Description
Vanilla Extra Engineers and Space– Modpack
Looking for a lightweight exploration, farming, and engineering modpack designed to improve vanilla gameplay without overwhelming players? This pack focuses on better food systems, improved exploration, advanced tools, and quality-of-life improvements while keeping the experience close to the original game.
Built for Minecraft 1.20.1 using the Minecraft Forge modloader, this pack is great for casual multiplayer servers or long-term survival worlds.
Core Features
Advanced Tool Progression
Craft powerful custom tools and upgrade them over time with Tinkers' Construct, allowing players to build modular weapons and tools with unique materials and abilities.
Expanded Farming & Food
This modpack greatly expands the farming system with Pam's HarvestCraft 2, adding:
- Dozens of new crops
- New fruit and nut trees
- Hundreds of new food recipes
- A deeper cooking system
The Spice of Life: Carrot Edition mod also rewards players for eating a variety of foods instead of the same item repeatedly.
Exploration & Travel
Explore your world more easily with tools like:
- Waystones – teleportation points across the world
- Xaero's Minimap – in-game minimap with waypoints
- Xaero's World Map – full world map system
- Traveler's Backpack – portable storage for adventuring
Engineering & Moving Structures
The pack includes Valkyrien Skies, allowing fully physics-based moving ships and structures. Combined with Trackwork and other addons, players can experiment with vehicles and mechanical builds.
Storage & Automation
Manage your items easily with Simple Storage Network, which connects multiple chests into a searchable storage system. Should you wish to be more advanced checkout AE2 for a larger more advanced setup!
Quality of Life Improvements
Several mods improve the gameplay experience:
- Mouse Tweaks – better inventory controls
- Ore Excavation – mine large ore veins quickly
- The One Probe – detailed block information
- Right Click Harvest – easier farming
Performance & Libraries
Several supporting mods are included to improve compatibility and performance such as Mantle, Placebo, ResourcefulLib, TerraBlender, and others required for major gameplay mods.
Recommended Settings
Minecraft Version: 1.20.1
Modloader: Forge
Recommended RAM: 6–8 GB
Multiplayer
This modpack works well for multiplayer servers and cooperative survival gameplay.
Players can build:
- Moving ships
- Massive farms
- Automated storage systems
- Exploration networks
Credits
All mods included in this modpack belong to their respective authors. This pack simply combines them through CurseForge for compatibility and gameplay balance.
Please support the original mod creators by visiting their CurseForge pages.
Bug Reports
If you encounter bugs or crashes, please report them in the Issues section or modpack comment your:
- Crash log
- Modpack version
- Description of the problem