What is Vanilla Max?
It is my vision of what Minecraft could be without Microsoft and Mojang limiting what enters into the game, without losing the sandbox aspect and remaining simple, using the vanilla crafting systems as much as possible and only introducing systems that are simple and intuitive to understand for any player.
What motivated me to create this was that even though there are mods and modpacks that add many layers to the game, they are often overly complex making it difficult even for veteran Minecraft players to understand its mechanics, which causes them not to engage with those systems. Vanilla Max brings its many features in a natural, seamless way into the game for any player to enjoy as they like, and has something in it for all kinds of players!
Features
- One-click multiplayer with proximity-based voice chat!
- Airships and aircraft that can be crafted comprehensibly through the crafting table and have intuitive controls
- Ships - you no longer will be able to traverse oceans with simple boats though!
- Carts for you to transport stuff on land by yourself or with a friendly help from horses, mules, donkeys or camels
- Backpacks and sleeping bags to enable you to explore further away from home without fear of going back to spawn or filling your inventory
- Vinery and winemaking
- Several new mobs - passive and hostile - including the ones that lost all mob votes!
- Lots of new food
- New cooking system for more complex recipes
- Many new crops
- Improved fishing and various new kinds of fish
- Trinkets with some pretty interesting effects
- Several new small and larger structures
- Many revamped structures from vanilla
- Revamped Minecarts that can be linked and go much faster
- Elytra has a trinket slot instead of taking up the chest slot
- Revamped archeology - and a new villager job with it!
- Cameras and photography!
- Guard villagers that can assist the player during raids and zombie attacks - and also attack misbehaving players
- Gunpowder weaponry: cannons for land, ships and airships, as well as flintlock guns - but they can also be in Pillager's and (rarely) Skeleton's hands!
- Completely revamped End and Nether dimensions
- Backported wolves, tuff building blocks, crafter and bundles from 1.21
- Copper hoppers and pipes for better storage arrays and redstone machinery
- Lots of brand new decorations and furniture
- Many new wood types
- Several quality-of-life improvements and features
Thanks to all mod creators that made this project possible!
There are modlists for each version under versions. This is the latest version one:
- 1.21 Paintings backport by Leonxkingx
- Actual Cherries by placa, MCreator
- Almanac by frikinjay
- Amendments by MehVahdJukaar
- AppleSkin by squeek502
- Architectury by shedaniel
- Artifacts by ochotonida, Florens
- Autocrafter Early by QuackImpala7321
- BCLib by Quiqueck, paulevs, Bulldog83
- Backported Wolves by EmilSG
- BadOptimizations by Thosea
- Bareback Horse Riding by Rick South
- Beautify by Suel_ki
- Better Advancements by way2muchnoise
- Better Archeology by Pandarix, Dunk3ll1cht
- Better End by Quiqueck (code), paulevs (code & art), Bulldog83 (code & art), Edos (building), Yuki (art), Seaward (art), Firel (music)
- Better End Cities Better End by TheArchitects
- Better Nether by quiqueck, paulevs (original author)
- Better Sniffers by o-Peepo
- BetterEnd Crashed Ships by MuonR
- BetterF3 by cominixo, TreyRuffy
- BetterThanMending by legobmw99
- Botarium by CodexAdrian
- Bottle Your Xp by Rick South
- Chat Heads by dzwdz, Fourmisain
- Cherished Worlds by Illusive Soulworks
- Cherry Grove Villages by Shinnyy, WolfGathering
- Cloth Config v11 by shedaniel
- Cloudflared by Zeitheron
- Clumps by Jaredlll08
- Collective by Rick South
- Colorful Subtitles by haykam821
- Concurrent Chunk Management Engine by RelativityMC, ishland
- Continuity by PepperCode1
- Copper Hopper by pcal.net
- CopperandTuffBackport by Xanthian
- Cubes Without Borders by Kir_Antipov
- Cull Less Leaves by isXander
- Darceno's Minecarts by darceno
- Deeper and Darker by Kyanite Mods
- Diagonal Fences by Fuzs, XFactHD
- Diagonal Walls by Fuzs, XFactHD
- Diagonal Windows by Fuzs, XFactHD
- Distant Horizons
- DistractingTrims by Darkhax
- Durability Tooltip by SuperMartijn642
- Dynamic FPS by juliand665, LostLuma
- EMI by Emi
- EMI Trades by Prismwork, Flamarine
- Easy Anvils by Fuzs
- Easy Elytra Takeoff by Rick South
- Easy Magic by Fuzs
- Easy Shulker Boxes by Fuzs
- Echo Chest by Fuzs
- Ecologics by SameButDifferent, Zero_DSRS_VX, Drigonis, Crispytwig, Irishjevil, Foquito Azul
