports.
Recommended Mods
- Entity Culling
(Performance enhancements when placing many skeletons.) - Prehistoric Fauna
(Friend of our mod, useful for making time-accurate dioramas.) - Better Advancements
(Useful for navigating the large advancement trees of our mod.)
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- 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.
- Ships as fossils-1.0.1.jar — drop this file into the mods folder
- Download size: 40.3 MB
- Download link checked 30 Aug 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.