Cottage Witch, a vanilla+ Minecraft modpack focused on the magic of exploration, nature, cooking, crafting, and the everyday.

Cottage magic is a type of modern, contemporary eclectic witchcraft practice that utilizes domestic magic. It emphasizes the magic in everyday things such as cooking, crafting, and decorating one's surroundings. Cottage Witch has a similar emphasis, expanding on the mechanics of cookery, artisanry, and decor - and, of course, magic. It enhances the natural world that your adventures take place in, both by overhauling biomes and wildlife.

It intends to mostly preserve the vanilla progression, augmenting it with balanced items and new mechanics. The pack also provides Quests to lead you through much of the content, making it suitable for those who are new to mods, or who prefer not to consult a wiki in another tab. You can find additional information about the pack and its mechanics in the Pages tab of this project.

Also check out Recast, a lighter remix of the original pack!

The 1.18 version of Cottage Witch is no longer supported.

Image of a cozy Minecraft altar with hanging herbs and stacked books. Text reads: "Magic mods from the naturalistic to the fantastical! Craft spells, brew new potions, and even make your own flying broom!"

Magic:

[Mods]
Ars Creo
Ars Elemental
Ars Instrumentum
Ars Nouveau - a high-concept, customizable magic mod which allows you to create your own spells with Glyphs, using the Source energy that flows through all natural things.
Casting Crystals
Dave's Potioneering

Hexerei - a naturalistic witchery mod focusing on herbs and brewing, as well as adding flying brooms!

StarbuncleMania

Ingame Minecraft screenshots depicting a garden with deliciously round carrots and a helpful Straw Golem. Text reads: "Farm to your heart's delight with new crops, new livestock, and new farming mechanics! From Overweight Crops to Straw Golems and even Crow Familiars to help you, you'll have a much nicer time in the fields."

Farming and Cooking:

[Mods]

Abnormals Delight
Alex's Delight
Aquaculture's Delight
Brewin and Chewin
Caupona
Collector's Reap
Create Central Kitchen
Create Slice and Dice
Cultural Delights
Delightful
End's Delight
Farmer's Delight
Farmer's Respite
Miner's Delight
Nether's Delight
Overweight Farming
Snad
Spice of Life: Sweet Potato Edition

Building and Decorating:

[Mods]

Another Furniture
Beautify
Better Lily Pads
Building Gadgets - Looking for schematics for BG? Try these by Howester!
Chimes
Colorful Azaleas
Connected Glass
ConnectedTexturesMod
Create Crystal Clear
Cycle Paintings
Dark Paintings
Decorative Blocks
Display Case
Dramatic Doors
Fantasy's Furniture
Handcrafted
Joy Of Painting
Macaw's Bridges
Macaw's Doors
Macaw's Fences and Walls
Macaw's Paintings
Macaw's Paths and Pavings
Macaw's Roofs
Macaw's Trapdoors
Macaw's Windows
Mallad's Paintings
Night Lights
Pane in the Glass
Prefab
Sooty Chimneys
Twilight Forest: The Lost Blocks

Wildlife:

[Mods]

Alex's Mobs - Note that most insects and certain hostiles in this mod have been disabled to preserve coziness and prevent phobia.
Aquaculture 2 (fish do not spawn in the world, but you can revive them with lightning thanks to Sigmastar's Frankenfish datapack!
Baby Fat
Creatures and Beasts
Creeper Overhaul
Critters and Companions
Domestication Innovation
Duckling
Environmental
Friends and Foes
Goblin Trader
Luggage
More Axolotl Variants
Snuffles
Sprout
Straw Golem Rebaled
Swampier Swamps (adds a frog for every color and a froglight for every frog!)

Quality of Life:

[Mods]