- Elytra Trinket by Travis Martin
- Ender Compass by Crossover661
- Endless Music by z3roco01
- Enhanced Block Entities by FoundationGames
- EntityCulling by tr7zw
- Exposure by Mortuusars
- Fabric API by FabricMC
- FerriteCore by malte0811
- Fishing Paradise by BogdanValentin977
- Fishing rod fix by andrewchik
- Forge Config API Port by Fuzs
- Friends & Foes by Faboslav
- Friends&Foes - Beekeeper Hut by Faboslav
- Friends&Foes - Flowery Mooblooms by Faboslav
- Furnace Recycle by Rick South
- GUI Clock by Rick South
- Game Menu Remove GFARB by MORIMORI0317
- Genshin Instruments by StavWasPlayZ
- Golden Age Combat by Fuzs
- GuardVillagers by MrSterner
- Horse Stonks by SanityCh3ck
- HorseBuff by CodeF53#0241
- I Want That Back by LordEnder_Kitty
- ImmediatelyFast by RK_01
- Immersive Aircraft by Luke100000
- Incapacitated by Mari (Cartoonish Villain)
- Indium by comp500
- Infinite Trading by Rick South
- Inventory Totem by Rick South
- Iris by coderbot, IMS212, Justsnoopy30, FoundationGames
- Joy of Painting by xerca
- Krypton by tuxed
- Let Me Despawn by frikinjay
- Let's Do Addon: Structures by Ninjdai
- Linkart by vini2003, Martmists, melontini
- Lithium by JellySquid, 2No2Name
- Lithostitched by Apollo
- Memory Leak Fix by FX - PR0CESS
- Mod Loading Screen by Gaming32
- Mod Menu by Prospector, haykam821, TerraformersMC
- ModernFix by embeddedt
- ModpackUtils by UltimatChamp
- MojangLogoAnimation by Hashibutogarasu
- Moonlight by MehVahdJukaar
- Musket Mod by ewewukek
- Necronomicon by ElocinDev
- Nether Chested by Fuzs
- Netherite Recycling by notblue
- NiftyCarts by MennoMax, paul101, jmb19905
- No Enderman Grief by Jodek
- OG Progress Bar by Foksha
- Passive Shield by Rick South
- Plasmo Voice by Plasmo
- Puzzles Lib by Fuzs
- Realistic Bees by Rick South
- Replanting Crops by Rick South
- Replay Mod by CrushedPixel, johni0702
- Resourceful Lib by ThatGravyBoat, Epic_Oreo
- Respawning Shulkers by Rick South
- Sculk Expansion by badooga, rennen_rig
- Shoulder Surfing Reloaded by Exopandora
- Simple Copper Pipes by Luna, Treetrain1
- Simple Menu by Rick South
- Small Ships by talhanation, metroite
- Sodium by @jellysquid3
- Sodium Extra by FlashyReese
- SplashChanger by MrSam7K
- SuperMartijn642's Config Lib by SuperMartijn642
- Supplementaries by MehVahdJukaar, Plantkillable
- TerraBlender by Adubbz
- Too Many Binds by NebelNidas, dzwdz
- Tree Harvester by Rick South
- Trinkets by Emi, C4
- Universal Graves by Patbox
- Unseaworthy by murphy slaw
- Vein Mining by Illusive Soulworks
- Visuality by PinkGoosik
- Wool Tweaks by Rick South
- World Play Time by Khajiitos
- Xaero's Minimap by xaero96
- Xaero's World Map by xaero96
- YUNG's API by YUNGNICKYOUNG
- YUNG's Better Desert Temples by YUNGNICKYOUNG, Tera
- YUNG's Better Dungeons by YUNGNICKYOUNG, Acarii
- YUNG's Better End Island by YUNGNICKYOUNG, Acarii
- YUNG's Better Jungle Temples by YUNGNICKYOUNG, Tera
- YUNG's Better Mineshafts by YUNGNICKYOUNG
- YUNG's Better Nether Fortresses by YUNGNICKYOUNG, Acarii
- YUNG's Better Ocean Monuments by YUNGNICKYOUNG, Tera
- YUNG's Better Strongholds by YUNGNICKYOUNG, Acarii
- YUNG's Better Witch Huts by YUNGNICKYOUNG, Acarii
- YUNG's Extras by YUNGNICKYOUNG, Acarii
- YetAnotherConfigLib by isXander
- [Crafting] Cheaper templates by CodingLegend0100
- [Let's Do Addon] AppleWood by berksire
- [Let's Do Addon] Corn Expansion by Ninjdai, KalWantsPizza, Satisfy
- [Let's Do Addon] Fluids by Ninjdai
- [Let's Do Addon]: Photographers by diacritics-owo
- [Let's Do] API by Cristelknight, BaumeisterJO
- [Let's Do] Bakery by satisfy
- [Let's Do] Beachparty by Satisfy, BaumeisterJo, Cristelknight
- [Let's Do] BloomingNature by satisfy
- [Let's Do] Brewery by BaumeisterJO, satisfy, EC
- [Let's Do] Camping by satisfy, jason13
- [Let's Do] Candlelight by satisfy_u, BaumeisterJo, Cristelknight
- [Let's Do] Farm & Charm by satisfy
- [Let's Do] Furniture by berksire, satisfy, cph101
- [Let's Do] HerbalBrews by satisfy
- [Let's Do] Meadow by satisfy, Cristelknight999, BMJO
- [Let's Do] NetherVinery by satisfy
- [Let's Do] Vinery by satisfy, Cristelknight, BaumeisterJO
- [Let's Do] WilderNature by satisfy, jason13
- emi-letsdo-compat
- oωo by glisco, BasiqueEvangelist, Noaaan
Quick facts
- 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 — see the MC Java Mods guides for the full walkthrough.
Verified by MCModsHub
- Downloads as Vanilla Max.mrpack
- Download size: 9.9 MB
- Download link checked 7 Sept 2026 — working
These come from our own check of the pack file, not from the source page.