ZenCraft - Peace of Mind

Overview

ZenCraft reworks vanilla Minecraft into a calmer, more relaxed experience. The goal isn't to add new content, but to strip away the tension of survival so you can build, explore, and create without constant interruption.

The world still runs on Normal difficulty, and mobs still spawn from spawners as usual — so dungeons, mob farms, and spawner-based builds all continue to work exactly like vanilla. This is what sets ZenCraft apart from just playing on Peaceful: you keep real gameplay (hunger, combat when you want it, spawner farms, loot) without the constant ambient pressure of mobs spawning everywhere around you at night.

On top of these gameplay changes, ZenCraft is built on a strong performance and quality-of-life foundation, so the game runs smoothly and feels good to play even with the changes in place.

Mod list by category

Gameplay & difficulty

Mods that directly shape ZenCraft's peaceful philosophy.

• Easy Mob Spawn Control — fine-tunes and reduces hostile mob spawn rates
• Difficulty Lock — locks the world's difficulty setting on Normal
• LetMeDespawn — allows unwanted mobs/items to despawn more freely
• Phantoms in the End — relocates phantom spawns away from the Overworld
• Tax Free Levels — removes the XP-cost penalty on anvil repairs/renames
• NetherPortalFix — fixes vanilla Nether portal linking issues

Recipe lookup & inventory

• Just Enough Items (JEI) — full replacement recipe and item browser
• Hidden Recipe Book — hides the now-redundant vanilla recipe book UI
• Mouse Tweaks — faster inventory sorting and item transfer
• Shulker Box Tooltip — preview shulker box contents on hover
• Searchables — adds search bars to more in-game menus

Performance & optimization

• Sodium — core rendering engine overhaul
• Sodium Extra — additional Sodium settings and tweaks
• Reese's Sodium Options — expanded/reorganized Sodium settings menu
• Lithium — general game-logic optimization
• FerriteCore — reduces memory usage
• Alternate Current — optimized redstone engine
• Concurrent Chunk Management Engine — faster chunk loading/saving
• ScalableLux — optimized light engine
• Structurify — optimizes structure generation checks
• EntityCulling — skips rendering entities that aren't visible
• ImmediatelyFast — optimizes immediate-mode rendering
• Dynamic FPS — reduces resource usage when the game is unfocused
• Iris — shader support, built with performance in mind

Visuals & immersion

• Entity Model Features — expands what resource packs can do with entity models
• Entity Texture Features — expands what resource packs can do with entity textures
• Continuity — connected textures and emissive rendering support
• Skyboxify — custom skybox support
• LambDynamicLights — dynamic light sources (held torches, glowstone, etc.)
• Zoomify — adds a smooth zoom (spyglass-style) keybind

Quality of life

• AppleSkin — shows detailed food/hunger/saturation info
• Clumps — combines dropped XP orbs to reduce lag and clutter
• Controlling — adds search to the controls menu
• Debugify — fixes miscellaneous long-standing vanilla bugs
• No Chat Reports — removes chat report telemetry
• Packet Fixer — fixes various networking edge cases
• Smooth Scrolling — smooths out menu and inventory scrolling
• Resourcify — improves resource pack management/downloading
• Crash Assistant — provides clearer crash diagnostics
• Main Menu Credits — adds a credits screen to the main menu
• Mod Menu — in-game mod list and configuration hub

Libraries & frameworks

Required by other mods in the pack; no direct gameplay effect on their own.

• Fabric API
• Fabric Language Kotlin
• Cloth Config v26.2
• YetAnotherConfigLib
• Placeholder API
• Konkrete
• Balm
• Collective

ZenCraft — Minecraft, minus the stress.