Akashic Tome

AppleSkin

AttributeFix

Axolotl Bucket Fix

Bad Wither No Cookie

Beehive Tooltip

Better Advancements

Better F3 Plus

Better Lily Pads

Better Tips

Better Tridents

Biomes in Jars

Bow Infinity Fix

Catalogue

Chalk

Charm of Undying

Clickable Advancements

Comforts

Configured

Controlling

Convenient Curios Container

Cosmetic Armor Reworked

Crafting Tweaks

Crying Ghasts

Cycle Paintings

Deepslate Tweaks

Default Options

Diagonal Fences

Ding

Disenchanting

Dismount Entity

Easy Anvils

Easy Magic

Elytra Slot

Enchantment Descriptions

Enhanced Mob Spawners

Enigmatic Graves

Equipment Compare

Even Better Amethyst

Extreme Sound Muffler

FancyMenu

Fast Leaf Decay

FindMe

Fix Experience Bug

Followers Teleport Too

Forgiveness

Forgiving Void

FTB Ultimine

Functional Storage

Gilded Netherite

Inventory Essentials

Inventory Sorter

Item Collectors

ItemZoom

Jump Over Fences

Just Enough Items

Just Enough Professions

Just Enough Resources

Lexicon

Loot Beams

Loot Integration

Magnum Torch

Mob Lassos

Mouse Tweaks

NetherPortalFix

Notes

No Chat Reports

Overloaded Armor Bar

Pipez

Polymorph

Portable Jukebox

Quests Addition

Reaping

Refined Storage

Refined Polymorphism

Refined Storage Addons

RSInfinityBooster

Scaffolding Drops Nearby

Sculk Transporting

Snad

Sophisticated Storage

Sophisticated Backpacks

Sound Physics Remastered

Spawn Balance Utility

Swing Through Grass

TheObsidianBoat

The One Probe

Time in a Bottle

Tips

Toast Control

Tom's Simple Storage

Trade Cycling

Trash Cans

Trashslot

Uppers

Visual Workbench

Waystones

Xaero's Minimap

Xaero's World Map

Exploration:

[Mods]

AmbientSounds
Choicetheorem's Overhauled Villages
Deeper and Darker
Dungeons Plus
Ecologics
End Remastered
Explorer's Compass
Integrated Dungeons and Structures
Missing Wilds
Nature's Compass
Oh the Biomes You'll Go
Sky Villages
Spelunkery
Structory
Structory: Towers
Swampier Swamps
The Twilight Forest
Yung's Better Dungeons
Yung's Better Mineshafts
Yung's Better Nether Fortresses
Yung's Better Witch Huts

Miscellaneous:

[Mods]

Advancement Frames
Aquaculture 2
Artifacts
Backpacked
Chimes
Cluttered
Colorful Azaleas
Create
Create: Crystal Clear
Customizable Elytra
Extended Mushrooms
Glassential
Joy of Painting
Ma Enchants
Majrusz's Accessories
MC Story Mode Armors
Mermod
Moyai
Mystical Oak Tree
Nether Depths Upgrade
Quark
Ring of the Enderchest
Supplementaries
Tarot Cards
The Magic Mirror
Useful Slime
Villagers Plus

Optifine not required (and not compatible)

Performance:

[Mods]

Achievement Optimizer
AI Improvements
Alternate Current
Better FPS
Canary
Chunk Sending
Connectivity
CullLessLeaves
Dynamic FPS
Embeddium
Embeddium++
Entity Collision FPS Fix
Entity Culling
Farsight
Fast Async World Save
Fast Furnace
Fastload
Ferritecore
Fix GPU memory leak
Immediatelyfast
Krypton
LazyDFU
Let Me Despawn
Memory Leak Fix
Modernfix
Noisium
Oculus
Packet fixer
Recipe Essentials
Redirector
Saturn
Server Performance- Smooth Chunk Save
ServerCore
Smoothboot
Starlight
Structure Essentials

Multiplayer:

[Mods]

Apple Crates (server economy)

Contact

FTB Chunks

FTB Essentials

FTB Ranks

FTB Teams

Lootr

My Server Is Compatible

Observable

Personality

Simple Voice Chat

Snail Mail

Spark

This modpack also comes with some creative-only items you can use for your server- such as a collection of coins (Lunar, Solar, and Arcane) and decorative Moon posters for each full moon!

Video Showcase

Want to see the pack in motion? Check out this amazing showcase by FaithfulFamiliars!

For more Cottage Witch gameplay, check out the following playlists!

Playthrough by FaithfulFamiliars

Playthrough by Creothina

Playthrough by babyunicorn184

Playthrough by BlindEyeBuilds

Playthrough by FyerPower

Playthrough by Alizzles

Playthrough by Awulfha

Playthrough by Gladdy (in German! With English subtitles)

This modpack was designed to be used on mid-range computers, and 6-8gb of RAM is suggested. This modpack is also NOT compatible with OptiFine, but it includes Oculus if you want to use Shaders! All screenshots are taken using Complementary Shaders v4 - which is my favourite shader pack, and I highly recommend it!

Need Help? Join our Discord!

We now have our very own Discord Server where you can pop in to ask questions or offer feedback. Bug reports and crashes should be posted on GitHub, however.

Modpack Reviews

If you're not familiar with MMC Reviews, it's a website where you can leave a few comments about your favorite modpacks and help others to decide what to play next! You can view the reviews of Cottage Witch right here.

Support the Modpack!

Are you interested in hosting a server of your own, and would like to support the modpack? Consider hosting through Akliz.com, our official partner! They are a quality host with good products, good customer service, and a great community. You can host any modpack through them - or even other games if you like! - but if you want to host Cottage Witch, choose the 4gb server option if you have 5 or fewer players. Otherwise, 8gb is a great choice if you have under 10.

You can save 20% off your first month's hosting by using these links:

North America - https://www.akliz.net/cottagewitch

Oceania (Australia/Asia) - https://www.akliz.net/cottagewitch-oce

Europe - https://www.akliz.net/cottagewitch-eu

Credits:
Vanilla Tweaks: https://vanillatweaks.net/

Chinese Translation: VM Chinese Translation Group
Russian Translation (for Recast): Kkylern