You wake up in a strange place. The world looks familiar, and yet... different. New trees tower above you. Bison graze in the fields nearby, where your eye catches the red color of ripe strawberries. Carp and Bluegill swim lazily in the brook. As the sun rises above the grassy hills and through the puffy clouds, you feel that you are in a world of limitless possibility.

A world of wonders.

Welcome to IdealCraft! This pack is designed to improve every aspect of Minecraft while preserving the essence of the game you know and love. To accomplish this, I have assembled a carefully curated collection of mods from wonderful authors and customized them to fit together seamlessly! There are new biomes, new creatures, new enemies, new weapons, new plants, new mechanics, new blocks, new structures, and LOTS of new foods (with reason to make them!). There's something for everyone to enjoy in IdealCraft!

Despite the changes, the core way that the game is played remains the same. With no complex, game-changing mods like Create or Mekanism, any Minecrafter can easily get into IdealCraft.

EXPLORATION:

IdealCraft features substantial improvements to all dimensions, including a ton of new biomes, and new structures found throughout the world. Witness scenic vistas from driest deserts to flooded rainforests, and explore everything from new, exotic villages to archeological digs, all with a vanilla feel! As you travel, there are many quality of life features, including horse carts, sacks, and other forms of mobile storage that may help you. Adventure awaits!

HUSBANDRY:

If you get tired of exploring, why not settle down and farm for a while? From cooking to raising all the old and new animals, just about every aspect of the agrarian life has been improved. IdealCraft features lots of new crops to grow, and harvesting them has never been easier! And don't even get me started on all the delicious foods you can cook up!

TRANSPORTATION:

Then again, how could you stay put when getting around your world has never been more fun? Almost every kind of transportation in the game has been improved. Minecarts have been massively improved. There are more boat types. Horses can be bound and summoned from anywhere, and even have an optional control mode. And if, after all that, you still want to fly, then rest assured that the elytra has not been left out!

BUILDING:

Builders rejoice! IdealCraft comes with over 70 complete wood sets, and a plethora of new stone types! There are also many new block types to play around with, including the expanded copper and tuff block sets from 1.21. Like all the other features, building is intended to be vanilla-style, so mods like Chipped are avoided. You shouldn't get overwhelmed this way!

REDSTONE:

For the technically inclined, we have a variety of new components you can use to construct your ingenious machinery. Some, like the ender-watcher, add new functionality, while others, like the chute and randomizer, simplify entire circuits into a single block. Also check out the new copper pipes, which greatly improve item transport.

COMBAT:

Both PvE and PvP are a lot more interesting now. IdealCraft uses the Better Combat system, along with a number of other weapon and combat mods. There are also a few more armors to choose from, and some old armor sets have been given new advantages. You're going to need the new gear, too, if you want to face the creatures lurking in the dark corners of the world!

STORAGE:

Needless to say, the biggest issue in the community has been addressed as well! Inventory management and storage have been enhanced with items like sacks, bundles, and even backpacks. Also try out the new keybinds and sorting buttons.

OPTIMIZATION:

Enjoy massively improved performance, stability and loading times with a suite of advanced optimization mods. Yes, even my 2015 business laptop can run the game!

In the future, I would like to make a tutorial world to help new players learn about the features of IdealCraft. For now, though, I have added the amazing Tips mod, with a custom resource pack that includes over 200 (mostly) helpful hints for players.

If you want more info, I recommend reading up on some of the individual mods in the pack. Especially Quark, Supplementaries/Amendments, and Forgery. These mods in particular have a lot of random features to learn about.

IdealCraft already has popular datapacks and resource packs from Vanilla Tweaks. I recommend against removing these, as it may create some slight issues. Also, IdealCraft has HD shields and no Enderman griefing using mods.

Also check out More Biome Sizes by Vindi_ on Planet Minecraft. You can play around and see what sizes work best for you.

Note: using full bright and client-side minimap mods is not recommended. IdealCraft has built-in features that cover these areas.

The governing principles behind additions to IdealCraft are that mods must fit with the vanilla game, improve areas that could use improvement, and not expand one area of the game to the point where it feels out of proportion with the rest of the pack. They must also not fundamentally change the way the game is played (an example of a mod I won't add for this reason is Create). I also try to avoid adding features that make other features feel completely irrelevant.

Also, keep in mind that this is my personal passion project. It doesn't represent everyone's ideal vision of Minecraft… only mine.

Mod list applies to latest release version only.

Client-Side Mods:

AppleSkin
Better Clouds Reforged
BetterF3
Configured
Controlling
Enchantment Descriptions
Just Enough Effect Descriptions
Just Enough Items
Light Overlay
Mouse Tweaks
Oculus
Particle Rain
Ryoamic Lights
Tips
Wabbanode Companion

Functional Mods:

[Let's Do] Vinery
Alex's Mobs
Alex's Mobs Interaction
Allurement
Amendments
Aquaculture 2
Armor Poser
AstikorCarts Redux
Atmospheric
Autumnity
Backpacked
Bedspreads
Better Archeology
Better Combat
Better Golems
Better Mob Combat
Biomes O' Plenty
Boatload
Brewin' And Chewin'
Buzzier Bees
Callable Horses
Carry On
Cave Spider Spawn
Caverns & Chasms
Chef's Delight
Chimes
Clayworks
Combat Roll
Comforts
Cool Rain Reforged
Copper & Tuff Backport
Corail Woodcutter
Crabber's Delight
Cultural Delights
Curios API
Delightful
Do a Barrel Roll
Environmental
ewewukek's Musket Mod
Explorify - Dungeons & Structures
Explosive Enhancement: Reforged
Farmer's Delight
Farmer's Respite
Farmer's Structures
Fast Leaf Decay
Forgery
Gallery
Golems Are Friends Not Fodder
GraveStone Mod
Horse Combat Controls
HT's TreeChop
Ice Prevents Crop Growth
Illager Invasion
Illager Raid Music
Keep My Soil Tilled
Lucky's Wardrobe
Macaw's Bridges
Macaw's Fences and Walls
Macaw's Furniture
Map Atlases
MES - Moog's End Structures
Miner's Delight +
Missing Wilds
Modern Minecarts
Mowzie's Mobs
My Nether's Delight
Mystical Oak Tree
Neapolitan
No Chat Reports
Nyf's Spiders
Oh The Biomes We've Gone
Portable Wardrobes
Quark
Quark Oddities
Respiteful
Scaffolding Drops Nearby
Separated Leaves
Simple Kelpies
Simple Voice Chat
Simply Swords
Sit
Smarter Farmers
Snow! Real Magic!
Spice of Life: Apple Pie Edition
StackablePotions
Structory
Sullys Mod
Supplementaries
Supplementaries Squared
The Endergetic Expansion
The Fletching Table Mod
Tidal Towns
Towns and Towers
Trumpet Skeleton - Re-Calcified
Upgrade Aquatic
Vanilla Backport
Vein Mining
Villager Comfort Updated
Vine Clipper
Visual Workbench
Warrior Rage
YDM's Red Panda
YUNG's Better Desert Temples
YUNG's Better Dungeons
YUNG's Better End Island
YUNG's Better Jungle Temples
YUNG's Better Mineshafts
YUNG's Better Nether Fortresses
YUNG's Better Ocean Monuments
YUNG's Better Strongholds
YUNG's Better Witch Huts
YUNG's Bridges
YUNG's Cave Biomes
YUNG's Extras

Compatibility and Integration Mods:

[Let's Do Addon] Compat
Abnormals Delight
Alex's Delight
Alex's Mobs - Neapolitan Compat
Aquaculture Delight
Better Farmer's Combat
Compat O' Plenty
Every Compat (Stone Zone)
Every Compat (Wood Good)
Gravestone x Curios API Compat
Illager Invasion Combat
Quark Delight
Vertical Slabs Compat

Performance and Optimization Mods:

Canary
Embeddium
Embeddium (Rubidium) Extra
Entity Culling Fabric/Forge
FerriteCore
Immediately Fast
ModernFix

Development and Utility Mods:

AllTheLeaks
Block Swap
Default Options
FancyMenu
Global Server Configs
In Control
Item Obliterator
KubeJS
LootJS
Mob Cap Booster
MoreJS
Patchouli
ProbeJS
Structure Gel API
Structurify
WITS (What Is This Structure?)

Library and Dependency Mods:

Architectury API
BaguetteLib
Balm
Blueprint
Bookshelf
Canary
Citadel
Cloth Config API
Collective
CorgiLib
Cristel Lib
Cupboard
Framework
GeckoLib
GlitchCore
Kiwi
Konkrete
Melody
Mob Player Animator
Moonlight Lib
Necronomicon API
ObsidianUI
Oh The Trees You'll Grow
Platform
playerAnimator
Puzzles Lib
Radiant Gear
Rhino
Searchables
Sound Physics Remastered
SuperMartijn642's Config Lib
TerraBlender
YetAnotherConfigLib
YUNG's API
Zeta

There are a number of plans already in place for future updates. These include new mods, datapacks and scripts to further integrate existing mods with each other, and (possibly) new dimensions. Some existing features are being beta tested currently and may be changed or removed in the future. Stay tuned for more exciting updates!

Vanilla Tweaks: https://vanillatweaks.net/ for letting me use some of their amazing data and resource packs

Mindthemoods, for the Insulting Death Messages resource pack (modified version used with permission)

Burning Sulfur, for the Upgrade Aquaculture crafting tweaks

baarondones, for the Rename Compat Project resource pack, (modified version used with permission)

Lucy Lucy for the Jade Trims data and resource packs

The whole darn TeamAbnormals discord server, for being consistantly helpful with mod advice

All the amazing mod developers who took time out of their day to do the real work that made this project possible!

IdealCraft wasn't meant to be played alone! Want to get some friends in on the action? Check out our good friends over at Wabbanode! You can use the link or code "IDEAL" to get a 25% discount on your server and support the modpack. Now that's pretty ideal!

IdealCraft - World of Wonders